Randomnicity

[bubosquared]

1. Jess-love, you wanna check this out.

2. Conversation with my dad over the phone this week:

   Dad: Do you have any plans for Sunday?
   Me: Not really anything definite, no. Why?
   Dad: I have to do some portraits (for his photography course -- ed) so I was thinking I'll take yours over there (in Antwerp.)
   Me: Oh, sure, no problem. You'll have to cut my hair on Saturday, though.
   Dad: Sure thing.
   Me: So, do I need to dress up, dress down, in between? How about the jeans and shirt I was wearing when you came by last week. (That would be my Sexy Jeans and I Prefer Girls tank top. -- ed.)
   Dad: I was thinking something more gothic. You know, like what you wear when go out.

   So, yeah, my dad wants me to wear my punk/goth clothes for pictures that'll be on display at home, handed out possibly, and handed in as assignments. I really like my dad, even though this means I'll have to clean my flat more or less touroughly (and get rid of the smell of smoke, eep) and will be fretting over what to wear all Saturday. (Suggestions?) Also, I'll have to re-dye my hair. Hm, maybe I'll go for actual black with blue or purple (or light purplish) bangs. (Again, suggestions?)

3. Conversation with my brother, post-HP movie.

   Me: Fuck, and my birthday's coming up as well. I have no idea what to ask.
   Sanne: I'm gonna tell them about that cape we saw two weeks ago that you liked, try to get them all to chip in. I'll help.
   Me: *stunned*

   My brother, ladies and gentlemen. Last year, be bought me a Metallica keychain. It's a cheap piece of junk, but it's my favourite present in a long time, because my then 12-yo brother knew that I'd like it and bought it for me. And now this. Completely spontaneously, he announces his plan to get people to buy me something I want. I love him so very much. He's the sweetest boy in the world ever at all. He deserves something special. I think I'll put together an InstaPunk package for him with Camden stuff. Just have to be careful not to piss off my mother. (But then again, it'll be Christmas, so she'll have to just smile and let me, ha!)

4. My body is weird. It takes me three pints of Guinness to even feel woozy, but one drag of nicotine and I'm light-headed. Hmski.

5. Every time I want to get off FCA-L, they start an interesting discussion. Grrrr. Although most of their opinions wrong-rub me in that subtle, itchy way, but i can't gather my thoughts enough to point out why they do. Double grr.

6. There is NOOOOOO point six.

7. I should update my site, shouldn't I? Sigh.

Comments

[sunshinegirl.livejournal.com]

In response to #5:

*cough* Yes.

Don't leave. I'm thinking one of these days all of us LJ-RPSfen-generally-twisted-grrls'll get together and out-snark the snarkers. Let's have a snark war. Let's wreak havoc, baby!

*giggling*

Bruce, now. If email viruses actually could kill people...I would start doing research on how to make one. *snicker*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Good to know I'm not alone. I mean, the discussion in and of itself is interesting, but what the hell? I mean, I've often had discussions about wether it's still slash if it's canon. (And I personally think it is, if only because there's no label for canon same-sex and slash has become the counterpart of "het" for m/f stories.) I've also heard people argue that any relationship is "slash" because of the "/" denotation of the pairing and while that boggles my mind (if only because it begs the question of what het would be, then) it at least has some sort of logic behind it.

But never before have I heard someone claim that "slash" is or ever was a label for any non-canon pairing. Like people said, canon or non-canon don't usually enter into the equation when you're looking for something to read. (There's UCSL, of course, but that's an exception rather than the rule.)

Oh, and the whole thig about wether it's gen or het when there's m/f but no actual sex. What Fransizka said. If you're claiming that the slightest hint of same-sex-age makes it slash, then the slightest hint of m/f makes it het. Unless, I guess, the relationship (be it m/f or same-sex) is a) canonical and b) not the focus of the story, i.e. it's being incorporated into the story because it's canon, but the story isn't romance or whatnot.

[sunshinegirl.livejournal.com]

Eeeeh.

Exactly. It's so much easier to just call it slash, if it's same-sex. Times they are a-changin'.

I call it het if the heterosexual romance is a major part of the story, which it tends to be, but isn't always. If, say, I were reading Man From UNCLE gen, and Napoleon Solo flirted with an OFC, and there were implications that something happened offstage between them, I'd call it gen.

But, OTOH, I do consider "Draco Dormiens" het, because a big part of the story (and not my favorite part, BTW) involves Heromine being tugged back and forth between Draco and Harry, trying to decide which one she likes.

Some people on FCA-L are very, very strange, methinks. :)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are. Did you see the recent post about people covering their asses from overprotective parents by labelling all same-sex stuff NC17?

aévà"ç(rvèu!oif! Grrrrrr!

Okay, yeah, huge pet peeve there. When I started RS, I made the concious decision not to ask age statements. I knew there were underaged people on the list. A lot of them came right out and said so. Hell, Nat was 16 when she took over RS, and she now took over RS-X as well, with kat. both of them are 17. RS has been going for 2 years and 9 months now, and I have yet to see the first overprotective parent pop up. When I started slashart, I got a "nice" email from someone who saw it fit to warn me that by not asking for age statements for a list like this, I was asking for trouble. A year and 10 months later and hey, guess what? Nothing!

Goddamn!

(Also, I just realised I really ought to have made it a rule for those whom I gave my lists over to that no age statements would ever be required, because I just went to the SlashArt list page and yeah. Dammit.)

Anyway. Ageism gets to me. ^_^

Grrr

[coneyislandbaby]

I refuse to rate slash up. At all. If it would get PG if it were het, it gets PG if it's slash. I personally don't rate any relationship-focused story below PG, because I feel that most of my stories are adult in the sense that they appeal to adults rather than kids. And if kids want to read them, they'll find them. It's why I gave up on putting underage warnings on stories, too. What is the point?

I do occasionally feel a twinge when I find out someone's really young (under 14) and reads adult-rated stuff, but most younger slashers seem to be (at least in public) reading the lower-rated stuff. And if I got a note from someone about my stuff and they said they were under 14, I'd advise them not to tell anyone else about it ;).

Forgot...

[coneyislandbaby]

Sometimes I feel positively ancient in the slash world at 32, though. I'm not an old-schooler and I'm not a younger slasher. I suppose I'm proof we don't fit into boxes :).

Re: Forgot...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

well, that's true. And FWIW, you fall into my "New Schooler" category, except for the age thing.

Re: Forgot...

[coneyislandbaby]

Sounds good to me. I do feel more like a new schooler *g*, mainly because my experience of slash is online, and because I never felt all that freaked out by RPS (I do remember being just a bit taken aback at Nifty the first time I found it, though) even before I wrote it.

*gears up for battle*

[coneyislandbaby]

I'm up for it. Oh, yes.

And yes, Amy, agreed on Bruce.

Melle, yes, sometimes their opinions do that as well.

Personal definitions of the three categories:

Slash: Any and all stories where the same-sex pairing is the focus of the story or an important part of the story.

Het: Any and all stories where the opposite-sex pairing is the focus of the story or an important part of the story.

Gen: Any and all stories that are not pairing-focused. Episode-like, murder mysteries, what have you.

And if it's m/m/f or f/f/m, it's slash if the same-sex partners are having sex.

Are either of you on SlashResearch? It was originally a list for Ruth from Australia's Uni thesis, but it's remained as a slash discussion list. I remember when we did the DT for the definition of slash. Every kind of definition and then some.

[pelicanzed.livejournal.com]

To point 2: your Dad rocks. And I think light-ish purple bangs would look neat. I dyed my hair black yesterday (permanently) and it's scaring me. I'll feel glad of it when we get to Slimelight, but I've been a brunette with blondish bits for too long. Keep some colour!

To point 3: and your brother rocks too.

To point 7: you don't have to. I haven't updated mine in centuries (although I couldn't, even if I wanted to).

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yes, he does. And I'd kina like to have white-with-blue-streaks bangs, but I think that's slightly beyond my expertise. :/

And so does he, yes.

I know, but I have a whole bunch of quotes to update and I've to make a links page and um. There was at least one other thing. I've not updated with anythig but a story in a month and a half, I think.

[rsadelle]

5. I keep seeing the acronym, but I don't actually know what FCA-L is.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Fancics Critics Association List. (Sorry.)

[rsadelle]

Hmm. Do you think I'd enjoy it, or would it just piss me off?

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Eeeeh. It depends, I think. I tend to look at it from the outside, so I'm usually just amused, but even I get pissed sometimes.

It's a predominantly "Old School" list (FPS, zine-cowd, etc.) and when I mentioned catfights. Some of these people wield sarcasm (and generalisations) with frightening ease. Is sarcasm fun? Yes. Is it conductive to an intellectual discussion? Not quite, no.

[rsadelle]

Hmm. I'm not really into old school fandom, so I just think I'll stay in my corner.