So Here's A Rant, Now That My Journal's Fixed...

[redbrunja]

So I’ve been trolling around livejournal in a brand-new fandom....



Seriously, I've heard so much bashing about fanfiction.net and how everything there is badly-written junk by teenie-boppers, but you know what? Livejournal is not that much better. Quite frankly, it looks like I’ve gotten spoiled by Supernatural- when I started to read lj’s about that tv show, it seemed like articulate, vibrant lj-ers dropped into my lap. I've been looking around trying to find some good Fullmetal Alchemist journals, and it's hard work. I keep clicking links around and running into sites where people don't say anything and just gibber on and on and on, or are completly off the wall. For example, I checked out this Ed hater's site, and I'm thinking, "I'll fit in there. I mean, I really feel there's legitimate criticism of Ed" and it's all, "My cat is better than Ed" and I query "How does that follow? Your cat's a cat, not an anime character who needs to learn how to see Winry as a person."

And what is with all the Friends-Only journals? What is the reason for locking your journals like that? I know some people do to make sure their boss or whoever isn't reading their lj, but at this point it feels like a popularity contest. I thought the point of livejournal was to reach out to other people who share the same interests, not make it impossible for people to read your journal unless you deign to let them past the velvet ropes.

So, now that I’ve got the bitchy out of my system, anyone writing good FMA fanfic? Or any good wallpaper sites?

Comments

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

HAH. I found the article.

I forgot a couple things -- the study *didn't* test women, but does mention some other tests about women at the end that pretty much make the point.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/health/05sex.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=5a82f18cadf2ad83&ex=1278216000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Researchers have little sense yet of how these differences may affect behavior, or sexual identity. In the mid-1990's, Dr. Diamond recruited a group of 90 women at gay pride parades, academic conferences on gender issues and other venues. About half of the women called themselves lesbians, a third identified as bisexual and the rest claimed no sexual orientation. In follow-up interviews over the last 10 years, Dr. Diamond has found that most of these women have had relationships both with men and women.

"Most of them seem to lean one way or the other, but that doesn't preclude them from having a relationship with the nonpreferred sex," she said. "You may be mostly interested in women but, hey, the guy who delivers the pizza is really hot, and what are you going to do?"

I really appreciated this article when I read it because I very much identify as a lesbian, but occasionally I find a man attractive (mostly Jensen Ackles... *cough*). That really threw me off at first because I vastly, vastly prefer women, but when I suddenly found myself really attracted to this guy, I got very confused about the whole thing, but apparently it's normal.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That's very very interesting. And honey, EVERYBODY finds Jensen Ackles attractive. I'm sure there are rocks that are going "I'm a rock, so I'm all about the compression and plate tectonics..... but *damn* that boy is fine."

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

That is so very, very true.

And really, he's just pretty enough for him to appeal to me, but he's not so pretty that it makes him non-masculine, because he is a beautiful, beautiful specimen of a man. He's very pretty and very manly. It's a really deadly attractive combination.

My friend and I once stayed up until 5AM talking about how we wanted to sleep with Dean -- which was funny as hell, because we're both queer and like girls.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I would have loved to be there for that conversation! He is pretty, but in a very manly, interesting way- and I'm just a sucker for the kind of characters that he portrays, so I'm sure that plays into it. All hail the Jensen love!

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

Without going into an uncomfortable amount of detail, we came up with some really interesting scenarios. I'm definitely more attracted to his characters than to him though -- after all, I don't know Jensen. Dean, on the other hand, I know very well, and they have the same pretty, manly, disgustingly beautiful face.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'm not attracted to Jensen per say, but I feel lusting after an actual person, who has a life and doesn't know me from Eve, has this slight stalkerish vibe. Lusting after a fictional character, however, is completely normal, and, as you mentioned, we know the fictional character better than the actor. It's like when you find out that the person who plays a rugged bachelor character has a wife he adores and three kids and lives in the suburbs. I just don't want to know that. (Which is why I never read magazines that are about actors lives. Interviews, yes, but not "He broke up with whoever! Extra, extra, read all about it!")

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

I only read the trashy celebrity gossip mags when I'm waiting for an appointment, and then never about the actors that I actually like, mostly because -- man, I just don't care. And it infringes on my fantasies about their characters. Interviews are different because they get to choose their own words and it's not from a friend of a friend of a friend. It's not infringing on their privacy, either, because it's information they have chosen to divulge. I just thank god I'm not one of those girls who freaks out whenever Jensen gets a girlfriend -- again, I don't really care. I think it's great, hope he's happy, blah blah blah, where's Dean so that I can lust after him, please and thank you. ;)