Eek, Steph. Good luck to your coworker.
It's someone explaining why slash fans would so like a Radcliffe/Watson sex tape. Because of all the slash in it.
Um. Huh.
The whole earth may be sucked into Hell, and you want my help 'cause your girlfriend's a big ho?
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 03, 2012 8:18:15 am PST #14161 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
brenda m - Jan 03, 2012 8:21:26 am PST #14162 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Um, what? But I will say that I see far fewer squick warnings for het than I used to. Whether that speaks more to my own reading habits or to fandom or certain fandoms generally I can't say.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 03, 2012 8:30:26 am PST #14163 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I do think I prefer het in my slash; that is to say, if the slash is a particular non-canon pairing being focused on then I want the rest of the characters' orientations to be the same as in canon. Not generally a fan of stories set in The World Where Everyone Is Gay.
(Exceptions made for Queer as Folk and Torchwood fic, where all the major characters really are gay or bi. And Angel, where Cordelia seems to be the lone bastion of heterosexuality...)
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 8:32:02 am PST #14164 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm very glad that squick warnings for het are going away. Just because it's the side of privilege doesn't mean that isn't deeply disturbing. And I'm not sure I want people *disgusted* by straight sex on my side in anything, ever.
Of course, I'm also in another argument defending breast implants, so evidently I need to get off my ass and go to the damned police station. Getting right on that.
Fred Pete - Jan 03, 2012 8:32:15 am PST #14165 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Good luck to Steph's co-worker.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 8:34:09 am PST #14166 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A little information is no one's friend. Don't do that to medical editors.
Isn't it a bit weird to need to know precisely what surgery your co-worker is having? I'd be okay with a friend being vague, never mind a colleague. It's all good.
Nevertheless, I hope his open thingy thingy gets closed up nice and tight and s/he's okay.
Consuela - Jan 03, 2012 8:39:48 am PST #14167 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Isn't it a bit weird to need to know precisely what surgery your co-worker is having?
Yes, thank you. Although to be fair Steph's coworkers know rather more about medical issues than the average layperson, so I can understand the interest.
Jesse - Jan 03, 2012 8:43:58 am PST #14168 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For myself, this is why I'd want the all-staff email to say "surgery," period, but different strokes for different folks?
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2012 8:47:36 am PST #14169 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Although to be fair Steph's coworkers know rather more about medical issues than the average layperson, so I can understand the interest.
This. I think, for us, vague is worse than specific. Specific means we know more or less what will happen and what the prognosis is, etc. Vague just makes us get all flappy-handed with frustration.
SuziQ - Jan 03, 2012 8:54:09 am PST #14170 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I'm feeling all flappy hands over my health care reimbursement stuff. I'm on the phone with them, well on hold while he consults a supervisor. Due to a mistake on their part, I had to send in EOB's covering over $2k in expenses. But when they got it, they rejected it - even though I did it just as I was asked. Ok, seeing a 92 page fax is daunting - but my cover letter explained very clearly what I was sending in and why. Arrrrrggggggggggggggg.