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Aja: HOW DO I INTRODUCE THIS POST? Cathy: AJA & CATHY TALK ABOUT CRASS MATERIALISM. AND WEATHERFRONT
Hello, lovely friends!
So, I said to two_if_by_sea, WE SHOULD DO THIS THING, and Cathy was like, NO. WHATEVER YOU ARE THINKING, *NO.* And then I explained my plan, and she said, OMG WE SHOULD! And thus we have.
As you may or may not know, Cathy and I are huge fans of weatherfront, and like all fangirls we like to expound upon the object of our affection. So, like a less-feminist Sadie & Amanda, we are going to bring you our thoughts on yaoi.
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Okay, so, I have been away for what seems like YEARS. I am just now getting back in the swing of things and I have god knows how many kink meme threads in my “to-read” folder on gmail, and I have going on 200 inception fics to-read from delicious, and no, I have not heard JGL sing Bad Romance yet.
So this whole post is an exercise in DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO.
- Getting Totally Behind in Fandom
- Feeling Totally Overwhelmed With Your Post-Inception-Fandom Life
- Wanting To Cry Just From Looking at
- Much Less ;
or,
You’re A Smart Man, Mr Eames
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the most epic block party discussion EVER, complete with phenomenal fanfic attached as a bonus. I’m just in AWE. This post is for all of you.
We veered totally OT for the meme, so here are the rest of my thoughts on Eames and how brilliant he actually is. Most of the points have already been wonderfully made in the meme thread, and so I’m not going to rehash them because I’m lazy and it’s really late.
Besides that, I think Eames can speak for himself.
Among other things I’m pretending were All Just a Dream: Proposition 8. :D
I keep having to curb the impulse to justify my reaction to Inception, because it’s certainly not the smartest movie ever made. To me Inception is just smart enough–any smarter and it couldn’t inspire the recursive public reactions to it that reify the film itself. But I’m sure that soon the inevitable Inception backlash will come as people get over their initial WTF was that and decide that it wasn’t really all that spectacular, more hype than substance, etc etc.
To me the appeal of Inception is not about the plot making sense. Or even about how it’s not about the plot making sense. (If that makes sense.)
To me Inception is a die that’s a dodecahedron instead of a cube. Every time I roll the die I come up with a completely different way of reading the film. And every single side the die lands on is emotionally satisfying to me. Every single side is so pleasing. Every single side tells me something awesome about human connections or the meta-layers of meaning at work in the film. Every side is just plain cool.
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Hello, internets! My CRACKPOT INCEPTION THEORIES, let me show you them!
Read MoreYuletide, the OTW, Old Spice Man, Taylor Swift, Inception.
1. If Yuletide were held right now, at this moment, my Yuletide fandoms would be:
- Plants vs. Zombies
- The Room (2003)
- Old Spice Man (and crossovers with every fandom ever)
- Taylor Swift RPF
- Inception.
2. The OTW is awesome. You should be a member. An OTW member. A member of the Organization for Transformative Works. Won’t you?
3. Old Spice Man.
. Nevermind, you’ve already seen that commercial. I like the one for Anonymous, as well as the one for Sardonic look.
Now read Old Spice Man/Sassy Gay Friend. After you’ve had plenty of time to recover from the dazzling perfection around which your universe has had to expand to fully encompass, read Old Spice!Arthur from Inception–no spoilers because that would be unmanly–and then you should read Old Spice Man/Saito, because the only thing manlier than Isaiah Mustafa is Ken Watanabe, and by “manlier” I mean “more cable of fully demolishing the last frayed threads of your willpower so that you can no longer feebly resist the urge to rip his clothes off at this very moment and instead can only fling yourself upon him in a hapless frenzied heap of desire.”And if there are any more Old Spice Man fics out there, well, let’s just say I’m starting a collection. Meaningful Eyebrowface. New numerical item.
eta, 8/5/10: behold, the zeitgeist hath given us this wonder:
OLDSPICE-KINKMEME.DREAMWIDTH.ORG.
THE MEME YOU WISH YOUR MEME COULD KINK LIKE.4.
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Silence, consent, rape.
This entire post contains potential triggers for frank and occasionally graphic open discussion of sexual abuse and assault, sometimes first-hand. It is all rage-inducing. There is a lot here. There is a very strong trigger warning for this entire post. It all goes under the cut.
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