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May. 17th, 2006 11:58 amOkay, how the fuck did Spongebob Squarepants get on my interests list?
ETA: and now it's gone again. Curiouser and curiouser.
ETA: and now it's gone again. Curiouser and curiouser.
May. 17th, 2006
Follow-up discussions of the Tiptree
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matociquala opened the can of worms about the CSI/Harry Potter MPREG fanfic on the long list.coffeeandink is thinking about what constitutes genderbending. And what doesn't.I am not contributing to the conversation at this time, for the same reason I don't discuss my reactions to reviews except in the most general of terms. Conflict of interest, otherwise known as the "So, have you stopped beating your wife yet?" conundrum. The personal may be political, but ad hominen arguments are still the Tar Baby. Once you touch it, you're guaranteed to end up immobilized and covered in black goo.
But I encourage everyone to sashay over to Bear's and Mely's blogs and see what other people are saying. Because I do think the discussion is worth having.
Slash! Parry! Dodge!
May. 17th, 2006 06:21 pmThe Mirador, Chapter 2: 14,874 words
Entirely new words: 3,730. Felix is a prima donna. But we knew that already.
That's a very long sex scene.
o.O
otoh, I finally got a chance to show Mélusine's sexual underworld in action, and I have invented more terminology in the past three days ...
I tried to use "sadism," I really did. And "masochism." But the moss trolls kept tapping me on the shoulder and saying Urr? politely. Because the Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch just don't exist in this world, and I know it. You can only be bothered by the Moss-Troll Problem if you know the etymology of the dubious word, or if you know the connotations you will be invoking. "Top" and "bottom" aren't necessarily anachronistic--they're bluntly descriptive enough that parallel evolution seems not unreasonable--but they have cultural context, and their cultural context is not Felix's cultural context. It's the same reason I use "molly" instead of "gay." Because you have to be careful about what you allow your reader to assume they know. You can't invite words in if they won't check their baggage at the door.
Entirely new words: 3,730. Felix is a prima donna. But we knew that already.
That's a very long sex scene.
o.O
otoh, I finally got a chance to show Mélusine's sexual underworld in action, and I have invented more terminology in the past three days ...
I tried to use "sadism," I really did. And "masochism." But the moss trolls kept tapping me on the shoulder and saying Urr? politely. Because the Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch just don't exist in this world, and I know it. You can only be bothered by the Moss-Troll Problem if you know the etymology of the dubious word, or if you know the connotations you will be invoking. "Top" and "bottom" aren't necessarily anachronistic--they're bluntly descriptive enough that parallel evolution seems not unreasonable--but they have cultural context, and their cultural context is not Felix's cultural context. It's the same reason I use "molly" instead of "gay." Because you have to be careful about what you allow your reader to assume they know. You can't invite words in if they won't check their baggage at the door.