*shakes fist*

[meganbmoore]

 EBAY PEOPLE!

Stop outbidding me on full runs of Cardcaptor Sakura!

It makes Sakura all upset and disappointed!  Do you know what happens when Sakura is upset and disappointed?  It makes her have a Kurogane moment, and then everything descends into gothic shoujo crack!  Too much of that is bad for the brain!

(Seriously, it's the third or so set I've been outbid on.  I WILL ONLY GO SO HIGH!)

ALSO!!!

(non-fist-shakey)

While I was at work, prozacparkasked me my opinion about #148 of today's Fandom Secrets.  Since she is now logged off and at least one other person here might be interested in it (redbrunja, there aren't any Avatar spoilers in the post) I shall just post it.  The secret was along the lines of "I slash m/m because I think the female characters deserve a lot better than what canon gave them."  I've seen that a few times before, and just ignoring any other opinions I have on fanon shipping,  while I often agree that yes, the girls in fiction could do better and it seems they're just told "Here is the main guy!  You must accept him even though he doesn't appreciate you or treat you well!" my reaction to that response to it is always "But, if you object on her behalf, why are you having her twiddle her thumbs while you send him off to have fun?"

(No, really, if you think canon gave her the short end of the stick and you want her to get better and you're going to do a fanon ship, why doesn't she get to go have fun while the guy who doesn't treat her good enough sits there and sulks?  Why does he get to have all the fun?) 

ETA:  I probably don't have to say this, but just in case:  no bashing the secret maker.  Whoever s/he may be.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I've seen it a lot of times, though. In all honesty, I could probably accept it if they were ALSO pairing the girl up with someone they thought was better for her. It's just that, almost every time I've seen that argument("I do this fanon ship because I think she deserves better than this canon ship") it's used to explain slash(and not f/f) which is where the logic comes to a screeching halt. If the reason for a fanon ship is that you don't think the canon ship is good enough for a character, so you ship one with someone else, the logical conclusion is shipping the one you feel is slighted. But the fact that it's almost always that she deserves better so he gets shipped just seems to enforce the idea that it's the guy who's the most important, and therefore, the one who should be paired off.

It's like how I've been seeing the argument lately that that part of why people slash is that every female in fiction is a love interest, and a lot of guys get left out, so you have to break up a canon pairing to slash. Ignoring the fact that nowhere near every female is paired off, the only way the rest would hold water is if there were only exactly 2 males and 1 female in the work of fiction. Pretty much everything has various unpaired males and females, the fact that it seems to gravitate towards slashing the main(usually paired) male just seems to indicate that you think your favorite HAS to be with the main male to be important or something.