February 11, 2005

• I can't fucking stand Tracy Emin, and to see her work mixed with another of my not so pet hates - that Potter shower - is like the perfect storm of pissing me off. Whereas Hirsts 'Physical Imposiblity of Death...' is actually a great piece, now tainted by association with the retard wizards. Thanks Quid. I owes ya one...
• Heh. This is great. The world of Harry Potter fanfic and fanart is truly a strange and frequently disturbing one... (I love Mondrian's Composition: Hedwig)
• Wow, this is what the great artists would turn out if they were Rowling fans. And shitty artists. Right, then. Clever idea in a "I have no ostensible talents or life, but a decent knowledge of modern art" sort of way.
• Slightly off-topic, but is it true that the majority of authors of gay slash fan fiction are in fact female?
• Don't know about a majority, but certainly a sizeable percentage of them are.
• I would go so far as to say a vast majority. In every circle I've been in or seen, male slash fanfiction authors are a subject of delighted curiosity. Which must get irritating, but anyway. I would guess it's because fanfiction itself is a primarily female arena. I don't write it myself, but I know people who do, YMMV, flame at will.
• This is even hotter than the clown thread!
• I'll pass that along to Red, js - she's a good friend of mine. It's great how small the Internet is, no? [/snark] Seriously, these are some of her sillier pieces, but I still love them. If you go to her homepage under "beastly" she's done some fabulous, more serious sketches of magical creatures from the books. This one and this one are two of my favourites. And Wurwilf hits it on the head, fanfic (at least in the HP fandom) is overwhemingly written by women, so of course most of the slash is also written by women. We could analyze this ad nauseum but it's been done, over and over. (Btw, how'd you find this, quid?)
• Must be a distant cousin.
• livii: tell your mate I like her site, 'cause I do, and if you can't be silly on the internet then I have wasted the last year of my life. But I actually can't remember how I stumbled on this, and it was only yesterday!
• Very nice! The Tracy Emin one made me giggle. Good find, quidnunc. And livii - I like the Moke too.
• I don't get it. What is going on here? I must be missing something. Or is this like one of those jokes that don't make sense and you are supposed to pretend it does? "What's the difference between a Motorcycle and a telephone pole?" "An orange." Everyone laughs in the attempt to make the one that doesn't feel stupid?
• Thanks, quidnunc. I know it's poor form to get upset over people slagging on friends on the Internet, but I have zero tolerance for the whole "Oh, I'm so cool, I'm too cool for this" bullshit. Which is what the anti comments felt like. I wrote her about the thread already, just at least so she knows why she's getting extra hits today. On silly though - you guys didn't even get into the really silly ones there! We're both members of a great HP site called the Werewolf Registry (how I met her, since she lives in the UK and I'm a Canadian) and man, do we know how to be silly there. That stuff she's drawn makes me laugh out loud, though I suppose knowing the context helps. :) And jccalhoun, the ones linked are riffs on modern art, which rarely makes sense in the first place, no? ;) (Though some HP knowledge makes it funnier, I think.)
• jccalhoun -- That is my exact memory of sexual jokes told in the teen (especially early teen) years. No one would get the fucking joke, but they would laugh like they had just had the entire Grandfather's Association of America tickling their armpits at the same time.
• I've been to Red's site before (quite likely via your LJ, livii) but never explored it properly. I'm fond of the first one quiddy linked to, despite having almost no knowledge of HP beyond the characters. There's a deep abyss between what actually happens in JKR's books and what happens in the minds of hardcore fans and fanfic writers. Even if you're clueless about some of it (which I am), I can appreciate the work and talent that's gone into these, especially the parallels between Snape as a classroom and Mae West as apartment.
• Livii- Pass it along all you like. Why should I be concerned with you tattling on me to your internet friend? /snark.
• "What's the difference between a Motorcycle and a telephone pole?" "An orange." You got it mixed up. It's supposed to be "What's the difference between a motorcycle and an orange?" "A telephone pole." Now do you get it?
• Missed this. js, I just enjoy pointing out to people just how small the Internet is. Your comment was so full of the sort of pompousness that I find people only feel they can make on the Internet, since they think it's anonymous. I find most of them would never dare or think it appropriate to say such things in real life (though if you are the sort who would, well then, that's a bigger issue). Oh, and I must congratulate you on your use of the term "internet friend" on a, oh, gee, Internet forum. Yes, you are so much cooler than me, since she's just a friend from the Internet. Go you. You rock. And tracicle, you probably would have seen Red's work on my LJ, I think I've linked to it, or chatted about it before. Glad you liked it. (And yes, the abyss between the books and fans - oh god, yes. I like to flatter myself that I don't fall into that, myself. Heh.)
• Livii- No, really, I'd have no problem making fun of this in real life if I saw it either. Though, if you're the sort that would whine about it to your friends in real life, well, that's a bigger issue, isn't it?
• I'm doing research on online communitites for grad school and I came across a bunch of really neat HP MUDs if you're into that kind of thing. The one I'm taking a look at is the HP universe, but no actual characters from the books allowed. It's fascinating. p.s. I liked the pictures.
• Not knowing where else to stick this: Harry Potter to show off his magic wand.
• MonkeyFilter: Not knowing where else to stick this
• Rave reviews for Harry Potter and The Emperor's Clothes. [WARNING -- features photo of Daniel Radcliffe which allows a pretty good guess that he doesn't manscape.]
• Stupefy!
• Ladies can go to the play to better dream of deflowering Daniel Radcliffe in the backwoods, and the men can go to similarly enjoy the merits of legitimate the-a-tre.