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[beckyh2112]

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Ask me fandom-related questions. They can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, kinks, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you've always wanted to know.

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[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Overall? Character-bashing pisses me off. Dislike a character? Fine. Don't go around telling people who like the character that they're wrong and bad and their choice is stupid. Don't insult the character in completely unrelated things. And yes, if the canon ship is A/B and you ship A/C, throwing in "B is terrible for A, lol!" in the author's or artist's comments of your A/C fan-creation counts as bashing to me. NO ONE CARES. YOU'RE JUST DOING THAT TO PISS PEOPLE OFF.

On a personal level, I am wary of people who over-identify with fictional characters due to some unpleasant run-ins with people in Transformers fandom. I am sure most of my TF friends can think of one of the two I'm thinking of.

[usamichan13.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I know what you mean. It can get especially annoying when people purposefully write their hated character OOC just to make them look stupid.

It's kind of creepy to think of how many people are like that.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

"Katara and Zuko get together! So of course Mai must be a homicidal bitch-queen and Aang must be an immature crybaby!" Gag me with a spoon.

"I love Seiya and Usagi together, so of course Mamoru must be a controlling stalker!" GGGGGNNNNNNGH.

Argharghargharghargh! This kind of thing comes up over and over again, too. I have friends not involved in AtLA fandom who can hear "Zuko's canon girlfriend" and realize exactly how Mai is treated by some parts of the fandom because they see the same damn thing in other fandoms.

It drives me crazy! Like what you like! Dislike what you dislike! Don't tell me I'm bad for liking them! Don't make them OOC to show why they're horrible people!

And if I ever hear "Mai is so depressed, I can't believe she didn't commit suicide during the course of the series" again, it will be too soon.

[usamichan13.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, I know! Don't these people have anything better to do with their time than act like this?