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sariagray ([personal profile] sariagray) wrote2011-07-20 09:46 pm

Make It Stop.

You know it's been a long day when you consider plots centered around the illicit affair between Jack Harkness and the founder of the NGO for whom you work during your New Employee Orientation seminar.

Eglantyne Jebb.

Shut up.

I think it may be time for bed.

In other news, here is a conversation I had with my mother the other day:

Mom: So, I have a question for you.
Me: Okay.
Mom: You know how a writer is supposed to write what they know?
Me: Yes...
Mom: You aren't a gay man!

Thanks, Mom, for noticing. I'm really glad we cleared that up; it had been bothering me for a while now. (I am also not immortal, nor do I hunt aliens, nor do I have a pet dinosaur. I'm not having an affair with my boss, I don't wear suits, and I really did NOT have a partially converted cyberwoman stored in my employer's basement, no matter what anyone tells you. These facts did not seem to concern her as much.)

[identity profile] choccy-grl.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I've had that comment directed at me by my best friend. (We were sitting in a theatre waiting for Ave Q to start at the time, I dread to think what the people sitting near us thought! Although to be honest I don't really care.)

My answer was, the logistics of the physical side of things are easily researched (I love the internet - I haven't lived through WW2, been down in a submarine or spent any time as a frog but that doesn't stop me writing about it)and as for the rest, being in a male male relationship doesn't mean the feelings are any different. They would need to act in character whatever type of relationship they are in.

[identity profile] sariagray.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, absolutely! It just amused me, and I think she was teasing me? Mostly because I used to go on "writing what I know" tirades in high school and whatnot.

And I doubt they cared much - you were seeing Avenue Q, after all...;)

[identity profile] choccy-grl.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
So true, Ave Q is brilliant but not for the prudish or easily offended ;)