sports porn

You know, I'm not writing smut right now, but I think if I were I could do so without turning the channel. You know what sport you really should be watching while writing porn?

Curling.

I'm watching women's curling. Everything's miked, right?

"A hair left! Thanks!"
"Close!"
"Hard! Hard! HAAAAAAARRRDD!"
"That's the way!"
'WHOA!!"
"HARD HARD HARD HAAAAAARD!!"
"YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!!"

And then you get a beer afterwards. Or durning. I think I might need to take up curling.

bexless accidentally brings back my gay

I'm so afraid. So very afraid. It remains to be seen if the following revelation has in fact cured me of my ill-fated man-crush, but I think it stands as good a chance as any. Special thanks to bexless and bonibaru for their continued support in these trying times.

( Michael Rosenbaum and the giant...well, you know. )

*quivering in a fetal ball and weeping openly*

*watches X-Men*

X-Men

I saw this movie in the theatre, and I didn't like it. But now that I'm seeing in on tv I don't even remember it at all. It felt ridiculously expository the first time, like an introduction, a preface to something else. It probably still is. I've only seen the first 30 minutes so far. All I really remember about it the first time round was a tower in a city and lots of, like, attempts to kill people.

But I like these superheroes. I like all the angst they have. Like, this girl Rogue asks Wolverine if it hurts when the knives come out of his knuckles and he says, "always." That's wicked. I mean, I'm a fan of the hero/anti-hero archetypes in general, but mostly I've stayed away from the comic book stuff. Of course, I'm writing superhero stuff myself at the moment, so I'm a bit more sympathetic. There's something really cool about a tragic hero. Tragic superhero. Someone with amazing abilities that make them lonely or alienated or in some kind of chronic pain, that's quite cool. Makes for an interesting character.

Though I feel sorry for the actress in the blue skin-tight latex outfit.

I may have said this before, but for myself at least it bears repeating: for fanfiction and original fiction, I'd rather write from the point of view of a character I don't understand than a character I do. When you have to do the work to justify someone's behaviour, they become much more interesting to write and read about. I think I've recently determined that I have to presume not to understand any character I try to write in order for a story to be effective. Heroes, good ones at least, are really hard to make loveable. Clark Kent, for instance, is much less loveable than Lex is in Smallville; Clark is your average Joe who happens to be an alien. He's a good guy and he's in love with a girl he can't have. He doesn't have a whole lot of faults because he's Superman and he really shouldn't have any. He's a decent, run of the mill guy. Lex, on the other hand, had to be created sympathetic, and thus. I would criticise the writers for that, except that I have the same problem myself, so I won't point fingers.

Perhaps this is where JKR gets it right. Harry is a pretty loveable guy, I think. He's not a typical hero, perhaps. He does hurtful things (wasn't it actually Harry who said that Hermione was horrible in PS, not Ron?), he is so singleminded he forgets that other people suffer, and so forth. He gets jealous and angry. Is this fair to say? Does JKR manage to not make Harry a typical hero? Does she succeed where, for instance, the Smallville writers fail?