Meta meme: 30 Days of Shipping

[luxken27]

The next chapter of Stacy in Bloom is clicking along, and looks like it might actually be somewhere in the neighborhood of 3K words. I'm not sure whether to be happy (that its almost done) or disappointed (that it's not a mega-beast like the last few chapters have been). I guess we'll find out when its done :P

Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?


BSC slash - One of the things that makes me shy away from BSC fandom online is the sheer amount of slash. This makes me sound like a bad person (like I don't like slash), but that's *really* not the case. The reason I object to it is more of a 'this is perverting my childhood' thing. (Pathetic alert here.) When I was a kid, I didn't have many actual, physical friends, and certainly none in my neighborhood (our development was fairly new back in the day). So my friends were only people I saw at school...and the characters I found in media, especially books. The BSC constituted my friends for a good part of my childhood, so I hold the characters - and the series - in very high regard. I never saw slash-y subtext in the books, and in a way, I think it's missing the point to pair the girls together. The girls were best friends, a bond it is quite difficult for young girls to make with each other, and I thought the series was a great example of how to have and maintain good, solid, female friendships. That's very rare, even in the world of girl series fiction (Sweet Valley or Gossip Girl, anyone?).

So, while I don't personally like BSC slash, pretty much all of the rest of identifiable fandom does (either the girls themselves, or some of the kid clients), and that's great - I'm just afraid its one point on which we'll never agree.


Previous....
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship? Sam Thomas/Stacey McGill, Baby-sitters Club
Day 02 - What was your very first ship? Ryan/Stacy, Kids Inc
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now? Seeley Booth/Temperance Brennan, Bones
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry? Matt Hunter/Maxie Jones, General Hospital
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry? Sesshoumaru/Kagome, Inuyasha
Day 06 - The best kiss? Tommy Quincy/Jude Harrison, Instant Star
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene? Shawn Brady/Belle Black, Days of Our Lives
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage? Miroku/Sango, Inuyasha
Day 09 - The most believable relationship? Jonathan Creek/Maddie Magellan, Jonathan Creek
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life? Jason Cook/Kirsten Storms
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing? Charlie Thomas/Janine Kishi, Baby-sitters Club
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding? Byron Sully/Michaela Quinn, Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing? Ryan/Stacy, Kids Inc
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing? William Dunford/Henrietta Barret, Minx
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing? Queen Victoria & Albert, the Prince Consort
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing? Sesshoumaru/Inuyasha, Inuyasha
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did? Archie "Snake" Simpson/Christine "Spike" Nelson, Degrassi Junior High/High/TNG
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing? Early Classic Shelle, Days of Our Lives
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning? Trent Lane/Daria Morgendorffer, Daria
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing? Kyouya/Haruhi, Ouran High School Host Club
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why? Sesshoumaru/Kagome, Inuyasha

Upcoming...
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?

Comments

[luxken27]

Pretty much. And these aren't 'new' fans, necessarily ~ they are the folks who grew up with the series and feel all the same fuzzy nostalgia I do for it.

But I think it's, like, a rule of internet fandom: if there is more than one character, they will eventually be paired together (and bad pronz will be written about it, LOL).

[luxken27]

*shrug* I've written my share of citrus, bad or not, so I'm certainly not judging anybody for their tastes or their pairings :P I read what I want and leave the rest alone. What's the point of expending energy on something you hate?

Naraku/SessMom is pretty intriguing, I haveta admit. She'd totally dominate him, and I don't think he'd like that, LOL.

[replicantangel.livejournal.com]

Once again, I'm totally with you, chica. I have no problem with slash relationships when they make sense, but most fandoms - especially ones from our childhood - were written without it being anywhere *close* to on their minds. We settled into those worlds years ago and got familiar with how they worked - making slash fic out of that just rattles something that was pretty intent upon not being that at all.

Also, I firmly believe in the Kinsey scale, but no one wakes up and says, "Alright. Gay for today!" Please! I need some logical progression of why Miroku is suddenly feeling up Inuyasha instead of Sango. Justify it! *sigh*

Good luck on your chapter though! :) Looking forward to it!

[luxken27]

We settled into those worlds years ago and got familiar with how they worked - making slash fic out of that just rattles something that was pretty intent upon not being that at all.

Yeah, I'll be the first to admit childhood fandoms have this veneer of comfort and safety to them - I think that's the basis of their appeal once we leave our kidlet years, LOL. Its fun to explore the world and think about what ifs, but there is a large contingent of people out there who love nothing more than to pervert their childhoods. Which, hey, good on them, as long as I don't have to partake :P

no one wakes up and says, "Alright. Gay for today!" Please! I need some logical progression

Hell, I need logical progression even for a canon ship that has a fucking roadmap. The part I'm interested in is how the pair gets together (and how they maintain it through adversity), not so much all the ins and outs of the confirmation of togetherness. Sometimes I think that means I'm doing it wrong, in that I'm interested in the emotions more than the sex, LOL.

Good luck on your chapter though! :) Looking forward to it!

Well, it's done for tonight...and hopefully it won't require much major rewriting *crosses fingers* I might have to give up on my weekly posting schedule, because I'm just not writing that fast anymore, but it sure was nice to build up that momentum....

[replicantangel.livejournal.com]

there is a large contingent of people out there who love nothing more than to pervert their childhoods. Which, hey, good on them, as long as I don't have to partake

Haha. Yeah... I don't understand that impulse. Maybe they want to adjust it for their maturing outlook on life? *shrugs* It seems like you could do that without making the nostalgic types run for the hills. But whatevs. To each his own and such.

The part I'm interested in is how the pair gets together (and how they maintain it through adversity), not so much all the ins and outs of the confirmation of togetherness.

Exactly. I just need something additional if you're going to make a character that is so far straight into one that is gay, just like I need additional explanation if a character who is part of a canon couple suddenly leaves that relationship for another.

And I think you're doing it *right* if you interested in emotions more than sex. That's a pretty good rule for life in general, actually. :P

hopefully it won't require much major rewriting *crosses fingers*

*crosses fingers with you*

[starzki.livejournal.com]

Wow. Fandoms are weird places. I never would have thought to slash BSC.

However...

I could kinda see it if it's written well and if they're older (and NOT with clients). Not interested in reading it, but I could see it being not too bad.

Hmm.

[luxken27]

I never would have thought to slash BSC.

You have no idea how relieved I am to hear that, LOL. If you look anywhere for fic, a good bit of it is femmeslash - or slash involving one of the Pike triplets//Jeff Schafer. I...have no idea where that comes from, and I'd really rather not, truth be told o.O

The spectrum's pretty wide. I guess I just don't think of the BSC as being sexualized in any way - not even with all of Stacey's and Claudia's boyfriends, LOL.

*cuddles childhood*

[chaoticgood0405.livejournal.com]

Rule 34 has ruined so many childhood memories. For every person, like yourself, who enjoyed the series for what it is, there are legions who want to hook them up in any possible way.

[luxken27]

I know o.O Every day I come back and wonder if reading fandomsecrets for six months before pursuing any sort of online fandom was really a blessing in disguise, LOL.

[paynesgrey.livejournal.com]

You know, I try to keep an open mind about just about anything, and I'm sure "anything" can be done right if it were the right author and someone made the effort. But slashing for the sake of slashing... yeah, I don't know if I could handle it for this series. Maybe because it's my childhood and it'd be weird cuz I never considered such things when I read those books.

That doesn't say I wouldn't be curious if like five people recommended me the same story or something, you know? But a whole slew of slash because it's cool and popular and there's not enough peen to satisfy people, well, I just don't think that's gonna hook me into the fandom.

[luxken27]

I think you've hit the nail on the head for me with this. It seems a lot of people get into fandom for the pr0nz, and at least for this fandom, it means basically slashing the girls (or their charges) together to get their fix. I just don't get that...but hey, to each his own.

Most of the BSC stuff I've seen recced hasn't been slash, believe it or not, which I guess is just another piece of cognitive dissonance.

[chickenpattysan.livejournal.com]

This has been an interesting thread. My childhood was mostly Ghostbusters and Batman. Even at the age of 5, I was slashing. It was pretty obvious to me that Peter and Ray were in love. I think the Ghostbusters and Batman fandoms usually skew a little older, hence some of the built-in homoeroticism. IDK.

[luxken27]

I think the Ghostbusters and Batman fandoms usually skew a little older, hence some of the built-in homoeroticism.

Perhaps. And this is just like the big actiony manga series, too ~ series full of men as main characters are just going to get a lot of slash. Its the nature of the beast :P So in a way I'm not surprised that a lot of BSC fic is femmeslash, but at the same time...it seems like slashing for the sake of slashing.

*shrug* Different strokes for different folks and all that, I suppose.

[landofthekwt.livejournal.com]

Is nothing sacred? What's next? Bestiality between Shaggy and Scoobie Doo. Brady Bunch incest. Of course if you can slash Transformers you can slash anything.

[luxken27]

Rule 34 is a scary, scary place sometimes o.O