The HMS Dark Unknown

8:41am: Madderbrad
So yeah, I just said on my LJ that nobody should have to see Brad's comments so I'd screened them, but I'll paste them here for those of you who want to get a blast from the past mixed with brand new misogyny.

( I wouldn't be very offended at all. )

To bitchet:

( You fail big-time, Bitchet. )

To a_t_rain:

( This one term. )

To major_dallas:

( You take care now. )

10:25am: To be ported over to LJ at some point
I discovered that I've been wearing pants that are too big for me for about six months. The jeans I got with Mom this weekend are 8s, and are soooo comfortable and I'm not pulling them up all the time. FML/yay!

M has gone down to Baton Rouge for her mother's birthday, so I have the apt to myself for a week. My first act was to clean up the small round table in the living room so that I could use my computer there instead of one the couch - I put all the cookbooks on top of the bookshelf and piled up the stuff on it, and it looks much neater. Then I took the piled-up chairs that she's reupholstering - just the seats, and they're basically done except for a bit of trimming - and put them together and distributed them so there's more space. Next I'm going to majorly clean the kitchen.

I did not get nearly enough done this weekend. Ugh. I should be studying for the Historic Interiors final this afternoon, not watching Being Human and typing LJ and Tumblr entries. Or working on my Greek Myths of Fashion PPT.

9:26am: The Slave Breakers
( In which I get weirdly thoughtful about h/c original slash slavefic )

4:36pm: Argh
http://www.ankhesen-mie.net/2010/12/kill-this-bitch-ii.html
http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/896310.html

"Heifer" Jones and piano-wire threats ... why do people listen to this asshole?

7:44pm: Long-winded response to a troll
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9:22am: Curse you, Slytherfen
AUGH Now I suddenly want to read a fic about the Ministry deciding it should take on one or two Muggles to act as consultants after the war.

11:23pm: I just realized that, several days ago, I actually forgot that the Star Wars prequels existed. (This is why I recently stated that I thought Star Wars-fan-hate was more loving than ex-HP-fan-hate.) It was like ... nirvana. And then I had to backread Cracked and be reminded.

10:02am: Mystery solved?
Mouse here is from the US, unknown state, IP 12.220.224.66.

Mouse from all other comments is also from the US, unknown state (IP 166.205.8.71) but is posting through mobile.mymode.com - posting from her phone?

11:05pm: Number One Task:
(After I finish my papers.) Writing a script of DAYD.

10:55pm: oh self
I found this while reading Cracked, and I'm surprised Marionros hasn't diagnosed Snape with it yet. Dibs on it for Sirius! I SAID DIBS.

8:54am: I can't believe I'm doing this
Right, I wasn't even going to click on SilverInkPot's response to Ravenstar's half-essay, but I did. And since my responding there would be breaking my own rules, I'm going to keep from doing that.

There are two things about it that are really funny to me. The big one is that it's extremely obvious in the essay that it's not about fans being bad people for disliking Lily, and yet SIP says multiple times that RS is straight-up calling people misogynists. If that's not the pricking of a guilty conscience, I don't know what is.

The second's a fairly minor nitpick. But hilarious.

... to call criticism of a female character "misogyny" is just a way to tell people to shut up, that their ideas are psychosis instead of valid arguments.

You heard it here, "misogyny" is being added to the DSM-V as a new psychosis. Apparently, it's not a societal issue, but a psychological one! Who knew?

Another thing I've learned is that women can mansplain, too.

Or someone points out the fact that even their names sound like Prince and the Pauper, only reversed, Prince and the Potter. That's a fact - go read Mark Twain, if you know who that is. If not, Google Samuel Clemons (don't worry, he's not a misogynist writer - he thought Eve was stronger than Adam, and he wrote a famous speech about the Right to Vote).

Ahahahahahahahha you're a loser.

Additionally, Mary_J_59 straight-up lies in the comments. Apparently she's never seen "any Snape fan denigrate Lily this way". I find that hard to believe, since she's very active on Snapedom and so is Marionros.

10:10am: On Snape
I think what keeps me from feeling the sane Snape love the way many people do is the uninhibited child-bullying. I love House, and House can be pretty awful to everyone he works with and even Wilson, but whenever there are young children around, he seems to get on with them pretty well (IIRC). And when he's jerkish to his colleagues, more than just abrasively sarcastic, it's usually out of some slightly-sociopathic desire to find something out or cause a specific effect. They're actually pretty different characters.

- this post brought to you by someone, possibly one of you but I don't remember, saying they loved House and Snape in a comment somewhere

8:30pm: Ha!
I went to metafandom to see how faily people are being in trying to defend not writing female characters (because as far as I can tell, metafandom is mostly full of people writing about how manslash is awesome) and ran into this post. It's all about Torchwood, really, and then there's a totally out-of-the-blue swipe at the SQ. Yes, the SQ, and the author is shirty over how it always considered itself the """"canonical"""" archive. (Protip: apart from the R/S, it was!) I finally went back and checked who wrote it: leagionseagle, aka Ajhalluk.

10:19am: Duj hilarity
Duj is like Marionros's secret twin sister or something, and I knew she had an FFN account, but I'd never really looked at it until today.

( I looked at a couple of her fics )

Rich pickins, my friends.

12:57pm: Fic exchange
Pimping the fandom-nomination page for my possible fic exchange! I know I've got a different flist here than on LJ, and I'd like to hear from a wide range of people. I know this is right on the tail of Yuletide, but, well, I didn't do any Christmas exchanges.

10:47pm: Moar badfic
After finding that some people out there were unaware of the glory that is "Quaffles, Anyone?" I realized that even less are probably aware of "The First Nymphadora". The point of the fic is that Ted Tonks is an ass* and Andromeda has to explain that she has to name their child Nymphadora because she had this cousin named Nymphadora who made totally awesome speeches and killed Voldemort, so then her family performed a spell that retroactively aborted her. (It's actually quite sad, if you skip the entire thing and zoom right down to the bit where they kill her while Sirius watches, especially if you're like me and tend to cry at sad children in movies.) The bit that I occasionally think of in completely inappropriate moments and start snorting over is:

"Finally there was nothing but a baby, quite naked, crawling out of the adult Nymphadora's robes as they sprawled on the ground. The crying had ceased; the poor little creature no longer realized even the rudiments of what was being done to her, and I watched her crawl towards her mother and stretch her little arms and smile at her. Her mother was still smiling - the child thought... Gods above and below! Then she released some poo - nobody had thought of a nappy, of course.

For the full effect, you really have to read the whole thing.

( * )

4:25pm: Raptor D Rapticon, Sr
After some N.E.W.T. Orientation, they started transfiguring an apple to a mango which was hard since you must change the color of the red apple to a yellow one. Ron had so much difficulty he changed his apple to a red mango that made Harry sick. It looked like someone pour blood on it. Hermione had no difficulty, like always, she perfectly changed her apple to a yellow mango earning her ten points to Gryffindor.

“How did you do that?” said Ron as they went down to the Greenhouses for Herbology.

“I learn Ron, not ask” said Hermione as they stopped at the entrance of the greenhouse since it was occupied by second years.

How many times have I read Quaffles, Anyone? and why am I reading it again?

1:47pm: To anyone who knows -
Is there a Thing in academic SPN fandom that explains the super hostile reaction to this comment? Because I don't understand why "They don't need to use the language of rape with the female characters ... because they use the imagery" = "Suggesting that the imagery of Ruby's death is more problematic than Zachariah's torturous attempted coercion of Dean" unless there's more background there. And then the less hostile but still oddly cold response to this comment.

11:47am: More rambling about Austen movies, you have been warned
I wonder if the intense hatred period movie fans have for certain period movies is related to the fact that there is little fanfic for the fandoms? I mean, Lost in Austen, right, all the changes are viewed by a lot of people as heresy because Wickham is sympathetic and Caroline is a lesbian and ... I forget what else went on there, it's been a while, I guess drunk!Bingley counts. P&P fic is pretty much all sequels, though, there aren't shipper factions or people determined to side with the villain or fic with intentional genre changes (from romance to darkfic, from dark to fluff, etc.), so when it pops up in a movie it's more shocking. Plus since these are movies, visual changes such as curvy Jennifer Ehle to skinny Keira Knightley and, frankly, older actors to actors who are the right ages for their parts can seem as harsh as a characterization change.

On the other hand, there are people in regular fandoms who also have intense hatred for some of the newer versions. Hm. But the majority do seem to be straight-up Austenfen.

Really, I only harp on this subject because I don't understand it. Maybe I'll ask on my lj for someone to please explain, Knightley aside, what is so horrible about P&P05?

10:52am: lol vaudree
Guys, I cannot stop reading the ever-so-kindly-named "Dual Interpretations" thread.

Vaudree: All that indicates is that she heard the Marauder’s side of the story (either directly from them or from someone else) since the last time she talked to Snape. So we are in the same place where Snape could have entertained the theory concerning Lupin being a werewolf before or after he went down there.

Wendall: I don't really understand your theory about Snape only starting to theorise about Lupin being a werewolf after the whomping willow incident. He knew Lupin was a werewolf after this, it wasn't just a theory. He saw Lupin going in, he saw a werewolf in the shrieking shack, Dumbledore made him promise not to tell anybody that Lupin was a werewolf.

Vaudree: I never said that WickedBoy cannot come up with a theory - there is still the Scottish book. I don’t know whether Snape came up with his Lupin is a werewolf theory before or after the Shack Attack – the book doesn’t say. To say one way or the other is to make a theory – to make a prediction – as to what the Scottish book will reveal. Six months after the Scottish Book, discussion of the series will be truly over. [whining about Jo writing next-gen books]

It's just so pointless and stupid, yet I still can't stop! Here, I'll give you a little bit more of a post of Vaudree's.

Never really understood why Ron felt more threatened by Cormac than by Neville – what do you think JKR was trying to show with that?

Cormac went out for Ron's place on the team and actively went after Hermione. Neville liked Herbology. Why do you think he felt more threatened by the former?

can’t see HBP until it goes to Video but my son said that the movie was completely different than the book but Steven Van Ark says that basically they are the same.

1:34pm: Maybe I should unjoin all of my comms on JF aside from the STFU and Sparklefield. I feel like they just ... bring out the worst in me. I'm going to try a filter for now that just blocks out the f_w umbrella comms (plus UFB, since there's such a large crossover) and see how that goes.

ETA: Incidentally, it's very annoying to be worried about a comment you're waiting for and then see you've got a new JF email and then it's just freaking spam.

9:13am: They were a bit mean to DanRad :(
I just read the NYT review of the HBP movie and remembered the comment that critics were afraid to say anything negative about the series because it would hurt sales. El oh el.

1:18pm: I just don't get some reactions to this warnings wank. I mean, I can understand being annoyed at the way the argument gets framed into such extremes. I can understand Oulangi's comment about "rape cred" (even if I don't like the phrasing and I don't think that's happening, at least I haven't seen it anywhere). What I can't understand is a) saying that it demeans RaceFail (which I've seen twice) to use words like oppression, privilege, etc. and b) acting as though both sides are being equally wanky, when there's nobody like cyatinite or aukestral on the pro-warnings side.

I don't particularly care whether or not that ban list is grudgy or an evil, evil blacklist - personally? I've already banned everyone I've seen say things I found offensive and/or cruel from my journal, even though there's a 0.001% chance of any of them ever trying to comment on my LJ. I don't even know whether people get notified when they're banned and they're all totally confused over who this nonentity is. If I want to ban you forever and think of you as "that jerkass who thinks etc.", I will.

I don't think the people who make posts like this a assholes (people who make comments like this are, though). I just feel like they're trying to be callous, which I don't understand.

2:04pm: Huh
Robustitude is all the time now.

ETA: When I hit post, I got the Sorry page.

11:00am: lol newspaper comics
The Washington Post asks about whether or not religion should be in comics. Go forth and post your own thoughts!

You have to register, though, which is why I haven't commented yet.