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There was going to be an angry religious post here, but I thought better of alienating the majority of people on my friends list. I'll get you all to hate me some other time.
Instead, it is time to turn back to the reason we're all here: the shiny. I've been reading a lot of X-Men fanfic recently, mostly movie-based. And there I was, reading and enjoying, but also kind of puzzled by that enjoyment. I mean, I managed to ignore all this stuff after X2 came out... what was different about the stuff I was reading now? Then I realized--do I have a pairing kink which is left unsatisfied by movieverse Xavier/Magneto? Indeed, I do not. That relationship has everything I want, right there. (There are other things I like about this fandom, but that's a big one.)
There's only one down-side to this: it's getting more and more difficult to walk past the comic book store on the way to the supermarket. I know that getting into the comics side of things will only lead to madness... but it gets more and more tempting, every day.
Instead, it is time to turn back to the reason we're all here: the shiny. I've been reading a lot of X-Men fanfic recently, mostly movie-based. And there I was, reading and enjoying, but also kind of puzzled by that enjoyment. I mean, I managed to ignore all this stuff after X2 came out... what was different about the stuff I was reading now? Then I realized--do I have a pairing kink which is left unsatisfied by movieverse Xavier/Magneto? Indeed, I do not. That relationship has everything I want, right there. (There are other things I like about this fandom, but that's a big one.)
There's only one down-side to this: it's getting more and more difficult to walk past the comic book store on the way to the supermarket. I know that getting into the comics side of things will only lead to madness... but it gets more and more tempting, every day.
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I have a crackpot thesis about this; it's to do with the nexus of Protestantism and bourgeois greed, US-style. Catholics can be just as crazy-stupid along the same lines (see the recent EU kerfuffle) but they don't rise to power as often in the US because the tradition doesn't assume that faith is rewarded with a high net worth. Here God and making a lot of money get associated so directly that business success starts to equate with righteousness. Business success and actual intelligence having only an occasional acquaintance, understand. I say this as one who's worked for frighteningly stupid business owners who nevertheless could buy me at one end of the street and sell me at the other, and wouldn't hesitate. Also as one whose recent foreparents (is that a word?) include both immigrant Catholics and foot-washing Baptists, and that's my inflammatory comment for today.
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This kind of thing is even more reason that I shouldn't write that post, as my version includes a lot of swearing and incoherent ranting about why all Christians except for Seventh Day Adventists are going to hell for eating pork.