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A follow-up to this one: And also in relation to this one:This is not the first time my better judgment will take a hike and Emotion takes the driver seat while Reason sits in the back (that's a Disney reference, FYI; Reason and Emotion, 1943, directed by Bill Roberts -- look it up). I still admit to being a casual slash-fan (often mistaken for 'yaoi'), but I do set my limits and try to be grown-up about it, I.E. I don't over-spazz out all over it like a fantard would
Plus, not everyone will like certain... things... that come about, appropriate or inappropriate, mainly because of how rabid some of the fans can be.... ON BOTH SIDES.You Slashers know how to have a lot of fun, but with all due respect, you guys are evil! (I say this with a chuckle, mind you
) Only during my period do my love for furries, furriness and male/male pairings gets the better of me, and your flood of Alister-x-Ratchet [mediocre] fanart isn't helping, neither! They make as much sense together as Heero and Duo -- which I happen to be a die-hard fan of, ever since high school (goddamn, did teenage hormones and the early development of the Internet ever do a number on my sex-drive back then 
) Not entirely your fault, though, try to understand; everyone has a passion, and everyone goes through a phase. Take no offense, please 
FYI, Heero and Duo are from Gundam Wing, an anime from, like, 1995 and dubbed in 2000, and the two pilots met under certain circumstances that somehow the hyper-idiot Duo mistaken emo-prone Heero as the bad guy
SO! Those of you who already know my position on slash pairings...
But I'm only human... who happens to get horny every time Tapioca-Brain week happens, which does happen in a lot of us ladies with PMS. And it probably won't be long before I submit to the slash powers; it's usually the best solution for me before I'm bored and over with it and focused on more important things.
Like my B.E.L.T. characters... and Chester the Ringtail
I know, off-topic, but it's characters like Ratchet and Terrie Smith's Chester that inspires me and defines me as a furry.Done in Phtothsop CS4
"Ow, my head!" quote (C) Jeff Dunham/Walter
Character Rumple-chan and Image (C) Mira K. Hall
With Apologies to Insomniac's Ratchet and Alister, the slash fans, and Brother Chap's Trogdor decal and "No U Dont" Heavy Lourd
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Jeff: Oh, well maybe I should just drop him--
Jose: No. I do not want to fall...
Peanut: Oh, well, why not?
Jose: Because then I would be, Jose, the Jalapeno on the floor. ___On a Steek.
("Steek" is Jose's version of "Stick".)
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Do a little tap-dance -- we got SALSA!
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That quote be-ith noneΒ other than by...PEANUT-ith!
Random Jeff: D'oh, well would you, stop it!??!!
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(I mean, you don't have to, but please, go on!)
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Funny thing is, there's only one place around here that uses that kind of a mouse...and it has the slowest and least of the computers; I have to download Firefox just to reply here each and every time I'm there (takes anywhere from 5-7 minutes).
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You don't need to; it's more personal.
But I've ranted about un-cannon slash pairings and how they made me go "GEH" in the past. However, every now and then, I come across something that I do find interesting, and thus it goes against my opinions/logical reasoning.
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What is an Un-Cannon slash pairing? I've never heard of it?
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Something akin to Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock having a romantic, even sexual, relationship with each other. That's the uncanon part right there, and that is what is known as sash pairing.
Here, let me get you a few wiki pages to explain what I mean [link] [link]
It's not pretty
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Uh, I'll just take your word for it...
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Have to admit, I was 
Must've been one of those moments... Sorry.
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Which, the tapioca brains, or the slash dabblings?
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You should be a Cartoonist by now. Or are you already?
And how much does the Anvil weigh?
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I want to be one, but I'm a late bloomer in a lot of things. As soon as I graduate from community college, though, I'll be able to focus on my artwork more.
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Aye. I see where you're going.
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I actually have that sticker on my lappy -- and a Limozeen one as well
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YOU LUCKY- I'm not gonna say it. ...*sniffle*
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To slash or not to slash? I'm not sure I care much either way. But I DO think your expressions are marvelous! 
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Wait wait, which Alister are we talking about, here?
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Alister Azimuth, a white lombax with red stripes. You didn't play ACiT, man?
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Nope. I've actually never play any of the Ratchet and Clank games. D: I know I should, but I've never had any of the right consoles, and just haven't got around to borrowing them.
It's funny- the official fraternity nickname given to me is actually Ratchet, due to my involvement with cg modeling, the fact that I'm a mechanical engineer, my enjoyment of giant, over the top weapons, and my appreciation of anthro characters. Yet another reason to play those games, I guess.
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If you need help on what to get first and on what console(s), LMK, because you've GOT TO PLAY 'EM!!!
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Yeah, so I've been told. XD Unfortunately, I'm working on the road for the next 3-4 weeks (out in Texas). As such, I don't think I'll get a chance to attempt to play these games for a while.
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Heh. Cute. And trust me, you weren't the only one who found hormones and the internet are a dangerous mix.
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Which part? The PMS symptoms or what?
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the part when you say "why, yes, i am a hypocrite" lot of people have that same problem including me
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The only person I know of who wouldn't agree with this philosophy is my dad
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hahaha! dads are always weird
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And annoying as hell
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Yeah, people do that. I'm not actually against any pairings as long as I'm not involved into the fandom by force. But people seem to pair any characters they can lay eyes on. Now that's weird o.0
I actually pity you. Really.
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Pity? Why? It's not that terrible, it's just that my 'adult and mature' conscience is pissed off with me, is all. It's probably still mad at me for being a furry as well, I'm sure of it
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Well, realizing the things you were thinking minutes ago... That's not very nice ^^*
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Well, then, what part of the pity are we talking about? I'm a bit confused (never could understand the abstract thought of pity; it's very different from sympathy/empathy, I think).
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Well, we're speaking of the empathy kind, I guess ^^*
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And the not nice part? (That one is kinda making me nervous; did I offend you in any way or form? 
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*to herself* Ugh... I hate my knowledge of English...
I meant it nice way) Just that things happen to people when those days come ^^* It's quite understandable and I'm really sad to see how they react to what they did without even noticing.
That's why I feel sad for you.
I think saying I 'empathise/sympathise' with you would've been a sort of a lie just because I've never actually done anything of that sort when those days come to me ^^*
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Not your fault; English is a terrible second language to learn unless you were raised with it along with your native language.
Well, you're different, if not lucky
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When you have an 'A' for CAE ([link] ) you're supposed to communicate well. At least, I thought so...
Mostly lucky, I guess X)
Nice approach) Well, good luck with that!
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- I'm not honestly seeing what's wrong with liking slash pairings (without using some excuse of "oh my hormones are acting up" or some other nonsense). You make it sound like it's the plague or something.
I don't even support it but I don't see why the idea of Alister x Ratchet is so atrocious. There are a lot more pairings in the R&C fandom that I can find pretty... insane. But anyway, either way, it doesn't really matter -- who are we to judge someone based on what pairings they like? As well, not all people like pairings because of fetishes.
Obviously if people know me well enough they would know I don't ship every single character (and object) that I can possibly come across, but once again, who are we to judge those who do? My pairings are sparse in-between, but there are definitely two slash pairings in my repertoire, and I'm not afraid to admit it. But they're not supported because of silly fantasies I have of them making out, having sex... whatever -- they're supported because I honestly think that they would be a good couple (not just cute, but good).
There is no offense intended by this comment at all, it's just there is nothing wrong with being an Alister x Ratchet supporter, and calling people crazy simply because they like slash is just like calling someone crazy for liking the Adventure genre. It's silly.
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Well, like I said, there are some folks who don't go for that sort of thing, and you have to respect that. That way they can respect your fetishes without starting a bloodbath over it (and if they say 'leave me alone,' leave them alone; if they refuse to change or understand, screw them). When people judge something they don't understand, some are dictated by their upbringing, religion or a set of opinions when they determine whether certain pairings are a turn-on or just a terrible joke.
But in my situation, in this strip, it's kinda like a closeted fan stigma I'm observing; one who is a fan of something but won't come out to say it openly (this is common among closeted yaoi fans, male or female). This is my way of expressing my openness that, no matter what, whether *I* the logical human being who believes in Darwinian evolution will disagree feverishly or not, I must admit up front to having a weakness over certain emotions, ideas, fetishes, etc., or it will literally eat me alive. Look at the goddamn gay-closeted Republicans; they're practically Nobodies/Heartless with that kind of attitude! In short: I think Alister and Ratchet are sexy together (maybe like a dysfunctional couple, with I somewhat find lol-worthy), but only in my fantasy mind, along with others who're in the same boat as I'm. It's just that I rather keep it on the low profile instead of going overboard with it like the proverbial retarded fan, which causes a backlash/chain reaction of anti-yaoi maniacs I need to keep reminding that there's a difference between original yaoi and fan-service yaoi. I hate extremism of any end of the scale. And I hate it when people can't make fun of their own fandom as well.
I'm a 26 years old female with a weird yet science-and-logic-based upbringing, ferpetessake! I ain't lying, it is true that a variety of moods including horniness does exist among premenstrual women; for a while, I thought it was just me because I'm an asexual virgin with a bio-clock desperate to reproduce (not gonna happen, no way), then I met some other deviants who testified the same symptoms during their PMS. It is not a plague, it's something we all go through, and some of us will either retaliate against mother nature or go with the flow. I'm not insulting anyone, it's just how we tend to function or react as sexual creatures. If the teenage boys are horny as hell because of their testosterone that are on overdrive in the process of puberty (and thus want to fuck everything that moves), why not girls for that matter? Or rather, what do they experience when going through puberty emotionally instead of physiologically? It would make some sense to me on a biological sense, since I tend to disbelieve that women "mature" a lot quicker than men, when it's more likely they mature on the same level -- well, at least mentally. Take a look at the middle-schoolers and their obsession with the Twilight series; it's the closest thing they'll get to a steamy, sexy romance story until they're of legal age to actually read better modern literature written for young adults, like A. Lee Martinez's stuff (big fan of his work, I am). Based on such observations over the ten years I've watched a variety of slash fans, good ones and bad ones, I think it's more of a combination of biological and cultural influences that some of us girls, teenagers and young adults, have this infatuation with canon and un-canon pairings; people will consider it sick, true, but if I were to say that all slash fans are sick, then I'd be pointing the finger right at me! Do you understand where I'm going with this? The only reason I'm 'blaming' you guys in the process is because I'm blaming myself for the same reason, but only very briefly and with forgiveness and understanding that I, as well as y'all, am only human... and with the stamp I placed up in there, a hypocrite who will admit when she is wrong in going against slash-dom entirely. (even if I think Potter and Malfoy would soon kill each other than go out.)
But the reason I must value reason over fantasy is that it goes against the canon universe when regarding a franchise series that has a big, fat license on top of it; we might get the ideas first, but I'm sure that most of the time, the creators wouldn't go that far, because it would be out of character. Not to mention that there is such a thing as a childhood set-of-mind being shattered to tiny bits when they don't understand between reality and fantasy. I know a kid in his preadolescence who is a big fan of the Ratchet and Clank franchise as I'm, but no way in hell will I tell him about my recent bouts of an Alister and Ratchet pairing; let him figure it out on his own first when he gets older (and hope he's open enough to accept such things are there and is not required to join the fray).
So I probably wouldn't call me'self a full-on Alister x Ratchet supporter, but aside from the teacher-student relationship that is often viewed as romantic without the sex, they're a lot better-looking together than Qwark and Nefarious
Did that make sense? I hope so 
BTW, how did you re-size the fonts to be so tiny? I've been trying out all sorts of HTML codes for that for eons now
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- Oh, I understand not liking a pairing because it goes against "canon" in technical speaking (because it has not happened yet in the canon or the characters are straight or whatever), because I myself used to be in that mindset. Also, I am not a "slasher" by heart in the fact that I slash every single male character with every single every other male character, if my dislike of Naruto x Sasuke is any indicator (and my lack of support for any male x male pairings in the Ratchet & Clank fandom and of itself, although that also applies to het pairings as well as I do not support any in that fandom, either).
But the point of fanworks/etc is to look at a fandom in a different perspective. If indeed we were just remain to canon, then we would be drawing/writing fanfictions/fanart of stuff that has actually already happened in the fandom -- we wouldn't have nearly as many fanfictions this way because we might as well just play the games, since they have all of that already. The point of fanworks, pairings, and theoretical such is to view the fandom in a different perspective (perhaps, yes, the way we want the fandom to turn out -- although I don't do that with the Ratchet & Clank fandom, as I just write anything that comes to mind for that one).
I do agree, however, that the notion of believing that a slash pairing is true when it has not happened in canon is, in fact, a ridiculous assumption unless proven by said canon. My point is, though, no matter how illogical a pairing is, there is nothing wrong with liking said pairing, and I have found that my conscience does not interfere with my like of it. Of course I am not going to argue with others about a pairing being "true" or not because I am not the one to decide that.
I guess the impression of this deviation that it gave me was that to "support" a pairing it means that you think it will be canon/is canon and there is no other pairing against it etc etc, which simply isn't true. The "supporting" of a pairing simply means that you think that the two characters would be good together such that you like seeing them together and would, indeed, draw/write things were you to have the inspiration/ability with the two characters together.
I still refuse to attribute my like of certain pairings to hormones, but if you would like to that's up to you. I think liking pairings is just like liking a video game -- it isn't necessarily that it "turns you on" so much as it is riveting and interesting to see and play out. Ultimately the goal for me when it comes to liking pairings that aren't canon is to find a way to make the characters stay canon while liking each other. Of the pairings that I support, this is possible -- of course to a minor degree they are OOC because some of the pairings I support go against already established pairings, but that's the fun of it all -- trying to make it as IC as possible.
Also, just fyi, I am not a rabid slash fan. I don't slash everything that moves, and I don't go chattering up a storm about me liking a pairing, although I will say so to friends of mine, show pictures that I particularly like a lot, etc. This might just be because romance is my least favorite genre (note: I do like romance, it's my least favorite).
Oh, and of course women have raging hormones; I did not say anything against that. (Though I disagree on the "women don't mature faster than men" theory because it has been scientifically proven that a woman's frontal lobe develops faster than a man's, fully developed at age twenty-one as opposed to a man's frontal lobe which is fully developed at age twenty-five.) I'm just saying mainly thus: there is nothing wrong with liking a pairing.
Also, Qwark x Nefarious IS ONE OF THE BEST CRACK PAIRINGS EVER. THIS IS TRUTH.
Also, I use the < sup > and < /sup > (without spaces) to make my text small.
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That anvil wasn't caused by the anti-slash mentality, that was caused by my 'the-fact-that-I'm-not-gonna-go-overboard-with-it' mentality, and the last thing I want is to be confronted by haters on both sides of the coin. It's hard to explain, but it's along the lines in relation to "Things That Make Me Go GEH" cartoon being questioned when I come across something I find appealing otherwise. I often ask myself questions such as, "Why does this seem rather sexy or beautiful to me?" or "Why do I find myself disgusted or upset with this other unrelated pairing?" My Emotion/Furry personality says, "That's kinda cute," but the Reason/Rational part of me, which I am at constant war with, has to intervene with a big "NO YOU DON'T!" interjection. You could say it's like a small phobia of being exposed as a freak, and this cartoon is my way of dealing with it, since DA is suppose to be an art community filled with accepting people (haw-haw! I know, but you gotta pick your friends and enemies wisely).
So in your case, indeed, it isn't hormones -- but it helps, it's part of the eat/survive/reproduction triforce of evolution -- but rather emotion with logical reasoning behind it. You find certain pairings appealing based on their level of friendship, like Jak and Daxter for example. There was a HUGE explosion of that mess five years ago, and it was awesome! The human imagination and creativity process is beautiful in that sense that lets you explore where no one else could think of, and having a community to share it with is a big plus; the slashers may be weird, but I like how close they are with each other in their mutual sharing. You should read some of ~Demyrie 's "Just Another Mission" fan-fiction series; it's powerful stuff, and she's a very expressive writer. Of course, however, on the flip side, and in equal support to the other side, that is all there is to it: they, J and D, are just friends, not homosexuals. They like boobs! It would be like forcing a pure homophobe, who is most definitely straight, to go on a date with a gay guy against his will. This is probably what most anti-slashers are feeling like, and they start bashing against the other slashers without questioning their own opinions as to WHY they dislike it. For example, why Qwark and Nefarious? Qwark and Nefarious are mortal enemies; put them in a room together, and you'll either end up with scrap metal or burnt squishy flesh. This is why such a pairing is utter bull-crap. Some people will find it hilarious, yes, but there are also other people who are gonna be very uncomfortable with it, and it usually causes a backlash. This is where and why some of us needs to set limits in our fantardation -- yours, mine, everyone else's.
This is getting complicated; I'm very sorry if I seem to be rambling
But if you're still confused about it, let me go talk to Big Sis; she's better with words than I'm, and she more or less can understand what I'm saying; I just have a fucked up jargon most of the time
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