hee! Yeah, I know, we see eye-to-eye on a lot of fandom stuff, so I wasn't surprised to read this rant and find myself nodding all through it going uh-huh, yep, I feel that way too ...
I think I have trouble with a lot of yaoi, too, because I'm so fixated on canon, and except in a series where I can see it in the actual series (all those GW boys were SO getting it on!) it just makes me feel like the characters aren't being themselves. Especially when so much yaoi is throwing together characters who don't have any kind of relationship in the series just because the author thinks they'd look hot together. I certainly don't have any problem with the simple fact that it EXISTS, but it's not what I'm looking to read.
I realized after I quit looking for FMA fic that I don't miss it at all and I'm kinda glad I stopped -- the anime itself is so new and shiny that I'm just happy with it and reading fic for it only dilutes the experience for me. Kinda like how I love Harry Potter but have no interest in reading Potter fic until the series is done -- it more detracts from the experience than enhances it. I usually don't get into fic much until the series is over and all the character development that's gonna happen in the series has already happened. (Stargate's an exception ... I've been craving Stargate h/c since the MOVIE, dammit!)
I'm still kinda in that place on One Piece too. I'm reading your story because I know I love your stories, but I'm not really doing much fic-searching at this point. I also haven't seen all that much of the series -- I've seen up to about ep 80, and I think it's up to, what, 170-something now? It's gonna be another DBZ! So I'm also still trying to avoid spoilers. But yeah, though it was Luffy-Zoro that first hooked me, the whole crew's interactions are really neat. I'm glad someone's writing about it, but it probably won't be me.
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I think I have trouble with a lot of yaoi, too, because I'm so fixated on canon, and except in a series where I can see it in the actual series (all those GW boys were SO getting it on!) it just makes me feel like the characters aren't being themselves. Especially when so much yaoi is throwing together characters who don't have any kind of relationship in the series just because the author thinks they'd look hot together. I certainly don't have any problem with the simple fact that it EXISTS, but it's not what I'm looking to read.
I realized after I quit looking for FMA fic that I don't miss it at all and I'm kinda glad I stopped -- the anime itself is so new and shiny that I'm just happy with it and reading fic for it only dilutes the experience for me. Kinda like how I love Harry Potter but have no interest in reading Potter fic until the series is done -- it more detracts from the experience than enhances it. I usually don't get into fic much until the series is over and all the character development that's gonna happen in the series has already happened. (Stargate's an exception ... I've been craving Stargate h/c since the MOVIE, dammit!)
I'm still kinda in that place on One Piece too. I'm reading your story because I know I love your stories, but I'm not really doing much fic-searching at this point. I also haven't seen all that much of the series -- I've seen up to about ep 80, and I think it's up to, what, 170-something now? It's gonna be another DBZ! So I'm also still trying to avoid spoilers. But yeah, though it was Luffy-Zoro that first hooked me, the whole crew's interactions are really neat. I'm glad someone's writing about it, but it probably won't be me.
(Plot bunnies ... nibbling ... NOOOO! GET AWAY! *kicks bunnies*) ^_^