Morbo is pleased but sticky

[brandywine28]

*obnoxious throat clearing sounds* I feel like I wouldn't be doing my job as an LJer - nay, as a human being - if I didn't draw attention to the following:

Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman almost certainly did it (and that's wonderful)

Yes! GREAT BIG BUCKETS of yes!

Walt Freakin' Whitman, master of the swoonworthy pick-up line! Who knew? ("'Thee and Thou' terms": guh. Such a rogue.) Now that would've spiced up the dry-as-dust tour of his birth place I took a couple of years ago. :)

And as long as I'm in a coding kinda mood, here's A Brief History of Slash, which manages to be that rare thing: a mainstream article about fandom that doesn't make me cringe.

Comments

[morgana-st.livejournal.com]

Here's another mainstream article about fanfiction that's actually well-written.

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that! I love the description of fanfic as it's own pocket ecosystem. "The literary equivalent of Australia". Brilliant.

Although, that's twice in a row now that a writer has specifically namechecked bandom/bandfic, and not popslash, as, like, the definitive example of RPS. I don't know if I should be relieved ('cos the lack of public attention feels...safer, somehow) or insulted.