Dear DGM fandom

Dear D. GrayMan fandom;

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU BATSHIT INSANE?

Seriously. I went several years without encountering a truly insane fangirl in the KH fandom. ...Okay, there's Smile. But one in three years ain't half bad.

In DGM? Two in as many months.



The first one was a pretty normal fangirl. Bit of a fantard, to be honest, but I'm willing to put up with that. Although she doesn't seem to understand that I'm not into yaoi porn... ANYWAY, so one day she says she has something very important to tell us. The next hour is spent in a discussion of how an archangel has told her that flu shots are a conspiracy by the government to kill our babies, and trying to convince me that her vision actually happened, because, ya know, it's completely normal for angels to appear to teenage girls so that they can mobilize the people against the evil government.

...Yeah. Atheist squid was more than a bit doubtful. (Which made her promise me that the angel would "give me a sign" - HA! I said that maybe he'd make my nose stop running.) And also amused at the irony of her MSN screen name - "Angel Fantasy."



The other one is a controlling psychopath who takes possessive to a new level. So I joined this RP, right? I play the canon love interest of one of the other characters in the RP, and so me and that mun got to playing around a bit with the muses in the OOC thread. Crazy FREAKS THE FUCK OUT. She drops hints, I make an IC offer to share/compromise/whatever. She IGNORES me and is generally a childish little prat, so I ignore her until the point where she starts literally SHOVING MY CHARACTER AROUND. (This after calling Alma a hussy, while HER LAVI IS WALKING THE IC THREAD IN THE MINISKIRT OF CHARACTER FAIL.) So yeah, I snapped a little and called her out IC.

this is apparently enough to make her leave the roleplay and think that I super special always hated her and intend to take her friend away from her. Which I, you know, never intended to do and haven't done. Anyway, so they're "waifus" and Crazy insists on a "divorce" unless friend agrees to FUCKING RULES REGARDING THEIR RELATIONSHIP. And Friend passes it off as nothing because it's "not a real relationship," it's just the internet. BULLSHIT.

I'm really worried about her now >.>

Crazy also seems to think that I think I am my character. Lolnostupidbitch.





...Maybe I ought to introduce Katelynna to the fandom... [/cruel]

I am not a fantard

Really, I'm not.

I mean, yeah, I'm a fangirl. I love my fandoms quite a bit, and if I have nothing better to do, I will talk them to death. But that's different from being a fantard.

Fantards, to me, are the ones that "love" the canon so much that they've completely twisted it around in their heads. Generally speaking, I've seen three kinds of fantards; the haters, the shippers, and the just plain wrong.

Let's start with the last one, since it covers the other two.

The just plain wrong are, well, wrong. They have funny ideas about the characters - funny as in, "haha, someone actually thinks that?" or possibly funny as in funny in the head. These are the people who you dread coming within range of your roleplay, because they have no grasp of the character's personality at all. These are the Kairi-Princess-of-Dark-s, the Lavis in miniskirts, and so forth. They don't really seem to have a grasp on why the characters act the way they do; a character is just their appearance, as often as not, and therefore ugly characters are hated and pretty characters are amazing.

The shipper is a hotness-devoted subtrope of the just plain wrong, and they are, essentially, the ones who don't really care about how the characters interact as long as the sex is hot. Usually, they are yaoi shippers, and they are the source of the stereotypes against yaoi fangirls. They don't care about whether the characters are friends or enemies, brothers or much anything else. If it's hot, it gets shipped, and baw on you if you don't like it.

These guys bother me for two reasons. One of them is OTP syndrome; the idea some shippers have that two characters are absolutely destined for each other, period, and if you ship one half of the pairing with someone else, that's a crime worthy of execution. Heaven forbid I ship Larxel in public, lest I be swarmed by Axel's yaoi fantards. The other, which I encountered closely more recently (IE last night), is the idea that every character needs to be shipped (unless of course they're a female and therefore a slut). For these, it becomes more about the pairing than the characters themselves.

-to be finished later orz-