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My sister dreams about my obsessions
May. 31st, 2003 01:54 pmMy sister told me that she dreamed last night that she had hired *NSYNC lookalikes to show up at my office and perform a striptease. I was all "that would be so funny and so embarrasing at the same time, and I would be so very unlikely to ever get a contract there again", and then I thought, well, if she just sent the JC lookalike on his own, well, it would still be funny and embarrassing and I'd have to kill her, but I'd probably get another contract. Because. Mmm. JC. No one could really object to JC's twin doing a little bump and grind and dropping trou in the workplace, could they?
My sister. Love her, love her, love her. She's finally wiggling her feet in the popslash waters and I was pretty sure it was never going to happen. I had to work on her for Two. Solid. Years. to get her hooked on regular slash, and I put a lot of thought and effort into that project, too, let me add, because I was feeling pretty lonely in slashland and wanted someone to share it with. I tried giving her stories from TV series that she loved and from series she'd never heard of, long stories, short stories, stories by my favourite authors and stories by people who couldn't write a grocery list without help (because, hey, we all like what we like and maybe my sister would like crappy slash and we could at least argue about it). I even bought a bunch of Sentinel tapes (my fandom of choice at the time) and pointed out all the slashy moments and she still couldn't see it. I'd pretty much given up hope until one evening I was reading "Solitary Creatures" by Aristide and she caught me laughing out loud and so I gave it to her and boom! Overnight slash junkie. And when they fall, they fall hard, don't they?
But the RPS was a real stumbling block. She read a couple of short pieces and said she just couldn't get into them, she wasn't interested in boybands, thought the guys looked like a bunch of dorks (well, yeah, but) and it made her feel creepy. So, I gave her Tiffany Rawlins' "The Long Run" and she loved it, because who wouldn't, but she didn't want to read any more. Until she finally got really bored one night and had already read all of her library books and said, "Okay, fine. Do you have any of that damned boyband slash for me to read?" and again - hooked. My work was done.
My sister. Love her, love her, love her. She's finally wiggling her feet in the popslash waters and I was pretty sure it was never going to happen. I had to work on her for Two. Solid. Years. to get her hooked on regular slash, and I put a lot of thought and effort into that project, too, let me add, because I was feeling pretty lonely in slashland and wanted someone to share it with. I tried giving her stories from TV series that she loved and from series she'd never heard of, long stories, short stories, stories by my favourite authors and stories by people who couldn't write a grocery list without help (because, hey, we all like what we like and maybe my sister would like crappy slash and we could at least argue about it). I even bought a bunch of Sentinel tapes (my fandom of choice at the time) and pointed out all the slashy moments and she still couldn't see it. I'd pretty much given up hope until one evening I was reading "Solitary Creatures" by Aristide and she caught me laughing out loud and so I gave it to her and boom! Overnight slash junkie. And when they fall, they fall hard, don't they?
But the RPS was a real stumbling block. She read a couple of short pieces and said she just couldn't get into them, she wasn't interested in boybands, thought the guys looked like a bunch of dorks (well, yeah, but) and it made her feel creepy. So, I gave her Tiffany Rawlins' "The Long Run" and she loved it, because who wouldn't, but she didn't want to read any more. Until she finally got really bored one night and had already read all of her library books and said, "Okay, fine. Do you have any of that damned boyband slash for me to read?" and again - hooked. My work was done.
