Lizard shame blog

this might be controversial but I think the best kink posters are those who don't think about their thing as a kink with a particular name and a template for doing it and talking about it but rather a perversion of theirs. like it's not something you can normalise in any meaningful way and you cannot create standardised language for it because the very point is that it IS perverse it IS unnamable and unspeakable it exists in the cracks and gaps and margins of 'normality'. it does challenge normality but it's not a righteous crusade against it, it's a perverse play on it

I wonder if there's not as many first person pov novels in English, because I've seen many people dislike that pov in fanfics. In Korea, many novels are in first person, especially the older — like in 20C — ones. I grew up reading first person novels in school textbook.

I can't say if it's more or less frequent than in Korea, but definitely first person pov is very common in English language novels! I think the aversion is specifically a fanfiction thing.

I wonder if there's not as many first person pov novels in English, because I've seen many people dislike that pov in fanfics. In Korea, many novels are in first person, especially the older — like in 20C — ones. I grew up reading first person novels in school textbook.

To you he was a spymaster, to the old folks at the Arawath Colony Senior Activity Center he was Enabran, the portly Cardassian who loved to wear mustard yellow and had an uncanny ability to guess everyone’s favorite beverage.

still pretty emotional about ds9 doing the whole “what if all the fantastical adventures are just in the characters head” bit and then going “it would still matter anyway, because it still means something to the character imagining it, and it still means something to you, the audience watching it, or reading it. the story still matters, no matter whose imagination it was. if the character made it up or if the writers in the real world did. it still matters.”