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thuviaptarth) wrote2008-02-11 03:56 pm
thuviaptarth) wrote2008-02-11 03:56 pm
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Your dose of pure mushiness for today
I ♥ fandom. Specifically, I ♥ you. I just spent half an hour reading ten-year-old discussions of "Iolokus" and "Tikkun Olam" on Google Groups, and there you were, some of you, being you before I ever met you. It was like coming back home after my first semester at college and finding that all my high school friends were even more like themselves than I'd remembered them being. Of course, I thought, seeing people for the first time all over again, no wonder I like you. You are so very quintessentially you!
Also, on Friday I saw fans and ate food and watched vids in company and at the end of every vid there was a long satisfied group sigh. I went home and reorganized my vids so that they are on fewer DVDs and alphabetical by vidder and mostly converted to DivX DVD player format, except for the Real Media and Quick Time ones, because it was too late at night when I started reading up on how to convert them and I can do that part next weekend. Also some vids have been corrupted and I have lost them and am sad, but I am sure I will find them again eventually. The Internet is my friend and my friend will provide.
Your real content for the day, spoilers for SPN 3x09
Demons and gender: do they have any? I have never seen any reason why they should, as their natural forms seemed to be clouds of black smoke. This is now different, although how different is unclear, if they really do forget having been human. We've seen one demon take on hosts of different sexes; we've also seen demons that seem to display a partiality for one or the other. YED says, "That was my daughter. That was my son," and Meg calls YED "Father", but is the gendering due to the demons or to the hosts? The Crossroads Demon calls Ruby "that bitch," female. We've only seen CRD as female, but then we've only seen (presumptively straight) men making deals.
It came up this weekend because I was sometimes afraid "Spider Bites" was horribly misogynistic for associating female desire exclusively with sadism, and one person said that she didn't think of the Crossroads Demon as a woman. It startled me, because I think of demons as ungendered, but I did think of the CRD as female (or at least that version of her as female), or I would have had her using "it" (like the Impala) or "sie" (like The Mad Hatter).
So. Do demons have gender? What do you think?
Also, if you know of good screencaps of Dean kissing either Crossroads Demon, please link me. Or icons that may be used for bases.
Also, on Friday I saw fans and ate food and watched vids in company and at the end of every vid there was a long satisfied group sigh. I went home and reorganized my vids so that they are on fewer DVDs and alphabetical by vidder and mostly converted to DivX DVD player format, except for the Real Media and Quick Time ones, because it was too late at night when I started reading up on how to convert them and I can do that part next weekend. Also some vids have been corrupted and I have lost them and am sad, but I am sure I will find them again eventually. The Internet is my friend and my friend will provide.
Your real content for the day, spoilers for SPN 3x09
Demons and gender: do they have any? I have never seen any reason why they should, as their natural forms seemed to be clouds of black smoke. This is now different, although how different is unclear, if they really do forget having been human. We've seen one demon take on hosts of different sexes; we've also seen demons that seem to display a partiality for one or the other. YED says, "That was my daughter. That was my son," and Meg calls YED "Father", but is the gendering due to the demons or to the hosts? The Crossroads Demon calls Ruby "that bitch," female. We've only seen CRD as female, but then we've only seen (presumptively straight) men making deals.
It came up this weekend because I was sometimes afraid "Spider Bites" was horribly misogynistic for associating female desire exclusively with sadism, and one person said that she didn't think of the Crossroads Demon as a woman. It startled me, because I think of demons as ungendered, but I did think of the CRD as female (or at least that version of her as female), or I would have had her using "it" (like the Impala) or "sie" (like The Mad Hatter).
So. Do demons have gender? What do you think?
Also, if you know of good screencaps of Dean kissing either Crossroads Demon, please link me. Or icons that may be used for bases.