Ice cream and nectarines
It's come to my attention that I have apparently lost the ability to rant. I've been poking at some of my attempted essays lately, because it's been a while and because I'd love to do something for the Symposium, but I just can't seem to get a good "I'm right, you're wrong" vibe going. I have rant fragments on several subjects, such as men (and realism), sex (and realism), age (too old, too young, whatever, but it's usually all about the too young, isn't it? Or it used to be. Where did the underage controversy go, anyway? Not that I miss it, not that I want it to come back ::makes sign to avert evil:: but it was a big ol' controversy, it was an Issue. And now there's been a Smallville boom for a while and tiny teenagers all over the place (no, I know, Clark Kent isn't exactly tiny, but you know what I mean) and okay, I've seen some convoluted reasoning on the subject of Why Clark Is Older Than That No Really, but not so much of the screaming and frothing-at-the-mouth-ness, which is quite a relief. Maybe everyone got used to it with TPM. Maybe everyone got used to it with HP. Where do old controversies go when they die? And is there a fast-forward button somewhere I can use to get past new ones?), realism (and sex and men), etc, but either they all want to blend into one big mess (because Everything Is Connected! oh, the cosmic slash vibes!) or I get bogged down in on the one hand, on the other hand, some people think, another alternative is, blah, until I can't even remember what the point is.
ari_ tells me that I'm being RPSed by spammers; apparently my nick and email have been shanghaied to send out "come see my hot girlfriend" spam. This would explain why I'm suddenly being spamfiltered in various places and can't send mail to some of my friends, which is making me cranky. Spam!torch seems to have more fun, too; the real me is sadly lacking in the hot girlfriend department.
Also tried to lemming my way through the "which fannish character" thing, but I got all indecisive, and sidetracked by the masseuse/masseur thing and gendered nouns in general, and eventually bored. I could so do happily ever after with Tara, though. And a one night stand with Faith, and get wasted with Lex, and set up my best friend with Ivan Vorpatril to see him run screaming--Ivan, that is--and I'm pretty sure I'd like to do something to/with Gabriel... Okay, maybe I wasn't as bored as I thought.
ari_ tells me that I'm being RPSed by spammers; apparently my nick and email have been shanghaied to send out "come see my hot girlfriend" spam. This would explain why I'm suddenly being spamfiltered in various places and can't send mail to some of my friends, which is making me cranky. Spam!torch seems to have more fun, too; the real me is sadly lacking in the hot girlfriend department.
Also tried to lemming my way through the "which fannish character" thing, but I got all indecisive, and sidetracked by the masseuse/masseur thing and gendered nouns in general, and eventually bored. I could so do happily ever after with Tara, though. And a one night stand with Faith, and get wasted with Lex, and set up my best friend with Ivan Vorpatril to see him run screaming--Ivan, that is--and I'm pretty sure I'd like to do something to/with Gabriel... Okay, maybe I wasn't as bored as I thought.