I chose bisexual, in favour of not choosing anything. Considering, I don't even know if everyone I fancied identified as female or male. Unless you ask, you can never truly know how they might feel. Also don't know if I might not fall for someone who identifies different in the future.

Like Schmiezi said. Persons, not labels 

I realised, you put "other" options on the other surveys but not this one, tonnaree 

It's my 30th birthday in two months... and I'm not happy about it (mostly bcs people compare what they've achieved by that age, I don't know why that is so, though).
Still, I'd never want to be younger again.

I know conversation moved on, but I just remembered this...

ewige wrote:

I'm all for stats but we're just a tiny (and skewed) sample. Besides, not all users are slashers. Not all users identify on the usual scale of sexuality or wish to provide all answers or to participate at all.

It would be great to start a poll on ao3 with fewer questions but a larger sample. 

 
...and wanted to share a link I just found
http://centrumlumina.tumblr.com/post/63208278796/ao3-census-masterpost

So, I finally got to watch Broadchurch. That is, first series. That's why I'm posting here, because I don't dare post in the spoiler thread where probably all the interesting conversation is taking place...

I'm actually not sure if I liked it or not. The atmosphere totally blew me away. Great. And there's so much tension, so many interesting characters, I really enjoyed it. And David Tennant, yes!
The story itself... not so sure about it. I didn't find it very logical. It's load of build-up, and no conclusions for it. The reveal was... dunno. I knew it too early to keep the tension up, and found it not a convincing end. And yet, it's not like I didn't enjoy watching.

I cannot quite grasp the praise I've read everywhere. What exactly is it what you like about it so much? And are there people out there at all who thought it was good but that's it?
It's an honest question - I'm curious. Because I had my expectations, and so far, I don't think they were met. Or, let's rather say, it was totally different than I expected, but not necessarily in a bad way.

Actually, I think that is my point, I'm not sure I should buy series 2.
Should I? I'm not sure. Is it better? Different? Any opinions (without spoilers)?
And is it a new storyline, or continuous?
 

Maybe I put that wrong... I mean, they seem minor in that they don't seem very deliberate. I find it plausible to use a real interior plus one on set, and that would explain the differences. I mean, I'm sure Arwel would see something like this, but they also has to make decisions like "does it matter, doesn't it matter"... in terms of effort, time, money... I think if it was deliberate, planted, it would be obvious in a different way. But I think it's normal we read that different. You could also be right.
 

Oh, and I tried to google for some nice thesis' (what is the plural of that word!) and I've found a few on first try. Will read anything that sounds promising as soon as I've got the time.

Indeed some works try to answer the question above (why women like to read two men together). First two explanations already make some sense to me (though I still think that's not all of it):

a) fandoms offer a room where women can
"resist the 'dominant  ideologies  of  patriarchal, heteronormative culture' by seeking out and writing erotic relationsships that are the very antithesis to the heterosexual romance novels they are expected to enjoy"
b) "by pairing two male characters together, women can experience a romantic relationship of equality that is difficult to attain in heterosexual relationships"
(quoted from: http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1147&context=etd ; p.24, refers to Catherine  Tosenberger,  “Homosexuality  at  the  Online  Hogwarts:  Harry  Potter  Slash  Fanfiction,” 2008)

I'm getting off-topic, am I not.
 

besleybean wrote:

I have said it before and say it again, somebody needs to do a Phd study on this: why are fan girls obsessed with seeing hot male leads get it on? Guilty as charged. But I feel I do recognise when that is not what is being shown.

Actually, I love reading scientific works about fandoms and their characteristics. I wish we had more works like that, and could discuss them here. Because sometimes I think, when I talk to people, they are like "fan talking nonsense, dismissed". I tried conversations and each time I wish I had like statistics to work with. It's like fandoms are a world on their own, but I think, there is so much happening, it should be visible. Like, having impact. I mean, not the fan stuff itself, but what we explore, discuss, realise about society... I think, e.g. with bestselling books, it's often done in articles, reviews, there's open discussion. I feel that fandoms keeps a lot of valuable insights to themselves.

I once read a Master Thesis, maybe I'll find it again somewhere, not exactly sure about the topic but it had statistics and it totally blew my mind how many of the female slash fanfic readers identified as bisexual or lesbian. I expected standard distribution (is that the word?), I mean the same proportion as in general society, but that wasn't what it said. There was also a conclusion saying sth like that fandoms offer minorities a room to explore their ideas which they maybe cannot explore as freely in society? (I seem to struggle to find the fitting words...)

I remember reading that was important for me. Because for me, fandom was for quite a time exactly that room. I mean, a room where people are open-minded. Or that's how I perceived fandoms, when I first encountered them (back then, it was Harry Potter fandom - the first I was active enough in to get a feel for it).
 

still catching up...
"The Lighthouse and the trained Cormorant" ?

That's not hinting at Sherlock and John, is it :D Funny name

I do think it's a shame Mycroft is involved in so many tedious serious political games. If he for once had a free hand, he could do all these terrifying things on his mind and show off his dangerous side, and it would be great fun to watch!

I wonder what Mycroft's motivation is, for his job I mean. It seems he doesn't enjoy pulling strings in the political game very much. He always appears hand-tied, compromised by "duties", and in general, he doesn't seem a happy person. And all that worry 'bout little bro.
Sometimes I even believe Mycroft would enjoy to blow off NATO in alphabetical order. Or, at least, he would enjoy a very similar scenario on the side of the angels.
Often I think he is just like Sherlock - he wants to toy with the danger, and he is no moral white sheet. But he doesn't give in to the pull, like Sherlock does. And that's why he stays put. I could even imagine he envies Sherlock and his "legwork"... but never allows himself to indulge.

Why doesn't he find himself a Mary? Some danger close to home, to make life interesting? If I think about it... why doesn't he find himself Mary? *duh* There could lie the ultimate reason for his way of not getting involved in the Mary business...
 

GimmeCat wrote:

And maybe he never gets on the plane in the first place? Maybe he didn't show up? Maybe the tarmac scene never happened at all? What if all of S4E1 is in some kind of drug-induced coma?

I got over-excited, and then I realised I cannot even think that, because it starts feeling as if nothing ever was real... it's a bit as if that solid BBC Sherlock show maybe never actually aired, and it was all just a dream... or a mind palace thing... Anyone feeling the same? Like theories just get too much for your brains and you start feeling the effects in a bad way? Maybe there was no series 1-3 and maybe there will never be a series 4. Maybe I'm just hallucinating... But. Still. Excited. ... Damn.

We've seen E2 setlock, where Sherlock seems to suddenly find himself standing in the middle of a busy street, no idea how he got there, standing in traffic with a cabbie yelling "Do you even know where you are?"

Ah, I was hoping that's the time travel part

ewige wrote:

Having your character wake up all of a sudden in the end is the sort of a reset button that self-respecting writers push only once.

As much as I love speculation, I think this is why I wouldn't like even more extensive drug/mind palace parts. I also agree with SolarSystem - for me at least, trust is already gone... I will always suspect mind palace/drugs at work, because of TAB. I think it would be cleverer to use mind palace in a "reliable" way - suprising, yes, but not confusing on that scale. It's like my reaction to this thread - I'm a bit weary of it. (weary... is that the word? I mean, like, careful and exhausted, but not: fed up)

JP wrote:

TAB is more like a shaman drug induced trance

this is a great way to describe it [img]http: