jlh | Slash and het and smut and NA

Jeez, offline for all of 20 hours and the universe explodes. I mean, honestly. I suppose this is a time to respond to a few things that have been swirling around lately.

The "I hate slash" issue
For what it's worth, I absolutely think that the statement "I hate slash" is homophobic. Ivy said it much better than I ever could, so go there for the best argument for this point of view.

However, I don't agree with

vanityfair that people can attack slash but not het. If I had a dollar for every time some slasher said "ew, hate het" with no comment, I would be a wealthy woman. Actually, I think that what Ivy says about slash is equally true about het. The only difference is that "I hate slash" is (somewhat) sanctioned by the dominant culture, whereas "I hate het" is sanctioned by a specific subculture. But then again, I'm also someone who thinks that the hatred-back of a subculture for the dominant culture really doesn't help anything but just gives the dominant culture more concrete reasons to hate the subculture.

Also, please note that I write both slash and het, usually in the same story. This generally means that both sides of the fandom hate and/or ignore me, but I'm getting used to it.

The NA issue
First, and I know this is a bit late on my part, I'm really really proud to be a part of NA and really honored that I was asked to join. These past nine months have been an amazing experience.

It came to my attention after that post of mine that the real issue wasn't the LJ squeeing but the YM statuses. So I'll say this: I have a real job. An actual, salaried, high-stress, professional, 9-whenever I can get out of there job. As a general rule, I have no business being online during my workday, and I used to be on invisible becasue I really can't chat—or at least, only sporadically or at lunch or when I'm waiting for someone to do something. But I also know that I don't get home most nights until 7 or 7:30 EDT, which is late for a lot of Euro-dwellers who might want to ask me a question for NA. Hence the status "working for the man, but here for NA". I would have thought that "working for the man" would give everyone a tip that I am actually at work and therefore can't really chat, but I guess not. The only time that I put up an "NA only" status when I'm at home is when I'm actually IN an NA chat.

Also, I can't count the number of you that have had statuses that said, "RS Only" or "FA Only" or the equivalent of "I'm busy doing x, you can buzz me but I'm not up for a chat". So I don't see how "NA Only" is seriously different than that. I'm sorry this means that I can't really chat with my UK friends during the week—but then, I never really have been able to, so I don't think this is really a change.

The smut issue
It has also come to my attention that there are people who cannot get into RS because they cannot get the password to work, and once there can't find things. I have to say, I have had that problem myself. Someone links directly to the story and RS keeps sending you to the homepage, and usually the original link didn't tell you who the author was so you can find it yourself. This is irritating.

So. I'm going to continue to send my NC17 to RS, but if you're having trouble seeing stuff there, here are some options:
1—Join Pierian Springs, the yahoo group for the Muses (

ely709,

evil_erato,

thalialuna,

fiatincantatum,

bluebyrd,

ladylisse,

misscora,

tessfawcett, and me). Everything I have finished and posted is there, and I'll make sure I've updated my folder by the end of the weekend.
2—I've been on a bit of a smut rampage, writing up stories for all my pairings plus that wifeswapping fic. So I've decided to post those stories here as well, roughly once a week or so. Smut til Book 5!

Anything I've missed?