Every day that goes by I realize either that I'm not as strange as I thought I was, or that the world is much stranger than I knew and I'm just kind of average.

I found this today on Wikipedia in their entry on "slash fiction":

Some slash writers, however, are neither heterosexual women nor homosexual men. A substantial number of self-identified lesbian women, including many who are in committed relationships with other women, report that they write slash.

I already knew I wasn't alone in this, given that my beta is a lesbian, my banner goddess is a lesbian, and I've met all these other lesbians into Brian and Justin since finding myself here. Plus I have to say, writing fiction to turn on a bunch of women is kind of lesbianic, isn't it?

I also found this in the same article:

Due to the lack of canon homosexual relationships in source media, some have come to see slash fiction as being exclusively outside of canon. These people hold that the term 'slash fiction' only applies when the relationship being written about is not part of the source's canon, and that fan fiction about canonical Willow and Tara in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and many of the characters in the Queer as Folk series, has added much to this discussion. However, abiding by this definition leaves such stories without a convenient label, so this distinction has not been widely adopted.

We certainly wouldn't want to deprive anyone of their convenient labels, would we? ;)

I need an icon that says "My fandom fucks with people's heads."

I in no way want to get ahead of the wonderful marathon on the series going on at qaf_marathons, so I have disabled comments on this post. I just want to say that I am going through the whole series in order for the marathon, and I just watched 122 tonight and fuck, just fuck.

It hurt the first time, when I was unspoiled and had no idea what was going to happen. It's hurt the other 57 times I've seen it since then. But I had no idea how much it would hurt now that I started writing these characters.