new northanger abbey surprisingly (?) porny

I say that this spring's TV version of Northanger Abbey was surprisingly porny because I was surprised, but I use a (?) because I'm not sure I should be surprised. It isn't an Austen adaptation nowadays without a sex, or almost sex, or making out, or references to sex. There's also the obligatory multiple-girls-in-nightgowns content in pretty much all of them. But, okay, in this movie the nightgowns scene is all wet, and in corsets. On a candlelit bed.

There's also some rather sexy dreams and a strong implication of masturbation: she dreams she's bathing when Tilney appears and tells her not to be ashamed, and offers her his hand and she stands up out of the water naked, before waking up flushed and confused. There's also some rather sexy face-touching when they're at the Abbey. Mmm, sexy face-touching.

This is not a post of any substance about FanLib so much as a metaphor that I liked.

FanLib's marketing attempts with lj fandom were kind of like going to a hardcore goth club and handing out Hot Topic ad flyers. "And look, you can wear things with like - little skeletons on them!"

In other new FanLib news, people are distributing their marketing brochure and analyzing their FAQ. It seems clear that it's not actually aimed at people who are already well into fandom, let alone at the savvy and highly-networked fans who make up the livejournal community. life_wo_fanlib is a collection of links to information and posts about it. If you're part of fandom, it would be good for you to read a bit about it - not because it necessarily poses a threat to our corner of the community but because it's highly relevant to all of fandom (angiepen: Why We're Not Just Walking Away.)