I won’t be alone in a while. In a little while I’ll leave to be with other people. But right now, I am alone. It’s gray outside, and quiet in here; I didn’t expect to be alone but I’m glad I am, except for the headache.
I think maybe I should write or watch a movie. I already read two magazines and a book (The Perks of Being A Wallflower — Jen bought it for me for my birthday, and it was great!) and I’m thinking about all the books I should write but I know that I’ll just wait until Monday and start then.
So I could watch a movie, but I don’t think have enough time before I need to leave to go watch a movie or two with friends. I could fast forward, I guess. I was watching Velvet Goldmine and really, there are only a few parts I need to watch. (You know which ones.)
I’m not sure if I ever mentioned this, but real person fic and particularly real person slash really makes my stomach hurt. It seems strange to me that a fan would write a story about a real person having sex (homosexual or heterosexual) with another real person and put it out there on the internet for the world (including those real people and their family and friends) to read. I also really don’t like manips that put the faces of real people on gay porn.
I also despise the people who bought the domain name of a popular social networking site but with a pretty common typo in it, and forwarded it to a really explicit XXX porn site so that my tween-age daughter, in her attempts to get on the social networking site, was exposed to blatant photos of cock sucking. Yeah. I’m pretty angry about that. I’m all for looking up porn if you WANT to but when it’s forced on me or anyone I get pretty pissed off.
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March 28th, 2009 at 6:28 pm · Link
Aw man, that makes me feel dumb because I write some RPF myself : /
March 28th, 2009 at 6:40 pm · Link
There are three parts of the Velvet Goldmine that I need to see specifically. I need to get that on DVD. I only have it on VHS, and those three parts skip!
Doesn’t that just figure?
And I need to dig out my copy of Perks of Being a Wallflower now. Giving it to you has made me all nostalgic for it.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:44 pm · Link
@Jenny: I’m sorry if what I said made you feel dumb — you shouldn’t let what someone else thinks or feels make you feel dumb. If *you* enjoy it, then you should do it. I don’t understand it. It makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable, because those people are real, with real feelings, and they have mothers and fathers and friends — friends who end up being put in the fic by default, and if someone was writing sex fic about me and my friends, I’d feel verrrrrrry weird about that.
And I am sorry if my feeling that way makes you feel dumb. It shouldn’t. It’s just my opinion, not a mandate.
You shouldn’t let what someone else says make you feel dumb, okay?
But I saw something online today that frankly turned my stomach (and it wasn’t you) — and I just thought…wow. I hope I never get so famous that someone writes sex fic about me and my BFF. That would just be so uncomfortable. And squicky. And if I ever saw my face on an explicit porn pic, or the face of my son or daughter — wow, I’d really be just…that would really upset me.
It’s easy to forget celebrities are real people too.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:57 pm · Link
Stopping in to say hello. Hope you’re enjoying the movies. I’m watching Midnight Bayou while a snow storm rages on outside.
March 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am · Link
Hello, just trying to catch up on posts. I hope you enjoyed your movies. Great contest you have going, thanks for the chance at winning
March 30th, 2009 at 1:26 am · Link
Personally I’ve never understood writing stories about real people, but even more so, posting them. (Too much… exposure/squick factor for me there.)
And! Ack! Sorry about your daughter- definitely porn shouldn’t be forced on people and… well I won’t go crazy here but that’s so not ok. (And literally, isn’t it illegal? – Though I know that doesn’t really stop people…)