its good to be known, isnt it? ^__^ and it's an honor to read ^_^
Thank you!
i hate that so much... once you find a few authors, usually it's ok, cuz then you can read everything they have and check links off their sites or look for places that rec them or ask them for their favorite authors... but even then you can exhaust your resources quickly -_-
I can totally relate. That's especially frusterating if the fandom is really small. But I suppose it can be just as irritating in a large fandom, too. It's like sorting through an endless sea for that one pearl.
LOL! yes XD its actually pretty amusing if you step back and dont get involved, but yes. theres definitely that XD especially between het and yaoi. did you have a preferred pairing? im just curious.. im not going to yell at you or anything XD
Amusing, yes, but if you're involved in the fandom...the fray just sucks you in, whether you want it to or not. :P It was especially sad to see great websites close down because of such foolish arguing. Het and yaoi can be a real killer, but yaoi fans could get just as snarky at each other sometimes. Same with het, actually. You'd think they'd appreciate different tastes, with so many characters to pair. ^^; (I'm just glad we don't see too much of that in the OP fandom...yet. ^^; )
As for preferred pairings, I had a few -- kind of. I did enjoy reading anything with Quatre and Trowa in it, although I was more interested in seeing an emotional relationship between them instead of the physical one many liked portraying. Out of all of the "traditional" shounen-ai pairings, though, I thought those two had the most evidence supporting the possibility. (I never saw where 1x2 came from. Oo)
I also sort of fancied Quatre and Noin as a pair, to be honest. ^^; I think I was one out of...maybe three? Two people? Oooh, I totally got slapped for that one. "Noin belongs with Zechs! ZECHS!!" Granted, Noin and Zechs were a canon pairing (And I never disliked them together or anything!)...but...shoot...something about Quatre and Noin pulled my heart strings. X3 Maybe it was the subtle interaction between them during the battle at the Sank Kingdom? But I wasn't some sort of diehard fan of it or anything...I just thought it was cute. ^^; Is that so wrong? To many, yes. A reason why I left the fandom.
And, yes, I liked Quatre. ^^; And no, I didn't hate Dorothy. I actually liked her and wanted to see the fandom treat her better than they did/do. She's insane, yes, but I really did wind up feeling sorry for her by the end of it. (And, secretly, maybe I did like Quatre and Dorothy as a pairing together.) *gasp* I was a Quatre-fan traitor. Grr.
How about you? Any pairings for you? Even if you just dabbled in them? XP
yeah, no kidding! im lucky enough that i think i was beyond or approaching Arlong when i checked into the fandom, but even so, you can find tons of spoilers even way beyond that. it's kinda frustrating, but i guess it enforces the decision to go beyond and see as much of the anime/read as much manga as possible...
For sure. Just out of curiousity, how far are you into the series? Which story arc was your favorite? I'm curious what kind of wallpaper you saw that was so spoil-rific.
YES. it IS! i cringe when i think about what OP would be like dubbed... im usually very much into subbing above dubbing, but especially here... Luffy.. Zoro... Usopp.. Sanji.. Nami.. all of them... their voices fit them so perfectly. Zoro gets such a great growl sometimes.. i LOVE how Luffy's voice goes from being totally clueless and cheerful to screaming or soft and breaking (like when he's talking to Don Krieg about graves *_*).. *____* eeee! *loves OP and the seiyuus a LOT*
AMEN! I don't think I'll be able to bring myself in watching the dubbed version. Luffy's voice being played by a man seems just wrong. Oo (You know his VA will be male. Probably.)
LOL! excellent! as much as you write, i will read! definitely ^__^ also, it's probably better this way ^_~ now i dont have to risk putting you into a permanent writer's block while you fear for your life or something XD
Eee! Thank you for the kind words! XD I appreciate it!
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Thank you!
i hate that so much... once you find a few authors, usually it's ok, cuz then you can read everything they have and check links off their sites or look for places that rec them or ask them for their favorite authors... but even then you can exhaust your resources quickly -_-
I can totally relate. That's especially frusterating if the fandom is really small. But I suppose it can be just as irritating in a large fandom, too. It's like sorting through an endless sea for that one pearl.
LOL! yes XD its actually pretty amusing if you step back and dont get involved, but yes. theres definitely that XD especially between het and yaoi. did you have a preferred pairing? im just curious.. im not going to yell at you or anything XD
Amusing, yes, but if you're involved in the fandom...the fray just sucks you in, whether you want it to or not. :P It was especially sad to see great websites close down because of such foolish arguing. Het and yaoi can be a real killer, but yaoi fans could get just as snarky at each other sometimes. Same with het, actually. You'd think they'd appreciate different tastes, with so many characters to pair. ^^; (I'm just glad we don't see too much of that in the OP fandom...yet. ^^; )
As for preferred pairings, I had a few -- kind of. I did enjoy reading anything with Quatre and Trowa in it, although I was more interested in seeing an emotional relationship between them instead of the physical one many liked portraying. Out of all of the "traditional" shounen-ai pairings, though, I thought those two had the most evidence supporting the possibility. (I never saw where 1x2 came from. Oo)
I also sort of fancied Quatre and Noin as a pair, to be honest. ^^; I think I was one out of...maybe three? Two people? Oooh, I totally got slapped for that one. "Noin belongs with Zechs! ZECHS!!" Granted, Noin and Zechs were a canon pairing (And I never disliked them together or anything!)...but...shoot...something about Quatre and Noin pulled my heart strings. X3 Maybe it was the subtle interaction between them during the battle at the Sank Kingdom? But I wasn't some sort of diehard fan of it or anything...I just thought it was cute. ^^; Is that so wrong? To many, yes. A reason why I left the fandom.
And, yes, I liked Quatre. ^^; And no, I didn't hate Dorothy. I actually liked her and wanted to see the fandom treat her better than they did/do. She's insane, yes, but I really did wind up feeling sorry for her by the end of it. (And, secretly, maybe I did like Quatre and Dorothy as a pairing together.) *gasp* I was a Quatre-fan traitor. Grr.
How about you? Any pairings for you? Even if you just dabbled in them? XP
yeah, no kidding! im lucky enough that i think i was beyond or approaching Arlong when i checked into the fandom, but even so, you can find tons of spoilers even way beyond that. it's kinda frustrating, but i guess it enforces the decision to go beyond and see as much of the anime/read as much manga as possible...
For sure. Just out of curiousity, how far are you into the series? Which story arc was your favorite? I'm curious what kind of wallpaper you saw that was so spoil-rific.
YES. it IS! i cringe when i think about what OP would be like dubbed... im usually very much into subbing above dubbing, but especially here... Luffy.. Zoro... Usopp.. Sanji.. Nami.. all of them... their voices fit them so perfectly. Zoro gets such a great growl sometimes.. i LOVE how Luffy's voice goes from being totally clueless and cheerful to screaming or soft and breaking (like when he's talking to Don Krieg about graves *_*).. *____* eeee! *loves OP and the seiyuus a LOT*
AMEN! I don't think I'll be able to bring myself in watching the dubbed version. Luffy's voice being played by a man seems just wrong. Oo (You know his VA will be male. Probably.)
LOL! excellent! as much as you write, i will read! definitely ^__^ also, it's probably better this way ^_~ now i dont have to risk putting you into a permanent writer's block while you fear for your life or something XD
Eee! Thank you for the kind words! XD I appreciate it!