What annoyed you so much, RL? I stayed calm.

I think it was the anal sex and cries of joy with the Kirk/Spock thing. That's where I stopped reading.

It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't satisfying, and I'm always annoyed at the "by googling a phrase you now know about ALL the fandom" or "I talked to one person, and one group of people, and now I can speak authoritatively about everything wrt fic" methods of going about things. And more things; but I'm also just generally irritable, because my paper isn't going quite as well as I'd like, and my back hurts.

I figured people would be annoyed since she doesn't specifically make clear the distinction between slash and fanfic in general. On the other hand, she was obviously a regular reader of slash.

Lizard needs a back rub.

Lizard needs a back rub.

t offers one hand, as the other is actually doing work that I get paid for

I'm also annoyed because I'm writing my goddamned paper about what makes fic so shiny-- that you're assuming authorative power over someone else's work. In coded academic language, of course, and I'm using Elizabeth Alexander, a poet, and the poem I wrote as fic for her poem, but it's the same ideas. And no, no, no article I've ever read addressed what I think are the most important issues raised by fic. I think it's doable, and it ought to be done, but I haven't seen it. That's because people are stupid.

Yeah. I'm really spiny today. Why do you ask?

t carefully avoids the spines

I love Steph.

Speaking of fic, I've finished all the A.J. Hall and the Tissue of Silver, and now I'm looking for more good Draco stuff. I don't want to dig undirected through the HP fan sites. Badly written teenagers in lust is not something I want to have stuck in my brain.