I don't suffer from insanity

So I was all, "How the heck did I end up with 27 items in my Hulu queue?" (It was basically empty last week.)

Then I realized--Stargate SG-1 Season 9 is up!

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So, some other concerns raised about the AoOO's tagging system concerns the genre system. Namely, the two following interrelated concerns have been raised:

1. The distinction between "Multi" and "Other" is unclear and/or ambiguous.
2. There's not a sufficient distinction between, on the one hand, a story with multiple pairings and one with an instance of polyamory, and on the other, a story with an instance of polyamory and a one with pairings between non-traditionally gendered individuals.

The most popular temporary solution put forth is to further refine one's classification of the story with freeform tags. However, as I've set about to do so, I've realized I don't really have a sufficient working understanding of polyamory to do so. Largely this is a result of a monogamocentric (I'm assuming that's what the word would be, and Google attests hits) worldview, in which any relationship can be reduced to a set of pairings. (This, undoubtedly, is the source of the "Multi" tag.) Even a threesome can be reduced in this way: A/B/C becomes A/B, B/C, A/C--but admittedly, this reduction is a distortion, because the threesome is a fundamentally different thing than just the sum of its parts. That's the main complaint as I understand it: the "Multi" tag simply doesn't capture that extra richness.

So take a fic like What the Caged Bird Feels, which has two pairings: Dawn/Ethan and Dawn/Giles. Is this an example of polyamory, multiple pairings, or both? (In that story, Dawn is married to Giles. Does it make a difference that's she had sex with Ethan before, and may see it as likely that she'll do it again, or would the dynamic be the same if the relationship with Ethan was a one-time thing. Does Giles' perspective on the whole thing matter?)

Or how about Substitution Rule, which manages to be A/B, B/C, and A/C without being A/B/C (and to make it more complicated, C thinks A and B are the same person)?

Restricting a poly tag to just threesomes or moresomes doesn't seem to be in accordance with the way real polyamorous people on my flist use the term.

But I'm afraid that identifying all (or even most?) cases of a single character being involved in more than one pairing would be too broad a use, which could end up being appropriative.

So I'm throwing this out to those on my flist who know more about these issues than I do, in hope we can work out (and/or you can help me work out) a helpful, accurate, and non-appropriating tagging practice for me to utilize, because I've come to realize that my thoughts are much less clear and much more monogamocentric than I had previously realized. (ObDisclaimer: No one is required to help me do this.)

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Fic
darkhavens - Five Things Spike Gave Up After Getting Involved With Xander Harris. Written as a sister set to Five Things Xander Harris Gave Up After Getting Involved With Spike.Buffy, Spike/Xander. Rated R.**

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OMG, so good. Venom is my favorite Axis of Anarchy member (and I just looked her up, and the part is actually played by a disable actor!), and was awesome, but what was best about the episode was the way all the characters were utilized with great moments and great dialogue--the only person who was really missing was Tara Caso's character, Dina.

ETA: The more I read, the more awesome Teal Sherer seems to be (although I must admit my interest is fairly shallow). And I know that she and Felicia would have first worked together on Warm Springs (which I'll probably now move a little bit farther up my Netflix queue). Which makes me want The Guild RPF all that much more.

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1. I understand "Choose Not to Warn for Some Content" as meaning that, if no other warnings are selected, then there is a nonzero number of primary standardized warnings which don't apply to the story (most likely noncon)--because if all of them applied, and the author didn't warn for all of them, then the phrase "Choose Not to Warn [full stop]" comment would apply and, in accordance with Grice's Maxim of Quantity, the author would have used that tag.

Apparently, not everyone shares this understanding.

2. I'm very uncomfortable with the implication, given by the existence of the primary warning tag "noncon/rape," that dubcon isn't rape. "Rape," as the term is used more or less uniquely in contemporary usage, is a legal-ethical concept: it identifies a certain type of illicit sexual activity. "Noncon" and "dubcon" pull out certain aspects of these acts which are relevant to the needs of fanfic readers and writers, but not to a legal or ethical understanding, and involves knowledge unavailable to people who are not omniscient narrators (e.g., the precise mental state of the victim, and what what that state would have been in other circumstances). But any circumstance in which consent is in any way dubious--whether through the use of alien influence, or power imbalances, or social pressure, or drugs or alcohol, or through not being of legal age--is rape. Period.

"Noncon" and "dubcon" identify out types of rape, in much the same way the term "statutory rape" does. (ETA: Actually, they don't even do that, I think; they measure something which is on completely different axis than what "rape" measures. It just happens that there is an incredibly huge degree of correlation.)

Now, one doesn't have to read the "noncon/rape" tag as implying that "noncon" and "rape" or synonymous or equivalent. But if not, the meaning is ambiguous: does it cover for cases which are "noncon AND rape" (but not dubcon) or cases which are "noncon OR rape" (which would include dubcon). ("Noncon XOR rape" can be safely ruled out.) Praxis seems to support the first usage as being dominant, but I think this somehow covertly encourages the (problematic equivalence between the two terms discussed above. (And both usages are fundamentally redundant, because "noncon AND rape" = "noncon" and "noncon OR rape" = "rape.")

And, continuing to read the post linked above, I'm not the only who has thought of this (not that I had assumed I was).

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WiPs
velvetwhip - Pity Us, We Wakeful, Chapter Eight, Chapter Nine, Willow/Spike/Angel, FRAO/NC-17

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scans_daily 2.0 on Insanejournal has closed. You can now find scans_daily on Dreamwidth. Please be sure to read our FAQ!

Any questions or concerns can be directed to dailyscans@gmail.com.

Thanks so much to all our members who made S_D 2.0 such an awesome place. Hope to see you on Scans_Daily 3.0!

And now as my final post on the IJ version of Scans Daily, the July 2, 1983 issue of Victor. This title also depended heavily on war stories, but not quite as heavily as Warlord. They do however make the covers.






At this point, there was a one-page gag strip entitled "Cap'n Hand and his Mutinous Band." It was so mediocre even by the standard of gag strips that I have opted out of showing it.













Your thoughts, gentlefolk?

Coming up on Dreamwidth, a story with Thrill-Power! And the new darker and edgier take on a childhood favorite.

For my last post before the move, I thought I'd post an Amanda Conner commission I found online (and which isn't mine) which encapsulates much of what has made this place so much fun...

It has Dick Grayson as Robin, it has Spider-Man, it has cute kids, implied violence (and spanking at that!) and the promise of candy... what better image to summarise us? :)

Since it seems like a few people are making "last" posts to commemorate the move, I figured I might as well join in. And since it's my last post at InsaneJournal, why not take the material from the final volume of Monster?

Of course, in a series as full of twists and turns as this one is, you could argue that most scans would be a)inexplicable to people who haven't been following along and are not in possession of some sort of flowchart and/or b) massive spoilers for the entire series. But I don't think this scene is either.

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Four Scans of the sequel to Purge.

Cyclops drinks bottled water.

Here is my post for the last day of Scans_Daily on InsaneJournal. I deceided to post a little comic I found in DS game booklet, a funny comic that gives us insight in the world of Phoenix Wright. I really hope the new journal is a bit easier to use, in terms of posting pictures and such.Enjoy.

So I posted my dw_femslash fic to the AoOO, with fake cuts pointing to it from my DW/LJ/IJ/JF and from dw_femslash itself. Largely this was because somehow it ended up with a lot of crap HTML (I think I'm going to go back to composing in Semagic until Dreamwidth introduces draft functionality, even though I'm not posting from Semagic anymore since DW has its nifty crossposter) and I had to fight to get it formatted correctly for AoOO and I didn't want to have to do all that again for Dreamwidth/LJ/IJ/JF.

Partly also because my shiny new AoOO account is shiny and new and I wanted to test it out. I don't expect to start posting solely to AoOO as a general rule anytime soon, though.

I spent most of today getting my fic up onto AoOO. I have to say that it's the most pleasant uploading experience I've had with an archive: the Rich Text Editor actually seems to understand what I want the text to do and does it. (I do wish it would auto-format line breaks the way DW and LJ do, though.) Most of my fic's there now, with three exceptions: 1) fic written for yuletide, 2) Buffy/Angel fic, and 3) Firefly fic. 2 and 3--or really just 2 by itself, even--are pretty significant exceptions, though.

I have an invitation to the AoOO to give out if someone wants it (and they should!).

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