I recall my post on 'shipper' fic, and how Victoria P concluded that what I was really trying to say was "Movieverse writes should get serious and start writing more comic fic." even though there was nothing in the post to suggest that, and that it was posted on my Livejournal, which is watched mostly by comic book fanfiction writers. Really awful place to post a challange to the movie community, I'd say.
Didn't I explain why I thought that? Huh. I thought I had.
An awful lot of the time, it seems that people (random, generic people in fandom) equate movieverse with shipper fic, shipper fic with Logan/Rogue, and Logan/Rogue with crapfic.
Min's mentioned this many times, and as a non-L/R writer, she's really got no axe to grind, so she can be considered perhaps a less biased observer than I. But hey, at least I wear my biases openly. *g*
When you see it over and over, you start to think that people actually think that way, so when you see a post that says "We need less shipper fic and more action-oriented/political thriller/noromo fic," if you're me, one decodes that as: movieverse=shipper=L/R=crap while comicverse=noromo=action/deep thoughts=good.
Luckily, you're not me.
Yes. It's my interpretation and you say it's faulty and I believe you. But it's almost a pavlovian response two years into XMM fandom.
Re: Oh, you *knew* I'd reply to this one.... (part the first)
Didn't I explain why I thought that? Huh. I thought I had.
An awful lot of the time, it seems that people (random, generic people in fandom) equate movieverse with shipper fic, shipper fic with Logan/Rogue, and Logan/Rogue with crapfic.
Min's mentioned this many times, and as a non-L/R writer, she's really got no axe to grind, so she can be considered perhaps a less biased observer than I. But hey, at least I wear my biases openly. *g*
When you see it over and over, you start to think that people actually think that way, so when you see a post that says "We need less shipper fic and more action-oriented/political thriller/noromo fic," if you're me, one decodes that as: movieverse=shipper=L/R=crap while comicverse=noromo=action/deep thoughts=good.
Luckily, you're not me.
Yes. It's my interpretation and you say it's faulty and I believe you. But it's almost a pavlovian response two years into XMM fandom.
Does that make sense?