Walking, Wandering and Wank
Two hours until the end of the day and I'm incredibly demob happy ... we're departing tomorrow morning for a glorrrrrious week in the lakes. We've found a nice little cottage in the hills Skibeen and Bassenthwaite lake where we're going to spend the week walking, playing silly games, watching the odd movie and basically just chilling out together in glorious style ... I've already packed my walkin' boots 
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Even better, I'm under orders NOT to stay in contact with the office while I'm gone ... they want me to have a break. This has been simultaniously slightly nervewracking and hugely liberating ... I'ma gonna enjoy this hugely.
Before I go though, I thought I'd talk about a couple of things that've been getting my goat recently:
1. The 'Free Roman Polanski' movement.
Rape is Rape is Rape is Rape is Rape. What the fuck is wrong with you all? When someone drugs and Rapes a 13 year old girl, confesses, is found guilty THEN flees the country to avoid punishment they are a Rapist and a fugitive and deserve to recieve the full penalty of the law. This guy lived the high life in France, hobnobbing with high society, continuing to work, quite probably getting up to equally dubious things elsewhere and you're protesting that he's 'suffered enough'?
Rape is Rape and Justice is Justice, and society needs to see justice done. As far as anything else goes, just don't talk to me, seriously.
2. The pile of steaming butthurt and racist analogy going on inside the M/M romance writing community.
I am playing the world's smallest violin for all of you. An organisation who run awards designed to promote Queer literature decide to change their focus to support Queer literature by actual Queers? Good on them. Queer voices are more marginalised than yours, even if you are writing gay romance. this announcement of a change of focus was made well before submissions started this year for the awards, and you all need to stop making all kinds of shitty racism analogies (talking about not letting you drink from our water fountains? the hell?) and shut the hell up.
There's some dead on commentary from Shemale and Likespring here (with the latter containing some of the more dubious quotes from various M/M authors and community people) and a rather nice piece from Strangetwn_God" here which touches on the endless championing by these people of that godawful Brokeback Mountain as being some sort of progressive queer literary triumph as well ... get off my internets!
(I also want to link to a rather nice post from a big 'ole slash fan who actually gets it as well.)
I am still successfully keeping out of the whole LAMBDA wank... The yaoi/slash/M/M romance writers has been fighting for YEARS to promote the notion that they are nothing at all like gay fiction. Some of the most vocal of the lot held it as a triumph when their books started selling in the main romance sections of bookstores... now finally they get what they asked for and it is wangst all around...
I called bullshit on it from the start. I find it offensive when they claim gay men can't write proper gay sex and don't understand romance. But that is history and its besides the point.
I wanted to go to one of them (you know which one) and say: "This is a platter. Your arse is served upon it. Do take a bite. It won't make you feel better but it would make me LOL."
But that would just be the kind of stuff that things who live under bridges do ... and I don't like feeding them as a general rule ^^;;.
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