shoe links

My old shoe posts beyond a certain age are going to start dying because of my lj gallery being deleted. Some of the images will be lost to posterity, but a selection of past uploads were still on my harddrive and have been uploaded in these newly categorized Picasa albums which I have accordingly linked from the sidebar of my journal:

 

Shoes - Sneakers

Shoes - Boots

Shoes - Flats

Shoes - Heels

plebefic headers: Ryan is pregnant and doesn't like kids. Jon is the father and loves kids. Dilemma!

1. Member Pairing: Nino
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   “The darkness was the scariest thing I’ve experience my whole life. When I found out I wont be able to see the light again, I thought I’d die alone. But… The darkness isn’t so bad, when I knew I had you…”PG13Angst / Romancemiya Kazunari / OC [Thanks aeslis!]



2. Summary: As those slender hands fix around the glass of whatever it is in your hand I see you smile beneath the scruff on you face that disguises nothing. It doesn’t hide the cunning and intelligence I know is there, doesn’t hide the beauty I see every time I look at you.



3. Summary: Ryan is pregnant and doesn't like kids. Jon is the father and loves kids. Dilemma!!



4. Summary: “Fine,” Brendon said, crumpling the card in his hand and throwing it into the trash before storming back into the bedroom to grab his cellphone from the nightstand. “If it’s a whore he wants,” he flipped open his phone and searched for a friend’s phone number, “it’s a whore he’ll get.”



5. Summary: Vaguely cracky fluff in which Castiel is called 'snufflebunny' and Dean is called 'honeybuns.'

SCIENCE (which is to say statistics, which is even better)

melannen has collected data from various polls in different parts of fandom on the percentages identifying as queer, which range from 30-something to 70-something percent.

Science, y'all.

It's science, but this is not representative statistics. Sampling would be fairly impossible in online fandom, when even defining where to look for data is hard enough. That doesn't mean you can't get any information from the polls, of course, it just means you can't know how representative the data is of fandom as a whole. This doesn't show that between 30 and 70 percent of "slash Fandom" is queer, but it does show that in easily specifiable subsets of fandom spaces, significant minorities (samples of the individual polls are too small to be extremely precise for the smaller social networks they represent), or even majorities, are queer. And that is still enough to say that that tired old chestnut that slash is "mostly" by and for straight women is, at best, questionable and representative of only certain parts of fandom. When the demographics of fandom sub-groups vary so widely from each other, is it even appropriate to make any generalizations about (slash) fandom as a whole?

bluflamingo: Not all of us write m/m, or f/f fic because we think it's hot. Some of us write it because in our world, people are gay, and since we're not going to see gay space explorers or gay marines or gay FBI agents on our tv screens any time soon, we have to write it ourselves, so we do.

maryaminx: See, for me, being gay isn't just about how I prefer boobs over penis. It's how I see relationships. It's how I relate to everyone around me, how I lost friends when I was eleven and didn't know what the hell was going on, how I see myself and my future. [...] So to read slash, to see other gay people come together in relationships portrayed as normal, as good, was invaluable.

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