etben | I like fucking!

1. Lots of things have been said about what SixApart and Livejournal and the fuckers over at WFI did - I'm not going to comment on that, because a) I'm still not entirely sure what I think, and b) I'm mostly just glad it's over. What I am going to comment on is fandom - specifically, the fannish response in terms of sharing information. Because as soon as it became clear that stuff was going down, information was flying thick and fast, with people compiling posts of facts and ideas and updating them constantly, keeping everyone up to date, showing the thing as our understanding of it evolved. We were, in effect, telling the history of the thing as we were living it, which is just - to me, that's kind of the coolest thing ever.

And I feel like that's one of the ways in which the internet has really changed society - because history is no longer written by the victors, after the fact. And, yeah, obviously people have always documented stuff as it was going on, but I feel like it's never really been done with this degree of collaboration and interconnectivity.

I'm not any kind of media scholar, so I don't really know if what I'm saying is accurate, if what I'm talking about is actually new and different or just something I hadn't twigged to before today - but either way, it makes me happy. Go internets!

2. Conversations I Probably Shouldn't Be Having At Work, #9781:

etben: man, I want to write dirty fucking.
but I don't know who should fuck!
I am very unspecific, is the thing
I want to write fucking!
I don't know what kind.

shoemaster: other than 'dirty'

etben: right@
...possibly I just want to have sex.
*thinks about it*

But, actually? I want to write about fucking, I've decided. It's my last shift at work until sometime in July! I want to make it memorable! And porn is always memorable, right? OF COURSE RIGHT.

SO: Give me a prompt! In any fandom that I write, or that you know I'm familiar with, or any combination of those fandoms. Any number of characters! Crossovers! Orgies! And I will write you at least 100 words of fiction without any redeeming social value.

(Full disclosure: I am absurdly ADD today - I started and discarded half a dozen ideas for stories in chat with

shoemaster in the space of, like, twenty minutes. Also, I won't be able to post any pornfiction until after I get off shift, since the bossmen have decided (wisely, really) that lj is not a site to which the student staff should have access on the work computers. Still! I will think about your prompts with GREAT DEVOTION, and post the results from home.)