punchpuppy weighs in

punchpuppy: You want to slash the Vienna Boys Choir?
IvyDamned: YES.
punchpuppy: *stares*
punchpuppy: Too easy, though, don't you think?

C.S. Lewis on Sex and Love at a Boys' Boarding school

I cannot give pederasty [wrong term here, I'd say, he's talking about boys having sex with each other] anything like the first place among the evils at the Coll. There is much hypocrisy on this theme. People commonly talk as if every other evil were more tolerable than this. But why? Because those of us who do not share the vice feel for ti a certain nausea, as we do, say, for necrophily? I think that of very little relevance to moral judgement. Because it produces permanent perversion? But there is very little evidence that it does. The Bloods [powerful boys at school] would have preferred girls to boys if they could have come by them; when at a later age, girls were obtainable, they probably took them.

If those of us who have known a school like Wyvern dared to speak the truth, we should have to say that pederasty, however great an evil it itself, was, in that time and place, the only foothold or cranny left for certain good things.

It was the only counterpoise to the social struggle; the one oasis (though green only with weeds and moist only with foetid water) in the burning desert of competitive ambition.

It softs the picture. A perversion was the only chink left through which something spontaneous and uncalculating could creep in. Plato was right after all. Eros, turned upsdie down, blackened, distorted, and filthy, still bore traces of his divinity.

--C.S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy

modified meme

I can't possibly do the friends list meme. Why? I'll tell you why. Because for the most part I friend whoever friends me. And why do I do this? Well. If you think I'm interesting enough that you want to friend me, then I want to friend you. Clearly we have something in common, or you wouldn't be interested in reading about me in the first place. This means I don't know most of the people on my friends list. Doesn't mean I don't read them, but I know some people better than others.

( So I'm going to do a modified meme. )

I can't stop thinking about this

A beautiful slash video about the great love of two 13-14 year old boys.

This link comes via dancingrain, and I can't tell you how thankful I am for it. I'm completely in love with this video, and I can't hold it back anymore. If you haven't seen it, even though it's 15 megs, I can't recommend it strongly enough.

If for some reason this link doesn't work for you, and you know you can play .mov, ping me and ask me to transfer it to you. I'm that serious about this video.

If I had a crapload of cash, I would live in Iceland. This video is by an Icelandic band. Do you know they don't even have prisons in Iceland?

ATTN: Penelope Z

No one thought I would actually do it, but...

I finally updated P-Z's archive on veela-inc. I also fixed her lock thing, so that you don't have to be smart to figure out the lock. You can just be somewhat less than braindead, I hope.

http://veela-inc.net/penelope/

I hope I didn't miss anything.