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syncope at 12:58pm on 27/02/2008
syncope at 12:58pm on 27/02/2008So the other night Jenn and I were talking and she linked me to a pic and said "This is so girl Mikey from that story you wrote" and I responded "I never wrote a girl Mikey story" and she said "Wot? *link*" I had, in fact, written a girl Mikey story and really didn't remember it. This lead to further discussion of this other story I wrote that she had been talking to me about a while ago that I claimed to have no written. Of course, I had written it. I am crazier than even *I* realize, folks (did anyone see that Bill Moyer's thing about the use of words like "folks" in political rhetoric? I didn't agree with the woman at all, but she was very engaging.)
Anyway, so this is floating around:
The thing is, when people look for stories, they always make it sound like badfic. Now, often that's because it really is badfic, but sometimes it's good and they just suck at describing the story.
So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to summarize badly any one (or more!) of my stories and I'll try to guess which it is. You could even pretend you don't remember the pairing or fandom to make it harder to guess.
I hate memes, but HOW can I resist this? I bet I won't get ONE of them if people reply. MADNESS! Dogs and cats living together!
Did anyone see Primetime last night? I thought it was fascinating on so many levels. Not only the moral issues raised by the staged events but also how apparent it was that the show was manipulating people to have a specific moral response to the actions on the screen. I never see shows like that--infotainment masquerading as investigative journalism--but I was watching a movie and had the tv on at the same time and watched it when I saw what it was about. I found it pretty interesting that there seemed to be a kind of bias during the entire show towards women being stronger moral agents than men. I don't know if it's because the producer was a woman or if there's some latent belief amongst liberals that this is true. I've seen this idea many times, and I have no idea where it comes from. I wonder if it's a vestige of the old fashioned way that mothers tend to be the ones to teach their children religious ideals, or it could be what's left of the madonna complex. Pretty wacky to see it on a infotainment program on a broadcast network out of the blue, though.
Anyway, so this is floating around:
The thing is, when people look for stories, they always make it sound like badfic. Now, often that's because it really is badfic, but sometimes it's good and they just suck at describing the story.
So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to summarize badly any one (or more!) of my stories and I'll try to guess which it is. You could even pretend you don't remember the pairing or fandom to make it harder to guess.
I hate memes, but HOW can I resist this? I bet I won't get ONE of them if people reply. MADNESS! Dogs and cats living together!
Did anyone see Primetime last night? I thought it was fascinating on so many levels. Not only the moral issues raised by the staged events but also how apparent it was that the show was manipulating people to have a specific moral response to the actions on the screen. I never see shows like that--infotainment masquerading as investigative journalism--but I was watching a movie and had the tv on at the same time and watched it when I saw what it was about. I found it pretty interesting that there seemed to be a kind of bias during the entire show towards women being stronger moral agents than men. I don't know if it's because the producer was a woman or if there's some latent belief amongst liberals that this is true. I've seen this idea many times, and I have no idea where it comes from. I wonder if it's a vestige of the old fashioned way that mothers tend to be the ones to teach their children religious ideals, or it could be what's left of the madonna complex. Pretty wacky to see it on a infotainment program on a broadcast network out of the blue, though.
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