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Below are the 19 most recent journal entries recorded in Del's LiveJournal:

    Monday, December 22nd, 2008
    10:31 am
    I personally read it as a gripe about people doing the "if you do X, you're Y" and vice versa where even though you know you can't please the entire universe, there's always a bunch of people who just are so serious business about being sahnsitive to other people that someone in the middle wonders "well sheesh, I can't do all this or I'll be running around in a circle". Kind of like the pinheads during the Democratic primaries who were going "If you support Obama, you're a misogynist" and "if you support Clinton, you're a racist". - [info]moonjaguar

    Well, I suppose I can say that one person who isn't actually on my flist got what I was talking about, so it's not a complete and total failure. But it is odd that "I didn't want this linked to in metafandom and someone nominated it as a link using the most inflammatory section - ie, the bit that insults metafandom - as the summary and to me that smacks of trying to generate wank" has garnered continual accusations of not being able to take criticism (informed criticism yes, bilious flames from people who don't have the whole picture I'm not actually obligated to allow). Also, judging by the comments on f_d, a whoooooole lot of new stalkers (hey, why don't you read the fic while you're there and see how appallingly I treat female characters by writing them as funny and intelligent and strong individuals when they're relevant to the plot-- no? You'd rather just decide that I'm a hatefilled misogynist because I get snappy when people try to start drama? Cool).

    So there have been a lot of people outing themselves as, uh, clearly thinking that they're the kind of people I was complaining about (I don't know, I don't bloody know any of them, so I don't know if they genuinely are the kind of people who value sociopolitical message over, say, accurate characterisation and a good story, or if they're just getting defensive because of the typically bombastic nature of my peeve), circling my journal and yelling every time I lock something, post a strop, make grandiose gestures, or generally act like a prodded beehive after being prodded.

    TBH as I told Shira last night, I'm weirdly grateful for this; over the course of the weekend there has been some RL shite which significantly lowered my opinions of (straight, at least) men (old male friend/also my father apparently CANNOT LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE), and having this going on here on the interwebs does at least provide me with the reminder that it's not a gendered thing. Women are just as prone to being idiots as men, I don't need to react by charging off in one direction or another, and I can get back to writing my Christmas porn without worrying about it for much longer.

    (NB: the possibility of being misinterpreted for my fic *is* occasionally a paralysing factor if only because the misinterpreters have such vocal clout and the whole fandom is a COMMUNITY deal, but it's never actually *stopped* me writing something; story > community, imo, as regular readers will know. Story > pretty much anything, which doubtless sounds like I'm trying to be - quoth one commenter - "loledgy". Is there anything more depressing than the idea that because someone else doesn't subscribe to your way of expressing themselves [ie, lengthy academic hand-wringing verses swears and threats of violence followed by a cooling off period and backpeddaling] it must be do out of the need to project a particular image? Well, yes, the constant significant erosion of women's body rights is fundamentally a lot more depressing, but as we all know it's more important to never lose one's temper. That would be ... unladylike.

    ... wait, isn't the imposition of stereotypes of acceptable female behaviour a fairly powerful tool of female oppression?

    No?

    Okay)

    Actually, that provokes an interesting question. Am I projecting an image? What is it?

    [also FYI: the reason I screen comments from non-friends is a hangover from the Niqab furore, and a couple of other occasions when people were offensive, other people took them to task, my LJ turned into a quagmire of flaming and I got annoyed because it was distracting me from looking for a job]

    X-posted.
    Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
    11:03 pm
    Heros (MYLAR)
    Title: Stockholm Syndrome
    Fandom: Heroes
    Word Count:
    Rating:
    Disclaimer: Heroes characters are not mine.
    Notes: Weirdly, the title for this one came first, rather than being pulled out of my arse at the last minute. Thanks to Suzy for the beta.

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    Monday, August 20th, 2007
    8:50 pm
    HALP. I need a Heroes-beta for about 10-12k of Mylar fic. HALP HALP HALP.
    Sunday, August 12th, 2007
    9:13 pm
    IT NEVER GETS OLD. NEVER.

    Thursday, August 9th, 2007
    7:07 pm
    PART TWO.
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    7:06 pm
    Title: Not Much Like Father, Like Son.
    Fandom: Dr Who/Torchwood (tangentally)
    Word Count: 13,895
    Rating: NC-17
    Notes: Thanks to [info]derryderrydown for prompt and close beta and I suspect some research monkeying as well – any mistakes in there were probably ADDED by me in the final edit. Lattiford House is a real place, although details on the layout have been slightly massaged/vagued out – it's the building that I went to school in for five years so I know it and the area quite well. Stourhead is also a real place. Everyone in this apart from Jack and the few dead poets mentioned is my own creation.

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    Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
    9:56 pm
    Petrellicest.
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    Thursday, May 31st, 2007
    6:17 pm
    6:14 pm
    Band of Brothers (7)
    Title: I'm Not Trying To Undress You: I Want To Intellectually Impress You.
    Pairing: Speirs/Nixon
    Fandom: Band of Brothers
    Word Count: 2,867
    Rating: NC-17

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    6:11 pm
    Band of Brothers (6)
    Title: Small Claims
    Fandom: Band of Brothers (TV Series)
    Rating: Er, PG-13?
    Word Count: 1,229
    Pairing: Webgott.
    Disclaimer: Not intended to represent the actual people or even the HBO presentations of them in any way. Am not making money off this and should in fact probably be kicked in the head for writing this.
    Warning: CONTAINS GROSSNESS.
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    NB: This is TOTALLY unbetad and probably enormously inaccurate in many places. If anything is particularly jarring/outright factually insane could you please tell me so I can fix it?
    6:08 pm
    Band of Brothers (5)
    Title: Kiss Me Like You Mean It.
    Fandom: Band of Brothers
    Rating: PG-13. Possibly R if you're really sensitive.
    Word count: 2,296
    Pairing: Winters/Nixon
    Disclaimer: This is speculative fiction based on the HBO miniseries, and is not intended to a) earn money or b) depict or in any way demean the real men the series was based on.
    Notes: Sequel to Five Different Approaches to the Same Problem, which was the sequel to You Don't Remember Paris, Hon (But It Remembers You. Also, Emo!Nix!

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    6:06 pm
    Band of Brothers (4)
    Title: Five Different Approaches to the Same Problem
    Rating: PG for kissing
    Fandom: Band of Brothers
    Word Count: 734
    Pairing: Winters/Nixon (of course)
    Disclaimer: You know the drill. They're not mine, this is not intended as disrespect, the horrible demons in my head made me do it, etc
    Note: Sequel to You Don't Remember Paris, Hon. I've decided to give in every single time I get a Band of Brothers plotbunny and the result appears to be that I write really short fics but I write them more-or-less constantly. I hope that's not what you want. :P

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    6:01 pm
    Band of Brothers (3)
    Title: You Don't Remember Paris, Hon, But It Remembers You
    Rating: PG
    Fandom: Band of Brothers
    Word Count: 400 ish. Tiny!
    Pairing: Implied Winters/Nixon
    Disclaimer: You know the drill. They're not mine, this is not intended as disrespect, the horrible demons in my head made me do it, etc

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    5:58 pm
    Band of Brothers (2)
    Title: Breaking A Fever
    For: [info]zellamsee
    Pairing: Speirs/Lipton
    Rating: PG-13/R
    Disclaimer: This is a work of speculative fiction intended to feature the fictionalised rendering of events in the HBO/BBC series; it is not meant to disrespect or otherwise injure the real individuals named within.
    Notes: The book says schnapps and Apfelstrudel were the cure, but I like to think this was a much more efficacious remedy.

    ( While on the road, Sergeant Lipton became ill, with chills and a high fever )
    5:54 pm
    Band of Brothers (1)
    Title: “Three Things That Never Happened To Lewis Nixon And Certainly Not In This Order”
    Pairing: Winters/Nixon
    Rating: PG-13? I’m useless at ratings.
    Word Count: 1,348 (including subheadings)
    Disclaimer: Oh, you know it. This is speculative fiction derived from the television series and is not meant as any kind of realistic depiction of or insult to the real men of Easy Company, etc, etc.

    ( CONTAINS SPOILERS )
    5:53 pm
    Fair warning.
    I am about to spam the shit out of this journal with fanfic. Apologies in advance.
    Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
    10:02 pm
    YOU try explaining to people that you're moping because Brutus is dead.
    Saturday, November 4th, 2006
    9:05 pm
    Since LJ is still down and I need to make sure these are up *somewhere*
    Friday, October 22nd, 2004
    6:38 pm
    Why is everyone creating troll journals and hating on each other? Some sort of freakish astrological misalignment?
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