What you wish/want the text to be saying vs what the text is saying? Combined with what the text is saying with this element as a part of the whole vs what the text is saying through the filter of this element?
I realized a while back that the reason I bounce off so much fanfic is because it seems to base itself off of a part of the text removed from context (and changing the meaning) or a wish for what the text was, instead of being rooted in the entirety of the text. Like, in Samurai Deeper Kyo, I ship the canon pairing madly (they're one of the few pairings I look for fic of) but while I get annoyed at Kyo/slash not only because I think it insults both Yuya and Akari (a crossdresser who's been in love with him for years) but also because he is possibly the most exclusively heterosexual character I have ever encountered, I get equally annoyed by a lot of Kyo/Yuya fics because they make him abusive and/or a near rapist and her a doormat, or they wax poetic, which is very very wrong for them. (He decided she was cute because she headbutted him when he threatened to kill her and told her to beg for her life, and one of his earliest love tokens was returning her stolen gun to her. The normal rules of mush and romance do not apply!)
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Date: 2008-10-07 05:59 am (UTC)I realized a while back that the reason I bounce off so much fanfic is because it seems to base itself off of a part of the text removed from context (and changing the meaning) or a wish for what the text was, instead of being rooted in the entirety of the text. Like, in Samurai Deeper Kyo, I ship the canon pairing madly (they're one of the few pairings I look for fic of) but while I get annoyed at Kyo/slash not only because I think it insults both Yuya and Akari (a crossdresser who's been in love with him for years) but also because he is possibly the most exclusively heterosexual character I have ever encountered, I get equally annoyed by a lot of Kyo/Yuya fics because they make him abusive and/or a near rapist and her a doormat, or they wax poetic, which is very very wrong for them. (He decided she was cute because she headbutted him when he threatened to kill her and told her to beg for her life, and one of his earliest love tokens was returning her stolen gun to her. The normal rules of mush and romance do not apply!)