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karaokegal

Yuletide Reveal Post

Jan 10, 2013 14:14

I had a pretty quiet yuletide this year, where I managed to write two stories that fulfilled long-standing requests, one that was some of the most out-there crack I've ever written and one to a slightly controversial request that I'm extremely happy with ( Read more... )

warehouse 13, qi, yuletide, fanfic, pimping, rpf

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joanne_c January 11 2013, 01:06:47 UTC

What I'm curious about is why that specific prompt was the one that caused all the drama. It was not the only prompt asking for a gay man to have sex with a woman, after all, and yet for the story I wrote with a similar situation, not a peep of negative attention (not that I want it, mind you, I'm just puzzled that no one even looked twice). Perhaps it's fandom knowledge as well, but even so.

karaokegal January 11 2013, 01:46:29 UTC

I think it MIGHT be that the time-frame was extended this year, which made it nice to have more writing time, people also had a LOT of time to peruse the letters and go looking for things to get pissed off about. I mean the griping about that request started before assignments even went out. That's one reason I had qualms about the letters being up so early.

I thought there might be some quibbles with my Harry Bright characterization along similar lines. In the movie, he says that Donna was "the only woman I ever loved," and it's supposed to be very meaningful, since it's also part of the "blink and you'll miss-it" coming out. But I chose to NOT to interpret it as her being the only woman he ever slept with. My Harry leans toward men, is still bisexual, as far as I'm concerned.

joanne_c January 12 2013, 11:26:48 UTC

That's true and I suppose FPF is more likely to get slated than RPF for that as well, if only because people seem very attached to canon gay characters in a different way.

I haven't read the story but I always thought he must have had sex with more than one woman, if only because of the time (ish) and just in general. I'd say he was still gay for all intents and purposes, though, that doesn't mean he couldn't have slept with a woman and liked it. Of course, fandom seems not to recognise this as an option, while quite often allowing the opposite (a straight or mostly straight man sleeping with a man and liking it).

But I could go on for several comments about a lot of fandom's hypocrisy.

On a happier note, Burn Gorman is going to be on Revenge. Let's hope HIS US mainstream debut is a more palatable character than Marc Warren's on The Good Wife. Not that it would be hard...

karaokegal January 12 2013, 17:18:24 UTC

So much EPIC FAIL on The Good Wife. TGW has managed to create characters who are patently "eeeevil" yet still able to be charming or at least compelling, such as Colin Sweeney, and Mark Warren has been able to take slimy, nearly repulsive characters and imbue them with charm, as he did in State of Play, so the fact that there was pretty much not a single charming, funny, believable moment for Nick either in the writing OR the acting is just a complete mystery. If only because, even if Kalinda was meant to me a masochist of Pauline Reage porportions, there still needs to be a Sir Stephen level of charisma involved in the abuser, which was so sorely lacking here as to render every moment of the plot incomprehensible. (Yeah, I've got feels on the matter ( ... )