Random Sunday Update

[swatkat]

Corrupting Educating the Innocent XXVIII

Sister:I don't get why you enjoy slash.
Swatkat: What's not to like? You like Sirius, yes? You like Remus, yes? There you go, Sirius/Remus!
Sister: But they aren't gay!
Swatkat: No, bisexual.
Sister: But it doesn't *say* so in the books!
Swatkat: Oh, and it says about Buffy/Faith? Didn't you watch the vid with me? (note: she was entranced by this B/F vid, "I had *no* idea!")
Sister: Well...
Swatkat: You see, a good author can make *any* pairing work. Even Hermione and Dumbledore.
Sister: *thinks* Do people pair Hermione with Filch?

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Interesting discussion on Fandom Wank here.

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fannish5 Five discussions I’ve never had, and would love to:

1.Why we mock
2.Why femslash
3.What we mean when we say that we ‘identify’ with a certain character
4.Is there a certain pattern about the characters we fall in love with in different fandoms?
5. Writing evil characters

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Comments

[delle.livejournal.com]

I've been percolating on this (in between the recent homefront issues) and have come up with a short list of similarities:

1. Looks. I've never been attracted to blond men and that seems to hold true in my fannish preferences too. Michael, Aragorn, Will, Sayid... even Sully from Dr. Quinn are all dark-haired men.

2. Beards. My darling husband, who cannot grow a decent beard to save his life, goes without shaving for me when we go camping. Because I adore beards. And the scruffy look goes a long way with me. So, again: Michael, Aragorn, Will, Sayid, Sully.... yeah, they all have beards or at least the scruffy/unshaved for a few days look.

3. Long hair. *This* one surprised myself, actually. It wasn't until I started looking a trends in my favorite characters that I picked this up.

4. Height. Being 5'7" (and considered short in my very tall family), I'm attracted to tall men. So Dominic Monaghan, who's very good and very cute as Charlie, does NOTHING for me at all in the sexiness factor. He's blond, his hair's too short and he's way too short.

5. An accent; perferably English. Why? Who the hell knows? The only exception to this would be Sully and since Dr. Quinn is set in the American West circa 1975, anything other than an American accent would be really silly.

6. Angst. Oh, god, I am a sucker for angst. And the amazing thing - to me - is that in real life I am NOT a girl that looks for a man to fix. I run far far away from needy/unbalanced/brooding/I-can-fix-him men. But in my fic? Give me an angsty man.
Michael - heh. the definition of angst.
Aragorn - broody. the reluctant hero. (sigh)
Will - a conventional man forced to become an unconventional rule-breaker
Sully - afraid to commit (his first wife died - measles, I think)
Sayid - trying to come to terms with the man he *was*

I don't fixate on the actors, only the characters. So while I may squee at Roy Dupuis' latest picture, or Naveen Andrews being in Bride and Prejudice, I'm not really interested in them. I've never seen any of Roy's other movies - someone made me a copy of J'en Suis years ago and I've NEVER watched it.

I will go see Orlando Bloom's newest film, Kingdom of Heaven, but not simply because he's in it. It's medieval and I'm DYING to see it for the production values. It helps if I know the actor and am a fan of one of his characters, but I haven't seen Troy or Hildago.

does that tell you way too much about me? LOL