I have caved into peer pressure and flist excitement and signed up for kink_bingo /o\. This is my card:



It's actually a great card because nothing's too hardcore and I'm pretty sure I can get away writing a lot of things in it comfortably! But two things are alarming about this entire ordeal, and they are: (A) I appear to have 4-5 fics already completely plotted out (!!!?), and (B) I DON'T ACTUALLY WRITE PORN. Except judging by my plots it looks like I'm going to? I believe the emoticon that sums it up perfectly is /o\o/o\. We'll see where it goes. (Current potential fandoms are Bandom, Idol RPF, Kings, and... Disney Princesses.)

On the subject of writing, I read an interview with Jonathan Safran Foer that came out in honor of National Book Week, and two quotes really resonated with me.

1) "On the other hand, I feel like a Jewish author, and that's important to me. And for some reason that identity is expressed far more when I'm writing than at any other time of my life."

This. I feel a lot more Jewish on the internet, on LJ, in writing fic, than I do IRL. Maybe it's the fact that on the internet I'm surrounded by non-Jews so I feel like it stands out more? But I don't think it's that even. I do know though that proportionally, I have written far more fic that addresses Judaism or Jewish characters than the time I spend thinking and talking about being Jewish IRL. It's kind of... disproportionately expressed when writing. I feel you, Jonathan.

2) How did it feel to move from fiction writing to non-fiction? "I didn't like it. There's an expression, that writing is like pulling out teeth. Writing non-fiction is like pulling teeth from your dick."

LOL, and also THIS IS WHY I HATE WRITING PAPERS, THIS.

In Bandom news, I have listened to the entirety of The Young Veins new album Take A Vacation! streaming here and don't want to post my reaction because all it can possibly do is harsh squee /o\ I love a lot of music from the '60s, but more of this album feels so painfully outdated that it hurts, especially considering how much I loved their previous stuff and knowing how good Ryan and Jon's music can be, totally my style. However, I've already warmed up to one of the songs I initially didn't like ("Change") and I'm sure that upon repeated listening I'll grow to like others as well. Maybe I'll just pretend these guys ARE from the '60s, it might be easier to handle. I just wish my first reaction wasn't thinking that these songs are boring. (LOL, and that was the NON-squee-harshing version. On the plus side, I don't think too many Bandom people are reading this so most of you guys don't know what I'm talking about anyway?)

ETA: NOW WITH MORE ADAM LAMBERT (click "view full size" just because you really need to.)