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[girlofprey]

Thanks to the Steampunk Home, I know where I'd like to live if I ever had tons and tons of money - the Clock Tower apartment in New York. Although actually, I might like the Triangular Smith Tower a bit better. And I hadn't seen the Brooklyn Clock Loft. Hmm.

If I had tons of money, I'd also decorate my apartment with a bunch of stuff from Etsy. Like this. And these. And one of these.

Anyway. I have a new fandom. You guys know I like demonslash and monsterslash and ghostslash and stuff, right? Well, you do now anyway. It turns out that if you like that, Silent Hill fandom is the PLACE TO BE. One of the main pairings is some guy and the demon that follows him around the place. The other main pairing, which I've looked into too hard, involves a serial killer And I know that rape jokes really aren't funny, but it does sort of amuse me that the main fandom catchphrase seems to be "Rape Time!". The only problem with the fandom is that, instead of it being a film or series I could buy and watch to get to know the canon, it's a game. And although it's quite cheap at the moment I either don't have the console to play it on, don't have the memory on my computer to really be installing a new game, and am not sure it would play on my Microsoft system anyway. Leaving aside whether or not I'd have the guts to play it long enough to learn about the story anyway. It looks sort of horrifying.

The post for suggesting panels for Connotations is up, and I've already suggested one for Soap Opera slash, but I'd like to suggest one for stuff like demon/monster sort of slash, and how it's different to regular slash - assuming there would be any interest besides mine - but I can't think of any title besides "Supernatural slash" which I think would be misleading, and I can see it turning into a conversation about Immortals, which I know nothing about, very quickly. Oh well.

Other things that have been amusing me - during my looking around for said Silent Hill pairing I came across the Memetic Molester page on TV Tropes. I never knew before how wrong a Burger King advert could be. Ohwait. Also, you've seen the t-shirt, now watch the Three Wolf Moon video. And everyone's probably seen it, but also the JK Wedding Dance video. It is great. And the JK Divorce parody video. Also great.

I have to go get a shower now. And get ready for work and stuff. I forget that this goes along with having a job sometimes.

Comments

[slippery-fish.livejournal.com]

The Silent Hill fandom sound oddly alluring.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Do you know anything about the games? They seem a bit fucked up, but with some pretty brilliant stories and mythology. And the fandom's fairly small, compared to some, but some of the fic and the fanart I've found have been a bit smoking hot.

[slippery-fish.livejournal.com]

I've seen a tiny bit of it during a cumputer games show, but that's it.

Where does the fandom happen? LJ?

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I found out about it through the Silent Hill thread on the coq board (http://plus4chan.org/boards/coq/res/11501.html), which has some pretty good fanart, and there are some LJ communities, including shslash. There's bits sort of all over the place, because it's a computer game I guess, though not all of it's exactly fannish.

[slippery-fish.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links! *wanders off to look*

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

On no! Someone mentioned TV tropes JUST as I was about to go to bed!!!

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

There is no bedtime when there is TV Tropes, peeeeeeet! You should know this by now.