Unexpected!rantings.
Wrote today. Wrote and wrote. Also watched Heroes and applauded the return of sexy!Mohinder. GTFO lizard skin.
GEEZ. Last season we were all panting for Mohinder to lose the shirt! This season he was unexpectedly naked (albeit covered in craft store cocoon web)! Also, if Claire (or Peter) were to die I would do the happiest happy dance ever. But I know this will never happen. Only the awesome characters stay dead/invisible on Heroes. DL? Claude? I'm talking about you. And Adam, so far.
Aughhh the NaNo site is down whyyyyy I cannot show off how much awesome work I got done today.
Anyway, here.
41079 / 50000 words. 82% done!
Brown like the feathers of a soon-to-be-eaten turkey. As for me, I'll take a piggy any day. Om nom nom ham.
suchcuriousity drew me the cutest picture ever of small boy!Richmond and small boy!Julian in a bubble bath playing with a rubber ducky. And then I spoke to someone who called gaydom "being liberal." Hmm...
I tend to be attracted to boys thus far in my life and I don't actually expect that to change, but I just don't understand why anybody would try to keep two people who are in love from being together and having the same rights just because they have matching junk. Mostly because it's not hurting them, now is it? but also because it's so ridiculous! And I love Jesus, yes I do, but I just don't see why God would want to deny people happiness just because their particular brand of happiness comes from being with someone of the same gender. This is the only "political issue" that I'm taking a stand on, you guys, because I don't understand WHY it's an issue of politics or religion. It's a personal choice. There's no reason that anybody else should have any say in your life and the person/people who make it better.
As Keith Olbermann said: Why does this matter to you??
(I'm not lashing out at any person in particular--not even at my friend with the vastly different views than mine--but these are thoughts that I've been having for quite some time. If I'm lashing out at anyone, it's the entire messed-up world. Maybe Richmond and Julian have crept into my brain, but for some reason I'm very protective of them [yes I know they're figments STFU I love them] and of anyone who reminds me of them.)
I've definitely been a lot slashier since I started writing this "novel" (working title The Twin Sunsets), but I think it all started with the Mighty Boosh. Party. "You've opened the door. To a whole new kingdom of gaydom! I'm a gay! I'm a massive gayist!" Because that moment felt SO RIGHT to me. It completely changed the way I was watching the show. I mean, Torchwood and Doctor Who, under the so-not-agenda'd guidance of RTD, had done a lot more initial mind-opening. Remember when the Rent movie came out in, like, 2005? I was a little bit terrified when Angel and Collins kissed. Now I'm reading Howince smut and writing a story that is FULL of subtext of a similar nature.
Conversation I had today, pointing to more ofsuchcuriousity 's beautiful artworkings.
Me: That one's Julian.
Friend 1: He's her brother!
Me: Right. And that's Richmond--
Friend 1: Her lover!
Me: Not... HER lover...
Friend 2: They're GAY??
Me: *gets all dodgy* Um... I don't... I don't call them gay... they're in love. That's all.
And that's how I am. I don't know if, without each other, Richmond or Julian would have been interested in girls. They don't know either. And in real life I don't think that I would ever date a girl because my parents would stab me in the face with forks (or just be very. disappointed.) but I don't think it's *wrong* to do so. (I've also never been attracted to a girl like that... Virginie Ledoyen's portrayal of Cosette notwithstanding.) And maybe it's sappy for me to say "It's lurrrrve and you can't help who you fall in lurrrrvvve with," but that's seriously the way I feel about it.
The question my friend brought up, her justification behind thinking that it's wrong, is that couples with the same junk can't "procreate." My reaction: "...and?" Is marriage an tool for creating children or an opportunity to always be with the person who makes you the happiest? Anyway, if a couple who couldn't have children thought they wanted to raise some, to bring a family into the world and all that, they can adopt. Duh. There are tons of other options out there as well.
I dunno. I was grossed out when Sylar and Elle OMGWTFKISSED on Heroes today. Sylar = property of Mohinder and Elle and Claire cannot deny their love. How much have I changed in just three years? I've come full circle--suddenly it's a heterosexual kiss that weirds me out.
Okay, let's say, just for kicks, that Richmond and Julian lived right now. They're in love. But what do these conservative Christians want them to do? Just ignore the way they feel and pretend to like a girl? Get married and have a terrible life and become a terrible father and raise messed-up kids? Or should they just be completely alone until they die? Why punish these poor people for something they can't control?
In a related note, I watched Einstein & Eddington today. I didn't expect to really like it too much, but I actually cried my eyes out over Tennant's Eddington's love story and the soldier and all that. Oh Tennant. It ripped at the scars I still have from Doomsday. Similar level of pain. But what a delightful little film it was!
GEEZ. Last season we were all panting for Mohinder to lose the shirt! This season he was unexpectedly naked (albeit covered in craft store cocoon web)! Also, if Claire (or Peter) were to die I would do the happiest happy dance ever. But I know this will never happen. Only the awesome characters stay dead/invisible on Heroes. DL? Claude? I'm talking about you. And Adam, so far.
Aughhh the NaNo site is down whyyyyy I cannot show off how much awesome work I got done today.
Anyway, here.
41079 / 50000 words. 82% done!
Brown like the feathers of a soon-to-be-eaten turkey. As for me, I'll take a piggy any day. Om nom nom ham.
suchcuriousity drew me the cutest picture ever of small boy!Richmond and small boy!Julian in a bubble bath playing with a rubber ducky. And then I spoke to someone who called gaydom "being liberal." Hmm...
I tend to be attracted to boys thus far in my life and I don't actually expect that to change, but I just don't understand why anybody would try to keep two people who are in love from being together and having the same rights just because they have matching junk. Mostly because it's not hurting them, now is it? but also because it's so ridiculous! And I love Jesus, yes I do, but I just don't see why God would want to deny people happiness just because their particular brand of happiness comes from being with someone of the same gender. This is the only "political issue" that I'm taking a stand on, you guys, because I don't understand WHY it's an issue of politics or religion. It's a personal choice. There's no reason that anybody else should have any say in your life and the person/people who make it better.
As Keith Olbermann said: Why does this matter to you??
(I'm not lashing out at any person in particular--not even at my friend with the vastly different views than mine--but these are thoughts that I've been having for quite some time. If I'm lashing out at anyone, it's the entire messed-up world. Maybe Richmond and Julian have crept into my brain, but for some reason I'm very protective of them [yes I know they're figments STFU I love them] and of anyone who reminds me of them.)
I've definitely been a lot slashier since I started writing this "novel" (working title The Twin Sunsets), but I think it all started with the Mighty Boosh. Party. "You've opened the door. To a whole new kingdom of gaydom! I'm a gay! I'm a massive gayist!" Because that moment felt SO RIGHT to me. It completely changed the way I was watching the show. I mean, Torchwood and Doctor Who, under the so-not-agenda'd guidance of RTD, had done a lot more initial mind-opening. Remember when the Rent movie came out in, like, 2005? I was a little bit terrified when Angel and Collins kissed. Now I'm reading Howince smut and writing a story that is FULL of subtext of a similar nature.
Conversation I had today, pointing to more ofsuchcuriousity 's beautiful artworkings.
Me: That one's Julian.
Friend 1: He's her brother!
Me: Right. And that's Richmond--
Friend 1: Her lover!
Me: Not... HER lover...
Friend 2: They're GAY??
Me: *gets all dodgy* Um... I don't... I don't call them gay... they're in love. That's all.
And that's how I am. I don't know if, without each other, Richmond or Julian would have been interested in girls. They don't know either. And in real life I don't think that I would ever date a girl because my parents would stab me in the face with forks (or just be very. disappointed.) but I don't think it's *wrong* to do so. (I've also never been attracted to a girl like that... Virginie Ledoyen's portrayal of Cosette notwithstanding.) And maybe it's sappy for me to say "It's lurrrrve and you can't help who you fall in lurrrrvvve with," but that's seriously the way I feel about it.
The question my friend brought up, her justification behind thinking that it's wrong, is that couples with the same junk can't "procreate." My reaction: "...and?" Is marriage an tool for creating children or an opportunity to always be with the person who makes you the happiest? Anyway, if a couple who couldn't have children thought they wanted to raise some, to bring a family into the world and all that, they can adopt. Duh. There are tons of other options out there as well.
I dunno. I was grossed out when Sylar and Elle OMGWTFKISSED on Heroes today. Sylar = property of Mohinder and Elle and Claire cannot deny their love. How much have I changed in just three years? I've come full circle--suddenly it's a heterosexual kiss that weirds me out.
Okay, let's say, just for kicks, that Richmond and Julian lived right now. They're in love. But what do these conservative Christians want them to do? Just ignore the way they feel and pretend to like a girl? Get married and have a terrible life and become a terrible father and raise messed-up kids? Or should they just be completely alone until they die? Why punish these poor people for something they can't control?
In a related note, I watched Einstein & Eddington today. I didn't expect to really like it too much, but I actually cried my eyes out over Tennant's Eddington's love story and the soldier and all that. Oh Tennant. It ripped at the scars I still have from Doomsday. Similar level of pain. But what a delightful little film it was!