The Reason Tired People Should Not Make LJ Posts.

[sevendials]

Two random thoughts before I go back to bed and try and get a bit more sleep... which is exactly and entirely what I get for falling asleep at eight in the evening and ending up owl-wide awake at half past four and absolutely unable to get back to bed no matter how hard I tried as a consequence...

1. Has anyone seen kay_cricketed? She hasn't posted since the third! I miss her particular brand of random and want to virtually hug her for being cute because she is. I'll poke those unanswered comments I owe her which work, that bastard, kept me from with the victorious spork of replyingness sometime later today and see if I can get a reaction out of her. Come back, Kay, your people need you!

2. Why has Honey Trap, which doesn't actually have much of a pairing but is a Youji x Ken fanfic if it's actually anything at all considering the pointless and utterly gratuitous completely and entirely vital Youji x Ken kissing scene which is of course entirely justified from the point of view of the plot, archived in this c2 when that's a Ran x Ken archive? I mean, this is not to say I'm not flattered but what in Hell's my fic doing there? I do not knowingly write RanKen! I'm a YoKen ficcer. BLATANTLY. Aya's barely in the bloody thing. I think he shows up three or four times and most of the time it's because Ken's complaining about what a pain in the ass he is or is fantasizing about throwing things at him or smacking him in the face. I think someone's been reading between the lines and in so doing read far more into the fic than is actually there.

This is why ff.net statistics are Evil. They tell you far more about your readership than you ever wanted to know. Like some people out there have taken me for a RanKen ficcer when 99.95% of my Weiss fics are either blatant YoKen or drop serious hints in that direction. Can anyone out there tell me what about 'Honey Trap' could possibly be interpreted as supporting the RanKen cause when it's a pairing that baffles me at best, Ken gets KISSED by Youji in it and I'm the one who bloody well wrote it and know for a fact I didn't put any RanKen in it? I'm completely baffled. What's next? Is someone going to try and tell me that 'Seuche' (which, by the way, I recently updated and am now whoring out here because I can) is secretly Ran x Ken too?

This is also why Weiss fans worry me. A lot.

/pointless

Comments

[vermachtnis.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you for not wanting people reading it thinking it's got RanKen in it. It's strange that it's even in there. Really, I think it's just those crazed RanKen fangirls reading between the lines again. Maybe the whole 'Ken-crossdressing' thing equates to RanKen in their warped little minds.

I agree on Side B being the only place to go for RanKen. Poor PlotContrivance!Youji and his Really Butchered Hair. Ken's just so cute in Side B, too.

I'm all for a search party. Maybe two big nets. Truthfully I'm a bit worried. It's been so long!

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

I think RanKen fangirls are warped. I mean, I never used to have anything much agin them despite the fact that their OTP was stupid and a fair few of them sneer about ours never mind that it's so much better and about a million times more logical, but this is just making me baffled. Reading between the lines? I don't think they've got words for what the person who archived ity was doing. I think she was reading a totally different story, myself. I'm surprised they even LOOKED at it given that most of them seem to be into making Aya cross-dress because he's just so pretty and wonderful and all.

(You know we bitch about Aya being perfectful? I found a fic the other day where he's reading Kipling and Whitman and making perfect omelettes and being a fantastic dancer, all the while making sensitive presents, really understanding his teammates and being overall perfect and wonderful. Creeped me right out I must say...)

I feel for Youji in Side B. Not only have they done crazy crazy things to his hair, he's goddamn well married. Have extreme difficulty trying to get decent YoKen slash out of that series. Pity, because Ken's amazing in Side B. And still in need of multiple hugs because god damn, not even the 'Ken's the non-angsty one' brigade could deny he was a complete fuck-up by that stage. But a cute one. Who cooks. OMG adorable.

And I notice Kay came back by herself, so we need to cancel the order for the hunting gear...