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New questions to ponder
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on January 20, 2017, 09:38:50 PM ---I missed a lot while I was at work. It's nice to see this active.
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I know, same!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on January 20, 2017, 09:41:31 PM ---A lot of people know I write... Although someone at work and I had a conversation about slash the other day and I had to explain it to someone that didn't get it lol. She goes "people read this?" and I said yeah look at the Harry Potter fandom LOL
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Sheesh, yeah, the HP fandom is like all slash! LOL
I find slash to be such an odd phenomenon. I kind of see the appeal more now than I used to, but I still don't really understand it. Why do so many women, most of them straight, like to write about seemingly straight men or male characters in sexual relationships with each other? The only real perk I've discovered about slash in our fandom is that it allows you to write romance without an original female character, which means you can keep the story all about BSB. But in Harry Potter, for instance, when there are wonderful female characters in canon to write about, why do so many writers insist on only writing Harry/Draco or Marauder slash? LOL
To be clear, I'm not knocking slash at all. I'm just genuinely perplexed by it.
FrickingKaos:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 20, 2017, 09:46:44 PM ---Sheesh, yeah, the HP fandom is like all slash! LOL
I find slash to be such an odd phenomenon. I kind of see the appeal more now than I used to, but I still don't really understand it. Why do so many women, most of them straight, like to write about seemingly straight men or male characters in sexual relationships with each other? The only real perk I've discovered about slash in our fandom is that it allows you to write romance without an original female character, which means you can keep the story all about BSB. But in Harry Potter, for instance, when there are wonderful female characters in canon to write about, why do so many writers insist on only writing Harry/Draco or Marauder slash? LOL
To be clear, I'm not knocking slash at all. I'm just genuinely perplexed by it.
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Yeah I don't understand it either. I mean I read it a bit but it's not like slash in the BSB fandom it's a bit different. I used to really think slash was weird and stuff. But I have warmed up to it and I am OK with it. However I think it's weird when people pair up Kevin with Brian.... Lol that's a bit much for me.
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Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 20, 2017, 07:25:51 PM ---Voting for the person or strictly on issues makes so much more sense than voting along party lines. I am fairly liberal, especially with social issues, but I'm not registered to either party and have voted for candidates from both parties before. I think the biggest problem in U.S. politics lately is that, as South Park puts it, our choices are usually limited to voting for a giant douche or a turd sandwich. Neither candidate is admirable, so people vote for the lesser of two evils or vote against someone rather than for someone. That was definitely the case in this last election.
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I didn't know you weren't registered to either party. We really are brain twins LOL.
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 20, 2017, 07:34:41 PM ---I did not even mention the inauguration all day at school. I saw some of our sixth grade classes watching it and heard a few seconds of him going on about how he's going to "make America great again" as I walked by, and I thought, I am not going to expose my students to this propaganda.
In the afternoon, one of my boys asked, "So is Donald Trump our president now?" and I threw up a little in my mouth and then said "Yes." His next question was, "Is he going to bomb us? Some of the sixth graders on the bus were saying he's going to bomb us." So even the kids are scared. I assured him that the president would not bomb his own country, but didn't tell him I'm more worried about other countries bombing us after he starts a war. What a sad day indeed.
The weather here was rainy and gloomy all day, and it reminded me of the beginning of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, when the Dementors are breeding and making it cold and misty as Voldemort's taking over. Either that, or it was the tears of 39 dead presidents weeping for the future of their country.
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Awww your poor kids!
It was pouring ALL DAY here in Vegas, that never happens. I support the weeping theory.
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