If you happen to follow me on Twitter, you'll have seen a potted version of this post last night. But I want to make something very clear. There are certain things in this fandom that I don't want anything to do with. One of them is most definitely "Look how drunk I am, hur hur hur". If that's your bag, well that's your business, as long as you do it well away from me. But if you want me anywhere near your social event, don't make it dependent on the putting-away of stupid quantities of alcohol. (Or any drug stronger than caffeine.) The whole concept bores the hell out of me.
Secondly, I have very limited tolerance for NSFW. Yes, I read the occasional Mature-rated ponyfic – but that's about it. I won't even go to 18+ fandom events, as a matter of principle. For me, the social aspect of this fandom is absolutely bound up with its all-ages, family-friendly nature, and I'm not prepared to compromise on that. So I'm going to have very little patience with you if you start trying to tell me that All Lewd Butts Chat, All The Time or whatever is something I'd love. No. I wouldn't. I really, really wouldn't.
This fandom matters to me. I don't care how silly that sounds. I don't care how silly it is. It matters for a whole host of reasons, some minor and some very important to me indeed. I don't have a problem if your personal fandom is very different from mine. That's great. Go for your life, as the Aussies would say. But don't you bloody dare try to force my fandom to be like that too. I'm not going to appreciate it, and I'm going to tell you that in language a great deal blunter than I use on here.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing I've said here is as a result of anything that's happened on this blog, and I very much doubt anyone reading this will be among the people it's really aimed at. I just needed to get it out. End of rant.
I'm not a fan of NSFW stuff either, just because I love the sense of innocence and naivete the show has. That's a selling point for it, so while I don't hate the mature stuff, it just doesn't interest me.
ReplyDeleteI used to avoid anything NSFW at all in the fandom myself. I have slightly softened that line for fics, and for the most part I'm okay with that. But if I had to choose which part of the fandom to stick with and to drop the other completely, it would be no contest at all.
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ReplyDeleteI wish there was a was to edit posts. I keep forgetting which flavor of tags Blogger likes. :(
ReplyDeleteAs I was saying... One of the biggest problems I have with "mature" content is that it is usually so friggin' immature!
The whole NSFW pony thing really creeps me out, some time ago I joined the now offline site 'Pony Theaters' and the staff there were just perverts who posted pony butts all over the place.
ReplyDeleteI wished I archived it, but I was talking to one of the staff members there about the _pony butt stuff_ and they said something like "Oh, it's not a sexual thing, pony butts are just cute". What? I'm sorry, but the whole reason why you post that sort of thing is because you're sexily into ponies.
Creepy.
Heh, I didn't realise you still read this. Or any pony stuff, really! :P
DeleteBut speaking personally, I'd be entirely happy if nothing above PG ever appeared in this fandom. As I said in the post, I do read the occasional M-rated fic, and a few of those have been good enough that I'm going to keep doing so. But would I miss them if they were gone? No, not really.