Why I, as a general rule, despise fanfic

[daidoji_gisei]

So I've been looking around for some Naruto fanfic to entertain myself with and have confirmed what I had feared from the beginning: what isn't outright porn is romance. So. Frustrating. If I wanted porn I could go out and buy professionally-produced porn with real copy-editing. And another thing: You have a setting tailor-made to explore the tension between duty and emotion and what do people do with it? Nothing. Except obsess over who is sticking what in whose orifice. The waste of potential makes my teeth hurt. And it's clear I'm never going to find a fanfic that will speculate on the what was going through Hatashi's mind as he realized he had killed Haku, and not Zabuza. Or whether in part 1 if he ever laid awake at night wondering, should the seal on Nine-Tails completely break down, if he would have to kill Naruto. Arrg.

I wish I could say this is a failing of Naruto fandom, but having gone through this exact same cycle of search and disappointment with other fandoms I have decided it is a general flaw in humanity. Or maybe I am the flawed one for thinking that sexuality is only part of a character's make-up and sometimes not the most interesting part of it. *sigh*

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[daidoji_gisei]

Also: Having had time to drink a mug of tea, it occurs to me that maybe I should modify my position from hating fanfic to hating shippers. Since they are the ones who are writing all the fanfic I don't want to read.

[usagi_k1]

This. Shippers are the sum of all that is wrong in fandom, and why I don't want to be associated with it.