This is what I find disturbing. I would say that this trend started about six months ago and at LEAST once a week a new "secret" has some sort of slash-bashing post. Mind you, they don't say, hey, this fic is really lousy, badly written, just dreck. No. It's generally how reading about men having sexual relationships with each other is disgusting and taking over their fandom (which, hello, really?) and, perhaps, my favorite: How it isn't canon? Frankly, anytime you take a medium beyond what the original creators intended it is NOT canon, so that argument usually brings nothing but contemptible sniggering from me. You want canon? Reread or rewatch the source material and rinse and repeat. THAT'S canon, baby, and anytime you take it beyond that then you've marched firmly into non-canon territory. Can writers (even within their own canon) take things out of canon? Sure. That's called bad writing when a character doesn't adhere to an established arc or a plot veers off into some hare-brained direction that doesn't make sense. But basically, I think once you take source material and start tweaking it, then you are guilty of messing with canon to a certain degree. Which is why I think that argument is bullshit. How het characters would NEVER stoop to suck someone's dick. Really? How do you know?
Most of the time I think it's trolls just trying to get the slash writers to foam at the mouth. In fact, I would say the majority of fandomsecrets is troll generated, specifically designed to alienate groups of people. Seems like a strange way to get off, but it's obvious that a lot of the posts are purely incendiary in nature.
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Date: 2012-06-17 06:01 pm (UTC)Most of the time I think it's trolls just trying to get the slash writers to foam at the mouth. In fact, I would say the majority of fandomsecrets is troll generated, specifically designed to alienate groups of people. Seems like a strange way to get off, but it's obvious that a lot of the posts are purely incendiary in nature.