You know, I don't know if it's just me or if there's really some sort of bell curve where fandom sanity is involved. That is to say, a lot of newbies are flaming insane-o-bitches with an entitlement complex, and then the number of sane fans go higher and higher the more fandom experience we're talking about, until we reach BNF territory where ( Read more... )

My latest post with the androgyne icon, in combination with recent discussion on slash, and gender, and discussions in queer communities, and real-life experiences... in short, a combination of a whole lot of things got me thinking. And I might have to make those thoughts into more than one post (the whole androgynity issue got lost, for one thing ( Read more... )

...I don't give a shit if you guys like each other or not, or who said what to whom months and months ago. From what I've seen, there are people on both "sides" who have been out of line, and others who haven't been, and I'm not going to make it into a simple "these people are right, these people are wrong, now and always, amen" question. I want to ( Read more... )

People drive me batty #1:

Right now there's a discussion on one of the mailing lists I'm on about how people just post fics to LiveJournal, and it's not faaaair, and it's impossible to fiiiiind...

As if the only way to find livejournal communities is to be aware of their existence already. As if there isn't a perfectly good search function that ( Read more... )

I've been back for less than a day, and I already have a rant.

I do not understand people who throw up all over other people's creative efforts and then claim that if it's in a public space, it's a free target. That people shouldn't take it personally, that they aren't their fics, and so on. (And no, this rant isn't due to anyone saying that to me ( Read more... )

For those of you wondering where I've been, I spent Monday to Friday on a camp for the handicapped, working as an assistant/guide to one of the people there. It's pretty much an eat, sleep and work kind of job (I get paid for 60 hours). Saturday I worked another six hours guiding another handicapped girl. I came home to my parents' house almost in ( Read more... )

Now that the Yuletide challenge is over, I can reveal that my story was An Afterlife Afternoon in South Park. Kenny/Cartman slash with Stan/Kyle implied. As I said before, I fear I may go to hell for this one. But I'm strangely proud of myself for writing it ( Read more... )

Clearly, going to a party the night before one has to get up at five thirty to catch a train is not the thing to do, even if one doesn't get particularly drunk ( Read more... )

Today I'm just in a blathering mood, so I'll blather ( Read more... )

I saw "Galaxy Quest" on TV yesterday (fun film!) and was a little bit puzzled at the way cast and fans referred to eps by numbers. Do Trekkers do that too? Because I've never encountered anyone else who does. Rather, people tend to start with "the ep where", move on to calling them by name and eventually end up with abbreviations such as HTMAK. ( Read more... )