love and joy and hijinks

So I was reading all these articles on metafandom (specifically bouncing off a comment on this one) on ability/disability and race and class and well. Yes, yes they do need to be addressed, but I'm just plain sometimes wondering *how* to even balance trying to display ability and race and class decently out in a diegetic world (ie. canon) that is most likely inherently flawed in that manner anyhoo.

Like, for example, I'd attempted at one point writing in Smallville, which means writing science in Smallville, and I'd eventually gave up because Smallville science goes against the grain of huge chunks of alot of what I've learned. When I write in SV's pseudo-science it hurts and when I attempt to write in actual science it makes no sense in SV's context. o.0 Perhaps it's not so surprising that I've tended to write in fandom's where there's a mystical element; 'cause I know next to nothing of magic.

Meanwhile, have been turning over in my head that long belated post-modern cyber-punk Saiyuki AU (because everything either goes back to Saiyuki or vidding lately); because
I've always thought that Sanzo was always in this wierd half-space of Nouveau Riche, 'cause everyone at his temple probably still remembers him as a 'river rat' (or at least that's how it'll appear in his head) except simultaneously he knows and he IS all blue-blood upper-class. Now factor in Gojyo, which...yeah. And what probably bothers him a lot of the time is how similar they are occasionally; I forgot what fic it was that mentioned that Sanzo had a little Gojyo-voice in his head that he tamps down firmly (I think it might have been hane's) but MAN, when I read that I KEELED OVER.

I don't know where I was going with this and I've got to post this and run, _{paper this thurday WAH!}, but yeah, discuss??


Vidding

Is anyone familiar with how to set up a Wiki? Or is willing to help set it up?

More Info Here.

(much apologies for the very belated pimping tzikeh!)


Saiyuki

( Manga-Spam, shameless shameless 58 squee )

Look! They're having a Moment! Over Gojyo's everything-but-canonical-ex-boyfriend!!! ::DED::

Fic Rec

(U. Spiderman/ U. X-Men, Peter/Logan) Sex pollen, non-con story; and usually non-con doesn't do anything for me, but liviapenn sells it so *well*.

"Peter tries not to use words like 'bitch.' Even in his head. Even when he's being Spider-Man. *Especially* when he's being Spider-Man. First because he really doesn't need worse press than the bad press he's already got, and second because someday Aunt May is going to find out that he's Spider-Man, and then she'll go back and look at all the news reports and everything, and Peter's really trying as best he can to minimize the impact of that eventual, inevitable smack to the back of the head."
Some Kept Safe by liviapenn


Various things of interest

- When wealth and poverty began: entrenched social inequality BEFORE civilization came along
- Scientists record eerie sounds of Saturn: Saturn is a haunted house! Almost like Black Holes singing to each other! XD (link awol, but will be found)
- Be careful putting human brain cells in animals, panel tells scientists: eGAD. o.0 ::shivers::
- Bacteria use your immune system to kill each other: it's like molecular politics! XD
- via xsmoonshine: Perfect Pitch in Tone Language Speakers Carries Over to Music, it's a study that shows it's easier for students with a tonal language background to get perfect pitch...