I don't remember how good she was, I just remember I liked her fics well enough back then, but then I read anything I could get my hands on back in the day. But yes *_*
ilu too XD Okay, it's not like I hate the pairing, but... well.
1) I like Kakashi as a mentor to the kids, and perhaps as the sole survivor member of team Yondaime; I really don't care about his love life. Also, despite the porn -- perhaps even because of the porn -- he seems to really not be that interested in sexing up real people. For me he has no active libido, and I'm really not interested in reading about his love life.
2) Who's Iruka again? No srsly I know he's supposed to be super-important to Naruto but... We almost never see him. I admit that i'm glad Naruto has someone to luv him, but even Konohamaru is more visible than Iruka is. And I find him kinda bland. His character concept is interesting enough -- previously school clown grown teacher, smiling but with a temper -- but around Naruto recently he's been nothing but a passive "ooohh", "ahhhh" spectator. He has no relevance at all to any of the plot past chapter 2. Character concept's okay but the way Kishi uses him bores the hell outta me.
=> Neither of them grabs me enough to make me want a character-centric fic on their sole merit.
3) the only positive proof I really see for them to get together is they're both adults and unattached. Which is a bit, um, yes, no? And I find their only interaction to be devoid of personal chemistry -- there was a brief snag over team seven that Iruka lost and kakashi never seemed to care much about it once he laid down the law, and apart from that they don't even seem to know more than each other's name. It's fine when people build over that, but I get annoyed when every other fic assumes that because they're both adults, they were best friends/best enemies since birth zomg -- adults =/= same age group! D: Not only is Kakashi older, but he was out of the academy when iruka was barely out of toddlerhood. Get your canon facts straight ppl. XD
Which is really not enough to make me actively dislike the idea of the pairing. Hell, I like Naruto/Ino.
But I hate how somehow sasunaru means kakairu has to pop up in parallel too. it reads like one of those stupid romance movies where lol the girl's daddy and the boy's mommy get married and then the kids want to date, or the other way around. might be a fun plot device to center a fic once or twice. When it's not even a plot point, just here for the hell of it, no reason, no real exploration, just convenient "i'm gay and my father figure is, too, and surprise, we pair off with our designated counterparts"? ewwww no. It's horrible writing. Like Iruka and Kakashi just plain cannot support their dearly loved charges Naruto and Sasuke in their terrible trials of getting together if they aren't also experiencing the same thing? It cheapens their support, too. What's strongest, "I'm not gay, but i fully accept that this is part of who you are and i will love you and support you regardless of who you are" or "I will support you! But mostly because you're just like me"? Nrgh.
Anyway kakairu is a crack pairing, and I have no problem with crack pairings as long as they're being written by people who stay IC, and possibly give some sort of insight into why/how they're together. As a fanon-regulation background prop, I do not want, and do steer clear of those fics.
My exposure to the pairing mostly comes from the sasunaru fandom though. I'll read them by chibirisu and Maldoror because they could write Iruka/Gaara/Pakkun and make me go WOW, but srsly I really don't care enough about the characters and their sex lives to look for kakairu fic.
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ilu too XDOkay, it's not like I hate the pairing, but... well.1) I like Kakashi as a mentor to the kids, and perhaps as the sole survivor member of team Yondaime; I really don't care about his love life. Also, despite the porn -- perhaps even because of the porn -- he seems to really not be that interested in sexing up real people. For me he has no active libido, and I'm really not interested in reading about his love life.
2) Who's Iruka again? No srsly I know he's supposed to be super-important to Naruto but... We almost never see him. I admit that i'm glad Naruto has someone to luv him, but even Konohamaru is more visible than Iruka is. And I find him kinda bland. His character concept is interesting enough -- previously school clown grown teacher, smiling but with a temper -- but around Naruto recently he's been nothing but a passive "ooohh", "ahhhh" spectator. He has no relevance at all to any of the plot past chapter 2. Character concept's okay but the way Kishi uses him bores the hell outta me.
=> Neither of them grabs me enough to make me want a character-centric fic on their sole merit.
3) the only positive proof I really see for them to get together is they're both adults and unattached. Which is a bit, um, yes, no? And I find their only interaction to be devoid of personal chemistry -- there was a brief snag over team seven that Iruka lost and kakashi never seemed to care much about it once he laid down the law, and apart from that they don't even seem to know more than each other's name. It's fine when people build over that, but I get annoyed when every other fic assumes that because they're both adults, they were best friends/best enemies since birth zomg -- adults =/= same age group! D: Not only is Kakashi older, but he was out of the academy when iruka was barely out of toddlerhood. Get your canon facts straight ppl. XD
Which is really not enough to make me actively dislike the idea of the pairing. Hell, I like Naruto/Ino.
But I hate how somehow sasunaru means kakairu has to pop up in parallel too. it reads like one of those stupid romance movies where lol the girl's daddy and the boy's mommy get married and then the kids want to date, or the other way around. might be a fun plot device to center a fic once or twice. When it's not even a plot point, just here for the hell of it, no reason, no real exploration, just convenient "i'm gay and my father figure is, too, and surprise, we pair off with our designated counterparts"? ewwww no. It's horrible writing. Like Iruka and Kakashi just plain cannot support their dearly loved charges Naruto and Sasuke in their terrible trials of getting together if they aren't also experiencing the same thing? It cheapens their support, too. What's strongest, "I'm not gay, but i fully accept that this is part of who you are and i will love you and support you regardless of who you are" or "I will support you! But mostly because you're just like me"? Nrgh.
Anyway kakairu is a crack pairing, and I have no problem with crack pairings as long as they're being written by people who stay IC, and possibly give some sort of insight into why/how they're together. As a fanon-regulation background prop, I do not want, and do steer clear of those fics.
My exposure to the pairing mostly comes from the sasunaru fandom though. I'll read them by chibirisu and Maldoror because they could write Iruka/Gaara/Pakkun and make me go WOW, but srsly I really don't care enough about the characters and their sex lives to look for kakairu fic.
Was that ranty enough to satisfy you? XD