Fanfic and its Coping Mechanisms

[handful_ofdust]

One of the amusing things I recently recognized is that "bitch" is a word whose two meanings contradict each other, which is just...Oz as fuck as a concept, really. Read one way, it implies that the person it refers to (usually female) is overly intractable, aggressive and domineering; read it the other, and the person it refers to (usually male)

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[theengineer]

i remember that day, binge-watching through the first season. Good times!

[handful_ofdust]

Ha! I thought you were there. All those good, good times...

[sovay]

Meanwhile, I keep turning the idea of a cisswap AU over in my head, because A) I can and B) the dynamics really do tweak me, especially in terms of the way they shift when you reframe things to acknowledge that all female prisoners are far more overtly victimized by the system, and know it.

I really do want to read this.

[handful_ofdust]

Well...I can send you what I've got thus far.;)

[sovay]

Well...I can send you what I've got thus far.

YES.

(Who's your new icon?)

[handful_ofdust]

That's Beecher at the top of Season Two, wearing the Beard of Fug. I think he basically grew it to keep anybody from moving on him; didn't stop Keller, though.