Coke: la agua negra del yanqui imperialismo. Mentioned only to emphasize the "there are many ways of looking at things" aspect of this post.
You are quite perfect, my dear.
I had a little epiphany this weekend when we were out to dinner with a couple and talking with the newish girlfriend about stories we liked. There was lots of back story about HP which MiAmor, old friend, and newish girlfriend didn't know, because they enjoyed but didn't get obsessed like McDiva and I did. Stuff like, you know, Dumbledore is gay and Snape's love for Lily was unrequited. (Apparently some people who see the movies are confused and wonder if Snape was supposed to be Harry's "real" father.) Then the total agreement about BtVS (except for old friend who can't watch because the monsters are too scary). Then newish girlfriend brought up Twilight, which she deemed "wonderful" (though she didn't read them in English, so there could have been something different going on, right?). McDiva began reading the books but soon gave up and started a Twilight-haters blog, due to Bella's Mary Sue blandness. I never tried them, because I was sure the gender issues would be too great to bring me any enjoyment — which is what I told newish girlfriend. She said, "If I waited around for all the gender issues to be perfect, I would never get to watch or read anything!" Which struck me as perfectly legitimate.
We all have our threshold of what we can take and what we need to get over otherwise insurmountable humps in cognitive dissonance. They moved on to The Hunger Games, which I haven't read, although I am tempted. I am positive that they are good, and that there is lots of wonderful, subversive material therein. I know I would have been all over them when I was younger. But, now that I'm older, I have trouble with stories that are rooted in mass cruelty, especially of the government-sponsored kind. Probably because I've seen it happen too many times in RL, so it doesn't read as fantasy anymore. I get too depressed.
Bottom line is that I try to only post when I've got something to squee about, as I don't see the point of spreading the hate. H8 8NT FUN, y'all. At least, not for me.
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You are quite perfect, my dear.
I had a little epiphany this weekend when we were out to dinner with a couple and talking with the newish girlfriend about stories we liked. There was lots of back story about HP which MiAmor, old friend, and newish girlfriend didn't know, because they enjoyed but didn't get obsessed like McDiva and I did. Stuff like, you know, Dumbledore is gay and Snape's love for Lily was unrequited. (Apparently some people who see the movies are confused and wonder if Snape was supposed to be Harry's "real" father.) Then the total agreement about BtVS (except for old friend who can't watch because the monsters are too scary). Then newish girlfriend brought up Twilight, which she deemed "wonderful" (though she didn't read them in English, so there could have been something different going on, right?). McDiva began reading the books but soon gave up and started a Twilight-haters blog, due to Bella's Mary Sue blandness. I never tried them, because I was sure the gender issues would be too great to bring me any enjoyment — which is what I told newish girlfriend. She said, "If I waited around for all the gender issues to be perfect, I would never get to watch or read anything!" Which struck me as perfectly legitimate.
We all have our threshold of what we can take and what we need to get over otherwise insurmountable humps in cognitive dissonance. They moved on to The Hunger Games, which I haven't read, although I am tempted. I am positive that they are good, and that there is lots of wonderful, subversive material therein. I know I would have been all over them when I was younger. But, now that I'm older, I have trouble with stories that are rooted in mass cruelty, especially of the government-sponsored kind. Probably because I've seen it happen too many times in RL, so it doesn't read as fantasy anymore. I get too depressed.
Bottom line is that I try to only post when I've got something to squee about, as I don't see the point of spreading the hate. H8 8NT FUN, y'all. At least, not for me.