be prepared for the coup of the century~
Things I was supposed to do today: write, do the dishes and the laundry, write more.
Things I actually did today: stayed up 'til well past 5 AM, (re)reading different mystical ideas on the soul; read about problems of LGBTQIA+ representation in (fan)fiction written by straight, cis* women for straight, cis* women; thought both sides of said disagreement had very valid points, except for the part where one side was pretty damn misogynistic about making his (links and crap are all over at sf_drama, if anyone's interested); did more thinking and learned a lot;
read this gorgeous fic by purple_carpets (Supernatural, R, Dean/OFC with references to Dean/Alastair and Dean/Meg; POTENTIALLY TRIGGERY, ESPECIALLY WRT NON-CON; FEATURES DEAN'S HELL-ISSUES AND PTSD); and read an LGBTQIA+ response/post in the spirit of Gail Simone's "Head in a Refrigerator" list (to sum up: lists of women and LGBTQIA+ characters from comic bookswho have been "killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies befall [them]"). …Oh, and I watched The Lion King on an infinite loop because I didn't feel like putting on something else.
Regrets: ... nope, none of those here. Also, L-O-L at Joe Quesada's response to the Women In Refrigerators list. L-O-L, sir. Maybe even a side of R-O-F-L. "I think it's sad and terrible, but I'm going to mansplain at you about how much worse it is in ~other media and how we in the comics business are so ~moral for acknowledging that we create various minority characters just to exploit them." (Paraphrased, not directly quoted.)
... well, okay, then. You keep living in your precious little bubble where only hetero, cis* white dudes dig on comic books, sir. And where no one can call comics on their bullshit because it's ~so much worse elsewhere, and hey, girls, queer people, POCs, et al ~shouldn't be reading comics anyway, so it's our fault for getting ~lol offended. How dare we, thinking we ~belong in your space, sorry for thinking that we could read and enjoy your superhero stories, too, guess we should be getting back to our stereotypically assigned haunts now. (Yeah, no, seriously, though. Fuck you, sir. I'm a queer chick who loves comic books, so… yes, there is an issue here, and yes, it merits being pointed out, and no, the fact that it's ~so much worse elsewhere doesn't make your realm any better. Has moral relativism ever actually been a good point for anybody?)
This all just makes me feel like I should start planning out a NaNo (since, ha, I have no free time for writing projects until then) that follows in the paths set by Perry Moore's Hero (which I actually need to read/go pick up at Borders, since it's reserved for me…) and Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible (which is one of my favorite things ever; AV Club review, @Google Books, @TV Tropes). I was already kind of planning something starring a magical girl whose guardian/advisor-types (a la Luna and Artemis from Sailor Moon, Kerberos from Cardcaptor Sakura, or the wonky alien cat thing from Puella Magi Madoka Magica… which I still need to watch) are thinly veiled expys of Thin White Duke!Bowie and Judas Priest's Rob Halford, so…
Things I actually did today: stayed up 'til well past 5 AM, (re)reading different mystical ideas on the soul; read about problems of LGBTQIA+ representation in (fan)fiction written by straight, cis* women for straight, cis* women; thought both sides of said disagreement had very valid points, except for the part where one side was pretty damn misogynistic about making his (links and crap are all over at sf_drama, if anyone's interested); did more thinking and learned a lot;
read this gorgeous fic by purple_carpets (Supernatural, R, Dean/OFC with references to Dean/Alastair and Dean/Meg; POTENTIALLY TRIGGERY, ESPECIALLY WRT NON-CON; FEATURES DEAN'S HELL-ISSUES AND PTSD); and read an LGBTQIA+ response/post in the spirit of Gail Simone's "Head in a Refrigerator" list (to sum up: lists of women and LGBTQIA+ characters from comic bookswho have been "killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies befall [them]"). …Oh, and I watched The Lion King on an infinite loop because I didn't feel like putting on something else.
Regrets: ... nope, none of those here. Also, L-O-L at Joe Quesada's response to the Women In Refrigerators list. L-O-L, sir. Maybe even a side of R-O-F-L. "I think it's sad and terrible, but I'm going to mansplain at you about how much worse it is in ~other media and how we in the comics business are so ~moral for acknowledging that we create various minority characters just to exploit them." (Paraphrased, not directly quoted.)
... well, okay, then. You keep living in your precious little bubble where only hetero, cis* white dudes dig on comic books, sir. And where no one can call comics on their bullshit because it's ~so much worse elsewhere, and hey, girls, queer people, POCs, et al ~shouldn't be reading comics anyway, so it's our fault for getting ~lol offended. How dare we, thinking we ~belong in your space, sorry for thinking that we could read and enjoy your superhero stories, too, guess we should be getting back to our stereotypically assigned haunts now. (Yeah, no, seriously, though. Fuck you, sir. I'm a queer chick who loves comic books, so… yes, there is an issue here, and yes, it merits being pointed out, and no, the fact that it's ~so much worse elsewhere doesn't make your realm any better. Has moral relativism ever actually been a good point for anybody?)
This all just makes me feel like I should start planning out a NaNo (since, ha, I have no free time for writing projects until then) that follows in the paths set by Perry Moore's Hero (which I actually need to read/go pick up at Borders, since it's reserved for me…) and Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible (which is one of my favorite things ever; AV Club review, @Google Books, @TV Tropes). I was already kind of planning something starring a magical girl whose guardian/advisor-types (a la Luna and Artemis from Sailor Moon, Kerberos from Cardcaptor Sakura, or the wonky alien cat thing from Puella Magi Madoka Magica… which I still need to watch) are thinly veiled expys of Thin White Duke!Bowie and Judas Priest's Rob Halford, so…