psych gus
( Feb. 2nd, 2010 12:45 pm)
Back from being mostly incommunicado after a busy couple of months: end-of-year fic exchanges, holidays, family visits (my sister and her husband whom I never see because they live in England stayed almost a month!), and some medical stuff. (For the record, spinal taps suck.) And now I'm contemplating my unanswered comments with a sense of dread and wondering how much--of everything, not just comments--it's worth trying to catch up on.

Before I begin tackling that particular mountain, however, I wanted to note that I've begun crossposting to Dreamwidth and Livejournal. (I'm still deciding whether or not I want to import my past entries to DW, as well.) All content minus the comments will be the same at both journals, so you can follow me at either journal--or neither--according to your preference.

Oh, and Happy belated New Year to everyone!
niou and yagyuu
( May. 11th, 2009 06:51 pm)
[personal profile] cimorene has written a post about queer invisibility in mainstream media and has smart things to say about the differences between queer content and subversive readings of the text and about the types of queer content that get the green light. This paragraph in particular really resonated with me:

So sometimes I want to consume some media where the gay content was actually the creator's explicit intent - mainstream media is pretty clear about not wanting us, and sometimes you are sick of that. And Wax and I do have a small collection of hard-won gay films, but they're pretty much all An Issue Movie and they usually involve HIV and/or unhappy endings. Until last month I'd actually never seen a lesbian romance film with a happy ending. The thing is that that genre is almost entirely hidden from the mainstream.

So, to try to make it easier for people to find those stories, I've created a new community, [community profile] gay_also_means_happy, where people can post recommendations for queer media with happy endings. Please check it out if you're interested!
I'm on Dreamwidth as jain. (Which is painfully obvious to all of the people reading this post on DW. Crossposting is weird.) My current plans for the site are to use it mostly for reading and commenting to people who've switched to using DW as their primary journal, while I'll continue using lj as my primary journal. If/when most of my friendslist goes DW, then I'll use it as my primary journal and start crossposting all of my entries to livejournal.

I've been automatically giving access and/or subscribing to everyone I recognize from my lj friendslist to keep track of you. Anyone who ends up crossposting regularly I'm going to only read on one site, so if that describes you, I wouldn't mind a comment letting me know which site you're going to be using as your primary journal (if you haven't already made that clear elsewhere). Also, I'm pretty sure there are several people on my friendslist whose transitions to DW I've missed and whom I haven't given access/subscribed to there, since I wasn't paying attention to everyone who switched in the early days before the surge of interest in DW. If anyone fitting that description on my friendslist is interested in having me stalk you across two journals, you could also drop me a comment.

And, finally, I have five four DW invite codes going begging. Comment here with your email address if you want one.
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