This accidentally turned into five things, oops
I washed my hair this morning, and instead of immediately braiding it/tying it back, or going to bed, like I usually do, I decided to just let it dry free.
It turns out I have curly hair now. Since when? And it's a nice-looking kind of curly too, not *foom* or the limp waves that used to be my two options.
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Today![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stultiloquentia linked to a new fic by lettered called The Chuck Writes Story, which is pretty much an account of the last years of SPN from the perspective of a wank report.
It's kind of brilliant. I mean, yes, I am a sucker for any fic that includes wank reports and lj names, but this one ties up so much stuff with reality and story and fan ethics and writing ethics and fan/creator interaction and IDEK, and it is way more than the typical BNF-AU fic. If you're at all interested in fandom-as-a-fandom, you should totally read this fic.
(also it teaches us that not leaving feedback or recc'ing things can lead to the end of the world, trufax, because we could be commenting on angels, unawares.)
...and this on the same day that uk_lolitics fandom had a matching-tie-colors-shipping incident that leapfrogged from the community to twitter to the real people and back, with a sidenote on purple socks. :P (Still the only rpf fandom where they actually send sekrit messages by color-coding their ties.)
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I've actually gotten way behind on following the lolitics meme and haven't worked on any fic in ages, but I still read the communities. And I thought it might be interesting to list the currently running shows I'm following fannishly (as in, every week as soon as new episodes come out):
Quite Interesting (either youtube or torrents)
Have I Got News For You? (either youtube or torrents)
Would I Lie To You? (youtube)
Mock the Week (youtube)
8 Out of 10 Cats (youtube)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (youtube)
The Bugle (by using a backdoor into the iTunes account + converting from m4a. PS: Chris is awesome, fuck John and Andy)
The News Quiz (on BBC Radio 4 webcast)
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (the WWDTM website or on actual radio, if I remember)
...yes, I have a problem. But so does British media apparently, so there. Anyway I thought about posting this because there seems to be a new current-events satire show from the BBC: Tonight, hosted by Rory Bremner. I listened to the first episode of it on the BBC iPlayer the other day, and perhaps the most relevant thing about it is that Andy Zaltzman is their political correspondent. Hooray for Andy getting a real job!And why didn't I hear about this on the Bugle?
It's a lot like The Now Show, though. They better not be canceling the Now Show.
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Otherwise fannishly: I guess I'm all caught up on Dresden Files now. The anon meme seems to have slowed down a lot while I was away. D: Also wow the Marcone bias is apparent when you read a bunch of it all in one go like that. I have declared a moratorium on posting anything Marcone-related there for awhile. Even if I do have theories.
(Am I the only one who came out of Ghost Stories suspecting Childs is an agent of the Fomor and Marcone isn't really in Rome? No? Just me then?)
It's a good thing I already knew from careful experiment that anything non-Marcone-related gets about 1/10th the feedback of anything else on the meme, or I'd be feeling kind of discouraged right now. :P
In completely unrelated news, can I just sing out my love for a certain kind of fic featuring a certain kind of pairing? That is to say:
Teacher/Student fics;
Where the teacher is male and the student is female;
And they were teaching in a time of war, such that the student never really had a time when she was safe or innocent or didn't know how to kill;
And the war, and the teaching, are over now;
And the student has gone off, and learned things from other people, and earned her own way, and become awesome;
And she comes back and is completely a match for her teacher in any way;
And his only possible reaction to this is 'guh';
And they develop a fully equal relationship that's aware of the lingering power issues and consciously works with them and they communicate, possibly because whenever he screws up she is capable and willing to smack him down;
And if either of them ends up staying at home with the kids, it's totally him (after all he's the one in a caring profession.)
There are many reasons why I like this storyline, obviously. Some of them involve my personal history with teachers and teaching. Some of them involve ways that the storyline hits things I like anyway: like canon female characters who go off and become awesome, and the male characters acknowledge that they are now awesome; and relationships where the equality, and the inherent issues with it, are openly acknowledged.
I think one thing I like about it is that a romance traditionally needs some kind of impediment to the relationship happening: in slash it's often, at least partly, external: I can't date another guy/girl!, which I think is one of the reasons slash romances go down easy. I often get bored/frustrated with the ones where it's all internal, where it's all about the characters not talking to each other or angsting endlessly or passing around the idiot ball or whatever, especially with characters where I don't see that as IC. But a lot of the other external obstacles either get awfully contrived, or are too much of an obstacle and take over the story. That teacher/student formula, for me at least, is just enough of an obstacle that it's believable to me that it would make the story interesting, but not enough of one that it needs too much set-up or makes me lose sympathy for the characters.
Anyway which is just to say: Where is all the Harry/Molly fic? I know why nobody wants it to be canon - nobody can trust Butcher to write Harry/Molly in a way that doesn't set off everybody's squick meters and make us want to destroy innocent bookbindings - but as a fanfic ship it is perfectly set up to fit that formula. And I know I'm not the only one who likes that formula! Because I've already read ALL the Snape/Hermione fic and ALL the Kakashi/Sakura fic (And SOME of the Spock/Uhura fic, but a lot of it just ignores the teacher/student aspects. Sadly.)
Somebody even requested pretty much exactly this on the DF meme a few weeks back (and it wasn't me!)
Of course it didn't have any Marcone in it so nobody on the meme took notice of it. But still. (Maybe I should go request Harry/Molly/Marcone.)
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PS: I am going AFK for a five-day weekend starting tomorrow. Enjoy the internets without me!
It turns out I have curly hair now. Since when? And it's a nice-looking kind of curly too, not *foom* or the limp waves that used to be my two options.
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Today
stultiloquentia linked to a new fic by lettered called The Chuck Writes Story, which is pretty much an account of the last years of SPN from the perspective of a wank report.It's kind of brilliant. I mean, yes, I am a sucker for any fic that includes wank reports and lj names, but this one ties up so much stuff with reality and story and fan ethics and writing ethics and fan/creator interaction and IDEK, and it is way more than the typical BNF-AU fic. If you're at all interested in fandom-as-a-fandom, you should totally read this fic.
(also it teaches us that not leaving feedback or recc'ing things can lead to the end of the world, trufax, because we could be commenting on angels, unawares.)
...and this on the same day that uk_lolitics fandom had a matching-tie-colors-shipping incident that leapfrogged from the community to twitter to the real people and back, with a sidenote on purple socks. :P (Still the only rpf fandom where they actually send sekrit messages by color-coding their ties.)
***
I've actually gotten way behind on following the lolitics meme and haven't worked on any fic in ages, but I still read the communities. And I thought it might be interesting to list the currently running shows I'm following fannishly (as in, every week as soon as new episodes come out):
Quite Interesting (either youtube or torrents)
Have I Got News For You? (either youtube or torrents)
Would I Lie To You? (youtube)
Mock the Week (youtube)
8 Out of 10 Cats (youtube)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (youtube)
The Bugle (by using a backdoor into the iTunes account + converting from m4a. PS: Chris is awesome, fuck John and Andy)
The News Quiz (on BBC Radio 4 webcast)
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (the WWDTM website or on actual radio, if I remember)
...yes, I have a problem. But so does British media apparently, so there. Anyway I thought about posting this because there seems to be a new current-events satire show from the BBC: Tonight, hosted by Rory Bremner. I listened to the first episode of it on the BBC iPlayer the other day, and perhaps the most relevant thing about it is that Andy Zaltzman is their political correspondent. Hooray for Andy getting a real job!
It's a lot like The Now Show, though. They better not be canceling the Now Show.
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Otherwise fannishly: I guess I'm all caught up on Dresden Files now. The anon meme seems to have slowed down a lot while I was away. D: Also wow the Marcone bias is apparent when you read a bunch of it all in one go like that. I have declared a moratorium on posting anything Marcone-related there for awhile. Even if I do have theories.
(Am I the only one who came out of Ghost Stories suspecting Childs is an agent of the Fomor and Marcone isn't really in Rome? No? Just me then?)
It's a good thing I already knew from careful experiment that anything non-Marcone-related gets about 1/10th the feedback of anything else on the meme, or I'd be feeling kind of discouraged right now. :P
In completely unrelated news, can I just sing out my love for a certain kind of fic featuring a certain kind of pairing? That is to say:
Teacher/Student fics;
Where the teacher is male and the student is female;
And they were teaching in a time of war, such that the student never really had a time when she was safe or innocent or didn't know how to kill;
And the war, and the teaching, are over now;
And the student has gone off, and learned things from other people, and earned her own way, and become awesome;
And she comes back and is completely a match for her teacher in any way;
And his only possible reaction to this is 'guh';
And they develop a fully equal relationship that's aware of the lingering power issues and consciously works with them and they communicate, possibly because whenever he screws up she is capable and willing to smack him down;
And if either of them ends up staying at home with the kids, it's totally him (after all he's the one in a caring profession.)
There are many reasons why I like this storyline, obviously. Some of them involve my personal history with teachers and teaching. Some of them involve ways that the storyline hits things I like anyway: like canon female characters who go off and become awesome, and the male characters acknowledge that they are now awesome; and relationships where the equality, and the inherent issues with it, are openly acknowledged.
I think one thing I like about it is that a romance traditionally needs some kind of impediment to the relationship happening: in slash it's often, at least partly, external: I can't date another guy/girl!, which I think is one of the reasons slash romances go down easy. I often get bored/frustrated with the ones where it's all internal, where it's all about the characters not talking to each other or angsting endlessly or passing around the idiot ball or whatever, especially with characters where I don't see that as IC. But a lot of the other external obstacles either get awfully contrived, or are too much of an obstacle and take over the story. That teacher/student formula, for me at least, is just enough of an obstacle that it's believable to me that it would make the story interesting, but not enough of one that it needs too much set-up or makes me lose sympathy for the characters.
Anyway which is just to say: Where is all the Harry/Molly fic? I know why nobody wants it to be canon - nobody can trust Butcher to write Harry/Molly in a way that doesn't set off everybody's squick meters and make us want to destroy innocent bookbindings - but as a fanfic ship it is perfectly set up to fit that formula. And I know I'm not the only one who likes that formula! Because I've already read ALL the Snape/Hermione fic and ALL the Kakashi/Sakura fic (And SOME of the Spock/Uhura fic, but a lot of it just ignores the teacher/student aspects. Sadly.)
Somebody even requested pretty much exactly this on the DF meme a few weeks back (and it wasn't me!)
Of course it didn't have any Marcone in it so nobody on the meme took notice of it. But still. (Maybe I should go request Harry/Molly/Marcone.)
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PS: I am going AFK for a five-day weekend starting tomorrow. Enjoy the internets without me!
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Bwahahaha. Well put.
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