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ah ebay, how much do i love thee?
frood omg is teh best plant evar.
a few other things:
1. bah! seriously, though. the more i think about it, the more i get enraged about his behaviour. and this is nothing like the john noble thing, the attitudes of both the guest in question and the attendees is completely different. he's downright exploiting the fans attending. liek. GRR! even the other guests at the con in march were offended by his behaviour and planning to complain.
um, not that i'm planning on going to the next bobw (or any other they'll hold in future), but i'm still enraged on behalf of all the other fans being swindled by the organisers. i'm still composing my Letter Of Complaint.
2. is this for real? surely not. mary is convinced it's a troll, and i'm inclined to... incline in that direction too. it's just. SO outrageous. i was tempted before to post an extensive constructive crit in response to it, or even put it through some kind of translator in an attempt to try and understand it, but i've run out of steam and decided to follow my tried and true path with badfic: ignore it. it seems some people are enjoying it, and who am i to try and tell them that they shouldn't?, but i much prefer the other fic she posted in her lj:
Dominic fucked Elijah. Hard.
The End.
and the elijah in her icon looks like he's trying to lasso some meaning out of whatever the hell it is she's trying to say. meh. each to their own. still funny, though.
3. speaking of stories-i-have-problems-with, last night i was perusing the faculty-fic yahoogroup (which i haven't done in a while), and came across this story. which... disturbed me to some extent, and continued to disturb me in the fact that so many people seemed to enjoy it (including people i know and respect). it wasn't extremely poorly written or anything, and i know there's many many fics like it out there (and i have read a whole bunch of them), but maybe i'm just over-sensitised to it now, what with thinking about it a lot and studying the likes of it at university,
but... the way casey was so thoroughly objectified really got to me. the general gist of the story is: casey has been beaten up. he's all bruised and bloodied upset and zeke riles him up a bit more because he's hotter when he's angry. then they go and have sexbecause zeke wants to and casey has no character and thus can't think for himself. generally, as far as plot lines go, that's pretty typical for the faculty fandom. but casey is focused on in the story as a woman is in a feminist's worst nightmare: the emphasis is on his physicalness, and it is completely unrealistic. his cerulean eyes, his lips like pillows, his creamy skin; he looks like "a little boy" and "a greek nymph"; the other character (in this case, zeke) is increasingly turned on by these observations until he just can't hold himself back. the reader is invited to align themselves with that view point, sympathise with his responses ("completely understandable! how could he resist his natural urges?" -sound familiar?). i can understand that some people love elijah because of the physicality of him, how 'beautiful' he looks, and i can understand that people enjoy stories that focus on that aspect of him.
but i was really fucking concerned at the lengths at which both the author was exploiting that aspect, and exploiting the character of casey, and at the lengths the story itself took to exploit the character within it (if that makes sense). if a woman in a film was treated and presented the way casey was in that fic, there would be outrage (amidst academic circles, at least). and that has nothing to do with the physical violence in the plot of the story. i understand that this is 'only fanfiction', but fanfiction is still a cultural medium that we all (at least everyone who is reading this - which is a few hundred amongst many more) partake in, and obviously place some value in. i'd like to think that the authors and readers are at least aware of what they're perpetuating here, especially considering the 'roles' that they themselves exist in within society - not only as fans 'poaching' and questioning media texts, but as women.
i've been meaning to write a more in-depth essay-thing about the above for quite a while, maybe i'll do that soon. once i've done my essay for assessment, that is. hah.
4. must go off and call![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
loose_your_dogs now, as we are all moving in together as of TOMORROW NIGHT. omg!
PS. why am i writing in a pseudo-early 1890s journal voice? perchance it comes from readingbaranduin's delightful into the wood.
and eep! might not be on as much over this weekend, on account of possibly having difficulties setting up the 'net at the new place. fingers crossed we won't, but just in case.
a few other things:
1. bah! seriously, though. the more i think about it, the more i get enraged about his behaviour. and this is nothing like the john noble thing, the attitudes of both the guest in question and the attendees is completely different. he's downright exploiting the fans attending. liek. GRR! even the other guests at the con in march were offended by his behaviour and planning to complain.
um, not that i'm planning on going to the next bobw (or any other they'll hold in future), but i'm still enraged on behalf of all the other fans being swindled by the organisers. i'm still composing my Letter Of Complaint.
2. is this for real? surely not. mary is convinced it's a troll, and i'm inclined to... incline in that direction too. it's just. SO outrageous. i was tempted before to post an extensive constructive crit in response to it, or even put it through some kind of translator in an attempt to try and understand it, but i've run out of steam and decided to follow my tried and true path with badfic: ignore it. it seems some people are enjoying it, and who am i to try and tell them that they shouldn't?, but i much prefer the other fic she posted in her lj:
Dominic fucked Elijah. Hard.
The End.
and the elijah in her icon looks like he's trying to lasso some meaning out of whatever the hell it is she's trying to say. meh. each to their own. still funny, though.
3. speaking of stories-i-have-problems-with, last night i was perusing the faculty-fic yahoogroup (which i haven't done in a while), and came across this story. which... disturbed me to some extent, and continued to disturb me in the fact that so many people seemed to enjoy it (including people i know and respect). it wasn't extremely poorly written or anything, and i know there's many many fics like it out there (and i have read a whole bunch of them), but maybe i'm just over-sensitised to it now, what with thinking about it a lot and studying the likes of it at university,
but... the way casey was so thoroughly objectified really got to me. the general gist of the story is: casey has been beaten up. he's all bruised and bloodied upset and zeke riles him up a bit more because he's hotter when he's angry. then they go and have sex
but i was really fucking concerned at the lengths at which both the author was exploiting that aspect, and exploiting the character of casey, and at the lengths the story itself took to exploit the character within it (if that makes sense). if a woman in a film was treated and presented the way casey was in that fic, there would be outrage (amidst academic circles, at least). and that has nothing to do with the physical violence in the plot of the story. i understand that this is 'only fanfiction', but fanfiction is still a cultural medium that we all (at least everyone who is reading this - which is a few hundred amongst many more) partake in, and obviously place some value in. i'd like to think that the authors and readers are at least aware of what they're perpetuating here, especially considering the 'roles' that they themselves exist in within society - not only as fans 'poaching' and questioning media texts, but as women.
i've been meaning to write a more in-depth essay-thing about the above for quite a while, maybe i'll do that soon. once i've done my essay for assessment, that is. hah.
4. must go off and call
loose_your_dogs now, as we are all moving in together as of TOMORROW NIGHT. omg!PS. why am i writing in a pseudo-early 1890s journal voice? perchance it comes from reading
baranduin's delightful into the wood.and eep! might not be on as much over this weekend, on account of possibly having difficulties setting up the 'net at the new place. fingers crossed we won't, but just in case.
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