And then I curled up and died
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litlover12I was trying to figure out the significance of the rather random dance number on Bunheads tonight, so I went searching on Tumblr. And that, God help me, is how I found out that there are people shipping two of the young girls on the show.
PEOPLE. THEY ARE MINORS. STOP IT. JUST STOP IT.
For the love of heaven, has no one ever heard of the concept of "friendship"??? Does EVERYTHING have to be sexual?
PEOPLE. THEY ARE MINORS. STOP IT. JUST STOP IT.
For the love of heaven, has no one ever heard of the concept of "friendship"??? Does EVERYTHING have to be sexual?
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:06 am (UTC)*runs*
Seriously, though, this is everywhere. They ship the Harry Potter kids with each other, with the teachers, with whoever. F/F, M/M, minors/adults - it matters not. They ship the Winchester brothers. BROTHERS! This is not fringe. It's mainstream fandom.
Anything less than celebrating any of it - even incest! - is called hatred and bigotry. If you dare to express any level of disagreement you'll find yourself jumped on and banned from communities faster than you can click your mouse.
I'm STILL waiting for a response from the fools who banned me at that XF comm. I asked for proof of my so-called divisive views (or whatever exact term they called it) that "quite a few" people in the comm had a problem with!
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:09 am (UTC)Celebrating incest and pedophilia and other stuff is just so. messed. up.
Fandom is screwed up.
The XF fandom hated me because I ran Laurie Holden's website and Marita Covarrubias was evil thus Laurie was evil thus I was. Or something. (Laurie is amazing and I have known her since I was, what, 12?)
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:14 am (UTC)Ack, this is common? I had a friend (notice the past tense) who hated Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish so much that she felt they should have quit the roles because the fans hated them. Did you get that? She didn't just hate the characters. She hated the actors. She wished harm to them. At first I thought she was joking/exaggerating. I soon learned that she wasn't.
I didn't realize this insanity extended to other characters - at least, not to the extent where people hated the actors too!
I am so, SO lucky that I fell in with relatively normal people when I began my adventures in fandom. XF was my first. I'd never heard of fandom until that time. If I'd seen the lunacy right off I would've shut off my computer and run into the night!
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:17 am (UTC)I do not understand how you can hate the actors, unless you know them/have read crappy things about them/etc. Laurie has called me every birthday since I was 14. Without. Fail. And sent me a wedding present and a onesie for my new baby. She is wonderful. (I'm super glad she's made it big on TV with The Walking Dead! lol)
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:19 am (UTC)*is in awe*
I really wanted to see her on that show. Is it still on?
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Date: 2012-07-24 07:36 am (UTC)I got in touch with her publicist years ago running her fansite when I was a kid which is how I met Laurie. Hahaha.
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Date: 2012-07-24 04:40 am (UTC)Please tell that to my sister. She still hates Michelle Rodriguez because she hated Analucia on Lost and refuses to see anything else Michelle has been in. At least she realizes that she has no rational explanation for it.
Whereas I was so besotted with Harm/Mac shipperness on JAG that I hated Aussie interloper Mic Brumby, but still got excited when I found out his actor Trevor Goddard had gotten a bit part in Pirates of the Caribbean, and sad when he died shortly after. (Look at me being so tolerant, lol.) It's sad when the sane fans that stick to their principles are so few and far between, but alas, such is fandom.
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Date: 2012-07-24 07:17 pm (UTC)I had no opinion on the actress because I'd never heard of her prior to this. But when I learned more about her behavior, I came to not like her. (You know, as much as you can like/not like someone you've never met.)
Man alive, I miss my show!
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-24 03:20 am (UTC)There, there.
*pets*
Don't you know? All the hobbitses are super sekrit gay lovers! It's true!
*runs*
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Date: 2012-07-24 06:16 pm (UTC)Don't get me started on the Narnia fandom. Trying to read anything about that series that isn't specifically recommended makes me want to vomit.
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Date: 2012-07-24 06:33 pm (UTC)Blech.
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Date: 2012-07-24 07:06 pm (UTC)I'm guessing in times past, people also had a bit of shame. Perversions of all kinds have always existed and always will. But it seems people used to be a bit more embarrassed about it. Now? Now they're proud of it. And woe be unto you if you dare disagree.
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Date: 2012-07-25 04:20 am (UTC)If you don't mind my butting in . . . it's pretty much the one thing I can't stand about the Supernatural fandom. Other than that, it's great. Really, what's wrong with enjoying their relationship as brothers and nothing more? Are Wincest shippers all single children or something? I'm pretty sure they're not, but it boggles my mind that anyone can even think of incest without squirming.
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:26 pm (UTC)*eyeroll*
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Date: 2012-07-24 02:39 pm (UTC)On the plus side, it's a nice reminder that when people are shipping your favorite characters, it probably has little to nothing to do with reality.
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Date: 2012-07-25 04:17 am (UTC)Really, what IS wrong with friendship? *rolls eyes*