A really creepy Firefly clip...

It's not creepy in and of itself, just when you think on how River is as we know her.

That said, I have a question.

Oftentimes, in TV and movies, if a character is clearly batshit insane and dangerous, they show this by doing a closeup on their face so you can't not see that their eyes are wildly moving back and forth. And maybe they'll show the Good Guy so we can compare their steady gaze to the scanning gaze of Crazy Ax-Murderer (and you know that's crazy, since axes are nice and sweet, and it's saws you want to kill). They even did that to River Tam at least once that I remember.

Why is this? Is there some sort of correlation between how sane you are and how likely you are to go madly back and forth while looking at people? Is this why the cylons/some cylons have one eye that goes back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, because they're all nuts?

I'm confused.

I think I finally figured out something....

*decides to throw terminology all around*

Way back... not that long ago, really, I had that whole argument involving slash with somebody. And it's been niggling at my mind this simple fact: While (out of more-serious fiction, not, say, the Dudley in Leather Pants fic) I prefer gen fic, with a minimum of relationships, when it comes to fic involving any sort of relationship, I prefer slash. More specifically, I automatically view het fic with suspicion.

My friend had a lot of bad experiences with slash. That's not why she doesn't like it, entirely, but I can only imagine that it's colored her impressions beyond "not my thing, nor Jo's" into "EEEEEEWWWWWW!"

I, fortunately, never had those experiences with het, but... *laughs* I can't believe I just now figured it out - by lucky coincidence, the best writers I know write a lot of slash, and reccommend a lot of other good writers who write slash. I associated het fic with the sort of dreck you find on pottersues all too often, where Hermione finds out she has to marry Draco, or where random girls frak Sirius, and where Harry becomes Harriet all the time just so he can have sex with Draco without all that icky gay.

So when people say they don't like slash, instead of me thinking "gee, I guess they like good fic that's not slash, or no fic at all", I think "OMG!HERMIONEANDDRACO,SITTINGINATREE!" and run away screaming.

Our lives truly are colored too much by our experiences.

And now, I must hie me to bed. Night all!

Oh, and I'm going through my old posts, unlocking them, tagging them, figuring out what memory categories I ultimately want. I may reply to some very old comments. Don't be surprised. You don't have to respond to my replies.

Connie's day was really, really, really cool.

REALLY.

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Tomorrow is the last day of the drums, which for little kids is a lot like a concert in the park except with less candles. So I'm doing that, and watching BSG and all later. I hope to meet up with my mom earlier than usual so we can go to the playground and she can watch Ana a little and I can go on the swings.

But I really want to sneak into Central Park one night and have that slide all to myself....