Another thing I have recently been thinking about is the moral dilemma I myself have about whether a story or a poem--or even a single line, or metaphor--should make (perfect, clear-cut) sense or not, or whether its beauty and integrity (i.e. staying true to the form it arrived into the poet's brain in) are more important ( Read more... )

So I was updating my annotations posts and this damned disclaimer became so long and ranty that it no longer fit the tone of the first post, which was meant to be informative in general. But because there's so much wank around about this kind of thing--all Western interest and interaction with non-Western cultures being branded as automatically ( Read more... )

Here's something I posted as a series of three comments on Ao3's celebration post of them having broken the THREE MILLION fanwork mark. Fucking hell, you guys ( Read more... )

So, there was a really good question on OC Question Of The Day about what inspired your OCs. And I went and wrote a whole damn essay about Laura, so I thought I'd crosspost it here as well, especially as mine was just a reply to an original post; it deserves a post of its own.

So, here we go. Slightly revised and updated.

Laura Erika Barring, of ( Read more... )

Was reminded of this meme. Apparently you can discuss both your writing techniques or obscure fic trivia. But this... became pretty much a ten-point manifesto of what my perspective on writing (and life, the universe, and everything) is ( Read more... )

There should be a proper term (preferably one of abuse) for that specific type of bitch who wrinkles her nose at hearing another woman is at all sexual. Beyond "slut-shamer" (clumsy) or just "prissy frigid bitch" (too many words). And before some poor oppressed whiny asexual starts shrieking for attention again and asking me to have their world ( Read more... )

I suddenly realised why I've never really "got" shipwars. Or, I mean, why I've never wanted to be involved in one. (I've been accused of ship hate in terms of a certain very popular ship which shall go unnamed, but it's always been about me being put off by the characters being dicks rather than anything else; it's never really been the ship itself ( Read more... )

I just thought I'd make a post explaining some of the motivations behind my extremely explicit photomanips (which I know hardly any other female fanartist makes--nearly all photomanips I've seen have been softcore and very romantic) and also the extremely explicit, porn movie-raunchy, lengthy sex scenes in my fics. I've talked about these things a ( Read more... )

What went on in my head during a typical wank one day. Inspired by having been reading Anaïs's diaries and her descriptions of her own desire and her affairs and her fantasies and her experiences. I just had to get it out, because if she can write about it, there's no reason I shouldn't. So, here we go. TMI, kinks and Connies happen, as you were ( Read more... )

I was just discussing the importance of talking about female desire with pallanwen earlier today. Because of the usual reasons of female desire being suppressed, shamed, not having a language yet what with certain terms being either corny or missing altogether, female desire being laden with baggage whether it's straight or gay or introverted or directed ( Read more... )