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Wait--so we only get to offer up to 10 fandoms we'd be willing to write for for Yuletide this year? Well, that kind of sucks. I liked last year where I signed up for like twenty-five.
Wait--so we only get to offer up to 10 fandoms we'd be willing to write for for Yuletide this year? Well, that kind of sucks. I liked last year where I signed up for like twenty-five.
The world is full of fail
Oct. 22nd, 2010 01:03 pmThank God it is finally the weekend is all I have to say. No wait--I also have this to say:
SCREW YOU, JOHNNY DEPP. YOU ARE OVERRATED. KEEP YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OFF MY ORIGINAL OTP.
And since I never actually answer all of y'all's questions whenever I post memes, I figure this time I'll let you do the work. Also, you can cheer me up about living in a world where people KEEP MAKING REMAKES OF THINGS THAT DON'T NEED TO BE REMADE. See also: Being Human, Skins, etc., etc., and so forth.
Out of utter curiosity, if I was chained up in your attic (I prefer attics, basements are damp and cold, attics theoretically at least have windows), and I had to write you one story, what would you request? (demand?) Or alternatively, what's something you always hoped I'd write but know is never going to happen?
I expect some really fantastic answers to this.
Question: how do you reply to things on Tumblr? People are reply to my posts and I feel technologically challenged since I can't figure it out.
SCREW YOU, JOHNNY DEPP. YOU ARE OVERRATED. KEEP YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OFF MY ORIGINAL OTP.
And since I never actually answer all of y'all's questions whenever I post memes, I figure this time I'll let you do the work. Also, you can cheer me up about living in a world where people KEEP MAKING REMAKES OF THINGS THAT DON'T NEED TO BE REMADE. See also: Being Human, Skins, etc., etc., and so forth.
Out of utter curiosity, if I was chained up in your attic (I prefer attics, basements are damp and cold, attics theoretically at least have windows), and I had to write you one story, what would you request? (demand?) Or alternatively, what's something you always hoped I'd write but know is never going to happen?
I expect some really fantastic answers to this.
Question: how do you reply to things on Tumblr? People are reply to my posts and I feel technologically challenged since I can't figure it out.
The world is full of fail
Oct. 22nd, 2010 01:03 pmThank God it is finally the weekend is all I have to say. No wait--I also have this to say:
SCREW YOU, JOHNNY DEPP. YOU ARE OVERRATED. KEEP YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OFF MY ORIGINAL OTP.
And since I never actually answer all of y'all's questions whenever I post memes, I figure this time I'll let you do the work. Also, you can cheer me up about living in a world where people KEEP MAKING REMAKES OF THINGS THAT DON'T NEED TO BE REMADE. See also: Being Human, Skins, etc., etc., and so forth.
Out of utter curiosity, if I was chained up in your attic (I prefer attics, basements are damp and cold, attics theoretically at least have windows), and I had to write you one story, what would you request? (demand?) Or alternatively, what's something you always hoped I'd write but know is never going to happen?
I expect some really fantastic answers to this.
Question: how do you reply to things on Tumblr? People are reply to my posts and I feel technologically challenged since I can't figure it out.
SCREW YOU, JOHNNY DEPP. YOU ARE OVERRATED. KEEP YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OFF MY ORIGINAL OTP.
And since I never actually answer all of y'all's questions whenever I post memes, I figure this time I'll let you do the work. Also, you can cheer me up about living in a world where people KEEP MAKING REMAKES OF THINGS THAT DON'T NEED TO BE REMADE. See also: Being Human, Skins, etc., etc., and so forth.
Out of utter curiosity, if I was chained up in your attic (I prefer attics, basements are damp and cold, attics theoretically at least have windows), and I had to write you one story, what would you request? (demand?) Or alternatively, what's something you always hoped I'd write but know is never going to happen?
I expect some really fantastic answers to this.
Question: how do you reply to things on Tumblr? People are reply to my posts and I feel technologically challenged since I can't figure it out.
I am popping my head in to say that I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE the new imdb layout. HATE. NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANYMORE.
Hate.
Hate.
Two things
Sep. 23rd, 2010 07:33 amOne: I am sick and tired of scrolling through my flist and seeing all this porn vids posted in random communities. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT. STOP IT. Who does things like that? I do not understand.
Two: I think everyone needs a hug.
*sniff* I love you guys!
Two: I think everyone needs a hug.
*sniff* I love you guys!
Two things
Sep. 23rd, 2010 07:33 amOne: I am sick and tired of scrolling through my flist and seeing all this porn vids posted in random communities. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT. STOP IT. Who does things like that? I do not understand.
Two: I think everyone needs a hug.
*sniff* I love you guys!
Two: I think everyone needs a hug.
*sniff* I love you guys!
*rolls eyes*
Jun. 15th, 2010 10:23 amOMG Y'ALL.
Did you know that we as Spuffy/Spike fans have ~superpowers???? That we can render things meaningless for other people? Also did you know that anyone who doesn't think the earlier seasons of BtVS are "better" is automatically "lacking in perspective" about the show?
Because I wasn't aware of this, but I'm so glad that people have informed and enlightened me! I can now fix my perspective to get it in line with....
Oh. Wait. Who decides these things again? They're opinion-based? You mean that no one is actually wrong if they enjoy a different episode of a TV show than I do? Seriously?
CHAOS WILL NOW ENSUE. HOW WILL THE UNIVERSE BEAR UP UNDER SUCH ANARCHY?
*runs and hides*
Did you know that we as Spuffy/Spike fans have ~superpowers???? That we can render things meaningless for other people? Also did you know that anyone who doesn't think the earlier seasons of BtVS are "better" is automatically "lacking in perspective" about the show?
Because I wasn't aware of this, but I'm so glad that people have informed and enlightened me! I can now fix my perspective to get it in line with....
Oh. Wait. Who decides these things again? They're opinion-based? You mean that no one is actually wrong if they enjoy a different episode of a TV show than I do? Seriously?
CHAOS WILL NOW ENSUE. HOW WILL THE UNIVERSE BEAR UP UNDER SUCH ANARCHY?
*runs and hides*
*rolls eyes*
Jun. 15th, 2010 10:23 amOMG Y'ALL.
Did you know that we as Spuffy/Spike fans have ~superpowers???? That we can render things meaningless for other people? Also did you know that anyone who doesn't think the earlier seasons of BtVS are "better" is automatically "lacking in perspective" about the show?
Because I wasn't aware of this, but I'm so glad that people have informed and enlightened me! I can now fix my perspective to get it in line with....
Oh. Wait. Who decides these things again? They're opinion-based? You mean that no one is actually wrong if they enjoy a different episode of a TV show than I do? Seriously?
CHAOS WILL NOW ENSUE. HOW WILL THE UNIVERSE BEAR UP UNDER SUCH ANARCHY?
*runs and hides*
Did you know that we as Spuffy/Spike fans have ~superpowers???? That we can render things meaningless for other people? Also did you know that anyone who doesn't think the earlier seasons of BtVS are "better" is automatically "lacking in perspective" about the show?
Because I wasn't aware of this, but I'm so glad that people have informed and enlightened me! I can now fix my perspective to get it in line with....
Oh. Wait. Who decides these things again? They're opinion-based? You mean that no one is actually wrong if they enjoy a different episode of a TV show than I do? Seriously?
CHAOS WILL NOW ENSUE. HOW WILL THE UNIVERSE BEAR UP UNDER SUCH ANARCHY?
*runs and hides*
This day has been so full of fail. I cannot have a conversation online without someone failing horribly. Work has been more relaxing and soothing to my soul, and we all know how I feel about that.
Like this:
Having a conversation on whedonesque (duh), which is full of fail on other levels (like this gem: "I'm not sure to what extent critical gender theory is an ideal tool for analysing individual texts as opposed to identifying trends in the medium as a whole" embedded in a bunch of pseudo-intellectual stuff that basically boils down to, "You're wrong, and my privilege lets me say so"), and then the most faily thing ever is said:
Other person:
Me:
AND THEN.
Other person:
[eta]
AND THERE'S MORE!
[eta 2]
FOR FURTHER PROOF THAT THE UNIVERSE IS FAILING AND FAILING HARD TODAY, PLEASE TO BE LOOKING AT THIS POST.
But perhaps not if you value your sanity and your faith in humanity.
Please read that last link I linked to (once again, here) and report the hell out of this guy. I know the superpowers of my awesome feminist flist can shut this guy down.
Like this:
Having a conversation on whedonesque (duh), which is full of fail on other levels (like this gem: "I'm not sure to what extent critical gender theory is an ideal tool for analysing individual texts as opposed to identifying trends in the medium as a whole" embedded in a bunch of pseudo-intellectual stuff that basically boils down to, "You're wrong, and my privilege lets me say so"), and then the most faily thing ever is said:
Other person:
I haven't got as far as the glowy sex, but aren't you arguing the (in my opinion impossible to objectively define) line between seduction and rape? Sounds like she got the horn and went irrational, as anyone can. I think if she's fine with it afterwards then you have to allow her the empowered choice to be so. Even if it ruins the story.
Me:
No, we don't, fraac, though you certainly can if you want to. But we don't have to because Buffy isn't a person. We can ask why the writers needed to include it at all and say we think they should have thought about it more. Which is what we're saying.
AND THEN.
Other person:
Surely if we're talking about her rights then for sake of argument she's a person? Otherwise you could do anything to her.
I think that, in the same way freedom of speech means defending to the death your worst enemy's right to verbally attack you, the ultimate expression of feminism is to defend a woman's right to enjoy being raped. In both cases it's about accepting (i.e. loving) our fellow humans for all they are, even where their existence is at odds with our deepest fears. So it's about courage and self-awareness.
[eta]
AND THERE'S MORE!
What if the character of Buffy spoke to the writer, as (previously) well-formed characters often do, and said she enjoyed the coercive universe aspect of sex? Either she's a person or she isn't, can't have it both ways.
[eta 2]
FOR FURTHER PROOF THAT THE UNIVERSE IS FAILING AND FAILING HARD TODAY, PLEASE TO BE LOOKING AT THIS POST.
But perhaps not if you value your sanity and your faith in humanity.
Please read that last link I linked to (once again, here) and report the hell out of this guy. I know the superpowers of my awesome feminist flist can shut this guy down.
This day has been so full of fail. I cannot have a conversation online without someone failing horribly. Work has been more relaxing and soothing to my soul, and we all know how I feel about that.
Like this:
Having a conversation on whedonesque (duh), which is full of fail on other levels (like this gem: "I'm not sure to what extent critical gender theory is an ideal tool for analysing individual texts as opposed to identifying trends in the medium as a whole" embedded in a bunch of pseudo-intellectual stuff that basically boils down to, "You're wrong, and my privilege lets me say so"), and then the most faily thing ever is said:
Other person:
Me:
AND THEN.
Other person:
[eta]
AND THERE'S MORE!
[eta 2]
FOR FURTHER PROOF THAT THE UNIVERSE IS FAILING AND FAILING HARD TODAY, PLEASE TO BE LOOKING AT THIS POST.
But perhaps not if you value your sanity and your faith in humanity.
Please read that last link I linked to (once again, here) and report the hell out of this guy. I know the superpowers of my awesome feminist flist can shut this guy down.
Like this:
Having a conversation on whedonesque (duh), which is full of fail on other levels (like this gem: "I'm not sure to what extent critical gender theory is an ideal tool for analysing individual texts as opposed to identifying trends in the medium as a whole" embedded in a bunch of pseudo-intellectual stuff that basically boils down to, "You're wrong, and my privilege lets me say so"), and then the most faily thing ever is said:
Other person:
I haven't got as far as the glowy sex, but aren't you arguing the (in my opinion impossible to objectively define) line between seduction and rape? Sounds like she got the horn and went irrational, as anyone can. I think if she's fine with it afterwards then you have to allow her the empowered choice to be so. Even if it ruins the story.
Me:
No, we don't, fraac, though you certainly can if you want to. But we don't have to because Buffy isn't a person. We can ask why the writers needed to include it at all and say we think they should have thought about it more. Which is what we're saying.
AND THEN.
Other person:
Surely if we're talking about her rights then for sake of argument she's a person? Otherwise you could do anything to her.
I think that, in the same way freedom of speech means defending to the death your worst enemy's right to verbally attack you, the ultimate expression of feminism is to defend a woman's right to enjoy being raped. In both cases it's about accepting (i.e. loving) our fellow humans for all they are, even where their existence is at odds with our deepest fears. So it's about courage and self-awareness.
[eta]
AND THERE'S MORE!
What if the character of Buffy spoke to the writer, as (previously) well-formed characters often do, and said she enjoyed the coercive universe aspect of sex? Either she's a person or she isn't, can't have it both ways.
[eta 2]
FOR FURTHER PROOF THAT THE UNIVERSE IS FAILING AND FAILING HARD TODAY, PLEASE TO BE LOOKING AT THIS POST.
But perhaps not if you value your sanity and your faith in humanity.
Please read that last link I linked to (once again, here) and report the hell out of this guy. I know the superpowers of my awesome feminist flist can shut this guy down.
Sorry for the spam, y'alll
May. 22nd, 2010 09:47 pmBut one more thing tonight. (And hopefully I'll shut up after that.)
For those of you who are Buffy/Spike-ly inclined, what's something you'd like to see me write about them? My![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
seasonal_spuffy date is Monday and I decided last week that there's no way to finish my dark!fic or my baby!fic in time. I'm working on something now that's about four chapters long, and I think I might be able to finish it, but I want to have a backup plan in case.
I prefer S7 or post-NFA prompts, please, just because that's the mood I'm in and I'd have to do a ton of rewatching of other seasons and I just don't have time for that. Though go ahead and throw out stuff from other timeperiods, too. I just wanted to get you thinking along the same lines I am.
Note: my id-post suggestions are off the table. Yes, even just writing about them running around Vienna. I'm probably going to do that at some point, but not right now. I need more time for that.
As always, I make no guarantees.
For those of you who are Buffy/Spike-ly inclined, what's something you'd like to see me write about them? My
seasonal_spuffy date is Monday and I decided last week that there's no way to finish my dark!fic or my baby!fic in time. I'm working on something now that's about four chapters long, and I think I might be able to finish it, but I want to have a backup plan in case.I prefer S7 or post-NFA prompts, please, just because that's the mood I'm in and I'd have to do a ton of rewatching of other seasons and I just don't have time for that. Though go ahead and throw out stuff from other timeperiods, too. I just wanted to get you thinking along the same lines I am.
Note: my id-post suggestions are off the table. Yes, even just writing about them running around Vienna. I'm probably going to do that at some point, but not right now. I need more time for that.
As always, I make no guarantees.
Sorry for the spam, y'alll
May. 22nd, 2010 09:47 pmBut one more thing tonight. (And hopefully I'll shut up after that.)
For those of you who are Buffy/Spike-ly inclined, what's something you'd like to see me write about them? Myseasonal_spuffy date is Monday and I decided last week that there's no way to finish my dark!fic or my baby!fic in time. I'm working on something now that's about four chapters long, and I think I might be able to finish it, but I want to have a backup plan in case.
I prefer S7 or post-NFA prompts, please, just because that's the mood I'm in and I'd have to do a ton of rewatching of other seasons and I just don't have time for that. Though go ahead and throw out stuff from other timeperiods, too. I just wanted to get you thinking along the same lines I am.
Note: my id-post suggestions are off the table. Yes, even just writing about them running around Vienna. I'm probably going to do that at some point, but not right now. I need more time for that.
As always, I make no guarantees.
For those of you who are Buffy/Spike-ly inclined, what's something you'd like to see me write about them? My
seasonal_spuffy date is Monday and I decided last week that there's no way to finish my dark!fic or my baby!fic in time. I'm working on something now that's about four chapters long, and I think I might be able to finish it, but I want to have a backup plan in case.I prefer S7 or post-NFA prompts, please, just because that's the mood I'm in and I'd have to do a ton of rewatching of other seasons and I just don't have time for that. Though go ahead and throw out stuff from other timeperiods, too. I just wanted to get you thinking along the same lines I am.
Note: my id-post suggestions are off the table. Yes, even just writing about them running around Vienna. I'm probably going to do that at some point, but not right now. I need more time for that.
As always, I make no guarantees.
AAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May. 10th, 2010 12:14 pm
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Just needed to get that out of my system.
Carry on.
AAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May. 10th, 2010 12:14 pm...
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...
Just needed to get that out of my system.
Carry on.
I have some thoughts about shipping
Apr. 11th, 2010 06:37 pmI've been writing this in bits and pieces over the last few days, and I've finally plugged in all the pieces, I think. It's not as thoughtful or well-constructed as I wish it was, but I'm going to throw this out there.
And no, this doesn't really have anything to do with the current flare-ups here in Buffy fandom that seem like they might explode into shipping wars at any moment. This is less an examination of one ship versus another and more a series of thoughts about shippers versus everyone else. Just as a disclaimer. Your ship will not be bashed within, no matter what it is.
( shipping and fandom sexism )
And no, this doesn't really have anything to do with the current flare-ups here in Buffy fandom that seem like they might explode into shipping wars at any moment. This is less an examination of one ship versus another and more a series of thoughts about shippers versus everyone else. Just as a disclaimer. Your ship will not be bashed within, no matter what it is.
( shipping and fandom sexism )
I have some thoughts about shipping
Apr. 11th, 2010 06:37 pmI've been writing this in bits and pieces over the last few days, and I've finally plugged in all the pieces, I think. It's not as thoughtful or well-constructed as I wish it was, but I'm going to throw this out there.
And no, this doesn't really have anything to do with the current flare-ups here in Buffy fandom that seem like they might explode into shipping wars at any moment. This is less an examination of one ship versus another and more a series of thoughts about shippers versus everyone else. Just as a disclaimer. Your ship will not be bashed within, no matter what it is.
( shipping and fandom sexism )
And no, this doesn't really have anything to do with the current flare-ups here in Buffy fandom that seem like they might explode into shipping wars at any moment. This is less an examination of one ship versus another and more a series of thoughts about shippers versus everyone else. Just as a disclaimer. Your ship will not be bashed within, no matter what it is.
( shipping and fandom sexism )
I had sworn I wasn't going to do the link-to-whedonesque thing anymore. I'm sure it annoys y'all that I constantly have to scurry back here to get reassurance. I really am going to try to do it less in the future.
But this one time, I have to get my rage out. I'm feeling sick to my stomach and shaky.
Someone on whedonesque just made the most ridiculously sexist, homophobic, patronizing, self-congratulatory comment about shipping ever. And I am ANGRY.
Quote:
[eta] EMPHASIS HIS.
I...just...WTF?????
I called him on it. How much you wanna bet that he'll pull the whole "oversensitive" card?
It's okay. I will link the hell out of Derailing for Dummies. Never fear.
But this one time, I have to get my rage out. I'm feeling sick to my stomach and shaky.
Someone on whedonesque just made the most ridiculously sexist, homophobic, patronizing, self-congratulatory comment about shipping ever. And I am ANGRY.
Quote:
Saying that everything has to come down to some ship is kind of insulting. I know you probably weren't meaning to be. But.
I'm not a shipper. You can tell by how I'm a heterosexual adult man. I just like a good story.
Shipping itself is, in my humble opinion, not just stupid but destructive to the fandom. The story is what is what it is (and I'm including the TV show in this), but I can't comment on what actually has happened because it'll offend people who think things should be another way.
Let's say I decide that Riley should have been Buffy's true love, and regardless of what happens in the show, I get angry when she hooks up with anyone else. Doesn't matter that the events clearly show that that's not happening. Im'ma get pissed anyway. See how stupid that would be?
[eta] EMPHASIS HIS.
I...just...WTF?????
I called him on it. How much you wanna bet that he'll pull the whole "oversensitive" card?
It's okay. I will link the hell out of Derailing for Dummies. Never fear.
I had sworn I wasn't going to do the link-to-whedonesque thing anymore. I'm sure it annoys y'all that I constantly have to scurry back here to get reassurance. I really am going to try to do it less in the future.
But this one time, I have to get my rage out. I'm feeling sick to my stomach and shaky.
Someone on whedonesque just made the most ridiculously sexist, homophobic, patronizing, self-congratulatory comment about shipping ever. And I am ANGRY.
Quote:
[eta] EMPHASIS HIS.
I...just...WTF?????
I called him on it. How much you wanna bet that he'll pull the whole "oversensitive" card?
It's okay. I will link the hell out of Derailing for Dummies. Never fear.
But this one time, I have to get my rage out. I'm feeling sick to my stomach and shaky.
Someone on whedonesque just made the most ridiculously sexist, homophobic, patronizing, self-congratulatory comment about shipping ever. And I am ANGRY.
Quote:
Saying that everything has to come down to some ship is kind of insulting. I know you probably weren't meaning to be. But.
I'm not a shipper. You can tell by how I'm a heterosexual adult man. I just like a good story.
Shipping itself is, in my humble opinion, not just stupid but destructive to the fandom. The story is what is what it is (and I'm including the TV show in this), but I can't comment on what actually has happened because it'll offend people who think things should be another way.
Let's say I decide that Riley should have been Buffy's true love, and regardless of what happens in the show, I get angry when she hooks up with anyone else. Doesn't matter that the events clearly show that that's not happening. Im'ma get pissed anyway. See how stupid that would be?
[eta] EMPHASIS HIS.
I...just...WTF?????
I called him on it. How much you wanna bet that he'll pull the whole "oversensitive" card?
It's okay. I will link the hell out of Derailing for Dummies. Never fear.
