LEP 27.4.

[yvannairie]

I was gonna post this on Tumblr and decided it was too spicy but since I am once again moaning the lack of yaoi in my fandoms, even of characters whose ships I don't really even care about, I really do think that all the complaining about people's lack of attention to female characters and only focusing on ships that the dislikers of such things can characterise as "any two guys" ships means that there's just plain less art of any kind now.

Like I thought brainless seme/uke bishonen porn was an unavoidable scourge on fandom but my favourite character's tags are full of porn of them with the Hot Sexy Girl from their game/show, rather than them with any of the "low-hanging yaoi ships" everyone complains about. Pixiv had a total of twenty works crosstagged with both "BL" and "Xenoblade 3", for example.

I guess I'm glad the het fans are eating well. And, granted, I do also like those ships, I just think the porn is low quality and OOC for the most part. But there's not even low-quality OOC boy/boy porn available for me to be disappointed by.

Comments

[palominocorn]

Not just horny for a guy tbh. It's not the dominant force of fandom, but there's a definite radfem undercurrent of "anything men even remotely touch is bad by definition"... while also maintaining the normal societal weirdness re: female characters.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, and oh, heaven forbid any of the characters you like are underaged (or """"minor coded"""" which is a moving goalpost that mostly exists to bash people whose fanworks you don't like). And people don't even realize how destructive this is both to fandom generally and to people's general well-being.

[yvannairie]

YEAH GOD like I keep hearing about how we're currently living through the golden age of femslash and I keep asking WHERE??? WHERE IS ALL THE PORN?? IF WE'RE ATTRACTED TO WOMEN HERE WHY ARE WE NOT FUCKING THEM?? and receiving no answer except complaining about having to see works of art that they think appeal to "men" more than they appeal to themselves. It really is a radscum anti-fun, "how dare you be enjoying yourself when things are so bad" message. There is no joy to be found here.

[palominocorn]

"There is no joy to be found here."

And that's the crux of the issue, isn't it? People turn to fandom as an escape, except instead of fandom bringing them the joy that their lives are missing, they use fandom as a cudgel against other people. Instead of seeking joy, they seek the power to hurt others.