Babsie's Den

I really need to remember to update this thing.

In a nutshell, life's been busy. I got a promotion at my job, I got married, and I've been kept busy with all that and my artwork. but here I am, so that's a thing.

Uh, lessee.... I updated my Dreamwidth description to focus more on Peter. I also re-set up on AO3 account, and I'll look into uploading some of the older stories I used to write when I was more into Star trek:
https://archiveofourown.org/users/TDotBabs

Also, been uploading a ton of my Peter art onto my Deviantart account:
http://tdotbabs.deviantart.com/gallery/48648503/Peter-Venkman

I have a couple new pics in the works, so keep an eye out for those as well. :)

And here I am, delurking once more.

I can't think of much to post though yet. Not until I organize my thoughts a little more, anyway. So in the meantime, have some cute.

I have a REALLY great story idea that I would love to see written, but I don't want to write it because I'm not a writer, I'm an artist.

Is there a group or anything where I can post this idea and hope that someone else runs with it? most of the groups I do see have strings attached, and I don't want to be stuck having to write something for someone else.

Little help?

If a story is about events, locations, plot, and characters that are solely in the movie Ghostbusters, than it makes no sense to insist that that story is about the cartoon Real Ghostbusters, when it doesn't reference the show at all.

Not that I actively encourage RGB fic, but come on, people, know your material.

Been trying to help breathe life into a Ghostbusters group on Yahoo, only...no dice. The moderators and owners are completely MIA, and since posts are moderated, that poses problems.

If Yahoo groups are a thing of the past now, where do fans go these days? Just might set up shop over wherever that is, instead!

Okay true story: When I was like, 10, I did these comic strips about baby Ghostbusters and they have all these adventures with proton packs and stuff made out of baby toys. One of the stories entails the Ghostbusters being sucked down a drain, and at one point, Winston gets separated from the others, and then they find him again, and he knows how to get home. Egon or someone asks Winston how he knows all this, and Winston turns around and proudly announces, "The slug on my bum told me!" And I drew a slug and...yeah.

Well, I told Gabi about all this, and she BEGGED me to show her on Skype. So I did, and she thought this was the funniest thing she ever saw. So SHE ended up drawing Baby Ghostbusters complete with Bum Slug ™ and then talked me into inking and colouring it. o.o

I lead a very unusual life. XD



P.S. If you ever call the Ghostbusters to help rid your house of ghosts and a bunch of babies show up, well...you only have yourself to blame.

I've brought this up recently in response to various discussions I've had with folks regarding slash and after thinking about it, figured I'd put it into its own entry. Granted these are my personal thoughts. I know slash is a thing. Shatner thought it was dumb, Roddenberry thought it was odd, Lucas was never keen on it and yet slash persevered regardless. So it is what it is. Don't like it, don't read it, I know the rule and abide by it though I like to keep an open mind I've read Pony femslash that's been pretty good, in addition to some nice Trek fics and stories by Omorka about the Ghostbusters movie. But I digress. Read on! :)

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I don't see Peter Venkman as being anything other than straight. Part of it is because of canon: He's always after women, he's always attempting to date/have a girlfriend. People who worked on Real Ghostbusters say he's straight, the writer's bibles portray him as straight, you get the idea.

The other part is more political and identity on my part. I basically think Peter is 100% heterosexual because he's wired that way, and to stray from that would be out of character for HIM. Why? Cos that's how I'm wired, and it makes sense. These days, I get that sexuality equality is important. But what people are starting to preach now is that "everyone's a little bit gay", and that it's okay to be 100% gay...but NOT be 100% straight. I actually had people get in my face about that when I lived in Ohio. Personally I think that's wrong. You can be 100% gay, but you can also be 100% straight. I don't think "everyone's a little bit gay" or "everyone's bi". I think everyone is wired how they're wired, and however you swing is perfectly fine, even if it varies.

Now, I think Peter is heterosexual, yes. But that doesn't mean he's intolerant. If one of the other Ghostbusters were gay, he'd have no problem with it, so long as no one tried forcing it on him. Would he be curious? Somewhere along the line, maybe, but it would be similar to my experience. I tried kissing a girl once, just to test my own sexual boundaries. A zillion red flags went off in my head, telling me that no, this didn't feel right, and I stopped. Haven't tried again, because I was absolutely sure where I stood in my sexuality, and that incident solidified that. I see Peter maybe attempting something similar while he was in college. The kid DID attend a fraternity after all. I don't see him getting far with it though, and I don't EVER see him attempting that with Ray or Egon. But outside of that, I see him as I see myself. Straight and happy with himself.

Just a heads up, I hate every single one of you that put me into this headspace to begin with. But here goes. Shipping.

So, I was watching the Real Ghostbusters episode, "Boo Dunit". There's a scene where Egon lands in Winston's lap, and Winston offers to read a story out loud to him. There's also a scene where Egon and Ray are bickering back and forth, and briefly there's a scene where Egon's holding onto Ray from behind for no real reason. And Peter? He's kind of off on his own, and other than a few bits where the other 3 regard him in annoyance, no one pays him too much mind.

So yeah. I can see Egon/Winston (And there need to be more of that, if you really want to Go There. Hell, Omorka? You wanna help me out with that one? :D), I can see Egon/Ray, I can see Ray/Winston, but Peter's....just this kid. He's lazy, irresponsible, makes messes, whines, and half the time is a hilariously useless little brat. The other 3 initially are supposed to be a few years older. But that's in the original 78 episodes.

When they retconned the show's continuity and got Dave Coulier to voice Peter, THEN he aged 10 years to about 35, grew a foot taller and become more robust looking. He became a completely different character who was much more in line with the other 3. But I always hated that version of him and the show was a flaming hot mess, so you want to ship that version of Peter, go ahead.

But the original Peter? Scrawny derpy little thing voiced by Lorenzo Music? Not seeing it, man. Leave the 'ships to the "grownups", and Let Cupcakes be Cupcakes.

(Obscure reference for the win!)

Okay seriously. I go to my profile and I have a million categories depicting who I'm watching, who watches me, who I gave my shoe size to, who has my shopping list, who I'm watching but doesn't watch me but COULD watch me of they do desired, and so on.

If there's one thing Livejournal does right, it's simplicity. Friends, mutual friends, friend of. BOOM. DONE.

Not that I mind Dreamwidth. But it could stand to be streamlined just a tad.

I think I have this figured out now.

In 1990, someone wrote a Real Ghostbusters fan fiction called "Breathless Anticipation", in which Peter is hospitalized and hooked up to a breathing machine because he's cursed by a ghost that steals his breath. This triggered the feels of other ladies who, at the time, were in their 30s, and so THEY glomped onto this story and started writing their own tearjerker stories where Peter is hospitalized and injured and sick. They weren't fans of the source material (a few of them I've talked to refuse to touch the show itself), they were only fans of THAT FIC. The story could have been about the Sentinel, or Star Trek, or My Little Pony or the Muppet Babies, and the result would have been the same. Only these ladies insist on calling themselves a "fandom" of Real Ghostbusters.

Uh, no. Refusing the canon material, refusing to watch the show, eschewing how the characters were intended to be, acknowledging fan fiction only, and reimagining things from the ground up to tailor to your ideas isn't being a fan of something. I'm not exactly sure WHAT'S that called, but it sure as heck isn't fandom.

But that's just me. What do you guys think? What, to you, defines being a fan of something?