It's too early for the stupid

[teddog]

I think fandom has reached an interesting turning point when Non-Yaoi is considered a "type" (genre?!) of fanfiction.

Isn't that just Gen?!

Comments

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's rather... WTF. The only reason I would think someone to label something "non-yaoi, gen" would be a general story with no mentions of same-sex relationships, even if the relationship is a canonical one.

Though I have no idea what Fullmetal Alchemist fandom is like, so I could be completely off the mark.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

The pairing isn't canonical. Thus, my bafflement.

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

::groans:: Well, that is kinda anime for you. It's such an oddball subculture.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

More like "anime with pretty boys who are there just to be eye candy".

Me, if I'm going to watch anime for "eye candy", I perfer snarky guys or, I dunno, NORMAL ADULTS. I can't understand what's so appealing about some whiney emo brat with the physical build of a 13 year old boy.

Or, I could always watch it for the plot.

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

Ah, men with body hair...

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Well, there's that too. I'm also thinking men with complex thought processes.

I swear, that's what I was thinking.

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

But not flowery, delicate ones. Men with complex thought processes who are not afraid to use the term 'hard-on'.