First off, please heed my dire warnings:

Lies! Damn lies, I say! I - oh, well, I guess I do talk about gay porn and curse from time to time. So I guess you have been warned.

I have absolutely nothing to say, but I want to post anyway.

Correction: I have absolutely nothing to say that won't come across as incredibly whiny - I'm trying to keep the RL TL;DRing to a minmum, since nobody wants to hear about it and, more importantly, I don't really think dwelling on it helps - but I want to post anyway. Because you know, I pay for this service and god dammit I want my money's worth out of it.

73% Geek

But! I have been wreaking a polite kind of havoc over at fandomsecrets.

See, someone posted this secret, and as a non-canon shipper - well, technically speaking anyway, though Youji and Ken are not exactly what I would call subtle, as there comes a point where it is no longer subtext and if they don't want us to think that they are picking out china patterns they shoud stop fighting like they're married and have been for at least the last five years - I was shocked and appalled. Shocked and appalled, I say.

At first, I posted a comment pointing out how shocked and appalled I was, though I attempted to be at least mindly amusing, and it was all very ordinary and boring and largely ignored. Well. Completely ignored. Though I did use a rather pretty Youji x Ken icon on the post. (And am now using it again, for it is rather pretty.)

So I got bored and asked about the possibility of a thread in which the community members could show off their non-canon pairing icons. Partly because I'm petty klike that, but mostly out of curiosity. It seemed as good a way as any to work out how many people shipped non-canon pairings.

My inbox promptly exploded.

At one point I was getting so many messages I couldn't keep track of them all, and nor could MSN Messenger's email alert. I had to mark eighty-three messages as read without even opening them. I'm still getting the occasional comment notification now. Gratuitous Icon Posts are obviously very much the in thing on fandomsecrets.

Especially when it is about a serious matter of seriousness about characters who are cute and go well with other men, other women, or other small furry creatures from Alpha Centuri.

what flavor pocky are you?
[c] sugardew

... and I am not totally sure abut this but mm, milk.