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zeegoeshere at 10:21am on 05/08/2007 under bandslash, fandom, meta, music, songs and the words
zeegoeshere at 10:21am on 05/08/2007 under bandslash, fandom, meta, music, songs and the wordsI'm sorry that I've been so soapbox-y lately, I blame hormones or something, but my two cents: I see a lot of the hubbub around chan fanart being a result of "protect the children!" moral panic, and I think that creating an 18+ only journal service is giving into that same panic from a different angle. I get that sites and fans want to cover their asses legally, but right now LJ is just covering their asses legally, so if you're all righteously furious about that then you should maybe stop talking about how it's a good move, legality-wise, to make it a bannable offense to be a certain age.
I hate teenagers, but I'm really not going to move to a site that has that policy, ever. I got into fandom when I was 16-ish, and I'm one of the rare fen that never actually lied about my age. For some reason it just never occurred to me? I don't know, I think I'm too lazy to elaborately lie about anything; being up-front about my age and my life was just easier, and I'm always a little surprised at how fandom is all 'well, they can just lie about their age!' when it comes to teenaged fans. Doesn't that kind of encourage Ms Scribe behavior? I mean, what's creepier, a) a 14-year-old reading your porn, or b) a 14-year-old reading your porn and talking to you and pretending to be 24? The latter option is always going to make me uncomfortable. I think that pretending that teenaged fans don't exist is much sketchier for all parties.
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On an entirely different note, I have this post written up that's the beginning of a project I was going to do that basically consist of writing a lot about my reactions to bandom's music and my feelings and associations with songs and albums and really, just writing a shit ton about the music. For FOB, for Panic, for GCH and MCR and TAI and all of the bands that I'm fannish about. Because I got into it more recently, a lot of these albums are still fresh to me, and I want to get down my thoughts about them before I forget anything.
The flaw in this plan is that writing these posts involves listening closely to the music, and when I do that I get immediately distracted by and caught up in the songs, so the only bit I've written up so far is a big long essay/gushing post of embarrassing love about Infinity On High. This post isn't even finished, but I feel like if I stay in the mindset that I have to finish writing up my thoughts on FOB and all the other bands instead of posting, as opposed to just writing what comes to mind when I want to, I will never get anything written about these bands.
So here are my ramblings about IoH, and I didn't even finish all of what I wanted to say, but I figure I can later. The beginning of a series, possibly? ( I just like talking about music, guys. )
I hate teenagers, but I'm really not going to move to a site that has that policy, ever. I got into fandom when I was 16-ish, and I'm one of the rare fen that never actually lied about my age. For some reason it just never occurred to me? I don't know, I think I'm too lazy to elaborately lie about anything; being up-front about my age and my life was just easier, and I'm always a little surprised at how fandom is all 'well, they can just lie about their age!' when it comes to teenaged fans. Doesn't that kind of encourage Ms Scribe behavior? I mean, what's creepier, a) a 14-year-old reading your porn, or b) a 14-year-old reading your porn and talking to you and pretending to be 24? The latter option is always going to make me uncomfortable. I think that pretending that teenaged fans don't exist is much sketchier for all parties.
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On an entirely different note, I have this post written up that's the beginning of a project I was going to do that basically consist of writing a lot about my reactions to bandom's music and my feelings and associations with songs and albums and really, just writing a shit ton about the music. For FOB, for Panic, for GCH and MCR and TAI and all of the bands that I'm fannish about. Because I got into it more recently, a lot of these albums are still fresh to me, and I want to get down my thoughts about them before I forget anything.
The flaw in this plan is that writing these posts involves listening closely to the music, and when I do that I get immediately distracted by and caught up in the songs, so the only bit I've written up so far is a big long essay/gushing post of embarrassing love about Infinity On High. This post isn't even finished, but I feel like if I stay in the mindset that I have to finish writing up my thoughts on FOB and all the other bands instead of posting, as opposed to just writing what comes to mind when I want to, I will never get anything written about these bands.
So here are my ramblings about IoH, and I didn't even finish all of what I wanted to say, but I figure I can later. The beginning of a series, possibly? ( I just like talking about music, guys. )
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