Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Tom Beard,
Trivia: the first slash-fic Con was Starsky/Hutch. Sort of cardigan-porn, I guess.
"Shipping" is very common around non-spec tv shows (writing fanfic around particular relationships, though that sounds misleadingly unsexual). Castle, which gets a lot of shipping, did an episode about shipping a soap opera. There's a show that gives good Fan Service.
There does seem to be something about spec-fic (horror, scifi, fantasy) that gives more scope for fan-fic - different biology, different social mores. But then we come very close to trying to explain the popularity of vampire porn.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Possibly not.
mPreg = Male pregnancy
Wincest = slash fic involving the Winchester brothers from Supernatural.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I really have to credit internet fandom for teaching me that sometimes other people like different things from me, even wildly opposing things, and that is OK. I can just try very hard to forget about it.
To be serious for a minute, (StarSong has a timer on me, she doesn't approve of that carry-on), I'm a firm believer in "your kink is not my kink". I do find it interesting how HARD it is sometimes, because 'squick' is an instinctive, gut reaction, and the conscious thought "wait, I'm being judgy" only comes afterwards. But I've written some stuff I know people would find squicky, and I don't need them to approve, just STFU.
However. I have a friend who writes mPreg using original characters and a species she invented, and I don't find that squicky at all. It might just be that she's a very good writer, because I can also handle her Wincest stuff.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
There's also Gimli-Legolas slash -- where *cough* enthusiasm overwhelms certain practicalities. :)
There is a TON of Aragorn/Frodo. There's a ton of Aragorn/Frodo mPreg. I just... mmm.
No obligation, but I'd be interested to know, in general terms, why its life was so brief.
All I'm going to say in public is "creative differences". It seemed best not to let it drag on. So we're doing what we wanted to do, and I'd hope the others do as well.
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Except of course, when deadlines could see the whites of my eyes. THEN I worked. Overnight.
Yeah, ditto.
I like the term "focused distraction" too, that's quite a useful description of how I work when I'm actually fingers on keyboard. Because of course, I'm also "writing" when I'm walking, or gardening, or (sometimes disastrously) cooking.
Last night was games night, and we were discussing what various companies are doing re: office space. And while everyone's been drawing up their wonderful plans for the future of the CBD, those businesses have been forced into signing fixed-term leases in the suburbs of at least two years. Even if the best guess is that the building needs maybe six months' repair work, they had to function in the meantime, so...
Those workers won't be back in a hurry, if at all. What we're going to have is distributed businessing suburbs, in Merivale and Riccarton and Papanui, unconnected by a currently pretty much basket-case public transport system. This makes me rather sad.
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Yeah. Obviously I'm not going to talk about what happened in public because that's not how I roll, and anyone who was watching can probably make a fairly accurate guess. Apparently I will talk about it in private though, as that's what I've been doing all morning. That and weeding beetroot.
However. This is not the end and all that. My hope is that two new sites will come out of this, but there will definitely be one.
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Lilith __,
This is IMHO the funniest item of royal wedding memorabilia:
Brilliant. Though, given:
Includes a collectable portrait of the Royal Couple as they might appear on their wedding day
I think William and Kate might have... I was going to say "got off lightly".
I am a bit tired of the insistence that I must have strong feelings either way on this. Either I must want to guzzle down lead wedding stories on the news every night, or I must be swearing off the idea of watching a single second. Equally tiresome, either way. The more I see of "ew, god, how could you" the more I want to get out all my grandmother's coronation badges and drink some fucking Pimms.
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To be serious just for a minute, if people do have good tips on working from home, please share them. ALL the office people we know are trying to do this now, and probably for the rest of the year. One dear friend hadn't noticed the 'work eating life' thing until I asked him what time he was starting, and it was before breakfast.
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Jack: I was waiting for that. And could not, of course, possibly comment.
You are surely referring to the charmingly tone-deaf (as in charming-my-head-into-my-desk-repeatedly) GOOP.
That's the one. Where were you last night, hmm?
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Danielle can now go into Easter a much happier person having made this comment :)
You're working off an a priori conception of Danielle?