... **headdesk.**

[ladybug_archive]

A little romance in the fandom here and there is fine, but it's honestly kind of annoying when I find five pages of Perry Mason/Della Street fanfiction and only about two stories in the whole section that are Gen/Mystery genre! Seriously, almost everyone writing for the show at FF.net seems to have a one-track mind. That was the case several years ago when I looked before, as well.

Also, I thought it was a little odd that the slashers hadn't come out to play. Then I see there's one on Archive of Our Own, writing Perry Mason/Paul Drake.

I still find it strange that the slashers don't engage in Perry Mason/Hamilton Burger. Not that I want to see it; it would honestly be rather frightening. But in an anime series, and probably in recent TV shows or movies, rival characters like them who have a very interesting and complex relationship (they've gone out to lunch and dinner, they occasionally work together on cases, Burger once asked Perry to defend a friend of his) would excite the slashers to no end.

I wish someone would show some interest in writing about them in a Gen way (though honestly, since it seems like anything concerning them is downright impossible and non-existent to find, I'd probably be willing to even read a mild slashfic on them if it existed). Their interaction is the main thing that intrigues me about the show (and the main thing that contributed to me being a casual fan). I've watched it off and on for probably twelve or thirteen years, maybe longer.

And Simon Oakland's characters can't catch a break. He plays a bad fellow and ends up dead. He plays a good fellow and still ends up dead. And the latter death pretty much broke my heart. It was so needless! His character, Captain Caldwell, was killed by some kook who didn't want Caldwell's investigation into sabotage to cause his precious missile not to launch. So the nut killed him to halt the investigation.

Comments

[yamsteapot.livejournal.com]

Romance in fandom is probably one of the biggest reasons fandom and fanfiction remain so strong. But it's also one of the most unfortunate parts of it. I've been out of the main throng of fandom for some time, but that was always my sort of perspective on it. The other leading factor is appreciating and gushing over said fandom, but a lot of people seem to come to things in order to fulfill their own personal fantasies which 9/10 seem romantic. There just aren't enough genfic in the world in general, in my opinion. Where is the balance?!

Slash has always struck me as odd as to where appears and where it doesn't. I wonder how much of it has to do with the crossover of fans in both anime and other series?

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Oof. Well, at least they're not bashing a good guy like they do in the scores and scores Erik/Christine fics. That's even more annoying than the romance itself.

Well, you were the one who told me that slash exists out there somewhere for every fandom... XD;

**hugs Simon's characters** Poor Captain. he looked so cute, too...