Okay, I realize I've been away from the due South fandom for a while, but what the hell is going on? We got wankified? Yeesh.

I don't know staranise, and judging from her LJ post, I wouldn't want to know her. But her take on cesperanza's Canadian Shack 10th Anniversary Challenge is pretty damn off-base, and it's gotten me all angered up.

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belmanoir's excellent post on writing sex for ds_workshop brought up an interesting point, one that I've been mulling over for the past few days. In the comments to Bel's post, china_shop linked to resonant8's Smut Rants, and one entry in particular caught my eye. Resonant was writing about her smut pet peeves and said:

"A first-time story is a particular kind of pleasure. A ( Read more... )

I'd put this post together before all the teaching-related meltdowns sent me scurrying into seclusion. I'm going to spam later tonight with more fannish content, and I'm just now trying to get caught up on emails and comments. Sorry for the delay on this. It's been the very definition of a shitty week.Well, dS Match is at an end, and Team Angst ( Read more... )

Well, I just watched a really fucking terrible episode of House. The humour/snark on that show cuts both ways - sometimes what comes out of House's mouth surprises a laugh out of me, and sometimes I like it because it's provocative and funny and makes me reconsider some of my own assumptions/prejudices. But tonight's episode was insulting; it wasn' ( Read more... )

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I an idea early this morning about writing meta on the significance of uniforms/articles of clothing in dS. I know someone has already posted about the Magic Stetson and how Fraser never gets injured whilst wearing it, and I'm fairly certain there's been commentary about the uniform switcheroo that occurs several times throughout the series (both ( Read more... )