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[bluflamingo]

Somebody (and the fact that I have no idea who when it was only yesterday is not a good sign) recced a Torchwood fic about Ianto and Jack and how Ianto feels now he's in a same sex relationship and looking at the world through those eyes. And I'd just read a *very* good Torchwood fic, so I was feeling charitable towards the fandom, for once, and went off to read it.

And got to the end, and felt like I should have been reading a book so I could turn the page and go 'wait, what, that's the end?!' Not in a 'wow, that was so good' sense either, which is not to say it was badly written. Just - it's a series of incidents in which Ianto notices some bit of 'mild' homophobia (my adjective, not the author's) and at the end, a comment on how people make life difficult.

Is it a sign that I'm getting really cynical that I was more 'yes? And? Welcome to life as a gay person in most places I know, what's your point?' about it than 'yes, isn't it terrible?' Because, I mean, it is terrible, and I've often complained about it, but... I dunno. Maybe it's just that the author says she's straight at the beginning, and that bugged me for some reason. Not that straight people don't have every right to point out homophobia, there's just something about the whole thing that bugged me.

Of course, it got three pages of comments, so maybe I'm the only one.

On a totally unrelated note...

Here's an issue I never thought about with dreamwidth - so many people are picking up new user names, how do I tag their fic on my delicious account now? Old name? New name? Both names? What about the people who've switched where I haven't put the two together yet?

Okay, yes, I admit it, I have an obsession with things being organised and correctly filed. I get a kick out of reorganising the room bookings file at work so it's easier to use. My formative jobs were in admin, what do you want from me?

And yes, I realise that, of all the things I could be worrying about, this is hardly an important one, but it's the least stressful thing to be worrying about, so there we go.

Comments

[slybrarian]

I suppose you could tag with both names. Personally, I'd say it's msot important to be consistent. That way someone can find everything by that person if they want to.

[bluflamingo]

I have to say, I pretty much tag for me, not for anyone else, since I use so many different computers it's the only way I can know all my bookmarks are together, but - see, tagging with both names makes sense for, say, ames and carta, who I know are the same person, but what do I do with all the people where I *don't* know and who don't say. Unless I only pick up stuff from one site - unlikely - I'll end up with their stuff under two names.

On the other hand, maybe that's not a problem and since I have no way of knowing they're the same person, I just treat them as two, if I only really care if I can navigate my tags.

[torachan]

The name thing is a problem I've worried about for a while, because I also read stuff on IJ and on archives, where it may be a different name. I do try to get the LJ name if possible and go by that, but sometimes there is no link from where I read it to their LJ (if they have one).

Was the Torchwood fic something for lgbtfest? Anyway, I don't think three pages of comments means you aren't right. :p

[bluflamingo]

Was the Torchwood fic something for lgbtfest?

No, though I think it was written in the wake of the first one last year, as a lot of people commented on how it reminded them of that.

I don't think three pages of comments means you aren't right

See, I wanted to believe that it got so many comments because they were all from straight people who, like Ianto, had never really thought about this stuff before and were thus enlightened, but apparently not. So I don't know, maybe I'm just picky :o) Or contrary.

[domarzione]

Delicious does let you bulk rename tags, so you can always use the name they're primarily posting under and adjust the rest to fall in line. Or hypenate the two usernames, etc.

(For the record, I don't consider myself 'renaming' here -- I never meant to be considered to be posting fic as 'miss porcupine.')

[bluflamingo]

Ooh, hyphenating the two usernames, now that's a good idea.

For the record, I don't consider myself 'renaming' here -- I never meant to be considered to be posting fic as 'miss porcupine.'

Yeah, I remember first starting to read SGA and thinking how weird it was that there were two people writing such similar styles of fic, until I realised the you on lj and the you on your website were actually the same person. That said, I think of your fic as being by miss porcupine, so the change is going to take a while to stick (thank goodness for default icons - at least I have some way of figuring out who everyone is now!)

[dirty_diana]

Well, it doesn't sound like there was much of a story, in the sense of beginnning/middle/end. So I can see how Ianto taking pages to come to the amazing conclusion that it's not as easy to be gay as it was to be straight would be...still not much of story. It doesn't sound like the author made any attempt at remembering that Ianto isn't exactly like her. OTOH if Ianto is just getting used to being into guys, maybe he *would* still think like a stupid straight person? Not too sure how I would have felt about that story. But if it annoyed you, then it annoyed you. Don't feel bad. :)

[bluflamingo]

OTOH if Ianto is just getting used to being into guys, maybe he *would* still think like a stupid straight person?

Now, see, that would have been an interesting story, sort of making the mental switch from one to the other. But this was more like a series of 'things that you notice when you're gay' like a couple in a restuarant getting funny because Jack and Ianto held hands, or a groups of guys in a car shouting something, through Ianto's eyes. Like the author wanted to point out to everyone all the things that can happen and just stuck Jack and Ianto on to make it fic rather than a psa.

On the other hand, maybe I was disinclined to like it from the beginning because the reccer said something about it pointing out these prejudices that we all have and don't notice we have, which rubbed me the wrong way for it's assumption that we're all straight, which, in context, was a little ironic? hypocritical? Something.