Intermission - It Happened Again!

[kriadydragon]

Incredibly vicious ranting under the cut. Do not read if you weary of my complaints - 'cause this one's a doozy.

Crap, sometimes I really dislike hard-core slashers and people into kink who feel they need to give John a homosexual or heavily erotic experience in every one of their dang stories. I swear it's like they're more focused on making him gay than doing a poignant, interesting tale. And would it hurt to put freakin' warnings! I have yet to come across a decent John back-story that does not include him either having several one-night stands or having his first gay experience with this guy or that guy. Man, I feel so sorry for his character, I really do. Some people claim to like his character but the way they write him (whether gen, slash, or romance) it's like they secretly hate him or something.

I know it seems like I'm taking this too seriously, but I tend to take a lot of things too seriously. After a while, crap just gets to me And the more it gets to me the worse it is the next time around. And, what can I say, when I like a character from a particular show or book, I tend to be protective of them.

This is why, when I do finally get published by a major company (and should my stories be popular enough but who can say), my stories probably won't be open to fanfic writers. I would just hate to have happen to my characters what happens to so many other characters in some fanfics. It's actually pretty sad and makes me wonder how anyone can write some of the stuff that's out there. Yeah, I know it's fantasy and creativity, people can write what they want and all that, but this is still someone else's creation you're borrowing and using. If  Sheppard were my character, I'd be a little ticked about some of the kind of stories he's been put into.

Oy, it just.... *Snarl* Poor John *Hides him away*. He can't go two-minutes without someone smearing who he is. There's eye-of-the-beholder then there's just plain twisting and mutilating a character. John Sheppard's my fav and I hate that he's been put into so many character-bashing/twisting/mutilating stories.

Makes me nervous what CSI:NY fanficcers are doing to Danny Messer. *Hides Danny*

Phew! I feel much better now. Amazing what a bit of ranting can do.

Comments

[kodiak-bear.livejournal.com]

I admit, sometimes I'm a little boggled and annoyed by fanfic stories too, and the predilection for making it all about the sex. Have you seen stories in the Harry Potter fandom? On one hand, I'd like to think I wouldn't try to keep people from writing fic about a world I created, but on the other hand, geez, some of the stuff written is some serious disturbing.

I guess you've got to shrug and say different strokes, but I know where your frustration is coming from. When you run into a constant onslaught, it gets hard to be objective.

[karri-kln1671.livejournal.com]

I have a couple friends who are hard-core slashers and after a couple heated discussion with each at various times, it became clear that hard-core slasher truly do not comprehend why anyone would have an issue with such stories.

On a brighter note, I read a terrific John backstory fic in which he's a kid in foster care who gets adopted by an Air Force officer. It was nicely done. Prolly the best backstory fic I've read for him so far.

[dragonfairymaid.livejournal.com]

I so hear you! It has gotten to the point with me that if it is not a known writer to me or it does not say "Gen" in the summary, I probably won't read it. It is not just slash but also romance and the Mary Sue's (Especailly in the Supernatural Fanfics and those are even scarier/more disturbing with the wincest going on ). I beleive everyone has the right to write what they want, but come on, how hard is it to write/say Slash, Romance or whatever? It should be a common courtesy.

[bratfarrar]

So I just ranted about all this in response to your comment on my story, and then came over here and was tickled to find you'd done the same thing. I really can't understand why people keep turning him into (it seems) a completely sexual creature. Like he's a pretty animal, or something.

I can come up with only a handful of people who write Johns (is that the correct plural?) I'm consistently comfortable with. (You're one of them, btw.)