Yes...I'd be much more forgiving of "OMG! TWO HOT GUYS! SLASH" if the same people were equally willing to go "OMG! TWO HOT GIRLS! SLASH!" As it is, it's "OMG! TWO HOT GUYS! SLASH! WAIT! One of them likes this girl in canon? Oh, she SO MASSIVELY SUCKS!"
Then there's something like Himawari/Watanuki/Domeki, which is so blatantly poking fun at the standard shojo triangle of the hyper and excitable girl crushing on the perfect boy while being oblivious to the much better suited for her less pleasant guy that I have to love it. I don't know that I ship domeki/Watanuki yet, but I love reading it. (I feel the same way about Kyo Kara Maoh, which takes such joy in parodying yaoi and magical girl shojo that I could never take it seriously...and it has awesome female characters)
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Wed, Jan. 2nd, 2008 11:04 pm (UTC)Yes...I'd be much more forgiving of "OMG! TWO HOT GUYS! SLASH" if the same people were equally willing to go "OMG! TWO HOT GIRLS! SLASH!" As it is, it's "OMG! TWO HOT GUYS! SLASH! WAIT! One of them likes this girl in canon? Oh, she SO MASSIVELY SUCKS!"
Then there's something like Himawari/Watanuki/Domeki, which is so blatantly poking fun at the standard shojo triangle of the hyper and excitable girl crushing on the perfect boy while being oblivious to the much better suited for her less pleasant guy that I have to love it. I don't know that I ship domeki/Watanuki yet, but I love reading it. (I feel the same way about Kyo Kara Maoh, which takes such joy in parodying yaoi and magical girl shojo that I could never take it seriously...and it has awesome female characters)