booooored, whines the wild asuka

[askerian]

So because i don't want to subject you all to another of my semi-regular AHHH BORED rants, and i'm also in a rather bitchy confrontational mood -- give me something to rant about!! (naruto only, or fandoms or stupid people in general, please) It's like that meme that was going around a few months back. Gimme something -- a pairing, a character, a common fanon interpretation -- hell, even stuff like mary sues -- and i'll rant your ears off about it!! *does Nice Guy pose*

(no, it is not because i'm a rewiew whore who feels lonely and abandoned when her inbox stays empty after the third refresh in one hour. Nope.)

Comments

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

People who post on communities bashing a character/pairing, and if the other comm members tell them to shut up because they're being a dick, complain that they're OMGSOPERSECUTED!!1!@! and that they have a RIGHT to be able to say whatever they want!

[askerian]

do I even need to say anything about them? I think you've said everything. XDDDD

Ahhh, I love people who do that stuff -- whining because people are doing stuff to them, when they're doing the exact same stuff to everyone else ; and then they refuse to admit it.

yay for stuff.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

do I even need to say anything about them? I think you've said everything.

^^;; just trying to offer something to talk about.

[bemysty.livejournal.com]

fanficrants XD

[askerian]

HNN. I don't HAVE anything to rant about right now. And I don't want to join in on someone else's rant. because i want to bitch on MY terms, baby!! *struts*

XD okay, maybe i'm a little tired.

[askerian]

... shoulda explained yourself better. XDDD

Alas, i do not check fanficrants enough to have an opinion about them. ^^;

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... how about people who rag on Hyuugacest or Uchihacest pairings and think it's entirely implausable/icky/etc? Or the "Kakashi/Iruka pairing would never happen! They're only in the same scene four times for gods' sakes!" people? *is, as a kakairu shipper, completely aware of this fact, and doesn't really care because it just makes it all the more challenging to toss them together*

[chibijadeindigo.livejournal.com]

Just because they are only in the same scene four times doesn't mean they haven't had previous knowledge of each other. I mean...they are ninja for crying out loud...sorry...I'll hush.

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

lol... I like you! ^__^

[askerian]

It doesn't mean they haven't but it doesn't mean they have, either. I don't mind the pairing, i'll read it if it's good, but what I can't stand is the little fangirls trying to sell it to me as if it was canon. Well, no. It's pretty, and it can be funny, and hot, but kakaGai has more going for it in canon than kakaIru does. It's less popular only because gai isn't pretty (also because he's pretty ridiculous XD)

/devil's advocate

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

Or! Authors that always make antagonist of their stories out to be a sadistic pervert that wants to rape/molest/mindfuck the protagonist into submission, instead instead of torturing them like normal bad guys.
I understand that a lot of people believe that rape is the ultimate violation, but not every villian out there wants to screw the hero, damnit.

[askerian]

oooh thank you!!

Hyuugacest is not only plausable, it's likely -- because BYAKUGAN. Do we see anyone who does not have the byakugan in the scenes with the hyuuga clan? no, we do not. this is because, OMG, they are very possibly quite inbred. The branch family members, the ones who are three or four times removed from the main branch might be allowed to marry outside of the clan, but the main branch? not bloody likely. So yeah, could SO see arranged marriages between the cousins.

As for the pairings themselves, NejiHina would be so deliciously fucked up, and they would have to work so hard to achieve any kind of balance -- mmm, so yummy. (nejihanabi: we don't know enough about hanabi, but she seems to be a right little bitch. probably a perfect match. they'd kill each other in a week,mhh. XD) As for siblingcest, be it hyuugacest or uchihacest, well, the sick/forbidden thing is part of the appeal anyway. OMG INCEST ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE, so it doesn't count as a good reason to make a pairing impossible. (that and i have a soft spot for twincest -- could rant good about the appeal of twincest, separately from incest, but this is getting quite long, so, only on demand.)

ItaSasu. mmm, blood and angst and hatesex. oooh. *joygasms* Usually I don't like incest except twincest, but itachi. OMG ITACHI.

well, he pushes his brother against a wall. and mindfucks him. and well, he's so hot, and at the same time he reacts to NO ONE (except kisame, but kisame is ugly and thus doesn't deserve hawt yaoi lovin). So if we want hot sex with itachi-the-psycho, it kind of makes sense that i would be his own foolish little brother.

As for kakaIru. Well, i like the pairing if it's well written, but i kinda agree that there's nothing much in canon to support it. It can be good, though, if justified enough -- but i don't care much about the adults' sex lives anyway XD

[rianax.livejournal.com]

The potientally icky stuff: incest, rape, abuse, sucide, mental disorders etc., in fics and how people bitch and betray them in fandom.

The kicker-- not that authors do this stuff, but abuse it and try to make all bunny fluffy and candycorn sweet or worse use for cheap drama and True Luv.

And/or crossover and AU abuse.

And/or lack of decent and hot het smut. Why does everyone take a page out a Danielle Steele novel?

[askerian]

ohhh. Lazy writing, as I said a bit higher. People don't want to bother working to make us FEEL the angst, so they use plot devices guaranteed to tug on the heartstrings and shove them in the middle of a plot, usually with no real understanding of the full consequences.

Incest IS sick. It can be hot, but even if the concerned don't feel that it's bad, they'll always have to look over their shoulder and wonder what the neighbor is thinking -- even if usually they decide that what other people think doesn't matter, they'll still be aware that they shouldn't like it as much as they do. (this is obviously in the case of siblingcest, not nejihina or arranged marriages stuff, seeing as in their clan it's almost expected)

Abuse and suicide and rape -- lazy writing, no real knowledge of the issues, the reasons behind them and the consequences. The kind of "well they'll be sorry when i'm gone" line of thought every 13 year old goes through.

Mental disorders -- THESE ARE NOT COOL. *sigh*

Crossovers = some can be good if it's explained how the two worlds mesh/meet. Most of the time, writers are too lazy to bother. Oh, look, a convenient plotwormhole. =_=; AU; the same. anyway, 90% of everything is crap, and these genres are no exception.

School AUs are... lazy writing at its finest. =_=;;;;

As for het smut, i'm too deep in the yaoi side of things to comment XD i'll try to write some for teamwork, but eh, i've never done that before. *blushes* ...okay, i had naru fuck sexynojutsu!sasuke once, but i cheated, and anyway it was sorta yaoi, in a het way XD

[flyby.livejournal.com]

OMG what you said. About the het smut. 99% wannabe-Mills&Boon kiddies who think Romance is more important than the sex part. Ugh.

[malika.livejournal.com]

I second the lack of hot het smut!

Also, how about emo kidz who like to pervert characters into being carbon copies of themselves, i.e. Nartuo deciding to dress in bondage pants and spikes and wearing eyeliner and slitting his wrists because OMG NO 1 LUVS MEH. *weep*

[askerian]

XDDD I already ranted on that, I believe. *snickers*
*points*
http://www.livejournal.com/users/askerian/147104.html

[purple-alicorn.livejournal.com]

What bugs me is where an author takes a character and then totaaly changes it... or in the case of one author in Buffy/X-over fanfic: cannon female = evil. (Yes we realise you want the hawt gay sex... but find a way to to do this without making all girls evil)

[askerian]

character-bashing and ooc are eeeeevil. and i shan't rant more because it is way past my bed time, but i agree with you. Here, have a kitchen knife. *stabinates lazy writers*

[viny-the-pooh.livejournal.com]

Ici Kin sous le LJ de Viny
BOSSE SUR LE ZINE SI TU T'ENNUIES!!! DERNIERE DATE LE 1er MAI
Et n'oublie pas tes tickets de train, maintenant.

For the curious english speaker:
Here is Kin from Viny's lj
WORK ON THE FANZINE IF YOUR BORED! DEADLINE 1fst MAY!
And don't forget your train ticket, now!

[askerian]

j'ai les tickets ^_________^ j'arrive vendredi à 17 heures. c'était ça ou 19. =_=;;; j'ai payé que 90 euros pour l'aller retour parce que je devais renouveler ma carte 12-25 et yavait un aller gratuit avec.

et je bosse, je bosse. XP esclavagiste.

[joosetta.livejournal.com]

Fandom standards. Like. BNF #1 has decided that its not cool to insert japanese into a fic, even if the character is japanese. Because you know, the occasional 'baka' is OMGOTAKUANDFANGIRLISH.


And finally. R/S shippers complaining about OOC. Especially those who write amber-eyed-french-speakin-in-heat-mates-for-life-magical powers-mary-sue!Remus and not-dead!Sirius. Geez. Not dead when he is? how OOC can you get?

[askerian]

What, you mean i'm not a BNF and my say-so isn't enough to kill off what I decide is OOC and stupid?
The japanese thing is a touchy issue, but if the character IS japanese, and the author actually knows how to use it, and it doesn't need a fucking dictionary to go through the fic, then it makes sense. IN SMALL AMOUNTS. I read fics for the story, not the japanese lesson, be it by a japanese-speaker character or not. XD

R/S shippers are best avoided, as are rabid Harry/Ginnysue shippers and Harry/Nice!Leather!Draco shippers.

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Nice!...Leather!...Draco!...? **winces** I haven't been unfortunate enough to encounter that one yet, thankfully.

[askerian]

you HAVEN'T? man, under which rock are you hiding? Reformed draco is EVERYWHERE, as is leatherpants!draco. They breed like rabbits. Whatever happened to canon!draco, i wonder? XD