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Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general.

Just one question, please, but it can (and perhaps should) have sub-parts.

Question can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.

In Which Elena Is Indiana Jane

Reason I love TVD number eleventy billion and five: ( Plan B )

& The Ones That Mother Gives You Don't Do Anything At All

gacked from penny_lane_42 :

Out of utter curiosity, if I was chained up in your attic (I prefer attics, basements are damp and cold, attics theoretically at least have windows), and I had to write you one story, what would you request? (demand?) Or alternatively, what's something you always hoped I'd write but know is never going to happen?

Bad Radio Personalities, No Cookies

I was listening to two media-centric radio programs today and BOTH pissed me the hell off.

First, I was listening to femmeslash radio, and during the Paris/Rory episode the guests and host pissed me off when they started hating on Rory/Lorelai. I was trying to figure out what irritated me so much about it, given that I've slagged off on numerous pairings in my time, and I realized what it was: they were hating on the pairing because (in the real world) incest is wrong and illegal, and I'm sorry, but those (imho) are very bad standards with which to judge a fandom pairing. Fandom is about fiction, it's about fantasy, and things that are unacceptable in real life are perfectly acceptable in a fictionalize context.

Then, on NPR's pop culture happy hour, during a conversation about The Hunger Games, they tried to argue that these books had nothing to do with reality tv.

READING COMPREHENSION FAIL.

Now, I'm not going to go into how Suzanne Collins was inspired to write that trilogy, because it's not stated in text, but in a book that is BLATANTLY about the power of media, during which characters participate in a television competition with eliminations and rewards and are all competing for fame and fortune YOU ARE AN IDIOT if you can't see the relationship to modern reality television.

The books are vastly more complex than reality tv = bad, but don't try to deny the critique.

Oh, wait, you are all fans of reality tv. No wonder you want to pretend it's only about those silly romans and their ancient traditions and how bloodsports have always been appealing.