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I got another call on my resumé that I posted on Monster...seems like this one actually read the blasted thing. It's a helpdesk job, they know that I don't have troubleshooting experience with windows, and it's ok. So they wanted me to send a Word format copy and said that they would be getting back to me to set up an interview soon after recieving the resumé.

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http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-zealots/2006/08/18/1155408026089.html

The article is about Lumos, the Harry Potter convention.

This part really gets me:

In reference to writing Harry Potter gay slash fiction...

"It's empowering. We are reversing the gender roles. We are saying we like porn: deal with it," Rachael says.

So...what you're saying is that to take a fictional character that you didn't make up- an adolescent character at that- and write stories about said character in pornographic scenes with another character that you didn't make up...is...empowering?

Please. The stupid, it hurts.

If you like porn so much and want to write about it...oh, I dunno...call me crazy, but why on earth not make up your own characters- preferably adult ones- and write stories about them?
(Yes, yes I know, there are adult characters in the Harry Potter book, whatever. I never really understood people's desperate wanting to write fanfiction anyway...and some of the writers that I've seen are so unbelievably talented, why not write their own original stuff? Just. Don't. Get. It.)

Samhain

So I had an idea for a Samhain ritual. And a couple of other reasons for wanting to write the ritual. And Kat was interested in writing one also. So we're going to collaborate.


(pagandenma I know you've got a zillion other things to think about besides ritual writing right now. Let me know when you are ready to work on that...it's not like we don't have ages and ages.)

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Ya know, I don't really have a problem with porn. I don't especially enjoy it but I don't have a probblem with it.

Apparently I've seen the wrong stuff, but most of the porn that I have seen at some point is either just so hilariously bad that all I can do is laugh at it, or it's just....ewww. Either way, there's no "oh that turns me on" factor. Therefore, I don't go looking for porn. Because I don't go looking for it, what I do run into is incidental, and lather rinse repeat. Each feeds off the other.

That said...no, I'm really not into the idea of people writing porn stories about characters from kids' novels, whether they modify the ages of the characters, only write about adult characters, whatever...(Yes, I know, Harry Potter aren't strictly kids' books, especially once you're past the first three, but a majority of the marketing is still done to kids.)

No...I don't think you're mentally ill if you're writing about adult characters, or modifying the age so that they're "legal", and I don't think you're a pedophile if you're doing that. (Unless the writer is like 14, it's the people that write about underage characters that worry me, and unless I'm sadly mistaken, there's no one on my friends list that does this.)

I was commenting on a story, "Harry Potter Porn" was their phrase, not mine, and there was no bother to clarify which group they were talking about. ( context right here )

(Side note, I have a very strong dislike for the word "empowering". I think it's overused, and frequently misused. And I think the word is misused in this context.)

And now, I have more pressing things to think about. Like finding a job.