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[vaznetti]

OK. I had a busy week, I admit it. I haven't been paying as much attention to livejournal as I might have. But I just looked at this week's edition of metafandom, and wow. Was it a slow week for television or something? Where did all the wank come from? Women shouldn't write from a male pov? Or should we? Are we really about to have slash vs. het again, complete with witty observations like, "Well, it seems to me that het fic isn't very good. Of course, I don't read much of it," and decent het writers with an attachment to fandom being classified as "atypical"? And we haven't even finished talking about whether slash is gay or not!

Please tell me that there will lots and lots of new television next week, so that we will all be backing away from the stupidity.

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[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Ah, I think I love you.

[vaznetti]

It's just... wow. Do people even read what they write?

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

my response to the "slash is not gay" thing was on the lines of "sometimes somebody says something so stupid that it's not even worth addressing; and yet, it's so stupid that people feel the NEED to address its obvious stupidity. The catch-22 of wank."

sigh. thanks for being uncrazy.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

It was a desperately slow week for television. And I'm boggled by the wank myself.

[vaznetti]

Ah. I spent the week watching the first season of BSG on DVD, so I guess I just didn't notice. The wank took me by surprise.

[celli]

Oh, my God, I could go the REST of my natural LIFE without a return to the slash/het debate. Ye gods and little fishes.

[vaznetti]

Seriously! I just want to cover my eyes and ears and whine, "why can't we all just get along?"

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Oh, as usual, dear.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

FAWLTY TOWERS ICON LOVE

[vaznetti]

I like meta, sometimes, but this week? It's like the attack of the crazy. I swear.

[elishavah.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I feel like I've been sideswiped by a cement truck just reading the list of links. Ow, fandom, what the hell?

[vaznetti]

I know! Where did it all come from?

[jennyo.livejournal.com]

Wow, people are dumb.

It hurts me in my soul, man.

Also, hey, let's keep in mind that's "boyslash vs. het" because whenever someone says "slash is better than het" they sure as hell DO NOT mean femslash. That just doesn't even exist because there is no sex without cocks or penetration. *smiles* See, I have LEARNED things from fandom. Like that.

Also that Bill Adama completes Laura Roslin's soul and having his baby would make her pause about her pro-choice stance.

[vaznetti]

I still haven't figured out whetehr people who write f/f are above or below het writers on the Great Chain of Slash Being. But everyone knows that babies make your life complete!

It's like the week of crazy out there. Scary.

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

Why did you make me go read those?! *stabs eyes out*

ARGH. The slash vs. het debate. How I loathe that one...

Hopefully with March Madness about to wrap up, we'll have lots more TV to argue over soon. I hope!

[vaznetti]

I really need a Nelson Muntz icon with the "ha, ha!" text. Made you look! But seriously, I haven't seen this much crazy in a single week in ages.

[medie]

Oh ye gods they didn't resurrect the old 'women shouldn't write from a male pov' *AGAIN*?! I got told that one (specifically that I couldn't write Blair Sandburg accurately because I was a woman ten years or so younger than him. *eyeroll*) going on ten years ago. Oy.

[vaznetti]

I think that this time it's our feminist duty to only write from the female perspective. But to be fair, my eyes glaze over whenever I try to read the original post.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Remember when I used to defend meta-discussion as a valid form of participation in fandom?

Well, okay. I still think it's *valid*. But now I think it's *valid* and *boring*.

[vaznetti]

Your icon!

Once upon I time, I liked engaging in this sort of thing. Now I'd rather just sit on the sidelines and wait for May sweeps. Or for the madness to pass. Or whatever. Shouldn't these people all be off reading Remix stories or something?

[rhi]

::goes, read list of links, blinks. rereads. backs away quickly, gets a beer in lieu of brain-bleach:: Holy fuck. Yeah, fandom hit some critical limit and went spare en masse.

Oh, well. ::amused:: If I only wrote from personal experience, my stories would be much more boring. And I'm not sure what a feminist is these days, and I doubt I ever was one. (I'm all in favor of people getting to do what they're competent at and like, though, regardless of gender, race, age, and/or species. Where does that put me, do you think?)

Here, though, have <a href="http://www.dueslash.com/archive/1183.html>link to a due South/Twin Peaks crossover</a> which I am, so far, greatly enjoying. {{hugs}}

[rhi]

::goes, read list of links, blinks. rereads. backs away quickly, gets a beer in lieu of brain-bleach:: Holy fuck. Yeah, fandom hit some critical limit and went spare en masse.

Oh, well. ::amused:: If I only wrote from personal experience, my stories would be much more boring. And I'm not sure what a feminist is these days, and I doubt I ever was one. (I'm all in favor of people getting to do what they're competent at and like, though, regardless of gender, race, age, and/or species. Where does that put me, do you think?)

Here, though, have link to a due South/Twin Peaks crossover which I am, so far, greatly enjoying. {{hugs}}

[vaznetti]

You're not wrong -- the crazy, it burns us. Where the heck did all of this come from, anyway?

Also, I hate to say it but "people getting to do what they're competent at and like, though, regardless of gender, race, age, and/or species" puts you square in the feminist camp. Unless you'd rather do without the vote, of course?

Hm. I'll look up that crossover when I'm not off to an early night!

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

the amount of pretension and sanctamoneous garbage floating around right now made me lower myself to their level.!!!

God, save us all from failed gender theorists.

[vaznetti]

Someone put something in the livejournal water supply. It;s the only explanation.

I can't even follow the slash and/or gay discussion. I'm a classicist because I can't do theory.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Dude, I've been mostly AWOL on spring break, and I just. keep. banging my head on the wall. For the first time ever I refused to even look at metafandom's post until it all blows over.

Are they all, like, nineteen or something? Or is there a two-year fandom watermark at which you are required to have the same idiot "ephianies"? And does this make us -- *gasp* -- Bitter Old You-Know-Whats? *g*

[vaznetti]

I have the feeling that most of this discussion is being done by people who are Old Enough to Know Better, actually.

Stay AWOL. It's the only sane option.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Check out stoney321's LJ for a hilarious look at wank and kerfuffles in the Buffyverse.

[vaznetti]

Thanks for the link! (I backed away from Buffy fandom in... 2000 maybe? Maybe 1999. So my eyes glaze over when people start talking about Marti, but it was interesting.)

[jood.livejournal.com]

upsy_daisy just informed me about this - I must have missed it - and dear lord, it's like some freaky clip show episode of The Internet: The Series. All we need is a good 1980's pop song to round out the full wank theme montage effect.

[jood.livejournal.com]

upsy_daisy just informed me about this - I must have missed it - and dear lord, it's like some freaky clip show episode of The Internet: The Series. All we need is a good 1980's pop song to round out the full wank theme montage effect.