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[Nov. 17th, 2008|10:57 pm] |
Forehead Space: Fanfiction by the Eyebrow of Doom has moved to http://eyebrowofdoom.oscillating.net.
Update your bookmarks... or die!*
* Experience of actual death may vary. But the whole dombillijah.com domain will disappear in a couple of months, with no redirects to save you, so you really need to update your bookmarks before then, okay? And while I've got you reading small text at the bottom o' the post (how much of an eager beaver are you!), let me just tell you that the new site is way cooler than this one: it is way easier to find stuff - you can just choose the fandom or character you want from one dropdown menu - so this is all a good thing. |
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[Jul. 15th, 2006|02:57 pm] |
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This thread is made of underaged awesome. |
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| RPS meta about why I hate RPS meta |
[Jul. 28th, 2005|09:27 pm] |
I think I've realised why I'm constantly annoyed when I become aware that RPS debates are going on. Why I don't have to read the debate to become annoyed.
It's because I actually don't care what people have to say about RPS. I outright do not give a fuck.
The only way I'd qualify that is to say, pragmatically I prefer them to like it, because that reduces the amount of bleating they do about it.
A representation of a thing is not the thing itself and does not bring the thing into being. It does not partake of the morality of the thing. I do not make two celebrities fuck by representing them fucking, in the same way I do not murder by representing a murder.
I think RPS gives the squicks to people to a greater or lesser degree because it steps over the line of normal boundaries for the expression of sexual fantasies. Outside of an intimate relationship, you don't normally express your sexual fantasies to the person who is their object, because (a) the way that a sexual fantasy uses another person as a passive or distorted gratification object is likely to be confronting and hurtful to that person (revelation trangresses their boundaries), and (b) the fantasy reveals too much about you and what you most deeply desire (revelation trangresses your boundaries).
So the squick is twofold: firstly people worry about Orlando Bloom's potential experience of boundary transgression if he reads my story; and secondly people are uncomfortable by example at the spectacle of my willingly stepping out of my boundaries to tell my fantasy.
As for the first squick, I am not telling my story to Orlando Bloom, nor would I. My stories are well enough identified that if Orlando Bloom happened upon them and read them, he would be reading as a willing eavesdropper (because he is patently not the audience), and that would be his responsibility. In any case, the injury this would do him is not a "real" injury, a moral injury; it is simply a transient discomfort, and so I am morally comfortable with the possibility (however slim) of it happening.
As for the second squick, I do not have a responsibility to make the spectacle of me engaged in my hobbies pleasing to others. If I make carrot cake and put a sign on it saying "carrot cake", and you don't like carrot cake, you don't have to eat it. I do not have a responsibility to stop making carrot cake or hide it so that you are not made uncomfortable by the knowledge that somewhere in the world, carrot cake still exists.
It is totally fair enough that people have these squicks. I had them myself but I found the early lotrips community so rewarding a place to read and write that I made a conscious choice to train myself out of them. Nobody else needs to make that choice if they don't want to. Keep your squicks. But: just because you are uncomfortable, does not mean I am doing something morally wrong, or that I should stop.
The other things I hate about RPS bleating:
-- Self-righteousness is such a *pleasurable* subject position to adopt. I mean, get some self-awareness people.
All fanfiction is self-gratification. It is written in search of a gratification that the source text (which is media-constructed celebrity personas for RPS) stopped short of providing. In as far as that, it is all morally equal, and possessed of a perfectly equal dignity or indignity.
[ETA let me try this paragraph again.] Self-righteousness about fanfiction is a masturbatory project based in false superiority. If we compare this to the honest masturbatory project of fanfiction, we can see that the masturbation of self-righteousness about fanfiction is notably morally inferior to the masturbation of fanfiction itself.
I suspect that people who get righteous about other people's fanfictional pleasures are not truly at ease with the fanfictional project. And certainly people who get righteous about other people's preferred objects of pornographic pleasure are not truly at ease with the pornographic project as such in general. I acknowledge it is arrogant to psychoanalyse your opponent but there you have it.
-- There's an infinite supply of people who have bleated about RPS in the past and will in the future. It hasn't stopped and it will not. What are you going to do about it? I mean, really?
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| website update |
[May. 10th, 2005|01:39 am] |
Click meh!
New: The Bill fic.
LOTR RPF het fic (Marton/Miranda).
You laugh now. |
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[May. 5th, 2005|09:47 pm] |
This appears to be for real:
Ha.
I've done some pretty bad things innocently with imaging software over the years. This helps me to laugh at others more sensitively. |
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[Mar. 20th, 2005|12:36 am] |
OH MY GOD actual comic timing on ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) jurisimprudence.
Concision, simplicity, trenchancy! Notice!! how a reasonable person wouldn't even say it was true,* and it's still piss-funny.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
My jf friendslist has not been funneh for so long.
* to be fair you'd say it's a raging-internet-twit-who-read-just-enough-Dworkin-to-be-dangerous principle. |
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| OTB[sic] Manifesto |
[Mar. 13th, 2005|02:46 am] |
In light of my recent and belated realisation that yes, Virginia, I have an OTP and my OTP is Orlando getting it up the bum, I would like to present for your edification a kind of ship manifesto (if you will) in links. Thus:
Some favourite moments in Orlando Getting it Up the Bum Fandom
Beginning with LOTR RPS, progressing through various fandom RPS, to LOTR character fic, to various character fic.
( Read it and weep. PS Mr Bloom please do not click. ) |
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| fic |
[Feb. 22nd, 2005|09:22 pm] |
Psst, this may be my One True Characterisation of Orlando.
That Way You Do
Dom/Orlando, NC-17.
What kind of a faggot are you, anyway.
An amateur work of fiction, which is a gift for inbetweens for the Slashy Valentine project, 2005.
It lives here on the Slashy Valentine website. |
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| Sekrit confession |
[Jan. 20th, 2005|01:38 am] |
Sometimes, when I am cross about public fic criticism wank (aka my emotional problems are your, the critic's, responsibility wank), I go to Henneth Annun and reject fics from the review queue.
It makes me feel better.
I especially like to go over there and reject slash and hobbit fic after I hear people complaining against all evidence that Henneth Annun is biased against slash and hobbit fic.
Hee hee.
I am not saying I reject things that I don't genuinely believe deserve rejecting, mind you. If I had I read those fics under other circumstances, I would still have rejected them. However, I wouldn't otherwise have been reading them, but for having been provoked by the wank.
PS. Henneth Annun accepted my R rated fic wherein Legolas has sex with an Ent. They are such slash-hating canon nazi oppressors. |
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[Oct. 7th, 2004|08:27 pm] |
BOO. WHO ATE MY INTERNET?
Livejournal is down, my hosted fandom mail is down and my RL social BB is down. WTF?
And there's only one porn pellet in my sable_knot hamster feed tray! I... *zap* Ow. I knew it. |
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[Oct. 4th, 2004|07:58 pm] |
Yay Sable Knot!
PORNTASTAMOMONDO. I am gorged on really well-done semi-con porn.
Of course I will now be like the experimental hamster, expecting 25 new porn-pellets every time I press the lever, instead of the electric shock. |
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| Liek, dirty FPS fic |
[Sep. 6th, 2004|01:11 am] |
TITLE: The Mill in the Mirror, 1/1
SERIES: Much belated sequel to A Storm of Moths.
RATING: NC-17
PAIRING: Aragorn/Frodo
GENRE: Angst/Smut
WARNINGS: graphic sex, m/m slash, interspecies. Here be dragons! This is a piece of pornography that treats hobbit/big person sex and the erotics thereof in an unflinching fashion. If you suspect this is not for you, you are most likely correct.
SUMMARY: Frodo, returning from his visit to Galadriel’s mirror, happens upon Aragorn.
NOTES: Predominantly movieverse.
Excerpt from my overlong introduction
...it was as if we'd been married twenty years and I had a gammy leg and was just trying to settle down for the evening to watch Antiques Roadshow, and this fic was trying to hump my leg like a crazed streetwalker.
link to lj entry |
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[Jun. 27th, 2004|10:34 pm] |
Well. Er. Not being on MM any more, I didn't know about it. I presumed (though not without a certain anxiety) it was a joke. Now I'm a little... lingeringly disturbed about all the direct lying.
*twitches nose* |
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[Jun. 24th, 2004|01:54 am] |
I am confident this will all blow over in the morning.
*gnaws own foot casually* |
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| A lotrips poolboy fic |
[Jun. 21st, 2004|01:44 pm] |
Trouble, the second time. 1/1
Dom/Orli, rated NC-17 for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
"I've come to clean the pool." PWP. Not AU.
AN: In honour of the birthday of Cupiscent. A long time ago, she and Girloftheq and I were drunkenly talking up a bunny for a Dom/Orli fic involving the lines, I've come to clean the pool./But I don't have a pool. More recently I told her I was working on it but was having trouble coming up with a plot to hang it on. She replied blankly, "Plot?" I hope this whisks your algae into oblivion, Dee.
This is, of course, a work of amateur fiction that intends no implication about nor disrespect towards the persons whose names it uses as characters.
Link to lj. |
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[Jun. 7th, 2004|05:51 pm] |
Ah, usernames.
pychofilly. I've always thought psycho was one of those words that you can't spell, but at least you can *tell* you can't spell it, because you can almost physically feel what happens to your line of reasoning when it ventures within the reach of the kittenish claws of trying.
tarnished raven. But was it plated before or after death? |
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