tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074mix you up some some magicand dye away the yearsNeijia2012-08-24T04:16:48Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:108630nagia @ 2012-08-24T00:11:002012-08-24T04:16:48Z2012-08-24T04:16:48Zpublic8(12:00:32 AM) <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/'><b>nagia</b></a></span>: How is forbidding a woman from terminating that pregnancy not a punishment to her for getting herself raped?<br />(12:02:34 AM) <b>Brian</b>: Because we support her through it. You show me where she is and I will do what I can. In the case that her life is in danger, I will personally, though reluctantly, support an abortion. Children are people, not punishments no matter how they were conceived.<br />(12:02:45 AM) <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/'><b>nagia</b></a></span>: ....right.<br />(12:03:00 AM) <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/'><b>nagia</b></a></span>: If I am ever impregnanted after a sexual assault, I will make sure never to tell you.<br />(12:03:10 AM) <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/'><b>nagia</b></a></span>: Because "being supported" does not make it "magically emotionally okay"<br />(12:03:34 AM) <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/'><b>nagia</b></a></span>: And I want to throw up that you think it could.<br />(12:04:19 AM) <b>Brian</b>: I didn't say that makes all the problems go away, but neither does having an aborthion.<br /><br />I have informed him that I literally <i>cannot</i> speak to him for three months. I will need at least that long to cool down.<br /><br />And now I feel sick to my stomach. Being supported makes it okay somehow? Seriously? WHAT LOGIC IS THAT EVEN.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=108630" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:99654These Cuts Of Mine ch. 3 -- draft version2011-08-17T00:23:51Z2011-08-17T00:56:52Zpublic0Quick notes: So far I've decided that this chapter needs to be non-chronological, since the bulk of the narrative is actually Misao telling Aoshi, and it doesn't feel right for her to talk about it in order. Bits of it are incomplete, and I'm not 100% sure I've got it all in the right order.<br /><br />Warnings: sexual assault of a minor, violence, misogynistic attitudes (some period-appropriate, some unique).<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/99654.html#cutid1">three: but where at last the sea's line is the sky's</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/99654.html#cutid2">WARNING misogynistic attitudes ahoy</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/99654.html#cutid3">feel free to check my violence</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=99654" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:98569nagia @ 2011-06-11T20:45:002011-06-12T01:04:43Z2011-06-12T05:11:50Zpublic1<blockquote>Let me also add that I loathe fanfiction that takes itself too seriously. Honestly, if you're writing video game fanfiction, you are writing video game fanfiction. What you are doing is not akin to writing Ulysses. It's something you're doing because you enjoy it, and want other fans to enjoy it. That's cool (and I certainly enjoy fanfiction), but sometimes you can almost tell that the author is convinced of his/her genius, and it's off putting. The same goes for flowery language. It's distracting, rarely used even in great literature and...yeah, you're still writing video game fanfiction even in a best case scenario.</blockquote><br />From <a href="http://masseffect.livejournal.com/1010535.html?thread=25843303#t25843303">this</a> discussion.<br /><br />That point of view infuriates me. Yes, fanfiction is a hobby. No, fanfiction is not professional. But transformative works are just as valid as totally original works, in my opinion, and some stories can use other stories to make beautiful, amazing points.<br /><br />Probably the most amazing piece of fiction I have ever, <i>ever</i> read, that I love more than anything Diana Wynne Jones or Neil Gaiman or Guy Gavriel Kay or Glen Cook ever wrote was a piece of fanfiction.<br /><br />It's called <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/42677">"Scheherazade"</a>. It is an exploration of stories, of the Final Fantasy series and its related works, of why we tell stories, of who we are in the dark, of who our enemies are. And it is probably the single most mind-blowing piece of fiction I have ever seen.<br /><br />Or how about <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/85982">"Concession"</a>, an Iron Man AU about being unable to take concessions back, about disappearances, about abuse and isolation and journalism. It's a powerful piece, made moreso by use of names I knew and a story I'd seen.<br /><br />You want chick lit? I can give you chick lit. <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/96004">The House of Amanda</a>. The story of how Amanda Grayson assembled a household and raised a hybrid son in the <i>Star Trek XI</i> continuity. Again: a powerful story about motherhood, family, and marriage, and growing old together -- made more powerful by using familiar faces and a story whose end we already know.<br /><br />How about horror? You want to try some horror on for size? I can do that. <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/74742">"Fatherhood"</a>. It's a <i>BioShock</i> fanfic about the process of becoming a Big Daddy. It's horrifying and painful, works primarily on original characters and IIRC is Jossed by <i>BioShock 2</i>. That doesn't lessen its effect: you don't have to be familiar with <i>BioShock</i> to be affected by the fragmented chronology or the sinking horror, but damned if that doesn't make it more effective.<br /><br />You read these fics. You let "Scheherazade" shake you, let "Concessions" chill you, let "The House of Amanda" warm your heart and "Fatherhood" make you sick. Then you tell me that they aren't transformative works. That they aren't art.<br /><br />I don't think you can.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=98569" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:95189nagia @ 2011-05-21T20:33:002011-05-22T00:33:33Z2011-05-22T00:33:33Zpublic0This icon. Forever.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=95189" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:87411Say WHAT.2011-03-19T08:53:14Z2011-03-19T08:56:30Zpublic0<blockquote>"You warn for things some people don't want to read.<br /><br />You don't have to hate gay people to not be interested in the overwhelming majority of slash. You just have to not be into slash." (From <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/10307008.html?thread=331281344#t331281344">here</a>)</blockquote><br /><br />How about no?<br /><br />I don't even know where to start.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=87411" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:74453nagia @ 2010-07-01T21:18:002010-07-02T01:25:53Z2010-07-02T01:25:53Zpublic3<a href="http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Gullwings">I want to set this goddamn ass-brained belly-semen-guzzling moron with motherfucking Fred Phelpsian shitwittery on fire. <i>Fire</i>.</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=74453" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:65307nagia @ 2010-05-02T13:00:002010-05-02T17:05:25Z2010-05-02T17:09:36Zpublic0So, Arizona has gotten even <a href="http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/2r/summary/h.hb2281_03-18-10_houseengrossed.doc.htm">more faily</a>. And you know what? For all that I fucking hate Tennessee, at least we're not Arizona.<br /><br />The things I would like to do to that state. JFC, people. Is being a decent human being so hard?<br /><br /><hr><br /><br />In other news, I just mainlined Season One of Criminal Minds and am on the second episode of season two. Right now, I'm loving every single female character in addition to Hotch and Reid.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=65307" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:54441nagia @ 2010-02-17T13:28:002010-02-17T19:02:00Z2010-02-17T19:02:00Zpublic1<a href="http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/223851.html">Oh Neil Gaiman no!</a><br /><br />Seriously, Neil, you are usually so good and on the ball! I get that we're all a bit blind to our S/O's faults, but seriously! A "no comment" might have been a better idea! <br /><br />Am I going to have to put you on my List with Joss Whedon?<br /><br /><hr><br /><br />In other news, <a href="http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/224180.html">RPattz is still trying to get fired</a>. I don't even know where to start with this.<br /><br /><hr><br /><br />So there's been a lot of teal deer talk about <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/obscene-us-manga-collector-jailed-6-months/">this matter</a>. I'm not into shota, chan, loli, or bestiality. I'm also not particularly into m/m slash. Or male characters at all, really.<br /><br />But this is so much bullshit. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://nagia.dreamwidth.org/54441.html#cutid1">more teal deer</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />TL;DR: Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it has no right to exist, and censoring pornography without outlawing the entire industry is <i>dumb</i>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=54441" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:53421nagia @ 2010-02-11T16:59:002010-02-11T22:03:06Z2010-02-11T22:03:06Zpublic1I am clearly psychic.<br /><br />Just before the non-overtime close of business, they informed us that the entire billing department will be working 7-7 monday through thursday, 7-5 on fridays, and 8-12 on saturdays.<br /><br />Fuck this noise, y'all. Time to start looking for another job.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=53421" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:236074:51831So angry I can't even -- CAUTION: HORRIBLE PERSON-HOOD FOLLOWING2010-02-08T20:23:11Z2010-02-08T20:26:56Zpublic0<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/5317101.html">Seriously, I am so angry I feel like my eyeballs are sizzling in my skull.</a><br /><br />I actively wish harm on this woman. And her husband. I wish their son <i>had</i> been "a block of fetal tissue." I wish she had nearly lost her life to due to her complicated pregnancy.<br /><br />At the very least, I wish she would fucking 'fess up and admit that she didn't fucking <i>have</i> a choice, because there is no such fucking choice in the Philippines. Any sort of premature termination of a pregnancy is strictly outlawed except when the mother is in clear and present immediate danger. No, not even in cases of incest or rape.<br /><br />Translation? No doctor in the Philippines would ever have said, "Yeah, that's not a baby, let's just scrape that out." ON PAIN OF LOSS OF LICENSE AND SIX YEARS IN PRISON.<br /><br />Oh, and there's not much in the way of contraception or specialized neonatal/postnatal care. Not even in Manila. So if they hadn't wanted a baby, or darling Timmy <i>had</i> had birth defects, they'd have been SOL.<br /><br />I love the country my family is from, but it is fucked up and I will not pretend it isn't.<br /><br />(Then again, my views on abortion may be somewhat skewed: in the Meiji Era [which is where nearly all of my mental time has been invested as of late thanks to re~search~], women would simply kill infants they couldn't [or didn't want to] care for. Infants. Newborns. <i>It wasn't even a crime, just a sad necessity.</i> Abortion seems a hell of a lot better than that, to me.)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nagia&ditemid=51831" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments