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Yes she's back and my word she's really surpassed herself! No really. That post she mistakenly posted to ROG-L is a work of deranged genius...wow...I highly recommend everyone go and join the list just to read this post. Its the best example of pseudo intellectual masturbation I've seen for.....oh well since last time J-Blo posted.
I was *particularly* taken with this bit:
"Let's see, what else.... Unilevel people also do not like it when multilevel people talk about gender roles in slash. (Because it makes slash fic sound so, you know, derivative.) Unilevel slash writers/readers just want the sex - hard core, PWP - not *only* because the highest chakra they can imagine from personal experience is the one that makes you "wet," but because they literally cannot *see* all the multilevel rainbow shades that flicker and pulse between friendship and romantic love. Where I see a broad, beautiful spectrum, with potentials for seduction, self-delusion, confusion, joy, beauty, mixed messages, flirtation, questioning of *identity* and sexuality -- all *they* see (all unilevel sheeple see) is an On-Off switch. Duncan and Methos *aren't* doing it, and then, magic presto, with a flick of the switch, they ARE. Off/On. No/Yes. "I don't think so,"/"Yeah, baby!" Unilevel/different unilevel. Bypassing all the lovely multilevels in between. So I guess I'll never get to read Duncan yielding to temptation slowly, or Methos willfully seducing him,or Methos growing and changing by messy, lively, spontaneous stages. Because all those things -- so alive inside my head -- are invisible to the people writing fic, the entrenched fans. (Virtually synonymous with unilevel.) Sigh. And then, of course, there's the On-Off switch between gay and straight. Orientation, don't you know? "Preference" is now passe, because *preference* carries too much potential for multilevel awareness and experience -- potential for experimenting, and for changing your mind, and (worst of all) potential for LOVE mattering more than gender, more than preference. (There you go with those vertical dimensions again.) No, we can't have that. Everything must be hardwired, now. Orientation. That's the ticket. So forget about stories where Duncan really IS, by 400 years of preference, *straight,* and he learns to love Methos as an acquired taste. That would represent a vertical change in Duncan. We can't have that because fic authors can't *imagine* it. (Learning a new trick or a new kink is horizontal, which is what unilevel people write. Off/On. A simple, linear change. *Keeping* the original preference but adding a new aspect is vertical, requiring a sort of double vision -- i.e., Duncan as an innately *straight* man and lover of women, who also, for whatever reasons, loves Methos.)"
...really, there are *no* words...
I *so* now need an icon which says "Unilevel Sheeple" on it. Preferably with some suitably porny background image? *grins*
I was *particularly* taken with this bit:
"Let's see, what else.... Unilevel people also do not like it when multilevel people talk about gender roles in slash. (Because it makes slash fic sound so, you know, derivative.) Unilevel slash writers/readers just want the sex - hard core, PWP - not *only* because the highest chakra they can imagine from personal experience is the one that makes you "wet," but because they literally cannot *see* all the multilevel rainbow shades that flicker and pulse between friendship and romantic love. Where I see a broad, beautiful spectrum, with potentials for seduction, self-delusion, confusion, joy, beauty, mixed messages, flirtation, questioning of *identity* and sexuality -- all *they* see (all unilevel sheeple see) is an On-Off switch. Duncan and Methos *aren't* doing it, and then, magic presto, with a flick of the switch, they ARE. Off/On. No/Yes. "I don't think so,"/"Yeah, baby!" Unilevel/different unilevel. Bypassing all the lovely multilevels in between. So I guess I'll never get to read Duncan yielding to temptation slowly, or Methos willfully seducing him,or Methos growing and changing by messy, lively, spontaneous stages. Because all those things -- so alive inside my head -- are invisible to the people writing fic, the entrenched fans. (Virtually synonymous with unilevel.) Sigh. And then, of course, there's the On-Off switch between gay and straight. Orientation, don't you know? "Preference" is now passe, because *preference* carries too much potential for multilevel awareness and experience -- potential for experimenting, and for changing your mind, and (worst of all) potential for LOVE mattering more than gender, more than preference. (There you go with those vertical dimensions again.) No, we can't have that. Everything must be hardwired, now. Orientation. That's the ticket. So forget about stories where Duncan really IS, by 400 years of preference, *straight,* and he learns to love Methos as an acquired taste. That would represent a vertical change in Duncan. We can't have that because fic authors can't *imagine* it. (Learning a new trick or a new kink is horizontal, which is what unilevel people write. Off/On. A simple, linear change. *Keeping* the original preference but adding a new aspect is vertical, requiring a sort of double vision -- i.e., Duncan as an innately *straight* man and lover of women, who also, for whatever reasons, loves Methos.)"
...really, there are *no* words...
I *so* now need an icon which says "Unilevel Sheeple" on it. Preferably with some suitably porny background image? *grins*
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You mean like the one on this comment? :)
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*snogs Tritorella*
*snorts coffee everywhere*
I love you! That is just too wonderful for words!
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