September 9th, 2009
Because a lot of my recent involvement on DW and LJ has been the result of various FAIL controversies, most of the people I read are in Western or American media fandom while most of my fannish life has been in anime and Japanese video games. I rarely read fanfiction for books or for tv shows and movies that aren't animated. Harry Potter has been one exception, but I love the fandom a lot more than the original source.
My fandoms do not have enough fanfiction! I read Fullmetal Alchemst almost exclusively now, and not much of it, because I just don't have the time I used to to sift through the junk. Loveless is too good to have much fanfiction, really. FMA should be, too, but it has the benefit of being a really, really huge fandom. Weiss Kreuz, bless it, is just old now, as is Final Fantasy 8. And Yami no Matsuei never had a large enough fandom to provide a lot of fan fiction. Sukisho? Forget it!
Someone recently mentioned having a hard time finding non-kink, non-phobic fics about transgendered characters (I can't find the link now). In my cis privilege, I hadn't really thought about that much before. Seems like there are several anime characters who would led themselves well to being written as trans women or men. I would love to see a fic with Watari from Yami no Matsuei as genuinely transgendered. The subtext is certainly there in the manga. There have been some other interpretations of his desire to create a sex changing potion, but I haven't ever seen a fic where that is taken seriously as a suggestion that Watari is trandgendered. He is one of my favorite characters, and I wish I had the ability and knowledge to write that story.
My fandoms do not have enough fanfiction! I read Fullmetal Alchemst almost exclusively now, and not much of it, because I just don't have the time I used to to sift through the junk. Loveless is too good to have much fanfiction, really. FMA should be, too, but it has the benefit of being a really, really huge fandom. Weiss Kreuz, bless it, is just old now, as is Final Fantasy 8. And Yami no Matsuei never had a large enough fandom to provide a lot of fan fiction. Sukisho? Forget it!
Someone recently mentioned having a hard time finding non-kink, non-phobic fics about transgendered characters (I can't find the link now). In my cis privilege, I hadn't really thought about that much before. Seems like there are several anime characters who would led themselves well to being written as trans women or men. I would love to see a fic with Watari from Yami no Matsuei as genuinely transgendered. The subtext is certainly there in the manga. There have been some other interpretations of his desire to create a sex changing potion, but I haven't ever seen a fic where that is taken seriously as a suggestion that Watari is trandgendered. He is one of my favorite characters, and I wish I had the ability and knowledge to write that story.
