like the PATRIOT Act, only with porn instead of Islam.

[decollete]

I'm writing a paper for English about the relevance of slash in current fandoms. My thesis is that the idea of the m/m pairing in the media has fundamentally changed since the era of Kirk/Spock, and that with the emergence of canon gay ships (Willow/Tara, Jack/Will, Brian/Justin) and popular fanon het ships (Hermione/Snape, Spike/Faith) the line

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[cetacea]

My school's computers do that, too, man. Some of them won't even let you get on LJ. And that's a groovy paper you're writing.

[decollete]

Our school's computers all block lj...luckily, I go to a geek math/science school in the morning, and they don't block much there.

Yeah, my English teacher rocks.

[halfdreaming]

Your English teacher is obviously much cooler than mine. I had to write a paper on three types of a product and figure out which one was better. What did I want to do? pretty much anything but that. Actually I had a really good idea, but I've since forgotten what it was, and anyway, Mr. Morris shot it down. But the computer thing is evil. You should join me in my quest to purge Roanoke County Schools of all administrative types.

And that's a verry weird research paper. And there is no way that would have gone over well with any teacher here.

[decollete]

Yeah, he is. Although it helps that he's also my forensics coach, so he sort of favours me over the other students.

I heard about the focus on marketing...isn't that because his wife is the marketing teacher or something?

It isn't weird. We were supposed to come up with something we know about, research it, and come up with a different perspective on something that's significant about it. I mean, people have written academically about slash, especially in Queer Theory, Gender Studies, and Film/Media Studies.

[halfdreaming]

I meant that it was weird for a high school research paper. I realize people have written about slash before, obviously, since you're researching it using other papers, but there aren't many teachers who would approve that topic in high school. And I have no idea why we had the stupid marketing focus.

[decollete]

Yeah...luckily, teachers like me. Some parts of me make them uncomfortable, especially because I can be pretty vulgur. But I participate in discussion, so I can basically make them do my evil bidding.

[pixiewriter]

How much of a life do you not have, radnomyl watchign to shut down a computer?

And I totally read Restricted Section in the middle of English class still.

[decollete]

To be fair, I think the administrative people at the county are making them shut down computers because people have been complaining about bandwidth and things.

That's hilarious. It would be impossible, I guess, for them to catch everything...and the Restricted Section is mostly text, so it's possible that they just do a spot-check looking for pictures

[decollete]

To be fair, I think the administrative people at the county are making them shut down computers because people have been complaining about bandwidth and things.

That's hilarious. It would be impossible, I guess, for them to catch everything...and the Restricted Section is mostly text, so it's possible that they just do a spot-check looking for pictures.

[kireistarlight]

Did you just say Hermione/Snape?! ::projectile vomits::

[decollete]

Yes, I think it's icky, too. At least it's not as bad as, say, Dennis Creevey/Giant Squid...

[kireistarlight]

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