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Dunno if I saved it under the right thing but, here we go.

As I was browsing dA earlier, lookin for stamps, I tend to find a lot of anti yaoi, yuri, hetro and so on. I read a lot of the comments on these anti stamps, since I'm a rather curious person, and interested to see what people are like with certain things.

Now, I notice that yaoi gets a lot of flack because of the fangirls who either try to force it down your throats (which I've never actually encountered, in all fairness) or because dA is alledgedly full of gay pornography, or because they pair up X other pairing that interferes somehow with what they like as a pairing. That, and yaoi/gay relations are wrong in fandoms and the scourge of the earth, alledgedly.

Next is yuri, which doesn't recieve - as far as I've seen - as much issues. In all my time on the internet, I've never found any yuri fan which I read about in comments, or from other people. That they like lesbians is 'sick and wrong', messes with hetro pairings that X person likes, and is totally not right because they wouldn't be lesbian just beacuse.

Hetro (canon and OC) is a mixed one. Some fans who hate yaoi and yuri makes these things saying that both are wrong and disgusting, yet support gay rights, etc, since they don't want to be labelled as homophobic. However, OCs tend to sway some way or another into being either replicas of the human self, or what they want to be...or ust mary sues. Hate clans for characters (mostly female), seem to arise if they're OC orientated, while anti-pairing clubs for those that are...canon het likers.

Generally, they all seem to cause such havoc, and can ruin or put people off coming near the fanbase because of inside wars about whether Zuko and Katara should be together, Zuko or Aang/Sokka or Zuko/Mei/other random female characters he meets or stuff all those girls, they're no match for my OC who's had a tramuatic life and can fire and wind bend, or something.

Generally, I've looked at comments I've seen and asked friends for opinions on this, and with the bizarre accumaltion of speec you see above, what I believe are misconceptions people have on an entire section or group of fans.

Not all yaoi fangirls don't know the difference between yaoi and shonen-ai, they don't all think of yaoi every few second, it's all they can say, will shove down your throats or call you homophobic just because you don't like yaoi. As a fan of all pairing types, I can say that if you don't like yaoi and yuri, but support gay rights, then that's cool, I've got no issue with you. When I talk with people who assume the worst of an entire fanbase, I am courteus, polite, and tak with them. I may say what my perferences are, or what pairings I support, but I'm open to most things. Of course I'm not saying that everyone is like myself. If that were true, I'd be rather worried. You get minorities of such fans, but on a whole, a lot of fangirls, and boys, are just like yourself and I. We may have conflicting views, but that's life, eh?

The next point, not hetro fans are Mary-Sue creating idiots who self-insert themselves into fiction so they can bonk their favourite character(s) half to death and spawn kidlets. I've met OC writers who may do canon/OC pairings, but they don't make OCs carbon copies, or even copies at all. It's always awkward to make OCs when you're younger, since you may not have the imagination to do so. Though I really don't like Mary Sues, I will gladly help out people if they feel they have issues with OCs. Again, though this is a minority in the grand scheme of things in terms of writing in one particular fandom.

Canon-het fans also seem to have this bizarre tag that they're going to rip you to shreds if you dare pair...Ichigo with Orihime because it is Ichigo and Rukia, no question. I've met some fans who are like tis, sure, but I've met plenty who aren't, and support, or can at least see the point, of other pairings which are plausable.

Again, minorities are at work here. Just because you ma meet 40 sterotypically 'bad' fans, and just one 'good' fan, doesn't mean that everyone is going to be the same.

Yuri was a really awkward one to write about, since you don't see as much bashing, or all the yuri fans I've seen are quite mature, both genders of course. One very negative connotation I had several years ago is that guys made yuri so they could use it for either wank material, or for someone else to use. It always seemed a very male-based area, and I became very angry that I could never find anything loving, which I found with yaoi. Even fluffy shoju-ai never seemed like it was meant for female eyes. However, I overcame the bad misconceptions I had with yuri and male writers/artists, and found a few pieces that broke that norm for me, which I enjoyed and loved greatly. Obviously it's not all wank material or fanservice to grab say, pageviews on dA, and not all male yuri fans - like female yaoi fans (and hetro fans) are thinking when they write/draw 'yeah, they'd totally let me join in with them!' since the same rule really would apply to an all gay and lesbian relationship that, they don't feel anything for the opposite gender, why would they? Female artists for yuri and shoju-ai I perfer marginly, although some male writer and artists know how to get to the female mind too.

Generally, each area will have bad sterotypes and misconceptions about each other. Some people might agree, some might not and boast that they've never found anyone like this, thus it cannot be true. On the entire internet and people hooked up to it, you're going to find things you like and don't like, love and hate/. I can happily accept that. Like...I don't like vore, yiffy and inflation art, you may not like original characters, nude male drawings or my drawing style.

In the end though, I think we need to really think about what's worth arguing about. Anime characters are fictionous beings. In shows like Naruto and Bleach, I really think that any pairing (within some reason) is acceptable. Naruto and Sasuke, Naruto and Hinata, Naruto and Sakura, etc. In the end, you can't marry, have sex or anything like that with these fictional beings, and really, they shouldn't make us argue so much about these things. I know not everyone will get along, and I accept that. I accept people will want beastiality pairings maybe, or shota/loli-con. I don't majorly agree with it, but whatever floats your boat I guess.

Long....musing is out the way. Inspired from a piece of work we were set called 'Misconceptions of Me'.
Art is my own, and that jazz.

Description
Dunno if I saved it under the right thing but, here we go.

As I was browsing dA earlier, lookin for stamps, I tend to find a lot of anti yaoi, yuri, hetro and so on. I read a lot of the comments on these anti stamps, since I'm a rather curious person, and interested to see what people are like with certain things.

Now, I notice that yaoi gets a lot of flack because of the fangirls who either try to force it down your throats (which I've never actually encountered, in all fairness) or because dA is alledgedly full of gay pornography, or because they pair up X other pairing that interferes somehow with what they like as a pairing. That, and yaoi/gay relations are wrong in fandoms and the scourge of the earth, alledgedly.

Next is yuri, which doesn't recieve - as far as I've seen - as much issues. In all my time on the internet, I've never found any yuri fan which I read about in comments, or from other people. That they like lesbians is 'sick and wrong', messes with hetro pairings that X person likes, and is totally not right because they wouldn't be lesbian just beacuse.

Hetro (canon and OC) is a mixed one. Some fans who hate yaoi and yuri makes these things saying that both are wrong and disgusting, yet support gay rights, etc, since they don't want to be labelled as homophobic. However, OCs tend to sway some way or another into being either replicas of the human self, or what they want to be...or ust mary sues. Hate clans for characters (mostly female), seem to arise if they're OC orientated, while anti-pairing clubs for those that are...canon het likers.

Generally, they all seem to cause such havoc, and can ruin or put people off coming near the fanbase because of inside wars about whether Zuko and Katara should be together, Zuko or Aang/Sokka or Zuko/Mei/other random female characters he meets or stuff all those girls, they're no match for my OC who's had a tramuatic life and can fire and wind bend, or something.

Generally, I've looked at comments I've seen and asked friends for opinions on this, and with the bizarre accumaltion of speec you see above, what I believe are misconceptions people have on an entire section or group of fans.

Not all yaoi fangirls don't know the difference between yaoi and shonen-ai, they don't all think of yaoi every few second, it's all they can say, will shove down your throats or call you homophobic just because you don't like yaoi. As a fan of all pairing types, I can say that if you don't like yaoi and yuri, but support gay rights, then that's cool, I've got no issue with you. When I talk with people who assume the worst of an entire fanbase, I am courteus, polite, and tak with them. I may say what my perferences are, or what pairings I support, but I'm open to most things. Of course I'm not saying that everyone is like myself. If that were true, I'd be rather worried. You get minorities of such fans, but on a whole, a lot of fangirls, and boys, are just like yourself and I. We may have conflicting views, but that's life, eh?

The next point, not hetro fans are Mary-Sue creating idiots who self-insert themselves into fiction so they can bonk their favourite character(s) half to death and spawn kidlets. I've met OC writers who may do canon/OC pairings, but they don't make OCs carbon copies, or even copies at all. It's always awkward to make OCs when you're younger, since you may not have the imagination to do so. Though I really don't like Mary Sues, I will gladly help out people if they feel they have issues with OCs. Again, though this is a minority in the grand scheme of things in terms of writing in one particular fandom.

Canon-het fans also seem to have this bizarre tag that they're going to rip you to shreds if you dare pair...Ichigo with Orihime because it is Ichigo and Rukia, no question. I've met some fans who are like tis, sure, but I've met plenty who aren't, and support, or can at least see the point, of other pairings which are plausable.

Again, minorities are at work here. Just because you ma meet 40 sterotypically 'bad' fans, and just one 'good' fan, doesn't mean that everyone is going to be the same.

Yuri was a really awkward one to write about, since you don't see as much bashing, or all the yuri fans I've seen are quite mature, both genders of course. One very negative connotation I had several years ago is that guys made yuri so they could use it for either wank material, or for someone else to use. It always seemed a very male-based area, and I became very angry that I could never find anything loving, which I found with yaoi. Even fluffy shoju-ai never seemed like it was meant for female eyes. However, I overcame the bad misconceptions I had with yuri and male writers/artists, and found a few pieces that broke that norm for me, which I enjoyed and loved greatly. Obviously it's not all wank material or fanservice to grab say, pageviews on dA, and not all male yuri fans - like female yaoi fans (and hetro fans) are thinking when they write/draw 'yeah, they'd totally let me join in with them!' since the same rule really would apply to an all gay and lesbian relationship that, they don't feel anything for the opposite gender, why would they? Female artists for yuri and shoju-ai I perfer marginly, although some male writer and artists know how to get to the female mind too.

Generally, each area will have bad sterotypes and misconceptions about each other. Some people might agree, some might not and boast that they've never found anyone like this, thus it cannot be true. On the entire internet and people hooked up to it, you're going to find things you like and don't like, love and hate/. I can happily accept that. Like...I don't like vore, yiffy and inflation art, you may not like original characters, nude male drawings or my drawing style.

In the end though, I think we need to really think about what's worth arguing about. Anime characters are fictionous beings. In shows like Naruto and Bleach, I really think that any pairing (within some reason) is acceptable. Naruto and Sasuke, Naruto and Hinata, Naruto and Sakura, etc. In the end, you can't marry, have sex or anything like that with these fictional beings, and really, they shouldn't make us argue so much about these things. I know not everyone will get along, and I accept that. I accept people will want beastiality pairings maybe, or shota/loli-con. I don't majorly agree with it, but whatever floats your boat I guess.

Long....musing is out the way. Inspired from a piece of work we were set called 'Misconceptions of Me'.
Art is my own, and that jazz.