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Jan. 13th, 2013 12:20 pmI'm kind of baffled at the wank that's been going on among the Gaze fans on Tumblr the last few days. Not at the existence of the wank, just that it all seems so . . . silly.
First, there was apparently a meltdown over an Aoiha tinhat putting an Aoiha caption on a Ruki/Uruha fanservice screencap from The Decade. Um, yeah, it's fanservice. It's happened in every GazettE live over the last decade. Cool if it's your ship, if it's not . . . your ship is bound to get fanservice of its own eventually. (Even for Kai pairings. Poor boy gets no action back there during the live itself, but there's always post-live hugs and handholding. ~_^)
And then, there was the bizarre incidence of a Danny Phantom fan going off on a huge rant about how her fandom was so much better than the Sixth Guns, accusing the Gazedom of every fanbrat stereotype there ever was. Okay, so the fanbrattery is out there, I know - I've never experienced it myself, all the Sixth Guns I've met have been lovely people - but can you really compare a visual kei fandom to one for an American cartoon? One of this person's accusations was, "GazettE fans HATE WOMEN! In my fandom, we love female characters and het ships!" Um, yeah, have you taken a look at the visual kei landscape? Other than Exist Trace (who are marvelous, BTW, but they're not as well-known as, say, the PSC bands), there are no female musicians. Het shipping doesn't happen because there's no female "characters" to ship the boys with. Plus, there's the fact that the musicians themselves encourage yaoi shipping - see the above comment about fanservice.
Oh, and several members of the animation fandom that is supposedly more civilized than the Sixth Guns attacked the Gaze fan who defended her fandom anonymously. That's really civilized, all right.
First, there was apparently a meltdown over an Aoiha tinhat putting an Aoiha caption on a Ruki/Uruha fanservice screencap from The Decade. Um, yeah, it's fanservice. It's happened in every GazettE live over the last decade. Cool if it's your ship, if it's not . . . your ship is bound to get fanservice of its own eventually. (Even for Kai pairings. Poor boy gets no action back there during the live itself, but there's always post-live hugs and handholding. ~_^)
And then, there was the bizarre incidence of a Danny Phantom fan going off on a huge rant about how her fandom was so much better than the Sixth Guns, accusing the Gazedom of every fanbrat stereotype there ever was. Okay, so the fanbrattery is out there, I know - I've never experienced it myself, all the Sixth Guns I've met have been lovely people - but can you really compare a visual kei fandom to one for an American cartoon? One of this person's accusations was, "GazettE fans HATE WOMEN! In my fandom, we love female characters and het ships!" Um, yeah, have you taken a look at the visual kei landscape? Other than Exist Trace (who are marvelous, BTW, but they're not as well-known as, say, the PSC bands), there are no female musicians. Het shipping doesn't happen because there's no female "characters" to ship the boys with. Plus, there's the fact that the musicians themselves encourage yaoi shipping - see the above comment about fanservice.
Oh, and several members of the animation fandom that is supposedly more civilized than the Sixth Guns attacked the Gaze fan who defended her fandom anonymously. That's really civilized, all right.
