sundries - fandom makes me sad

[rm]

A few days ago I talked about how using homophobia in Glee fanfics both makes sense and can be squicky like some H/C is squicky.

Since then, I've run across a huge number of fics that have everything from Blaine's parents being mildly uncomfortable that he's gay, to Blaine's dad hitting him for bringing a boyfriend home. Quality of the fics have ranged all over the place, and is totally besides the point.

Because every single one of those fics has multiple comments that say "this is what would happen if I came out to my parents."

Which really makes everything in the fandom feel different from over here. Now sure, fandom is full of people working out their shit (I do it, you do it, we all do it -- Draco has an eating disorder and wears leather pants, it's just how it goes) with various levels of artistry and subtlety, so none of this is news.

But it just fucking broke me.

Side note to Glee fandom: If you're going to write stories where somehow you have to reference New York private schools, and you don't know things, please just ask me. Because someone totally just wrote a non-gender swap fic that put a boy at a major all-girls school here. No. LET ME HELP YOU.

I am not crafty like this, but am tempted because I am a freak.

In other news, I'm sick as a dog (stomach and sinuses and I've been in bed since 10pm last night waiting for the room to stop spinning) and have to teach tonight.

Do you know what tomorrow is? PATTY WILL BE HOME IN ONE WEEK.

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[bodlon.livejournal.com]

We've got a place here in CoMo that does random custom shirts in about an hour for around $20. So, er, If you can send me a clean image...

Actually, it sounds like you're in excellent hands. Scrap that evil, evil suggestion. You do not want to hire me as a middleman. GET CRAFTY. SEND PHOTOS.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You! <3

Can they do red on navy?

Because yeah, I can totally tweak the stencil image into a clean image, because I am a photoshop god.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I am almost certain that they can. Do you have ethical objections to American Apparel? I think they carry one other vendor. You're a small, right?

Define "red" for me. Crimson? Wine? Eye-searing crayola?

The only caveat: it's not traditional screen printing so much as a...sort of a sheet vinyl thing. It seems to hold up reasonably well in the wash -- I've had my "I [heart] polypraxy" shirt since Novemberish and it seems to be alright -- but it may weather a little differently.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I will define red for you. But yeah, American Apparel and I are not friends. At all. Which is a shame because they are so ethical about some things, but punch my anger buttons liek WOAH. We shall consider the options.

(Why do I feel like this whole Glee thing is going to turn into another case of "cosplaying the wrong thing at the wrong con" in the tradition of Doctor Who at a Harry Potter con and Inception at Gally?)

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Let me call over there today and see what they stock. I think the other vendor they carry may be Hanes, but I don't know what colors and limitations they have. I could also ask if they're okay with bringing in other shirts; I know that Old Navy had some nice navy-on-navy ringer tees in the mens department last time I was there.

Also, I'm not sure you can cosplay the wrong thing at a Doctor Who convention. Dimension-hopping time travel! JK Rowling is canon! Rose wants a bit of Spock!

Well, okay, there is no Noddy, but we like to gloss over that. Er.

[rm.livejournal.com]

There is so much crossover fic I am trying not to write. SO MUCH. OMG. I need to write more of my little Boston saga, since I know I will have no time on the next Boston trip, wherein I have 8 hours of meetings both days I am there (much, again, at Harvard, which is what set this all off in the first place).

[rm.livejournal.com]

I really should do it myself, but it seems like such a car crash - (cats, fur, dignity.... bad)