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sarrenI have to say, fandom is getting very good at getting on top of wanks and providing handy summary posts complete with links.
On how the Warnings debate blew up
And also, wasn't expecting to feel so personally disappointed in writers whose fic I've previously enjoyed. To quote one commenter Stop being dicks people I like and respect!
- Can no longer justify every waking second spent obsessing about Star Trek, Sweet Charity deadline LOOMING.
- Re-emergence of other interests and necessity of allocating limited time means that fics that don't catch my interest in the first page get abandoned. Too much to get through.
- Enough time has passed that clear tropes have emerged. I don't care how well written the fic is, the first time the author refers to Kirk as a slut or a manwhore or any variation thereof, I am GONE. Also, I don't even DARE open a fic that has McCoy's ex-wife in it. There was one fic where even the TITLE was offensive, something like Five Times Kirk Wanted to Choke a Bitch and One Time the Bitch got Served.
- Sorry, I'm just not that into Kirk/McCoy, so I'm now being way picky. Having said that, the amount of K/Mc fics being put out is HUGE - my latest batch of recs I'm accumulating is about half K/Mc fics so far.
On how the Warnings debate blew up
And also, wasn't expecting to feel so personally disappointed in writers whose fic I've previously enjoyed. To quote one commenter Stop being dicks people I like and respect!
- Can no longer justify every waking second spent obsessing about Star Trek, Sweet Charity deadline LOOMING.
- Re-emergence of other interests and necessity of allocating limited time means that fics that don't catch my interest in the first page get abandoned. Too much to get through.
- Enough time has passed that clear tropes have emerged. I don't care how well written the fic is, the first time the author refers to Kirk as a slut or a manwhore or any variation thereof, I am GONE. Also, I don't even DARE open a fic that has McCoy's ex-wife in it. There was one fic where even the TITLE was offensive, something like Five Times Kirk Wanted to Choke a Bitch and One Time the Bitch got Served.
- Sorry, I'm just not that into Kirk/McCoy, so I'm now being way picky. Having said that, the amount of K/Mc fics being put out is HUGE - my latest batch of recs I'm accumulating is about half K/Mc fics so far.
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Date: 2009-06-27 02:42 am (UTC)I was never a McCoy fan growing up, my perception of him is no doubt just as prejudiced as all of these fans demonising his ex-wife, which is the only reason I've refrained from a long ranty post about this *g*
Mind you, fandom has a long history of being horrible to female characters who have some kind of personal relationship to the male characters they're fixating on. Look at all the shit Uhura's been getting for being unprofessional and leaving her post, while no-one even notices that Kirk, Spock and McCoy all did the same thing.
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Date: 2009-06-27 04:03 am (UTC)I actually think er. *Knowing* these tendencies, Uhura has done astonishingly well, given that she got in the middle of the fannish OTP to end all OTPs.
Which is not to say this behavior is not wrong. But I'm glad it isn't worse! I actually think ficcing fandom has (on average) gotten better about this over the twelve years I've been around here.
She isn't getting a *tenth* of the hate I've seen aimed Sam Carter or Elizabeth Weir. And I say this as a slasher who never shipped them with anyone! Given the *huge* cultural weight behind K/S, I'm really glad at how many slash and het fans are pro-Uhura.
On McCoy's ex, I don't have a problem with them having a messy divorce (heavily implied canon!) or really disliking each other now (pretty common in messy divorces!), but making her a cartoon villain is ridiculous and messed up.