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God I love the mini Frieza Force sub-fandom. It comes out with the wackiest stuff and often the best fanfiction. Hell, I’ve made my closest and oldest online friends through this mini DBZ fandom. Rhandi, Karete, Caith - I think I’ve known them a good 11/12 years… how terrifying is that? Sure, there are a couple of things that drive me nuts about it. The overuse of the phrase “Space Australia” (I love you DBZA, but argh god if I hear that phrase one more time! XD) and I’ll never be a fan of Burter x Jeice. That pairing just boggles my mind and makes zero sense for me. The chemistry, the personalities, it’s just completely off. They’re my ultimate brotp, the Scott and Stiles of DBZ, but romantically? Nah, not on your life. I wouldn’t ship them for the same reason I would never ship Scott and Stiles. I like a lot of friendship to romance pairings, but there has to be something, a spark or particular chemistry, for it to work in my mind. To be honest, most of the Frieza Force slash is pretty awful, probably because 9 times out of 10 the fics are so out-of-character (extreme seme/uke scenarios), I might as well be reading a story about Mr Smith and Mr Jones for all the resemblance they have to their original counterparts. While that may be some peoples’ thing (and that’s grand, we all have our preferences and there’s nothing wrong with that), it just isn’t mine. I don’t mind fanfic writers taking certain liberties with canon characters, especially minor ones like the Ginyus or Zarbon, but there’s got to be something that connects them to the essence and feel of their original portrayals. Course, with DBZ it always depends on which dub you’re looking at. Each voice actor leant an extra special something to each character. For instance, Zarbon’s portrayal is drastically different from dub to dub. The Ocean and Japanese dubs I grew up with featured a less stereotyped portrayal of Zarbon, which is one I always preferred (my feelings on Funimation’s Zarbon are pretty bloody negative). And of course Scott McNeil’s Jeice with the dodgy British accent appeals to me far more and not just because of said dodgy accent. There was something adorably “rough around the edges” about McNeil’s Jeice - something reminiscent of Buffy’s Spike that caught my imagination and made him my best-fictional-friend for…wow, 15 years now. God I’m bloody old. Similar case with Richard Newman’s portrayal of Ginyu - hands down my favourite portrayal. I hated Dale Kelly’s portrayal, because it turned Ginyu into just another angry, gruff-sounding villain to be dispatched of, whereas Newman’s portrayal was a bit more suave - he reminded me of an old English gent who fought duels by the rulebook.
Man, once I’m finished work I should probably revive Strike a Pose. The fansite’s a bit worse for wear at the moment. It’s actually the back-up version on Rhandi’s account. The original host died a death, typically right after I’d finished a mammoth update and since then I’ve kind of lost the will. But it will be properly revived. I’m getting rid of a lot of stuff though and I’ll be looking at a new layout too. The old one is looking very tired. ^^;
And wow, I ranted much longer than I meant to. :/
Oh, I also forgot - there’s definitely one Frieza Force slash ship I ship hard. Burter / Zarbon, man. It’s the bees knees.