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- If you don't send me feedback, I will sob uncontrollably for hours on end, until finally, in a fit of depression, I slash my wrists and bleed out on the bathroom floor. My death will be on your heads. Murderers
. -- Unknown, on feedback
BTS List - That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
-- pricklyelf, on why Lex goes bad
LJ - Obi-Wan has a sort of desperate, pathetic patience in this movie. You can just see it in his eyes: "My padawan is a psychopath, and no one will believe me; I'm barely keeping him under control and expect to wake up any night now to find him standing over my bed with a knife!"
-- Teague, reviewing "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"
LJ - Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
-- hwmitzy and seperis, on bead addiction
AIM, 12/24/2003 - I could rape a goat and it will DIE PRETTIER than they write.
-- anonymous, on terrible writing
AIM, 2/17/2004 - In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
-- silverkyst, on wtf
AIM, 3/25/2004 - Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
LJ, 4/2/2004 - silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
AIM, 1/25/2005 - You know, if obi-wan had just disciplined the boy *properly* we wouldn't be having these problems. Can't you just see yoda? "Take him in hand, you must. The true Force, you must show him."
-- Issaro, on spanking Anakin in his formative years
LJ, 3/15/2005 - Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
-- Summerfling, on shower sex
LJ, 7/22/2005 - It's weird, after you get used to the affection you get from a rabbit, it's like any other BDSM relationship. Only without the sex and hot chicks in leather corsets wielding floggers. You'll grow to like it.
-- revelininsanity, on my relationship with my rabbit
LJ, 2/7/2006 - Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
LJ, 4/13/2006 - Rule 3. Chemistry is kind of like bondage. Some people like it, some people like reading about or watching other people doing it, and a large number of people's reaction to actually doing the serious stuff is to recoil in horror.
-- deadlychameleon, on class
LJ, 9/1/2007 - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Fan Fiction is John Cusack standing outside your house with a boombox.
-- JRDSkinner, on fanfiction
Twitter - I will unashamedly and unapologetically celebrate the joy and the warmth and the creativity of a community of people sharing something positive and beautiful and connective and if you don’t like it you are most welcome to very fuck off.
-- Michael Sheen, on Good Omens fanfic
Twitter, 6/19/2019 - Adding for Mastodon.
-- Jenn, traceback
Fosstodon, 11/6/2022
omg I talk SO MUCH: Part 2
From:Bring Your Own Subtext: These are those fandoms where people tend to pairing crazy - half the fun for some people in these fandoms is playing mix and match with the available characters. Everything is fair game. Actual femslash! Whee incest!
Harry Potter: As others have said, crazy segmentation and a proclivity to pair everyone off with the kitchen sink. But Harry/Hermoine, Ron/Hermoine, Draco/Hermoine, and Ginny/Draco all have vast amounts of het followers and fics. Draco/Harry, Snape/Harry, and Remus/Sirus are the primary slash pairings. All receive a large amount of attention.
Roswell: You could find at least 3 fics for any obscure pairing you could ever dream of, but major competing het pairings: Max/Liz, Michael/Liz. Slash pairings: Max/Michael, Max/Kyle
BtvS: Major het pairings: Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike (Willow/Angel, Will/Spike were heavier in the early yrs of fandom). Major slash: Angel/Spike, Angel/Xander, Xander/Spike. Major femslash pairings: Willow/Tara, Buffy/Faith
Movie Madness: Unexpected, inexplicable fandom surprises! Suddenly a movie comes out and people go nuts for a pairing. Only a couple hours of canon, where the pairing shares screen time with a number of other plot points and characters, and yet a large group of fen rush to their computers and begin shipping like mad. This fandom will tend have only 1 major pairing.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: A few filmed scenes brought us hundreds and hundreds of Qui-Gon/Obi-Wanfics - LONG fics.
The X-Men movie(s): Het version of this phenomenon. Wolverine/Rogue.
See also: I would probably classify The Foresaken under this heading as well, as a minor fandom.
Inexplicable OTP: There is just something about a certain pairing on the show that pushes a whole bunch of people's buttons. Maybe this is because the canon has big gay subtext, maybe we see what we want to see - shippers will say subtext, others may say no. Maybe fandom has difficulty writing people of color, maybe that's not it at all. Fandom participants and non-fandom participants can argue about justification, lack of justification, why, when, how until the cows come home... but it will not change the OTP fixation.
Highlander: No 100% proven reason that Duncan/Richie did not catch on... other than it didn't. Duncan/Methos wins in a landslide, despite having much less screen time.
SGA: Why for art thou Rodney/John, and not John/Ronon or Rodney/Ronon equally? John/Teyla and John/Elizabeth seem to share close to equal billing, but on the slash side it's OTP or bust.
SG-1: I think SG-1 probably belongs here for the slash side. Jack/Daniel doesn't have any serious competition in the slash fandom, despite Jack/Teal'c, Daniel/Teal'c, and Daniel/Cameron sharing quality screen time. (mentioning D/C as we didn't get the appropriate RayK-like shift)
Torchwood:I'm tentatively including Torchwood here instead of under Canon Based Shipping because (a) Jack/Ianto was quite popular before it truly received strong canon support in S2 and because (b) it overshadows Gwen/Jack so strongly in fandom, though G/J subtext still receives a lot of focus on the show. And I don't think G/J would overtake it in fandom even if she became Jack's primary canon partner. But it really could go either way... kind of like Jack! hee. ;)
Smallville: Clark/Chloe overtook the canon het pairing Lana/Clark in fandom's hearts. Clark/Lex far overshadowed Clark/Pete fic like whoa. [However: as Pete got less character development than Lex and less screen time, then left the show etc. and Clark has yet to find another long term relationship arc with any other male character... it may be that for the slash side this fandom might instead have more in common with Last Man On Earth]
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