Other people's verbal habits can really scar you for life, people.
I borrowed my parent's collection of Harry Potter audiobooks and have been listening to them straight through in my car (I'm onto Book 5 now). Now I keep want to use English slang, talk in a (horrible) English accent, and I miss my naval power even though I've never owned a boat.
Well, we
know
you're a pervert, shrift. So that's covered.
I explained slash to a gay guy this weekend. Very weird dynamic. He just couldn't parse that there were chicks that liked that stuff. And of course, from where I sit, it looks like slash is the fic that ate the canon.
I had my mother last weekend explaining to me how not all fanfiction was porn. She heard it on NPR.
The only fanfic my parents are familiar with is Mary Sue with implied sex between their daughter and an imaginary dead guy.
Everything else about the genre would be easy for them, if only they'd sit still long enough to listen.
Internet fanfic perverts, represent!
It really was the funniest thing -- she's all up now on the origins of Kirk/Spock. Apparently it was female engineers who invented fanfic.
Internet fanfic perverts, represent!
Present and accounted for, ma'am!
Apparently it was female engineers who invented fanfic.
Internet fanfic pervert she-geeks, unite!
He just couldn't parse that there were chicks that liked that stuff.
He doesn't realize that more than half the Queer as Folk audience is women (presumably mostly straight)?
He just couldn't parse that there were chicks that liked that stuff.
Hot boys doing hot boys. What's to parse?