were my laces out?

direct your eyes to the obvious proof.
and puppy dog lies won't sweeten the truth.
i whisper and scream but i can't refute.
it's absolute.

i've been meaning to write this for a really long time but i just didn't have the energy/motivation to do it. now i do, after all these years of keeping it in.
i'm not a huge anime fan - i used to back when i was younger, but now the closest thing i like to anime is video games, mainly zelda and kingdom hearts. being a fan of these for sometime now i've become accustomed to the fandom in both, mainly the tolerance of relationships. it's cool to see that there are many people out there who tolerate same sex relationships - yaoi/yuri, as they like to refer to them - but just like everything else in life, when you overdo something it becomes annoying and overrated. kingdom hearts, in particular, has a lot of yaoi fans and while i don't have anything against that there are a few things i'd like to express my opinion on just for the sake of getting it off my chest.
now kingdom hearts is a shonen-based game, meaning that most of the characters are boys and it sort of has a masculine appeal to it - ironically most of the fans i've talked to are girls, but whatever, that's besides the point. it's only natural for shonen-based games or animes or mangas to have a yaoi fanbase since a lot of girls are into that kinda thing. as for me i don't really have much of an opinion on it - it's in the grey zone for me. like i mentioned earlier if you're into it that's cool - but as long as you don't shove it in everyone's face and degrade anything else i won't chastise you.
let's take akuroku for example. everyone likes a good akuroku fanart/fanfiction - or at least most of us do. i'm only assuming here that most fans - at least the ones i've seen on deviantart and fanfiction.net - are girls; straight, adolescent girls to be more specific. now, i don't know about you but when i think of a yaoi fan i think of a straight, adolescent girl. why? well, isn't it only natural to think that the kind of people who thrive in hot guys making out are heterosexual females? it's the same thing with how guys find lesbians hot, is it not? it goes hand in hand, really.
alright, back to akuroku - i don't detest the pairing, really, i don't. i don't LOVE it but at the same time i don't hate it either. i probably would've been able to tolerate it more if it wasn't in my face half the time, if you know what i mean. to me akuroku is basically the edward cullen of the kingdom hearts fan universe: before when the franchise didn't have much of a fanbase it was tolerable, maybe even likable. but then once it starts getting popular people overhype it and everyone gets turned off. at least that's what happened to me. i dunno about you.
now everyone has their own personal preferences and i'm smart enough not to dapple in that; if you're into akuroku or any kind of yaoi pairing that's fine with me, truly, it is, but if you're one of those people who think yaoi is the best way to go and you have the nerve to say everything else sucks then i'm afraid i'm going to have to step in. it goes the other way too: if you're into het pairings and you think yaoi/yuri is wrong then i'm going to have to object to that too. now i know that if we lived in a world without clashing opinions everything would be a little tedious, but this is going a little too far. people are arguing over the topic of LOVE - people being together for romantic reasons, people being together because they LOVE each other. irony, anyone?
i've been on people's deviantart and ff.net profiles and i've read the most ridiculous things. some are reasonable, i'll admit. some prefer not to read or write yaoi/yuri because it's against their religion, or they were brought up in a way in which they prefer not to like it. that's understandable, and while i can't say i can agree with what they think it's something i know i can't change so i won't touch it. people have their own reasons for liking and disliking things and everyone should be able to respect that. as for others, though, i really wonder what their thought process is like. i read people's profiles and i see things like "HET COUPLES ARE BORING", "YAOI/YURI IS STUPID AND DISGUSTING", "ANTI-AKUROKU; ANTI-ROKUNAMI, ANTI-SOKAI, ANTI-LARXEL, ANTI-ZEMYX", blah blah blah, i think you get the point.
firstly, i'd like to ask this: how are het couples any different than same sex couples? i mean, besides the fact that yaoi/yuri comprises of two boys or two girls there really isn't much of a difference. just because two guys are together doesn't mean they do 'couple stuff' any different than a guy and a girl in a relationship. going out, hugging, making out, whatever - it's all in the same context. love is love, isn't it? whatever happened to believing in that? so i don't know where yaoi/yuri fans are getting that from. the funny thing is that i actually tried to tell a fan that once and they ended up berating me for how 'homophobic' i was. i dunno where they got the homophobia from, but alright, if that's what you think of me then so be it. it's funny how the moment you express your opinion for yaoi/yuri the fans automatically think you're severely against it. c'mon guys, lighten up will you? i never said i was homophobic - i've been in touch with gay people and i have gay friends - so please don't put any words in my mouth. you're not making this any better.
oh, and another thing about yaoi/yuri fans: most say they dislike het couples, yet in real life they're IN a het relationship. if you want to pick a fight it's best to start by NOT contradicting yourself. just giving you a bit of advice next time you decide to bash on another person's opinion. the same goes for het fans that are in a same sex relationship; don't think i'm singling anyone out here.
alright, now for the het fans. in a way it's easier to pick on you guys 'cause the first thing that comes to mind is the big 'homophobia' issue, and like i've mentioned before if that's your opinion then i can't do anything about it. i just want people to know that we're living in a very different world now, much different than the world our parents lived in, our grandparents lived in and so forth. technology is advancing, the environment is suffering and opinions are spreading - people are growing more tolerant to the things they used to find repulsive in the past. racism, for example, has dwindled exceptionally in the past twenty-thirty years, maybe even more (i was never good with numbers). same thing goes with homosexuality, bisexuality and trans-sexuality: it's becoming somewhat of a norm now and people are learning to accept it, which is obviously a good thing. people are people: we each feel, think and go about our everyday lives generally in the same way. we like and hate things as much as the person next to us; we all have social, personal, spiritual, sex, whatever else kind of life you can think of. basically what i'm trying to say is that we're all the same and with the emergence of a new millennium we're finally coming to that understanding. now i don't expect anyone to have their opinions changed from what i just said, but i think i mentioned earlier that all i really want to do is express what i think. i mean, it's a wonder why you're reading this in the first place - it's probably because i forced you to do it, but whatever. you're reading it and that's what matters =)
so in conclusion all i really want to say is that people shouldn't argue about stuff like this. we're all entitled to our own opinions and to challenge others with stupid, dead-end remarks is one of the most childish things one person can do. if you want to cause a scene you better have a good reason for it - i learned that the hard way in high school. bitch at me all you want - like i mentioned before i only wanted to express my opinion, and by having you commenting on how 'closed-minded', 'idiotic', 'biased' or whatever i am only reinforces the point i just expressed a few lines ago. i'm not looking to change opinions, like i've mentioned earlier; i merely wanted to express mine. 'nuff said.
now for a song that's been stuck in my head this past week:

that is all.