Thar she's about to blow
Sep. 2nd, 2003 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenOooo wake me when this blows over, would you?
See, this is why claims of slash being the hip, trendy new thing in fandom make me roll my eyes so far back into my head that I could qualify for a Hollywood horror movie franchise. We're not. We're the freaks of fandom, forced to point to underage and MPREG if we want any hopes of being able to say "Oh we're not the whackjobs around here, they are." and even then it's not really an argument most people would believe.
I mean just look at the discussion in that thread. Somebody asks what slash is and gets a response of "You don't want to know." Yes, you don't want to know that there are fans out there who like to imagine your favorite characters as big ol' queers because then the earth would spin off its axis and you would DIE.
Now granted, the person doing the "you don't want to know" response is basically a dipwad, but the point is still the same. Once you move your frame of reference even a half step away from slashdom you're reminded that no, to the rest of the world we're all freakshows and slash fans most of all.
I don't even want to get into the fallout of Neil's opinion on RPS, should he ever give it.
As I say, wake me when it's over.
And in other news Meatloaf has a new song now? Why God, WHY????
See, this is why claims of slash being the hip, trendy new thing in fandom make me roll my eyes so far back into my head that I could qualify for a Hollywood horror movie franchise. We're not. We're the freaks of fandom, forced to point to underage and MPREG if we want any hopes of being able to say "Oh we're not the whackjobs around here, they are." and even then it's not really an argument most people would believe.
I mean just look at the discussion in that thread. Somebody asks what slash is and gets a response of "You don't want to know." Yes, you don't want to know that there are fans out there who like to imagine your favorite characters as big ol' queers because then the earth would spin off its axis and you would DIE.
Now granted, the person doing the "you don't want to know" response is basically a dipwad, but the point is still the same. Once you move your frame of reference even a half step away from slashdom you're reminded that no, to the rest of the world we're all freakshows and slash fans most of all.
I don't even want to get into the fallout of Neil's opinion on RPS, should he ever give it.
As I say, wake me when it's over.
And in other news Meatloaf has a new song now? Why God, WHY????
