Meeeeeeme. *ded*

[elaby]

Twenty Random Things Meme, tagged by caitirin. This will likely be heavily influenced by the fact that I've been at school for 13 hours.


1. Earlier this evening I had this intense craving for chicken noodle soup, with croutons, and grilled cheese... like I used to eat on Sunday nights with my parents back when I used to go to my grandmother's all day Sunday.

2. I like poetry for its prettiness. If that makes me academically shallow, so be it.

3. I feel I am fairly well prepared for grad school.

4. I am utterly terrified by grad school.

5. I feel that my senior undergraduate year prepared me more for grad school than the other three combined, mostly due to Professors Murphy and McMahon.

6. I have yet to wrap my head around the abstractness of literary theory, but having a grammar class between the two heavier ones is wonderfully, blissfully concrete.

7. I never ate Rice Chex as a kid, but I love it now.

8. I wish I had more time to draw.

9. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I had majored in something totally different, like music.

10. I think that if people do retain their own consciousness after they die, it means they go to a higher plane of being - without hatred, need for revenge, or self-pity - and they want the people they left behind to be happy and remember that they were alive, not the fact that they died.

I'll never finish this tonight. To be continued!


A definition question for all you fandom-types out there: Is RPS (Real-Person Slash) absolutely literal, or does it carry a connotation of slashing people who you don't know are gay? What I really want to know is whether it's still called RPS if you're slashing two gay people who are together. For example, would it be RPS if someone wrote a fanfic or drew fanart about Ian McKellan and his partner? What about in a historical context, when people have been dead for a long time? Is Richard II/Blondel RPS? Why I'm asking is because I've started drawing a picture inspired by Byron's Carnelian poetry, which is about himself and, for lack of a better term, his college boyfriend. The definition won't change whether I draw it or not, but I was curious. To me, RPS has a distinct "probably not really gay" flavor, but then again I've only seen it in the context of the LotR actors (besides McKellan, who no one slashes, weirdly enough).

Comments

[redatt.livejournal.com]

Well, on the whole, people tend to see ordinary slash as pairing characters that are not canonically gay, so I would imagine the same is true for real person slash.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Ah, that IS true. I never think of that because I'm so into the anime fandoms in which the characters are, or are hinted heavily to be, actually together.