love the rps. put it on the floor and roll around in it.

[phineasjones]

i adore polish stoneware. i want to fill my house with it. alas, it is very expensive. puh. so what if it's handmade? don't these people know? they don't have to pay people that much for their labor. duh. just ask nike.

hp fandom's fear and hatred of rps is interesting to me. i lurk around the armchair slash list and someone linked to some dan/tom she just wrote. she got many a favorable comment, but they were largely along the line of 'well, ok, just this once!' perhaps it's just the way of the slash world and my view is all askew because i got into rps so early in my slash career. i often wonder at how i arrived here in this little spot... i've never been prudish per se, but hyper-moralistic, yes. so, trusting my moral sense like i do, and not being bothered by rps... i just think it's fascinating that so many people are. and, you know, fine. peachy. i don't need to prove its merits to anyone. we draw our own lines. i have drawn mine. and stepped over them. and this thought process is going nowhere - the main point just being that other people are forever giving me things to think about.

[edit]: i guess i should have linked the story. also, looking over the comments again, i feel like what i just wrote isn't so accurate. i guess it's more that the poor writer felt like what she was doing would result in her being ostracized. that she felt like she was breaking some kind of rules.

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[scottxwl.livejournal.com]

The stoneware is perty.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

It just bothers me 'cause I have privacy issues with it. I think about how I would feel if total strangers were writing sex fics about me, and I don't think I would like it (though it would be interesting to see what they said, of course *grin*). It's different writing yourself or your friends into a fic, but...eh. It just bothers me a bit. Am not going to tell anyone not to write it, but am going to reserve the right to have issues with it, too.

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[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

i completely support your right to have issues with rps. i have issues with deathfic (esp suicide) and non-con elements in fic. however, i do not spend time telling other people what they may or may not write/read. and from what i've seen, neither do you. which is good. :)
i just feel like there are some definite 'holier than thou' elements in the hp fandom. which annoy me greatly as none of us have any claim on 'holy.' you know, glass houses and all. and i would imagine people in this little underground world of ours would be pretty tolerant of each others interests/desires/fantasies. i get miffed when they're not. i get miffed when anyone acts all sanctimonious.
so yeah. may you never be forced to read rps, or anything else that bothers you. from what i know of you, i can't really imagine you being nasty to someone who did read/write it. and that's where my issues lie.

inquiring minds want to know

[quercum.livejournal.com]

what pieces of polish pottery do you have and what pieces would you likie to have?

Re: inquiring minds want to know

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

i'll show you some when i'm there tomorrow. k?