Fanlore continues to amuse/bemuse me

[julesjones]

Someone has selected an illo to illustrate the Fanlore article on the acronym "BUARA". Looking at the history, it was added by someone who from other pages is enthusiastic about adding B7 material but does not appear to be all that familiar with B7 fandom and its terminology. The image was then removed as being not actually appropriate for the article. It was then added back on the grounds that someone had clarified that the R stands for all forms of "whumping", and not just what the R stands for in the acronym.

I don't actually agree with the latter assertion, but that's not what amuses/bemuses me. The illo in question does not illustrate any form of whumping at all. It is an illo for an entirely consensual D/s scenario. I should know, I wrote the story in question...

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

....and I had to go and look, yes. Nice drawing but hardly BUARA (speaking as someone who still has some zines around...)

I'm with you on the meaning too.

[julesjones]

It's not as if that particular zine was short of yer actual BUARA stories to pick illos from. :->

(I presume that one was picked because someone else had already uploaded a scan as part of some other project, and the person who used it just jumped to conclusions about it being non-con.)