Dear people at sgagenrefinders...
Feb. 2nd, 2012 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
when I say gen I fucking mean gen. Not McShep, not any other slash, not even het. Please, for the love of God, fucking stop reccing me stuff that does not correspond with what I'm asking for. I honestly don't know how to say this anymore without outrightly offending you slashers but if this - you reccing me slash although I specifically ask for het or gen, I mean - happens ever again, you will see this in every damn single future request and screw the rules:
No love, me.
*Because you know, that seems to be all they're ever asking for. I rejoice for every request that isn't McShep. And yes, this is my journal, I can say whatever the fuck I want here.
Please do not rec me slash. Under no circumstances I want to see a slash rec for this request. Slash recs will be ignored or maybe snarked at, if I feel in the mood. When I want slash, I will let you know. As long as I don't, I do not want to read slash, okay? Okay? Can you please respect that? You're always asking for people to respect slashers, so can you slashers please also respect people who do not want to read slash? I respect you. I don't rec het or gen if you definitely want slash. I don't rec you Lorne/Cadman when you want McShep. I don't rec you OCs when you want McShep. I don't rec you Marines when you want McShep.* So please do not rec me slash (and most of all, most of all, do not ever rec me McShep. I loathe it with the fire of a thousand suns) when I say that I fucking don't want to read it! Read. The fucking. Post.
No love, me.
*Because you know, that seems to be all they're ever asking for. I rejoice for every request that isn't McShep. And yes, this is my journal, I can say whatever the fuck I want here.
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Date: 2012-02-02 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-02 11:48 am (UTC)But honestly, every single time I request something at
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Date: 2012-02-02 11:53 am (UTC)That is rather odd.. to say the least.. I do know a fandom in which gen/slash are close together, but that's because the writers write it like that. And I'm not even talking about Supernatural :p It is a shame though, because the reason I don't read fanfic is because I am a gen-girl and all I can ever find was and is slash or ship stories. Privileged and oppressed? yeah right.
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Date: 2012-02-02 12:16 pm (UTC)Basically, all that privilege crap and the labeling sucks mighty lemons. It usually ends up with people not wanting to be a majority, because majority equals privilege equals not having the right to criticize (hence, some slashers not wanting to see that they are the majority in fandom). It's honestly the worst approach to discussion I ever encountered.
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Date: 2012-02-02 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-02 01:03 pm (UTC)Yep... that goes well with the whole "we have to protect minorities (because we believe they can't do that themselves but we won't say that)" thing that usually goes with the privilege crap.
What I also don't like is that discussions like this usually involve people saying "I (Caucasian cis female) blablabla" and there's nothing more ridiculous than obviously having to label yourself in an environment that allegedly fights against labelling and stereotypes...
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Date: 2012-02-03 09:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-03 11:59 pm (UTC)I very calmly replied "I'm a Germano-Russo-Welsh Jew. I win."
he never again tried to tell people that we shouldn't argue with him (no matter what the subject matter was) just because of what group he was a part of.
* = part of a group trying to revive the Cathars, I think. it's been 7 or more years.
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Date: 2012-02-04 12:31 am (UTC)&hearts Best answer ever :D
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Date: 2012-02-04 12:00 am (UTC)granted, there's an unspoken rule not to shove our preferences down one anothers' throats.
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Date: 2012-02-02 01:19 pm (UTC)If no-one's mentioning that, hey, this meets the outline of your request but also has x that you said you didn't want, then yeah, that's rude. Though I probably wouldn't agree that it's all coming from slashers, unless it's because they make up the majority. Obviously, I haven't scrutinised every request you've ever made to speak for certain on that.
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Date: 2012-02-02 01:39 pm (UTC)Some do, and when they do it, I appreciate it very much. Saying "I know you didn't ask for this but it does partially meet your request" is absolutely okay and I don't mind having a look.
Most of them don't, though. My last request was "gen Generation Kill/SGA crossovers" and I got two gen recs... and the last one was simply "I only found this" and the link and the first thing I see is "McShep, implied Nate/Brad" in the header of the fic *head desks
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Date: 2012-02-02 07:08 pm (UTC)=P
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Date: 2012-02-03 11:50 pm (UTC)target"please please oh please do it" on themselves.*hugs you*
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Date: 2012-02-04 12:33 am (UTC)