the rule of fives

[melannen]

1. I spent yesterday morning at work planning out a honeytrap involving scantily-clad dudes with really cut abs, and yesterday evening getting ridiculously annoyed about the way Cap II fandom will critique anything involving fan portrayals of Winter Soldier's past until nothing is left but tiny crumbs of spite, while collectively ignoring the fact that Captain America tortured a prisoner onscreen and this was presented as a-ok;

2. I got into the Master Naturalist class! Unfortunately they don't have enough other applicants so now I get to wait and see if the class is cancelled for lack of interest...

3. So RE: my question about archiving ficlets and notfic on AO3, grey_bard pointed out that if my main concern is cluttering up my profile/dash, I can set up a separate pseud for that stuff, and it'll still be connected to my account but won't get mixed in with my main account.

WHICH IS BRILLIANT. And actually I'd already set up a pseud account to go with the LJ name I used to use for that stuff, so hey. So I'm going to start posting old scrap fic to AO3 today, starting with the Tumblr stuff, and we'll see how far back it gets before I run out of steam. I am probably going to combine posting stuff to my main account as individual works if it's good enough, posting to the scrap pseud account as individual works, and posting to the scrap pseud account as not-fully-tagged chaptered works.

4. Also re: that entry, here is the list of fiction sources people rec'd. I haven't read any of them yet (I am still putting off finishing starting A Companion to Wolves) but it makes an excellent list so I share:

Lightspeed (which merged with Fantasy magazine in 2012)
Strange Horizons
Clarkesworld
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Expanded Horizons
Crossed Genres
Daily Science Fiction
Tor.com

If anybody has more suggestions I am still open! Doesn't have to be SFF either.

5. Oh speaking of wolves! So I did not get around to any of the stories in my poll but hey I posted that Doctor Who one so it counts as doing the fest this year. :P But there are seven other stories added to the collection this year and they all look good, with the usual assortment of mostly smallish fandoms!

(I decided that doing the Carol one would require more knowledge of Carol's canon than I have any plans to acquire, boo. I still kinda want to do a Frontier Wolf one, though, if I can get through canon review by the end of the month...)

Comments

[sophia_sol]

Frankly I hadn't even noticed the lack of conversation about Steve torturing a dude - but you're right. I recall that back when the movie first came out I saw multiple people's movie reactions mentioning their displeasure with that scene, but I haven't seen any discussion of it since. But it doesn't surprise me that I haven't noticed - I am used to fandom condoning behaviours that I disagree with. Popular culture in general is a lot more on board with violence than I am (...not that this is hard, me being pacifist and all), so to me this is just an extension of that.

I have - more or less - made my peace with being fannish over characters whose canons present them both as good people and as people who do things I classify as NOT good. Because that's LOTS of characters. I guess I kind of pretend that most media takes place in an alternate world where violence works differently than in our world, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to handle watching/enjoying/reading fic about these characters. And yes, torture is worse than much of the sort of violence that's more usually present in military/cop/superhero/action fandoms, but it doesn't seem to me to be a separate issue.

Do I wish that criticism of Cap 2's ethics (like the Hawaii 5-0 vid Shock the Monkey) existed? For sure. But it doesn't surprise me that I haven't seen it. I'm frankly more surprised that Shock the Monkey exists.

[ambyr]

Is the Master Naturalist class the one that meets in Howard County on Wednesdays? If so, another friend of mine is also enrolled...

[sineala]

I was going to say that I feel like people critique Cap's ethics a lot, but then I remembered I was thinking of the comics. For which there is definitely a lot to say about Cap's ethics.

Aww, but if you don't write the Carol one no one will know about Deadpool's wolfsister Anne McCaffrey!

[copracat]

That pseud account idea is very clever.