today's memes!

[elizabeth_hoot]

Adding another (non-serial!) one, because, uh, drabble bargains are sacred, and I don't very many will take me up on it anyway.

Drabble meme

Every person who wants to gets to request a drabble from me. In return, you have to post this in your journal and write a drabble for me.

Post all fandoms you're willing to write for. Your friends can pick a

Comments

[anonymous]

Darcy is wonderful. I mean Lizzie is a great character and I always cheered at her spirit but I could read about Darcy alone whereas I would not necessarily care reading about Lizzie if she never met Darcy. Now I have to go off and wonder why that is.
Hmmmm.

[elizabeth_hoot]

That's pretty much how it is for me. Elizabeth is brilliant, but she interests me more in conjunction with other people than by herself, while Darcy is fascinating in his own right. I think it's partly because Elizabeth's personality is presented pretty immediately and straightforwardly - we don't spend much of the book trying to figure out what she's really like, we know from the first few pages. Darcy, on the other hand - !

[elizabeth_hoot]

LOL, I'm still vague about the Trade Federation myself. And all the politics with "you shouldn't criticize it, it's for eight-year-olds" is a bit bewildering. I do like Palpatine as a foil to Yoda and the Force-lightning (I mean, Force-lightning), but he's so incredibly stupid the rest.

Just about every time Luke's about to lose it, the Emperor is like "give in to your hatred!" and Luke promptly steps back. I know every moment can be a teaching moment, but - ! Also, I just don't like him ... being so present throughout ROTJ, I guess, because it doesn't tell us anything very important, uses up time, and I think makes him much less menacing than he was as a kind of distant Sauron-y figure in ESB.

[phyloxena]

Drabble request! Faramir the judge, pre-ROTK. Anything from quarrel between other children to substituting for Denethor (if you can make it credible - I know you can).

[elizabeth_hoot]

It's up!

Re: trigger warning for suicidal thoughts

[elizabeth_hoot]

Thank you! I can't say I'm glad it's not just me, but - do you remember that AVEN poll where like 70% of the respondents had considered suicide at some point, and so many people were all *shockface*? I don't think it's surprising, at all.

And I keep hearing people argue "the conservative religious patriarchy wants women/minorities/gays/lesbians/etc to be asexual" and no, silent and celibate and ashamed is not what asexual means. And I'm pretty sure my experience of the queer community is nothing special, either.

Re: trigger warning for suicidal thoughts

[elizabeth_hoot]

I grew up thinking I was deficient, broken, a willful sinner, and apparently literally incapable of basic human feeling.

This, exactly. And from the stories I've heard, this is very, very common for asexuals - I'm guessing the "willful sinner" part may be specific to conservative upbringings, but otherwise.

Most of the religious right I'm aware of doesn't have much knowledge of asexuality, so I'm not sure if they're as uncomfortable. But they tend to lump all the "people not pair-bonding properly of their own volition" into one big bag of sinners - which yes, I suspect is tightly linked to homophobia.

I also agree that it's not all sexism, either, because - at least in my(...ish) church - it actually hits men harder. Men are supposed to do the choosing and women get chosen, so if a man is so selfish and wicked as to not choose, he's defying the, eh, established order much more obviously than a woman, who will generally be erased assumed to be just that undesirable. A woman who actually vocalized her choice, otoh, would be much much

[chameleon_irony]

Your meta is fascinating. I can't stop reading even though we disagree on a lot of things.

in the ... um, culture that I grew up in, sexuality could neatly be divided into two groups: straight (good) and not-straight (abomination before God).

It was the same in the culture/family where I was raised. I'm not asexual, but I'm not cisgendered and straight either, and it was like what I was didn't exist. You have my sympathy.

I think Palpatine is the main character of the PT

Anakin is the official main character, but in reality... yeah. But it's funny that for you it's a reason to dislike the prequels while for me, it's why I like them (yes, despite the cringeworthy 'romance'). I do like the spiritual aspect and the relationships in the OT, but the scheming, the mind games, and the dramatic irony are so entertaining they almost make the OT seem boring in comparison. Of course, it's like comparing apples and oranges - the two trilogies are of completely different genres and a fair comparison is impossible.

[elizabeth_hoot]

Oh wow, thanks. I'm very flattered! I read yours all the time too. Even though we disagree on a lot of things. :P

It was the same in the culture/family where I was raised. I'm not asexual, but I'm not cisgendered and straight either, and it was like what I was didn't exist. You have my sympathy.

Thanks. I'm pretty sure I'm the only agnostic deist Mormon asexual in the world, but it's become apparent that the experience was by no means particular to me. There's erasure of everything non-normative, I think, and it happens all over.

Anakin is the official main character, but in reality... yeah.

Right. To this day, I have no idea who the main character of TPM was (Qui-Gon??), but obviously looking at the saga overall, it's got to be Anakin. But Palpatine drives everything in the PT.

But it's funny that for you it's a reason to dislike the prequels while for me, it's why I like them (yes, despite the cringeworthy 'romance').

Right - for me it's a reason to dislike them as prequels to the original trilogy; taking them by themselves,

[chameleon_irony]

I noticed. My Guests is a nifty feature. :P

[elizabeth_hoot]

Ahahahaha, yes. I was just about to switch wholly over to dreamwidth, too!