Having had an active online life for the past decade, I've seen my fair share of Online Lying. To the point that if I see someone bragging about anything (positive or negative, woe is me counts too) I tend to think chances are, it's a lie or an exaggeration of the truth. I've seen fake suicides, was front row center for a fake miscarriage, and ( Read more... )

I just read a wonderful essay by thisissirius called Common Courtesy in Fandom, and do you know how I found it? Through fandom_wank. That's right, it's a "can't we all just get along and be nice to each other" essay, and people MADE IT INTO A WANK ( Read more... )

I finally decided and had the time to join in on ethrosdemon's Sunday Meta. How about an old favorite...

Canon VS Fanon, Which is More Valid?So here's how it goes: The show gives you these characters that you squee over or loathe, that have these traits that you love or hate, and these things that they've done or not done, and these people that they know ( Read more... )

So I feel like doing the list making thing. Why? I dunno. But I do. So what I'm going to do is (try) to list all of my, general AND specific, fic turn on's.

( let's just assume this entry is rated nc-17 )

So I made this entry earlier about ratings on fanfiction, and tvm made an incredibly good point. It's one I agree with, but I wasn't thinking of it at the time, or I would have made this post to begin with. LOL.I think I finally settled on "If There's no violence but they go all the way it's NC-17, and if there's violence but barely any actual ( Read more... )

There is an incredibly, incredibly interesting discussion going on in winterlive's journal about Sam VS Dean, and morality, and homebase, and who's more clear-cut versus whose lines are in the sand, etc etc etc. It's incredibly interesting, and even if you don't chime in, you should totally read it. But I have some more stuff to babble about, and to expand ( Read more... )

Hmm. Am curious. ethrosdemon made a very intriguing meta-post about this week's SPN, and how it portrays southerners. Now, I'll just start off saying I definitely see where she's coming from, but wasn't offended at all by the show. I took it for a nod to Deliverance, and maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre, plu s I don't watch for the plot or the equality. I ( Read more... )

And the thing of it is, I'm not sure if the show is doing what I'm thinking on purpose, or if I'm wanking it that way because it makes it more palatable for me, but, I think the thing about Lana is that she symbolizes all these things, but no one really sees her. Except maybe Chloe, because she is not blinded by lust/love/longing/etc.

( more on Lana, Clana, and Lexana )

Ya know, I don't know why, or how even, but I was thinking about that fanfic for profit thing that happened forever ago just now (which I thought, and still think, was blown WAY out of proportion, and was discussed ad nauseum over here, so if you simply must tell me why I'm wrong again, please do it there) and it makes me want to think about it ( Read more... )

I shouldn't be cranky. I should be in a good mood. Nothing has happened to put me in a bad mood. I think I'm still just overly tired. In fact, I probably shouldn't be making this post since I AM cranky, but... I want to. And it's my journal. So... nyah ( Read more... )