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This has really not been a good day.( I'm sorry that all my posts are whining, I have pictures of fireworks I will develop later which are happier )
radio silence creeps me out, so.
Feb. 10th, 2011 11:31 pmTGIF.
It never rains but it pours. Everything appears to be happening at once, right now, and also must be completed - now. I will type an entry tomorrow. Good grief.
But I am thankful for the general lack of drama in the most recent news post. Incredibly thankful.
It never rains but it pours. Everything appears to be happening at once, right now, and also must be completed - now. I will type an entry tomorrow. Good grief.
But I am thankful for the general lack of drama in the most recent news post. Incredibly thankful.
This is TMI!
Oct. 13th, 2010 09:51 pmI feel like I've stepped in a timewarp or something.
( TMI! )
And in my mind all day was the poem (the last lines have a tendency to stick):
THE WATCH
Frances Cornford (1886-1960)
I wakened on my hot, hard bed,
Upon the pillow lay my head;
Beneath the pillow I could hear
My little watch was ticking clear.
I thought the throbbing of it went
Like my continual discontent;
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick;
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick.
( TMI! )
And in my mind all day was the poem (the last lines have a tendency to stick):
THE WATCH
Frances Cornford (1886-1960)
I wakened on my hot, hard bed,
Upon the pillow lay my head;
Beneath the pillow I could hear
My little watch was ticking clear.
I thought the throbbing of it went
Like my continual discontent;
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick;
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick.
We had this discussion already.
Aug. 19th, 2010 07:57 pmI saw this post come up this morning. I thought: "OK, it's not horribly bad; it looks like the OP, after some comments, could see why this is offensive and maybe it'll be okay!" This is the text of the OP's post, in case it gets taken down.
( ... )
I gave up trying to read the twisting comments of the OP after awhile. But seeing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saciel start to pull out the tone argument--again and again and AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN--I...I...I don't know. I remember zie from the last time ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanficrants went and got into a huge racefail, but seeing so many people--half-a-dozen, at least--try to explain, again and again, PATIENTLY AND CALMLY (Oh my God, the irony) why zie was wrong, it didn't sink in. And so all I can repeat is OW OW OW.
ETA: There's actually quite a nice little summation bylil_utterance about why this post's comments are so very faily. Here.
( ... )
I gave up trying to read the twisting comments of the OP after awhile. But seeing
saciel start to pull out the tone argument--again and again and AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN--I...I...I don't know. I remember zie from the last time fanficrants went and got into a huge racefail, but seeing so many people--half-a-dozen, at least--try to explain, again and again, PATIENTLY AND CALMLY (Oh my God, the irony) why zie was wrong, it didn't sink in. And so all I can repeat is OW OW OW.ETA: There's actually quite a nice little summation by
lil_utterance about why this post's comments are so very faily. Here.Tags:
OW. Get off my foot!
Jul. 2nd, 2010 11:52 amBecause many people plainly don't get it, here's an analogy that hopefully they can grasp. If not, there is a serious problem which is beyond my power to rectify or help in any way.
To borrow it from someone's lovely post (author, unfortunately, forgotten; if you do find them, please pm me):
If someone steps on my foot and it hurts, I am going to say: "OW!" And the harder they step on my foot, the louder I will shout it. OW, OW, OW. I'm not at the moment concerned with the delicate ears of the other person, because OW their stomping hurts and no I will not be quiet.
If that person continues to stay on my foot, I'm going to try to dislodge said person, because it hurts. It's not hurting you. It's hurting me.
When people say: "That's offensive, and x, y, z is why," it's not because they want to hurt you. It's because it's hurting them.
Why people who take my culture and twist it to suit their needs can't understand this, I don't know. OW. Go away. If I've linked you to this post after an argument/discussion/feeble parody of a discusion of racism, I invite you to educate yourself and read through this.
War may be inevitable, oppression may be inevitable, but @$#%^ no I am not going to take it lying down. *snarl*
'pologies to f-list, who don't need this.
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May. 4th, 2010 09:43 pmDear Dr. Gabaldon:
In regards to this article** , I have a few things to say. I get that it's not fun to see your characters mangled, dragged through God-knows-what, and being generally transformed into things that they shouldn't be.
However.
( 1-13, why fanfiction is not the eeeevil. And more! )
Sincerely,
silverflight
P.S. I think that the more I think about this, the more points I have, and so I'll just stop right here. But I just wanted to say--I really do love your books, Diana (may I call you that?) but that post you made was disillusioning.
*edited after realizing what a ginormous post this was; it's been cut
**edit number two: I think she's just removed both posts: the rant one and the follow-up one. If you really want, here's the cached link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BBBatogaEfkJ:voyagesoftheartemis.blogspot.com/+voyages+of+the+artemis+cache&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca To all out there: the internet is forever.
In regards to this article** , I have a few things to say. I get that it's not fun to see your characters mangled, dragged through God-knows-what, and being generally transformed into things that they shouldn't be.
However.
( 1-13, why fanfiction is not the eeeevil. And more! )
Sincerely,
silverflight
P.S. I think that the more I think about this, the more points I have, and so I'll just stop right here. But I just wanted to say--I really do love your books, Diana (may I call you that?) but that post you made was disillusioning.
*edited after realizing what a ginormous post this was; it's been cut
**edit number two: I think she's just removed both posts: the rant one and the follow-up one. If you really want, here's the cached link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BBBatogaEfkJ:voyagesoftheartemis.blogspot.com/+voyages+of+the+artemis+cache&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca To all out there: the internet is forever.
