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⌈ Secret Post #2618 ⌋

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Comments

Re: I had a thought:

[blunderbuss]

Gah, by the time I got here your questions have already been answered! Nooooo.

I can answer a question for you, though - no, you are not allowed to own a kangaroo like a pet, but you ARE allowed to foster them. You basically care for them until they're old enough to be released into the wild. The most commonly fostered animals are marsupials because it's easy to keep them in a warm pouch, like so:



As for calling women 'sheila', if you're a tourist people will just find it amusing that you're adopting our slang. However, there are regional accents and vocabularies, and sheila mostly comes from the 'occa' accent - think Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee. If you talk occa then no one will think twice of you saying sheila. But if you talk more of a coastal or 'british' Australian then people will think it's kinda weird. Think of it as someone from San Fran randomly dropping Brookyln slang.

As for urban legends, there is the story that the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo bought some lang in western australia and may or may not have accidentally detonated a nuclear device. Yeah. I doubt tha it's true, but I think it sums up Australia that a bunch of nutbags could accidentally set off a nuke and the rest of the country barely even notices anything happened.

Also, YOU AMERICANS KILLED PHAR LAP. The greatest racehorse in Australian history mysteriously dies en route to racing in the US?

[(Anonymous)]

THIS.

When you commission fanart from people you're not just paying for supplies. Like, if it was that easy go out and buy some damn pencils and paper and draw it yourself-OH WAIT. YOU'RE COMMISSIONING THE PERSON BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE THE SKILL/PATIENCE TO DO IT YOURSELF. You're paying the person for their skills and time! Same for fanfic writers. If someone wants to charge for putting their time and effort into something they should be allowed to. If you don't like it, go read something somewhere else; don't give them shit for wanting to be paid for putting hard work into something.

[(Anonymous)]

Not so. I used to dabble in scanlation, now I'm a professional translator. When I scanlated, I just did what I wanted when I wanted - which meant like 30 pages a week max (granted, I did my own scanning and cleaning). Now I do about 150 pages a week, and I'm way more motivated to do it. I still enjoy it, but some things are hard to focus on when they're not bringing you home the bacon. Money gives you the focus to work hard instead of just dabble here and there.

[(Anonymous)]

Bullshit. It's literally the national average size for a woman.

[(Anonymous)]

You're a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

You're either a troll or a person with some seriously screwed up ideas about the human body. Odds are both.

[(Anonymous)]

Ever read a femmslash ship swapped to het/slash?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Does that even exist? That sounds like something that would get a pile of people screaming erasure over.

I probably haven't seen anything like that because the major fandoms I've been in for the last few years were very male-heavy. I don't choose that deliberately, it's just what's caught my attention.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I bought it for school. I don't take fanart commissions. Any fanart I do is soley for my own enjoyment.

I just see everyone here talking like art supplies aren't a big deal. They're hella expensive.

If other artists want to take on the risks of copyright and do commissions that's on them. They can charge what they want for their work. And I think if fanwritters wanted to risk taking on commissions the same goes for them.

[(Anonymous)]

Awesome! :DDD

[(Anonymous)]

It's set a slightly crappy precedent maybe, but "dangerous"? Seriously? I don't think silly hyperbole helps your argument here. As for "what will be the point in writing original books", that's even sillier. 50 Shades was published three years ago. Have people stopped writing original fiction yet? Do you think that'll happen next year?

Please, try to develop some perspective and common sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't come crying when you see how right I am.

Moron.

Re: I had a thought:

[making_excuses]

Sorry apparently I never replied to this, I didn't mean to forget it.

And you are pretty much right, and I just realized a pretty critical point to this whole discussiont that I didn't think about before... We don't date in the sense that we are either together or we aren't, as in we don't really go on dates and spend time together thinking about if we want to be with that person or not.

Not that the we don't think about it or anything, or don't spend time with someone before being their SO, but we don't say to our friends "I've been dating this guy/girl for a month and I think we might become bf/gf", it is more "I kinda like this guy/girl we've flirted for a while and/or spent a lot of time together and now I want to be their gf/bf".

That is probably something that should have been cleared up a lot earlier, but I'm not used to thinking about it.

1. Pretty much, except: We do spend time with people we are interested in alone, but it doesn't have a name or anything like that, I might go out for coffee with someone I am interested in, but then it wouldn't be called dating, it would just be going out with coffee with a guy I like, with American influences I might tell my friend that I vent on a date like thing if that happened. For me personaly that means I hang out with guys that I go to class with before/after lectures and we might end up in a cafë together, but there isn't a social rule or anything like that regarding it, it is just a part of getting to know a person, without thinking of relationships.

2. Mostly yes, see 1.

3. Again see 1. But also, a relationship does usually start with at least kissing, that is where we define the start of a relationship, but individuality does play a part and it depends on the people involved, but typically you aren't in a couple before kissing happens.

4. That is also a question of definitions, it might happen or it might not. I have friends who have more one night stands than me and for the most part the men they sleep with know it is a one night stand, some of them they talk to later, or develop a closer relationship with. Other times they just have to explain that it was just sex and that they don't really want to do anything more with them.

And 3 again: In peoples houses yes. If you are the partying sort pretty much, but not necessarily, because I have spent plenty of nights in other peoples beds with them without ending up being in a relationship with them. We just sleep wherever there are place, because it isn't always easy getting home at night and then you sleep over, and beds are more comfy than floors.

If you meet someone at a bar that you are interested in then you talk to them, you might invite them over to your group of friends or to the after party you are going to, alternatively the other way around. If you are interested we just give them our phone number/facebook info and they might message you (or you them) and ask if you are going out next weekend or something along those lines. Also in that you might talk to them/text them and so on to get to know more about them, and that is also one of those situations where we get closest to actually going on a date, if it is a person that you don't know nor your friends we have to improvise, so we might even get out of or shells and eat with a person we don't particularly now to get to know them better.

So did that make more sense?

Re: I had a thought:

[inkdust]

It does, haha, thank you. I know I got really nit-picky about the details. It reminds me a good bit of how dating tends to work on college campuses here. Except people in college are still really bad at knowing when something becomes a relationship. The bigger contrast comes in comparison to that traditional American cinematic dating model, but I think that model is loosening among my generation. It's funny how part of it just seems to come down to semantics - the fact that we have and use the word "dating." This has been very interesting to learn, so thank you for all your time :)

[(Anonymous)]

She's hated because she's been shitty to fans and has made a big deal about how much she hates acting and never wants to do it anymore... yet here she is. And she's a shitty actor. Also she cheated on Dominic Monaghan when they were a thing.

[(Anonymous)]

...I doubt anyone would pay for a story just printed out on regular paper. You'd want to bling that shit up.

Or it could be a little hand-bound, hand-written little marvel of calligraphy.

[(Anonymous)]

How is anyone's livelihood threatened by people writing stories about a work that the original author wouldn't?

[(Anonymous)]

Mostly people seem to want to turn the 'bottom' in fics into girls and then have a lot of het sex. :(

I've noticed that with Stiles in a lot of Sterek fic, but Teen Wolf and sort-of-but-it's-more-complicated-than-it-seems Thor are the only fandoms where I've noticed this pattern. My impression is that in Supernatural, Star Trek, MCU (excluding Loki fics), and Sherlock, it's pretty much a toss-up as to which character gets genderswapped. And in other fandoms like Harry Potter, there may be a most often genderswapped character (Harry himself, in that example), but he's not a bottom in 90+% of the fics featuring him (e.g., as Stiles is), so it's a completely different dynamic.

[(Anonymous)]

Over what weight?

[(Anonymous)]

It irks me how it's never ever the "hot" character with more salivating fans who gets swapped, always the one people seem to think is effeminate to begin with.

You're making some kind of weird assumptions here. First, the idea that more "effeminate" characters aren't considered hot by fandom at large is simply untrue. Blair Sandburg, Legolas, Loki, Daniel Jackson, etc. all have their share of salivating fans...often even more so than their more "masculine" counterparts: Jim Ellison, Aragorn or Gimli, Thor, and Jack O'Neill.

Second, what does "effeminate" even mean with regard to most genderswapped characters and/or how do you determine relative degrees of effeminacy? Who's more effeminate between Kirk and Spock? Sam and Dean Winchester? Sherlock Holmes and John Watson? Cho Hakkai and Sha Gojyo? Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and Bucky Barnes? The One Direction kids?

And the above paragraph is a bit of a trick question, because every one of those characters gets genderswapped regularly, so even if you think it's obvious that one of the characters in the second paragraph is "hotter," more popular, and more masculine than his counterpart(s)...well, he's still getting genderswapped.

Re: Life's Little Annoyances

[(Anonymous)]

My mom will 'clean' her glasses with the bare pads of her fingers. WITH HER BARE FINGERS. I cringe in horror every time.

Re: Life's Little Annoyances

[tabaqui]

...wha...does not compute....

Anime Fanservice

[(Anonymous)]

I agree in most cases (ex: Sekirei), where anime exposes the body to unneeded extremes. But I'm more against the sheer one sidedness of how many girls are objectified (all it makes me picture is purvy old men salivating). However, as of late, more male characters are being objectified and the balance (at least to me) makes it much more bearable. That said, Kill la Kill is actually GOOD and after a little getting used to, you enjoy every part of it, especially since there is much more crazy stuff going on in the sereis than their skimply costumes (or lack there of).