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[dark_dreymer]

Got around to reading Mockingjay. It's certainly structured differently than the first two books in the series but I enjoyed it, a bit more than Catching Fire but I have to agree with the general consensus that Hunger Games is the superior book of the trilogy.

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[tawg]

I find the fetishisation of gender and sexual minorities in fanfic really interesting (feel free to take that as a hint to write a post on it :p). Sometimes it seems like "I just want to write a happy story with gsm characters so there is nothing awful-yet-accurate happening here and it's just fluff where everyone can be out and proud and there are smiles all around", which I get and enjoy indulging in myself. For example, it's really nice to read a Kurt fic where he's not dealing with bullying. But other times it really seems like there's this... gsm lifestyle bubble and these characters move perfectly through their lives without any hitches or snags and it just pulls me out of the story because it gets so unbelievable.

As for the fights with Mark... ugh. I went to uni with some people like him. Learning to walk away and doing something of value with my time was a hard lesson to learn, but an ultimately valuable one. And I'm with you on Glee, sadly. I miss all my fellow Winnners, but try as I might I just cbf with season three :(

[dark_dreymer]

I think that wanting to project their own identity onto a world they enjoy is what guides minorities into producing fanworks in the first place, so I certainly don't have a problem with fluffy 'Out and proud, no consequences' fic. It's more the inaccurate representation often put out by the (usually) hetero-females in fandom that grates on me, heteronormativity being the big one. Maybe I will write an entry on this, it might help me vent.

I think it's a problem with the human brain, we're hard-wired from years of evolution to fight for survival and so people enter a debate looking at it as a battle, where to admit being proven wrong on an issue is to concede ground and risk defeat, so when they realise they're wrong they simply turn to the next point in the arsenal of their opinion.

I really, really tried but S3 was bad for my mood. The newest rule in the Winncast Drinking Game was "Drink every time Dreymer says 'Fuck Glee!'"