Not how much we love it, but how much he hates it.

Friday, 4 September 2009 11:06
druidspell: Would you say you worship Satan, or do you simply respect his no-nonsense approach to discipline? (Satan)
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 [livejournal.com profile] seperis, which she wrote in reaction to this VERY NSFW and POSSIBLY TRIGGERY piece of protest art. (SERIOUSLY UNSAFE FOR WORK, PEOPLE.) [livejournal.com profile] 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.
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Gen vs. Ship: My opinion

Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:18
druidspell: Wicked girls saving ourselves (16)
Okay, so because I'm a cultural anthropology geek, and because my main culture these days is that of the media-fandom reader/watcher/lurker, I've got [livejournal.com profile] metafandom on my friends list. Every so often, big debates get noticed on the community, they post links to them, and occasionally, I check it out on my own (or my friends' list explodes about the huge drama). Recently, they linked to a post about gen vs. ship, and what makes something gen and what makes it a ship story/vid/art, etc. My friends list hasn't exploded, per se (not like during the "warnings" debate--any one of like, six, that I've seen since listing [livejournal.com profile] metafandom, or the BNF thing), but there's still been enough discussion of it that I feel like making my own response.
( My Response )


Now that my gen warnings thing is finished, I do have one thing I'd like to see more of: people using the LJ tags for their fan works! Because if I read one of your stories and I loved it, I want to be able to easily devour the rest of your entire body of work and leave you adoring comments about temples and love children and sending you cookies if only you'll write more. And if you use the tags, I can do so. (If you don't use the tags, I'm forced to resort to stalking you, and nobody really wants that.)
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