also, i approve of how much ray/gerard is going on in the comments there

[schmerica]

I am in love with the bandom unpopular opinion meme, you guys. Here are a couple of things it's got me thinking about, though:

Things I have learned from the bandom unpopular opinions meme:

1) Incest fic is wrong, not hot. I want to go around saying that about everything now, you guys. (Also, complaining about incest should be against the rules at the same time you complain about no one writing kink = hilarious, y/n?)

2) There are people who hate Frank/Bob, you guys. Apparently a (ANONYMOUSLY) LOUD AND VOCAL section of fandom! I just. I feel like my world is turned upside down. Frank/Bob. It's made of kittens and rainbows and dorky-ass goofy freaks! I AM GOING TO BLOCK ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE FROM MY MIND BECAUSE IT MAKES ME WANNA CRY YOU GUYS. If you hate this pairing, don't ever ever ever tell me. I am going to live in a world where everyone embraces it's awesomeness.

(You can tell me if you don't like Fraser/Kowalski or Pete/Mikey or, I don't know, even John/Aeryn. I will be surprised by your lack of taste, but it won't WOUND MY SOUL like this.)

3) I can vaguely follow the arguments, but in reality I will never get why people hate fic with the canon girlfriends/wives involved.

4) There are people who think the fact that Gerard looks like a girl is a BAD THING. Also people who use "cocksucker" as an insult. I'm so confused.

5) MIKEY WAY IS A HOT-ASS SHUT UP.

6) No, Patrick Stump is not fat, but if he WAS, that wouldn't be a horrible insult and it wouldn't make him automatically ugly and completely unattractive. BOTH THE PEOPLE TRYING TO INSULT HIM AND THE PEOPLE DEFENDING HIM TEND TO PISS ME OFF. Fat is not a horrible slur! FAT PEOPLE ARE HOT, OKAY.

Comments

[lovelypoet.livejournal.com]

I have wasted an inordinate amount of time reading through those threads, and really, all I can come up with is than "unpopular" opinion apparently means "OMG, only 49% of the fandom will agree with me! Help, help, i'm being oppressed!"

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Most of the fun of these memes is getting to feel like a martyr, anyway!

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

I can never remember, is it unpopular to like the music, or hate the music?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

BOTH. THAT'S THE MAGIC.

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

Secretly-teenaged-girls-at-fifty-something Bruce and Steven say: Let's go braid each other's hair and talk about boys, Gerard! :D

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Time for slumber party!!!!!!!

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD I HAVE LOST MY ENTIRE DAY FOR THIS THING.

1) Ahahahahaha yeah. I want to say THAT SHOULD BE AGAINST THE RULES to everything now.

2) I know WHAT??

3) I think they have a valid point, actually...I hate writing girlfriends because we have no canon on most of them. No interviews, no videos, just pictures. Which...makes it hard not to make them cliche. Which isn't to say good writers can't pull it off! There are plenty of girlfriend fics that I love! ...but it's tough.

4) *boggles at the world*

5) ALL VERSIONS OF MIKEYWAY = HOT.

6) Argh, yes.

In conclusion HI THIS FANDOM BRINGS ME GLEE AND AMUSEMENT.

[lovesongwriter.livejournal.com]

3.

BUT YOU COULD WRITE LYNZ

FACT.

MSI's website keeps scans of every article MSI has ever done.

Now everyone go out and write me LynZ fic. ಠ_ಠ

[drunktuesdays.livejournal.com]

i can't stop giggling at some of those threads.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Me neither! It's awesome.

[vic-ramsey.livejournal.com]

Usually these meme's make me annoyed and angry but for some reason BANDOM's unpopular opinion meme is filled WITH RAINBOWS.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I know, what's up with that? Usually I just get cranky, but this is all lulz.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

I have NOTHING to do at work today, but I can't leave yet. That meme/me=OTP.

I...seriously don't get hating any pairing to the point of badmouthing it, I find. The pairings I'm most "DO NOT WANT" about, I've still never found it hard to just not read the fic or comment in the threads. Live and let live, people!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grins* I do talk about some pairings I don't like, but I try to be respectful about it, anyway. Like, I had a huge Ray/Ray squick in dS, and there are entries where I try to discuss why it doesn't work for me -- but I'm never, like, UGH THIS SUCKS WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE UGH.

...Except on AIM, but I'm always joking then.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

1) But wait. WHAT IF THE INCEST IS REALLY PRETTY. WHAT THEN?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

IT'S WRONG, NOT HOT, JANE. IT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. I know because the meme told me so!

[offtheceiling.livejournal.com]

oh my god, i have not checked my flist in like 12 hours and now there is a whole anon meme for me to go and mock! *heart eyes*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. IT IS LIKE A LATE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

Dude, dude. Frank/Bob haterz make me want to hurry up on my Frank/Bob epic. And then write angsty fucked up fic where Frank leaves Gerard for Bob, because yes, I am that spiteful.

Patrick Stump is totally chubby, and I totally love him for it, and so does Pete Wentz. \o/

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

Also, upon reading your comments, yeah: it's the acting like frank/bob has no canon basis that is just really annoying. Hi, it has more canon basis than season one John/Rodney in SGA.

[belladonnalin.livejournal.com]

Jesus.

The fat thing gets old fast. Fat=/=bad OR unsexy, jackasses.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It really pisses me off so much, and it comes up so often. Calling someone fat to try and insult them? FUCK OFF. Freaking out when someone calls someone you like fat because it's the worst insult ever? JUST AS BAD.

[clumsygyrl.livejournal.com]

is it wrong that i read through that thing and went, "well, apparently a lot of people won't be reading/aren't reading my fic..." and i'm okay with that. hah.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grins*

[quettaser.livejournal.com]

I THINK I HAVE AN ADDICTION TO PHOTOSHOP (http://quettaser.livejournal.com/187593.html)

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahaaha, that's AWESOME.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

5 & 6 = \o/

People bashing Patrick Stump make me sadface sooooooo hard. HOW CAN YOU HATE ON THAT, PEOPLE? HOW??

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I don't know! People are weird.

[magdalyna.livejournal.com]

This meme brings the lolz.

And makes me want to stab things, but that happens with stupid things.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

So much entertainment!

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

I'm just really amused at everything today. It's a good day for amusement!

*licks you*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*licks back!*

[ninjajab.livejournal.com]

i think what it boils down to re: everything ever is, don't read what you don't like. i personally don't read incest. it's my biggest squick and has been in any and all fandoms i've been in. but i'm perfectly capable of reading warnings and also perfectly capable of pressing the back button. i've got people on my flist who enjoy it and because i enjoy them (*snugs ya*), it's not hard for me to be like, hey cool. do your thing. i'm gonna be over here.

plus, i've turned adam lazzara into a serial killer in, like, three different fics. really, what's more upsetting?

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HATRED OF FRANK/BOB!!!

patrick IS chubs, but he is so hot! i would hit that! zomg.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see, that's the attitude I try to take, too, you know? I mean, I know it's annoying when people are into stuff you're not into, but ... that doesn't mean it's EVIL AND BAD AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF FANDOM.

(Of course, I laugh just as much at the people in anon memes like this who are like "I ... *gasps* like Waycest!" or whatever, because. With any kink there's a pretty big margin of people on both sides. You're not a unique snowflake or a martyr, most likely!)

I DON'T UNDERSTAND EITHER. FRANK/BOB!!! THEY ARE THE MOST ADORABLE EVER TO ADORABLE.

[pen-rhovan-nin.livejournal.com]

huh. *tilts head* I'm confused right along with you.

Seriously. People waste their time insulting other people, and of course, trying to impress their negative opinions on others. Stupids.-___-

Anyway. I'm gonna be over here with you, and laugh my ass off quietly at all of the jack asses who think they're better than everyone and have a right to judge. That okay with you? *smiles widely*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's the whole point of an anonymous unpopular opinion meme! That's what makes it awesome.

lol outs self

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

i want to defriend from life -- by which i mean, want to cut and leave for dead in the street -- people who hate frank/bob because they think it's "non-canonical" or "distracting from frank/gerard", or some bullshit. and dude, i ADORE frank/gerard, but COME THE FUCK ON, BANDOM. WHAT THE HELL.


let's go hang out in the country, you and i. i have a bottle of wine and a hunk of cheese and all the music in the world on my ipod. ALSO, I LOVE FAT PEOPLE. IT'LL BE AWESOME.

Re: lol outs self

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I think that in most all of the interviews and footage I've seen -- like, not counting the making out/groping onstage as actual relationship stuff -- it's definitely just as easy to make a case for Frank/Bob as it is for Frank/Gerard. Like, I'm serious! I mean, I would read any of the ten different pairings you can make from MCR boys put into pairs, but some of them require more work than others, because there's less to go on in what we have. Frank/Bob is NOT ONE OF THOSE.

Sigh. I've had fandoms where I had really strong OTPs, so I try to be judgy, but. Grar.

let's go hang out in the country, you and i. i have a bottle of wine and a hunk of cheese and all the music in the world on my ipod. ALSO, I LOVE FAT PEOPLE. IT'LL BE AWESOME.

This sounds like the best plan EVER. Yay!

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

I posted a couple things non-anonymously and people jumped all in my shit over it. Gah.

There was a lot of LOLZ to be had, but I was kind of depressed at how many people posted about Patrick being fat. He's just got a little chub on him, that's all! He's so totally not fat. I mean, compared to William Beckett, yeah maybe. But compared to the rest of the population, no way.

I agree with you on both the people calling him fat & the people defending him. They're both kind of lame in that post.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's just. Whether or not he's fat doesn't even matter to me; it's the way the opinion is presented and how the reaction is formed that makes me angry.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

That post is hilarious!

Baby-eating MikeC...virginal!nympho!underage!Patrick FTW!...JWALK the Cub... *dies*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It is awesome!

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I have Frank/Bob hate on my flist, like, every week, and it really makes me nuts. Mostly because it's just so pointless to bitch about it--it just makes me want to write more stories where they are snuggly and bickery and climby and cute together. Like, I love Frank/Gerard, too, but they just don't *work* for me as well as Frank and Bob--I love that dynamic. And, yeah, seriously, it's not like there's no canon support for it.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I like Frank/Gerard a lot! And I have plenty of friends where, like, that's totally their OTP and they can't read things outside it, and I respect that! But. FRANK AND BOB = HEARTS AND LOVE FOREVER AWWWWWWWWWW. It's probably my favorite single MCR pairing, even though I like all of them.

[sinsense.livejournal.com]

I will never get why people hate fic with the canon girlfriends/wives involved.
Dude, I am the totem animal of those people's hatred. Jamia is in nearly all of my stories. AND SEXING IT HARD.

I think those people aren't like me. That is, if I know you, I have probably mentally composed a story about you, and I fully expect that you will have composed a (probably unflattering) story about me. Everyone's game, fckers!

I use cocksucker as an insult, and then follow it up with "But that's an insult to cocksuckers for example Gerard Arthur Way, queen of sucking dick for free."

I told stonedtodeath that this meme -- which I find kind of deeply problematic, I won't lie, and I quit about halfway through -- makes me want to write a story with groupsex, and all the girlfriends are (explicitly) screwing one another, and Patrick is BLOBULA and it makes him want to have secret-cutting-parties with Pete, and Spencer everywhere, and it's all missionary-style sex with feminized bottoms and masculinized tops. And GERARD IS A GIRL. Who has sex with Mikey!

[sinsense.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, fans who say Patrick is fat: should have to post pictures of themselves for everyone who wants to critique, y/y?

And the argument that Jon is too manly to have gay sex: HILARIOUS. I love the gender strictures in this fandom! Life is too good to me.

[looneyluna.livejournal.com]

My day was made better by the existence of this meme if only because it let me know that I was OMG Opprezed.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It's so sad! *sniff*

[greyandgrey.livejournal.com]

Also people who use "cocksucker" as an insult. I'm so confused.

XD I want that on an icon. Or a tshirt.


MIKEYWAY IS THE HOTTEST ASS EVER! ILU, MIKEY! FUCK ME AND BRING YOUR HOTASS WIFE!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

MIKEYWAY = THE BEST. TRUFAX.