A ramble of text

[this speed reading test] says that I read slightly above average, but I couldn't help but wonder if it's just the reading material. I've noticed that the more boring the reading material the faster I skim, probably a combined survival habit garnered from college, a shitload of bad!fic, and an insane flist.

And the inverse of this is true, for me, too: the better the writing, the slower I read...until you get to certain shatteringly good poetry and I just. stop.

and reread.

and reread again. slowly. chew the lines in my mouth and feel the shape of the words as I say them, in different ways, with different implications. phrases thick enough to write novels off of, stories and stories and stories layered one upon the other, forming sheets upon sheaves of ideas bound loosely with thought and covered with this human skin. (That is, I hear, how they describe demonic text, but if ideas are demonic then let me be damned)

And seconds, minutes, hours could be spent devining the meaning of a loaded phrase, words spoken but shaded, descriptions spare but heavy.

Can one judge the speed of reading? Can one judge how much you comprehend?

How fast can you understand the meaning of a novel crammed into the space of a phrase?

A child can read a line of Shakespeare in seconds.

An adult might never completely finish reading that one line.

This type of text, this subtexted type of the written word, is what I love reading and is what I love writing and is what I love being fannish in. I love places where my mind can play, I love creating my own stories from subtext.

This, I think, is why I'll always love Smallville more than Queer As Folk, why I'll always love Saiyuki and Trigun more than Yami no Matsuei.

This, I think, might be why I adore the "surface" movies, the B-action flicks, so much. In the end, The Fifth Element was about saving the universe, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico was about the life and death of mexico, and Pirates of the Caribbean was about a man and his ship. The human inter-relationships were the catalysts that made the movies flow, but they were never the entire *point*, they were never the base, the matrix, nor the core of the pain and the joy that draws me into a fandom.

There is two, that make up fandom. The source and the fans themselves...and with 'flawed' or 'loopholed' sources especially (SV and HP, I'm looking at you) there is more of a chance for me to mentally 'play' with the source. There is more subtext, a gap, a...point of interaction?

a place, perhaps I could say, where I can make love to the canon?

heh.

canon/permetaform otp!

tho I sleep around, and the bastard kids are mightily insane...

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lierdumoa's vidded QaF to Eminem.

Let me repeat this, so that you get the massive and absolute rightness and insanity of this undertaking:

She has vidded Queer as Folk to Eminem.

Is that not brilliant?

Go see.