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sweeneytodd: What are your most unpopular fandom-related opinions? Do not be afraid. List at least five things.
1. Enjolras and Grantaire = anti-fucking-OTP. It's fun to bounce them off each other in assorted slashy ways, but when they become a 'pairing' or a 'couple' or an 'OTP' or anything else that implies fluffy romance, excuse me while I go vomit. No, they're not in love with each other. No, a healthy--let alone happy--relationship probably isn't possible for them over the course of the canon timeline. And furthermore I'm of the strict belief that any reconciliation between them in fic cheapens the ending unbearably. And when you strike out the fluff and all the shitty "Grantaire angsts over Enjolras" fic, there's not much left for that pairing, which is a shame.
2. The musical is the spawn of Satan and is responsible for almost as much fannish idiocy as the PotO movie. It destroyed my favorite characters--Enjolras, Javert, Eponine to some extent--replaced them with caricatures, and to top it off made the whole thing awfully wangsty. It skewed Hugo's characters and his message, discouraged fans from thinking and researching, and all for the sake of what? A few pretty tunes? Bah.
3. GEN FIC IS NOT THE ENEMY. There is way more to these characters than their capability to be slashed with other characters. Slash is entertaining, but it's started to feel really cheap and boring lately. I don't care about their lonely souls. Give me some fucking plot.
4. There might not be a right way to interpret the fall of the barricades, but there is a wrong way. Throw out 'Turning' and 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.' Throw out Grantaire's verse of 'Drink With Me.' Mindless pathos is boring and irritating, and the whole fandom just needs to get the fuck over it. And in a similar vein, I despise fic where Amis angst over their impending deaths. These guys were queuing up and fighting over who got to stay and get killed. Characterization, for fuck's sake! You may think it horrible and sad and pointless, but they didn't. Don't try to force your musical-addled views on your characters.
5. Eponine fucking rocks.
6. I must be the only fan in existence who would not choose Erik, does not secretly want to sleep with him, and in fact finds him really fucking scary. Is he really neat? Yes. Does he fucking rock? Yes. Can you 'fix' him? NO. Would a relationship with him be at all healthy? NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO. I love him to death as a character, but Christine made the right choice.
7. Snarry is gross.
sweeneytodd: What are your most unpopular fandom-related opinions? Do not be afraid. List at least five things.1. Enjolras and Grantaire = anti-fucking-OTP. It's fun to bounce them off each other in assorted slashy ways, but when they become a 'pairing' or a 'couple' or an 'OTP' or anything else that implies fluffy romance, excuse me while I go vomit. No, they're not in love with each other. No, a healthy--let alone happy--relationship probably isn't possible for them over the course of the canon timeline. And furthermore I'm of the strict belief that any reconciliation between them in fic cheapens the ending unbearably. And when you strike out the fluff and all the shitty "Grantaire angsts over Enjolras" fic, there's not much left for that pairing, which is a shame.
2. The musical is the spawn of Satan and is responsible for almost as much fannish idiocy as the PotO movie. It destroyed my favorite characters--Enjolras, Javert, Eponine to some extent--replaced them with caricatures, and to top it off made the whole thing awfully wangsty. It skewed Hugo's characters and his message, discouraged fans from thinking and researching, and all for the sake of what? A few pretty tunes? Bah.
3. GEN FIC IS NOT THE ENEMY. There is way more to these characters than their capability to be slashed with other characters. Slash is entertaining, but it's started to feel really cheap and boring lately. I don't care about their lonely souls. Give me some fucking plot.
4. There might not be a right way to interpret the fall of the barricades, but there is a wrong way. Throw out 'Turning' and 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.' Throw out Grantaire's verse of 'Drink With Me.' Mindless pathos is boring and irritating, and the whole fandom just needs to get the fuck over it. And in a similar vein, I despise fic where Amis angst over their impending deaths. These guys were queuing up and fighting over who got to stay and get killed. Characterization, for fuck's sake! You may think it horrible and sad and pointless, but they didn't. Don't try to force your musical-addled views on your characters.
5. Eponine fucking rocks.
6. I must be the only fan in existence who would not choose Erik, does not secretly want to sleep with him, and in fact finds him really fucking scary. Is he really neat? Yes. Does he fucking rock? Yes. Can you 'fix' him? NO. Would a relationship with him be at all healthy? NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO. I love him to death as a character, but Christine made the right choice.
7. Snarry is gross.