I said I'd post it here:
embitca on what we said yesterday.
And as I was getting dressed this morning and talking to myself I wrote seven pages' worth of posts in my head, but now I'm doing a concentration-heavy printing project for my sister and it's all flown away.
(I'ma just going to say that what I said there was slightly in shorthand-- I find the impulse to RPF shiny in the situation of a chance to be taking an active position and working back against the mass-market media, etc, etc.
& I think I can articulate why popstar fic can feel less uncomfortable than actorfic; I said it all out, and I think it makes sense to me; but I'm sleepy. And need to finish this project.)
Christ in hell, if we get linked to fandom_wank, that's really going to ruin my day.
Oy, Dana!
No fandom-wank please! Please!
C'est quoi, cet fandom_wank ca?
I swear to god, I should know when to just stop reading.
Also makes me glad I didn't participate in the discussion this time around, since being called puritanical tends to make me snarl. Just a little.
fandom_wank is a livejournal for discussion (and from the few times I've visited, mocking) of meta-discussion.
Yeah, I could be, you know, biased; but I don't think we're worthy of fandom_wank. If they linked to every discussion about RPF, with all its attendant high feelings and delicate points, dunno, they'd never do anything else.
But I still'm annoyed at the RPFers = stupid thing. Too. I stand by that.
And I'm annoyed at being called puritanical because I don't enjoy RPF, and I have personal issues about the ethics and morality of the whole thing. (Not that embitca called me puritanical, specifically, because I wasn't involved in this latest go-round. But it's happened elsewhere, and I don't take kindly to having my opinions dismissed with a wave of the hand and a sniff.)
Also makes me glad I didn't participate in the discussion this time around, since being called puritanical tends to make me snarl. Just a little.
See, I think it'd be kinda fun. Many-great Grandpa Preserved and Many-great Grandma Silence would be so proud! I mean, I think they'd be disapproving of the atheism and reading of gay porn once thye found out about it, but at least the title would make them happy.
(several paragraphs deleted on the basis that they were all about the meta about communication styles, which I find fascinating but perhaps should be saved for a time when we haven't been recently linked to)
