mumbling and screaming

[cimorene]

i've just reached about 5300 words of nemo/gill, or close to fifteen pages. who's the man?

sometimes people you know online make you completely forget ages--forget they're different at all, forget what they are. i mean, all we are in fandom is personalities and interests and snarkiness and whatnot suspended in a mental-intellectual-virtual framework, and real distances are as nothing.

well, anyway. sometimes you forget how old someone is. and sometimes you... don't.

Comments

[cimness.livejournal.com]

heh. i've never looked at it quite that way, but you're right.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

well, take you and me for example! i probably wouldn't talk to you in real life, at least not about fandom, because you're older than me... and therefore we wouldn't have fun conversations about said fandom. well, at least i assume you're older than me... i guess i don't really know. :)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i'm twenty-one. but regardless of that--i talk to people much older than me!

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

well, i'm seventeen. i mean, i do talk to people much older than me, yes! but not about gay porn.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hahaha.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll... maybe not. okay. i mean, i don't cause it doesn't come up much. people are surprisingly not into it. i mean, you'd think anyone would be interested, at least in porn, if not gay porn. even if it's not your cuppa, it's harmless, enjoyable, possibly titillating... .

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

you'd think! i mean, i'm all for porn, as long as it's not harming anyone (like underage photos, etc) but some people are just against it. and here i was hoping i could bring up my gay porn habit with my religion professor.... *snicker*

possibly titilating indeed. *lewd wink*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

ahahaha. ;) well, i mean, titillating even if you're not into it. i can't understand how hung-up american society is and how sex is such a big taboo. honestly, a) what's wrong with it (aside from possible pregnancy, but that's why we have protection!) and b) what's so fucking ... big-deal about it? i mean, sex is nice. it's cool. but it's commonplace! everybody does it. animals do it. it's necessary for survival. and yet there's this whole. thing.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

i know what you mean! it's not just american society, either, canadian too. that especially occurs to me when a movie containing sex is rated NC-17, yet a 13 year old can go see people blown apart. (most american movies rated R come here and are rated pg13.) personally, i think the stigma would be much more appropriate if it was shifted to violence. think of it.... happy, hippie, free-love society. sounds fun! you're right about it being... not a big deal. i mean, it is, sorta, but not anything in the scale that we have it, where people are being killed over sexual orientation and everyone is in everyone's business, and you don't really want to run around mentioning you read and write gay porn, frequently and happily no less.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

people get so emotional and upset with romance.

as far as i can figure it, that's the biggest driving force behind taboo. people have strong feelings about the choosing of ze life-mates.

and then there's the fact that traditions originated before birth control, dna paternity tests, or really good medical care. back then you only knew the kid was yours if women were monogamous. and having more sex produced more kids which there might not be money to feed. and inheritance was a big deal. and STDS weren't really treatable.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

yes, that does explain it. still, i think we should be moving ahead as a society. liek, we are totally middle ages! *scoff* ;)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah. it's simultaneously amusing (ahahah humanity! pftht) and hideously depressing.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

and when i feel like that, i turn to fandom (and in that style, gay porn). how ironic is that?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hee hee.

it's more poetic.