Ravings of a frustrated secretary
The Boss just left for a business trip to San Diego. This is good in that the past two weeks have been all go, all the time. This is bad in that when he gets back, he will expect all his filing to be done. I hates me some filing, which explains why it's so backed up.
It was amusing hearing all the lawyers and secretaries talk about how it's so nice and slow right now, and how it will speed up in about two weeks. Yeah. Maybe at your desk it's slow. Come on over to madness country and I'll show you how the New Year has been treating me!
I read like a billion stories on yuletide yesterday. It's amazing what you can get away with as long as there's just text on your screen. :)
Why doesn't Almost Famous have a giant fandom? So unfair. On the other hand, since I'm not a Russell/Penny shipper *or* a William/Penny shipper, I'm probably lucky there isn't a giant fandom to piss me off. And OH GOD! There'd probably be Russell/William shippers out there and seriously, that can't happen. Russell/Jeff!! NOOOOOO!!!! I have to wash my brain.
Never mind. I'll just be happy with my two stories a year and leave it at that.
Yes, queen0fchaos, I'm still working on the Almost Famous prequel. It has stalled, but I'll get back to it.
It's not that I have anything against slash - I don't. When you can see hints of it in the movie/television show/book, when it seems right, I'm all for it. And, of course, when it's well written. I can understand Remus/Sirius - we only have hints of their backstory, but there's lots of love there in the few scenes they're together in PoA. Danny/Rusty makes sense to me - that whole "buddy" vibe can go into the slash realm with very little prodding from a skilled author.
I just dislike slash for it's own sake. "Let's have Boy A and Boy B screwing on the couch!" even though Boy A and Boy B barely make eye contact throughout 7 seasons of the show seems silly to me. Or when sworn enemies end up in bed together, even though I personally don't feel the possible sexual tension that another author might feel.
I'm not saying it can't be written, or even that it can't be well written. I'm just saying that it usually leaves me flat.
Let's take Harry and Draco, for instance. Draco is a weasley little prick who has gotten in completely over his head with the Big Bad. Harry is the possible saviour of the wizarding world who has lost everyone who ever loved him to the same Big Bad. Scenes where these two end up in a loving relationship make me tilt my head and go, "huh?" I look like my dog hearing an unusual noise.
And I've seen it written, and written well; it's just not my thing. It doesn't work in my brain. The only time where it makes sense to me in the way that I process these characters is when it's non-con or hate!sex. And that's not something I enjoy reading, so I just pass on those stories altogether.
Okay, enough about the wild world of fan fiction. It's time to go smoke.
It was amusing hearing all the lawyers and secretaries talk about how it's so nice and slow right now, and how it will speed up in about two weeks. Yeah. Maybe at your desk it's slow. Come on over to madness country and I'll show you how the New Year has been treating me!
I read like a billion stories on yuletide yesterday. It's amazing what you can get away with as long as there's just text on your screen. :)
Why doesn't Almost Famous have a giant fandom? So unfair. On the other hand, since I'm not a Russell/Penny shipper *or* a William/Penny shipper, I'm probably lucky there isn't a giant fandom to piss me off. And OH GOD! There'd probably be Russell/William shippers out there and seriously, that can't happen. Russell/Jeff!! NOOOOOO!!!! I have to wash my brain.
Never mind. I'll just be happy with my two stories a year and leave it at that.
Yes, queen0fchaos, I'm still working on the Almost Famous prequel. It has stalled, but I'll get back to it.
It's not that I have anything against slash - I don't. When you can see hints of it in the movie/television show/book, when it seems right, I'm all for it. And, of course, when it's well written. I can understand Remus/Sirius - we only have hints of their backstory, but there's lots of love there in the few scenes they're together in PoA. Danny/Rusty makes sense to me - that whole "buddy" vibe can go into the slash realm with very little prodding from a skilled author.
I just dislike slash for it's own sake. "Let's have Boy A and Boy B screwing on the couch!" even though Boy A and Boy B barely make eye contact throughout 7 seasons of the show seems silly to me. Or when sworn enemies end up in bed together, even though I personally don't feel the possible sexual tension that another author might feel.
I'm not saying it can't be written, or even that it can't be well written. I'm just saying that it usually leaves me flat.
Let's take Harry and Draco, for instance. Draco is a weasley little prick who has gotten in completely over his head with the Big Bad. Harry is the possible saviour of the wizarding world who has lost everyone who ever loved him to the same Big Bad. Scenes where these two end up in a loving relationship make me tilt my head and go, "huh?" I look like my dog hearing an unusual noise.
And I've seen it written, and written well; it's just not my thing. It doesn't work in my brain. The only time where it makes sense to me in the way that I process these characters is when it's non-con or hate!sex. And that's not something I enjoy reading, so I just pass on those stories altogether.
Okay, enough about the wild world of fan fiction. It's time to go smoke.