Food, and fandom
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petroniaThat and music, and you have this blog in a nutshell. I guess what I like are simple subjects with infinite depth. XD
Post the last note I went to Movenpick's, down the street from McGill campus, and committed fowl murder on a half roast chicken and fries. Movenpick's is designed for one to pick at a smorgasbord of little (expensive) platters of mix-and-match world cuisines, really, but it does have some great hearty dishes, and the roast chicken is one of them. And the fries! When I was pulling late-nighters at McGill I'd go to Movenpick's just for fries. 2$ with tax for a goodly plate, and you can taste the thick-sliced golden potato. Mmm.
En déchiquetant mon poulet I ruminated over the OTP discussion that's been bouncing about the flist here and there, because I'd never considered it before - I don't have OTPs, right? I read everything, and if it's a crack pairing I just shrug and expect the author to work that much harder to convince me. Then I thought, y'know, that's all very well and good but I don't write everything, do I. So then I figured I had OTPs after all. And then I thought about it some more, and figured that it all depended. ...Which I realise is spectacularly unhelpful, but. XD Part of it has to do with my definition of "true", and part of it has to do with the character's. I mean Brad x Schu, okay, is obviously the closest thing to an OTP I have, and that wouldn't make me object to fic in which Schuldich goes off and has mad sex with Nagi or Aya. Fic in which Schudich runs off with Nagi happily after would tend to bother me, and do. We learn from this that I make an instinctive non-equation between physical fidelity and emotional fidelity, as do uchi no Schu and Brad (or he would if he didn't think sex with other people was more trouble than it was worth, albeit pleasant enough). Some of my other characters don't draw the line, in which case I defer to the character. Thus you have the situation whereby I have a more rabidly OTP-like reaction to Sirius x Remus than anything else, nearly Kristin levels. (Worse than Kristin in a sense, because they make me go seme-uke as well. ^^;) As in it bothers me to catch James x Sirius hints in canon. I'd still read it, so it's not rabid-rabid, but it's rabid for me.
Typically, though, what I do in my head is fiddle the physical fidelity bit. Given the incentive my ships tend to become loosely poly (Fuuga-style shrug-and-incorporate), or... relationships in which one or the other cheats, frankly, which I guess is what an "unacknowledged" poly comes down to. o_O; I just can't think of it as cheating in a disapproving sense. I don't think of it as cheating in real life, either; possibly because it seems obvious to me that you'd want to keep some part of your life entirely separate from your loved one(s) no matter how close you were, and if you wanted to make it sexual encounters you never tell them about then hey whatever works for you (use a condom etc.). The moral outrage is reserved for those who run off leaving their wives in the lurch with three kids and no job, say, which falls more under emotional infidelity / being a general asshat. But we deal with that if and when it becomes an issue. I mean I've never wanted to sleep with several attainable people at once; I can go for years without coming across one person I'd sleep with, what are the odds of running into a second within the same close timespan? Ha. ...I also tend not to write it as such, in case you were taken aback. XD Mentally flipping through my fics, there's only Ofuro which is an honest-to-goodness threesome. This is because normally you'd have to write a fic establishing Pairing One, then a fic establishing Pairing Two, then a third fic establishing how One and Two become Three, which is about two fics more than I typically have the stamina for. Unless of course it really is Juubei-Kadzuki-Toshiki, in which case the canon kindly took a tankoubon or two out to do all one's dirty work for one. Huzzah for canon.
...I bet people are waiting for me to say something about Ban and Ginji at this point. XD;;; Uh. I'd like to say physical fidelity doesn't matter there, but in truth I think about it and it gets Complicated. (Himiko also involves emotional issues. Akabane involves lots of blood. Anyone else from the cast involves one-time-only, possible drunkenness and let-us-never-speak-of-this-again, let alone anyone else finding out.) What I'm certain of is that - even if one takes as axiom that they're both totally straight and totally not into each other in a sexual way - any girl either of them ends up dating would rapidly develop Issues. ^^; I know I would.
Dang, that was long. It was supposed to be a short note. >_> Ah vell... Have also been watching those infamous TeniMyu clips, gulping amaretto-and-soda and laughing my head off and all the while thinking that my tolerance for cheesy crack has noticeably increased, as five years ago I wouldn't have been able to sit through the thing. Not with the 80's synths and shimmying and break-dancing through stage tennis matches. Then I realised that it was merely my tolerance for musical theatre that's increased (all the opera I watch but never talk about, after I figured out that I enjoy opera much more if I could see what was happening, even if all the characters were fat - mostly recently Madame Butterfly, in keeping with the Meiji theme).
Then I realised the two were equivalent. :D
Post the last note I went to Movenpick's, down the street from McGill campus, and committed fowl murder on a half roast chicken and fries. Movenpick's is designed for one to pick at a smorgasbord of little (expensive) platters of mix-and-match world cuisines, really, but it does have some great hearty dishes, and the roast chicken is one of them. And the fries! When I was pulling late-nighters at McGill I'd go to Movenpick's just for fries. 2$ with tax for a goodly plate, and you can taste the thick-sliced golden potato. Mmm.
En déchiquetant mon poulet I ruminated over the OTP discussion that's been bouncing about the flist here and there, because I'd never considered it before - I don't have OTPs, right? I read everything, and if it's a crack pairing I just shrug and expect the author to work that much harder to convince me. Then I thought, y'know, that's all very well and good but I don't write everything, do I. So then I figured I had OTPs after all. And then I thought about it some more, and figured that it all depended. ...Which I realise is spectacularly unhelpful, but. XD Part of it has to do with my definition of "true", and part of it has to do with the character's. I mean Brad x Schu, okay, is obviously the closest thing to an OTP I have, and that wouldn't make me object to fic in which Schuldich goes off and has mad sex with Nagi or Aya. Fic in which Schudich runs off with Nagi happily after would tend to bother me, and do. We learn from this that I make an instinctive non-equation between physical fidelity and emotional fidelity, as do uchi no Schu and Brad (or he would if he didn't think sex with other people was more trouble than it was worth, albeit pleasant enough). Some of my other characters don't draw the line, in which case I defer to the character. Thus you have the situation whereby I have a more rabidly OTP-like reaction to Sirius x Remus than anything else, nearly Kristin levels. (Worse than Kristin in a sense, because they make me go seme-uke as well. ^^;) As in it bothers me to catch James x Sirius hints in canon. I'd still read it, so it's not rabid-rabid, but it's rabid for me.
Typically, though, what I do in my head is fiddle the physical fidelity bit. Given the incentive my ships tend to become loosely poly (Fuuga-style shrug-and-incorporate), or... relationships in which one or the other cheats, frankly, which I guess is what an "unacknowledged" poly comes down to. o_O; I just can't think of it as cheating in a disapproving sense. I don't think of it as cheating in real life, either; possibly because it seems obvious to me that you'd want to keep some part of your life entirely separate from your loved one(s) no matter how close you were, and if you wanted to make it sexual encounters you never tell them about then hey whatever works for you (use a condom etc.). The moral outrage is reserved for those who run off leaving their wives in the lurch with three kids and no job, say, which falls more under emotional infidelity / being a general asshat. But we deal with that if and when it becomes an issue. I mean I've never wanted to sleep with several attainable people at once; I can go for years without coming across one person I'd sleep with, what are the odds of running into a second within the same close timespan? Ha. ...I also tend not to write it as such, in case you were taken aback. XD Mentally flipping through my fics, there's only Ofuro which is an honest-to-goodness threesome. This is because normally you'd have to write a fic establishing Pairing One, then a fic establishing Pairing Two, then a third fic establishing how One and Two become Three, which is about two fics more than I typically have the stamina for. Unless of course it really is Juubei-Kadzuki-Toshiki, in which case the canon kindly took a tankoubon or two out to do all one's dirty work for one. Huzzah for canon.
...I bet people are waiting for me to say something about Ban and Ginji at this point. XD;;; Uh. I'd like to say physical fidelity doesn't matter there, but in truth I think about it and it gets Complicated. (Himiko also involves emotional issues. Akabane involves lots of blood. Anyone else from the cast involves one-time-only, possible drunkenness and let-us-never-speak-of-this-again, let alone anyone else finding out.) What I'm certain of is that - even if one takes as axiom that they're both totally straight and totally not into each other in a sexual way - any girl either of them ends up dating would rapidly develop Issues. ^^; I know I would.
Dang, that was long. It was supposed to be a short note. >_> Ah vell... Have also been watching those infamous TeniMyu clips, gulping amaretto-and-soda and laughing my head off and all the while thinking that my tolerance for cheesy crack has noticeably increased, as five years ago I wouldn't have been able to sit through the thing. Not with the 80's synths and shimmying and break-dancing through stage tennis matches. Then I realised that it was merely my tolerance for musical theatre that's increased (all the opera I watch but never talk about, after I figured out that I enjoy opera much more if I could see what was happening, even if all the characters were fat - mostly recently Madame Butterfly, in keeping with the Meiji theme).
Then I realised the two were equivalent. :D
