Augh! Can't Some People See That Not Everyone Will Agree With Them?

[mimi_sardinia]

I'm just venting over something on fanficrants...

No matter how anyone sees a character, someone else will disagree with them.

Why is it so hard to understand that?

No matter how straight one may see Cid Highwind as being, someone (quite a few someones for that matter, given how popular Valenwind still remains, even in the face of canon Cid/Shera) will refuse to accept that he is totally absolutely straight and will still slash him with Vincent.

As far as I am conserned, it's not about Cid, or his presumed orientation, it's that people will always slash characters, no matter how much of a "redblooded bloke" that character may be.


Fine, Cid's straight. He had a woman in a bikini painted on the side of the Highwind. He's canonically married. He's a typical red-blooded male. But that will never stop people from slashing him.

Comments

[sister-coyote.livejournal.com]

The other thing that I always think of during those discussions is that the people discussing whether a character is straight or gay assume that the writer must really deeply believe the pairing or orientation they're writing. Which isn't always the case. I write what I think would be interesting, what catches my fancy -- so I might be inspired to write Cid straight one day, gay the next, asexual the third and swinging like a barn door the fourth, because I think that canon can be interpreted in different ways, or just because I think it'd be interesting. Trying to talk me out of straight Cid on day one or gay Cid on day two is going to be an exercise in futility, not because I'm entrenched in my beliefs but because I don't actually have that strong an opinion. There's nothing to talk me out of. I might agree that Cid reads as straight (or gay), but still write the other way because I have an idea and I think I can make it plausible. I'm just playing with ideas, seeing what makes an interesting story.

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*nods in agreement* I like the pretty boy smut. But I'm also very given to whims. *shrugs* And the whims are what I write.

Ooh, Cid/Tifa/Vincent....

Damnit. *stabs brain*

But, really, I just let the bunnies boss me around, and I go with it. Leads to some interesting crack and fun times.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Yes! I believe Cid is straight. I believe Sephiroth is irredeemable. I believe Cloud will eventually settle down with Tifa.

These are my canon beliefs, but I don't have to like them, or read those them, because I can suspend my disbelief in favour of other directions that I prefer better - direction that I acknowledge are less canonically possible.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Some people are just pricks, period. I keep hoping all of the online ones are just 13 years old and not yet able to handle people having differing opinions from them... and then I see something from, say, Fox news and realize some never grow out of the stage. ::sigh:: And the entire yaoi topic will never stop generating wank in some form or another. You can bet your Fandom Wank membership on it!

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

No kidding! Most of the time I try to stay in the company of sensible yaoi fans (which I mostly believe I can be counted as), but on big comms like fanficrants there's all types, including the batty "Slash is automatically OOC!" types.

And the pity is, the one I ran into of that type is probably an adult.