kalpurna

1. You know what is weirding me out right now? The fact that lolbands is an LJ featured community. I went and looked, and of COURSE three quarters of the posted macros are from bands we slash, and half of THOSE have slashy captions. OF COURSE. And yet I didn't recognize any of the members' names in a quick glance-through, and I've never seen it mentioned on my flist, and I had no idea it existed at all until today. And it is apparently completely acceptable for LJ to feature, even in the middle of an epic LJ/Fandom smackdown the likes of which has never before gone down. Bandom, sometimes you weird me out! I am not used to my fandoms being this fragmented, or this mainstream, or this disconnected from the grand and noble traditions of media slash fandom. I guarantee very few people in that comm trace their roots to the same place I trace my roots (newsletters, zines, conventions, science fiction) - probably lots of them don't even self-identify as slashers - and yet our surface participation is very similar. IT IS WEIRD. I feel like a grumpy old lady on my porch wanting to yell at kids for their loud music!

2. In other news, I srsly have to stop lounging around on my bed right in front of a big window on the first floor with the curtains open and no pants on. It's not like my (parents') house is in the middle of a city, or anything, but people do occasionally walk up our street, or drive by fairly slowly, and it just happened like four times in a row. Oh, my flist, I have a problem! My problem is that me/pants = not OTP. I – seriously? If you have ever met up with me in real life, without (and sometimes with) extensive pre-planning? You have probably, at some point, heard me say the sentence, "Okay, but first, I need to put some pants on." I come home, and the pants come off. Pretty much everyone who lived in my house freshman year saw me naked. (And I only dated one of them.) PANTS ARE MY NEMESIS. I HATE PANTS.

I NEED TO REMEMBER TO CLOSE MY CURTAINS.

3. I realize this is kind of a stretch, but I am working with a THEME here, so: it makes me uncomfortable how FUCKING PRECIOUS JON WALKER AND TOM CONRAD ARE. UNCOMFORTABLE IN MY PANTS! WHICH I AM NOT WEARING. MY METAPHORICAL PANTS, OKAY.

Oh, fuck this theme, I am encountering too much awesome to stick with it. Whatever! You guys can deal, I think.

HERE IS SOME AWESOME:

1. The idea of Ianto Jones/Willow Rosenberg queer het, proposed by lipsum. Oh my God, I approve! I read a lot of Why Slash? type meta back... well, back before I had an LJ, actually, and one question people often seemed to ask was, "What if someone took two canonically queer characters and put them in a heterosexual relationship? WHAT THEN?!" My answer to that, babies, is "HELL YES." Provided it's done right, of course – meaning that it should be just as queer, if not queerer, than sticking to canon relationships. See, for example, that fic madsciencechick wrote for the bandslashmania pornathon, which is M/F/F! That should be super straight, right? Hahaha, no.

2. GERARD IS DATING LYN-Z FROM MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE. SRSLY. Look, I know that this is like, the second time he's been TOTALLY IN LOVE OMG this summer, and also that Frank and Gerard should get married in Canada, and also that HE IS GAY HELLO, but you guys, here are some ways in which this is awesome:

• She's hot.


• She's the best casting for a genderfucked Frank I've ever come across.


• She's a stone cold badass.


• She's a member of a band Meela admires, which means Meela has to at least admit MCR is a TINY bit respectable. Hahahaha, suck on that.


• She can do things like this.


• Her face is adorable when she's watching Gerard perform!


• Um, no, seriously, she's really hot.


• The tour of ultimate gay has coincided with this particular romance. I think this says GOOD THINGS about this relationship, mostly because I approve of gayness! Is she encouraging it? Is she whispering in his ear, "Honey, I really think it would be great if you shoved Frank's face in your crotch?" I don't know, but I hope so. I like to picture her and Jamia gleefully encouraging such shenanigans!


• He kisses her like in the movies.


• ETA: She used to be in a punk Dolly Parton cover band. If that isn't awesome, I don't know what is.

TEAM LYN-Z FTW.

3. MCR seems to be approaching some kind of hotness event horizon. Gah.