Bwah!

Went to Fandom Wank and found a really funny thread on some anti-yaoi community somewhere. All parties are arguing about yaoi, definitions and anime with some statements of expertise (I've had Japanese friends and taken a course on Japanese pop culture!). And the entire thing amuses me to no extent because all of them seem to be saying, "This is what it is, damnit, no ambiguity, just this!!" Hey, why didn't anyone tell me that? Then I could have just not written my thesis and spent those four or five years digging up books and articles on anime and yaoi somewhere else! It's not very nice laughing at them for getting things wrong, huh. I guess it was just how some of the people in the antiyaoi thread seemed to think their opinion was written in stone when in most of the scholarship I've read, things are very much up in the air.

Anyway, was really going to do a post on my thoughts about Angel S5, partially in response to one of scrollgirl's posts a while ago, on her problems with a certain character on Angel. Not bashy, scrollgirl! I just reread the post and was thinking about my ideal S5 again.

( Thoughts follow -- spec only, and well-known casting spoiler )