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and_chocolate) wrote2004-03-08 06:03 pm
and_chocolate) wrote2004-03-08 06:03 pm
Self-indulgent Rant
Sometimes I just can't wrap my head around the LotRiPS fandom.
The "sane" portion of the fandom parades around, shouting at the top of their lungs that "it's not real; we don't believe any of this is truly going on; we're not like the crazies over there with their conspiracy theories; we know it's just fiction," and then as soon as someone writes something edgy or dark or otherwise "unsavory," these same folks are up in arms, complaining that the actors wouldn't do that, or that it's sick or depressing or ruining their fandom....
What happened to "it's just fiction"?
Isn't this just one big game of "let's pretend" in the first place? So how is it somehow worse to write stories where Elijah abuses Dom than to write stories where Elijah buggers Dom? Because, let's face it, neither one is likely to be true and the majority of mundanes would find both ideas equally disturbing. Technically, both are fictional stories about non-fictional people, made up by fans for the consumption of other fans; they're the result of a writer wondering "what if" and exploring a situation that, by definition, is not reality.
Yeah, so maybe it doesn't hit your kink. Maybe it disgusts you, even. You know what? You're obviously not the intended audience, and you don't have to read it! This isn't A Clockwork Orange.
And yeah, it's a bummer that people aren't writing what you want. That sucks and I can feel your pain. But I'm not whinging on in my LJ about how there's not enough of a certain flavor of Orlijah out there, because I know it's not the universe's responsibility to cater to me and my desires -- much as that sucks, too.
Honestly, in the end all I can think of to say is to quote Denis Leary: "Life's hard, get a helmet. Shut the fuck up. Next."
The "sane" portion of the fandom parades around, shouting at the top of their lungs that "it's not real; we don't believe any of this is truly going on; we're not like the crazies over there with their conspiracy theories; we know it's just fiction," and then as soon as someone writes something edgy or dark or otherwise "unsavory," these same folks are up in arms, complaining that the actors wouldn't do that, or that it's sick or depressing or ruining their fandom....
What happened to "it's just fiction"?
Isn't this just one big game of "let's pretend" in the first place? So how is it somehow worse to write stories where Elijah abuses Dom than to write stories where Elijah buggers Dom? Because, let's face it, neither one is likely to be true and the majority of mundanes would find both ideas equally disturbing. Technically, both are fictional stories about non-fictional people, made up by fans for the consumption of other fans; they're the result of a writer wondering "what if" and exploring a situation that, by definition, is not reality.
Yeah, so maybe it doesn't hit your kink. Maybe it disgusts you, even. You know what? You're obviously not the intended audience, and you don't have to read it! This isn't A Clockwork Orange.
And yeah, it's a bummer that people aren't writing what you want. That sucks and I can feel your pain. But I'm not whinging on in my LJ about how there's not enough of a certain flavor of Orlijah out there, because I know it's not the universe's responsibility to cater to me and my desires -- much as that sucks, too.
Honestly, in the end all I can think of to say is to quote Denis Leary: "Life's hard, get a helmet. Shut the fuck up. Next."
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how there's not enough of a certain flavor of Orlijah out there
Inquiring minds want to know... what is your "certain flavour"???????
:)
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I don't know that I've actually sat down an analyzed what it is that makes me love certain Orlijah stories and not others. Mostly that statement was a hypothetical example rather than a factual one.
If pressed, though, I'd have to say that I really like stories where neither of them is overly experienced with other guys, neither of them is too much of a bastard, and where if they don't end up happily together, at least they don't end up absolutely miserable. Bittersweet endings are okay, though.
Um. I think I just described See Under: Clue, Getting A. *g* That being the story that sucked me into LotRiPS, it's hardly surprising that I like things in that vein.
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Oh yeah! They press my buttons too.