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Late again, curse my tendency to stay away from the Board for a long time and abruptly return. Have a shapeshifting plushie.

Coming in late, but I just read a bit about the BNP and... My brain, it hurts. I'm not white or from Britain, but I still don't see how discrimination can possibly help anything. Therefore, I am heavily on the side of "they're racist nutters".

Welcome back.

The only Fairtrade chocolate producers in the Philippines that I've seen are Ben and Jerry's and maybe (low chance of having it) Guittard. And they aren't particularly accessible, either. I am likely screwed in terms of chocolate if I stop buying from other sources.

Why do I keep taking Board hiatuses? It's terrible. Terrible, I say. Anyway, have a giant floofy bunny plushie. It may compete against the otter... but only sometimes, don't worry.

*winces some more*

Forget I asked?

Okay, note to self. Ban children from tag. Ban, ban, ban. Forever.

NOTVAMPIRES. NEVER. Twilight vampires ARE NOT VAMPIRES.

This has been a public service announcement.

Slashfic sounds like all the characters are being murdered and they need to solve the mystery before everyone is dead.

And het just sounds like a pairing between a hat and a net, which, sadly, is exactly the kind of nonsense I expect from fanfic writers in general.


I am, however, always willing to read a good pairing, and whether the characters work together matters to me more than the statuses of the individuals involved.


Heck, I once read a well-written pairing between Plank and the Companion Cube, after Johnny had been abducted by GLaDOS.

I admit that I sort of had plans to be part of the problem in this case; I was going to write a teen-level book, featuring two characters who acted as gay for each other as I could possibly make them without actually holding their wedding on stage, just so I could pretend to be horrified when people asked me if I meant it that way. Yeah, my sense of humour is a little odd.

I'll read het or slash, bad or good.

Preferably good.

I think the company I keep has changed me, I used to avoid slash like the plague. But now I do rather like it.

...no, you're right, it's madness.

And that's not even the worst of it.

One would hope. I suspect it may take rather more than ten years though. Unless they're marketed as LGBT, it's pretty hard to find a book today in which characters just happen to be non-heterosexual. I'm hoping this may change within a few decades as more and more of the slash writers who've cropped up over the past decade start writing original fiction and getting it published, but even then there's the publishing industry's standards to take into account.

It's a good point, I'll give you that. Unfortunately if we don't label a work as slash, then people complain.

So where do you stand on the romance fics, then, Sedri? Because there are zillions of the buggers, and a comparatively small amount of non-romance fics - do you generally favour the former or the latter?

I hadn't thought about it before, but that's the impression I get, too - if "slash" is in the summary, I think it's all about a slash relationship.

Though in all fairness, that's probably because so many of the 'fics out there centre on a romance of some sort - if I see "Harry/Ginny" in a summary, I tend to expect it to be a romance as well, or at least focused on them. Sad thing is that it's very often true :(

After all, if homosexual relationships had been acknowledged and accepted centuries ago, we'd be used to it, but since it hasn't, they're still making a big stupid fuss about the matter, and a lot of us grew up without more than a vague theoretical knowledge of the subject - which is why I still find myself jarred a bit when there's suddenly slash in a story, even if it's just a background mention.

By "jarred" I don't mean "repulsed" or "offended", just surprised, and I don't like that, but it happens because I wasn't conditioned for it. Hopefully, in ten years, I and the vast majority of the world will be able to read it without batting an eye.

We may have to differ on that one. Internal organs are fascinating, to my mind, and there's nothing quite like taking a carcass apart to see how it all fits together. (I blame bleedthrough from Trojie's brain.)

I'll grant that genitals really aren't terribly aesthetically pleasing, though.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like I think there's anything inherently "dirty" or shameful about them. But there's nothing dirty or shameful about one's kidneys or the inside of one's nostril either, and that *still* doesn't mean I want to spend time examining said parts.

Hellz yeah!

I don't think they sell exclusively Fairtrade, but they have products labelled as such, and that's a start at least. I might email their HQ saying this is good and they might wanna consider using Fairtrade chocolate in more of their products - anyone want to join me? The more people say so, the more chance they'll listen. Probably people have already asked them this, but we might as well join in.

I don't like Green & Blacks', it's weirdly bitter, but as a rule I've found stuff labelled Fairtrade tastes better than stuff that's not labelled as such. Might be psychosomatic on my part, but hey. (My one experience with Fairtrade orange juice, however, was horrible, and sticking to my principles is not worth drinking stuff that tastes like orange-flavoured vinegar. I'll send the protest organisations a cheque instead.)

Call him Ziekk Eek.

Have a jar of evil.

...as long as all those involved are in character, no Sues or Stus are involved, no canon relationships are broken up, all the characters are consenting adults, and there's no incest. This, of course, means I like about four percent of the het/slash out there, dislike a further thirty-five percent, and am completely squicked by everything else.

Here, have some Groucho Marx glasses with big fake eyebrows.