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Any of you guys out there seen This Week's Cover from Entertainment Weekly magazine?
(And I'm sorry to be so North America-centric with this, my international Flisties, but this is one of the most popular magazines in North America, which is one of the reasons I'm so mad.)
I'm not talking about the Vampire Diaries, though if that floats your boat that's cool. I'm talking about the wee little article title down at the bottom: "Meet the Shippers: TV's Weirdest Fans".
Yeah. That.
As you can imagine I read the article with a certain amount of trepidation, being that it was essentially about me and pretty much everyone I know online. (Though naturally they had the nomenclature a little incorrect, since Slashers aren't "Slash Shippers" as in the article, we're just Slashers, thanks.) But surprisingly, given the title, it was pretty good. I could've done with more acknowledgement of slashers, especially given how the article mostly discussed how the (het) shippers influenced plots of television shows (albeit grudgingly on the part of some producers, apparently) and it would've been nice to see that slashers have had influence beyond Gabrielle and Xena. After all, I'm pretty sure the leads of The Sentinel played the 'bromance' up for the slash fans, and I know for sure that before TPTB decided to bite the hands that fed them with Stargate: Universe, they actually gave a nod to the Jack/Daniel fans once.
But overall, not a bad article. Which made the title that much more maddening and, not to put too fine a point on it, mean. So I decided to write them a letter about it. I'm sure it won't get printed, so I figured I'd put it here, too.
( I thought I was pretty nice about it, really )
(And I'm sorry to be so North America-centric with this, my international Flisties, but this is one of the most popular magazines in North America, which is one of the reasons I'm so mad.)
I'm not talking about the Vampire Diaries, though if that floats your boat that's cool. I'm talking about the wee little article title down at the bottom: "Meet the Shippers: TV's Weirdest Fans".
Yeah. That.
As you can imagine I read the article with a certain amount of trepidation, being that it was essentially about me and pretty much everyone I know online. (Though naturally they had the nomenclature a little incorrect, since Slashers aren't "Slash Shippers" as in the article, we're just Slashers, thanks.) But surprisingly, given the title, it was pretty good. I could've done with more acknowledgement of slashers, especially given how the article mostly discussed how the (het) shippers influenced plots of television shows (albeit grudgingly on the part of some producers, apparently) and it would've been nice to see that slashers have had influence beyond Gabrielle and Xena. After all, I'm pretty sure the leads of The Sentinel played the 'bromance' up for the slash fans, and I know for sure that before TPTB decided to bite the hands that fed them with Stargate: Universe, they actually gave a nod to the Jack/Daniel fans once.
But overall, not a bad article. Which made the title that much more maddening and, not to put too fine a point on it, mean. So I decided to write them a letter about it. I'm sure it won't get printed, so I figured I'd put it here, too.
( I thought I was pretty nice about it, really )
