"Flash, don't heckle the supervillain!"
So, I was gonna write this whole melodramatic post about death-thoughts, and then my little brother came off worse with a leisure centre floor in PE. Stitches and teeth-reattachment later, I decided to aim for upbeat instead. (He's playing his shiny new Mario Kart Wii beside me, and still looking like he's gone 10 rounds, but better
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And I still quite want to cuddle the wee brother. Were that not quite invasive from a person he's never met.
apocalyptothon is pulling me every which way. I'm not sure I can pick five of those fandoms that I actually *want* to write. And with the muses as they are. Still. It might do what it did last year, i.e. inspire us all to splurge out on TWW end of days ideas. *g*
Okay, I'll do my best here. Lessee.
Friends: What quality do you come to value in a friend?
Sex: Fantasies. Are they of a different form (in whatever way) when they're about men as opposed to when they're about women? (Is it scary that we've both asked about fantasy ...? *g*)
Music: Is there a song that makes you cry which, logically, really shouldn't?
Religion: Spirituality and creativity, are they in any way similar for you?
Love: How do/would in theory/have you known you were in love?
Livejournal or Fandom: I liked your question, so: TWW, smallish as it is now, or more like, say, SG Atlantis or Buffy? Pros and cons?
My god, that took a while. :)
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What quality do you come to value in a friend?
That one's trickier than it should be. Different things in different people. Being hard to drive away is up there. Someone I feel comfortable enough to relax around. Loving me back for who I am, not who they want me to be. All the regular stuff :)
Fantasies. Are they of a different form (in whatever way) when they're about men as opposed to when they're about women?
Hmm... it's never as raw when it's about women. If I'm writing porn-in-my-head (as distinct from something that's actually to be read ever), the nasty stuff never has women in it. And I don't know if that's because 'I' am the woman, or because my feminist-reading of fantasy stops me, but it's there. The femslash stuff is always sweet, and a little sad, the slash stuff tends to be angrier, or darker, or more rooted in the heavy hurt before the comfort. I think it's because it's easier to hurt men without it feeling like a judgement of the whole gender, but you may disagree on that front. Possibly I'm just really fucked up.
Is there a song that makes you cry which, logically, really shouldn't?
:) I don't cry at songs very often, unless there's something else going on. 'Fantine's Death' in Les Miz. For God's sake, please stay 'till I am sleeping / And tell Cosette I love her, and I'll see her when I wake... 'And the Rain Keeps Falling Down' from 'Elegies For Angels, Punks, And Raging Queens'. Although those are both about death, so maybe they logically should?
Spirituality and creativity, are they in any way similar for you?
Are you gonna hate me if I say no? Spirituality, whenever I've felt it, was always external - a connection to something outside me. Writing is for me is incredibly internal, and difficult in a way that I don't think spirituality ever was. Hmmm... I shall employ an example before this gets too wound up. Sam-as-President gets the religious analogies, whereas Sam-the-writer, conversely, tends to the scientific. Towards a higher truth, which for me tends to be more about staring at a wall thinking until the blood forms on my forehead. It would probably be easier if it was more about the transcendent... Feel free to disagree and cite examples where Sam is religious instead. My linguistic metaphors probably still end up religious, because that's my language even if not my belief.
How do/would in theory/have you known you were in love?
Every time I've thought I was, I've fallen out of it, so I don't know. Normally characterised by how it breaks my heart to see them and when they touch me I can't breathe. Which I'm pretty sure sounds more like the other thing than love. The people I love are the ones who are the reasons I don't throw myself from things, but I don't think that's what you meant. So I guess I don't know.
I liked your question, so: TWW, smallish as it is now, or more like, say, SG Atlantis or Buffy? Pros and cons?
Hmmm... I really don't know. It would be easier to be lost in a fandom the size of SGA or Buffy. But I have written in SGA, and in Harry Potter for that matter. But never been especially deep in fandom. Whereas TWW is small enough that I (kind of have to) see almost all of what's posted. I just wish we were big enough that there was more variety. Then even in SGA people complain that there's too little in their pairings, so I don't know. I still think there's less stigma attached to writing something that isn't the main pairings in the big fandoms. Especially SGA, where there's probably at least one example of everything. Ditto HP, even with the pairing wars!
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