Babylon 5 fans unite! There are too few of us, friend. Far too few.
Yeah, sometimes it is a poor understanding, but I think a lot of people just want characters to act the way they want them to (Character A must break down sobbing now! Because he totally should so he can get cuddles!) rather than how a character should act (Character A doesn't cry, and pushes Character B away, because he can't break down in front of anyone), so they can have their happy fic.
The subby-weak characters are rather annoying. >.< I saw it a lot in anime too, sadly. I've read one or two Dom/Sub fics that really work. Cause, like I said, practically every scenario is possible. It's just how you spin it. I don't remember where the fic is, but a DW fic had the Tenth Doctor needing the Master to hurt him, with many D/S sort of ways. Which under normal circumstances just makes me roll my eyes and go to a new fic. But before they went anywhere with the sex, the Doctor prefaced it with the equivalent of "This stays in the bedroom. I won't submit to you in any other situation. Do you understand that?" And all of the sudden, it's believable, in character, and they've given reasons for why the Doctor feels that way, so completely plausible. Three lines that make it in character. A lot of people just don't want to do the work to qualify it though.
"Sometimes you want the bun and sometimes you want the sausage."
rofl! Okay, that made me laugh. Awesome statement. And thanks for the recs, though I don't know those fandoms well. Sadly, the Uke/Seme theme isn't just anime. It spans all fandoms I've come across.
On female characters and their haters... I had the same sort of experience in GW, as chronicled above. I've written I've hated before without bashing them. It's easy enough to do, so long as you're mature about it. I just wish other people realized that.
I think I've just given up on Omegaverse completely. I tried a few, just to make sure. I was squicked and horrified. I just don't rant about them, because hey, someone else likes that kink, even if I don't. It's obviously got a fan following, after all. I'm fine with not being part of that following. -_-;;;
B5 is always a good example. I hold it up to my fandoms now as the better example and keep asking why they aren't as good. Sometimes, that depresses me. But it's so true.
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Date: 2012-09-18 09:16 pm (UTC)Yeah, sometimes it is a poor understanding, but I think a lot of people just want characters to act the way they want them to (Character A must break down sobbing now! Because he totally should so he can get cuddles!) rather than how a character should act (Character A doesn't cry, and pushes Character B away, because he can't break down in front of anyone), so they can have their happy fic.
The subby-weak characters are rather annoying. >.< I saw it a lot in anime too, sadly. I've read one or two Dom/Sub fics that really work. Cause, like I said, practically every scenario is possible. It's just how you spin it. I don't remember where the fic is, but a DW fic had the Tenth Doctor needing the Master to hurt him, with many D/S sort of ways. Which under normal circumstances just makes me roll my eyes and go to a new fic. But before they went anywhere with the sex, the Doctor prefaced it with the equivalent of "This stays in the bedroom. I won't submit to you in any other situation. Do you understand that?" And all of the sudden, it's believable, in character, and they've given reasons for why the Doctor feels that way, so completely plausible. Three lines that make it in character. A lot of people just don't want to do the work to qualify it though.
"Sometimes you want the bun and sometimes you want the sausage."
rofl! Okay, that made me laugh. Awesome statement. And thanks for the recs, though I don't know those fandoms well. Sadly, the Uke/Seme theme isn't just anime. It spans all fandoms I've come across.
On female characters and their haters... I had the same sort of experience in GW, as chronicled above. I've written I've hated before without bashing them. It's easy enough to do, so long as you're mature about it. I just wish other people realized that.
I think I've just given up on Omegaverse completely. I tried a few, just to make sure. I was squicked and horrified. I just don't rant about them, because hey, someone else likes that kink, even if I don't. It's obviously got a fan following, after all. I'm fine with not being part of that following. -_-;;;
B5 is always a good example. I hold it up to my fandoms now as the better example and keep asking why they aren't as good. Sometimes, that depresses me. But it's so true.