Gakked from yhlee

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc. Then write your reaction to each pairing (or a snippet of a hypothetical fic featuring each pairing).

( meme )

XMM: "My Girlfriend Is a Telepath" (Kitty/Mindee, Bobby/Rogue)

Title: My Girlfriend Is a Telepath
Fandom: X-Men Movieverse
Pairing: Kitty/Mindee, Bobby/Rogue
Timeline/Spoilers: The not-too-distant future, post-X3. Spoilers for all three movies.
Summary: What it's like to be dating one-third of the Three-in-One.
Warnings: Homophobia. (Also implied off-screen noncon bestiality, I suppose.) 
Rating: PG
A/N: Sequel of sorts to "I'm Awfully Fond of You." Also, to be clear, I'm assuming that there have always only been three movieverse Cuckoos. And finally, special thanks to slashfairy for the beta.

( My Girlfriend Is a Telepath )

Gakked from yhlee

Name a fictional character (tv, movie, film, fanonical version of a real person, etc.) and I'll tell you five things I like about that character. It doesn't have to be a character I like overall, although that would probably make things easier.

On Privilege and Sapir-Whorf

For the record, I am white, male, heterosexual, middle-class, American, Christian, . . .  frankly? It'd be quicker to name the ways I'm not privileged.

I say this not because it's National Coming Out Day [I notebooked this post in class and on the train yesterday--Ed.] (although I sort of do want to make a long post about how I experience my heterosexuality, and how I feel certain labels apply to me, and what it means when everyone assumes those labels apply to me already anyway, but can't think of a way to do it that wouldn't make me feel like I'm appropriating), but because it means that I have pretty much two choices: I can, in the long tradition of privileged individuals, ignore my privilege, or I can learn to deal with it. I won't claim that I've done the latter; indeed, there is no doubt in my mind there are numerous ways in which I have not. What I have done is think a lot about what is the  best way to try.

Learning to deal with it is not necessarily accepting every claim made by a traditional victim (survivor?) of injustice. It is not to automatically agree that everything which is claimed to be descriminative or unjust or whatever-ist is. That'd be intellectual suicide, and an abrogation of one's moral responsibilities to boot. It may happen that, when all is said and done, when one looks at a situation from the perspective of who one is, there will still be disagreement. That's okay.

I vote for Party X (out of two choices, does any of my flisters really doubt which that is?) because my parents vote for Party X (or Party Q when they are reasonably sure Party Y won't win, as do I) and instilled me with the values that lead me to vote that way. Most likely, if my parents voted for Party Y than I would too. Recognizing this doesn't make me want to stop voting for Party X--I still think I am right to vote for Party X, and will continue to think so until convinced otherwise--but it does make me stop and think about why I am voting for Party X, to re-examine my premises.

Similarly, what is required when a claim of injustice is made is a pause, a hesitation, an honest assessment of oneself and one motives, and above all listening with an open mind.

. . .

( the part about Sapir-Whorf, which is very relevant to the above if you look at it sideways )