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The grumpy meta goes out of the way first: you know what's irritating? That even though big fandom comms like fanficrants seem to have reached a consensus in that warning for slash is offensive, the practice is still so prevalent. More insidious still is when people who label themselves as fans of the gay start talking about how slash "corrupted" them because it's just so edgy, I mean, look at these guys not being 100% straight! Plain amazing, I say. /sarcasm

I'm venting because I'm well past my stretch of patience with the idea of slash (or femslash, same "logic" would apply) as some quirky little kink. I realize it's not my place to police why people like whatever they like, but nor do (general) you get to police what slash is, especially if you insist on billing it as some "corrupting influence". Fandom is huge, after all, and more diverse than the mainstream stereotype would suggest. Some of us write what's labelled as slash for the characters, and if we also write porn we see it as a nice bonus. Some of us write slash and other queer fic because we like the opportunity to portray characters as not all cis heterosexuals for once. Still others are into this slash thing for different reasons, and that's all well and good! We can get along, whatever our respective motives are.

But. Look here: the exoticizing attitude is problematic. It bothers me because I'm a genderqueer pansexual guy and I kind of care about this equal representation thing. I'm not in this for the lulz or whatever. Therefore, if (general) you alternate between objectifying and warning for people like me (or somewhat like me), I will judge you. And I won't feel even slightly sorry.

(This isn't to say that all straight people who like slash act that way, but that much should be obvious.)

*

Moving on! I've had some meta sitting around for a while, and unlike the above rant this is actually fun. It's my favourite part of this post, in fact, but I'll cut it because it's fandom-specific. Not to mention it got long. ( Yeah, it's BB/Zero because that's apparently all I write these days. There needs to be more Zero meta. BRB GENERATING SOME. )

Well, that was fun. :D

Title: Enough Snake for Everyone
Characters/Pairings: Big Boss/Kaz, Big Boss/Python; other character cameos
Rating: PG
Summary: Kaz gets some interesting advice from an unlikely ally. (Python and Frank are in Outer Heaven for great justice.)
Notes: Doujinshi collab with eirok. I wrote the script and he did all the hard work drawing it in about three days.

( Cuteness and very mild crack on occasion this way! )

Found the video for the "tea and scones" convo thanks to the mighty Google. (The segment starts at 1:25, but feel free to listen to the whole thing. XD)

HE IS ACTUALLY FREAKING OUT, I can't get over this XDD

Seriously, the guy who tells you to stay calm and patch yourself up after a nuclear explosion, DRIVEN INTO A STATE OF PANIC BY THE LACK OF TEA AND SCONES.

They never give it a rest either:

Sigint: Ah, you're wearing the chocolate chip pattern.

Snake: Chocolate chip? You mean this camouflage?

Sigint: Yeah.

Snake: I've never heard of a camo pattern called that before...

Sigint: Yeah, I know. I just thought it up right now. The chocolate chip pattern is probably designed to provide cover in a desert environment. It should work best against a sandy or rocky background.

Snake: Makes sense. But why'd you call it chocolate chip?

Sigint: 'Cause that's what it reminds me of. [So that's why BB still wears it in PW. Nostalgia~]

Snake: What?

Sigint: Those little round cookies the major is always snackin' on.

Major Zero: They're not cookies. They're scones.

Sigint: Major!

Major: And it's not a snack. It's afternoon tea.

Sigint: Snack, tea, same thing.

Major: No, it's not! Look here, afternoon tea is a fine old English tradition. [HE SAYS IT IN SUCH A DEDICATED VOICE]

Sigint: Uh oh. Here we go again. Talk to you later, Snake.

Major: The origins of afternoon tea go back to the Victorian Era. Anna Maria, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, was...

And finally, the old classic:

Para-Medic: Snake, have you seen 007: From Russia with Love?

Snake: I don't like those movies. Real spies are nothing like James Bond. It's pure fantasy.

Para-Medic: Snake, I don't think the Major's going to like you saying that.

Snake: And even though it's fiction, I can't help but comparing myself to Bond.

Major Zero: What exactly don't you like about James Bond? Is it the fantastic gadgets? The cars? The guns?

Snake: Major...! [FUCK, THIS IS GIVING ME A RANK FETISH]

Major: Snake, wouldn't you like to have a gun shaped like a pen?

Snake: What good is a pen going to do me in the jungle? I'd look like a fool. [With such a stupid tool.]

Major: Then what about a snake-shaped gun? [YOU DID NOT JUST GO THERE, ZERO.] You could make it look like you're grappling with a giant snake and then get a shot in on the enemy while they're distracted. Heh!

Snake: OK, now you're being ridiculous. [♥]

Major: We'll make you a snake-shaped gun that folds up and fits into an attache case.

Snake: Will you give it a rest?

Major: Oh, I get it. You're worried about how to handle the ladies, aren't you?

Snake: No...

Major: I knew it. Hmm... To tell you the truth, I don't like the idea of playing hanky-panky with enemy femme fatales, either. [Yeah, I wonder why.] But that's part of Bond's appeal. You could learn a thing or two from him. What about this EVA? What are you planning to do with her? [LOL Major, why do you care? Wink wink.]

Snake: I...I don't even trust her yet.

Major: That's not what I mean. You can't let yourself get involved. This is a game of spy versus spy. She's using you just as much as you're using her.

Snake: I realize that.

Major: You've got to grab the initiative. And to do that, you have to get the upper hand in the relationship. That's what a spy is supposed to do. [Explains that one cutscene, I suppose. XD]

Snake: Get the upper hand...I don't think I'm cut out for that mission. [True, instead you let her throw your poor radio in the fireplace, you complete dork.]

Major: Maybe if you changed your code name to Double-O-Snake? ['CAUSE "NAKED SNAKE" JUST ISN'T ENOUGH INNUENDO]

Snake: Major... [Translation: "I AM DISGRUNTLED LEAVE ME ALONE ;A;"]

Major: 007 is the biggest thing to come out of England since the Mayflower. I wouldn't be surprised if they made 20 more of those movies. [He always has been a visionary.]

Para-Medic: Didn't you know? The Major is a huge James Bond fan. Don't get him worked up like this.

Snake: Worked up?

Para-Medic: Maybe you don't realize this, but now that you've got him started talking about Bond, I'm going to have to listen to him lecture for a whole hour after he gets off the radio.

Snake: You have my sympathy.

Para-Medic: It's too bad you can't enjoy such a great movie, though. [Oh Quack ♥]

Snake: I guess I'm just one of those people who can't enjoy spy flicks.

So sad. XD

Current Mood: amused

Because the MGS3 walkthroughs I have obsessively watched never have all of these beautiful convos. (I have lots of favourites but can't be arsed to hunt down and transcribe them all from scratch now, so here are the ones I stole from the ever-so-convenient tumblr.)

“Snake, listen to yourself. This is a mission. It’s not a game; it’s not a sport. You think you’re competing for the gold at Tokyo or something?”
--ZERO SHATTERING YOUR ILLUSIONS

So, where the hell do you get this:

Snake: Amazing the kind of machines that are available now...
Para-Medic: But this machine has not been made public. It was designed by a scientist at the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.
Snake: What kind of person was he?
Para-Medic: The person who designed it?
Snake: Yeah.
Para-Medic: I heard he was pretty strange.
Snake: Stranger than the Major?
Para-Medic: There's nothing strange about the Major.
Major ~~Zero~~ Tom: My tea is gone! Who drank it!? How am I supposed to have teatime without tea!?
Para-Medic: Well, not too strange, at least.
Snake: ...
Major Tom: Hey, my scones are gone, too!!

This one is so damn cute:

Major ~~Zero~~ Tom: Snake, do you see any tufts of grass?
Snake: Yeah.
Major Tom: What kind of grass?
Snake: Just ordinary grass. Nothing special...
Major Tom: You should check it anyhow.
Snake: ...It's pretty thick grass. About waist-high.
Major Tom: If you crawl into the grass, you can advance undercover. [blah blah description of how to do this in the game; we'll miss you, fourth wall] This allows you to observe things without blowing your cover. Got it?
Snake: Yeah, but...
Major Tom: But what?
Snake: Was that the only reason?
Major Tom: What do you mean?
Snake: You had me check it just to tell me that?
Major Tom: That's right.
Snake: ...
Major Tom: Pretty useful huh?
Snake: ...Right.
Major Tom: Shall we carry on?
Snake: By all means.

Since when does BB say "by all means"? Adopting your SO's pet phrases, are we. (Note: Your call whether SO means "superior officer" or "significant other". Or both, bwahaha.)

AND HERE I JUST HAVE NO WORDS:

Snake: Yeah. When I do my business, I bury it good.
Major ~~Zero~~ Tom: What!?
Snake: What's wrong?
Major Tom: That's the American way?
Snake: American way for what?
Major Tom: To handle defecation. You're going to BURY it?
Snake: Yeah.
Major Tom: Bring it home with you.
Snake: What?
Major Tom: That's what we did in the SAS.
Snake: ...

And you know that when I shut up, things are dire. The SAS was one fun organization. I can see the point of writing secret documents in jizz, but this is just

...Wait a sec, why are they talking about "defecation" anyway?

ZERO YOU TROLL

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: 'Sailor' - Metal Gear Solid 3

KOJIMA & SUGITA (KAZ'S JAPANESE VOICE ACTOR DOING KAZ COSPLAY).

CLEARLY KOJIMA IS BIG BOSS AND THE FOURTH WALL NO LONGER EXISTS.

METAL GEAR IS THE BEST. FANDOM. OF ALL TIME.

OF ALL TIME!

Current Mood: morale successfully boosted

It might be high time I explained what's happened to all the fics I'd been posting or meaning to post right about now. Short answer: THIS HAPPENED. And has been going on ever since.

( My Contributions )

[ETA: I've reposted all these and more fics in regular non-capslocky format since, so refer to those posts if you'd like to read them rather than the meme links: here and here.]

Prompts Others Filled for Me

VERY HOT ART for Iroquois Pliskin/Vamp, with special attention paid to ~~Snake's~~ Pliskin's MGS2 suit. Worksafe. By ~~Ezio~~ I mean,

nohaijiachi. <3

Hilarious Fic & Art by

cherrytruck for Strangelove/Huey, pegging, "Just pretend you're her." (The sexytimes didn't happen in the end, but the rest of the fic more than makes up for it.) High crack content here, obviously.

Cute Art & Hot Art for Big Boss/Kaz, future curry, "But how will it taste?" by the lovely

cherrytruck.

Art: Looking Down and Whispering "No" by

plus5pencil for Mantis/Rorschach, worst sex ever. In the end they got literally fucked over by Rule 34, Mantis broke the fourth wall in the process, and they both remained so in character despite the situation that it's brilliant. I mean, in context of it being character trolling.
[Warning for this being non-consensual on both sides - the "outside forces made them do it" sort.]

GENIUS PIECE OF ART for when I discovered a certain canon fact and went on to request Kaz/Ocelot, with Zero filming them for his homemade porn stash. Probably not worksafe. A collab by the epic duo of

cherrytruck and

nohaijiachi.

BEAUTIFUL, totally spoiler-free illustration of my 'Morale Drop' fic by

nohaijiachi. (Well, unless you count what Kaz is doing in that moment as a spoiler for the fic. XD) Thank you again for this!

Lovely, haughty-looking art by

cherrytruck for Kaz as Dorian Gray. Because, you know, he doesn't visibly age until he drops dead. As a little bonus, there is also a trolled version of the portrait.

That should be all - so far. At your service. :D

Current Mood: pleased

I finished Peace Walker, people! Yes, that's right: again. And no, I didn't restart - the main storyline actually continued.

And thus I launch into my review/obsessive ramble Part II. The cut houses spoilers the likes of which you only want to read if you've already finished this game or know you're never getting it. Otherwise, steer so clear you'll lose your way around this page. I'm serious. Very.

( I, wait, WHAT?! )

Regarding artistic execution, not much has changed in that department since the last time I commented on it as it's still very well done. One new thing I appreciated was the ingenious mix of the illustrated cutscenes usually found in this game and real-time ones. Even if I like both styles equally for different reasons, having them alternate like this was amazing! I have the sneaking suspicion they included the latter just to make the body language between Kaz and Big Boss in the final scene speak volumes, because that's what it does. And that dialogue. Great stuff all around.

All right, all right, I'm going to stop now. Be glad I'm sticking to the main story here. XD

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Music: 'Hammer to Fall' - Queen

I finished Peace Walker last night in a frenzy of awesomeness. At about 2 AM. Three years since I was this invested in a series and completely worth it.

Tell you what, I was going to rant about the futility of sneaking past armed prison guards bare-handed, about how all the triangle-mashing has destroyed my fingers for a week, about that suicidal trek through a base crawling with hostiles on permanent alert, or how the last regular fight took me a full hour after I finally managed not to screw up within the first minute... but now I'm done and I can't really bring myself to. The ride sure was something, but in the end it's got nothing on the story and the way it's told. If I had to rate this game? I'd give it eleven stars of ten.

I loved how the final chapter (4, that is) was a perfect mix of epic and understated.

( Not even gonna pretend this isn't spoilery )

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: 'Sleeping Sun' - Nightwish

Three needs:

1) You all need to watch this video and marvel at the canonicity of this badass pairing right the hell now. Familiar with the fandom or not, this clip is a thing of sheer beauty. DO IT!

How many popular fandoms have slash this canon? (Actually, now I'm intrigued. Hit me if you know about any besides HP and MGS the Obvious.)

At any rate, this is brilliant.

2) I need ~~scissors~~ PEACE WALKER. I've spoiled myself into oblivion, but the urge to get first-hand experience is not lessening in the slightest. The more I know, the more deprived I feel. Oh well, soon.

( 3) Have an old picture of Big Boss where he looks like he's wearing stockings. What, this isn't a need? You don't say. )

In wondrous conclusion, I feel like tapdancing or something.

Current Mood: THINE OFFERING PLEASETH ME

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Entries tagged with metal gear solid

Two tangentially related bits of meta

NOW FOR THE GREAT REVEAL

"This FOX unit is a nut-fest!"

I'M FUCKING BUYING A PS2 FOR THIS

THIS SHALL ALL BE IN CAPSLOCK

THE ROUND-UP OF AWESOME

"We're gonna be fighting the biggest beast of all - the times."

A ghost in the machine

EPIC EFFIN' WIN.