Collin Farell's Eyebrows Are Disturbed

[minviendha]

So I just now started reading about this kerfuffle and it has caught my interest in a curiously annoying way, though only slightly. I don't have much to say that isn't in one of those two well written posts, except that the whole thing is a little sketchy and the fact that it is for a book deal means - well. I don't know, I wouldn't want someone reading into my pron preferences as a basis for my desires in real life. The smut I have written is largely for (i) a pairing in which one of the people is underage or (ii) sadomasochistic and semi-nonconsensual. I would really rather not have that represent me, kthanks.

I think people who try to analyze fanfiction think a little too much about it. It always seems a little silly to me, all the people going on about the phenomenon of fanfiction as if it's the next...I don't know. Even. I don't have the words.

It's a hobby, if kind of a weird one, and I think people who have never tried it just don't get the appeal for the people who do. My thoughts, anyway. I'm aware of how subjective those are. And often irrelevant ahaha.

I will let people more eloquent than I express my problems with this shit.

Apparently I'm in a cranky mood today. Bitchbitchwhinewhine.

ETA: Also! This guy. *headdesk headdesk headdesk*

Son of Edit: A post summing up the fail going on here, and some more conversation at unfunnybusiness.

Comments

[fruhlings.livejournal.com]

ughhhh they're evolutionary psychologists, basically. they want to take what they learn about fanfic preferences and apply to ALL women, because evo psychs LOVE gender stereotyping based on bullshit "universals". And seriously? That's not cool, because it enforces essentialist notions of gender (like women like X because they are "hard-wired" to like it, bleh).

UGHHHH.

Sorry, that was my mini feminist rant on the subject, hah.

[minviendha.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, that does amuse me. XD Things like that usually do.

It is. The more I read about it the skeevier it gets. I hope they get in trouble with somebody higher up for this.

The bad part is that I kind of want to read the book just to see what kind of shit they're putting in it. >>;;

[minviendha.livejournal.com]

ahahaha that's what I'm doing, it sounds like people are sending things. And yeah, I think I will try but patience is not so much my strong point, so we shall see how that goes. Hopefully I can get through it if only for the lols. Not paying money, though. Never. That's what libraries are good for.

[grey_gazania]

That is one failtastic clusterfuck. oO

(Also, your tags sum this up really, really well.)

[minviendha.livejournal.com]

I kind of love my internetfail tags. Because they tend to be pretty fitting. At least a little.

And it really is. It's kind of glorious the shitstorm fandom makes when its ire is raised.

[minviendha.livejournal.com]

I know, seriously - claiming to understand people's inner brainal workings by what they read online is just a little bit - um presumptuous? Not to mention this whole book deal not to mention the fact that there's no absolutely no sign of responsible set up for this 'experiment' from these 'academics'...

So yeah. Basically this is just full of stupidity and makes me a little angryfaced. Lucius and his pimp cane just say no.