more on outing, fandoms of no-fic

so, after yesterdays query, it appears that the benighted colonialists are still living in a state of repression in media.

Found an interesting article on out.com on why so many actors/media figures are still in the closet - different perspective from the usual rant on mid-west america. It may, it turns out, be to do with paranoia on behalf of the agent/people surrounding them (like in most cases where actor gets reputation for diva/demanding weird things) rather than how people would actually react (also see complete underestimation by the networks of the intelligence of their audience). Shattered Glass Reminds me of when Michael Barrymore came out, tabloids made a big deal of it, and the best response was a letter from an old lady going 'So? He's gay, what's the fuss for?' - people simply didn't care. See them shut up rather shamefacedly. See the majority response to gay marriage was people nodding with approval because it *normalised* them. Only the media or people trying to be politically correct refer to it as 'civil partnership' or write it as "marriage" in articles (note the quote marks) - everyone else just refers to it as marriage.

:sigh: need to moisturise legs. attack of the cracked skin. automatically moisturise my arms every morning, but forget the legs due to not seeing them every two seconds like I do with arms and hands.

Hmm. You know those fandoms you love but feel absolutely no need for fic? (not including the stuff where you used to read the fic avidly but got burnt out because it was so repetitive, or old fandoms) Maybe you've read a couple, or read the occasional rec/crossover and they were good, but that's it, because canon and discussion satisfy you. You feel no need to search it out, and never have a hankering for it. Provide me with some - I'm curious and want to create a poll to get a bigger picture of this kind of thing.

I'll go first - the ones off the top of my head are BSG, Firefly, Dr Who (not Torchwood) Farscape. I collect pretty like a bloody magpie (icons, wallpapers, vids), I go to conventions for them, but fic I'm just not interested in reading for the most part.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/24/bbc.television

OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD - I CAN DIE HAPPY!

phobia fun

Gah. nothing like having an original phobia (original as in you could count on the fingers of one hand the people in the British Isles who have this and have a substantiated reason). Went Wagamamas after work with parentals, for the first time ever post-dinner, manage to catch the bus rather than having to get a taxi. Downstairs is all one-person spaces, so parents go upstairs and I follow. Sit, bus pulls out into main streets, immediately gulp slightly and shift over to the other side. I think I'm okay, then we get to suburbia and the trees start banging the windows. See me bolt. parents asking if I'm okay as I run down the stairs. Sit down at the back, shaking slightly, scrolling through mp3 player to find the most wordy and fast-paced stuff I could find (turned out to be The Fix) and thanked fuck that the engine at the back downstairs is loud. Get to our stop, parents and me get off bus, parents immediately asked if I was okay. (had mostly calmed down by this point) They'd apparently been rather confused for about a minute until it clicked - I'd looked like I was going to throw up. Fortunately, not a usual reaction. Dad said I shouldn't have gone up (they also started apologising and said they just hadn't thought) though I pointed out that I never get the bus here as have train pass, and when I do it's the single-deckers on a different route. London, I didn't think too much about it as none of the routes I took had trees on.

But yeah. god I love having a really, really specific substantiated phobia. megolas is probably the only person I still see who's witnessed me with it.