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Slash Shaming

xanthewalter:

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I’ve noticed a theme in recent weeks, and wanted to talk about it.

First off, a bit about me: I got into fandom via Skinner/Mulder slash in The X Files, which was the first big online fandom. In the fifteen years since then, I’ve gone on to write in various different fandoms, focussing primarily on slash pairings: The West Wing, Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis, NCIS, and Suits. I tend to be a fandom monogamist, but now we’re all on Tumblr, it’s much easier to be aware of what’s going on in other fandoms.

Recently, this tweet happened, which caused some furore in the Sherlock fandom. Then this happened, causing similar upset in the Supernatural fandom.

The theme of both was around the public shaming of slashers.

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confessions-of-ice-and-fire: “”A Dance with Dragons” is essentially a phone book. All it does is introduce random new characters we don’t care about.” - submitted by anonymous ADWD had some stellar moments, but with the extensive food descriptions, the fetish porn, the rampant nicknaming, all the Sers Whosits of Whocares, the stagnation of the storylines, and wiffle-waffling and deterioration of major characters…I forget where I was going with this.
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confessions-of-ice-and-fire:

“”A Dance with Dragons” is essentially a phone book. All it does is introduce random new characters we don’t care about.”

- submitted by anonymous

ADWD had some stellar moments, but with the extensive food descriptions, the fetish porn, the rampant nicknaming, all the Sers Whosits of Whocares, the stagnation of the storylines, and wiffle-waffling and deterioration of major characters…I forget where I was going with this.

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