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dev_chieftain) wrote2012-01-24 12:00 pm
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DELICIOUS
I just had Jack-in-the-Box tacos for the first time ever and they're amazing. They are like crack. I want more already and I'm not even hungry!
In less delicious news, sometimes things like this happen:
Fandom: I want this m/m or f/f couple to have a baby! You can have them be transgendered, or do mpreg/immaculate conception, lol, I don't care!
Dev: Adoption exists! What the heck!
or this:
Fandom: Oo, best idea! Let's have X character in Y crossover to a thing you've never heard of!
Dev: Can there be another fandom for crossovers or something? I don't care about Y fandom and you are GETTING YOUR CONAN IN MY LUPIN
or this:
Fandom: Lol it's better when X character is a girl because he's so girly anyway!
Dev: YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT
Fandom: Ok um then how about turning that butch girl into a dude? I bet then she'd be hot!
Dev: *sob*
Have revived Lebowski-icon because it is appropriate, though I couldn't quite make it perfect using the upload-image/crop feature. I'll fix it when I get home, perhaps!
But really, seriously, those tacos were amazing.
Oops, another edit, because someone at work mentioned the Oscars and what's going on.
Okay, so right, I check the news and find multiple articles about how fabulous Hugo is, how it's an amazing story about a filmmaker in decline, how he misses the good old days and blah blah blah.
You know what, I'm fine with everyone attributing Heath Ledger's last film credits to The Dark Knight. That movie is not that amazing, nor is his performance in it really much to write about (come on; he's doing a Jack Nicholson impression, okay? We can all tell), but you know, lots of people saw it so they see that as his last film.
But SINCE we're not attributing Ledger's final, amazing performance to the film it actually occurred in, can we at least deny Hugo the award that The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus deserved? Here is a film that does what people are telling me Hugo does, but better. Plus, it actually DID contain Ledger's final performance.
I would probably like Hugo, to be honest, because I liked Shutter Island and have nothing against Scorsese. But really? Seriously? Why are all my favorite creative minds always the ones who get shoved off into the background? Scorsese and Gaiman outshine Gilliam and Wolfe, and I feel sad to see it. Shouldn't they all be celebrated?
Bah, whatever.
In less delicious news, sometimes things like this happen:
Fandom: I want this m/m or f/f couple to have a baby! You can have them be transgendered, or do mpreg/immaculate conception, lol, I don't care!
Dev: Adoption exists! What the heck!
or this:
Fandom: Oo, best idea! Let's have X character in Y crossover to a thing you've never heard of!
Dev: Can there be another fandom for crossovers or something? I don't care about Y fandom and you are GETTING YOUR CONAN IN MY LUPIN
or this:
Fandom: Lol it's better when X character is a girl because he's so girly anyway!
Dev: YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT
Fandom: Ok um then how about turning that butch girl into a dude? I bet then she'd be hot!
Dev: *sob*
Have revived Lebowski-icon because it is appropriate, though I couldn't quite make it perfect using the upload-image/crop feature. I'll fix it when I get home, perhaps!
But really, seriously, those tacos were amazing.
Oops, another edit, because someone at work mentioned the Oscars and what's going on.
Okay, so right, I check the news and find multiple articles about how fabulous Hugo is, how it's an amazing story about a filmmaker in decline, how he misses the good old days and blah blah blah.
You know what, I'm fine with everyone attributing Heath Ledger's last film credits to The Dark Knight. That movie is not that amazing, nor is his performance in it really much to write about (come on; he's doing a Jack Nicholson impression, okay? We can all tell), but you know, lots of people saw it so they see that as his last film.
But SINCE we're not attributing Ledger's final, amazing performance to the film it actually occurred in, can we at least deny Hugo the award that The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus deserved? Here is a film that does what people are telling me Hugo does, but better. Plus, it actually DID contain Ledger's final performance.
I would probably like Hugo, to be honest, because I liked Shutter Island and have nothing against Scorsese. But really? Seriously? Why are all my favorite creative minds always the ones who get shoved off into the background? Scorsese and Gaiman outshine Gilliam and Wolfe, and I feel sad to see it. Shouldn't they all be celebrated?
Bah, whatever.
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I like mpreg and genderswap and crossovers.
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Anyway-- the point of my response is that the option of adoption-- you know, the one that doesn't require people to be transgendered-- isn't even mentioned as a possibility, which is weird.
Additionally, I like transgender, but only if everyone's transgendered. If it's a m/m or f/f pairing, and only half is transgendered to make it 'standard', I feel like there's something off about that. : /
As for crossovers, they're fine but it's pretty much a bummer to read a fanfic / watch a movie where you're being told "yes, the characters you like will feature in this story!" and then have them turn out to be a sidenote. I cite the Lupin III / Detective Conan crossover as a really good example; the Lupin III characters in that pretty much were along as cameos, despite it being advertised as a crossover. I don't dislike Detective Conan, but I've never seen it, and I love Lupin III. It was pretty disappointing to get no Lupin III special that year, just because of that project.
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The same goes for genderswap (which I distinguish from transgender; I consider transgender fiction to being about someone being a different gender than the one they were born under, where as genderswap is simply 'lol sudden penis/vagina'. Again, it's the lolfactor that comes from that. It's the same thing that appeals about most crack fiction.
I see what you mean there. If it's a case of mislabeling, it can be annoying. Just say "brief cameo from fandom X" in your notes, instead of saying "crossover between X and Y".
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The thing is, I have a deep interest in genderswap as a serious device. I find the concept both sexy and intriguing. I like the idea of a world where you could just change to be whatever gender you wanted (or NO gender) with the push of a magic button, or something. Not only does the possibility to truly try every flavor excite me (I would be so excited to try being with a lady as a dude, for example), but I think that the kind of fluidity and understanding of gender similarity that would be possible in such a world is really interesting from a literary and philosophical standpoint. Genderswap can be funny, too, but I don't consider it to be if the joke is that now the guy is in touch with his sensitive side / now the girl understands how gosh darned hard it is to control her boner as a boy. That, to me, misses the point, as stated above.
Anyway, just so we're clear, my complaint above wasn't about the kind of thing you're talking about. I'm specifically talking about when people do AUs where the characters are gender-flipped, especially when those AUs only gender-flip certain characters because of their perspective of what's 'normal' for a gender, essentially 'correcting' the characters they thought were 'too weird' to be a girl or guy as they were originally.
I don't really care for crack fiction. Or 'crack' in general; I might be misinformed, so let me know if that's so, but I don't like slapstick, prank-humor, or 'put X person in their place' humor, which are all generally what I see when someone points me at someone and calls it 'crack'.
Amen to that. I wish people would do the labeling, but I can't really hold it against them when it's fandom-- I just wish they would label better. When it's a movie, though, they're making me pay them for their mislabel, so they should goddamn advertise properly. (Case in point: the recent DC:Animated movie "Apocalypse" was almost solely about Supergirl, though it was labeled as being a Superman/Batman film. I found this incredibly insulting, because not only was it false advertising, the implication was that I wouldn't have wanted to see it if it had been open about the fact that Supergirl was the main character-- which I TOTALLY WOULD HAVE! It was totally lame of them.)
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Lemme try to put it another way: me and Wolfy both write a lot of crack fic. Back in the day, we were racing to get into all the categories on the TGS cracklist first. But if you've read any of my work, and any of Wolfy's work, one thing you'll notice (other than that her work is vastly superior to mine), is that while our race meant we often dealt with the same subjects, we approached them in very different ways. Like when she did a bodyswap, it was Jeremy and James trying to find out WHY they were suddenly women, and trying to reverse it, and it had a lot of intrigue and seriousness and a very deep plot, not just constant slapstick and boob jokes (though there were those, because Jeremy), but when I did a bodyswap, it was Oz Clarke in a misguided, misinformed attempt to woo James and was mostly OHGOSHWHY and... no boob jokes.
((How in the world can you be friends with Riona and not like crack??? She's practically the posterchild.))
Of course, that's not to say that there can't be slapstick or pranks or comeuppance, but those things aren't defined as crack, that's just people with bad ideas of what crack is thinking "this is humourous, and must therefore be defined as crack". ("To absurd extremes" is another definition of crack, but that's a subset; the original phrase came from being fic that makes you say "what crack was the author smoking when they thought of this?", but it's expanded since the early days of the internet.)
I hope this has been informative to you!
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What you're talking about is something I've never heard referred to as 'crack'. I would just call that 'comedy.' And I like your, and Riona's, and probably even Wolfy's comedic stuff (I don't think I have Wolfy on my reading list, actually...not sure if she'd want me about!)-- I just wouldn't call it crack.
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There was an episode of Enterprise that had canon MPreg. I can't remember the episode that well beyond the fact that Trip was embarassed and that the Klingons thought it was funny, but I remember being pretty gleeful I saw it because, lol, canon mpreg.
But I'm pretty used to MPreg being a pretty small niche of interest, and good MPreg that isn't just about reinforcing gender stereotypes being an even smaller niche, so it's cool. I wasn't saying HOW DARE YOU NOT LIKE THIS THING THAT I ENJOY IN A SPECIFIC SETTING or anything.
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On the other hand, if they wrote nothing but gay fic for years and wanted to mix it up just for the sake of variety, that's totally cool!
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That's true. I guess it doesn't bother me if they're doing it for variety; variety is awesome! I just feel like refusing to write about men or ladies unless they were originally the opposite gender breeds misogyny/misandry, and that's still not so awesome.
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By arranging everybody into these neat little preconceptions, they're just making the characterizations less interesting!
There's a reason it's totally awesome to see people riff on the stereotypes in D&D by playing "against type." That way we get elves who love cities, and dwarven ascetics.
On a somewhat related note, your coworkers don't still think I'm your "gay roommate," right?
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That, too! (As pointed out in the Manly Guys Doing Manly Things I was laughing at yesterday, haha!)
Elves who love cities are CLEARLY the best. Also, elves who are pathological liars. (I need to do SOMETHING with Matachin someday, because I love her.)
HAH! No, now they all think you're my "boyfriend". To be fair, the ones that were the most...rude about it are long gone on to other jobs. But the ones that remain are trying to enforce societal norms by rolling their eyes and nodding knowingly when I tell them I don't like the word 'boyfriend'.
On the plus side, my boss and I once had this conversation:
Dev: Well-- he's basically, if you must call him something like that, my heterosexual life partner.
Boss: Ahh, the ol' HLP. Got it. ;) Well, now I must share KNOWLEDGE about BOYS! In case you want it.
Dev: Sure?
Boss: Most of us guys are TERRIFIED to settle down until we're thirty. And then we're TERRIFIED not to because we're losers if we don't.
Dev: So I've been told! It's the same for girls, but the settle down part is supposed to kick in four years ago for me.
Boss: Well, that's stupid anyway. But if he ever breaks your heart, blah blah blah, tell me. I'll laugh at you.
Dev: You're awesome, boss. :)
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I guess "Lord-friend" would work, but that sounds terribly hilarious!
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Gent-friend?
It'll take thought, I don't know! A tricksome problem indeed, monsieur.
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