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Now showing on my Dreamwidth, through the fault of one cherryshadowz: Consider the Jellyfish - Supernatural/Spongebob Squarepants - Sam, Spongebob - rated G, omg - Spongebob knows what will cheer Sam up. 118 words.

And now for something completely different, because sometimes when you are up to your ears in multivariate regression analysis, you relax by writing theological language porn, idk. We continue to ask, "What if Castiel were words?" The first wordsverse fic is untitled. This next one is a Dean POV, PG I guess, 500ish words. Will there be a third installment? I dunno, it'll depend on how pretentious I'm feeling.

So I'm wondering, if Castiel can be words, what else can he be? What if Castiel were ice cream flavors? What if he were footwear. Would he be toe socks? What if Castiel were currencies pegged to the dollar? The possibilities are endless!

More important questions:
1) Why are there not more stop-motion t-shirt battles?
2) When will Bradley James and Misha Collins team up to fight zombies in space?
3) Clueless + SPN = <3 Y/Y?


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Dean & Castiel

( once you learn a language, you are trapped by it. )

This is not the research I am looking for.

I was trawling through a Hetalia ficcer's LJ for Inglourious Basterds fic (as one does) and in one post she was like, "Guys, check out this Sacred-Texts.com! It's got books of blahblahblah and blahblahblah and also Enochian magic, so I am swooning geekily right now," and I'm like hey? 'Cos geeky swoons over Enochian stuff are up-and-coming in my world right now.

Through the magic of internet, I have turned a quest for WW2 AU slash into a trip through Angelology 101.

( Consider yourself warned for gleeful appropriation and too much Wikipedia. )

CURRENT MOOD :
+ So I turned in my paper about my thoughts on yaoi, and the title is now even more fitting because my outline was so thick that by the time I finished blithering about RaceFail and Merlin fandom, I reached the suggested page maximum. I didn't even need to talk about Narnia's Problem Of Susan anymore, and it's almost a shame because my friend bought me the Pocket Companion to Narnia for Christmas and I was looking forward to using it. OH WELL.

+ My subscriptions on greader have become flimsy excuses to be spammed by pretty pictures. Quite possibly I spent some time procrastinating on Made of Gold going jfklsjfljsdfsd at every other photo, especially this Angel and this Bradley. Is it time for a Merlin rewatch of fast-forwarding to all the parts where Arthur and Gwen make sexy eyes at each other? Perhaps.

+ Plot Bunny #4398: Modern day AU, Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot in an uneasy polyamorous arrangement on an extended vacation somewhere. Ennui and colorful drinks on white-sand beaches. Part travelogue and part displaced emotions, with liberal amounts of sexytimes.

+ Plot Bunny #5840: Futurefic, post-battle Arthur/Morgana. Some excuse for a quiet moment in which a weary Morgana, all decked out in armor, leans back against a tree and closes her eyes. Then she and Arthur have a Moment, and then there are sexytimes.

+ Don't I have enough WIPs? Don't I need to eat these leftover fortune cookies and croissant and watch some TV? The answer is yes.

+ AHAHAHA wut. 'Bromance' has its own Wikipedia page. "Aristotle described a concept similar to the bromance as early as 300 BCE."

The following might also be an interesting topic for my anthro final paper. (Oh god, I gotta choose a topic and send an outline to my prof before the week is out.)

The Sociological Images blog recently posted about the relativity of feminist liberation that touches on some of the problems with how feminism is discussed and articulated. The post is specifically about women-only taxi services that have begun popping up in Dubai, Mexico, Moscow, and, weirdly, the UK. In Manila, the MRT (our El/subway) has a women-only train car. I heard (...but can't find online confirmation) that it was women passengers themselves who requested this service because they kept getting groped on the train, especially during rush hour.

On the one hand, the pro-womanness of such a service is superficial. It's still demeaning, and it reinforces gender binaries and perpetuates an unjust system. Well, yes, ideally we would be living in a world where you don't need a women-only taxi service, but on the other hand I'm hesitant to sacrifice the security of these women for the sake of ideology. Just like you can't juxtapose one country's democracy wholesale on another country's, you can't juxtapose one country's feminism wholesale either. It has to grow organically from within (and also a little bit without). But to go back to the one hand, is more segregation really the way to promote this?

The problem with these services is that they're end-of-the-pipe solutions. They treat the symptoms of misogyny instead of the causes. They send a message to the men that they can continue to act like misogynists because we can always remove ourselves from the situation and it's our fault if we don't. But on the OTHER hand, sometimes when people talk about bringing some good ol' women's lib from countries where it's more commonplace to countries where it's less commonplace, it reminds me of the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality of economic conservatism: "You don't need special treatment, you just need to be strong!" That's all well and good, but the bootstraps of women in, say, the USA are already pretty high up compared to the bootstraps of women in the Philippines. And these boots, they smell like White Woman's Burden. Equality among women != sameness among women.

I think women should be wary of insisting on solidarity based on what we are not i.e. men. We're not just not-men. However, sometimes the rhetoric of being not-men overpowers the diversity of women's situations around the world, reducing women in quote unquote less liberated countries to the subaltern of the subaltern. And yeah, that's one of the flaws of the women-only taxi service, in that it is totally based on being not-men. If the way women protect themselves in other countries is disagreeable to us, should we take their protection away because it's bad for their feminist agenda? For WHOSE feminist agenda? Can you use 'unfeminist' means like these taxis to further feminism? Or is that too much like fighting for peace and fucking for virginity?

And, I dunno, what if the woman trying to hail a women-only taxi is escorting her ailing grandfather or something?

The Huffington Post offers a stronger stance on why these women-only taxis are questionable indeed. Interestingly, the HuffPost article was written by a man, whereas the Sociological Images post was written by a woman. I have my reservations about these taxis, but I also have my reservations about dismissing the idea outright. At the very least, it provides a safe space. It reminds me of - and I wish I have the link - how some people were trying to make an organization/support group for Hispanic gays, and a non-Hispanic gay was like, "But what for? We're ALL gay!" But what he was really saying is "We're ALL not straight", which isn't the same thing.

Some great photos of child labor in America circa 1908-1912. Well, not great per se. Uh, you know. They're compelling.

( Merlin 2x11. At this point last season, we had unicorns. )

In other news, here's what I wrote for homework this week: ( identity and destiny in Narnia )

Unrelatedly, I don't ship Draco/Hermione, I really don't, but apparently I ship EmmaWatson!Hermione and TomFelton!Draco b-because they're hot. Okay.

ETA: OMG mordred_morgana!! YES. YESSSSS. And... leonandmorgana?? SURE WHY NOT.

ETA #2: OMG I SENT IN MY SOLSTICE FIC FINALLY FINALLY *falls over*

Man, if you thought 'Sea Change' and the Revolutionsverse was bad, heads up. This is probably the most pretentious (...and academic discipline- and litigation-inviting) thing I've done to date.

I co-wrote Narnia fic with Emile Durkheim. It's England fic, of which approx 50% is copy-pasted from Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life. The translation I have is the Joseph Swain one, and it's beautifully written and it reminds me of Narnia ALL THE DAMN TIME. My notes in the margins largely consist of things like "OMG SUSAN" and "the constitutive elements of Aslan" and just, I dunno. Sometimes the book feels like a collection of excerpts from fic. Durkheim totally could've written some bombass Narnia fic if he wanted to. So I made him!

For Z, who loves me anyway.

(I, uh. I should flock this, shouldn't I.)


Forms & Foundations
Narnia. Susan, Edmund. G. Co-written with Emile Durkheim, posthumously.
"This world tells her, You are Susan Pevensie, a whole equal to the sum of her parts, and she wonders what that entails."

( The idealization of a world is merely changing the terms of the problem; it is not resolving it or even advancing it. )

The prof is extending this unit until next week, which is great because there are no new readings, leaving me more time to send out resumes and freak out about my thesis data sets. The FAO can suck it, but the Philippines' Bureau of Agricultural Statistics is a friendly fellow, he can stick around.

Okay, what, Ideologies/Mythologies. Unit 2: Ideology & the Political-Theological ( and how they make awesome fic prompts )

( and then I change the subject to Leverage! mostly about the Two Live Crew Job ep )

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm posting the parts of Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life on which Forms & Foundations is based. I hope I got the most blatant of them, and if I didn't, please do tell!

Durkheim, Emile. Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Trans. Joseph Swain. New York: Free Press, 1965.

( For what it's worth, Durkheim makes a great co-fic-writer. )