this week's linky linky

[baratron]

One of these days, when I have Copious Free Time, I'm going to go back through my journal and completely redo my lj memories, indexing everything I've ever written. I'll separate out all the linky bits and make that a weblog which you'll be able to view through my web site. However, before that, I have a thesis to write and several important things on my things-to-do list which have sat there for a long time, so who knows when this will happen?

Anyway, here's (some more) links for the week:
An Open Letter to PC Game Developers. Link of the day on User Friendly. Some interesting points are raised.

John Lewis's in Addams Family shocker. Amusing. From the ever-cute matthewp.

The Extreme Teen Bible. Serious, not a parody. I believe the only applicable phrase for the flash animation is "Oh my God!". Seen in a very brief scan of j00j's LJ: I will need to look at all her other links sometime.

RestrictedSection.org (a site featuring "adult" Harry Potter fanfics) gets threatened by JK Rowling's lawyer. More info here and here. I'm just reading and watching for the moment, as I try to avoid commenting before I have all the facts. It looks like the concern is only with fanfic that features explicit sex, but it could well set a precedent.

Comments

[baratron.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not passing any kind of judgement. I have no problem with the existence of porn, as long as the people in it gave full consent. I just think that as there's a difference between erotic writing and more visual media, that it's useful to have two different names for it.

Of course, sex-oriented photography can be described either as erotica or porn, and then often people do assign value judgements. I think that erotica is more arty than sexual and porn is more sexual than arty - a black and white stylised photo would be more likely to be erotica whereas a full-colour glossy photo with glistening bodily fluids would be more likely to be porn, but I'm really not hung up on the wording. I'm just the sort of person who thinks that a long skirt with a slit in it so that you only occasionally see a bit of leg is far more interesting than a short skirt where you can see everything all the time, and thus go for the type of erotic writing and photography where more is implied than described.