About ace!Enjolras…

I get why so many fans are invested in the idea of Enjolras being asexual/aromantic. While I somewhat doubt that Hugo intended that “his mistress is ‘patria’” line to be an indicator of asexuality/aromanticism in the way that some of the Classical allusions Hugo makes in reference to Grantaire are most likely meant indicate ( Read more... )

I originally typed all this ridiculously long meta in response to a post I was reblogging on tumblr, but then in retrospect going on and on in someone else’s reblog thread seemed kind of obnoxious, so here are My Thoughts On Yaoi OTPs as a stand-alone ( Read more... )

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I felt like something needed to be said in response to comments like this one I'm going to quote:

( The quote deals with the easiness/difficulty of asking for accommodations or help, and so does my meta )

lgbtfest is up and running. As usual, I didn't sign up to write for it, largely because I a) suck at deadlines and b) am in the middle of writing an epic-length fic that's coming along agonizingly slowly. Seriously, we're actually revising it. I have never made a substantial revision to a piece of fiction in my life. But another part of the ( Read more... )

I don't have the spoons to deal with the current discussion about derailing sparked off by the m/m and slash debate without incoherent screams of rage, and I've already had the comments/concrit discussion several times (my general opinion, taken away from said discussion, is that my perceptions on concrit are skewed by the way my brain processes ( Read more... )

Follow-up to this post on the concept of misaimed fandoms (DW mirror here), which was itself inspired by this post by arachnekallisti on writing terrible human beings/deliberately unsympathetic charactersI was talking this over with seanchai last weekend, actually as part of a tangent about Torchwood (why some people absolutely cannot like Owen or ( Read more... )

TV tropes is often eeerily correct about things, but they and I are not alays in 100% agreement (except about how wearying relentlessly grim and gritty fiction that is OMG so Dark and Edgy is).

There is an interesting post here on the difficulty of writing characters you intend to be terrible, unlikable human beings. That difficulty being that ( Read more... )

Because I've been considering doing this, and talking about it, and I need to just stop being afraid and post it. I'll just pre-emptively tag this with "they should have left me in the ice," shall I ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking lately, ever since jane_elliot's discussion post about whump and TerriblyMisjudged!kink, about Idfic and narrative kinks and guilty pleasures, and Lord King Badfic*, and the lengths we -- or at least, I -- will go to satisfy our kinks. I will read utter trash and love it if it has a regency-era marriage of (in)inconvenience, a character ( Read more... )