An Outcast Among Outcasts

[rachelmanija]

I have been informed that the fifteen-year-old butt-kicker was legitimately a green belt in Shotokan, but was also a black belt in tae kwon do. That explains a lot.

Melymbrosia is looking for manga recommendations. Go help her out. She likes fantasy of the well-written and classy sort (ie, Patricia McKillip rather than Robert Jordan), romance (ditto) and slash.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/melymbrosia/340816.html

I just got my book contract. I was amused to discover that the description of the work, which in TV contracts is very brief-- "A half-hour horror television script entitled "The Mercy Chair"-- is a paragraph long. It must have been written by the publishers, because it's not like my agent's description.

It requires that the work be "hilarious and poignant," calls me "an outcast among outcasts," and says the supporting cast will be "odd enough to be circus characters."

If any of that but the first clause ends up in the cover copy, my Mom will be outraged. And I will laugh.

Comments

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

*blinks* I'm not any fonder of m/m romance than of m/f or f/f, actually. What made you think I liked slash?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my mistake. It seemed to get mentioned enough on your journal that I assumed you did (though not exclusively). Though possibly that was more from other people commenting than from you. Doesn't slash include f/f as well?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Doesn't slash include f/f as well?

There is no answer which will not get me in trouble with someone. ;) My answer is that it depends on fandom and perhaps on particular fandom circle. Prescriptively, I'd say yes; descriptively, without the modifiers most people assume it means m/m. People often use "femslash" or "femmeslash" to distinguish f/f from m/m, which obviously means m/m is considered the norm; there isn't a male form of the term used nearly as often, though a few of my friends will oppose "boyslash" to "girlslash".

There is also, of course, the whole argument about whether it's slash if it's canon.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm sorry for the undue crankiness; thank you very much for the pointers, and the recommendations!

[larryhammer]

It may be time for me to turn into a cranky loon on the issue. If anybody asks, I'll be over in the corner, loudly proclaiming that if there's a slash in the story code, it's slash, regardless of the letters on either side of the divider.

Though come to think of it, if I turn cranky, I'd need a cane to thump. Anyone know a good supplier?

---L.

[tweedkitten.livejournal.com]

rock.

i must admit i'm curious about the fifteen-year-old's study and lineage in a way that i've only allowed myself to be semi-curious about in shotokan or kung fu. i'll keep my thoughts on taekwondo to myself except this: the sparring is a "different-kind-of" aggressive, from what i've seen. sorry for such a poor explanation. ^_^ but i'd like to know who her instructor is.