I swear I’ll get a job soon and then I won’t have time to spam LJ. Really.

January 1st, 2005

I’m usually pretty ‘whatever floats your boat, man’ about fandom but, wow, the Kill Sam Contest () disturbs me on so many levels I don’t know where to start. I suppose the only good thing I can say is that it looks like there’s only about five people, including the mod, are members.

I get not liking female characters. I have a certain type that grate for me like nails on a chalkboard (Sara on CSI: Las Vegas/Elle Greenaway on Criminal Minds, if you were curious). I understand that sometimes characters ping for you and sometimes they don’t. But if you honestly think the best way to remove a female character from your fanfic, especially because you feel she might canonically interfere with your favorite pairing, is by killing that character, I call bullshit.

I could go on, I suppose, but I still remember the fun of the ‘occasionally slash fanfic reads as female internalized misogyny’ debates from, uh. 2004? 2005? It tends to run together when you get old.

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