china_shop and I have been cogitating on porn (or in our fiendish attempt to discuss this while at work... prawn), and in particular why we think that fanfic isn't usually porn. Wooo for a definitive statement! That I now move carefully away from, shaking my head sadly at its pretension ( Read more... )

This fabulous post from the-shoshanna gives some of the history of slash fandom and our sexual burgeoning. One aspect in particular got me all thinky in the brain pan:

a friend of mine once remarked that one of the reasons she liked slash was that in a relationship composed of two men, at least one man had to be doing the emotional work of relationship ( Read more... )

Yes. I am working from home. Why do you ask?

This is the coolest thing... As we all know, the reason gay marriage is an evil evil thing is that gay people can't have children AND PROCREATION IS THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE GET MARRIED. For yay, verily, we are but breeding units in the service of God ( Read more... )

cesperanza has a fabulous post about whether slash writers emasculate men when they write them.

Virginia Woolf talks, in "A Room of One's Own", about the difference between women in reality (oppressed, uneducated, and "flung about the room") and women in [male-written] fiction, where they are often glamorous, desirable, and powerful--even wickedly powerful ( Read more... )

This post by fairestcat got me thinking about being out in a fannish context ( Read more... )

Ok... I'm going to try posting this again... as LJ has apparently eaten it off the flist ( Read more... )

So "an artist provocateur" is setting up a new boyband in the UK. The difference with this one is that it's made up of four refugees (Nigerian, Vietnamese, Albanian and Iraqi). The guy behind 'Fame Asylum' calls himself a "one-man subversive think-tank dedicated to the implementation of innovative strategies to undermine accepted belief systems ( Read more... )

Ok... fab article on RPS. Interesting, valid and beautifully argued here.

Reinforces to me yet again about my crushing on fictional characters...

So... altering the meme slightly 10 couples I'd totally do (woo threesomes)... given that I crush on interaction between couples more than individual characters. ( Here's the thang. )

So. Here I am. About as queer a girl as they come. Gold card femme dyke*. Recently wed to my long term girlpartner. And I have a recent crush on a boybander. From nsync. Life is pretty strange. ( cut for weirdly confessional stuff. )