You are somewhere in my future. That's what sustains me when surrounded by piles of laundry and a house that needs a hoovering, as they say in GB. I finally got to sit down with Rachel at the Nebs last month and exchange some thoughts. And you're in my future, somewhere, sometime
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You're kidding! I thought that was only me. I can tell just how mad at myself I am, how much self-bashing I'm doing, by the state of my bathroom. It used to be I just closed my eyes to it. Now I realize it's a symptom of something else. Yeah. That's it. Filth is just a symptom. I can live with that. Oh and I did vacuum today. There are limits. And nine cats that won't lift a paw to do their own vacuuming can track in a lot of crud.
I have my semicolons trucked to my house and dumped in to the basement like coal. I have to use them; if I don't, they start overflowing the stairs and breeding like little maggots.
one of the things about how many women there are in fanfic fandom is that it's part of a continuum of examples of how women's work and women's art is devalued.
Absolutely! The scorn with which some people utter the word "fanfic" is pretty amazing. It reminds me of the way some people say the word "romance."
I'm not a fan of romance, and yeah, part of what I don't like about it is the form seems to me to reinforce assumptions about gender roles and relationships that I find...problematic. But does it deserve that sort of scorn, as though romance=trash? Ninety five percent of everything is crap, surely there's a top five percent of romance that's awesome, just like there's a top five percent of everything else, right? Right? Of course there is--I've read romances that I did, in fact, enjoy, and thought were well done. So, why the contempt?
Three guesses, and the first two don't count. Same with fanfic.
The other thing is that if you write on the margins you have freedom. If you aren't aiming for the approval of the
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So, semicolons are related to tribbles.
Don't feed them!
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Absolutely! The scorn with which some people utter the word "fanfic" is pretty amazing. It reminds me of the way some people say the word "romance."
I'm not a fan of romance, and yeah, part of what I don't like about it is the form seems to me to reinforce assumptions about gender roles and relationships that I find...problematic. But does it deserve that sort of scorn, as though romance=trash? Ninety five percent of everything is crap, surely there's a top five percent of romance that's awesome, just like there's a top five percent of everything else, right? Right? Of course there is--I've read romances that I did, in fact, enjoy, and thought were well done. So, why the contempt?
Three guesses, and the first two don't count. Same with fanfic.
The other thing is that if you write on the margins you have freedom. If you aren't aiming for the approval of the ( ... )
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