Check This Out, Yo

Gotten to late May of 2007 and it's vaguely unsettling feeling the effects of Strikethrough without any actual mention of what we now know was Strikethrough. "Because of the rumors about journals getting deleted, I'm friendslocking all of my fic." "I wanted this fic to be fluffier, but because of the thing with LJ, it turned out kind of angsty, sorry." Seeing that the last captures made of one particular BNF's fics to the Wayback Machine were all made in late May/early June of 2007.

That last one kind of gets me, honestly. It's just this sort of uncanny feeling of like, being so close to another fan who also cares deeply about preserving the things they love, and being able to guess at what they were feeling and that their feelings were similar to mine in a way. I want to make sure that this is safe so that LiveJournal won't be able to take it away from me. I understand. I understand, my fellow Committer of RPF Crimes. I'm pressing my hand in your fossilized handprint right now, in my mind.


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Sadly, the link is broken, but...

What if Kai owned a Hooters restaurant, with j-rockers as the employees?

Truly, this author was before their time.


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Hella interesting post from August 2007 asking the comm a bunch of questions about their favorite pairings, including who the seme and uke are, why the seme and uke are the seme and uke, and if you could see them switching. The answers are fascinating.

Why do you think [the seme and uke are the seme and uke]? Reasoning?

"All depends on the personality. In short, as others have wrote, it should really be clear by that as to who's seme and who is uke."

"classic rules on yaoi; seme mention before uke, seme is older and taller than uke, and (usually) have darker hair than uke.>>> read it somewhere on mags ^.~"

(explaining why they ship switch) "Well they all have the same parts, and they're all men, therefore all with the same needs. It's a give-take relationship; sometimes one gives, sometimes takes."

"I don't believe in the seme/uke roles because it's not realistic that one would always top and one would always bottom. I only use Dominant/submissive roles when I write about BDSM relationships where it's natural."

"Well, generally I don't have an iron-set roles for people... Though, granted, some people just don't work as ukes/semes."

"I don't believe in strict uke/seme roles unless it's within the context of a BSDM relationship. In my fics they always switch, and I tend to prefer reading fids where they switch, too."

Is there a change [sic] for turning tables? Why shouldn't uke turn into seme for a while?

"They can, but they always seem to return to the original way afterwards. ^^"

"There are some I might take into consideration when playing with both roles however there are concrete pairings where I prefer one party be submissive throughout the relationship."

"honestly, personally, i dont like if uke turn into seme." [sic]

"I view 'uke' and 'seme' as simply a way to describe who's being fucked and who's fucking, not a concrete role."

"I prefer they do. I think in terms of a real relationship equality is a big part and not all men, especially in couples like KaoruxKyo, would want to bottom constantly. Even uke's [sic] need a power trip once in awhile."

"Honestly, I'd define any relationship in which the tables never turn as kind of abusive and think that the top was being pretty selfish."

"I love it when the "obvious" uke tops XD" (you and me both buster)

"Oh yes. I love when it's a fight for top. XD it's almost always amusing."

*me, talking to Internet USians* "hey, guys? if you're going to be criticizing japan for being uniquely depraved and degenerate because their age of consent is 16, just... do me a favor and google the age of consent in your state, first?"