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bttf_slash group. I'm not squicked, because it's really hard to squick me...just baffled. What possible excuse is there for MPreg in this fandom? I mean, with a fandom where there's magic, like Harry Potter, at least you have the "Magic! I can do whatever I like!" excuse. (I don't care what anyone says, J.K. Rowling's world will not be logical until she produces a reasonably plausible explanation for the existence of magic and why Muggle scientists haven't found out about it yet. If she never does, I have a theory about Neanderthals vs. Cro-Magnons, vestigial areas in the temporal lobe, and quantum mechanics that I'm just aching to break out.)
Or, like, "Re-Animator." Re-A MPreg could be, if not necessarily in-character, at least slightly plausible, what with the amazing feats of medical ickiness that are already going on. But it would have to be zombie MPreg. And "Bride of Re-Animator" is really very much akin to psychological MPreg.
But really, I cannot fathom this. What excuse would anyone have? I've been racking my brain for an hour trying to figure out how you could maneuver MPreg into "Back to the Future," and the only thing I can possibly think of is a parallel universe where people evolved from seahorses.
I mean, it's good that other people are having discussions and posting things. As nice as it is to have a little private club to slash things, it's also nice to see the love spreading. So to speak. And at least I can vaguely understand the urge to write MPreg; as far as I can tell, it's an extension of the kind of comedic urges that make adolescent girls put makeup on their boyfriends and make younger girls dress their baby brothers in frilly, shiny dresses their mom made for them for dress-up (I don't think mine has sustained any major psychological damage from this). They think that manly, tough guys acting like girls are funny. Which to an extent, it is: Big guys + frilly dresses = comedy. (Note: This does not apply to drag queens, who have gone beyond the level of "guys + dresses" into something archetypical, according to Camille Paglia. It's hard to laugh at someone who can stomp a skinhead into the pavement while wearing six-inch heels and look fabulous doing it.)
Hey, at least the vanilla fans have their own perversions. The "fanart" thread on BTTF.com has furry art in it. I'm just amused by this, because the people that posted it and liked it are the same people who went "OMG slash! Must kill." Has nobody explained "yiffing" to them yet? I take comfort in the fact that, according to the geek hierarchy, furries are two levels more geeky than slash fanfic writers. Oh, and they draw Marty as a fox. 'Cause he's played by Michael J. Fox, hahaha how very clever. I bet you wouldn't be drawing such cutie furry things if he was played by MICHAEL J. TARANTULA!
I've gotten people hooked on things. My mom is reading the Pendergast books now. She thinks that Pendergast is "creepy", and she actually thought he committed the murders in Still Life With Crows. And my brother's listening to the Talking Heads now, as a warmup for his concert tonight. A punk concert. In our house. Several local bands. It was supposed to be in our backyard, but it might rain, so he's doing it inside. And he's charging cover. $3. I'm rather impressed by the fact that he's managed to arrange all this himself. (ETA: Was listening to the Talking Heads; now the first band, Bloody Placenta, is playing a cover of the Dead Kennedys' "Too Drunk To Fuck." It's dangerously loud downstairs. I'm sitting upstairs, at the computer, and I'm afraid that the floor is going to collapse. Also, people are running into each other downstairs--apparently this is how young punks dance.)
My store got robbed last night. They took about $1,000 out of the cash register and safe. Melissa, the girl manager, was very cranky about it. Apparently, this is the third Quizno's to be hit in the past month. They did it at about 1 in the morning, so nobody was there. Work is bad luck. The good news is that our store has started doing a delivery service, which eventually works out to "Rachel gets sandwiches that don't fit on the tray." I will no longer have to pay for lunch as long as people are willing to order Mesquite Chicken for six hundred.
On the wall in the manager's office (a small clear space surrounded by boxes of chips), there is a phone number sheet holding every employee's home phone number. Beside each name, someone has written a comment about the person, such as "Brad: Hard worker!" or "Chris: The handyman!" or "Tavia: The princess!" Under my name there is...nothing. Apparently, I do not have a personality. Or, at least, not one simple enough to boil down to two words on a Quizno's employee sheet.
Thus, I ask you to define my personality! The survey:
A. List 5 - 10 fandoms.
B. Ask people on your friends list to choose a character from each fandom that they think most resembles you and explain why.
C. Post this in your own LJ, if you like.
1. The Askewniverse (Kevin Smith)
2. Back to the Future
3. Discworld
4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and/or Dirk Gently)
5. Fairy tales (doesn't have to be European, but NO DISNEY)
6. Harry Potter
7. Star Wars
8. Classic rock bands (it is too a fandom, dammit)
9. Simpsons/Futurama/Life In Hell (Matt Groening stuff)
10. Um, just pick one of yours.
I leave you with a quote that, for me, proves that there really are two types of people in the world, and that these two types will never, ever be able to agree with each other:
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." --Dark Helmet, Dark Lord of the Schwartz
bttf_slash group. I'm not squicked, because it's really hard to squick me...just baffled. What possible excuse is there for MPreg in this fandom? I mean, with a fandom where there's magic, like Harry Potter, at least you have the "Magic! I can do whatever I like!" excuse. (I don't care what anyone says, J.K. Rowling's world will not be logical until she produces a reasonably plausible explanation for the existence of magic and why Muggle scientists haven't found out about it yet. If she never does, I have a theory about Neanderthals vs. Cro-Magnons, vestigial areas in the temporal lobe, and quantum mechanics that I'm just aching to break out.) Or, like, "Re-Animator." Re-A MPreg could be, if not necessarily in-character, at least slightly plausible, what with the amazing feats of medical ickiness that are already going on. But it would have to be zombie MPreg. And "Bride of Re-Animator" is really very much akin to psychological MPreg.
But really, I cannot fathom this. What excuse would anyone have? I've been racking my brain for an hour trying to figure out how you could maneuver MPreg into "Back to the Future," and the only thing I can possibly think of is a parallel universe where people evolved from seahorses.
I mean, it's good that other people are having discussions and posting things. As nice as it is to have a little private club to slash things, it's also nice to see the love spreading. So to speak. And at least I can vaguely understand the urge to write MPreg; as far as I can tell, it's an extension of the kind of comedic urges that make adolescent girls put makeup on their boyfriends and make younger girls dress their baby brothers in frilly, shiny dresses their mom made for them for dress-up (I don't think mine has sustained any major psychological damage from this). They think that manly, tough guys acting like girls are funny. Which to an extent, it is: Big guys + frilly dresses = comedy. (Note: This does not apply to drag queens, who have gone beyond the level of "guys + dresses" into something archetypical, according to Camille Paglia. It's hard to laugh at someone who can stomp a skinhead into the pavement while wearing six-inch heels and look fabulous doing it.)
Hey, at least the vanilla fans have their own perversions. The "fanart" thread on BTTF.com has furry art in it. I'm just amused by this, because the people that posted it and liked it are the same people who went "OMG slash! Must kill." Has nobody explained "yiffing" to them yet? I take comfort in the fact that, according to the geek hierarchy, furries are two levels more geeky than slash fanfic writers. Oh, and they draw Marty as a fox. 'Cause he's played by Michael J. Fox, hahaha how very clever. I bet you wouldn't be drawing such cutie furry things if he was played by MICHAEL J. TARANTULA!
I've gotten people hooked on things. My mom is reading the Pendergast books now. She thinks that Pendergast is "creepy", and she actually thought he committed the murders in Still Life With Crows. And my brother's listening to the Talking Heads now, as a warmup for his concert tonight. A punk concert. In our house. Several local bands. It was supposed to be in our backyard, but it might rain, so he's doing it inside. And he's charging cover. $3. I'm rather impressed by the fact that he's managed to arrange all this himself. (ETA: Was listening to the Talking Heads; now the first band, Bloody Placenta, is playing a cover of the Dead Kennedys' "Too Drunk To Fuck." It's dangerously loud downstairs. I'm sitting upstairs, at the computer, and I'm afraid that the floor is going to collapse. Also, people are running into each other downstairs--apparently this is how young punks dance.)
My store got robbed last night. They took about $1,000 out of the cash register and safe. Melissa, the girl manager, was very cranky about it. Apparently, this is the third Quizno's to be hit in the past month. They did it at about 1 in the morning, so nobody was there. Work is bad luck. The good news is that our store has started doing a delivery service, which eventually works out to "Rachel gets sandwiches that don't fit on the tray." I will no longer have to pay for lunch as long as people are willing to order Mesquite Chicken for six hundred.
On the wall in the manager's office (a small clear space surrounded by boxes of chips), there is a phone number sheet holding every employee's home phone number. Beside each name, someone has written a comment about the person, such as "Brad: Hard worker!" or "Chris: The handyman!" or "Tavia: The princess!" Under my name there is...nothing. Apparently, I do not have a personality. Or, at least, not one simple enough to boil down to two words on a Quizno's employee sheet.
Thus, I ask you to define my personality! The survey:
A. List 5 - 10 fandoms.
B. Ask people on your friends list to choose a character from each fandom that they think most resembles you and explain why.
C. Post this in your own LJ, if you like.
1. The Askewniverse (Kevin Smith)
2. Back to the Future
3. Discworld
4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and/or Dirk Gently)
5. Fairy tales (doesn't have to be European, but NO DISNEY)
6. Harry Potter
7. Star Wars
8. Classic rock bands (it is too a fandom, dammit)
9. Simpsons/Futurama/Life In Hell (Matt Groening stuff)
10. Um, just pick one of yours.
I leave you with a quote that, for me, proves that there really are two types of people in the world, and that these two types will never, ever be able to agree with each other:
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." --Dark Helmet, Dark Lord of the Schwartz
