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wordinistaMy cold is being stubborn in its retreat. The crazy fever is gone, the cough is more or less gone, but now my sinuses are rebelling. I have never sneezed so much in one day. Oy. My peppermint coffee seems to be holding things at bay (or maybe I've conned myself into believing in a placebo, I don't know). I haven't worn contacts in days because I've been too lazy to put them in. Bleh. No energy to do much of anything.
Hee -- that kind of explains the basket of unfolded laundry to my left, doesn't it? ;)
Anyway, I've been lurking on a couple of different Furuba ML's, and I'm learning something.
I don't think I really want to get into the Fruits Basket fandom proper. Don't misunderstand me -- I adore Furuba. Adore it.
(*sneezes again and swears vehemently*)
Where was I? Ah. Furuba. I love the anime, and I love the manga. I actually prefer the manga to the anime, if only because it offers more detail in the characters' personalities. Though I think the anime is a lot more conducive to fanfiction, because it does gloss over certain characters' traits, so a fanwriter could take more liberties and play around a bit more. As a fanwriter, that's actually quite appealing. Particularly since I don't follow the fan-translations. I'm horrible and dull and boring, and I'm reading the manga as it's released in the States. So while I know about a few spoilers, by and large I'm ignorant of the fine details. And I'm okay with that, really. I'm okay with the story being revealed to me gradually. I'm actually a very patient person. (It drives George insane, particularly when Christmastime or my birthday rolls around.)
(*pauses to fold a little laundry*)
But as I lurked on the ML's and poked around a bit, I began to find myself growing a bit... apprehensive. There are some seriously hard-core Furuba fangirls out there who are positively nazi-like in their views. Not since Buffy the Vampire Slayer have I seen so many staunch believers in their OTP's. (With BtVS, we had the Buffy/Angel 'shippers knocking heads with the Angel/Cordelia 'shippers, and the former also taking offense to Buffy/Spike 'shippers. While I'm a card-carrying A/C fangirl, I always wanted to see Buffy and Xander together -- I know, I'm weird. Someday I may make a public plea for a Buffy/Xander giftfic, because I'm sad.)
In Furuba, we've got the Kyou/Tohru fangirls versus the Yuki/Tohru fangirls, and then varying factions of Tohru/Anyone Else. And, my god, I'm actually afraid to admit that I'm a Kyou/Tohru fangrrl in much the same way I'm hesitant to admit in mixed company that I'm a registered Republican. I'm also finding that non-yaoi pairings are somewhat sneered at.
Way to foster a friendly, non-intimidating fandom, kids! Yeah! *rolls eyes*
So this is the way I see it -- Furuba appears to be overrun with fangirl-nazis who will:
A. Flay without blinking if you violate their OTP
Or...
B. Write in the anime as opposed to the manga.
Now, I can see the manga purists' perspective, but they're still scary. And scary manga purists are somewhat off-putting to fanfiction authors. I know whereof I speak, being a fanauthor and all. I'm actually AFRAID to share my FB writings, because the fandom seems so tetchy. I'd half expect to find annotated flames in my inbox citing manga volumes, chapters, frame numbers, and dialogue as to why my interpretation of Shigure is OMG WRONNNNNNG~ OMG OMG OMG!!!
See, I'm working on a fic with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
everstar3 -- it's a joint thing. And while we both prefer the manga for the character depth, there are a few things that don't happen in the manga and do happen in the anime that we need for the 'fic to work. So, we decided to tweak things a little so that the fic had the depth of the manga, up until Volume 5, but was mostly set in the world of the anime. So... kind of a hybrid universe, I guess.
Oh, my GOD, the more I look at these ML's, the more I'm convinced we'll be burned at the STAKE.
A Shigure-centric, Kyou/Tohru 'fic, set in a hybrid "anime/manga" universe.
Oh, and it's Shigure/OC. (After having so much fun with Teles and Sesshoumaru, I couldn't resist seeing if lightning could strike twice. Yes, I know about Miyu. But the 'fic idea came before I learned about her. And while I considered rethinking it to be either Shigure/Miyu or Shigure/Mii-chan, it just doesn't WORK the same way.)
Oh! And it hypothesizes on an end to the curse. (The curse's end has nothing at all whatsoever to do with the OC, so stop looking at me like that.)
...
They're going to lynch us. *covers head with arms and sobs*
*sigh*
It just seems to me that we've got a fandom that's ruled by scary fangirl-nazis that ALSO happens to have OMG some of the very worst fanfiction I've ever, ever, ever had the bad luck to read. HOLY JESUS, IT'S SO BAD. REALLY REALLY REALLY OMG BAD.
So they're not scaring off the 'tweens who write bad self-insertions about the American exchange student who comes to stay at Shigure-san's house. They're scaring off... me. And if they're scaring me off, they're probably scaring off other fanwriters who know the difference between a comma and a semicolon, or who realize that Japanese students actually DO have class on Saturday mornings, and they DON'T drive to school, and they DON'T change classrooms, and they don't do any other number of things that American students do.
Maybe I need to learn to be less skittish. Or perhaps I need to learn not to CARE about the psycho fangirls. I'm not entirely sure, frankly. But I do know that the more I learn about all the scary manga purists in the fandom, the less I find myself in the mood to work on "A Bump in the Road."
Hee -- that kind of explains the basket of unfolded laundry to my left, doesn't it? ;)
Anyway, I've been lurking on a couple of different Furuba ML's, and I'm learning something.
I don't think I really want to get into the Fruits Basket fandom proper. Don't misunderstand me -- I adore Furuba. Adore it.
(*sneezes again and swears vehemently*)
Where was I? Ah. Furuba. I love the anime, and I love the manga. I actually prefer the manga to the anime, if only because it offers more detail in the characters' personalities. Though I think the anime is a lot more conducive to fanfiction, because it does gloss over certain characters' traits, so a fanwriter could take more liberties and play around a bit more. As a fanwriter, that's actually quite appealing. Particularly since I don't follow the fan-translations. I'm horrible and dull and boring, and I'm reading the manga as it's released in the States. So while I know about a few spoilers, by and large I'm ignorant of the fine details. And I'm okay with that, really. I'm okay with the story being revealed to me gradually. I'm actually a very patient person. (It drives George insane, particularly when Christmastime or my birthday rolls around.)
(*pauses to fold a little laundry*)
But as I lurked on the ML's and poked around a bit, I began to find myself growing a bit... apprehensive. There are some seriously hard-core Furuba fangirls out there who are positively nazi-like in their views. Not since Buffy the Vampire Slayer have I seen so many staunch believers in their OTP's. (With BtVS, we had the Buffy/Angel 'shippers knocking heads with the Angel/Cordelia 'shippers, and the former also taking offense to Buffy/Spike 'shippers. While I'm a card-carrying A/C fangirl, I always wanted to see Buffy and Xander together -- I know, I'm weird. Someday I may make a public plea for a Buffy/Xander giftfic, because I'm sad.)
In Furuba, we've got the Kyou/Tohru fangirls versus the Yuki/Tohru fangirls, and then varying factions of Tohru/Anyone Else. And, my god, I'm actually afraid to admit that I'm a Kyou/Tohru fangrrl in much the same way I'm hesitant to admit in mixed company that I'm a registered Republican. I'm also finding that non-yaoi pairings are somewhat sneered at.
Way to foster a friendly, non-intimidating fandom, kids! Yeah! *rolls eyes*
So this is the way I see it -- Furuba appears to be overrun with fangirl-nazis who will:
A. Flay without blinking if you violate their OTP
Or...
B. Write in the anime as opposed to the manga.
Now, I can see the manga purists' perspective, but they're still scary. And scary manga purists are somewhat off-putting to fanfiction authors. I know whereof I speak, being a fanauthor and all. I'm actually AFRAID to share my FB writings, because the fandom seems so tetchy. I'd half expect to find annotated flames in my inbox citing manga volumes, chapters, frame numbers, and dialogue as to why my interpretation of Shigure is OMG WRONNNNNNG~ OMG OMG OMG!!!
See, I'm working on a fic with
everstar3 -- it's a joint thing. And while we both prefer the manga for the character depth, there are a few things that don't happen in the manga and do happen in the anime that we need for the 'fic to work. So, we decided to tweak things a little so that the fic had the depth of the manga, up until Volume 5, but was mostly set in the world of the anime. So... kind of a hybrid universe, I guess.Oh, my GOD, the more I look at these ML's, the more I'm convinced we'll be burned at the STAKE.
A Shigure-centric, Kyou/Tohru 'fic, set in a hybrid "anime/manga" universe.
Oh, and it's Shigure/OC. (After having so much fun with Teles and Sesshoumaru, I couldn't resist seeing if lightning could strike twice. Yes, I know about Miyu. But the 'fic idea came before I learned about her. And while I considered rethinking it to be either Shigure/Miyu or Shigure/Mii-chan, it just doesn't WORK the same way.)
Oh! And it hypothesizes on an end to the curse. (The curse's end has nothing at all whatsoever to do with the OC, so stop looking at me like that.)
...
They're going to lynch us. *covers head with arms and sobs*
*sigh*
It just seems to me that we've got a fandom that's ruled by scary fangirl-nazis that ALSO happens to have OMG some of the very worst fanfiction I've ever, ever, ever had the bad luck to read. HOLY JESUS, IT'S SO BAD. REALLY REALLY REALLY OMG BAD.
So they're not scaring off the 'tweens who write bad self-insertions about the American exchange student who comes to stay at Shigure-san's house. They're scaring off... me. And if they're scaring me off, they're probably scaring off other fanwriters who know the difference between a comma and a semicolon, or who realize that Japanese students actually DO have class on Saturday mornings, and they DON'T drive to school, and they DON'T change classrooms, and they don't do any other number of things that American students do.
Maybe I need to learn to be less skittish. Or perhaps I need to learn not to CARE about the psycho fangirls. I'm not entirely sure, frankly. But I do know that the more I learn about all the scary manga purists in the fandom, the less I find myself in the mood to work on "A Bump in the Road."
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Bring it on
Date: 2005-01-17 11:27 pm (UTC)Hee. Just kidding. Seriously, though, I am not afraid. What're they gonna do? Call me names? Ooh. I'm afraid! I'm afraid of the undersexed tweeners who can't spell, can't write, and can't read! They're going to call! Me! Names! And maybe not read my fic! Horrors! Because I really wanted my fic to be read by illiterate prating morons who are so locked into their own views of What Fruits Basket Is that they'll probably commit seppuku when Takaya-sensei puts Kyou with Tohru, which she's going to do, thank you, because she's been hinting at it since the FIRST FREAKING VOLUME. (*scribbles note: dear Takaya-sensei, hurry up and make them do that, will you? It'll solve a lot of our problems. kisses, evvie*) Or, you know, whatever. Maybe she'll put Yuki with what's her face (student council girl). Maybe she'll put Shigure with Mayu. I don't care. So what if Akito's a... well, you know. Maybe he's a hermaphrodite! Maybe he's a fish! Maybe we don't know yet and we'll find out when we get there!
As to the yaoi, I don't ship yaoi because I don't care for it, except in Aya's case, because it's so hard not to. (I don't ship 'Tori-san/Aya because poor 'Tori-san doesn't need that kind of stress.) But some people like it, and frankly, it's hard NOT to see it in the Mabudachi Trio because... Aya. But, Jesus, I've peeked into the GW fandom, where they'll ship Heero with everything from Relena to his Gundam. (No, really. No, really.) So I am not afraid. I have a killfile, and I'll use it. I'm not writing for them. I'm writing for me.
Um. When I write. *staggers under the weight of the nagging* Hopefully I'll be able to get back to it this semester since I'm only halftime. I'm pretty sure there are IY fans waiting to lynch me for not updating Pieces. But I will write for Fruits Basket because I love Fruits Basket, and the delicacy and care that Takaya-sensei has put into it. I can't be manga-pure because I haven't read all the manga. So I'll do the best that I can and be as true as I can to the characters I love, and if people don't appreciate it, they can go sob over their badly drawn doujinshi of The Time Someone Put Ecstasy In The Juunishi Banquet.