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This might not be the post you were looking for.
The regular Idol results post will go up in a little bit, but before I write that, I have to write this. It's this, that has kept me from being able to write up a post about the results show.
Idol slashers, you let me down, and you let me down HARD CORE. There were all these posts on my f-list right after the show last night, and not a single one of them even mentioned that Ryan kissed Simon. It is a thing! That happened! One should not have to be a shipper to acknowledge it as a Thing That Happened. Being shippy is assigning meaning to the kiss. Saying that the kiss happened, or noting it, is not just for shippers.
There are two parts to my anger here. The first is, now I feel like when I mention it in my post about the results show, everyone reading it is going to dismiss it as the ravings of a tinhat shipper. When I say everyone, I don't just mean like, almost every boy on my f-list who wonders "why does everyone have to be gay" but also all of you who might be watching Idol but not slashing it. But it isn't slashy to say: Ryan kissed Simon on the temple on Idol last night. I'm almost afraid to say it, though, because the way that it hasn't been mentioned makes me worry that maybe I did make it up.
The second is, you know, Cakers, I've been in your corner long time. I saw the brushes and the glances and I thought it was adorable, even though I'm not particularly fannish about either Chris or Blake. But I thought they were sweet together, and I liked the stories you guys wrote. When earlier this season some of you felt that the treatment of Colton and Danny meant that the AI PTB were anti-gay I tried to explain, nicely, why I disagreed, but I was sympathetic.
So I have to say, the complete lack of reciprocity is breathtaking. Are we not all slashers? Was I not asked to celebrate teh gaie wherever I found it? Can I not expect the same from you? I mean, for Pete's sake, a man kissed another man on American Idol last night and for all that any of you mentioned it, it might as well have not even happened. Is Simon so repulsive? Does teh gaie not count if it isn't happening between men you're attracted to? Because that's a kind of tunnel vision that I just can't even comprehend.
Despite shipping Rymon, I really do try my best in my non-Rymon posts to pay attention to the entire show. But I guess that just makes me an even lamer fangirl than I thought I was.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
flaming_potato, I love you guys long time; you make it all worth it, every single week, and I am clinging even closer to you now.
Idol slashers, you let me down, and you let me down HARD CORE. There were all these posts on my f-list right after the show last night, and not a single one of them even mentioned that Ryan kissed Simon. It is a thing! That happened! One should not have to be a shipper to acknowledge it as a Thing That Happened. Being shippy is assigning meaning to the kiss. Saying that the kiss happened, or noting it, is not just for shippers.
There are two parts to my anger here. The first is, now I feel like when I mention it in my post about the results show, everyone reading it is going to dismiss it as the ravings of a tinhat shipper. When I say everyone, I don't just mean like, almost every boy on my f-list who wonders "why does everyone have to be gay" but also all of you who might be watching Idol but not slashing it. But it isn't slashy to say: Ryan kissed Simon on the temple on Idol last night. I'm almost afraid to say it, though, because the way that it hasn't been mentioned makes me worry that maybe I did make it up.
The second is, you know, Cakers, I've been in your corner long time. I saw the brushes and the glances and I thought it was adorable, even though I'm not particularly fannish about either Chris or Blake. But I thought they were sweet together, and I liked the stories you guys wrote. When earlier this season some of you felt that the treatment of Colton and Danny meant that the AI PTB were anti-gay I tried to explain, nicely, why I disagreed, but I was sympathetic.
So I have to say, the complete lack of reciprocity is breathtaking. Are we not all slashers? Was I not asked to celebrate teh gaie wherever I found it? Can I not expect the same from you? I mean, for Pete's sake, a man kissed another man on American Idol last night and for all that any of you mentioned it, it might as well have not even happened. Is Simon so repulsive? Does teh gaie not count if it isn't happening between men you're attracted to? Because that's a kind of tunnel vision that I just can't even comprehend.
Despite shipping Rymon, I really do try my best in my non-Rymon posts to pay attention to the entire show. But I guess that just makes me an even lamer fangirl than I thought I was.
flaming_potato, I love you guys long time; you make it all worth it, every single week, and I am clinging even closer to you now.