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arysteia - she stayed with us for over a week, and is an A+++ houseguest. I think my parents wanted to keep her here (given I couldn't take time off work, I think she saw more of them than me or the Sydney locals, heh).
Lots of lovely hanging out time, including mutually pimping each other into Mad Men (we watched the first 12 eps), revisiting Smallville (it's tradition, and everytime I think I'm out, THEY PULL ME BACK IN, and leave me spitting incoherently in rage at the tv - WHY, CLARKE, WHY?), admiring the prettiness of Dark Angel season 2, and some serious comic book movie time. Is it Captain America time yet?
Things are up and down for me. Work continues to be bad, but not as epically bad as it has been. I'm going skiing in a few weeks, but am so unfit its not funny. My arm hurts from vaccinations for my trip in September (*flails*).
Something that's been preying on my mind for a couple of days is this post (which must have been linked somewhere, as there's suddenly been a bunch of comments to it). Putting aside the actual fannish content, am I crazy for finding part of it really fucking offensive (the bit I really have a problem with is from the paragraph beginning "Then there is Chris and Naya.")?
I find it plain disturbing to pit the relative worthiness/admirableness of two great people (Chris Colfer and Naya Rivera from Glee), but outright offensive to dismiss a queer person on the basis that their actions/visibility is rooted in self-interest, while the straight ally is exalted for compassion. In what universe is being a straight ally in Hollywood harder/better than being out? And why would you even try to rank them to begin with? Then again, the OP takes someone to task for using logic in a rebuttal...
Speaking of Glee fandom (and related to the above), the hate-on that parts of the Brittana fans have for Kurt and/or Kurt/Blaine makes me sad. Not that everyone has to like one queer pairing just cause they like another, or that Kurt or his storyline are perfect or above criticism (lord knows I pick it apart), but it goes way beyond that with some people. Should try to put some of my scattered thoughts about the way ship wars are slightly different in Glee fandom, IMO, and why Sam/Kurt fandom are proof that spoilers are bad. I find it interesting how dynamics vary a bit from fandom to fandom.
arysteia - she stayed with us for over a week, and is an A+++ houseguest. I think my parents wanted to keep her here (given I couldn't take time off work, I think she saw more of them than me or the Sydney locals, heh).Lots of lovely hanging out time, including mutually pimping each other into Mad Men (we watched the first 12 eps), revisiting Smallville (it's tradition, and everytime I think I'm out, THEY PULL ME BACK IN, and leave me spitting incoherently in rage at the tv - WHY, CLARKE, WHY?), admiring the prettiness of Dark Angel season 2, and some serious comic book movie time. Is it Captain America time yet?
Things are up and down for me. Work continues to be bad, but not as epically bad as it has been. I'm going skiing in a few weeks, but am so unfit its not funny. My arm hurts from vaccinations for my trip in September (*flails*).
Something that's been preying on my mind for a couple of days is this post (which must have been linked somewhere, as there's suddenly been a bunch of comments to it). Putting aside the actual fannish content, am I crazy for finding part of it really fucking offensive (the bit I really have a problem with is from the paragraph beginning "Then there is Chris and Naya.")?
I find it plain disturbing to pit the relative worthiness/admirableness of two great people (Chris Colfer and Naya Rivera from Glee), but outright offensive to dismiss a queer person on the basis that their actions/visibility is rooted in self-interest, while the straight ally is exalted for compassion. In what universe is being a straight ally in Hollywood harder/better than being out? And why would you even try to rank them to begin with? Then again, the OP takes someone to task for using logic in a rebuttal...
Speaking of Glee fandom (and related to the above), the hate-on that parts of the Brittana fans have for Kurt and/or Kurt/Blaine makes me sad. Not that everyone has to like one queer pairing just cause they like another, or that Kurt or his storyline are perfect or above criticism (lord knows I pick it apart), but it goes way beyond that with some people. Should try to put some of my scattered thoughts about the way ship wars are slightly different in Glee fandom, IMO, and why Sam/Kurt fandom are proof that spoilers are bad. I find it interesting how dynamics vary a bit from fandom to fandom.
