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Reading this,
    i understand and respect your need to rant about something you dislike, but please keep in mind that there are people like me who do like this genre, and who don't appreciate it being put down as slash's "slutty cousin." imagine someone would take apart and ridicule your favorite genre like that--how would you feel?

...made me seriously think, for the first time in fandom, "man, I really need a sockpuppet journal [just to make crude remarks to people like this], don't I."

I R s0 meen and insensitive -.- I don't get to play in the pretty sandbox anymore :( And yeah, uh, before you lose all respect for me or whatever, I meant that as a joke. -.-;; I'd say it as myself if I actually had something to say, but as it is, I feel the need to act out-of-character just 'cause that statement is just kind of begging for it like a two-penny rentboy, I swear. The Cult of Nice in action, ladies and gentlemen. On some level, I'm mostly offended at the implication that if I don't take people's amusing little rants on -mpreg-, yes mpreg, to heart, I'm some sort of insensitive bitch with no delicate feelings or something. I... I really hate it when people use their so-called sensitivity to manipulate others. I hate it a lot. It makes me wish I was mean.
    (And the funny part is that I still have no real impulse to be mean, but now that I -can't-, it makes me feel like I have to or something. Oh, fandom. It'd be so much more fun if everyone had a sense of humor. But then, that's life in general for you.)

To be disgustingly fair, I have to say that rants with a side of 'you should write -this- way' are also wanky, pathetic and more importantly, useless. It's not like you can make anyone care about Earth logic in so-called 'fantastic fiction' if they don't already. Logic is just not most mpreg-readers' cup of spiked tea. On the other hand, see above re: having a sense of humor when someone makes lots of references to assbabies, multicolored colons and the mechanics of ass-birth. Honestly.

And, just in case y'all didn't know: I have no great issue with mpreg anymore than I do with Veela!Draco (whom I actually like more than fanon-without-any-explanation!Draco, about whom I will never be sorry for having written 10,000 rants on how I wish he would die, die, DIE and then die again-- and yeah, if that hurt someone's feelings, I'm sorry, but we're talking about fanon!Draco, not women's rights in Ethiopia). What I do have an issue with is people who actually take it seriously, like it's Omg Arte, because Omg Assbabies Are Serious Business, didn't you KNOW?! -.-

PS: I fear I've gotten hooked on the Hana Yori Dango J-drama. Someone save me before it's too late--!

{waaaahhhhh Tsukasaaaaaa.... ♥ ♥ ♥}

Okay, so now I'm officially entering a renewed flare-up of obsession with Hana Yori Dango, which ties with Please Save My Earth for my favorite shoujo series, all 'cause of the new Japanese live-action drama. Argh. But now I feel all wibbly :/

This post made by a person who'd just finished the HYD manga & hated Tsukasa ('cause he's a psychopath) really hit home hard.

( ...cue shoujo & basically feverish HYD rambling. )

Funny that she listed Kodomo no Omocha and Kare Kano as 'exceptions' to the 'dependence is bad' rule, because those are some of my other favorite shoujos. Now that I think of it, every favorite romance, slash or het, I've ever had sort of has a needy guy as the driving force o_0 Omg, it's true o_0

...I really do feel bad for being unfeminist or... something -.- Because, like, it means I'm immature and don't care about long-lasting balanced relationships and only focus on what's most intense and demanding and insane. Uh. I have no comeback to that, but! That's what high romance is all about, damn all you reasonable types!!1 AAAAARGH THEY WILL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER ANYWAY!!1 *cries*

People who seriously say things like, Doumyouji and Tsukushi will never really get over one another, but dude, in shoujo manga, you never really get over your first love anyway, i.e. I can so cop out by using that excuse, all to justify having two people fall apart because they're not 'healthy'... ahhh, they hurt my soul. Yes. HURT MY SOUL. HMPH. SO THERE.

They wouldn't say that if they'd been in love like that themselves. Would they?? I know I'm projecting but that's just callous when you -have- been in love 'like that' and it's hell trying to get over it and just being pragmatic is the worst thing. I hate pragmatism (sometimes more than others, but). Die pragmatism, DIE AND BITE MY SHINY WHITE ASS. >:O

...Also, even if you say the Paradise Kiss manga is more 'realistic' on the whole 'assholes don't win in relationships' point-- I still really felt bad for George and not the girl he basically traumatized somewhat with his emotional stuntedness, because if she really loved him she'd have been more patient with him, and if (if, if, if) she was stronger she wouldn't have allowed him to be that much in control of things. I mean, the world is full of ill-socialized needy assholes who basically don't deserve the girls/boys who love them on any rational basis, but!! This doesn't mean they should be left alone so that 'normal' people can be happy!! Not even if they say they 'want' to be alone, which they never do. Like, never, because by definition they're -needy- assholes. *sigh*

It's like, I read romance stories of this sort largely to see the unlikeliest of transformations, yes, but that's what I want. I don't want it 'cause it's easy, likely, or realistic, but then when is desire any of those things--?? See, I'm not immature, right, I mean. I'm just different :P
    (And I actually agree with sub_divided that love should really transform without dependence, without needing the other's continued presence-- but even when the dependency isn't there, the love remains. It's that whole thing where it becomes, 'it's not that I love you because I need you-- it's that I need you because I love you'.)