Random Things on a Saturday

[jbs_teeth]

1) I was reading an article on animal sentience in an old (March 2008) issue of National Geographic, and I still find it extraordinary that science needs to be convinced of this. Observation alone is not science -- I understand that -- and proof is something different altogether, as is anthropomorphising. BUT.

Well, of course, "but." I know Petey

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[kalichan]

What if I want to respond? *g*

And even though it was fun and smart and interesting, I'd look around at a lot of the people who were involved, and I thought: I don't want to be like that. Socially ill-adjusted and without a well-balanced life. As oftentimes they were.I so feel you. Although I've never been to a con. But until fairly recently, fandom is something I enjoyed in isolation. I had real life friends for social interaction. The internets, and fandom were a solitary thing. I was a professional lurker, one could say, after discovering online fandom towards the end of college. Stories have always been my favorite thing, but it was always a solitary activity, reading. TW is the first fandom where I've actually ever started to have conversations with people. (It's actually really neat -- c.f. this conversation! -- I wonder what I've been missing all this time. Then I think about the tin-hats and the crazies, and wonder if I've mostly just dodged bullets

[jbs_teeth]

I have no logical explanation for this Torchwood thing, and I wish to hell I did. Partially, a definite crux of events with the job hoopla and all the disposable time; though, I have no idea why exactly I was so drawn into the Torchwood fandom rather than "Doctor Who." I suppose because Torchwood was more sophisticated, maturity-wise.

And then there are those teeth... I admit it, if The Rock had a fandom, I might be in it. (Ok, ok, having said that, I'm sure there *is* a Rock fandom, and I probably wouldn't be caught dead in it.) I'm a sucker for an amazing pair of teeth.

Strangely, I never contemplated the joys of slash before, and I think part of the fascination with Torchwood is that it's really the first time I've been that I've been drawn into the emotional relationship of a M/M romance, and I'm kind of fascinated by it.

I think this fanfiction is the easiest, most satisfying way exploring that sort of story without too much of the more political GLBT issues taking focus away.

I really feel fan-poetry is mostly an abomination