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[askerian]

stolen from phoenix_melody:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

Any fandom I've written for. Feel free to ask about Teamwork and Crossed Wires, but the universes are very big so if you could limit the area you want to know about plz; and even then I might still tell you "sorry, that's a spoiler." Or just tell you something totally stupid like how at some point I seriously believed Teamwork would be done in thirty pages tops. ;p

loev me plz. ;_;

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[askerian]

During the time I was in the GW fandom, it was full of hysterical, yaoi-obsessed 14 year olds (of which I was one for a couple of years, I have to admit. -__-;; ) It was expected that people would hate Relena for being a stalker with delusions (she does follow Heero around and keeps tabs on him, but then again Heero keeps track of her just as much!) and assume that Heero hates her (which he really doesn't) because she gets in the way of the most popular ship, Heero/Duo, and she's a typical self-centered teenage girl in the beginning of the series. I guess real teenage girls don't like to see their own faults looking back at them. Also you were supposed to dislike Hilde or relegate her to the job of Duo's Fag-Hag.

There were flame wars between het fans and yaoi fans, between yaoi fans who liked different pairings, between yaoi fans who hated and/or mocked Relena and those who liked her (much outnumbered, poor guys), and even between people who liked Heero on top and those who liked Duo on top. No matter what you wrote, it felt like unless it fit precisely into a specific niche someone would flame you for it, or at least complain. ("oh my god, Duo took the initiave in bed!" "Oh my god, Relena is CLOSE to Heero?! Since when?! And she's not trying to kill Duo out of jealousy? That's so out of character!" "Ew, Heero/Duo sucks, write Duo/Wufei instead.")

There were pockets of sanity, but a lot of the fandom was very petty and polarized into absolutes no matter how many shades of gray you could have fit in between; since the fandom was still going strong, but was in its... tenth year or so back then? all the fanon tropes had long been hammered into law. (Heero is an emotionless robot whose only dialogue is "Hn." Duo is a giggly girlyboy on sugar high and/or a slut/ex-whore. Trowa was raped by his whole mercenary unit as a child and his only dialogue is "..." Quatre is a sweet girly-girl who likes tea and loves nothing more than advise people on their relationships. Wufei is a mysoginistic guy who keeps getting angry for no reason, screaming "onna!" and getting nosebleeds. Relena always screams HEEEEERROOOOO and is a selfish spoiled hateful bitch.)

Over half of the people had never watched the show, just gotten characterization from fanfic they'd read. Now that the fandom is dying, it seems like the people who stay are more of the type who actually watched the show and loved it for itself, not as a convenient shipping ground... but, well, I'm still a bit nervous. >_>;;

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The guy running the good yaoi panel last night is in GWing, and he says it's seriously mellowed. I guess all the screeching fanbrats have gone off to more current series like Naruto.