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selenakAlas the icon has nothing to do with the content, but kathyh made some great new Doctor Who ones (and BTVS, and Merlin), and I took several, including this one. Because, you know, Aaaaace.
Fanfic recs:
Lost:
Singing you to sleep: a sensitive and beautifully written portrait of Ana Lucia and Sun in later s2 of Lost.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Vigil in Accustomed Places: a fantastic Joyce Summers portrait, all the way through mid-season 5. I'm going to do a bigmatrithon rec post once it's over, but this story swept me away so much I had to rec it immediately. There isn't much Joyce fic out there anyway, let alone a portrait of such quality.
And now my ethical question of the day, unrelated to either of these fandoms. I hear there's currently much debate about whether or not an incident in a recent Spider-man comic counts as rape. This post draws a fascinating parallel to an actual historical incident, the story of Martin Guerre. Now, basically my own position is that yes, if A has sex with B solely because B believes A to be C, and A not only is aware of this fact but actively using it to have sex with B, then the sex is non-consensual on B's part and thus rape.
...and then I remembered that very popular stallward from Elizabethan theatre, the so-called "bed-trick". Two Shakespeare plays which use it are "All's well that ends well" and "Measure for Measure". Here, you also have a situation where B sleeps with A believing A to be C, and A is aware and counting on that fact; however, in this case B is male, and A and C are female. In the case of "Measure for Measure", B (as in Angelo) is also trying to blackmail C for sex, whereas A is a woman who is in love with him and whom he ditched; in "All's well that ends well", B isn't powerful but a complete jerk whom for some reason the heroine wants to end up with. In both cases, C and A are allies. However, the fact remains that B has sex with A against his will. Is this also rape in your opinions, oh flist, or does gender make a difference, or is it that both Angelo and Bertram are in positions of social power that makes a difference, or is there no difference?
kathyh made some great new Doctor Who ones (and BTVS, and Merlin), and I took several, including this one. Because, you know, Aaaaace. Fanfic recs:
Lost:
Singing you to sleep: a sensitive and beautifully written portrait of Ana Lucia and Sun in later s2 of Lost.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Vigil in Accustomed Places: a fantastic Joyce Summers portrait, all the way through mid-season 5. I'm going to do a big
matrithon rec post once it's over, but this story swept me away so much I had to rec it immediately. There isn't much Joyce fic out there anyway, let alone a portrait of such quality.And now my ethical question of the day, unrelated to either of these fandoms. I hear there's currently much debate about whether or not an incident in a recent Spider-man comic counts as rape. This post draws a fascinating parallel to an actual historical incident, the story of Martin Guerre. Now, basically my own position is that yes, if A has sex with B solely because B believes A to be C, and A not only is aware of this fact but actively using it to have sex with B, then the sex is non-consensual on B's part and thus rape.
...and then I remembered that very popular stallward from Elizabethan theatre, the so-called "bed-trick". Two Shakespeare plays which use it are "All's well that ends well" and "Measure for Measure". Here, you also have a situation where B sleeps with A believing A to be C, and A is aware and counting on that fact; however, in this case B is male, and A and C are female. In the case of "Measure for Measure", B (as in Angelo) is also trying to blackmail C for sex, whereas A is a woman who is in love with him and whom he ditched; in "All's well that ends well", B isn't powerful but a complete jerk whom for some reason the heroine wants to end up with. In both cases, C and A are allies. However, the fact remains that B has sex with A against his will. Is this also rape in your opinions, oh flist, or does gender make a difference, or is it that both Angelo and Bertram are in positions of social power that makes a difference, or is there no difference?
