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Bringing back the Friday gif post like it ain't no thang.
ONE!
So I knew vaguely there was racefail stuff going on in Inception fandom but I was avoiding it because I hate racefail. HATE IT. Last year's hubbub turned me off of people trying to out politically correct each other. I'm trying to refrain from a race rant because hello, wank, no one needs more of it. A lot has been said and really, it's been over a week. No fuel needs to be added to the fire. I'm just going to say these few things, which are my reactions to most racefail and which I feel are still relevant/important:
One, authors are not their characters. I'm not taking sides when I say this on the actual wank being discussed, I'm just saying this as an author who has had this mistake made about their work, and it's always been a pet peeve. My characters are not me. They do not represent my point of view. They do not do what I would do. They don't have to be perfect people, because real people aren't perfect. Real people make racist comments, or sexist comments, or dumb comments. If I want to write a character who tells his wife to go back to the kitchen where she belongs, this doesn't mean I think women should all go back to the kitchen, or that he necessarily has to be a villain to say that. (Even though I like to be in the kitchen. Actually, is it my day to do dishes? Fuck.) I don't like the idea that I, as an author, should have to warn for that, or put a little asterisk/footnote saying "BY THE WAY THIS IS NOT MY POINT OF VIEW". Shouldn't that be self-evident? My neighbors, all of them, are extremely nice people. But most of them are hardcore, Fox News-watching, homophobic, and semi-racist as well. Life isn't that cut and dry, and fiction shouldn't have to be either.
I'm saying this regardless of what was said in the fic that got people in a hubbub because it was supposedly racist, appropriate or not. I didn't actually read the fic (though I did read the passage people complained about). I don't actually care what was said and who said what. That is not the point. The point is, from an author's point of view, can I just complain about this phenomenon in general? If I write a character who has a nervous tic, no one assumes I have that nervous tic. If I write a character who's alcoholic, people don't assume I'm alcoholic. (I hope.) Sometimes I need to write a character saying something despicable, and so I don't see why someone should then assume that nothing else relates to my actual point of view, but that comment does.
The fact of the matter is, sometimes people say offensive things in real life, no matter how good-intentioned they are. I know I have. I'm not saying it's GOOD it happens, but the feeling that you have to make your characters perfectly eloquent, PC, walking advertisements for The Right Way To Handle Situations, and sparkling bastions of humanity is, from an author's point of view, extremely hampering. And irritating. And generally, bad.
Two, The fandom corner of the internet is, in general, an extremely accepting place. When racefail does erupt, it's usually over something pretty small. I care about -isms. I care a lot about social justice. In an ideal world, perhaps these are things we should nitpick over but really? This is, no matter how you look at it, nitpicking. There are big freaking instances of -isms out in the world. Like, here is some racism I posted about yesterday. And here is some really heinous homophobia. (By the way, I don't believe in hell, but I absolutely believe that when this guy dies, he will be burning in it.)
Fandom is a large place that can make a lot of change and do a lot of good and raise a lot of awareness. If we're going to do that, why are we wasting time on internet fights over interrogating texts from the wrong perspective or getting into fights that boil down to "you're more internally racist and have more privilege!" "no, you're more internally racist and have more privilege!"?
I would love to live in a world where a throwaway potentially racist line in a piece of fanfiction is, in fact, the worst thing that happens in the big, wide world of -isms and intolerance. But we do not live in that world, and for that reason, this entire thing is fucking ridiculous.
If fandom would like to discuss the problems that are legitimately problematic in the world today, I will be there marching in the parade and cheering on the forces of progressiveness and acceptance and spreading the word loud and far. But if fandom is continue getting into silly slapfights, I'm going to continue to roll my eyes and ignore fandom when it comes to race and discussing and wanking about it, because seriously? Seriously? There are a limited number of hours in a day, and the number of hours I'm willing to budget out for being annoyed is even more limited. At some point, in order to remain relatively sane and healthy, you need to make a threshold of things that get you all foaming at the mouth, because the world is so full of irritating things that if you were actually irritated by everything that maybe deserved to get upset over, you would not have time to sleep. I like sleep. I like being sane. I like being happy. If I'm going to be asked to get upset, I'd prefer it was over something that was, you know, actually a big problem that effects a lot of the world at large as opposed to, say, a hundred people on the internet.
But that's just me.
TWO!
Other stuff that baffles me in an irritated sort of way:
1. WTF PROJECT RUNWAY FINALE.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frantic_allonsy and I were having our mostly-weekly date where we watch a ridiculous show together (either Top Chef or Project Runway), catch up, and are generally snarky and fabulous, and we spent the WHOLE TIME being like "UGH GRETCHEN WHY DOES SHE EXIST. UGH HER CLOTHES ARE SO UGLY. UGH ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE WHO EAT GRANOLA WE ARE SO INSULTED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH HER. UGH NINA AND MICHAEL WHY ARE YOU OLD AND WHY DO YOU HAVE MASSIVE STICKS UP YOUR ASSES." We both liked some parts of Andy's collection but thought it could use more color, and we both fucking loved Mondo's collection to bits, save for the skull tunic (looks like an 80's Christmas sweater) and the color-blocked tunic (was there a human body under there?!). I want all of Andy's headpieces. Melissa wants the tights Mondo used on the bubble dress. We were having a grand old time chatting it up and were like "la la there is no way Gretchen's going to win" and feeling weird for cheering along Jessica Simpson, and then wtf Gretchen won. My mom barely even watches this show and loooooves hippy-dippy stuff because, you know, that's her era, and she was SO MAD she was banging stuff in the kitchen like THIS IS THE WORST EVER I WILL NEVER WATCH AGAIN. Mostly, TLo are fucking smart bitches who say everything I want to say. Also, it has been considered that since the judges, for the most part, were peeing their pants over the worst parts of each collection and hating on the good ones, Gretchen's win could be explained by the fact that their taste is bad and they should feel bad.
2. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE TAYLOR SWIFT PHENOMENON. I mean, I don't dislike her. I'm not surprised she's popular, given that she's adorable and accessible and can write a good generic pop tune. But I don't get the continued fixation. Has no one noticed all of her songs are exactly the same?!?! They go: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus. They use the same chords and are about young, dewy-eyed high school love, and they all become really fucking trite after, like, five listens. Granted, most pop music is really fucking trite, follows the same song structure, and I still like it. I don't doubt that she has every right to be mildly successful. But what is utterly inexplicable to me is why she is such a big deal when she is so boring. Why is Rolling Stone, like, constantly masturbating to her and calling her the savior of the music industry and saying no one is as good as her and can beat her? WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL!? Am I missing something? And why won't Mine get out of my head? THAT SONG WAS BORING THE FIST TIME I LISTENED TO IT, LISTENING TO IT AGAIN ON ENDLESS LOOP DOES NOT MAKE IT SUCK LESS.
Taylor Swift is... she's like cornbread. The first day it's really fucking delicious, but after 24 hours it's dry and crumbly and awful, and it's like people are going around saying cornbread is the best food ever when you KNOW IT'S NOT. I'm confused. And also hungry.
3. Also, why is it a new trend that music videos all look like they've been through a few too many curves adjustments in Photoshop? First Rhianna's Only Girl in the World (UGH DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON MY VEHEMENT HATRED FOR THAT SONG, IT IS ALL ONE NOTE AND A BUNCH OF SOUND EFFECTS), and then Kanye's attempted opus for Runaway (HILARIOUS, I watched the whole half-hour thing and I couldn't stop laughing. Oh Kanye, never change, you crazy bastard. Unless you wanted to change to be less sexist. That I would accept.)
4. During the Inception race wank there was a lot of bashing on the fact that Inception fandom is full of Curtain Fic. Like this was a bad thing.
This worries me, dude. Not only is Curtain Fic, like, my favorite trope of all time no exaggeration, but it's like, 50% of what I write, the other being romcoms poorly disguised as being witty and insightful because two dudes make out and I have semi-amusing dialogue. APPARENTLY THIS IS A BAD THING!??!?! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!?!!? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?! OH GOD THIS IS TERRIBLE.
THREE!
Here is some stuff that is pleasing!
1. Fox News is losing viewership like... some appropriately hilarious metaphor. World, I am starting to have faith in you again!
2. So I was nosing around my favorite delicious accounts (this is how I find fic to read) and I came across the most delightful little gem, Royal Obligations (of Stupidity) byapplebacardi that is a futurefic happily-ever-after Merlin/Arthur DELIGHT, oh my god. Let me tell you, besides Histoical AUs, Merlin and Arthur ruling Camelot together happily ever after is, like, MY FAVORITE THING EVER. Even more than wrist kissing and nuzzling like puppies! Which is also my favorite thing ever! I've been trying to write an epic futurefic since season one, but I can never quite finish it before new canon information comes out and then I have to re-write it almost entirely. I'm not even sure how I'm going to fix it post S3. BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT. The point is, I don't rec fic very often, mostly because the stuff I like is the stuff everyone else likes or has read or is already reccing, but I have seen no one rec this fic and it only has 15 or so different people commenting, and this is a crime against humanity. GO READ THIS RIGHT NOW.
3. I subscribe to a lot of blogs dedicated solely to cute, fuzzy things, or just plain cute things, but I think the one that regularly brings me the most joy is The Daily Otter. CANNOT DEAL WITH THE ADORABLE.
4. Lest you think I only care about the gays when they are white and/or dudes, I bring you the most fucking adorable story I have read ever about the first featured black lesbian couple in Essence. omg, you guys. They have a slideshow at the site and I dare you to look through it and not get all choked-up and flappy handed. I CANNOT EVEN DEAL. I love their dresses! I love the dreadlocked one's HAIR! (Her wife's isn't bad either.) I love the essay they wrote after thanking people for support! I love their pictures with their parents who look so proud! THEY ARE SO IN LOVE OH MY GOD CANNOT DEAL. I need to go flap my hands in a corner for a few minutes again to deal with this feeling.
FIVE!
It's Friday, so YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS:
POOR BOYS. They seem to be getting a little weary. (Or, in my head, they would just like some alone time, geez, camera people.) STILL THEY ARE DELIGHTFUL. Colin continues to fail at games, and I really like how Bradley's idea of "blindfolding" Colin is smushing a piece of cloth in his face. I think we know who does kinky stuff to who in bed, and clue, IT ISN'T BRADLEY WHO'S IN CHARGE. Though idk. Maybe this was an excuse to feel up Colin's face, because he kept, I don't even know what he's doing, squeezing it? I mean I've had the urge to take Colin's face and smush it between my hands because he's SUCH A WIDDLE PUDDIN but Bradley, sweetie, you're not supposed to do that in front of the cameras. Also, taking away the rope? YOU ARE NOT SUBTLE.
Oh, Bradders, you are my favorite little failboat. OF LOVE.
Also, Colin Morgan, YOU ARE STROKING BRADLEY'S HAND. WITH YOUR FINGERS. YOU KNOW MY FEELINGS ON YOUR FINGERS. FUUUUUUUUUCK.
Speaking of delightful, the entire cast of Glee, you are the most adorable. Especially you, Jayma Mays. I want to be your best friend.
SIX!
So someone was talking in this post about how they wanted John Lynch as Balinor back, but I read "Jane Lynch" and then I had this image of Sue Sylvester going to Camelot and training the Knights of the Round Table and omg, I want this so badly it's killing me. I want this even more than the Sassy Gay Friend coming to Camelot. YOU THINK LOSING GUINEVERE IS HARD, LANCELOT? TRY TRANSLOCATING ACROSS TIME AND SPACE TO SOMEWHERE WHERE PROTEIN SHAKES HAVEN'T BEEN INVENTED YET, THAT'S HARD.
SEVEN!
So apparently everyone IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is going to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear tomorrow, which makes me wonder if the wind will whistle through the internets. While I'm glad for them and everything, I can't help but think this is a ridiculous idea. It's going to be cold there, and there's going to be a GIANT crowd, and nowhere to pee, and you probably won't be able to see or hear anything, and, most importantly, they're broadcasting it on television anyway. The again, this is also my feeling on attending sporting events, but people inexplicably seem to like those two, so whatever! This is why they invented different flavors of ice cream. My flavor this weekend involves finishing carving my jack-o-lantern(s?), reviewing the Bones season 5 DVD I got for free (!!!! Sometimes the perks of my job vastly outweigh the fact that I make no money), doing my Merlin review, re-reading John Stewart Mill to see if he makes more sense the second time around (banking on no), and playing with my dad's BFF's dog, who is staying with us while his family goes and visits their daughter at college. He's pretty cute, but kind of dumb. Example: he came to us with a GIANT TICK, which I took off of him with much difficult because the tick had buried itself in a pre-existing scab which did NOT want to rip off. Seriously, I don't mind bugs but ticks gross me out so much. If I could change on thing about dogs, they would be impervious to ticks. I would rather take them out to pee in the middle of a blizzard than deal with ticks. Apparently having a tick upset him as much as it upset me, because he decided to express his feelings by going and peeing in my parents' room. Ten minutes after he had been outside. AT LEAST HE IS CUTE.
Man, I should... start looking into posting shorter entries more often. The problem is that I can go, like, a week and a half with nothing to say, and then all at once I have about TEN BILLION THINGS TO GET OUT. Like right now. I'm sorry. I just have so many ~thoughts and feelings~.
So I knew vaguely there was racefail stuff going on in Inception fandom but I was avoiding it because I hate racefail. HATE IT. Last year's hubbub turned me off of people trying to out politically correct each other. I'm trying to refrain from a race rant because hello, wank, no one needs more of it. A lot has been said and really, it's been over a week. No fuel needs to be added to the fire. I'm just going to say these few things, which are my reactions to most racefail and which I feel are still relevant/important:
One, authors are not their characters. I'm not taking sides when I say this on the actual wank being discussed, I'm just saying this as an author who has had this mistake made about their work, and it's always been a pet peeve. My characters are not me. They do not represent my point of view. They do not do what I would do. They don't have to be perfect people, because real people aren't perfect. Real people make racist comments, or sexist comments, or dumb comments. If I want to write a character who tells his wife to go back to the kitchen where she belongs, this doesn't mean I think women should all go back to the kitchen, or that he necessarily has to be a villain to say that. (Even though I like to be in the kitchen. Actually, is it my day to do dishes? Fuck.) I don't like the idea that I, as an author, should have to warn for that, or put a little asterisk/footnote saying "BY THE WAY THIS IS NOT MY POINT OF VIEW". Shouldn't that be self-evident? My neighbors, all of them, are extremely nice people. But most of them are hardcore, Fox News-watching, homophobic, and semi-racist as well. Life isn't that cut and dry, and fiction shouldn't have to be either.
I'm saying this regardless of what was said in the fic that got people in a hubbub because it was supposedly racist, appropriate or not. I didn't actually read the fic (though I did read the passage people complained about). I don't actually care what was said and who said what. That is not the point. The point is, from an author's point of view, can I just complain about this phenomenon in general? If I write a character who has a nervous tic, no one assumes I have that nervous tic. If I write a character who's alcoholic, people don't assume I'm alcoholic. (I hope.) Sometimes I need to write a character saying something despicable, and so I don't see why someone should then assume that nothing else relates to my actual point of view, but that comment does.
The fact of the matter is, sometimes people say offensive things in real life, no matter how good-intentioned they are. I know I have. I'm not saying it's GOOD it happens, but the feeling that you have to make your characters perfectly eloquent, PC, walking advertisements for The Right Way To Handle Situations, and sparkling bastions of humanity is, from an author's point of view, extremely hampering. And irritating. And generally, bad.
Two, The fandom corner of the internet is, in general, an extremely accepting place. When racefail does erupt, it's usually over something pretty small. I care about -isms. I care a lot about social justice. In an ideal world, perhaps these are things we should nitpick over but really? This is, no matter how you look at it, nitpicking. There are big freaking instances of -isms out in the world. Like, here is some racism I posted about yesterday. And here is some really heinous homophobia. (By the way, I don't believe in hell, but I absolutely believe that when this guy dies, he will be burning in it.)
Fandom is a large place that can make a lot of change and do a lot of good and raise a lot of awareness. If we're going to do that, why are we wasting time on internet fights over interrogating texts from the wrong perspective or getting into fights that boil down to "you're more internally racist and have more privilege!" "no, you're more internally racist and have more privilege!"?
I would love to live in a world where a throwaway potentially racist line in a piece of fanfiction is, in fact, the worst thing that happens in the big, wide world of -isms and intolerance. But we do not live in that world, and for that reason, this entire thing is fucking ridiculous.
If fandom would like to discuss the problems that are legitimately problematic in the world today, I will be there marching in the parade and cheering on the forces of progressiveness and acceptance and spreading the word loud and far. But if fandom is continue getting into silly slapfights, I'm going to continue to roll my eyes and ignore fandom when it comes to race and discussing and wanking about it, because seriously? Seriously? There are a limited number of hours in a day, and the number of hours I'm willing to budget out for being annoyed is even more limited. At some point, in order to remain relatively sane and healthy, you need to make a threshold of things that get you all foaming at the mouth, because the world is so full of irritating things that if you were actually irritated by everything that maybe deserved to get upset over, you would not have time to sleep. I like sleep. I like being sane. I like being happy. If I'm going to be asked to get upset, I'd prefer it was over something that was, you know, actually a big problem that effects a lot of the world at large as opposed to, say, a hundred people on the internet.
But that's just me.
TWO!
Other stuff that baffles me in an irritated sort of way:
1. WTF PROJECT RUNWAY FINALE.
frantic_allonsy and I were having our mostly-weekly date where we watch a ridiculous show together (either Top Chef or Project Runway), catch up, and are generally snarky and fabulous, and we spent the WHOLE TIME being like "UGH GRETCHEN WHY DOES SHE EXIST. UGH HER CLOTHES ARE SO UGLY. UGH ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE WHO EAT GRANOLA WE ARE SO INSULTED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH HER. UGH NINA AND MICHAEL WHY ARE YOU OLD AND WHY DO YOU HAVE MASSIVE STICKS UP YOUR ASSES." We both liked some parts of Andy's collection but thought it could use more color, and we both fucking loved Mondo's collection to bits, save for the skull tunic (looks like an 80's Christmas sweater) and the color-blocked tunic (was there a human body under there?!). I want all of Andy's headpieces. Melissa wants the tights Mondo used on the bubble dress. We were having a grand old time chatting it up and were like "la la there is no way Gretchen's going to win" and feeling weird for cheering along Jessica Simpson, and then wtf Gretchen won. My mom barely even watches this show and loooooves hippy-dippy stuff because, you know, that's her era, and she was SO MAD she was banging stuff in the kitchen like THIS IS THE WORST EVER I WILL NEVER WATCH AGAIN. Mostly, TLo are fucking smart bitches who say everything I want to say. Also, it has been considered that since the judges, for the most part, were peeing their pants over the worst parts of each collection and hating on the good ones, Gretchen's win could be explained by the fact that their taste is bad and they should feel bad.2. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE TAYLOR SWIFT PHENOMENON. I mean, I don't dislike her. I'm not surprised she's popular, given that she's adorable and accessible and can write a good generic pop tune. But I don't get the continued fixation. Has no one noticed all of her songs are exactly the same?!?! They go: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus. They use the same chords and are about young, dewy-eyed high school love, and they all become really fucking trite after, like, five listens. Granted, most pop music is really fucking trite, follows the same song structure, and I still like it. I don't doubt that she has every right to be mildly successful. But what is utterly inexplicable to me is why she is such a big deal when she is so boring. Why is Rolling Stone, like, constantly masturbating to her and calling her the savior of the music industry and saying no one is as good as her and can beat her? WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL!? Am I missing something? And why won't Mine get out of my head? THAT SONG WAS BORING THE FIST TIME I LISTENED TO IT, LISTENING TO IT AGAIN ON ENDLESS LOOP DOES NOT MAKE IT SUCK LESS.
Taylor Swift is... she's like cornbread. The first day it's really fucking delicious, but after 24 hours it's dry and crumbly and awful, and it's like people are going around saying cornbread is the best food ever when you KNOW IT'S NOT. I'm confused. And also hungry.
3. Also, why is it a new trend that music videos all look like they've been through a few too many curves adjustments in Photoshop? First Rhianna's Only Girl in the World (UGH DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON MY VEHEMENT HATRED FOR THAT SONG, IT IS ALL ONE NOTE AND A BUNCH OF SOUND EFFECTS), and then Kanye's attempted opus for Runaway (HILARIOUS, I watched the whole half-hour thing and I couldn't stop laughing. Oh Kanye, never change, you crazy bastard. Unless you wanted to change to be less sexist. That I would accept.)
4. During the Inception race wank there was a lot of bashing on the fact that Inception fandom is full of Curtain Fic. Like this was a bad thing.
This worries me, dude. Not only is Curtain Fic, like, my favorite trope of all time no exaggeration, but it's like, 50% of what I write, the other being romcoms poorly disguised as being witty and insightful because two dudes make out and I have semi-amusing dialogue. APPARENTLY THIS IS A BAD THING!??!?! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!?!!? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?! OH GOD THIS IS TERRIBLE.
THREE!
Here is some stuff that is pleasing!
1. Fox News is losing viewership like... some appropriately hilarious metaphor. World, I am starting to have faith in you again!
2. So I was nosing around my favorite delicious accounts (this is how I find fic to read) and I came across the most delightful little gem, Royal Obligations (of Stupidity) by
applebacardi that is a futurefic happily-ever-after Merlin/Arthur DELIGHT, oh my god. Let me tell you, besides Histoical AUs, Merlin and Arthur ruling Camelot together happily ever after is, like, MY FAVORITE THING EVER. Even more than wrist kissing and nuzzling like puppies! Which is also my favorite thing ever! I've been trying to write an epic futurefic since season one, but I can never quite finish it before new canon information comes out and then I have to re-write it almost entirely. I'm not even sure how I'm going to fix it post S3. BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT. The point is, I don't rec fic very often, mostly because the stuff I like is the stuff everyone else likes or has read or is already reccing, but I have seen no one rec this fic and it only has 15 or so different people commenting, and this is a crime against humanity. GO READ THIS RIGHT NOW.3. I subscribe to a lot of blogs dedicated solely to cute, fuzzy things, or just plain cute things, but I think the one that regularly brings me the most joy is The Daily Otter. CANNOT DEAL WITH THE ADORABLE.
4. Lest you think I only care about the gays when they are white and/or dudes, I bring you the most fucking adorable story I have read ever about the first featured black lesbian couple in Essence. omg, you guys. They have a slideshow at the site and I dare you to look through it and not get all choked-up and flappy handed. I CANNOT EVEN DEAL. I love their dresses! I love the dreadlocked one's HAIR! (Her wife's isn't bad either.) I love the essay they wrote after thanking people for support! I love their pictures with their parents who look so proud! THEY ARE SO IN LOVE OH MY GOD CANNOT DEAL. I need to go flap my hands in a corner for a few minutes again to deal with this feeling.
FIVE!
It's Friday, so YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS:
POOR BOYS. They seem to be getting a little weary. (Or, in my head, they would just like some alone time, geez, camera people.) STILL THEY ARE DELIGHTFUL. Colin continues to fail at games, and I really like how Bradley's idea of "blindfolding" Colin is smushing a piece of cloth in his face. I think we know who does kinky stuff to who in bed, and clue, IT ISN'T BRADLEY WHO'S IN CHARGE. Though idk. Maybe this was an excuse to feel up Colin's face, because he kept, I don't even know what he's doing, squeezing it? I mean I've had the urge to take Colin's face and smush it between my hands because he's SUCH A WIDDLE PUDDIN but Bradley, sweetie, you're not supposed to do that in front of the cameras. Also, taking away the rope? YOU ARE NOT SUBTLE.
Oh, Bradders, you are my favorite little failboat. OF LOVE.
Also, Colin Morgan, YOU ARE STROKING BRADLEY'S HAND. WITH YOUR FINGERS. YOU KNOW MY FEELINGS ON YOUR FINGERS. FUUUUUUUUUCK.
Speaking of delightful, the entire cast of Glee, you are the most adorable. Especially you, Jayma Mays. I want to be your best friend.
SIX!
So someone was talking in this post about how they wanted John Lynch as Balinor back, but I read "Jane Lynch" and then I had this image of Sue Sylvester going to Camelot and training the Knights of the Round Table and omg, I want this so badly it's killing me. I want this even more than the Sassy Gay Friend coming to Camelot. YOU THINK LOSING GUINEVERE IS HARD, LANCELOT? TRY TRANSLOCATING ACROSS TIME AND SPACE TO SOMEWHERE WHERE PROTEIN SHAKES HAVEN'T BEEN INVENTED YET, THAT'S HARD.
SEVEN!
So apparently everyone IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is going to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear tomorrow, which makes me wonder if the wind will whistle through the internets. While I'm glad for them and everything, I can't help but think this is a ridiculous idea. It's going to be cold there, and there's going to be a GIANT crowd, and nowhere to pee, and you probably won't be able to see or hear anything, and, most importantly, they're broadcasting it on television anyway. The again, this is also my feeling on attending sporting events, but people inexplicably seem to like those two, so whatever! This is why they invented different flavors of ice cream. My flavor this weekend involves finishing carving my jack-o-lantern(s?), reviewing the Bones season 5 DVD I got for free (!!!! Sometimes the perks of my job vastly outweigh the fact that I make no money), doing my Merlin review, re-reading John Stewart Mill to see if he makes more sense the second time around (banking on no), and playing with my dad's BFF's dog, who is staying with us while his family goes and visits their daughter at college. He's pretty cute, but kind of dumb. Example: he came to us with a GIANT TICK, which I took off of him with much difficult because the tick had buried itself in a pre-existing scab which did NOT want to rip off. Seriously, I don't mind bugs but ticks gross me out so much. If I could change on thing about dogs, they would be impervious to ticks. I would rather take them out to pee in the middle of a blizzard than deal with ticks. Apparently having a tick upset him as much as it upset me, because he decided to express his feelings by going and peeing in my parents' room. Ten minutes after he had been outside. AT LEAST HE IS CUTE.
Man, I should... start looking into posting shorter entries more often. The problem is that I can go, like, a week and a half with nothing to say, and then all at once I have about TEN BILLION THINGS TO GET OUT. Like right now. I'm sorry. I just have so many ~thoughts and feelings~.
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THIS GOT A FULL OUT HEAD-THROWN-BACK LAUGH OUT OF ME THAT DIDN'T STOP UNTIL MY ROOMMATE ASKED WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND I HAD TO STOP LAUGHING SO I COULD READ IT TO HER. She also thinks it would be hilarious. GET ON IT.
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Basically: you are awesome. :D
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I've known from the beginning who wore the britches in the bedroom, and like you said, IT'S NOT BRADLEY, and all of these vids just keep making it more and more obvious. Also Colin continuing to be absolute rubbish at the challenges and his rubbishness filling Bradley with glee just makes me all HAPPYFACE.
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omg I seriously can't love them harder. THEY ACT LIKE NEWLYWEDS ALL THE TIME WHAT IS THIS.
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btw, totally forgot to ask, what was the Inception wank all about? I'm not in the fandom other than to read so have no comms/friends on my flist that talk about the wank. I'm just curious as to what brought on the beginning of your post - which I agree with to, like, infinity plus one.
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Also, Behold! Stupid wank is stupid. (http://community.livejournal.com/sf_drama/3081070.html)
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OMG. That is soooo TL;DR but the gist of it? Yeah, total stupidity all around.
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Thank you. Just, thank you.
At least there is one sane person out there.
And your weekend sounds perfect to me. :D
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HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE, given the dog does not continue to pee in the house.
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Most of the... let's say 'different' people I know, for example, are just annoyed when you start calling them fancy names, instead of just saying what they are.
All this excessive discussions about how racism is totally bad, yatta yatta yatta, but it's racism all the same when you single them out in a different way.
Even if you don't mean any harm, you imply they need to be treated different.
Why can't people get it into their heads? x.x
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Also: if you can somehow make the Sue Sylvester/Merlin thing happen, I will probably hip-check JGL out of the way to gay marry you.
ALSO: did anybody ever think Bradley was in charge in the bedroom? Except maybe for Bradley?
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Also: I think I somehow need to macro this. I'm waiting for more ~Knights of the Round Table~ shots where they're making :OOOOO faces to do so.
ALSO: No, but his (and Colin's) adorable ineptitude at life is NEVER SOMETHING TO BE IGNORED.
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Also that Cookie Monster gif is adorable!
Glee Cast FTW. "Whips and chains" omg what a winner. XD
OMG Glee/Merlin crossover NEEDS TO HAPPEN SOMEHOW.
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MAYBE ARTHUR SHOULD SECRETLY HAVE A GREAT VOICE AND MERLIN IS IN GLEE CLUB AND HEARS HIM SINGING AND TRIES TO RECRUIT HIM.
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MERLIN = KURT
PUCK = GWAINE
the rest idk but YES.
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But yes, I agree with everything you wrote there. Authors are not their characters, and real people are not necessarily nice people.
IT ISN'T BRADLEY WHO'S IN CHARGE
Oh, damn right - I think it is becoming increasingly obvious who calls the shots ;)
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exactly EXACTLY
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CUTEST PERSON EVER.
Why is Rolling Stone, like, constantly masturbating to her and calling her the savior of the music industry
Excuse me, but WHAT THE FUCK???
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And omg, if you go through old ONTD stuff there are SO MANY articles about howw Taylor Swift is the besthing to happen to the music industry and no one is as perfect as her blah blah blah VOMIT.
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AND ONTD IS A BLACK HOLE OF ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE WRONG WITH LJ.
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You are free to friend away. Right now my flist is already pretty huge so I'm adding sparingly, but anyone who sticks around long enough and isn't a douche eventually gets friended, and I always enjoy more people at the party!
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It was never the tails that bothered me; it was the pink eyes. But then they curl up on your shoulder under your hair so trustingly and you fall in love with them and suddenly it's not sinister, you know?