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- Tue, 18:36: #startrek http://t.co/hrMxHxL0xs
- Tue, 19:14: RT @TheDailyShow: #TDSBreakingNews Report: Obamacare costs billions less than originally thought. Has also pulled plug on dozens fewer grandmas.
- Tue, 22:37: Hero of Three Faces update: no one treats this aspect of time travel. http://t.co/7IqbXcmPbE #sleepyhollow
- Tue, 22:37: #AKOTAS update: see last tweet. http://t.co/iQqlMmu6Lf #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 22:47: triptocaines: “ugh people have started shipping kirk and spock” yeah um the 60s called they have some news... http://t.co/NWHBezTiX9
- Wed, 09:50: MRI for @horseyparalegal shows brain tumors are no worse and maybe better.
- Fri, 12:56: RT @scifichat: Howdy! #SciFiChat starts in 10 minutes. Topic: Weird Weird West. #scifi #steampunk #fantasy #horror #books #TV #movies #comi…
- Fri, 13:01: Photoset: madlori: aboysbestfriendishismother: Dustin Hoffman on playing a woman in Tootsie (1982) “If I was... http://t.co/In8K5saJnT
- Fri, 14:07: "Also, of course, if your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it’s not everyone else that’s the problem." - @scalzi
- Fri, 14:12: Actually there is a real problem with slash. It takes what’s often the last bastion a story can offer for... http://t.co/WwyOefzGqB
- Fri, 15:04: RT @valsadie: Your client still ain't got no lasting marks. He killed someone for giving him a bloody nose and some scratches. Your client is a PUNK!
- Fri, 21:37: I wonder if it's been in the space arc that Dinadan is alive or dead since the Grail? If he was dead I'll hear about it tomorrow.
- Fri, 22:56: #AKOTAS update: oh, is that all? http://t.co/EYBx5PCQkT #webcomics #kingarthur
- Sat, 10:52: ununnilium asked: See, I really don’t like when people talk about fanfic/art/whatever as erasure. Because... http://t.co/jvZFTlMECV
- Sat, 11:51: ununnilium asked: That’s fair, but I think that it’s a bad idea to express that as “a problem with slash".... http://t.co/vnnfxESLkZ
- Sat, 11:58: ununnilium asked: Oh man, vanilla is *so great*. I don’t understand how people can find it bland! http://t.co/EIBN3a5bOF
It's filtering through onto my flist this week that there's now a campaign from Kirk/Spock slashers demanding that the relationship be portrayed onscreen in the name of homosexual rights. Fannish homosexuals' reaction to this is that their fight is being misappropriated, in the name of a single if pervasive fannish meme rather than in terms of genuine civil rights issues. There's also concern that whatever progress has been made by the Spock-Uhura relationship in terms of minority advancement (whatever you may consider that to be) would be lost. I have to say I agree with the critics.
I also wonder whether the campaign seriously believes that it can succeed. I don't think the mass audience would go for it, and I'm certain it's more risk than the franchise owner is interested in. I foresee a day when there's a new reenvision of the property that adopts that perspective on the lead characters, but I'm sure that day is farther off than it'll take to make the next film.
Update: A flistmember, who's paid more attention to the situation than I since I brought it to her attention, reports that the campaign has widened its focus from just the one 'ship to the whole LGBT spectrum, but she suspects that the damage to their credibility is already done.
My family is so cool
Oct. 14th, 2006 04:34 am Watched School Reunion on Sci-Fi tonight. After the "you will join with me" scene between Mr. Finch and the Doctor, when the commercial break cut in I said to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
qtrhorserider and scarfmom, "I don't suppose I need to tell you, but there was slash."
