Your T-Shirt, the smell of lettuce

chash @ 2005-01-21T14:08:00

2005-01-21T19:09:50Z

A good while ago, I think on fandom_wank, someone linked to some kind of archive of openly homosexual comic book characters (it included a house--this is all I remember). I don't suppose anyone knows what I'm talking about and has a link?

chash @ 2004-06-26T12:03:00

2004-06-26T16:02:16Z

"This is what manga fangirls are supposed to weep with joy over...

TRUE GAY LOVE!"

Ah, Please Save My Earth, you're like the Domlijah, in a way.

chash @ 2004-06-24T14:00:00

2004-06-24T18:00:09Z

I just wish that Fandom_Wank had been down for three days, because then all the "Fandom Wank: We're like Jesus in a way" icons would have been totally validated.

chash @ 2004-06-16T16:22:00

2004-06-16T20:23:08Z

Someone want to help me out? I'm trying to generate some invite codes and can't find where to do that. Am I just missing a very obvious link?

chash @ 2004-04-19T10:31:00

2004-04-19T14:35:17Z

Damnit, I leave for one weekend and when I come back, I notice I seem to have missed the fucking Wankpocalypse. Thank god for those cliff's notes.

chash @ 2003-10-27T07:13:00

2003-10-27T12:19:06Z

I have a theory about HP wank.

See, every once in a while, HP wank comes up. And it gets posted on F_W. And the F_Wers are stunned by the all mighty power of the HP wank.

"Bow before me, for I am your god!!!11" says the HP wank.

"Wow, wankiest fandom EVAH!" says F_W (secretly wondering where Smallville is).

And after about 50 bazillion comments, the wank dies down, but not after several other posts and much eating ones own.

"That was wanky," say the F_Wers. Smallville remains out for the count.

(On a side note, I believe this is because HP, specifically H/D fandom is SO wanky, they've actually started causing rolling wankouts because there is only so much wank alloted to the internet.)

And after three days, THE WANK REINCARNATES.

So, in conclusion? HP Wank: It's like Jesus, in a way.

chash @ 2003-09-16T16:23:00

2003-09-16T20:30:23Z

Apparently, there's some kind of bandwagon with random users. Since I have no will or mind of my own, I jumped on, but might have injured myself.

1. cesare. She posts to f_w and dl_anon, I belive. Two for one!

2. zorrorojo. Our lord and master. All hail.

3. guinevere33. Just posted to f_w about Get Fuzzy.

4. joaquin_phoenix. I assume he's from The Establishment.

5. eliaskoteas_dfw. A complete mystery. Who is he? What does he want?

6. head. According to miracalix, he's Anthony Stewart Head in The Establishment.

7. notmydad. Establishment again?

8. originaltattoo. Another mystery. This person is unknown to me.

9. jason_isaacs. Establishment? I'm sure we have other RPGs...

10. lin_fiorentino. We have a whole lot of fake celebrities here. Wow.

That was fun. I feel enlightened and established.

chash @ 2003-09-15T20:19:00

2003-09-16T00:24:15Z

Is Penny Arcade fandom_wank's mascot comic yet? Because they're at least twice as snarky as we are, I think.

A Public Service Announcement

2003-09-02T16:00:55Z

I would like to state, for the record, that I personally, ignoring the rest of whatever hiveminds I belong to and striking out on a bold new independent level, do not care if Elijah Wood and/or Dominic Monaghan and/or Billy Boyd and/or Sean Astin and/or God is gay. This is not taking "not care" as being against the idea, it is saying that, in the long run, this has no effect on my life, and the sun will continue to rise regardless of anyone's sexual habits. The only thing that will stop the sun rising is if Orfeo stops playing his guitar. Moving on. What bothers me is not the concept that Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood might be a couple--if they are, more power to them and all the best luck in the future. I will continue seeing The Lord of the Rings movies because I LIKE THEM, which is why I do everything that I have a choice about. I do not think any of the cast will fuck me, regardless of their sexual orientation, because the chances of us ever meeting, even at some sort of signing, are low, because I live in the middle of nowhere. I don't even really want to fuck them. I'm good. The only problem I have with the concept that Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood or ANY OTHER CELEBRITIES are dating is when it is presented as FACT by those who do not actually have anything they're willing to use to back it up other than inconclusive photographic evidence. To put this into perspective: there are pictures of Bigfoot. Bigfoot might exist, but most authorities do not take these pictures as proof. Again, for perspective, THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BIGFOOT ARE MORE COMPELLING, because they show something that is what we think of as Bigfoot. On the other hand, the pictures of Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood show two people doing things that everyone does with their friends, and yes, I include straight males with their straight friends, because I have straight friends who hug each other and look at each other when they're talking to each other. If one were a girl, would I be convinced they were dating? No. The news might speculate about them, yes, because the news doesn't speculate about two men together very much--I'm not denying that. But ANY campaign based on, from what I can tell, dubious sources that offer nothing definative for their cause, would be one that I would doubt. Possibilities exist, but I am a dubious person by nature, and it takes more than this to convince me. If this is homophobia, then I am confused.

chash @ 2003-08-20T20:04:00

2003-08-21T00:10:43Z

If thinking the guy who now hosts Blue's Clues is kinda cute is wrong then I don't want to be right. But really, it's just as well, becuase I'm doing a horrible job being right, just in general.

I used way too many commas there.

Everything I need to know in life, I learned from tinhats

2003-08-01T16:18:23Z

1. If it's with a girl, it's a beard. If it's with a boy, it's a practised interaction. If it's Dom and Elijah, it's love.
2. The simplest explanation is never the correct one.
3. Everyone involved in The Lord of the Rings excluding Dom and Elijah is a bastard.
4. Chartreuse=yellow.
4b. Dom learned his colors from alcohol, not Blue's Clues like he should have done.
5. If I ever see Dom and Elijah with girls in any context, I am a liar even if I have proof. If I casually mention I saw them without girls, I am believed and they are teh gay.
6. Ian McKellen is a bastard oppressing the one true Domlijah, despite how hard he's worked and how much he's risked for gay rights.
7. Pictures are worth a thousand words, but if Dom and Elijah are in the picture, those thousand words are just "Gay" written a thousand times. In sparkly pink.
8. Everyone knows the rumors about Dom and Elijah, even though they don't appear to.
9. Standing with a member of the opposite sex=gay, but sad.
10. Standing with a member of the same sex=gay, but oppressed and angry.
11. Dom and Elijah standing together in the exact same position as in any picture with anyone else=gay and gay.
12. Standing=gay.
13. Sitting=gay.
14. Kneeling=gay.
15. Existing=gay.
16. You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you, and baby, everyone's out to get the one true Domlijah.
17. Saying "I value my privacy" is the same as wearing a big pink sign saying "Please speculate endlessly about what my co-worker may or may not be doing. I'll cheer you on by not knowing my colors."
18. Saying "We're just friends" means "She's a beard. It has nothing to do with my desire to keep my private life private."
19. Saying "We'll probably end up getting married" is a joyous, wonderful occasion if Dom says it about Elijah, but means nothing if Dom says it about Billy.
20. WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

*wipes tears from her eyes* I have seen the light, and it's coming from a purple candle!

chash @ 2003-07-27T23:20:00

2003-07-28T04:25:26Z

Time to use my journal as it was intended. Woo!

Over in fandom_wank right now, there's a post about someone's objections to RPF. She (the OP) is asking for people to tell her why they write RPF. I'm considering responding, but I don't know if I actually want to go over there. So I will be ranting about it for a little while.

Now, I'm not a big RPF writer. I used to read it a good deal, but I don't very much these days. I was into the good ol' LotR RPS, which is the first fandom where I ever could get over "but it's weird to write about real people." I think I've only ever written one RPS fic (Dom/Billy, mmmhobbits), but mainly because I never got inspired for anything else. I also wrote, many years ago, an unfortunate piece that I never considered RPF, because it was about some friends. It was written for a friend's birthday, mocking some relationships we had at the time. It was an amusing, but dumb and inaccurate fic, which still gives us laughs, but also prompts the "oh my god, please put it away!" response.

Thinking about that was what made me realize that RPF is one of the most natural things in the world to write. People say, "how would you like it if it were written about you?" I write it about myself. And my friends. Creative nonfiction. It's a genre--people writing about true events, but embellishing a little. That's RPF. All RPF is is real person fiction. Is it about real people? Check. It's about my friends and I. Is it fiction? Check. I've written many an essay where certain aspects were made up to help the story. That's a form of RPF you've written about your friends, possibly without their consent. Hell, having an idle fantasy about a conversation you could have is RPF without the consent of the person. That's not written or on the internet, but at base, it's the same thing. It's a fantasy (sexual or non) about a person, based on facts known about them, that is had without their knowledge or consent. Is this wrong? I don't think it is.

Does posting these fantasies onto the internet make it wrong? Maybe. Then anyone can see it. But if I post about a dream I had involving a friend of mine, is that wrong? I'm making no claims it's true, I'm disclaiming it as such (this is a dream I had), but it's about someone real without their consent or knowledge. Like RPF.

So let's take that same dream and make it about Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd having the Butt Sex. The dream is still 1. not true. 2. not advertized as true. 3. written about real people without consent or knowledge. It's a fucking dream, though. So who cares, right? But dreams and stories are somewhat similar--daydreams often take the form of a story (a start, a finish, characters, a distinct plot and purpose). So writing down a day dream about you and a friend is real person fiction. As is writing down a day dream about Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd. The second is stranger, yes, but does that make it wrong? I don't think so. No one's saying "this is actually what happens!" (okay, tinhats are. And that's a problem many at dl_anon have--they're saying "this is true" without any tangible evidence. But tinhats don't write RPS, so they aren't a part of this argument, are they? Gah). If someone was writing RPF about me, I'd be amused. I'd think, "huh, how about that" and move on. Because it's not saying anything about me. If this has details about me that are creepily correct and make me worry I am being stalked, I might become concerned, but unless that's happening, I don't fucking care. If they were saying "Chash really does sleep with horses! Everything in this is true. It's fan non-fiction!" then I might be concerned, because I don't even like horses. They're smelly. Then it becomes a sort of problem, if anyone believes it, but I think it probably takes more than that to create a horse-fucking scandal.

Do I write RPF because of this? No. What was the point of all that? I think RPF is perfectly reasonable. I think everyone, to some extent, has dealt with it and found it non-squicky. I understand that with celebrities, it can be weird, because they're real people whom the author probably doesn't know, but are they being hurt? Are their careers? As a celebrity, I assume that one accepts there is the possibility that hordes of people will fantasize about a public image. I mean, it fucking happens. People like celebrities. Carrying that same fantasy into a story? It's a bit odd, but not that different. I'm not saying celebrities ask for it, but I imagine they at least realize that fiction is the logical evolution of fantasy.

Where does FPF become RPF? Is WWF fanfiction RPF or FPF? How about "The Osbournes"? These days, it's getting harder to tell what's a character and what's a person.

Why do I read/write RPF? Because a public persona intrigues me. I enjoy what this person acts like when the cameras are on, much like I enjoy a character on a TV show. Yes, this is a person. It might be their real personality, it might not be. I read/write stories about them not because I'm thinking "this is true!" or even "I wish this was true!" but because it's a good story. Or a story I want to hear. If the story offends the person it's about, I am sorry. My intent is not to offend, but to simply write. Why not do it with an original character, one might ask, because then I surely could offend no one? Because this story is not about Bob Jones or whoever, it is about someone else, and thus would not work about Bob Jones.

I think I lost myself at some point in here. What was I trying to say? RPF is everywhere, strangely, and I write it because I accept that, and because I don't want to give up inspiration just because it is not about a ficitonal character. RPF does not claim to be true, nor is it intended as an offense to anyone (well, not due to who it's about--I'm not going to lie and say that I haven't written stories that aren't offensive for other reasons), I don't think. Certainly not when I write it. It is intended as a story, to interest or amuse. And that will be the end, because it was longwinded, disjointed, and god I need sleep.

chash @ 2003-07-17T21:20:00

2003-07-18T01:25:28Z

Okay, I was channel surfing, got to the Disney Channel, and saw some girl kissing some guy. And it's on TV (on the show) for some reason, and some guy cries and says "Their love is so pure!" and I think, "IT'S ALL FOR YOU, DOMLIJAH!!!1!!" I have been completely corrupted by dl_anon.

chash @ 2003-07-16T22:34:00

2003-07-17T02:38:26Z

chash

Ignore this message.

Um...

2003-06-12T02:35:59Z

Hi. I'm Chash. I stalk fandom_wank and dl_anon. That's basically my entire personality right there. I'm a sad, sad little man, minus the man part.