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Still have not seen the last three episodes of Doctor Who. Suspense: driving me batty. Yes I know given all the time I waste I could probably just watch them already, but that would mean acknowledging that I'm wasting time, and we can't have that.
1. Hey, guys, did you know that there's a Team Fortress 2 version of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream? (Warning: contains torture, violence, sex, and everything you'd expect from an I Have No Mouth adaptation.) Yeah, there is. And it's actually kind of awesome, and best of all it works as a kind of callback to the original short story, and plays with it in some interesting ways. I can't even tell you how much this made my day.
I don't know what it says about me that my reaction to finding out this existed was not "Why would anyone write that?" but "Oh man, that's awesome. I should go read that right now." Clearly I am unwell.
2. I swear, every time I see someone pairing-bash I just want to reach through the computer screen and Gibbs-slap them. Because it's so pointlessly vindictive and rude, and it's not like it even accomplishes anything. Disliking or not getting a ship I can understand - there are pairings I dislike, certainly, and I'll say so, but if I do I try to have the good manners not to go on about how said pairing is bad and wrong and everyone who likes it is stupid (and feel free to smack me if I ever start going in that direction). Know why? Because other people liking ships I don't like doesn't hurt me. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of fandom. I can enjoy my little corner of fandom without being ~tormented~ by the thought that other people are Doing It Wrong. And frankly, there's enough far more serious Fail in fandom that I'd rather not waste that much energy on pairings I'm not invested in.
And making an entire art piece bashing a pairing? It's just...why? What does that do for you? Isn't that effort you could have put towards making art about ships or characters you like, or does it mean that much to you to put it out there that you think everyone who ships X only ships it for fanservicey wish-fulfillment?
Ugh. Remind me again why I go on DeviantArt, ever. It's like 90% of the pettiness and stupidity in my fandoms lives there, and especially for TF fandom it was actually kind of nice being on the sane and unwanky side of things for once.How am I supposed to lol at fanboys if the fic-and-shipping fandom acts just as bad, huh?
3. Speaking of shipping, J and I got into something of a discussion while I was over at R's place watching Kiki's Delivery Service (which, by the way, is an adorable movie with an actually excellent dub cast that made me feel all warm and happy inside, and you should all see it); I realized that I actually have no solid definition for shipping. I don't know what "counts" as shipping, what the criteria are in saying you'ship something - physical attraction? A crush? Getting along really well? If you like the idea of a romance between two characters, does that by default imply physical attraction and sexuality? What if you like the idea of a romance but for any number of reasons don't want the characters to have sex? A bunch of times when I try to write ship fic, the characters in question will interact but will never kiss, hold hands, express a particular desire for physical contact, etc. - does that still count as shipping, or is that gen or friendship?
I mean, I realize part of this is getting into things like "what is romance" or different ways of expressing love, which is a crazy huge topic that I don't really want to get into here. But J raised a point I hadn't thought of, and I wanted to see what some other thoughts on the subject were.
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Ugh. I have to go to bed so I won't wake up at 3 pm like I did today but I have made so little progress on my short story or anything else, for that matter. I'm on page three of the short story! Slowly I am getting there! Perhaps I'll stay up until I get to page four, make some tangible progress, except that will just mean I get up even later. Hmm.
1. Hey, guys, did you know that there's a Team Fortress 2 version of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream? (Warning: contains torture, violence, sex, and everything you'd expect from an I Have No Mouth adaptation.) Yeah, there is. And it's actually kind of awesome, and best of all it works as a kind of callback to the original short story, and plays with it in some interesting ways. I can't even tell you how much this made my day.
I don't know what it says about me that my reaction to finding out this existed was not "Why would anyone write that?" but "Oh man, that's awesome. I should go read that right now." Clearly I am unwell.
2. I swear, every time I see someone pairing-bash I just want to reach through the computer screen and Gibbs-slap them. Because it's so pointlessly vindictive and rude, and it's not like it even accomplishes anything. Disliking or not getting a ship I can understand - there are pairings I dislike, certainly, and I'll say so, but if I do I try to have the good manners not to go on about how said pairing is bad and wrong and everyone who likes it is stupid (and feel free to smack me if I ever start going in that direction). Know why? Because other people liking ships I don't like doesn't hurt me. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of fandom. I can enjoy my little corner of fandom without being ~tormented~ by the thought that other people are Doing It Wrong. And frankly, there's enough far more serious Fail in fandom that I'd rather not waste that much energy on pairings I'm not invested in.
And making an entire art piece bashing a pairing? It's just...why? What does that do for you? Isn't that effort you could have put towards making art about ships or characters you like, or does it mean that much to you to put it out there that you think everyone who ships X only ships it for fanservicey wish-fulfillment?
Ugh. Remind me again why I go on DeviantArt, ever. It's like 90% of the pettiness and stupidity in my fandoms lives there, and especially for TF fandom it was actually kind of nice being on the sane and unwanky side of things for once.
3. Speaking of shipping, J and I got into something of a discussion while I was over at R's place watching Kiki's Delivery Service (which, by the way, is an adorable movie with an actually excellent dub cast that made me feel all warm and happy inside, and you should all see it); I realized that I actually have no solid definition for shipping. I don't know what "counts" as shipping, what the criteria are in saying you'ship something - physical attraction? A crush? Getting along really well? If you like the idea of a romance between two characters, does that by default imply physical attraction and sexuality? What if you like the idea of a romance but for any number of reasons don't want the characters to have sex? A bunch of times when I try to write ship fic, the characters in question will interact but will never kiss, hold hands, express a particular desire for physical contact, etc. - does that still count as shipping, or is that gen or friendship?
I mean, I realize part of this is getting into things like "what is romance" or different ways of expressing love, which is a crazy huge topic that I don't really want to get into here. But J raised a point I hadn't thought of, and I wanted to see what some other thoughts on the subject were.
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Ugh. I have to go to bed so I won't wake up at 3 pm like I did today but I have made so little progress on my short story or anything else, for that matter. I'm on page three of the short story! Slowly I am getting there! Perhaps I'll stay up until I get to page four, make some tangible progress, except that will just mean I get up even later. Hmm.
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