I love fandom.

And one of my favorite things about fandom is threads like this one. (For context: In the entry, lamardeuse recs chibirhm's fic and says, "this is apparently the writer's first foray into fanfic, to which I say WHERE HAS SHE BEEN ALL MY LIFE?")

Setting aside the wank, the one-uppery, the fail of every flavor, the line-crossing, and the unending stupid, at the end of the day, fandom brings together a bunch of people who've always been told they weren't quite right, and encourages them to sit around telling each other (sincerely) how totally awesome they are.

It bears noting that there are easily half a dozen people on my flist of whom I have been, at one time or another, in fannish awe of the "omg she knows my name" variety, and I have met nearly all of them, and found them to be generally fantastic people who are a little off and a lot nerdy and in short, exactly as awesome (and exactly as intimidating) as all my other friends.

Is Leverage on hiatus or something?

I'm not watching it. It's just, you know. I ran out of other shows to get caught up on (except Psych and Eureka, which I am saving) and I don't feel like rewatching Bones yet and I just want to know what happens.

But not with Nate and Sophie, I could give a crap about Nate. Sophie's awesome, don't get me wrong, but the thing is, she's mostly awesome because she has NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in Nate's bullshit, and I know that is going to be changing soon, because I've seen television before.

It's just been really interesting to watch the relationships between Hardison, Elliott, and Parker develop, especially as Mom & Dad got all caught up in their bullshit drama-llamaing and the kids were left to fend for themselves.

SHUT UP OKAY WHATEVER DON'T YOU JUDGE ME.

In other news, to absolutely nobody's surprise, I went running--not crawling, but flat-out arms-wide OMG YOU'RE BACK YOU'RE BACK running--back to Supernatural. In my defense, he fixed the Big Ugly--and he fixed Castiel--and he fixed Dean--and then he made Misha Collins say "orgy."

Like I ever had a chance of resisting that shit.

Hands up everyone who wanted to see Castiel turn into yet another bitch-hating, woman-scorning kripke clone a la Dean Winchester?

...yeah, me neither.

Congratulations, kripke, you have now officially destroyed everything I didn't hate about your show.

Note to Misha Collins: We talked about this, remember, after Karla? You simply cannot be that hungry. And if you are, call me. I will totally float you a loan until you can get a non-degrading job.

Seriously, there is a very good chance this will be my last episode. Augh. AUGH.

Dear Fandom,

Having sex with a man does not make you a girl. Even if you bottom. By definition, in a male homosexual relationship, neither partner is "the girl." No, really.

On a related-and-by-no-means-secondary note, there is nothing wrong with being a girl. The word "girl" is not an insult. Female does not equal less than. Male is not inherently superior.

Having one of your characters say to the other, "This so makes you the girl" because he wants to cuddle or says "I love you" or what the fuck ever is heteronormative, miosgynist, and cliched as hell.

Get your issues worked out before you inflict them on me. I am super done with this shit.

No love,
Me. A girl.

1. Anytime your justification for anything ever includes the argument, "but that's how they do it in porn!" you lose. Instantly, forever, at everything.

2. Nothing in this world ever happened, is happening, or will happen on accident. You know why? Because it's BY ACCIDENT.

3. Oh my god enough with the random werefics.

4. ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING: Rape is not dub!con. Rape is rape. Or non-con. It is NOT dub!con. The "dub" stands for "dubious," meaning that there are some issues or questions around the consent given, but that ultimately consent IS given. When the consent is NOT given, it is non-consensual. Even if it's only ATTEMPTED rape, you still don't get to call it dub!con. Asshole.

4a. Icon used with grate irony, yayz.