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You already know how to use an infinitive after the verb хотеть to indicate what someone wants (or wanted) to do.

Анна хочет стать врачом. Anna wants to become a physician.
Я не хочу лежать в больнице. I don't want to be in the hospital.
Наши соседи не хотели заботиться о здоровье. Our neighbors didn't want to take care of their health.

To say that one person wants someone else to do something, Russian uses a different structure, as noted in the following sentences.

Папа Анны хочет, чтобы она стала врачом. Anna's father wants her to become a physician.
Врач хочет, чтобы я лежал в больнице. The doctor wants me to be in the hospital.
Мы хотели, чтобы наши соседи заботились о здоровье. We wanted our neighbors to take care of their health.

The conjunction чтобы is used after a verb that expresses a request (хотеть, просить/по-, сказать). The verb in the second clause, after чтобы, is always in the past tense, even though the meaning is not past tense.

Врач + хочет, чтобы + я + лежал в больнице.

Гриша не хочет лежать в больнице -- Врач хочет, чтобы Гриша лежал в больнице.
1. Гриша не хочет принимать лекарство. Врач хочет, чтобы Гриша принимал лекарство.
2. Он не хочет лежать в постели три дня. Врач хочет, чтобы он лежал в постели три дня.
3. Он не хочет делать зарядку. Врач хочет, чтобы он делал зарядку.
4. Он хочет курить. Врач хочет, чтобы он не курил.
5. Он не хочет отдыхать. Врач хочет, чтобы он отдыхал.
6. Он не хочет правильно есть. Врач хочет, чтобы он ел правильно.
7. Он не хочет заботиться о здоровье. Врач хочет, чтобы он заботился о здоровье.


So, I got an a... you know, I don't think I'm going to air this here. Never mind. Or at least, not that part of it.

But suffice to say that I am so, so sick of the part of fandom that is so strongly focused on slash they will not entertain or consider working with het. Or, even, femmeslash. I am so sick of the attitude that anything that does not involve men is not worthy of time or consideration. It's misogynistic, it's narrow-sighted, it pisses me off. People have their tastes, that's fine, I like the way people move and the way they hold themselves and people who speak multiple languages and play guitar and ride horses. Does that mean I'm not going to read about, or write about at polite request in the appropriate forum, a mono-lingual tone-deaf person who's afraid of animals? No. It means I like musical polyglot equestrians. But when the love story between two women is standing around like the kid no one wants to pick for the baseball team, when I have to wonder if the woman in the threesome relationship I'm writing about will even exist for the people who read it, despite the fact that she's an equal partner with the other two in the relationship? Then I have a problem. Het is not ew. Het is not gross. Women parts are not gross. They might not be to your taste, and that's fine, everyone's different. But don't you fucking dare marginalize it, ignore it, etc. That's just fucking rude.

Nngh. Okay, I had to get that out there. There's a whole lot more to that bitchfest, but I'm leaving it out and trying not to be too violently paranoid about it. I could be wrong. I could end up with someone who enjoys slash but is perfectly willing to enjoy my threesome.

In other news! I was curious and nostalgic about an old AT&T commercial the other day, a montage of which is linked here. There are about four different version, I think. The commercial basically starts off with "Have you ever [futuristic thing here]" and ends with "you will. And the company that'll bring it to you is AT&T." And remembering this, I wondered if all of those things that seemed futuristic and cool then really existed now. And you know what? With the exception of the phone booth thing, all of them do. I think. There was one I'm not so sure about. But we can do all of them. That was 18 years ago. The commercial is from 1993. The children who were born when that commercial aired are legal adults in the United States now. And we have all that futuristic technology. And are looking to add more. I remember this from my childhood, you guys, this was The Future! And now this is the present, and perfectly ordinary. We take these things for granted. Maybe we shouldn't, as much as we do. When you look around, people really are doing awesome things.

And one final thing before I run off to work, Dan Shor is just awesome and lovable and awesome. I've been watching the old Cagney and Lacey show, which is also notable for having Maddie Westen on it all young and hot and giving me massive fits of cognitive dissonance. But, oh lord, Dan Shor, why are you so made of adorable. He plays Det. Jonah Newman in Season 5, he's in most of Season 5, I won't spoil the ending for you but I've already retconned it to suit my fannish adoring needs so there. And he is adorable. He is tiny compared to everyone else in the unit and floofy haired and I want to pick him up and put him in my pocket.

Look! New dragon eggs!