A Minor Variation

❀ everyone has dirty fandom secrets or guilty pleasures or unpopular opinions.
❀ list five of yours.
❀ get cries of OMG YOU TOO or WTF ARE YOU SMOKING
❀ profit.

1) Guilty (pseudo-)secret: Like annwyd, although there's plenty of Western media that I'm a fan of, I only really seem to get involved in fandom for anime and video games. I don't know why this is exactly, but I rarely even read fanfiction for the novels and live-action TV series that I'm a fan of.

Okay, there's comics, but my interest in those tends to be limited to specific characters and pairings for the most part.

2) Guilty secret: I have this absurd love for romance plots involving an essentially ordinary, usually tsundere character and a character who is good-looking, talented, charismatic, probably wealthy, popular with everyone, and apparently on a single-minded mission to aggravate the first character to death by being inscrutable and provoking and a borderline if not actual stalker, at least until the story gets around to revealing that actually he (because it's always a guy) is really just a huge emotionally needy social retard and by that point the first character is in love with him. (Examples: Only the Ring Finger Knows, Kaichou wa Maid-Sama.) It is a guilty semi-secret of mine because, for one thing, the stories usually have all the literary nutritional value of a Twinkie, and for another I can never stop a part of my head from acknowledging that these pairings are really kind of wrong and unhealthy in ways not actually intended by the text, but I still eat it up.

3) Guilty secret: Generally speaking, the character ships I get into are the ones that are explicit (or at least very subtext-heavy) in canon. I do not generally read/watch/play with shipper goggles on, and subtext has to be pretty close to the text before it really pings me.

...except for a few favorite characters in certain fandoms who I crackship all over the place in ways I am embarrassed to admit to because it's not only almost always slash, it's almost always horrible wrong inexplicable slash like Yoji/Aya or Claire/Luck or Irvine/Squall (okay, that last one isn't all that wrong, but still).

4) Unpopular opinion: I still think the whole "Rinoa will become Ultimecia in the future" theory is retarded, and if you tell me that you think it is intended as part of the game's canon, I will judge you.

(With my apologies to anyone who enjoys it as an AU idea. I don't judge people for that, though I still don't care for it.)

5) Unpopular opinion: Magno was an awesome character and DC can bite me, and so can everyone who calls him a poor man's Cosmic Boy. >:|

Have very ambitiously signed up for a Squall/Rinoa ship_manifesto.

TLDR likely to ensue.

It's been a while, so I will try a meme:

Name a character and I'll give you (a) three (or more) facts about them from my personal fanon, (b) three (or more) things that never happened to that character, or (c) three (or more) people that character never fell in love with and how. You pick the character; I pick the letter. I reserve the right to say, "oops, I don't know that character, please pick another."

That pairing meme, stolen from annwyd and a few others.

( Ohshi, spam and fangirl squee. )

So, I have this webspace. I haven't used it for anything yet aside from stashing image files and pimping mp3s to people.

I kind of want to put an actual site in there. But then the question becomes, what goes in it?

[Poll #752523]

Also, found when perusing FF.net:

Gundam Seed: Freedom's Echo by Patriot-of-USA

In the War on Terror, NSA Agent Alex Kennedy leads a USA Special Forces squad against Al Qaeda. However, ZAFT and the United Nations intend to stop him. Even worse, he finds that one of his enemies is his brother: Athrun!

...wait, what?

So, yeah, I completely failed to post the content I intended over my weekend. Instead, here's a meme.

a. Post a list of 15 fandoms.
b. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each one.
c. When guessed, bold the line, include the character name, and write a sentence about why you like that character

( Not that most of these are hard. )