we must reinvent love

[reflectedeve]

Last night I hung out with hermionesviolin, and totally got defensive about the word "emo" (it totally has no meaning anymore, I swear, but anyway MCR do not qualify). Poor Lisbet; she is so understanding of my crazy. Oh, this fandom. <3

I should work on one of my comics this weekend--or probably that anthology submission I've been putting off--but instead, I'm apparently going to write fic. I don't remember the last time I wrote fic that wasn't for yuletide (or comica_obscura, the one time).

Speaking of which, flist, do many of you read much genderfuck? I've noticed that, in many (probably most) of the boy-randomly-wakes-up-female fic that I've read, the story continues to use male pronouns throughout. This makes all the sense in the world, from a self-identification standpoint, but I have occasionally found it confusing, particularly during sex scenes. Do any of you have thoughts on the subject?

In other news, Avatar continues to be the most fucking amazing show ever, and particularly from a gender standpoint. I really need to rhapsodize about "The Boiling Rock" parts one and two, at some point. (I will also definitely finish that crack!comic this weekend, which maybe two or three other people will appreciate.)

By the way, Rel, I am enjoying the hell out of your Revenge Tragedy mix; I think there are a few artists I may need to look into further. And appropriately, one of the roomies and I are going to watch Sweeney Todd (the Depp version) tonight. (Why is my life so themed lately? It is practically color-coded.)

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[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

The trouble is that, you know, I was trying to restrain myself from talking too much about bandom (and not really succeeding already), so being defensive is like, opening the floodgates? Tsk. (Also, fucking hilarious Western crack!AU, thank you so much GWay.)

Really excellent points all. I'm too compartmentalized: genderfuck has so little to do with real trans issues anyway (most of the time) that I hadn't really thought about it in that context much until I started discussing it with Lisbet last night.

My trouble is that I have difficulty with character voices in fanfic (even when they're AU/random bodily alteration-free): writing them (which is why I usually don't), and even hearing them when I read. I'm really going to have to sit down and watch a whole lot of interviews before I try to write girl!Gerard.

Relatedly, I want boy!Alicia/girl!Mikey porn.
Mmmm, that sounds good. Particularly if girl!Mikey were well-characterized, dammit.

*laughs* I'm glad you're excited, even though you have already seen it! It is going to be good to have a weekend to work (that sounds funny). And hell no, you should write it! (I'm not even sure which exact pairing you mean, but you should write them all anyway!)

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, that sounds good. Particularly if girl!Mikey were well-characterized, dammit.

LOL, so bitter. This would be sexswap, not an AU--like, this is how Alicia and Mikey spend their break. Figuring out how to have sex with each other in their new bodies. Sometimes Alicia purposefully draws attention to how much she looks like Pete (not that she doesn't do this in her girl body anyway). And it's tough getting girl!Mikey off because he's new at this and, well, medicated, but he doesn't want to stop trying, and Alicia's usually a girl so she knows how it goes, so they just...have sex for hours and hours. To practice.

I meant between the two characters who end up in prison at the end! Though I realized as I wrote that that it could mean absolutely anyone, and I would read it all too. Have I mentioned how much I want Sokka/Suki sparring that turns into sex? Especially if they're still kind of in the friendsish place and still have only kissed a couple of times and it's really awkward for awhile?

Also stories where they are maaaaaarried and have baaaaaaabies though that is mostly just the background for the Aang/Katara/Zuko angsty threesome story.

I should probably stop torturing you with all these things I will never write, right?

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, yes, it is torture. Good lord. You are as bad as some other people! Which is why I am in this fic writing predicament in the first place.

That doesn't mean I want you to stop, though! ^^;