Oh dear

[serai]

It looks like mucun has closed her slash site:

http://havens.sakura.ne.jp/ban/

Wonder what happened? Anybody here read Japanese? It looks like she left a note.



ETA: OK, I've been over to Rei's journal and read the latest on the brouhaha.

And I can say that I am now officially disgusted with this fandom. I suppose it's a branch of my disgust with this prudish, finger-pointing, dirty-minded culture in general, that can see some kind of twisted sex in a rather sweet image of affection between friends. God, people can be filthy sometimes.

Feh.

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[serai1.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I'm Spanish, and my folks are old-world, and you'd be mightily amused by some of the stories I could tell you about familial affection, hugs-and-kisses, and the hilarious situations that can result. You'd laugh heartily, whereas I'm sure the kind of pissy busybodies we're discussing would have an apoplectic fit.

not only narrow-minded and reprehensible, but abominably rude as well.

LOL. Ah, but we're talking about 'Murrikins here. This is the BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, with the HIGHEST MORALS and BEST VALUES, so we have the right to tell anybody else anywhere what to do, anytime. Courtesy is just some faggy Eurotrash invention, we don't need none o' that shit! We gonna say what we want and do what we want, and anybody who cain't take it ain't got no balls, yahoo!

We didn't get our reputation as the rudest, pushiest nation in the world by accident, y'know. But you know I'm in agreement with you on the rudeness thing. It just kills me how sickeningly rude and self-worshipping we can be.

I know it's modern scripture to believe that one's own problems are more important than anything or anyone else, and thus the whole world should Hear About It When We're Offended, and thus I'm marking myself as a hopeless old fogey when I say people should mind their own business and keep their shit to themselves. I've got skeletons and troubles and past sorrows aplenty, but you don't see me vomiting them out all over everybody at the slightest provocation. The worship of the individual has turned this culture into a huge sandbox, filled with toddlers who whine and cry and demand everyone's attention no matter what the cause.

I must say, however, that I believe that the root cause of the original comments was an active dislike to the prevalence of slash within the LOTR fan community.

And I agree with you here wholeheartedly. This is something I just don't get. What the hell business is it of theirs? They don't like slash? Fine. Who in the hell is forcing them to look at it? And for fuck's sake, she labelled the drawing and put in a cut. How can it possibly be her resposibility that some slash-hating dickwad decided to look anyway?

Jesus, this fandom so deserves a massive bitch-slapping. This kind of shit is just not on at all.

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think it was the condescension that really got to me, the ever-so-kindly implication that, my dear, you may not have realized it, being a benighted foreigner and all, but you just posted what any reasonable person could clearly see was pornographic filth. But of course we Americans with our lofty morals have no problem in pointing out the error of your ways to you. Pah.

Not familiar with Murrikins, fortunately, but then I do stay far away from SOA and any other group that I feel is judgmental.

and any that favors elves, but that's just me ;)

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Teehee! "'Murrikins" are Americans, with that self-righteous trailer-trash accent.

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Hee! - and here I thought it was some impossibly twee nickname. :D

[serai1.livejournal.com]

*snort* Or some deviant/weird fandom thing. A fetish for...what? Fold-out beds? Virgin mothers? The mind boggles at the possibilities.