Completely Pointless Post Except in That I Think This Rambling is Made of Win and Awesome

[kiyakotari]

Browsing around the internet, trying to keep myself awake late into the night in preparation for the switch back from nearly a month of daytime-awake-schedule to my usual graveyard shifts, I discovered the possibly-weirdness of NBA slash fanfiction. I say possibly-weirdness because I know nothing about the NBA (aside from the fact that a basketball is somehow involved, and I believe that such balls are usually orange), and that the one fic I did read was by someone who clearly knows how to write. (I wish she'd spend some time in a fandom I'm more familiar with, just so I could enjoy that, though I'm willing to read the NBA stuff just to get at her characterizations of these people I've never heard of.) Like whoa.

Which is all a very roundabout way of getting to sharing this post of hers, which has very little to do with NBA and quite a bit to do with the male/female gaze argument, and how that argument has been shifting (or perhaps blending/becoming less comprehensively valid) in recent years. This post made me happy. I think this is a sign that I'm missing school, and can't wait to go back to it next month.

Comments

[lionhearts.livejournal.com]

I am infamously not good at being able to say anything intelligent about semi-academic/academic stuff, but man, that was pretty interesting to read. I've always wondered about that argument.

(Though, I will admit that I do occasionally find penises hilarious to look at. They are just so... silly, sometimes.)

Also, NBA slash? To that, I say wth?? (Though, I think last night was a fanfic night, since I stayed up way too late reading an epic MGS one.)

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

OOOh, link? I want to read this epic MGS one. =D

Yes, NBA slash. I know. It was strange to think about, but not strange to read - I think it would have been strange to read if I knew anything at all about the NBA and the players being slashed. Since I don't...it was well-written, articulate, and interesting.

And yeah, that little ramble of hers caught my attention.