Meme-ish thing
Dec. 3rd, 2020 09:09 amFrom ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sewn
1. Comment on this entry saying Rhubarb!, and I'll pick three things from you profile interests. If you don't have any listed, link your intro post or tags, and I'll choose three of your fandoms or other interests you've mentioned.
2. Make a post in your journal or comment here and talk about the words or phrases I picked!
My answers to their picks:
plushes
I've always liked plushes/stuffed animals. Low-key collected them as a child and teen, and I still have all my favorites from then, save a few from my earliest years which were loved to death or destructively played with. (I did not fully grasp that fake fur, when cut, doesn't grow back, and once I did, I found it hard to care sometimes, so I destroyed a fair number of toys sorta-on-purpose. I could be a Toy Story villain.)
I never expected my job to be sewing them, as younger me thought I hated sewing. Turns out I hated sewing on a machine and hated sewing dumbass dresses. Give me hand-sewing animals all day and I'm happy.
Steven Universe
When it first came out it seemed like everyone I follow on every website had gone nuts for this weird thing? Then I watched it and saw why! I have not actually watched the last few episodes, life rather happened and I haven't watched any shows...all this year, really? And not much last. But I still love the not-even-hiding-it queerness and the amazing characterization and the willingness to tackle problems that are very real life problems, even if they're tackled with gemstone aliens and fusing people together. It's not a fanficcing universe for me (It feels too tightly wrapped, there aren't a lot of strands I want to pick out and "what if" at?) but I like it anyway.
Valdemar
Oh boy. I could talk a lot about this!
So I grew up suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper sheltered. I recall, and this was in the mid-80s, having a kid at school ask me if I was gay, and I said yes, because I was happy!
Reading Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books in my teens was quite literally the way I found out that men could love other men. Though when I first read the Last Herald-Mage trilogy, I initially figured that this guy-romance thing was as fantastical as the magic and the talking horses. Nevertheless, reading about a gay hero who had a genuinely sweet (if a bit odd?) love story was a large part of what primed me to feel positively about queer people when I finally met some in real life, and what lead to my eventually realizing that the LDS church, which when I was young I swear just wanted to sweep gayness under the rug and pretend it didn't even exist, was starting to get weirdly obsessed with some kind of strange gay panic. I think without those books I might well have been swept along more with the "but they're scaryevil, the gayagenda, destroying families!" nonsense. Instead my brain just went "Oh, that's a real thing, like Vanyel? Man, he was so cool, and his love story was so tragic and sweet and... Wait, why would anybody be upset about that? Even if it's a sin, these people love each other, why are we trying to force them not to?"
It still took me an embarrassingly long time to realize how queer I myself was. Maybe if there had been any books about transness in my teens, I'd have twigged to that sooner!
Now, if anybody else wants to comment and have me pick some topics for them, feel free!
sewn1. Comment on this entry saying Rhubarb!, and I'll pick three things from you profile interests. If you don't have any listed, link your intro post or tags, and I'll choose three of your fandoms or other interests you've mentioned.
2. Make a post in your journal or comment here and talk about the words or phrases I picked!
My answers to their picks:
plushes
I've always liked plushes/stuffed animals. Low-key collected them as a child and teen, and I still have all my favorites from then, save a few from my earliest years which were loved to death or destructively played with. (I did not fully grasp that fake fur, when cut, doesn't grow back, and once I did, I found it hard to care sometimes, so I destroyed a fair number of toys sorta-on-purpose. I could be a Toy Story villain.)
I never expected my job to be sewing them, as younger me thought I hated sewing. Turns out I hated sewing on a machine and hated sewing dumbass dresses. Give me hand-sewing animals all day and I'm happy.
Steven Universe
When it first came out it seemed like everyone I follow on every website had gone nuts for this weird thing? Then I watched it and saw why! I have not actually watched the last few episodes, life rather happened and I haven't watched any shows...all this year, really? And not much last. But I still love the not-even-hiding-it queerness and the amazing characterization and the willingness to tackle problems that are very real life problems, even if they're tackled with gemstone aliens and fusing people together. It's not a fanficcing universe for me (It feels too tightly wrapped, there aren't a lot of strands I want to pick out and "what if" at?) but I like it anyway.
Valdemar
Oh boy. I could talk a lot about this!
So I grew up suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper sheltered. I recall, and this was in the mid-80s, having a kid at school ask me if I was gay, and I said yes, because I was happy!
Reading Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books in my teens was quite literally the way I found out that men could love other men. Though when I first read the Last Herald-Mage trilogy, I initially figured that this guy-romance thing was as fantastical as the magic and the talking horses. Nevertheless, reading about a gay hero who had a genuinely sweet (if a bit odd?) love story was a large part of what primed me to feel positively about queer people when I finally met some in real life, and what lead to my eventually realizing that the LDS church, which when I was young I swear just wanted to sweep gayness under the rug and pretend it didn't even exist, was starting to get weirdly obsessed with some kind of strange gay panic. I think without those books I might well have been swept along more with the "but they're scaryevil, the gayagenda, destroying families!" nonsense. Instead my brain just went "Oh, that's a real thing, like Vanyel? Man, he was so cool, and his love story was so tragic and sweet and... Wait, why would anybody be upset about that? Even if it's a sin, these people love each other, why are we trying to force them not to?"
It still took me an embarrassingly long time to realize how queer I myself was. Maybe if there had been any books about transness in my teens, I'd have twigged to that sooner!
Now, if anybody else wants to comment and have me pick some topics for them, feel free!