One of us! One of us!

[lolaraincoat]

Well, my brother's wedding was just unspeakably depressing, so let us not speak of it. Heteronormativity gives me an itchy rash, but you knew that. Let us -- and by us I mean me -- instead give thanks to those who cheered me up after, in 24 hours in the City That Cheers Me Up: bowdlerized, cubby66, stillwell, Matty O., Amanda, twotoedsloth and idlerat most of all. I love you and miss you

Comments

[tekalynn]

It made me so sad to read that Alice Sheldon thought she didn't have anything to contribute to a correspondence/conversation as Alice, only as Tip.

Tip must have been an absolute *stitch* to correspond with.

[lolaraincoat]

Definitely yes, sad. But also it was such an interesting analogy with what some fen do on the web, splitting off their fannish personae from RL identities.

[mincot]

I'll have to hunt for that -- the conversations must have been amazing.

And *snicker* I knew there was a reason I liked Luise White!!!!!!

[lolaraincoat]

Oh yes, the bio is seriously worth reading, although not a great book.

[jcalanthe]

I just love that you use words like heteronormativity. There's not enough people like that in my world these days. I send my sympathies for your suffering - we're having another spate of weddings this summer, and I fear the heteronormativity already.

The story B tells to this day is that I used the word heteropatriarchy the first time I met her mom (years before we started dating). In retrospective, it's hysterical (all the more so because it made her mom assume I was a lesbian (that plus my short hair ;), so B went on to explain about my boyfriend, blowing her mom's mind a second time), but at the time I was just that earnest that I didn't pause to consider my audience.

I miss you when I'm not on lj much.

That written "symposium" sounds really interesting actually, given the people involved. Even though you're right, a lot of the same ideas can be found online these days. I'll have to track down the biography (or is it published in another form?).

[lolaraincoat]

I miss you too!

There's been an vast upwelling of usage of the word heteronormativity, I've noticed, in the context of discussion of the new Potter book.

And yes, I've been trying to track down that "symposium," which apparently was reprinted in some slightly more formal way than a low-circulation fanzine. But the book's citations and bibliography are -- here's a real historians' putdown -- vague and disorganized, so I don't have much to go on.

[jcalanthe]

You know, that is a big upside of the Epilogue of Heteronormativity capping off the Series of Heteronormativity, I get to see all sorts of people using that word. :) & I say that generally liking the series.

Vague and disorganized, say it isn't so! I'll be crossing my fingers you can find it anyway.

[goseaward]

Hey, um--so we're supposed to do a Dungeons thing tonight, right? I, er, seem to lack your email address though, and I'm at work so I can only check my school account. Still--if you wanted to post something that'd be fine, I'll just check the comm occasionally, or you could post to the authcomm to discuss first, or go stalking me on the 'Net for my email. :D Or something.

[lolaraincoat]

Augh! I am SO SORRY! I totally forgot! And now it's really late! But I'll throw something up on the comm now just in case.

[goseaward]

(Um, with the right journal this time...)

It's no problem. :) I almost forgot to post for my DE, so...

Um, except I'm falling asleep, so I'm gonna cut it off at 11, if you don't mind...

[lolaraincoat]

That's cool. If we can get as far as Charlie getting a chance to complain that Elle started acting strange recently, that would be good but not necessary.

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[elphaba_of_oz]

Lola, I'm looking for a fanfic and I can't seem to find it. I'm pretty sure I read it in the first place because you recommended it. It might have been by bethbethbeth but I can't find it in her stuff.

It's Harry and Petunia talking after the war, while the light turns funny colrs, as things start to shut down. Harry is grilling her for information about his mother. SHe is upset at what is happening. Her family is indoors, unaware, but she has a wee bit of magic in her so she knows what is going on.

I think the last word of the story is "Green." Does that ring a bell? Do you know where I can find this story?

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[lolaraincoat]

No clue. Huh. Sounds like a good one, though. Did you check any of the story-finder-type comms?

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[elphaba_of_oz]

Checked a few. Don't have time to devote to this now. Want to find the story BEFORE I read book 7. Not a big deal though.