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[esorlehcar]

In the HOW FUCKING COOL IS THIS department, burnfor recorded a podcast of Stumbling Across Its Bleak Ending, AND cybel created a podbook with a cover. *bounces* I'm kind of ridiculously excited about this. Podcast! Podbook! Hooray! I also have the podcast of Guardians of a Rare Thing that mirabile_dictu did for my birthday last year... I can upload that again if anyone

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[shoiryu]

Also, I guess it's prickly and defensive to be kinda put out at yet again being collectively referred to as nuts or "weird" or whatever word they're all using now because of writing pairings they don't like.

And you know, I'm sorry, but I will never ever be convinced that the "you're writing slash? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" argument has anything to do with anything BUT raging homophobia. There are plenty of people in fandoms all across the damn internet who manage to not be into slash or find it hot or interesting or whatever without continuously talking about how they just find it a terrible thing to do with the canon and so on. I know and have known plenty of lovely people who just aren't interested in Wincest, or whatever omg hawt slash pairing is the popular one. I've been that person. These people are an entirely different breed from the fan who's just more interested in het fic or gen fic. They're out and out upset that gay exists near them in fandom. And I'm sorry, but talking about how much you "know" about THE GAYS isn't a

[esorlehcar]

nd I'm sorry, but talking about how much you "know" about THE GAYS isn't a get out of homophobia jail free card

It's sort of the opposite, I think. If you have to pull the "some of my best friends are gay/black/Muslim/women/whatever" card, it's generally a pretty good indicator that you're prejudiced but feel it doesn't count in your case.

And yeah, it's complete homophobia. Non-canonical het pairings never raise this kind of outcry... it's all about the icky buttsex.

[whimsicalnotion]

This is really exciting as it's one of my all time favourite stories, and if I've never told you this before it's one I revisit often.

Sometimes it's just cool to be read to, so would you mind uploading the podcast of Guardians of a Rare Thing for someone you don't know? I would really appreciate it.

[esorlehcar]

I will upload when I get home tonight :-)

[whimsicalnotion]

Fabulous!

[cybel]

You have a podfic of Guardians? How did I not know this? What is wrong with me; I should have been able to suss it out with my spidey sense alone!

Yes, of course I want you to upload it. In fact, if it doesn't already exist as a podbook, I want to compile one SO BAD!

GIMMEE! In a nice and completely mature, hopeful manner, of course.

P.S. That macro is the best thing ever! LOLcats couldn't have done it better--except for the cats, of course.

[esorlehcar]

It wasn't even posted anywhere but my LJ... a friend just did it for my birthday. But I will upload as soon as I get home tonight!

And heee, yes. The macro is sixteen kinds of awesome.

[cybel]

[effervescent]

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WHere are these people when male and female characters are pushed together when there's seemingly nothing on screen to put them together? It's funny, while there are some people who object to het pairings that don't seem right to them, most of the people who object to slash by this argument don't say the same for het pairings. I guess there's no way that it could seem OOC if it's m/f, right? -rolls eyes-

[esorlehcar]

Well, see, it's not BAD for a man and a woman to have sex, so pairing Dean with, say, Ellen, isn't a repudiation of his moral character. Saying he likes men, though... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

[sevenfists]

So what I want to know is, where's the episode where Dean talks about how he isn't gay?

[esorlehcar]

Croatoan, supposedly. He has the whole "You're a handsome devil, but I don't swing that way." Plus in Jus in Bello we get "We don't swing that way," which is interesting in and of itself :-)

Mostly it's just people being morons, though.

[sevenfists]

Pffft, maybe he just means he doesn't swing in the direction of that particular person! Dean loves taking it up the ass.

[esorlehcar]

Taking it up the ass and CRYING. Preferably at the same time.