I am still in fandom, dammit

[fahye]

When I close my eyes, I see photographs of prosections of the gluteal region and the lumbar & sacral plexus. It's probably even less pretty than you're imagining it. However, I have promised myself that I'll plunge onwards with anatomy study for a couple of hours, and then return to my room to do fun things like watch Hairspray or ramble fannishly:

Give me a fannish idea/concept from any fandom I know and I'll give you my thoughts on it. If you want to ask about ships/characters plz ask a specific question!

(This can be anything from my thoughts on plot developments, to what I think of fandom's attitude to X, to anything about my ficcish projects or pairing preferences or...yeah, anything. Answers may end up being drabbles, lists, intelligent meta, entirely undignified capslocking sprees, or any combination of the above.)

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[ranty-rie.livejournal.com]

When I close my eyes, I see photographs of prosections of the gluteal region and the lumbar & sacral plexus.

I remember studying for my theory EMT test. I nursed the same problem. Maybe it's something on the angle of the sacral plexus shots that make them stay in your brain and make writing fic and particularly smut hard because you somehow find yourself typing lumbar and sacral in the middle of an otherwise perfectly cute/fluffy/angsty/hot-and-bothered scene? I hate it when my smut/fanfic goes clinical on me. More so when I write it. XD

Yey for random run-over sentences/questions!

So... fandom.

So what are your thoughts on yaoi? What about your thoughts on the Rookie 9? Like them? Hate them? Am I the only one that feels Team 8 (Hinata, Kiba, Shino) need more screentime and love from the fandom? What squicks you in fanfic?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*looks at own fic* Yeah, mine goes clinical on me all the time, which might be why I write so many medical characters :D

It took me a long, long time to get the Rookie 9 straight in my head because ryokophoenix skipped me through the early stages of the anime and I only started watching properly during the fight stages of the chuunin exams. I really like that the cast is so big (especially when you throw the Sand trio in as well) and that Team 7 isn't focused on as being Ultra Super Special to the exclusion of all others, because it makes SENSE that they still have ties to the people they trained and learned with. I find Neji to be the most interesting, I have a huge crush on Shikamaru, and I have an itch to write a long, careful fic about Ino because I think she doesn't have much of a personality in canon at all and post-timejump she pretty much got stuck with being Sakura Lite. Kishimoto just...isn't so great with his female characters unless they're over-the-top kickass like Sakura and Tsunade.

I don't have a lot of interest in Team 8 but I think a lot of the reason WHY I don't have a lot of interest in them is because they're so underdeveloped, so more screentime is a great idea. I severely dislike the female archetype that Hinata represents -- the shy, stammering girl who seems to exist to quietly long for the main character (dammit, Kishimoto! LEARN TO WRITE GIRLS). I HAVE like a few things that we've been shown around Team 8: I liked the glimpse we got into Kiba's family, and I love any kind of interaction between Neji and Hinata because I find the Hyuuga family politics fascinating. MORE HYUUGAS. AND MORE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FOR KIBA AND SHINO. That is my wish.

(I'll cover the squicks question in another comment)

[ranty-rie.livejournal.com]

Point, your fic goes clinical, but damnit, it retains poetic. **envies/hates/>:E**

Personally, I like Kishimoto's work on Hinata and Sakura, if only because it's different from your usual girl in anime, and it sorta shows the strain of being a woman in what's mainly a man's job. (At least, if the ratio of shinobi vs kunoichi we've seen so far holds universal.) In a sense, they're immature and either too shy or too loud, and end up being entirely obnoxious. ...well, at age twelve, most boys think girls are obnoxious and either too shy or too loud. And despite the fact the cast of characters is wide, I've always thought Naruto IS told from Naruto's POV. But that's just me. ^^;;

As for the Hyuugas. God, please. I salivate senselessly waiting to see how the hell are the Clan Politics come to bite people in the ass later on. Because it's so good. One of those moments when you go "wow, maybe Kishimoti DID know what he was doing and thought ahead beyond the Chuunin exams". XD

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Okay. I don't like incest that involves a large power difference -- intergenerational is right out, and sibling incest where the power imbalance is obvious (usually through age, but I guess it could be through other means) really squicks me. Because it will always, always seem like advantage is being taken. Always. I can put up with sibling incest if the power in the relationship is either equal or very close to equal (or if it shifts around) and if it's very obviously a choice made by a mature mind. Otherwise...no. This is why I will never like Itachi/Sasuke, and why even Neji/Hinata would only work for me if it grew beyond 'Neji is working through his resentment of the main branch' and became about Hinata's choices.

I guess that can generalise to severe power imbalances in general. They make me deeply uncomfortable unless they're a deliberately important, carefully handled aspect of the fic. I never understood the Harry Potter fandom's ability to pair up people of Harry's generation with people of his father's. Especially the teachers. It just weirds me out.

Less on the 'squick' side, more on the 'INFURIATING' side: I hate gratuitous romance. I hate (but can SOMETIMES enjoy, albeit very guiltily) gratuitous character abuse that does not stem in some way from their situation or personality, but simply was constructed to allow for the ensuing gratuitous romance (rape especially. god, I detest rape fics. they are ONLY okay if the aftermath is handled sublimely -- which is never is -- and if it is used to illuminate something about the character). I hate out-of-character dialogue that exists because the author is too lazy to actually work their way through something with the characters fixed in their mind, and instead just want to rush through to whatever ending they want to see played out. I hate overglamorisation of appearance and manner and feeling. I hate absolutes. I really, really hate people who knowingly post subpar work and apologise cutely for the fact that 'oh, I couldn't be bothered to find a beta' or 'this is a bit OOC in parts I guess ^_^' or 'yeah, this is AU in which I changed X and Y and Z and oh look, no problems, just irrational fluffy wuv!'. FUCK. IF YOU KNOW IT'S BAD, DON'T POST IT. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO COOKIES JUST FOR SHOWING UP.

*takes deep breaths*

I can, um, go on like this for quite some time.