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Fandom: Music (Band: Nine Inch Nails)
Type: Meta
Words: 697
Prompt: For the genprompt_bingo prompt "loss of faith"
Summary: A look at the album "Pretty Hate Machine" by Nine Inch Nails and in particular the track "Terrible Lie" and what it says about the singer's faith

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excerpt: Sometimes I think we write to explore the things most important to us. Sometimes however we write to explore other ways of being. Sometimes we don’t write about the things that we hold dear because of fear or anxiety; fear of exposing parts of ourselves, of “doing it wrong”, of being labelled in a certain way because of what we’ve sent out into the world, or perhaps because it feels too close for comfort.

Article: On Asexual Characters – as an asexual, I should write them more wordpress
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Meta exploring Riario's sexual and romantic orientation. I head-canon him as somewhere on the asexual spectrum. Not necessarily completely asexual but possibly grey-asexual or demi-sexual, maybe with some sexual attraction to all genders; I also think he could be biromantic and/or demiromantic and the meta looks at various facets of his identity. For Asexual Awareness Week 2016.
Originally posted at my wordpress account and professional tumblr. Cross-posted to AO3.

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I head-canon Da Vinci's Demons' Giralomo Riario as somewhere on the asexual spectrum. Not necessarily completely asexual but possibly grey-asexual or demi-sexual, maybe with some sexual attraction to all genders; I also think he could be biromantic and/or demiromantic.
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(image composite from images found at pixabay x,x)

Some cultural artefacts become so well known that they can be used as shorthand to express ideas and concepts. For example, movies like "Terminator" and "Robocop" made the idea of cyborgs, any being with both organic and mechanical parts, more visible to the general public.

So it is with Sherlock Holmes, widely read and studied in-depth for many years. Media analysis has adopted the terms Watsonian and Doylist, referring to the Sherlock Holmes fiction written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The ideas behind the two terms are useful when discussing any media artefact and TV Tropes mentions that the terms may have originated or at least been popularized by the Lois McMaster Bujold fan mailing list.

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Recap/review/rant about S3e08 La Confessione Della Machina. SPOILERS.
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So today is return to Return To Livejournal day. Only I've never left. Here are some of my thoughts about that – and while it's LJ day, the following refers to both LJ and DW, as blogging platforms that are almost identical to each other while being very different from other social media sites – and thank the internet gods for it. While I regularly visit lots of types of sites, from news sites to metaphysical webpages, and maintain online presences at many social media sites, there is something special about LJ and DW.

So, I've been here since Nov 2007 (DW since April 2011). I've not left LJ and fandom in favour of solely skimming through Facebook or because I've "outgrown" fannishness. I've not dumped LJ in favour of doing nothing but reblogging at Tumblr or viewing pics on Instagram.
Yes, I maintain a tumblr and a couple of fandom specific sideblogs, and yes, it can be easier to post an image you've edited and get more hits. But it's not really for fic or discussion; it's better used for skimming images and promoting fic and articles to read on other sites, sites which are better suited for text-based communication and easy to follow (threaded) discussions.
Yes, I regularly use DW to post to, but I maintain a presence at both sites and follow people and communities at both. Leaving LJ for the downtime during the DDOS attacks instead of switching to parallel use via DW was, to me, like giving up coffee because your favourite shop was closed for refurbishment – and there was a similar coffee house *right next door*.

I've stayed here while people disappear, come back and make one post, and then disappear again without interacting directly with anyone else. I used to always comment on these posts to show someone was reading and that they ought to post more frequently. I've largely stopped doing it, because you can only cheer someone on for so long without reciprocation.

I've stayed here because the content here is created, or meant to inspire creation, or is properly curated: fic, graphics, or well-annotated rec lists, and meta round-ups.
I've stayed here, able to read 1-3 posts per week made to a journal, rather than the 50+ posts some Tumblrs generate daily. Here that one really interesting meta isn't lost in the crush.
Here posts don't get lost or deleted because someone's changed their name for the fourth time in six weeks, breaking all the links to the material. Here there is a sense of pride and longevity, that we are creating things worth reading, worth preserving, something beyond mere ephemera. If Tumblr is a throwaway glossy magazine, LJ is a journal.
(And the management would well to remember it, and not try to emulate Facebook and other sites, driving their core users away.)

I'm here, having fun with things like legendland and gameofcards which encourage creativity and connection and trying out new things.
I'm here for things like therealljidol, being encouraged by things like getyourwordsout/getyourwordsout, being inspired to create by things like 100_tales, hc_bingo/hc_bingo, allbingo, intoabar, mmom.
I'm here for yuletide and smallfandomfest andfancake.
I'm here for metanews and little_details and hdtv_caps and icon_textures. For the icon makers, and the journalers, and the fic writers and readers, the vidders and the reccers.

I'm here, where I can post more personal entries with varying levels of public or private visibility. I'm here, posting photos and icons. I'm here, posting fanfic, and original works.
I'm here, reading journals and comms that are still active and interesting. I'm here, and plenty of others are still here too.
I'm here, and I'm tired of hearing how LJ is dead.

This meta is a brief overview on Parker from "Leverage" and why I think she can be read as asexual. Admittedly, I didn't think about it too much until after the show was over, being more concerned that Parker's developing relationship with Hardison didn't detract from her overall screen time or characterisation. I need not have worried on that front, and I'll mention their romance again shortly. Afterwards though, I started to think that Parker can be easily read as being on the asexual spectrum.
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I'm going to talk about asexuality and masturbation, but first of all, in today's post I want to talk about masturbation on its own merits.

"I think it’s weird that teenage girls know more about giving blowjobs than they do about masturbation. It makes me sick to my stomach that so many young girls think sex is just about a guy finishing." - x

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Title: Winter Solstice
Fandom: Original work (Kat)
Word Count: 509
Prompt: For the trope_bingo prompt '"holidayfic'"and the origfic_bingo prompt "party/festival"
Summary: Meta on a holiday festival celebrated in one of my original fic worlds

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So a UK channel finally aired season one again, and season two – I didn't have chance to record all the season two episodes again but I made an effort to record and watch all twelve season one episodes over the last week and a half. (Season Three, already airing in the USA, will no doubt air here soon)

I really wish season one had been repeated before season two began so I could have watched the show in order. Lots of things were mysterious to me watching season two for the first time without any backstory, like who Lydia was seeing in her visions/nightmares (Peter) and why. However, let's look at what impressions I got from season one and compare them to what I thought of season two – ie backwards! (I watched excellent Canadian drama Rookie Blue this way, season two first, and when I watched season one I was impressed by the character growth that had clearly occurred from inexperienced newbies to the more seasoned officers of the second season. However it was a less confusing experience than TW)

This is going to be quite rambling, touching on characters and themes with only minimal ordering! It started out as a season one and two comparison but moved into looking at some of the themes/ideas that stood out to me, and that I've seen significant amounts of meta about.
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