Four things: Descensus update and more!
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rmFour things:
1. How queer is fandom? Specifically HP fandom? I hang out in such disparate parts of it, and am also not terribly social in it until recently that I still can’t figure it out. Like do I know the 20 queer Potter fans? Or is it statistically similar to the general population or is it gay gay gay gay gay?
2. Chronic illness and fandom. What’s up with that? Is this our escapism? Or are we just home more because we have crap wrong with us? Or is fanfiction, like comedy, all about pain? I’ve always wondered about this, but I suppose I never asked before, because even with the MVPS, I never really considered myself part of the club until this celiac bullshit.
3. Speaking of celiac, I’ve gotten really sick of carrying around big bottles of wheat-free soy sauce and the like. So I bought a bunch of cobalt blue 50ml bottles and jars and stuff, so I can stylishly (and geekily) have safe condiments wherever I go.
4. The moment at least some of you have been waiting for: Facilis Descensus Averno is updated.
April 21, 1979, part 2 is here: http://community.livejournal.com/descensus_hp/8390.html
If you need a refresher, Part 1 is here: http://community.livejournal.com/descensus_hp/6042.html
1. How queer is fandom? Specifically HP fandom? I hang out in such disparate parts of it, and am also not terribly social in it until recently that I still can’t figure it out. Like do I know the 20 queer Potter fans? Or is it statistically similar to the general population or is it gay gay gay gay gay?
2. Chronic illness and fandom. What’s up with that? Is this our escapism? Or are we just home more because we have crap wrong with us? Or is fanfiction, like comedy, all about pain? I’ve always wondered about this, but I suppose I never asked before, because even with the MVPS, I never really considered myself part of the club until this celiac bullshit.
3. Speaking of celiac, I’ve gotten really sick of carrying around big bottles of wheat-free soy sauce and the like. So I bought a bunch of cobalt blue 50ml bottles and jars and stuff, so I can stylishly (and geekily) have safe condiments wherever I go.
4. The moment at least some of you have been waiting for: Facilis Descensus Averno is updated.
April 21, 1979, part 2 is here: http://community.livejournal.com/descensus_hp/8390.html
If you need a refresher, Part 1 is here: http://community.livejournal.com/descensus_hp/6042.html
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Date: 2006-08-08 07:16 am (UTC)I saw him once about eleven years ago in Auckland. It was not long after the release of Let Love In. And oh god he was fabulous. Making love to the microphone -- a cigarette in one and a glass of something golden in the other -- wearing a skinny suit and a white shirt. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! They performed a lot of songs from that album too. I think my highlight was Do You Love Me? And the sun was setting during their set.
Tee hee.
Anyway, it's really interesting what you say about fandom's queerness. I've never seen any stats - I don't know how you would get them. But for me fandom is way of expressing a part of myself that gets completely ignored in real life as I am in a long term relationship with a man and we have a child. I wonder if that's true for anyone else?