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Last night was the second Melbourne slashers house party. I had so much fun! We got to see "The Reel *NSYNC", The Sentinel, QAFUK, West Wing, Black Books and the Due South bloopers.

Hmmm... I'm not feeling too bad. Considering that I must have had at least 4 wines and OJ's (possibly five) and didn't go to sleep until 2.30am, I'm okay. A little light sensitive, a bit queasy and a bit of a headache, but considering I didn't drink any water last night, it's not too bad.

( In which I ramble about each fandom... )

You know the best thing about the slashing gatherings? Getting to see all these shows that you normally would, and getting to borrow tapes from the other slashers. (In my case, more Sports Night and The Sentinel - S1.) Plus, there's always alcohol left over... Officially, for the next gathering, I'm bringing the booze.

Use of types in schools

I have a shocking headache from the wine last night. I think I'll go lie down and watch TS or SN. Even if I do want to stay online and read popslash.

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 1% of the total population.

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Well, it's as accurate as it ever gets, I think. (There's a description here and here.) Certainly, I've always been a highly studious child and was not too social. What I mean is that all through childhood I had one or two best friends (which continued until I was 15, where there was a group of about 5-6 of us, but it settled back down by 17 to 2-3 main friends) as opposed to my brother, who has always had a crowd of friends, since before he even started school.

I am into the whole knowledge-gathering side of things, and my favourite guys are the knowledge-seeking geeks. Every time, I can be trusted to gravitate towards the geeky guys and glasses is a plus. Wearing ties as well? I'm very happy. *bg*

The attitudes are right, too. I don't like organising/working with others. I can do it, but I'd rather be left alone. And, I don't see arrogance as a terrible thing. I mean, if you have the knowledge to back it up, I'll find it charming (eg. Sam, Josh, etc...). If you don't, it'll bring out the competitive side in me and I will walk away highly unimpressed by you (eg. Brian Kinney).

The interesting thing is the way that the HP houses are arranged. As I mentioned to tboy the houses are divided by whether the child is an extrovert (Slytherin, Griffindor) or an introvert (Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff) which is why the stories are generally all about the extroverted houses (they make far more fuss out of it). They're also divided by whether they make decisions with their hearts (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff) or their heads (Slytherin, Ravenclaw). I clearly belong in Ravenclaw.

However, the interesting thing is that the personalities are not grouped by these two attributes. They're grouped into types by the other two (Idealists, Guardians, Rationals, Artisans). This means that although each house is generally quiet or loud, emotional or thoughtful, each house has a range of personalities which really wouldn't understand each other too well.

A better grouping would be by the four types, as although some would be more outgoing than others, they'd all learn in the same ways. The Guardians and the Artisans are both concrete/sensory types, that learn from physically doing something. The Rationals and the Idealists are more interested in theory. Hence, if the classes were arranged that way, teachers could emphasise the style that would have the greater effect on the class and that the students could understand better. Likewise, you would know that the Judging types would be organised students paying attention to deadlines, whereas the Perceiving types would want far more flexibility in class.

Oh, well, I guess that at least with this organisation of the houses, you don't have the introverts being overruled by the extroverts in class. The introverted students would have a more equal say in their house because nobody's looking for the attention.

ETA: The INTP may be prone to abandoning a project once they have figured it out, moving on to the next thing.

Bwahahahaha! Okay, that's completely me. It's why I have trouble writing fic. If I have no idea where it's going, I'll just ramble. But once I've worked it out in my head, figured out what the characters will do, how the fic will end, I have no compulsion to finish writing the fic. In fact, I tend to completely lose interest.

Just squicked myself reading popslash.

You know what? I generally don't have too much of a problem with the age thing. I'm serious about this. Thinking about Clark and Lex? It's a good thing. The idea of pairing Connor/Wes, or Xander/Giles? Still getting the "Mmmmm..." reaction. (Be quiet, Dana.) Whereas this comment form Torch's Sickroom:

...I mean, Justin's gonna be with JC, and that's great, he's known JC for years and been in love with him since he was twelve or whatever...

Ewwwwwwww!

I really don't want to think abut 12 year old's even having a sex drive. Which, is downright hypocritical, since at 12, I was reading adult books (The Beauty series by Anne Rice/A N Roquelaire ring a bell for anyone? Just kinky porn) and well aware of what went on. Mind you, it was purely theoretical knowledge, but still, I was aware.

Of course, I've changed so much since then. I still sit around reading dirty stories, and my knowledge is still mainly theoretical! *bg*

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Man, you look at these pics and it's hard to believe he's straight.

On the other hand, when great authors like Merry do popslash, no wonder there's so many people in the fandom. (So far, my fave of her's is wolves and boybands mate for life which is sweet, amusing, a little angsty but absolutely delightful. But Nobody's Birthday is a close second place.)

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I'm thinking about icons since dammitcarl pointed out that Greatest Journal allows you to have about 1000. Personally, as much as I occasionally bitch about only having three, I think 1000 would be too many.

However, if I did have that many, I think I'd be making myself a pop icon. Either one with JC's red/white striped pants from the Atlanta concert ("Really gay pants") or some cute one of JC or maybe JC and Lance saying "I turned into a popslasher while I wasn't looking". Yeah, I do think about these things.

Meanwhile, I'm checking out JC/Lance fics. I like Introvert but I don't know the guys well enough to know how in-character this is. This just means I need to watch some more of their stuff.

On the other hand, I'm now feeling vaguely guilty for laughing at all of those jokes made about Lance when he was training to go into space. I can remember being highly amused by Will on Triple J suggesting starting up fund for them; that if they got enough donations they might be able to send all of NSync into space permanently. (It was still kinda funny though... *smirks*)

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Let me sing the praises of the Way Back Machine! I've been wanting to read that Sam/Josh/Donna fic for ages, but found out months ago that it wasn't online. Then a friend mentioned something else on the Way Back Machine, so I checked it out, and there it was.

It was good, it was in-character (as much as this story idea could ever be) and I liked it a lot. It's just what I wanted after watching the Karen Cahill subplot n The Leadership Breakfast. Those three just have a great chemistry/friendship/rhythm between them.

Okay, I'm going to finish reading Sex Sells and then go to bed. It's occuring to me that I know that popslash pairings have their own names (and it's weird-ass names, not obvious stuff like Clex and Chlana), but I don't know the name for the Lance/JC pairing. Care to fill me in?