If my job could be to research cool stuff, compile it, and give it to somebody else to do something with, I would be the happiest little Elaby ever. That's ostensibly what I do now, except that the subject matter is boring beyond belief and I'm always asked the exact same questions, so very little "going and finding" is involved. It's more often referring to somebody who has access to said information and waiting for them to respond. I think I was at my happiest in college when I was running around the library with a list of call numbers and a stack of dusty volumes in my arms, sitting on top of a table with four books open around me going "Ooh, I can use that! And that! And... not that. That's on crack." It was the actual writing my research into papers that I was less thrilled with.
Yes! Totally, completely, yes. I find that the best way to write a paper is to find someone who really likes to do all of the writing, but isn't so keen on the research. It's the best of both worlds. You do the research, they do the writing, then you have long debates over coffee through the editing process.
I like slash/het, versus typical porn, because there is that relationship exploration, backstory, emotional changes, story and not just sex. I find just reading sex boring. But even in a PWP, there is so much else going on that it is rarely just sex.
I have complicated thoughts on love, sex and trust. This may also be further complicated by having complicated definitions for love and sex, individually.
Gen fics tend to not have the level of emotional (? I'm not sure that's the right word) involvement on the part of the reader to me. Although, that is not universally true, of course. And I think that is why, I don't tip my toe into the gen pool as often.
Speaking of hurt and comfort, I have discovered that when it comes to Holmes and Watson, I really like comfort to go with the hurt. Explorations of their relationship, rocky as it is, are necessarily going to involve pain, and I don't mean that I need the fic I read to be fluffy and warm in equal parts to the harshness, but as I get older I just don’t get the same enjoyment out of angst-only fic as I used to. Holmes and Watson's entire story together is sad enough; I prefer my leisure reading to have some hope in it.
Yes, and yes. Even more so, I find when it comes to movies. I just don't want to go on an emotional roller coaster when I'm expecting light fluff. And if I'm expecting H/C, I want there to be a reasonable level of comfort to soothe over the hurt. I also find that I can't handle a continued hurt/comfort cycle, where a new hurt surfaces, before the previous hurt has even been fully resolved and healed. This is why I don't watch Soap Operas, they never have a chance to just be happy for a little while.
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Date: 2009-07-29 03:26 pm (UTC)Yes! Totally, completely, yes. I find that the best way to write a paper is to find someone who really likes to do all of the writing, but isn't so keen on the research. It's the best of both worlds. You do the research, they do the writing, then you have long debates over coffee through the editing process.
I like slash/het, versus typical porn, because there is that relationship exploration, backstory, emotional changes, story and not just sex. I find just reading sex boring. But even in a PWP, there is so much else going on that it is rarely just sex.
I have complicated thoughts on love, sex and trust. This may also be further complicated by having complicated definitions for love and sex, individually.
Gen fics tend to not have the level of emotional (? I'm not sure that's the right word) involvement on the part of the reader to me. Although, that is not universally true, of course. And I think that is why, I don't tip my toe into the gen pool as often.
Speaking of hurt and comfort, I have discovered that when it comes to Holmes and Watson, I really like comfort to go with the hurt. Explorations of their relationship, rocky as it is, are necessarily going to involve pain, and I don't mean that I need the fic I read to be fluffy and warm in equal parts to the harshness, but as I get older I just don’t get the same enjoyment out of angst-only fic as I used to. Holmes and Watson's entire story together is sad enough; I prefer my leisure reading to have some hope in it.
Yes, and yes. Even more so, I find when it comes to movies. I just don't want to go on an emotional roller coaster when I'm expecting light fluff. And if I'm expecting H/C, I want there to be a reasonable level of comfort to soothe over the hurt. I also find that I can't handle a continued hurt/comfort cycle, where a new hurt surfaces, before the previous hurt has even been fully resolved and healed. This is why I don't watch Soap Operas, they never have a chance to just be happy for a little while.