Posts by Lucy Stewart
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As for Iraq, it's good to hear about the Blackwater ban. That's one seriously shady outfit, and it was very disconcerting to see the lengths the last US administration went to to protect them from the consequences of their fuckups. Comes back to the "shoot first, shoot again, shoot some more, and if someone asks a question shoot them too", mentality that seems to be associated with giving an American a firearm and telling them to go forth to "protect and defend" or whatever the nonsense is that they spout.
I borrowed a book about Blackwater off a friend in mid-2008 and finally finished it about a month ago. *Seriously* terrifying stuff. I actually find it quite interesting from a historical perspective in terms of the fact that mercenary armies were the status quo until only a couple of centuries ago, and they seem to be making a comeback. But otherwise, it's really scary - especially when you drop in the religious mindset of the founders (either the founder of Blackwater or someone closely related to him, I forget which, gave a lot of money to the Prop 8 crowd in California.)
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People just should not be allowed write erotic versions of much loved TV shows.
it is just plain wrong.
I can never watch the Flintstones again.
Dude, if it was right it wouldn't be half as fun.
Not Russel T Davies or Joss Whedon, who both know exactly what they're doing. (Joss is on record as saying of course Angel and Spike had sex before Angel got his soul back. Slash-ficcers don't have to get stuff past network executives.)
I'm pretty sure that this was also referred to in the show (Angel) although in an off-hand manner, so as to sneak past said network execs.
What's interesting is that even the BBC shows Russel T Davies isn't making are getting pretty slash-heavy; I refer you to Merlin, which is basically the Arthurian legends back when they were all devastatingly gorgeous twenty-somethings who spent their time fighting monsters, hiding their magic abilities, and being gay. Even, unsually for your average slashy show, the women. It's brilliant. (Plus: Anthony Stewart Head! Santiago Cabrera! You can't lose!)
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I don't think it's really hypocritical. There is quite a big gulf between "I think gay incest is sexy" and "these two unrelated male actors are doing such a bad job that it looks like they are about to get it on. Come to think of it, these two unrelated male actors should totally get it on."
Except within the context of the stories, it is, quite explicitly, incest. Yes, pun intended. I mean, there's lots of fic where it is just the characters' names slapped on a story about the actors getting it on, but there's a lot of fic where it's *not*. There's a big gap between the two, but it's a continuum, not a bimodal distribution, if you will.
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So Wincest doesn't bother me as much as that Marshall-twins stuff I just accidentally read.
And there's something to add to the list of Things I Never Wanted To Think About. (Which is pretty hypocritical considering I just exposed innocent PA readers to the fact that gay incest is so common in some fandoms there are nicknames for it, but.)
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Huh, I've never been weirded out by the Winchesters. I don't think Jensen'n'Jared are nearly as ham-handed at rendering Super Awesome Fraternal Devotion. Adrian'n'Milo always look like they're about to make out at any moment.
You do have a point; I think the popularity of Wincest in the Supernatural fandom is as much down to the fact that there are only two main characters who spend most of their time with each other as to anything else. And I'd mostly blame Milo, who has inappropriate subtext with *everyone in the entire show*. Fandom at one point nicknamed Peter "the little black dress of Heroes."
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And for extra, extrasteps, I have two words for you. Petrelli. Brothers.
Ah, Petrellicest. As far as I'm aware, though, they haven't actually made out on screen yet. If they had, my LJ flist would have exploded. And they were hardly the first; Supernatural went there, insomuch as either show goes there, about two years before them.
As an amusing anecdote on the topic of gay incestous subtext in TV shows, I recall a story about the filming of Smallville involving the actors playing Lex and Lionel Luthor, where they were being instructed to get in each others' faces so much that at one point one of them *did* lay one on the other, just to see what the crew would do (which was, if I recall, burst out laughing.)
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there seem to be quite a number of the below that fit. Canadian lumberjack with a rear projector maybe?
More prosaically, RPF stands for "real person fic", usually in the context of writing stories about the actual actors having sex rather than thinly-veiled stories that are theoretically about the characters they portray but might as well not be. It's very popular in some fandoms (Lord of the Rings, especially.) No, I don't know why.
To be closer to serious for a moment, the whole deal with this cross-over was supposed to be to make rugby more appealing to women. In which case, in my experience, they should just have made it slash to start with.
It really befuddles me how this potential marketing tactic has passed so many people by. I mean, they've got as far as "we will do everything *but* have them make out, and take advantage of the wild popularity that ensues" but no-one seems to be willing to go that extra step (Russel T. Davies excepted.)
Although I can't help thinking that maybe the popularity of slash derives partly from the feeling that the work is being subversively overturned? In which case it might not be so popular if it was textual.
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"No, wait, now I remember: the acronyms, you guys, always with the bloody acronyms. Down you go."
LOL.
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I had originally tried to do this seriously. It lasted a sentence and a half. A friend has asked for a cricket version, which in my head made it about a paragraph before turning into some kind of BDSM-opalooza. You should probably be grateful that won't see the light of day.
I have two things to say:
1) Rule 34.
2) I have it on good authority that there is a reasonable body of Black Caps slashfic floating around teh Interwebs. I haven't gone looking, in the interests of preserving the remnants of my sanity. (I can handle just about anything else by this point, but RPF is still a no.)
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That's why we see these stupid "cycleways" that are actually footpaths with a strip of paint down the middle, with pedestrians roaming all over them, safe for nobody. Recent planning for roads in Auckland and Wellington seems to assume that they are only for cars, and everyone else will just have to share whatever surface area is left. Example.
That actually makes me weep a bit for humanity. Or at least the section of it involved in transport planning.
Now you mention it, I do recall said "cycleways" in Oriental Bay, and thinking at the time they were kind of useless. However, since I wasn't biking anywhere at that point, I didn't pay much attention to the wider implications.