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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.