Good Blogday!
While I was formulating my master egocentric plan, I got back online and caught some well written blog posts. First off, I want to say that I still enjoy POWER In Comics at NING - but my blog can’t feed there - and I’m not updating everyday to another blog. One place is all I should and can blog at–RSS Feeds should be able to do the rest for me. 
First off - when you take issue with someone’s interpretation of a book, story, genre, or whatever…why is it necessary to cast insulting opinions and gross assumptions on them, as human beings? There was girl I liked very much from y!Gallery and when she started in on saying that all fans of shotakon needed to be killed, raped maimed, and tortured - then I had to just tune her out. She made this rather lurid post in her Deviantart journal, and from that point on, I didn’t go back. Yes, I’ve read and enjoyed shotakon from Japan…do I like western depictions of children in erotic art -hells no…but do I want to read shit like that in my ‘update list’ at Dev. Fuck no. We’re not your enemies - pedophiles are. I had the same sick feeling when I saw this shit, this sort of anger, directed at someone because they had a different opinion on an incident that happened in a fictional body of work. Just because someone doesn’t have the gut-churn reaction you do to something violent or grossly sexually inappropriate, doesn’t mean they’re deviant human beings capable of the sort of depravity that’s set you off! Whoa. It’s one thing to form a nasty opinion about someone who’s actually engaged in behavior you find offensive–it’s quite another to formulate a nasty opinion of someone based on their lack of affect, over a fictional storyline, depicting behavior you find disturbing. Her summation in comments at her own blog, when the LJer showed up to ‘explain why they said what they said’, was fucking perfect:
I think bringing up personal issues when discussing works of fiction is bad form. I wouldn’t do it.
Another blog that reached out and touched me today, was Mr. Rader’s. I don’t know him, but I love reading his blog! As someone who’s been called a homophobe because I sounded like a jerk when I said this:
Quite frankly, this reverse-entitlement issue is nothing new, and the whole issue in Japan passed quite quickly, like around mid 90’s, when BL got popular. Again, another case of the Queens in Court getting their balls in a snit because the Double-Xers were making a fetish of gay sex. Oh, but they were making money while doing it and that’s just ten times wrong…
I thought to myself…should I self-edit. Of course those who know me, know damn well I’m incapable of self-editing. It’s a curse I tell you. But I found this post interesting…and this quote in comments [paraphrased here, but linked to for context], from Mr. Rader, a very powerful argument for the old sticks-and-stones mantra :
I lived through the worst years of the AIDS epidemic. I’ve walked in Pride parades where people were spitting on me and condemning me to Hell. I was thrown around the boys room in middle school and high school because I was gay. Isaiah Washington says the word, “fag?” I can deal with it. [...] I seriously just think that condeming one man for saying “fag” takes us away from serious issues that need to be addressed by our community. And I, for one, think that language - - all language - - should be availble to all of us - - and used!!! - - at all times.
Now for something…less shameful??
Over at SB-TB, they review Unmasked, an Erotic Novel of the Phantom of the Opera. As I read the review, I couldn’t help thinking…this is fan fiction. This is professionally published fan work; the publisher paid the author for her own sexy version of Phantom of the Opera. I was amazed. I mean, I’ve been at the receiving end of cease and decease notices from companies who DON’T PLAY AROUND about abuse of derivative use. You can put PARODY in big bold letters, and they’ll still be looking over your shoulder just to scare your ass… 0_0. I had to ask about copyright in comments - and according to some commenter’s, the copyright expired on this title and so…I guess publishers can hire writers to take on historical classics, and adapt them to erotic books? I think the word was called…reimagined. Heads up to some of the writers at Speaks It’s Name. I’d like to see some old faithfuls reimagined! Someone needs to check up on some of those Shakespeare titles…I’d like to see what Tybalt’s problem really was with Mercutio…his real problem–not just that whole family feud thing. Think about it, Merc wasn’t even a member of that damn family, but man Tybalt really wanted to just kick his ass didn’t he? *raises eyebrows*
