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[catslash]

Another reason why Johnny Depp rules.

So, I'm back. The event was fantastic, and I was merrily typing my way along to tell y'all about it when IE randomly quit on me, and I am simply too brokenhearted to fully reconstruct. So: Good event. Good times. Made friends. Heard lovely songs and great stories. Wish it wasn't months and months until I'll be able to make another one.

Need to learn how to drive so can go down to the Bardic Circles occasionally held by the Barony of Stonemarche (New Hampshire). Need to e-mail Macfrode and Laurel to find out how their sick rabbit did over the weekend while they were away (she seemed to be getting better when they left, so it's not like they just took off on a sick animal or anything).

By the way, am I the only one who finds this whole Neil Gaiman RPS kerfuffle completely hysterical? Probably, yes, as I've always had a sense of humour that clashes a bit with the general idea of what is considered acceptably amusing. It has nothing to do with Gaiman himself (I wouldn't have spent frigging two hundred bucks collecting Sandman if I didn't the love the work and respect the man) and nothing to do with RPS, it's just . . . fuck, that's funny.

I shall now bore you will my opinion of RPS/F.

Who cares?

Seriously. Why do people get all worked up over it? I don't get it. Why are there anti-RPSers? What the fuck do you people care what other people write? No one's making you read it. There are zillions of sites you can go to that refuse to archive it. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same as homophobia, inasmuch as a person's bed/lifepartner is his or her own business. Why bother yourself over who someone else is sleeping with? And why bother yourself over what they choose to write? No one in either case is forcing anything on you. By flipping out over it, you're getting yourself involved. Here's a thought: Leave it alone and it'll leave you alone. Amazing, isn't it? [/sarcasm] (And in case you wonder whether I would change my tune if I stumbled across fic about myself? I can say from experience, no. No I would not. I would just laugh my ass off.)

I have no great attachment to RPS myself. I used to actively dislike it, but changed my tune when I made friends with RPSers. I'll read the occasional piece if it sounds interesting, and have read one or two wonderful pieces that I really enjoyed and would have missed out on otherwise. I could never, ever write it myself, not out of secret repulsion but because of my compulsiveness concern over characterization. Properly characterizing a fictional character is challenging enough, and when I finish a piece I have a feel for whether I managed to do it properly. But if I write, say, that Johnny Depp/Willem Dafoe piece that I've mentioned wanting to see, I will never know whether I got the characterization right. And, while that for some reason doesn't bother me in reading RPS by others, it would bug the shit out of me in my own work.

And now I must depart, for the computer room doubles as a naproom and the baby is tired.

Comments

[subservient.livejournal.com]

I would find it funny in its entirety if the author hadn't been outed to Neil, especially after he implied the thought of it creeped him out. Like I said, it's just all kinds of poor taste. If he wanted to know about it, he could have looked for it himself, you know?

The "debate" going on in the comments, however? Definite amusement factor there. God, those people are so pretentious you can't help but laugh.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, that's the only part of it that's not funny.

I'll have to check out the comments, though - I didn't pay much attention there.