It's great to find a yaoi fan who agrees with me. Maybe if I had read some good yaoi fics in the early days of my DB fan fiction fandom, I wouldn't be so against them. Goku and Vegeta is better than the barrage of Vegeta/Goku/Whoever and some 13 year old's Mary Sue. But then anything is better than that.ShiningMoon wrote: Oh, yes, I totally agree on that point. (Rather, those points.) I feel like I mentioned something related earlier but it might have been part of a long post that I shortened. XD I hate it when (in your example of Goku and Vegeta, which I think is the most common one) the two of them go to happy OOC land, their wives die/do something awful to justify their leaving/etc./etc., all to get the characters together. Then again, I'm a crazy person who would rather have a long, unresolved, ambivalent relationship deal. Plus, such [awful] fics seem to imply that the only possible relationship is a clean-cut, monogamous one, and that the characters must be either gay or straight.
In short, thanks for pointing out all of the most annoying things about bad yaoi fics. (Not to say some similar things don't happen in other, "straight" fics; god knows the success rate for writing Vegeta in-character [with anybody, Bulma included] is alarmingly low. Or maybe I just have a really pessimistic view of Vegeta/am way too picky.) I think these things are probably what gives yaoi fics such a bad name.
All that being said, I used to write a lot of Goku/Vegeta and (if I were ever so bold to go back and read fanfiction I wrote five years ago ewwww) and I'm sure I was guilty to some degree of at least one of those things in at least one of the stories I wrote. But no more! That's for sure. @_@ (No more being guilty of that stuff, I mean -- not no more Goku and Vegeta.)
I also agree with the difficulty of writing Vegeta in-character. He's either too nice and mushy, or too... distant and Vegetaish. That doesn't make any sense but you get what I mean(I hope).
Random odd question to anyone reading: There's a lot of Goku/Vegeta stories out there. Has anyone ever read any good Bulma/Chichi fics that aren't just "lulz!lesbiansrhawt!"? It seems that there is a severe lack of them out there. I may have to write my own.