Batman/Joker FTW!!!!!!!

So, I was reading The Washington Post Style & Arts section, Sunday, July 13, 2008 edition, and guess what the main story is? A half-page picture of the Joker being sexily crazy followed by a huge article about how the Joker and Batman are in this fucked-up love affair together.

Don't believe me? Here's the first three paragraphs, re-typed for awesomeness:

"'I've been thinking lately. About you and me. About what's going to happen to us, in the end. We're going to kill each other, aren't we?'

That's the Batman talking, a couple of decades ago, to his archnemesis, the Joker, in the opening pages of a graphic novel that changed both of them and made their relationship more wonderfully sick.

Usually the Joker is the one who articulates the nutty codepedence here. Almost every time they meet, Joker has the gall to remind Batman that they are each nothing without the other, and he usually brings this up as Batman is kicking the holy-moley-frijoles out of him, in an almost erotic moment of sadomasochism. Joker loves it, laughing his head off with each punch. (And Batman loves it, yes?) The world doesn't quite understand, even though these two have been going at it for 68 years."

The rest of the article is just as awesome. And holy crap, I am SO EXCITED about going to see this movie on Friday! ^_^*

EDIT: LOL, didn't need to re-type it, here's the online version, for those of you so inclined: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/11/ST2008071102551.html

B/c I'm an idiot and forgot to before...

Happy birthday, xtirpate!! ^_^*

Also, I'm going to be spamming my flist soon by re-posting up my fics here, and maybe in some coms. So, uh, be prepared for that. Not today. But soon. :P

And finally: OMG, wtf mind?! I'm having a fandom-esque dilemma. Two, really.

One: is it better for the two main guys to get together in canon or for there to be obvious subtext? If the two main guys kiss in canon, does that turn off het shippers? I mean, yaoi shippers will ignore the het kissing, so maybe it goes both ways? B/c I need to decide how I'm handling the romantic side of my original shit, and I don't want to really tick off anyone/potentially ruin portions of the fanbase/fandom. But the main guys are totally going to be yaoi. Totally.

Two: what are your feelings on non-fandom friends? I mean, what do you guys do with friends who aren't interested in the fandom at all and generally have the exact opposite opinion as you do? I'm trying to figure out what to do with a very good friend of mine that I haven't seen in around four years (she moved away, now she just moved back). I've been in the fandom since I was eight years old, mind, so I was in the fandom before. We used to hang out just fine, go to see movies or similar shit, but now we're both broke. Also, during those four years, I only hung out with fandom people. She was my only non-fandom friend, and now I'm finding it difficult to find things to do when we hang out together--it's like I've lost my touch for doing non-fandom things. I also sort of feel like, you know, why bother doing something I don't want to just to entertain her? If the both of us can't agree on something, what's the point of hanging out (if we're not going to see a movie or to an event sort of thing, I mean)?

I tried a bunch of stuff, but none of it sparked her interest. She started reading a book during the first twenty minutes of the BSG mini-series b/c she said BSG was boring and she didn't like "space shows", she can't stand SPN (or rather, Sam and Dean's emotional moments on SPN), she also said she thought Dean was an idiotic manwhore, she didn't like that Dexter was from the killer's perspective, she hates all anime and video games, she only watches the HP movies and doesn't really enjoy them... I mean, what else is there? What do people do in this kind of situation? /rant for help

So... ideas, thoughts, anyone?