Bet Ya We Have To Read This Out Loud In Class

 From my reading for this week:

"Oh Birch! Thou common dread and doom of all boys,

  who found out first thy properties of pain?

Who gave thy tough lithe twigs their power to appall boys?

  who laid the red foundations of thy reign?

Who made thee haunt by night the dreams of small boys?

  who gave thee power o'er us thy trembling train?

Who made thee master of our bums, and lord?

Who flogged boys first? and what flogged boy first roared?"

VICTORIAN ENGLAND: MORE KINKY THAN YOU THOUGHT. (And please consider that this is the first stanza of a poem that goes on for eleven pages, and is one out of an entire novella's worth of flagellation erotica. Yeah.)

Also, Japan needs to send them a thank you card for inventing the genre of school boy porn. I don't know what the manga industry would do without it. 

Yuletide Letter

Dear Yuletide Writer,

You got me! And well, the fact that you can write any of my fandoms, or even know they exist in the first place, makes you pretty awesome in my book. As far as fic goes, I'm pretty easy to please - and all of my suggestions are more guidelines than hard and fast must haves (with a few exceptions, see specific fandom notes), so if there's a story you are really dying to write that you think I'll love, and it doesn't exactly fit what I've got here, go for it! What I like: slash, femslash, het, gen, threesomes/moresomes, familyfic. I don't like deathfic, whumpage, or heavy angst, but I'm okay with my characters getting a little battered as long as there's a more or less happy ending. Generally, I'm interested in stories about how characters get into a relationship (sexual/romantic or not) and how they negotiate that with their issues/neuroses/other relationships. But whatever kind of story you want to write - character vignette, action/adventure, porn, postmodern deconstruction - I'll probably be into. Have fun, is my main point here.

( Lady Audley's Secret, Woman in White, Dark is Rising, The Authority )

Meme From Everywhere

 OH GOD SO MUCH PROCRASTINATING. It's not even anything important or hard, like a paper. I just really don't feel like working at all, even thought I know these workshop comments will only take me a little while. Possibly I am still mentally distracted from the new Booster Gold out today. So: meme!

Name a fandom and I'll tell you 3 pairings I love, 2 pairings I consider shipping, and 1 pairing I hate.