So I'm bored.

[nny]

Gonna do another one of those meme things.

Ask me a question. Ask me anything at all. Within reason, I will answer.

*needs to get out more...*



EDIT: I volunteered to do a job for my mother this morning. She said I was an angel. Then she looked me up and down, and ammended her statement. "Well... a slightly *sleazy* angel."

Best description ever. I love my mum. :D

Comments

[ygrane.livejournal.com]

What's your:

Favourite Pairing and why

Favourite Fandom and why

Favourite place to store the tuna?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. *thinks*

My favourite pairing depends very much on what I've recently read. I think... in terms of pairings without reading any of the fanfiction, I would say SB/RL. It's virtually canon, and it's incredibly sweet. I am absolutely heartbroken for Lupin. On the other hand, I don't really read SB/RL because it's rarely treated how I want it. Because I love the pairing, I have very specific ideas of what I want from fanfic in this pairing. (Though... if anyone has recs, they would be appreciated). Currently my favourite pairing to *write* is Snape/Lupin,(loving the snark), though I'm not progressing particularly well in any of my ongoing fics. I need a beta, to kick me up the arse occasionally, but I haven't really found a steady one yet.

My favourite pairing to read depends very much on the writer. Different writers have different ideas of the characters, and so long as they're largely based in canon I can deal with interpretations. What, or who, I read, depends also on the kind of mood I in. For instance, Mulder/Krycek is a very angsty pairing, Merry/Pippin tends to be amusing and sweet, Fraser/Kowalski often has great plots to back it up... I read pretty much anything. I'm a pairingslut. =)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

My favourite fandom is without question Harry Potter. It is full of amazing people who care for each other, and support each other, and there's always so much going on.

I used to be involved in X-Files fandom to a large extent. I had a great beta, but she tended to only tell me about grammar/spelling errors, so I didn't feel that my writing was making any great progress. I got a lot more feedback than I've had for my stories in this fandom, but there was no... fun. There were very few essays that I found. There didn't seem to be any silliness, and I am a big fan of silliness. Plus, they killed one of the pairing, in a way that completely negated any slash.

Due South I liked, and I still check out the fics, but there really didn't seem to be all that much happening *apart* from fic, so I can be a part of it simply by reading and feedbacking occasionally.

LotR I never really got involved in.

Discworld I'm looking into, but only from the fringes as yet. I don't know who to speak to or where to go . I'm investigating.

[note: these are my opinions, based *only* on my experiences. Please don't yell at me.]

[villainny.livejournal.com]

URGH! I really don't like tuna. Reallyreally. Even the smell makes me want to spew.

*adds to list*

vaseline
rubber band balls
toesocks
tuna

[cursive.livejournal.com]

wow that's a scary meme...

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Not so far it's not. =) I rely on my buddies to make it so. C'mon... scare me!

[cursive.livejournal.com]

Don't dare me honey.

Do you think you have a sexual investment in writing m/m slash?

Would you let your parents/siblings/other immediate family members read it, and why?

What do you think the characters you like to slash the most say about you (when you slash them)?

If that's not scary enough for you let me know.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Sexual investment? I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Putting it in my spankbank? *g*

[cursive.livejournal.com]

I don't know what a spankbank is -- I mean, I'm guessing, but I don't know. I didn't mean any kind of masturbatory impulse I meant does it say something about your sex life, preferences, expectations, experience, that sort of thing.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

See the next two answers. =)

Sex life? I don't need no steenking sex-life.

I don't feel emtionally mature enough yet for the type of relationships I am expected to have at this age. I want a fifteen year old relationship. Kissing, and hugs, and *fun*. I don't want to have sex. I'm really not interested right now. And I can thik of nothing more hideous than having long, intense discussions about "where the relationship is going". I'm very immature, and for the moment I'm happy to remain so. I really don't need anyone else to make me happy.

Sorry... was that TMI? *g*

[cursive.livejournal.com]

Not TMI for the question, but it was a pretty oblique answer to the question. *Prods*

Unwarranted I know, but you did ask for it.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

So what precisely do you want to know?

I think... slash has very much affected my expectations, my preferences. I mentioned that I'm not homophobic, unlike my family, and I think I would have been disgusted and uncomfortable with myself because I'm bisexual if I had not fallen into this. Slash made me realise I'm not a complete freak of nature. Slash made me sit down and think about it, and realise that this *wasn't* just some teenage period of sexual uncertainty.

It has also opened my mind to the various options available. In my house, it's pretty much like sex toys/sex play/fetishes are for deviants, whereas I feel like I'd be more open to trying stuff out.

Plus... slash has made me more willing to stick to my convictions. To not just *settle* for someone. I want someone special, and I'm not settling for less. =)

More helpful? *g*

[cursive.livejournal.com]

That's such an interesting interpretation because obviously people go through that curve without slash and slash could be very easily seen to be more open -- just trying things out, sex for interest or pleasure's sake, rather than hanging on for someone special.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I'm a romantic. I rarely read PWPs. I want a one true love kinda deal, but if it doesn't happen I'm happy to be single. I'll be the neighbourhood snake lady and scare all the kids. =)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I would never *ever* let my family read it, as they are remarkably homophobic. I don't know exactly how I turned out as I did, though I'm sure finding slash at 14 helped a lot. Two of my cousins are lesbians, and it's like they don't exist. I would really like to get in contact with them, because they might have some advice...

See, that's the other thing. I'm bisexual. I haven't told my family, unsurprisingly. I don't want to be disowned unless it actually becomes an issue. At the moment, I don't want to date *anyone*, so it's cool.

They'd probably be a lot more understanding than I give them credit for. But I know I'd lose my brother.

On the other hand, I am subtly showing my little sister a different point of view. I reckon she's a potential slasher. *g*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.The characters I like to slash tend to be the characters that hate each other. I absolutely love angst, and that shows in what I write.

*confession time* I gave up playing games pretty late in life. My friend and I still had a very rich fantasy life long after everyone else had given up. When we played, she always pretended she had a steady boyfriend, while I was more likely to pretend that I liked someone but didn't go out with them. And if, during the course of the game, we *did* get together, something terrible would happen to them. They'd all die or something. It was like I was Kirk and they were my manbitches.

That's kind of carried over into my slash. I rarely write anything other than first time fics, and if I do write established relationship fics, something *always* goes wrong. So I tend to focus on pairings that are doomed. Maybe I can get around to writing some SB/RL now. *weeps*

Now you see why I'm single. =)

[cursive.livejournal.com]

Now you see why I'm single. =)

Well, no, but I see something about why you think you are single.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Anything else? *g* this is fun.

[cursive.livejournal.com]

Well you know best what you'd actually be scared to answer. And it would seem overly cruel to dissect your LJ looking for what might provoke a more painful response (I save that kind of scariness for people I'm really close to).

[vileseagulls.livejournal.com]

What is more important: chocolate, or coffee?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I'll answer this one first, 'cos it's *easy*. =)

COFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEE!

I am not actually that big a chocolate fan. I'd prefer a tasty honey yoghurt or something. I mean... I'm not *against* chocolate, but I really like not-quite-so-sweet sweet things. I'd buy a bag of mixed nuts'n'fruit over chocolate. Coffee, on the other hand...

Something you have to understand is, my mother reacts ridiculously to caffeine. So we have decaffeinated coke, tea, coffee... therefore, whenever I have coffee, I turn into a hyperactive six year old and run around and around and around. It's good fun.

Mmmm, coffee.

[vileseagulls.livejournal.com]

Mmm, coffee.

I like mochas!