vulgarweed

Remix Redux 8...the Magic 8 Ball opened yesterday! I participated again this year, and the remix of my story is AMAZING.

Ship Song (Der Himmel Uber Berlin Remix)

It's a remix of the last segment of Be-Bop (Two Decades in Five Performances - the one that's a crossover with Wings of Desire (or Der Himmel Uber Berlin as it's known in its native German.) The remixer expanded it, made it long and real and vivid, and it guest-stars Peter Falk, Blixa Bargeld, and Nick Cave (all of whom are in WoD), who in their different ways teach Aziraphale and Crowley something very startling.

Please, please read it and give this author some love. Good Omens is a small fandom, but Wings of Desire and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds RPF are tiny to non-existent, so the odds were against this story ever being written at all. It deserves adoring feedback, and the only comment on it so far is mine, which makes me sadface.

Virtue, Ever Vigilant
Fandom: Good Omens
Rating: R
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Kink prompt: Sleepy/unconscious

( Aziraphale was beginning to see a pattern there... )

Whew! I really blew the game this time, but this will give me another chance.

Not SUPERspoilery (cause the ep is not even over where I'm at) but I'll cut just in case.

( AHAHAH CREEPY )

I like thunder and lightning. :D

Wow. Here is a new reason for male-envy in slash fandom I've never quite seen expressed this way before:

Fandom Secrets thread about a post in which a fan envies male characters for not being expected to remove their pubic hair and the comments thereof, in which I'm happily wanking away.

I find it disturbing, though. Really? Really? I always thought of shaved/waxed-off pubes as a kink that some people are into and some people aren't, not a basic expectation. Might be practical if you're a pro swimmer or swimsuit model or bicycle racer, but...is this really as mainstream these days as this poster seems to think? Hell, when I first became sexually active, it wasn't even all that common in porn! I don't shave, and I have certainly never been kicked out of bed for it - but I did try it for kicks to surprise a partner once, and he was so squicked out by it I got NO action at all until it grew back! (His quote: "WHY?!? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?!? I LIKE WOMEN, NOT LITTLE GIRLS, EW EW EW EW!" Again, YKINMK, and it's fine if it's yours...but wow, don't assume it's everyone's!)

I wonder if it's generational.

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On the other side of the pelvis, Oh look, another popular pro author is having a meltdown over fanfiction and showing her ass all over the Internet (Diana Gabaldon)

SIGH.

I want to thank wintercreek* for this fabulous post where she is working to compile a list of authors who are supportive of fanfic, or at least pragmatic and rational about it. When it's all done, I'll print it out and take it to the bookstore with me when I'm looking to follow up on recs and discover new authors to love.

Some of the defensive commenters on Gabaldon's blog have referred to angry fen saying they're not going to buy her books anymore as committing "blackmail." Hell no. No reader owes any author her money and attention and mental real estate. Blackmail is a crime, and there is no crime in declining to buy a book.

But my reason for not buying the books of authors who have insulting tantrums about fic writers and compare them to stalkers and thieves and homewreckers, as DG does in her rant, is kind of self-serving too. Any time I pick up a book, there is a chance that I will love it in that particular way that inspires me to work with the story. I don't know why some books I love do this and others don't. But the simple truth is, I know I'm better off staying out of the psychic playgrounds created by authors who hate "my kind" and think my way of interacting with the media I love is comparable to trespassing or sexual harassment. It's indicative of an attitude about the creative process itself that is deeply at odds with mine, and that's one of those political differences (you bet it is) that I can't quite get around. I just don't need that kind of crap in my creative life, especially when there are so many great authors I am more compatible with still out there to be discovered.


*I don't think wintercreek is on LJ anymore - if you're reading this first on LJ, just follow the other link to her DW and you'll see her post.

At last I succumbed to the lure of Facebook. Unbelievable how many people are coming out of the woodwork and...the awesome thing...almost all are welcome!

This post has nothing to do with the fact that the pop culture of my childhood died twice today.

This has to do with all the posts on metafandom about the controversy about warnings. I don't think it can really be nutshelled, but it all arose out of some instances in bandom with dub-con or non-con fics not being warned for properly. One author apologized and added the warning, the other basically said, "Oh, fuck off, I don't wanna."

The posts have gone off in all sorts of fascinating directions. Some of the issues addressed include: (1) the difference between a trigger and a squick, (2) Whether the things that need to be warned for are obvious to everyone or not, (3) varying interpretations of "dub-con", (4) what to do in the case of very quirky or unusual triggers, which are no less intense for the people who have them than the more common ones, (5) whether or not fandom can ever really be a true "safe" space, (6) what about the possibility of warnings-creep (a.k.a. The Blair's Haircut Conundrum)

I have no ready answers to any of this. But I'm going to babble on anyway.

( Deep Thoughts (Warning: Know-nothing Wankery, Navel-Gazing) )

So I will continue to do what I've always done: warn to the best of my ability so I don't hurt people, but reserve my right to be puckish now and then. If something I have done or haven't done with any of my fic has seriously emotionally hurt you, please don't be afraid to discuss it with me.

It's a very significant day for far too many Literature/Creative Writing majors (as I was), and still widely observed in Dublin.

It usually falls close to Father's Day, and my lit-geek dad will forgive me for forgetting Father's Day but not for failing to contact him on Bloomsday.

I did a dramatic reading at work tonight.

One of the multi-level-nerdiest things I have ever done--and between you and me, that's saying something--is the allusion I snuck into one of my ficlets for the Good Omens Anonymous Kink Meme, as revealed in this self-outing post. It's in the hurt/comfort "water" one, which, although the name of the ship is never mentioned, is clearly about Crowley and Aziraphale as "survivors" of the Titanic.

"Scrotum-tightening sea." (snickers like a 9-year-old).

Technically anachronistic, as Ulysses wasn't published until 1922. But of course the original Bloomsday was in 1904, and of course in my personal fanon the demon and the angel were both involved and the fourth wall was particularly thin that year (don't even ask about the fifth and sixth!); Crowley's friends were the book's characters and at the same time, Aziraphale enjoyed the occasional postprandial with Joyce himself. (Both claimed credit for his later treatment by the critics and obligatory status in lit courses).

My state's ex-governor's wife ate a tarantula on a reality show yesterday.

I'm finding this a little disorienting, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. Wow, everything imported FAST.

Anyway, I'll find my way around the cross-posting and everything soon enough, I hope. I never quite got the hang of it with GJ and IJ, but I think I'm going to be more motivated here.