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[Error: unknown template qotd] So, if I say yes, does that mean I think the Chinese single child policy is wrong? And if I say no, does that mean I'm dead to all common sense with respect to the carrying capacity of the planet? I think the answer to the two questions asked is absolutely dependent on the context. If I had to be all generalizing about it, though, I think the sole restriction should be each individual's well-educated common sense. Where well-educated common sense isn't possible, it seems pointless to beat up on people for adhering to a biological drive and/or well established social norms by discussing them in terms of human rights.
Sep. 24th, 2010
I do not volunteer for suffering
Sep. 24th, 2010 11:37 pmHas anyone else been in fandom long enough to wig out a bit at the prospect of entering a new one?
Of course I don't have the usual "what is fandom all about???" jitters. I've been knocking around various media fandoms since 199(coff). It's the possibility of the endless frakkin' wank that deters me now.
I'd been backing slowly away from online fandom (beyond reading copious amounts of fanfic, of course) even before the Great Retinal Odyssey began 9/17/2008 (for pity's sake, that's been two years already, and I'm still doing retinal specialist followups?) The extreme variability and questionable durability of my vision vastly curtailed my fanfic habit and pretty much eliminated my LJ and Facebook update habits (which were never any of the best.) I'd been backing slowly away because I was no longer amused by the endless rounds of wank that arise in all sorts of fandoms: warnings. spoilers, OMG IS FANFIC EVEN LEGAL?, what floats my boat is cool but what floats your boat IS TEH EBIL!!!1!, the endless moral rectum-tude over slash v. het...I'm sure everyone has their own list, and it might even overlap mine.
The question arose because I just finished listening to S.M. Stirling's "The Sword of the Lady," and am pretty sure I missed something, because woah. That ending was Early Acid Trip Cliffhanger, and I'd like to pick the brains of other fans to see if I simply ADD'd something & am being excessively judgmental or if it for serious and for real was that trippy.
Then I remembered reading somewhere that a character involved in the final scenes actually originated in fanfic on the Emberverse (see OMG IS FANFIC EVEN LEGAL??? above) and that "Early Acid Trip Cliffhanger" might be a hot button judgment in addition to the fact there is a potential sense of humor failure inherent in some fans over the term "Add'd," both from the perspective of discriminating against the mentally challenged and that of People Who Make Up Words ARE EVIL and Need to BE DESTROYED.
(For the record, I have a clinical diagnosis of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder and am pretty sure there is a disability in play, but I'm not the one who has it.)
Wackiness ensued as I recalled any number of wanks to which I was reluctant witness and occasionally reluctant participant.
(Aside for nialla: CASTING COUCH. Yeah. I went there. Also, "me, too.")
Yeah, so. How many of you all reading this jumped into LJ as a result of following your fandom here from mailing lists (associated fandom wank: "LJ is Killing My Fandom!") but find yourself just here for the fic, or maybe not even here for the fandom at all?
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Note: on the subject of retinal followups, I had one today, and it went so well, I don't need to have any more for the next six months. Go 360 degree prophylactic lasering!
edited while still under the influence of rum and coke to fix Things Wrong Wot I Noticed Even While Tipsy (no telling if this will even be here in the morning when I'm sober. Did it actually make any sense?)
Of course I don't have the usual "what is fandom all about???" jitters. I've been knocking around various media fandoms since 199(coff). It's the possibility of the endless frakkin' wank that deters me now.
I'd been backing slowly away from online fandom (beyond reading copious amounts of fanfic, of course) even before the Great Retinal Odyssey began 9/17/2008 (for pity's sake, that's been two years already, and I'm still doing retinal specialist followups?) The extreme variability and questionable durability of my vision vastly curtailed my fanfic habit and pretty much eliminated my LJ and Facebook update habits (which were never any of the best.) I'd been backing slowly away because I was no longer amused by the endless rounds of wank that arise in all sorts of fandoms: warnings. spoilers, OMG IS FANFIC EVEN LEGAL?, what floats my boat is cool but what floats your boat IS TEH EBIL!!!1!, the endless moral rectum-tude over slash v. het...I'm sure everyone has their own list, and it might even overlap mine.
The question arose because I just finished listening to S.M. Stirling's "The Sword of the Lady," and am pretty sure I missed something, because woah. That ending was Early Acid Trip Cliffhanger, and I'd like to pick the brains of other fans to see if I simply ADD'd something & am being excessively judgmental or if it for serious and for real was that trippy.
Then I remembered reading somewhere that a character involved in the final scenes actually originated in fanfic on the Emberverse (see OMG IS FANFIC EVEN LEGAL??? above) and that "Early Acid Trip Cliffhanger" might be a hot button judgment in addition to the fact there is a potential sense of humor failure inherent in some fans over the term "Add'd," both from the perspective of discriminating against the mentally challenged and that of People Who Make Up Words ARE EVIL and Need to BE DESTROYED.
(For the record, I have a clinical diagnosis of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder and am pretty sure there is a disability in play, but I'm not the one who has it.)
Wackiness ensued as I recalled any number of wanks to which I was reluctant witness and occasionally reluctant participant.
(Aside for nialla: CASTING COUCH. Yeah. I went there. Also, "me, too.")
Yeah, so. How many of you all reading this jumped into LJ as a result of following your fandom here from mailing lists (associated fandom wank: "LJ is Killing My Fandom!") but find yourself just here for the fic, or maybe not even here for the fandom at all?
____________________
Note: on the subject of retinal followups, I had one today, and it went so well, I don't need to have any more for the next six months. Go 360 degree prophylactic lasering!
edited while still under the influence of rum and coke to fix Things Wrong Wot I Noticed Even While Tipsy (no telling if this will even be here in the morning when I'm sober. Did it actually make any sense?)
Writer's Block: Banking on My Phone
Sep. 24th, 2010 11:47 pm[Error: unknown template qotd] I do not, because all I have is an official use Blackberry, and I'd like my employer to have to work a little harder to get the passwords to my financials than they would if I used a smart phone app. Mainly, though, I don't consider the Blackberry a smart phone. I really want an iPad, but that ain't happenin.