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I decided I was spamming twitter too much, so will put my rambles in one place, all the easier to scroll past :)
This is my second cold since my cfs got Super Bad. The first one was during femmconne, and quickly became Very Nasty and left me with bronchitis and a hacking cough that didn't so much go away as exponentially decay. This one SEEMED pretty minor but has kicked back in this morning with congestion and is making my "You will be sick for a while" warning go off (one advantage of being constantly sick for my whole life is well worn instincts about these things) On the plus side? Femmconne was last October. I used to get colds about once a month. You'd expect my immune system to be more susceptible to virii when I'm chronically ill but apparently not. *wonders if this has anything to do with cutting out dairy, since that gives me cold like symptoms*
I've been reading Pride and Prejudice fanfic. I realise that if I want genuinely feminist plots I should avoid stuff set in sexist times but it still annoys me that modern writers of regency romance are almost all more rigidly heteronormative etc than Jane Austen/Charlotte Bronte etc. (Admittedly they still do better than the average writer of that era, I say having been introduced to the plot of Pamela) People, Elizabeth Bennet was not a saucy minx. I am SO sick of the "Heroine misunderstands hero, is feisty but wrongheaded, he forgives her and she realises she should have just trusted him and done what he said all along" storyline. I prefer "Jane Eyre"s plot of "Heroine misunderstands hero and is feisty but wrongheaded, then finds out what is really going on and is justifiably pissed, and goes off to make her fortune before coming back the more powerful partner." I'd steal it for my own fanfic but do not have the heart to burn down Rosings :) *steals bits of it regardless*
This is my second cold since my cfs got Super Bad. The first one was during femmconne, and quickly became Very Nasty and left me with bronchitis and a hacking cough that didn't so much go away as exponentially decay. This one SEEMED pretty minor but has kicked back in this morning with congestion and is making my "You will be sick for a while" warning go off (one advantage of being constantly sick for my whole life is well worn instincts about these things) On the plus side? Femmconne was last October. I used to get colds about once a month. You'd expect my immune system to be more susceptible to virii when I'm chronically ill but apparently not. *wonders if this has anything to do with cutting out dairy, since that gives me cold like symptoms*
I've been reading Pride and Prejudice fanfic. I realise that if I want genuinely feminist plots I should avoid stuff set in sexist times but it still annoys me that modern writers of regency romance are almost all more rigidly heteronormative etc than Jane Austen/Charlotte Bronte etc. (Admittedly they still do better than the average writer of that era, I say having been introduced to the plot of Pamela) People, Elizabeth Bennet was not a saucy minx. I am SO sick of the "Heroine misunderstands hero, is feisty but wrongheaded, he forgives her and she realises she should have just trusted him and done what he said all along" storyline. I prefer "Jane Eyre"s plot of "Heroine misunderstands hero and is feisty but wrongheaded, then finds out what is really going on and is justifiably pissed, and goes off to make her fortune before coming back the more powerful partner." I'd steal it for my own fanfic but do not have the heart to burn down Rosings :) *steals bits of it regardless*
