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This is not a very important poll but you should take it. Polls are a nice distraction! :D

Maybe only three other people on my flist care, but I am RIDICULOUSLY excited over pictures of The Dawn Treader!

Ice Cream Deathmatch Final Round: Ice cream sandwich vs. chocolate chip cookie dough.

Second round of the semi-finals today! Chocolate chip cookie dough vs. gelato. Come vote!

The Ice Cream Deathmatch starts the quarterfinals today. Chocolate vs. black raspberry! Come vote!

The Ice Cream Deathmatch starts today! Come vote!

Honest to god, fandom, we're doing this again, huh? And this time we're using the word "privilege" to beat each other bloody with. Way to go. Let's be proud.

I don't even get the amount of hateful, defensive behavior I've seen on both sides of this debate. And yes, both sides. Because just as it's hateful to suggest someone is lying about the story of their repeated abuse and trauma, it's also pretty hateful to trigger someone and then be smug about it, simply because they're disagreeing with you on warnings on fanfic.

Here's what I'm seeing: Most people agree that warnings are a good thing to have on fic, and most people agree, across the board (even people I'm seeing labeled as "anti-warning"), that certain things should always be warned for. Some people disagree that certain OTHER things should need warnings and some people disagree that fandom is a community/safe space, and then all of sudden, we have claims of "purposely triggering" and "not being a good person." And, really? Really? We're ready to pass that kind of moral judgment on others, because they don't think they should always warn for character death (example only!)?

Look, I figure we always give everyone the benefit of the doubt. No one is here in fandom to intentionally trigger anything in anyone, we're all here because we love some tv show/book/movie/game/band and we've found other people who love the same thing. Sometimes people don't warn for everything, and sometimes people are going to get triggered. But no one is trying to hurt anyone, at least, I can't believe they are. And okay, sure, there are exceptions to every rule and there are some extreme cases, and maybe there are a few people here in fandom JUST to hurt people and make sure they're triggered, and you know what? Yes, they're assholes, but they're the minority.

And you know, I've been triggered reading fic. It was on a fic that clearly warned for something, something that I've read a million times and never had a problem, but I'd never read it written like this before. And whose fault was it? No one's. Not mine - I didn't know I was going to be triggered. Not the author, they'd put a warning for character death in the fic. I had a bad time, yes. Being triggered back into that headspace is not fun, and not something I care to repeat again.

But all I can do is be more careful about what I read, on my end. I take my chances living in this world, every day. I've been triggered watching a tv show, one I watched every week, one that I knew had often gruesome, violent killings - but never one before like I saw in that episode. I've been triggered by someone on an airplane, while I was flying home from vacation, and let me tell you, a plane is really not a good place to deal with that. The thing is, I don't always get triggered by the same thing, and I don't know when I'm going to be triggered. I can avoid things that have triggered me before, but I can't avoid EVERYTHING.

And I'm rambling now, and kind of lost track of my point, which I guess is this: cut everyone some fucking slack. Just because someone disagrees with you on a topic, they're not a bad person, and you're not a better person for holding a different opinion. People who don't put a warning on a fic are not trying to hurt people. They maybe just never thought about it, or didn't realize, or would gladly change, if someone pointed it out. Or perhaps they just don't consider it something to warn for. And it doesn't make them a monster either, if they decide they're not warning. It just means that in some cases, their fic is not a risk you're willing to take.

And this is an excellent post, and probably I should have just linked to that and kept my rambling to myself.

Title: Faith and Desire
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia
Pairing: Caspian/Peter
Rating: adult
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters, settings, situations, etc., belong to C.S. Lewis / Walden Media.
Author's Notes: This was created for Porn Battle VIII. Prompt words included: King, home, make-up sex, confront, unexpected. Thanks to musesfool, benedict, and unsuitenedt for handholding.

( ...when Peter stands and smiles at him, Caspian punches him in the face. )

I got this meme from dashakay...

Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. Then, update your journal and answer the following questions:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

( Back here I talk about XF, BSG and Narnia... )

Wow, that got long. I am passionate about my fandoms, I tell you!

I am trying out the DW/LJ crossposting! Let's see if this works.

Name your 15 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms.

Okay, the problem with this is, um, coming up with 15 OTPs is hard! I know, I know, I fail at shipping. But I really do! Sometimes I'm more into the fannish universe than any ship. Like, Space: Above and Beyond I love to the point of madness, but I never had an OTP for it. So I guess that says something about me too. Anyway, for a few of these, I am going with a definition of "ship" that is more "relationship" and not sexual or romantic.

1) Mulder/Scully, X-Files (forever and ever, amen)
2) Sawyer/Juliet, Lost (this is actually a subset of my OT4 of Jack/Kate/Sawyer/Juliet)
3) Veronica/Logan, Veronica Mars (so many things went wrong with that show, but this one killed me)
4) Buffy/Angel, BTVS (bad and wrong!)
5) Wolverine/Me, X-Men (yes, this says I am a Mary Sue. :D)
6) Harry/Hermione/Ron, Harry Potter (I know! I just like the OT3 the best)
7) Maggie/Joel, Northern Exposure (hmm, I need to rewatch this show)
8) Kara/Lee, BSG (yes, I know how it ended, and I was fine with that)
9) Peter/Caspian, The Chronicles of Narnia (yes. You already knew this. Also, if this list was in any kind of order, they'd be much much higher)
10) Peter/Susan, The Chronicles of Narnia (Not just incesty, but in a brother/sister together forever always there for each other kind of way )
11) Eowyn/Faramir, LOTR (especially in fic!)
12) Maedhros/Fingon, The Silmarillion (canon, yes, but primarily RP-related)
13) Merlin/Arthur, Merlin (although really only for the show, not in Arthurian legend)
14) Meggie/Ralph, The Thorn Birds (more bad and wrong, but oh god, one of the oldest ships on this list!)
15) Sam/Dean, SPN (Not incesty at all, but I ship them in the same way as Peter/Susan - siblings, together forever)


Okay, I can see trends here, but you tell me what you think.

Do we do memes and games on DW? I guess I will try it!

I posted this at LJ but I know some of you aren't reading over there anymore, so if you want to play, you can do it here too!

Okay, you know how this works, right? I give you the lyrics to 20 songs, you guess the title and artist.

(All 20 of these are from my Narnia playlist, and they all go with one of the main characters, so if you want to guess which one, that's fun too. It's also interesting to see which of the characters the iPod loves best. :D)

Ready? GUESS!


1) Until now I was a soldier until now I dealt in fear / These years of cloak and dagger have left us disappeared

2) And I always thought that it would make me smarter / But it's only made me harder / My heart thrown open wide

3) When you run right into something they said you'd never find / You gotta ask yourself if it ain't all inside your mind / But I see it and I believe it this ain't no great divide

4) Before you knew me I traveled 'round the world / I slept in castles and fell in love Fireflies, Faith Hill - guessed by bedlamsbard

5) And everything around her is a silver pool of light /The people who surround her feel the benefit of it Suddenly I See, KT Tunstall - guessed by bedlamsbard

6) Am I going anywhere / Not 'til I can read by the moon

7) I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance, a word, a signal, a nod, a little breath / Just to fool myself, catch myself, to make it real, real Strange Curriencies, REM - guessed by kanata

8) Just because I'm hurting doesn't mean I'm hurt / Doesn't mean I didn't get what I deserved no better and no worse

9) We're burning down the highway skyline / On the back of a hurricane When You Were Young, The Killers - guessed by kanata

10) I feel like I was born / To devastation and reform Devastation and Reform, Reliant K - guessed by bedlamsbard

11) I am not your carpet ride / I am the sky

12) Put the world in a box turn the sign to the street / Aim for where horizon and blue skies meet

13) Baby is it drama is it comedy / You know my character witness just went down for perjury / Anyone else got any good ideas / Or will we just lay low until the black smoke clears

14) I watch the stars from my window sill / the whole world is moving and I'm standing still

15) Stopped pretending / happy ending / everything I ever wanted stands in front of me.

16) I've slept in rainy canyon lands, cold drenched to my skin / I always wake to find a face to calm these troubled lands

17) Oh, I've felt that fire and I, I've been burned / But I wouldn't trade the pain for what I've learned

18) And you know how it feels / To get too high too far too soon The Whole of the Moon, The Waterboys - guessed by puritybrown

19) Yeah I'm alive but I don't need a witness / To know that I've survived

20) Someone kindly told me / That you'd wasted eight of nine lives

So, hello again DW.

I'm not sure what to do with this journal yet. Should I crosspost? Should there be different content? Should I just use it to read others? I have no idea.

Well. Hi, Dreamwidth.