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tehrin
2012-01-24 11:19 pm UTC (link)

And alexds1 responds to criticisms here with more assholery.

My family had to flee our native home of Disneyland during the Fun Pogrom of the 1990s. Our Jumpy House burned to the ground and I’ve avoided fun every since.

Seriously though, yes, shippers do annoy me this much and yes don’t worry, I’ve already unfollowed as many as I could without offending my core friend group. Half of the annoyance comes from not being able to escape it anyways, it’s always somewhere on my dash. The biggest problem I have with slash is the earnestness… if it were done in jest then I could get behind it. It’s fun to make fun of things, and the lack of seriousness is, in a way, a form of appreciation for the original subject matter. But shippers don’t make fun of things. What shippers do is rewrite something that functions and turn into personalized pornography. It is cutting down an entire tree to make a dildo, then getting angry that someone noticed. If that isn’t the pinnacle of disrespect, then I don’t know what is.

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1) Holy antisemitism. I expected her/him to follow up with a blood libel joke.
2) So it's OK to make fun of homosexuality, but it's not okay to take it seriously and write erotica it?

I believe that paragraph accurately summarizes all that you need to know about Alexds1 and the foundation of which his/her opinions are truly based on.

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	glossing2 2012-01-25 01:29 am UTC (link)
	What shippers do is rewrite something that functions and turn into personalized pornography. What I love about this is the implication that coldly generic, by-the-numbers, IMPERSONAL porn is just fine. It's when things get personal that there's a problem. (Reply to this)(Parent)

risha
2012-01-25 03:17 am UTC (link)

I tire of the old "fanfiction with romance in it = people writing pornography about pretty people from TV!" saw. Not that our community doesn't produce great number of excellent pornographic pieces on a regular basis, many of which I read. But apparently there's no such thing as writing a legitimate story containing *gasp* relationships (sometimes with sex!) that is not pornography. Like, you know, The Great Gatsby. Howl's Moving Castle. Tale of Two Cities. Pride and Prejudice. Norwegian Wood. Pointless smut like that.

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	cmdr_zoom 2012-01-25 08:44 am UTC (link)
	Sturgeon's Law, as always, applies. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ekaterinv 2012-01-25 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	Don't you see, girls like romance, and anything girls like is without value. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_metal_ox 2012-01-26 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	"MOMMMMM! Those girls are playing house with my action figures!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sailorcoruscant 2012-01-27 04:45 am UTC (link)
	It was more fun when I read your comment as "MOMMMMM! Those girls are playing House with my action figures!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2012-01-25 06:55 am UTC (link)
	It is cutting down an entire tree to make a dildo AAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA! AHAHAHAHAAAA!! I'm sorry, that sounds like some fucked up ancient proverb! OH GOD, that's hilarious! And this person is a fuckmobile. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tehrin 2012-01-25 07:07 am UTC (link)
	Their fuckmobile is carved from a forest. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	j_crew_guy 2012-01-25 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	It is cutting down an entire tree to make a dildo All I can think is "OW, splinters!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	librarianmouse 2012-01-26 03:26 am UTC (link)
	That was my first thought, too. o.O (Reply to this)(Parent)

	full_metal_ox 2012-01-27 12:15 am UTC (link)
	"Robin! To the Fuckmobile!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2012-01-27 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Atomic batteries to power! Turbines to speed!" sound of jet exhaust (Reply to this)(Parent)

	coffeebun 2012-01-25 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	There's this thing called Tumblr Savior, which hides posts that have certain keywords that you add to it. But I guess it's much easier to whine and wank about something you dislike instead of ignoring or hiding them. /shrug (Reply to this)(Parent)

	argylespy 2012-01-27 03:23 am UTC (link)
	The biggest problem I have with slash is the earnestness… if it were done in jest then I could get behind it. Because it's not like queer folk ever have serious relationships, we're all just running around partying and generally being comical caricatures of ourselves to provide comic relief for the rest of the world. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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