I Am An Open Book

[netgirl_y2k]

That meme what's been going around: So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

Comments

[netgirl_y2k]

Ooh, best is hard, because there are a lot of f/f pairings at the moment. And don't get me wrong, that's frickin' amazing, we live in the future, etc., but also a lot of it is twin white wedding dresses, pregnancy, and babies. And, hey, if that's what you want from your rep, or your own life, then that's awesome, go you. But, honestly, I find it pretty alienating.

And I get that the heteronormative happy endings are a corrective after so many shows were criticised for their enthusiastic, if sometimes inadvertent, use of of the Bury Your Gays trope, but I do think they've overcorrected. Not everything has to be twee.

As for worst queerbaiting, I was tempted to say Once Upon a Time, but that would be silly because OUaT was a wildly, borderline offensively heterosexual show. It would be like being mad at a restaurant for refusing to serve a dish that had never ever been on the menu. Instead I'm going to say The 100. At the time I had limited sympathy for the fan backlash. I was older than the intended audience and used to swallowing my disappointment, plus it was a well known fact that one half of the pairing had already left the show and moved on; what were these kids expecting?

But with the benefit of hindsight I can see that having your actresses pose for pictures with pride flags, having production staff go into chats with young, queer fans and tell them to trust the show, all the while knowing that what you'd actually filmed was a shot for shot reenactment of Tara's death in Buffy, something that a lot of fans consider the go to example of bury your gays, was pretty fucking unforgivable.

[kith_koby]

That's a pretty good answer, especially the queerbaiting one