06:56 PM
Fandom Fandom is just strange sometimes

Wow. I'm on a gen Buffy/Angel discussion list, usually really great detailed intelligent discussion of the shows, but for like the last *week*, it's gotten off on this tangent about sexual orientation of the characters. Some of it has been obnoxious and the listmom (who's really great) put a stop to that but even the nice discussions about it just squick me out. Not because I don't like one orientation or another (I personally don't care) but because there's this overall urge to nail characters into specific square or round holes and I just don't think characters (or people) are that specific and it drives me batty.

Plus, I don't care about pigeonholing characters! Character A can be with character B of sex F one day and with character C of sex M the next day as long as the writers make it plausible. An implausible het relationship makes no more or less sense to me than an implausible gay relationship, I don't like either one because they're both implausible, not because of the gender involved.

So I haven't been reading more than half the posts on that list, just mass deleting anything with the particular subject lines relating to the thread. I looked at a few but they seemed to be continuing with sticking characters in square/round holes so I kept deleting.

And there's a similar thread going on in a meta-fandom list I'm on, although it's less about pigeonholing characters and more about pigeonholing why people like certain types of fic and it's been going on for over a week too.

Maybe Krycek's been spiking the water in fandom? :)
 
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