A bit weird out of context

I wrote a thing!

Fandom: Hockey RPF; Chicago Blackhawks
Author: druidspell
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply.
Summary: A series of text messages and emails between Patrick Sharp, his teammates, his wife, and his best friend. Sharpy's life is so hard, you don't even know.

At the beginning of September, svmadelyn complained about the Hockey RPF fandom being pretty much dead, and she wanted some new fic to read. So she organized the Stickhandled hockey zine, and my story is one of 15 that were finished and submitted by the deadline! I'm rather pleased with how this turned out, especially considering that this is not only my first fanfic in about two or three years, but also my first attempt to write for this fandom :D

I have deleted this fic from the internet; it no longer exists. Fuck the Blackhawks, fuck P*trick K*ne, fuck rape culture, and fuck how betrayed I felt when the news broke.

So, this is a public entry [which is potentially triggering in regard to rape]. *waves to the public* I haven't made one of these for fun in a while--it's been a fannish "These things I find unacceptable" type of year for public posts. (I promise, my next public post will be a meme or a quiz!)
Unfortunately, this is not going to be a fun post; this is going to be a post addressing things I find unacceptable in fandom right now. (It's motivated by this post by seperis, which she wrote in reaction to this VERY NSFW and POSSIBLY TRIGGERY piece of protest art. (SERIOUSLY UNSAFE FOR WORK, PEOPLE.) alchemia made that photo manip of Ogi Ogas engaged in some rousing tentacle sex as a reaction to SurveyFail.

Bullet Points!
SurveyFail
Let me explain. ... No, is too long. Let me sum up:
*Drs. Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam are writing a book called "Rule 34: What Netporn Teaches Us About the Brain." Despite the book's release date being in 2010, they are apparently just starting their research. In the course of their research, they revealed themselves as homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, misogynist, willfully ignorant, condescending shitheads who are bad scientists with bad methodology, little to no grasp of the ethics of research involving human subjects, and no desire to truly learn from their mistakes and the valuable information and insight fandom was willing to offer them.

Protests!
*In protest of their treatment of the members of our community, some fen have decided to educate these two "researchers" about certain rules of fandom: 1) "Don't Mess With Slashers, for You Are Cute and Look Good With Other Men" (warnings for Real Person Slash) (here, here, and a poem that is not slashy but is lolarious here; and 2) "Fuck Not With Fandom: Fandom Fucks Back, and You Can Forget About the Lube" (the aforementioned protest art that is still NSFW).

My Reaction
( Time for an anecdote. )


Anyway, as always, it is Defriending Amnesty Day around here all day, every day, including weekends and bank holidays. If what I've said is offensive to you, feel free to defriend me.

Authors and editors whom I will never read (again, or ever) or support: Elizabeth Bear. Kathryn Cramer. Will Shetterly. Emma Bull. Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Patrick Nielsen Hayden. David Levine. Luke Jackson. Jay Lake. Lisa L. Spangenberg. John Scalzi. Macallister Stone.
Publishing houses I will never submit my work to, and that I will think seriously about buying from and supporting with my money in the future, especially if any of the aforementioned authors or editors may profit from said money: Tor.


RaceFail 2009, Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom, has gone on for three months now. And frankly, the authors and editors listed above STILL don't understand why their behavior is seen as skeevy, wrong, and abusive. I won't stop keeping up with the meta on RaceFail '09, but I will NEVER see SF/F in the same light. As a writer and a reader, it causes me pain to know how awful SF/F can be, but my pain is NOTHING compared to the pain it's caused some others. It's my duty as a dedicated fan and a decent human being to not bury my head in the sand because it makes me sad and tired as a white person to see all this fail happening in one short span of time; because I am a white person, with all the privilege that entails, I should NEVER turn around and ignore it, because anyone without white privilege doesn't get that option.

Any of you can disagree with this. You can de-friend me, and ask me to de-friend you in return. I will probably be hurt by that, but I'll do it, and I'm declaring a De-Friending Amnesty around here. If my opinions that I've expressed briefly here offend you, go ahead and walk away from them, and go with my blessing.



For those of you on my flist not involved with fandom in the same ways that I am, and who would like to understand why I'm boycotting these people, you can check out rydra_wong's roundup of the links dealing with this racist, classist, elitist bullshit here. To give you an idea of the scope of things, there's more than 200 links in there, compiled in 77 entries thus far. RaceFail happened, and it happened in a big way, and it affected a lot of people.

The Joe Flanigan/John Sheppard meta on whether or not JF is a good actor (because people rant that he's not) is copy/pasted almost entirely from my comments on seperis's livejournal entry on the same subject.

The topic of JF being a bad actor normally comes up in conjunction with the topic of David Hewlett (Rodney McKay, henceforth referred to whenever possible as DH) being a great actor [as if one cannot be good if the other is good; or as if they are mutually exclusive; or as if to make DH seem better, one must denigrate his costars, namely JF]

( Why )



Now, on to the squee!
There were a lot of things that I absolutely loved, and there are lots of spoilers (Stargate: Atlantis 3x10), so if you haven't seen the episode and you intend to do it, STOP READING RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

( Things )