One of these days I'll stop being frustrated with Damaged People, but it sure isn't today!

( Grousing about sexual politics, implication, and the like; no concrete spoilers but makes more sense if you've read through Lights Move/Chains/The World As/What Possesses )

...meanwhile, my brain is giving me someone named Tether, an aromantic, touch-hungry, skin-averse, heterophysical, sex-repulsed asexual who undergoes violence-hunger cycles in accordance with lunar cycles, peaking at the new moon. She gets paired with some guy called Knife, who as far as I can tell is a fairly vanilla heterosexual guy somewhere on ( Read more... )

...which may say a lot about my headcanon and very little about anything else, but wahey.

The Sam Carter in my head just kinda... loves people, occasionally falls in love with people, without any expectation that things can, should or will come out of it. Love is this anomalous emotional stimulus with no ingrained response, for her. It's a ( Read more... )

So I sat down, and I considered writing some meta that started with I have a character I dearly love who could easily be seen as a serial abuser. The thing is, he's aware of this and doesn't particularly want to be - he finds it a particularly odious character trait of his own, but it's too ingrained to easily address. The problem is that he's ( Read more... )

Reading back over the latest of my slash-annoyed entries, possibly the issue would benefit from some re-framing.

One thing I come back to a lot is the concept of marking. (It's one of those concepts I kinda obsess over - like signification, but discussing that is going to have to wait until I feel like I really understand it.)

Markedness is a ( Read more... )

"Okay, so, um, I promised Quistis I'd find her a date to the ball, so I'm going with her because I couldn't find anyone else X_X. Also, Quistis is bi, and she's going to be coming out at the SeeD meeting tonight, but it really doesn't have anything with us going to the ball, okay?" Selphie fidgeted nervously, waiting for Irvine's reaction. Quistis ( Read more... )

I have this theory that Sam Tyler (Life on Mars) relies on physical input a lot more than he's comfortable admitting.

It's very strange, because he seems to want to be a completely cerebral person. The things he seems to idolize are logic and evidence, deductive reasoning, facts and pattern-matching, an let's not forget his extended love affair ( Read more... )

It's always fun to look at a story and say, "All right. I need to construct this in such a way as to bring out my MC's absolute worst coping mechanisms.

( Life On Mars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the Damaged People panoply. By their powers combined... )

So, eclective found, via metafandom, this particularly debatable article on how to characterize Sam and Dean from Supernatural. (Hey, transnomad. Remember how you felt like Hollywood thought you were stupid? Well....) I read. I gagged a bit. I seethed at the implications. And after thinking about it a bit longer and reading through a few of the comments, I hit on why ( ( Read more... )