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Gotta love it when you scroll down your flist (and half of mine is RSS feeds from various blogs I follow) and find one of the Gayboy-bloggers has just discovered Theban Band's slash artwork bigtime, indepth, and is musing on Boromir x Aragorn images... and that this pairing never occured to him. He likes it....but why did he never see the potential Boromir held?

Man is this a case of someones GAYdar being SNAFU'd when watching LoTRs? The *vibes* in the *My-Captain-my-brother scene* were rather like a waraxe over the head....how could that pairing be a surprise?!

Having said that...maybe it's just a matter of taste. Gondor slash was always a small fandom compared to anything involving the eternal twinks of elfland...maybe that's a gay-thing AND a slasher-gal thing.

It just occured to me...it Kind of makes sense ...calling an elf a twinkie, as both their shelf lives are abnormally long :P

That aside...I had just assumed that since the blogger shares lots and LOTS of piccies of beautiful MEN,that he'd have naturally seen that pairing. Boromir was THE one that made me sit up in my seat (at the theatre) and go *OMG....a MAN!!*...as if I'd not seen oe in about a decade. *fans self at the memory*.....mmmmboromirxaragornpurrrrrrr

Another weekend misplaced. Hmph.

24 episodes of Bleach in the can...only 141+ to go. I will from this point onward watch them with my morning coffee and return to my regularly scheduled life. I must confess that I am REALLY enjoying this series *^___^*

Teh Man & Middling-spawn returned triumphant from a tournie in Ottawa. Nothing starts my week better than a basketball coach and uber-jockette child bounding into the house with smiles on their faces rather than dragging in cloud of doom and self-castigation.

Since the eldest and beau had taken over the livingroom for yoga & snuggling in front of the tv, I spent Saturday evening looking all over the internets for a forum/group/anything that talks about J-dolls. There is a obvious derth of such things and instead I found myself trolling through more ABJD (Asian Ball Jointed Doll) shops than I ever imagined could possibly exist...and found some groups that deciphered the dollie-talk that is thrown around in the more *exclusive* groups.

As for the latter....I also have a growing suspicion that some groups for people with really expensive dolls ... are a tad elitest ~ and if fandom thinks it seen the worst of Canon-Nazis, they haven't encountered the Dollie Purists.

That made me a bit sad. I did find a Flikr group that is dedicated to sharing imagese of J-dolls...which is good enough I suppose, for now. (.__(.

ANYway, speaking of dolls and fandoms ~ since Teh Sprog has been basically main-lining the entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings over the weekend,I figured this was a good time to just hand over all those boxed action figures collecting dust in the basement. They had to be moved for the construction work being done down there this week anyway, and instead of just shoving them into another corner to to be *TOYSTORIED* into oblivion, I dedided it was time to let go.

He reminded me at one point that I have some figures in my bedroom ....as he's coveting my Boromir in the cabinet. Nuh-uh. I'm not in fandom anymore but that doesn't mean I'm over Sean Bean!!!

The sprog gave up...for now... and got busy having Gundums battle alongside Teh King of Gondor, Gandolf the White & a Prince of Mirkwood against an army of evil Webkinz before I sent him off to bed >D


The other reason for handing over the toys was that I'd read some thoughts on LJ & fandoms shared by m_lady_rebeccas journal, and it had me thinking that much of what she(and those whom she linked to) said was spot on and;

1) Lj generally works well for fandom in spite of the hissyfits.

2) I don't have a fandom anymore

3) That is why I can basically walk away from LJ.

SURE I poke at it...but there is nothing tying me to the place but a few voices and half of them post over here anyway.

Time marches on....and I have either wandered away from or fled whatever fandom(s) I was involved in over the years. It's quieter (abeit lonelier) mucking about in your own stuff ~ but there's a hellalot less bitchiness :)

I can't say that I'm complaining about the lack of queenbees and wannabees.

In other news I didn't get that area of the house cleaned because I was too busy with my ass glued to the chair in front of my pc ~ but I did get all my collector cards filed away into sleeves and binder shelved. A babystep perhaps but hey ~ it's a move in the right direction.