Iggy_lovechild

Eh? My nametag got changed. Somebody's been sneaky....

Little off-topic: I am actually happy to report that I recently read a yaoi manga that had little to no traces of the seme/uke bullshit whatsoever. In fact, in the most explicit sex scene it was the guy who might have been considered the seme of the relationship who was topped. So yay to that, yes?

Um... Actually, I was under the impression that the silly rules of most yaoi manga was more of a trend than the definition of the term. I see varying degrees of the seme/uke bullshit happening in some of the stories. Honestly, I think it all comes down to the preference of the manga-ka in question. I mean, when you break it down, the term yaoi only refers to the portrayal of an m/m relationship complete with smut. When you take it as the anacronism, there's the suggestion that all yaoi amounts to is pwp.

*heavy sigh* Sadly yes. It seems that many slash/yaoi writers on AFF as heavily influenced by the Japanese formula for "how gay guys act", most of which is a bunch of bullshit. While I am inspired by some yaoi/shounen-ai imagery, I don't like the rest of the portrayal. Like the uke/seme crap that is prevelant throughout most yaoi fics these days. *sighs again* Really, yaoi is essentially just m/m smut. It doesn't mean everyone has to go by the silly rules exhibited in 99.9999999% of all the mangas and animes. It's a tiring thing to deal with. *coughs* I however, do not go by those guidelines.

Argle. You guys stole all the best myths! Right, so I'm gonna try to dream up a few anyway. Myth: The pretty boy with the long hair is always the bottom and submissive. Fact: Certainly not. Being a bottom and submissive has to do with your personality and not so much what you look like. Myth:Gay guys don't like women and find them repulsive. Fact: It's prefectly resonable for a gay man to flirt with and have a close relationship with a woman that might even border on platonic. Myth: All slash writers are screaming yaoi fangirls. Fact: Ah, to speak personally, I am not. While I am female and do have some fangirlish qualities toward certain fandoms, I really don't like yaoi for anything but some of the art. There are of course many others out there who feel the same way. Myth: The right guy can turn any straight man gay or bi. Fact: While I believe that all humans are bisexual/bicurious to a certain degree, I don't believe that a guy who has been a practicing and confirmed straight all his life just "hasn't found the right man".

Ah, I was diagnosed with depression when I was a teen-ager but I really don't count that since it was just an evaluation and I really never got proper conseling or treatment. Other fun shit: -I think I might have a bit of paranoid-delusional problem. Serisouly, I can make a mountain out of a molehill with some situations and I get skittish around people if they seem off to me because I'm convinced they're out to do me harm. -I have an obsessive personality, maybe not so much with the compulsion thing. -I know that I have a borderline personality disorder. I've read about it and everything clicks.

I hate writing OCs because I always end up seeing peices of myself in them. It drives me crazy. I wish I could write more OCs that weren't so fucking familar.

Greatest journal is pretty good too. Their TOS is nice and clear, and their policy on any material deemed "objectionable" says that they'll ask the user to friend-lock it or take it down depending on the content. I think it's only when you become a repeat offender that you get terminated or whatever. I should mention though...part of the reason why I left was that one of my current writing projects does involve a minor. ...I suppose. Basically it explores the early parts of a certain pairing's relationship and at the beginning the age difference is 15/18 for the characters involved. While I'm not planning any lemons until much later in the story, I didn't want to get deleted. Although by the time the first lemon is slated, the age difference with 17/20 and I'd still get in trouble. Under lj's new policy, any sexual content involving characters under the age of 18 is considered objectionable. Nice huh? Thanks a lot lj.

*is exhausted* I've spent the better part of a week hashing all this shit out...Ugh, LJ failed hard, I don't care if I never had to worry. Point is, lj is being very inconsistent with their dealings and very shady at that. Fuck it, I moved my shit to Greatest Journal.

Yeah, so I've joined the epic evacuation of livejournal and started over at GreatestJournal. Since I couldn't find a decent RufusxReno comm, I decided to make my own. Between Red and White Anybody who cares, feel free to join! Contibute! Tell other people who care! It really doesn't matter to me, just so long as I'm not the only one posting. -.-;;; editted because I'm an idiot By the way: The fandom these characters are from is Final Fantasy 7...uh, just in case there are a few folks out there completely clueless on my preferences. Yes, I realize there's nothing there right now. I'm currently working on several stories at the same time and I don't want to scare anyone off with my scary fandom rants....

Yeah, it's really disturbing. I mean, I remember when I was writing cringe-inducing fanfiction at that age, but I never went about ruining characters or ships just to make my stories work. "Velvet Goldmine" ramble ahead: I mean, I hated Brian Slade with a firey passion for what he did to Curt. Seriously. Hated even more what became of him by the Eighties. Tommy Stone...ugh. So what did I do? I ignored his fucking presense for the most part and focused soley on my CurtxArthur shippy obsession. Maybe I snarked a little, but I was never like: OMG! BRIAN SLADE SUX AND NEEDS 2 DIES!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 CURTXARTHUR=TRU LUV 4EVEH! (wow that hurt to write) Am I just getting old or are these writers getting dumber and less talented? Maybe I was more easily pleased way back when, but I remember it being less a chore to find well-written fanfiction....

Cos...sometimes I get all angsty over RufusxReno is portrayed all cruel and dysfunctional as a couple. It makes me all weepy, okay? So I got all sentimental and made this sig. I'm such a sap. *gets bricked*

One of my self-made avvies from lj. Yeah...so my usual style. Simple, to the point, and resonably well-framed. I really love the picture the image was taken from. All the elegance of shounen-ai artwork without the bullshit.

Hopped the OotP bandwagon, but I think HBP is runner-up. I loved the expansion on Draco's character and the omfg!ending.

The Ginny albotross is precicely why I can't write for the HP fandom. I mean, I have a few issues with her characterization after GOF. I mean, imho she seems to be written as Potter's-Perfect-Dream-Girl, but whatever. Point is, I can't find any pockets of grey within their relationship, no loopholes to slip without it sounding lame. Granted, I could write a lot of divergence fics, ignoring most of DH, but I don't want to do that. Anyway, I see this character bashing nonsense in every fandom I'm written for. Is your OTP SerasxAlucard?...well then Integra must be an evil, bossy, overtly demanding shrill harpy. Is your OTP KagomexInuYasha?...well then Kikyou is EBIL INCARNATE (unfortuantly, a lot of these fanbrats get to point to canon just a bit since Kikyou did try to kill both Kagome and InuYasha on several occassions...but she's over that last I checked). Is your OTP RenoXCloud?...well then Tifa must be a clingy, whiny, possessive bitch. It's tiresome, and I think a lot of it is the fanbrat's anger at what they see. They don't like complications standing in the way of their TWU WUB couples so they take that frustration out on poor unsuspecting characters/love interests.

Sometimes in original fiction, a bit of myself bleeds through, but it fanfiction...not much. More like my experience in relationships and how people interact but never myself.

Meh, everytime I've considered basing a character as myself it turned out wrong. That and even the most innocent self-insertion (*sniggers* pervert) smacks of bad taste to me. Attention getting. But I have very poor self-esteem...so.

Now mind you I used to read real-person slash when I was high school. Sort of. I mean, I didn't like the fics about the actors getting it on, that was just weird, but I had nothing about fics that were pretty much original aside from the fact that the characters' appearences were heavily based on particular actors. Does that make sense? Well, it did on certain sites I used to haunt. Anyway, these days I prefer writing and reading about fantasy characters. I don't even really like writing about TV or movie fandoms much anymore because it's like...sure I might be writing about Buffy and Spike getting it on but aren't I also kinda picturing Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Marsters (sp?) as well. My brain wasn't very good with those tricky distinctions.

Loved the book until the epilogue and I'll be happy to tell you why: SPOILER : I've been considering getting into some light DracoxHarry slashing since I re-read HBP again. The "possibility doors" started opening for me when Harry found himself actually starting to feel bad for Draco's current lot in life. DH also hinted a lot at Draco's redemption (along with his mother...not so sure about Lucius...he just came off as a desperate, slimy coward to me) and I was dreaming about a reconcilliation between Draco and Harry and couldn't help be think how lovely it would be if they found each other in the aftermath of the war. Call me a romantic but I'm a sap like that.Naturally the epilogue viciously crushed that dream. Aside from feeling a bit stung by that, it's not just shippy reasons that made me dislike the epilogue. I was more than just a little annoyed that all the epilogue was about was who hooked up with who and how many kids they had. Here I was expecting some grand coda about what happened to the Wizarding world in the wake of Voldemort's defeat and of course what everyone was up to as adults--other than spawning clone kids.

Mostly I'm in it to see the end and for Draco to be fleshed out a bit more. HBP just proved my staunch assertion that Draco might be the prick of the century, but he's not evil. And I'd like to see Ginny's personality transplanted back into her body, please.

Yep, I just wanted to get that little detail straight. God knows folks have done much worser disservices in the HP fandom than not knowing a character's birthday, but I'm kinda compulsive like that.

Was it ever mentioned when Draco's b-day was? I mean, I know that he wasn't yet old enough for the apparition test in Hogsmeade, but were there any specifics mentioned in any other book (or elesewhere) about when he was born. I uh...I'm currently exorcising a HP plotbunny that begins in the month before he comes of age and since Draco also plays a big part in the fic, I was wondering if there had ever been a canon mention of about the time Draco was born or if I can make my own guess.

No rape for me because I'm rather sensitive on the subject and none of the...more extreme kinks like scat or piss or autoerotic asphyxiation. Other things that are a bit more specific and picky: -Unsafe kink scenes. I don't mind writing about bondage and sadomasochism, but I try to portray it in a safe, level-headed manner. -Pretty but pointless pairings. I hate that shit. -Incest...stepcest is fine tho'. -Slavery fics...they got on my nerves.

Well...yes, that's preciesily how I feel too, though I really couldn't care less if I could make babies or not. As long as I could be gurenteed to get an erection without pills or a pump, I'd be quite content.

Though I picked the 'no' option in the poll, I must admit that I delete flames. I mean the ignorant, fucked up flames, not just someone who didn't like my story and told me why. So far, I've only done that once...and it was on a different site.