But I still want to know who submitted my email address to teh Hot Boys website.

I'd wager that it's the same person who got me on the Posh Pussy mailing list.

As for the slash curtain, a certain someone gave me a wink and a nudge and a take a look, and so I peeked. Suddenly Duncan and Methos's relationship made so much more sense...

And this is how Dana earned a lifetime supply of toasters from the International House of HoYay.

Do not tempt me into jokes regarding prehensility, Fay, I'm just saying.

due South was my gateway drug into slash.

But apparently the penis mightier than the sword. So that might be handy.

"Nothing can defeat the penis!!!"

THAT's what I'm talkin' about!

t / bad bad New Yoik accent

Hey there.

Um, I'm the one who wrote Complicated, which a few of you read (or tried to, anyhow) and were...wondering about.

It was a birthday fic for a friend who likes the pairing and wanted bad songfic to an Avril Lavigne song. It was a joke. I thought that would've been obvious when I started mentioning Chris's "adopted transgendered Somalian orphan with terminal bone cancer," but perhaps not.

So, yes! All just a joke. Sadly, there is a bunch of *nslash that is like this in a completely unironic manner, but not this one. Please don't judge me on the merits (or lack thereof) of this fic. I don't even like Avril! *weeps*

"adopted transgendered Somalian orphan with terminal bone cancer"

Next week, ripped from the headlines! on an all-new Law & Order.

(I think I would have guessed at about that point, if I'd followed the link. Muystangsally in XF used to do some incredibly hilarious and cruel parodies of shipperdom, but then they stopped being funny.)

Oh, sweetheart! Don't you worry about it - parody is going to just go whizzing over the heads of people who aren't familiar with the thing being parodied. I didn't read the piece myself, 'cause I'm a terribly old fogey & know nothing about *nsync (I say this not in a pop cultural snob way, 'cause I like lots of disposable pop music & am so not a muso - I'm just very ignorant about it. 'Specially American boybands. But I've been seduced into LotR RPS, fwiw.)

Very gutsy & dignified of you to come in and defend your story. Props to you.

So, yes! All just a joke.

Go team you, as Fay has already said. I've written many a parody where the parody was, well, not quite understood, and that Oh Bother, You Didn't Get It feeling is a mite... crushing.

I can't speak for whether or not this translated to me as I don't read *nsync (and, um, didn't read your story simply because I don't read *nsync and wouldn't know a boyband member if he shimmied on my face). Although I like glitter, I'm happily stuck in the glam rock era of glitter, when glam was glam and men were space aliens and going down on your guitarist on stage really meant something!

Ahem. Well. As you were.

Thanks, guys. It's not like I'm angry or anything, but I really don't want people to think that all popslash is like this--that would be a real disservice to all the brilliant, talented writers who are in the fandom.

And I have to cop to a bit of vanity as well, because, really--who wants people to think that the fluff fic she wrote with Justin becoming addicted to sniffing markers is her magnum opus? Dear Lord. *g*