The Middle Distance

Guess whose NEW computer fritzed out last night? There I was, typing away in Word when the screen started to spazz out and finally freeze. Numerous restarts later, my document was corrupted and, eventually, the screen wouldn't light up at all. (M, who also has a G3 iBook, says this is not uncommon. Last time it happened to her, she didn't lose any data but she did have to ship it off for fixage.)

Man, good thing I had time to email the updated version of my WIP to myself, so I could still do the luxurious evening of writing I'd promised myself.

Even BETTER thing I had still hung on to my old one. I just have to laugh. My luck is so fucking bad (in such constantly annoying trivial ways) that it's comical. I am Wile E. Coyote, Supragenius.

At least Acme, aka Tom at MacAttic, promised to fix it for free if I had problems. Gonna try to cajole a free AirPort card out of him too.


But Happy Mabon, everyone, nonetheless.

Now, I have a love/hate/meh relationship with fanficrants. For every funny and right-on rant over there, there's a whole lotta dumb. And my least favorite flavor of dumb is that of giggly, prudish little girls (of any age or gender) who shudder at the word "cock" and think that teh pr0n ought to be vague and Victorian (or worse yet, always realistic) and are so literal-minded that metaphor or simile usually escapes them. There's a fair amount of that too.

But today firefly99's posted a great thread: What does work in porn? Post your favorite examples and discuss!

(use_theforce_em, I used one of yours, take a bow.)

What I'm really hoping is that the examples will be so diverse it'll help people realize that there is nothing more subjective in fiction than 'what is hot'--unless it's 'what is funny'--and for someone whose favorite genre is erotic comedy, this is close to my heart and my buttons get pushed a lot.