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?
He doesn't realize that more than half the Queer as Folk audience is women (presumably mostly straight)?
Guess what I watched (for the first time) with him and his BF the next night? I wasn't sure if I needed to represent the perverts right then, or if it'd be better to let him process what he'd just learnt first.