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[prof_pangaea]

my kitty is floppy. i think this is because wisconsin suddenly noticed that it's the middle of june and decided to start having some summer weather. yah i was wearing a sweater a few days ago.

good times were had last weekend at pridefest. i volunteered on saturday with FORGE and ended up offering free gay hugs to people who were upset/annoyed with the anti-gay protesters. i actually got to see their entire activity for the day -- they rolled up about quarter after 3 with a bunch of signs and leaflets and such. oh by the way i fucking love anyone and everyone involved in PFLAG. when i went to pride for the first time last year i was standing in line and a PFLAG counter-protester greeted me and i totally teared up a bit, cos she was there because she had a gay son and she wanted everyone to feel welcome and loved, and it was a really wonderful thing to feel that, especially cos of how rough things were for me at the time. if my mom was still alive i know she'd be one of those people. although she might have had a hard time not getting into a fight with the anti-gay protesters.

anyway! protesters rolled up, PFLAG peeps made sure to stand near them. i and my co-volunteer offered free gay hugs and it was good times. around an hour after the protesters showed up hand-painted signs started appearing in their midst, saying things like "SKORTS - SKIRTS OR SHORTS - DECIDE!", "RHUBARB - VEGETABLE OR FRUIT?" "SOCKS THEN SHOES!!", "EAT CHEERIOS - GOOD FOR CHOLESTEROL" "FISH SANDWICH - GIVE ME YOUR FISH!" after only about a half an hour of the ever-multiplying signs and slogans (everyone with the nonsense signs was VERY vociferous in yelling out their very important messages about breakfast cereal and socks and such) the anti-gay protesters finally just gave up and sort of confusedly retreated. i offered gay hugs to the protesters as they departed but only one person took me up on my awesome offer! she said i was funny. then she tried to tell me how jesus really loved me, to which i replied, "thanks, i know he does, that's why i'm here."

the other highlight was my friend jesse telling the mayor about how i'd been beat up earlier in the week. heh.

speaking of, my face is much better! bruising seems to be gone, and the swelling. still hurts a little when i open my mouth wide but that's it. don't seem to be getting the pain-induced headaches anymore either. hurrah! i got the compensationform from crime victim services a couple days ago as well. now i just need to actually, er, fill it out. yes.

btw, who is no one watching In Treatment? IT IS AMAZIN

*back to writing stuffs*

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[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

stop with your logics!

anyway, people write fox news slash. FOX NEWS. surely there is room for a fandom for a handsome therapist with a Tragic Childhood who gets into weird semi-romantic entanglements with his patients and generally fucks up his life in various ways?

SURELY THERE MUST BE. D:

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

But he's not a dragon-rider, vampire, vampire slayer, space traveler, time traveler, police detective, faux-medieval king or superhero, what could possibly be interesting about him?

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

well, when you put it like that...

*is a bit fond of time and space travellers*

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Seriously, realistic fiction (I mean actually realistic, not, say, House or Dexter) never lights anybody's fannish fires no matter how good it is. Which is odd in a way since fic is also largely character-driven instead of plot-driven, but, whatever.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

it's because you still get the satisfaction of the plot-driven framework while basking in the luxury of focusing on the characterisation. the things that make characterisation happen are taken care of, and all you have to do is explore them and reap the (fannish) benefits.

and i understand, because very few books/movies/television shows actually give me a fannish urge at all, even if i love them. i mean, i would never write "in treatment" fic. i doubt i would even read any. i wouldn't write "crime and punishment" fic either -- i just really like it, admire, would want to talk about it. i'm just surprised i haven't even heard anyone talking about it -- i mean, i've heard people talk about shows like "big love", so why not? (somebody made a "big love" joke on the meme yesterday, saying nick briggs was the star of a show called "briggs love" and we were all married to him. obviously i was not against the concept of this show).

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

It's also that thing where if a fictional universe has too much of its own integral integrity, so to speak, you really don't feel that urge to interfere with it. It's like some sort of Good Fiction Prime Directive. (My mom also adores Big Love. Never seen it.)