So I was all about to write an LJ post about the Eleventh Doctor's rather charming sexual ineptitude and childish "ew" response to intimacy of the physical variety, and how I love it. And then I thought "I bet this is an unpopular opinion in fandom because we're supposed to be striving toward everyone being totally at ease with and open about all
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I think that's what all of the good writers or our time (moral fiction used to sell quite well, so I can't speak for other time periods) really want. But sometimes I think people really just go around in their Internet boat casting a huge net so that they can scrape up everyone who has some hint of privilege or -ism in their writing, and then gleefully scoop them up, gut them, can them, and feel good about having fought the Great Evil (and thus have permission to do nothing about real problems in the world that would require real action).
I used "lame" in a Livejournal post. Of course it is worth your time berating me in a book-length comment instead of helping out at a soup kitchen or, I don't know, a disability access centre.
And then some former 80s synth pop artists developed an obsession with the Soviet Union after it collapsed...
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FUCKING YES.
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Anyway, I haven't been able to write in months, so everyone's being spared.
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YES.
(I sure as fuck know I have never even thought about writing anything that's point was a moral or a lesson. I wouldn't know where to start. Perhaps by writing some characters who actually have something approaching normal morals, but then, where's the fun?).
And also yes to everything else. Not surprisingly I prefer the hell out of sarcasm and satire and hyperbole and whatnot to earnest, heartfelt declarations too. FUNNY THAT.
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I just. What. This is ... interaction! Don't TELL people about your hurt feelings because they'll just use that against you! STOP BEING SO TRUSTING, YOU IDIOTS.
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... That wasn't quite how I thought of it, but well yes. That too. IT HURTS? WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT IT THEN? Oh some people have healthy coping mechanisms okay then
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People and their sanity and their healthy coping mechanisms and their therapists, bah.
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:)
and for the record, i don't care why you write, or what your goal is - whether it's moral or not, i'm just really fucking glad you do.
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