drive-by channel surfing AND blogging

[wisdomeagle]

1. It's ficathon night on ye olde flist. sjficathon is a Sam/Jack ficathon, and xgenchallenge will be a multi-fandom Father Figure Kink challenge as soon as meyerlemon figures out how to p starting right now! *runs off to sign up, debating in brain between Hammond/Sam and Giles/Willow and creatively interpreting the challenge and writing crack crossovers with butch!Sam and Willow and/or Fred because is a SICK SICK PUPPY* Perhaps the flist is telling me I should actually do that OT3+ thon, huh?

2. Caught, amidst much drivel and dren, the last five minutes of "Revelations" (of the Buffy variety) which it took me a deplorable thirty seconds to identify. Came in during the Faith/Buffy fight scene, which I thought immediately was "Revelations," perhaps because I recognized the mansion, but then my I second guessed myself and thought "Graduation Day," and didn't rectify that assumption until I actually saw Gwen Post. Noticed... very little, really, except that the color was really wonky so I had to adjust it so Buffy looked actually human. I miss S3 Willow, and seeing Cordy, even for four seconds, was like, omg, you're going to fall in love with Angel in just three years. GET OUT NOW. Eh.

Faith/Buffy is incredibly canon. The end of "Revelations" was so incredibly angst-ful and almost. Also, I think the exterior of Faith's room is revisited in "Magic Bullet." Or, the set is, because obviously, LA != Sunnydale.

3. On The Actor's Studio on Bravo!, saw David Dokuvnee Duchovney Mulder being interviewed. Actually watched this for an hour. DD is very cool, really, although evidently he either a) doesn't know the word fandom or b) didn't think his audience would know the word fandom. Hence the incredibly awkward construction, "We were the first show that had an internet fan... group." There's a word for it, you know!

Should also point out that this was apparently in response to the speedo. It went something like this:

Interviewer: There was a speedo.
DD: Yes, there was a speedo. It was interesting because Mulder always wore a suit. Also, I looked hot.
Interviewer: How did people respond?
DD: We had an internet fandom.

I guess that really says it all, doesn't it?

He said lots of vaguely interesting things about acting that I wasn't all that excited by because I'm not an actor, and in response to a question about Freud and writing he said that basically Freud is a literary critic, and then amended that the Freud is a fan, which made me giggle, and that Freud's language and way of thinking about the world has permeated our way of thinking, and that we always see stuff removed from the "primal experience" and in terms of filters like Freud's ideas, and I was like, OMG, DD is such a dork!

There showed some really adorable clips from XF that made me think maybe I really should try to watch this show more often.

But the absolutely best part? Asked what he thought God would say to him at the pearly gates, David's response was an adorable, "God will probably say, 'Mulder!'"

Heh.


4. Andrea Dworkin has, indeed, died. While I don't have much personal attachment to her one way or another (now, when Gloria dies, I shall cry. She was my personal introduction to feminism.) However, I did want to make say that something either she or Catherine MacKinnon said about penetration changed forever the way I write smut. Or rather, influenced the way I write smut in the first place. Because whoever it was that pointed out that "penetration" wasn't a natural, carved-in-stone way of looking at the heterosexual sex act -- I mean vaginal intercourse -- I mean -- penis-in-vagina -- or ... gah, you know what I mean! The point is, it doesn't have to be like that! It doesn't have to be penis-in-vagina; it could just as easily be vagina-around-penis. Because prepositions are important! So whenever I write hetsmut, which is often, especially now that half my OTPs are het, as is proper, I try to make sure I'm not assuming that penetration is the only way to look at it. And sometimes it's difficult to make the sentences non-awkward, but dammit, I think it's important. And it's all thanks to Dworkin. Or possibly MacKinnon. It's probably wrong to write hetsmut in honor of Dworkin, isn't it? I thought so.

5. OMG. In real life stuff, MUST find exam card and also checkbook and give Phi Beta Kappa all my money so I can be initiated into the secret handshake of all the smart people. Also, should probably not be awake and should instead be asleep and absorbing my slide list.

6. Have given up on answering all comments about Tara's sexual orientation. People had very interesting thoughts, yay for thinky thoughts. I hadn't considered how her Relationship With Her Father might have influenced her sexuality, mostly because, um, Freud slipped my mind? I don't really know. I guess I do see fathers (and mothers, but there are almost no TV mothers) as being important, but I'm kind of used to thinking that they were important a long time ago, unless you're Sam and your father is your chief liaison with the most important alien race you know... bad Ari! Parents are important!

7. Err, think that's all that I really had to say. Must go find those things right now and then see if I can grind out any ficathon fic... *hides behind stack of challenges*

Comments

[meyerlemon.livejournal.com]

I'm sad about Andrea Dworkin. Thanks for the link.

On the one hand, I think she was a nut. But on the other hand, she was a nut who spoke with passion and rage about my people. And- I don't know. I can't articulate my thoughts.

But I think there's something to be sad for loud crazy bitches. They wake people up. And that's good.

[wisdomeagle]

That's pretty much what Susie Bright said, too. It's been a long time since I've read whatever it was I read by her, but I thought it made good points. She was a wee bit off the deep end, yeah, but you're right, she cared. And that's something important.

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the flist is telling me I should actually do that OT3+ thon, huh?

YES WE ARE! Especially since I've thought of a couple more groupings I might be able to actually read/write. Sam/Jonas/Daniel, for example. ;-)

[wisdomeagle]

You're such an evil enabler.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

It's probably wrong to write hetsmut in honor of Dworkin, isn't it?

It's certainly...unorthodox. But I think it's a testament that smart people's greatest gift to society is making other smart people think, as opposed to making other people think like themselves. Which in Dworkin's case, is a very good thing. It's like writing socialist (or antirealist) tracts in honor of Ayn Rand, something I've done sorta.

OTOH, I sorta feel bad for Dworkin, because one just knows she had to have been all kinds of misunderstood and misquoted and misinterpreted. But yeah, there was probably a part of her that was a nut, too. So may she requiescat in pace.

And may people now stop using her name as some type of one-size-fits-all indictment of the feminist movement.

[wisdomeagle]

And may people now stop using her name as some type of one-size-fits-all indictment of the feminist movement.

*counts on one finger the chances of that happening* *sighs*

I do feel sorry for her, because I know there are things I believe really truly deeply that other people think I'm nuts for. And when you believe something so strongly, it can be hard to let go and see both sides.

[attaining.livejournal.com]

That is an interesting view on penetration.

...Relationship With Her Father might have influenced her sexuality.

Hah, sorry, that one came up from RL experience...no actual deep thinking involved so early in the morning!

[wisdomeagle]

re: penetration: it's all relative, yo. Everything is relative. Especially at eight in the morning. Evvverything is culturally defined liek whoa!

Hah, sorry, that one came up from RL experience...no actual deep thinking involved so early in the morning!

No, 'sweird, I don't think anyone who suggested that her father might've had something to do with it was wrong; they're prob'ly right, it's just I'd never thought of it and am sort of inclined to remove parents from sexuality entirely. Which is weird because personally, it's really obvious that my parents had a lot to do with it. I guess being removed from them geographically for four years really has made me forget a lot of how important they are/were...

[attaining.livejournal.com]

All that matters at 8AM is coffee. And the prospect of going back to sleep.

Well, who WANTS to place their parents anywhere near their sexuality in any regard? ;)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough about Andrea Dworkin to particularly have an opinion on her. I tend to not get upset when people die just kind of in general, though.

People had very interesting thoughts, yay for thinky thoughts. I hadn't considered how her Relationship With Her Father might have influenced her sexuality, mostly because, um, Freud slipped my mind?

I don't tend to particularly think of parents as influencing our sexuality, but since so many of my friends are lesbians and also think boys are not only icky but also deeply discomfiting, so i think that's part of my brain connected the fact that the major male figures in Tara's formative life were traumatizing with the idea that she might have emotional difficulty having an intimate relationship with a man (even though i'm quick to read Tara as bi -- importance of person rather than parts and all that). That and the fact that sometimes (though only sometimes) my fanon is that Tara was sexually abused.