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Sep. 15th, 2007 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wildestrangerGreetings!
Having acquired internet late last night, I have spent the last 15 hours or so online (okay, there was a five-hour break for sleep, but still), and reminded myself of why global communication and information-sharing is a wonderful, wonderful thing. And also that internet is for the porn. Oh, the porn. So much porn. You lot have been prolific in my absence, haven't you? Especially SGA people - I still have half of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mcshep_match things to read, not to mention various long and oft-recced individual pieces. Well done, all. You have served me well. *pats flist*
And not that much wank, apparently, except that Gerard Way got married (to a woman, sadly), which seems to have prompted some interesting discussions about stagegay. Withough getting into the whole thing (although a part of me wants to go spout Judith Butler at people, and talk about stylised acts of gender performance and how identity and the performance of said identity need not be and should not be restricted and prescribed according to conventional formulations of gender stereotypes), I would like to point out two things I noticed yesterday when, Before The Internet, I spent some time watching The Hits (UK music channel, for those of you who don't know), and reading Kerrang! (my very first bought copy. Makes me feel like a teenager.).
This is something I didn't know about current discussions of music - that people comment on how pretty young male artists are, that they are seen snogging and groping each other and that this is considered to be hot, and commented on as such, by both male and female fans. Now, my confusion is as follows: I know that in fandom, in the slash fandom which I inhabit, we talk about such things. I talk about such things with my RL friends, and we are all academics and feminists and interested in discussing changing perceptions of desire (production of desire by performed narratives, expressions of desire). But I didn't realise that people outside my very small fannish and very small academic circles did this.
And the fact that they do this? Is pretty damn awesome. And I absolutely think that this makes the world a better place.
Oh, and the other thing I noticed is that Billy Corgan looks like the lovechild of Lex Luthor and Gerard Way. Not sure I want to pursue that line of thought. Okay, maybe I do, but I am not going to.
In other news, I seem to have become tragically intrigued to bandomslash. If you have recs (or videos, or music, or anything, really) about Fall Out Boy and/or My Chemical Romance, please be sharing. I am eager to be seduced by this.
P.S. Due to my new copy of Kerrang!, I am now in possession of a sticker that says "What Would Pete Wentz Do?" This amuses me greatly.
Having acquired internet late last night, I have spent the last 15 hours or so online (okay, there was a five-hour break for sleep, but still), and reminded myself of why global communication and information-sharing is a wonderful, wonderful thing. And also that internet is for the porn. Oh, the porn. So much porn. You lot have been prolific in my absence, haven't you? Especially SGA people - I still have half of
mcshep_match things to read, not to mention various long and oft-recced individual pieces. Well done, all. You have served me well. *pats flist*And not that much wank, apparently, except that Gerard Way got married (to a woman, sadly), which seems to have prompted some interesting discussions about stagegay. Withough getting into the whole thing (although a part of me wants to go spout Judith Butler at people, and talk about stylised acts of gender performance and how identity and the performance of said identity need not be and should not be restricted and prescribed according to conventional formulations of gender stereotypes), I would like to point out two things I noticed yesterday when, Before The Internet, I spent some time watching The Hits (UK music channel, for those of you who don't know), and reading Kerrang! (my very first bought copy. Makes me feel like a teenager.).
This is something I didn't know about current discussions of music - that people comment on how pretty young male artists are, that they are seen snogging and groping each other and that this is considered to be hot, and commented on as such, by both male and female fans. Now, my confusion is as follows: I know that in fandom, in the slash fandom which I inhabit, we talk about such things. I talk about such things with my RL friends, and we are all academics and feminists and interested in discussing changing perceptions of desire (production of desire by performed narratives, expressions of desire). But I didn't realise that people outside my very small fannish and very small academic circles did this.
And the fact that they do this? Is pretty damn awesome. And I absolutely think that this makes the world a better place.
Oh, and the other thing I noticed is that Billy Corgan looks like the lovechild of Lex Luthor and Gerard Way. Not sure I want to pursue that line of thought. Okay, maybe I do, but I am not going to.
In other news, I seem to have become tragically intrigued to bandomslash. If you have recs (or videos, or music, or anything, really) about Fall Out Boy and/or My Chemical Romance, please be sharing. I am eager to be seduced by this.
P.S. Due to my new copy of Kerrang!, I am now in possession of a sticker that says "What Would Pete Wentz Do?" This amuses me greatly.
