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| Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | |
| 2:18 am | Joy! Copied from my LJ. So the past twenty-four (well, ( Eddie Izzard and Mika ) |
| Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | |
| 8:59 pm | This actually REALLY FUCKING BOTHERS ME. There's something I keep seeing in fanfiction that kind of pisses me right the fuck off. I've seen it in multiple fandoms, pretty much whenever there's a married man someone wants to have bone another dude. In these stories, the wife and husband have an "understanding." That understanding is that apparently gay relationships don't count. That is, they can fuck whoever they want, as long as it's a person of their own gender, because it doesn't count. It doesn't matter. They can fuck the same person over and over. They can jerk off thinking about them and spend all their time with them and be pretty much head-over-heels in love with them, but it doesn't count. Because it's gay, of course. If it were a woman, it would totally be cheating. This is so incredibly demeaning. Cheating would be fucking better at this point, even if the character's the nicest guy ever and adores his wife and blah de fucking blah kittens and rainbows. I don't even like cheating fic in the least, but seeing this shit makes me want to cry. (A lot of things do these days, but this one makes me want to cry from anger.) It makes me sick. And they always specify that sex with women isn't okay. Absolutely not. That would be cruel and offensive. Only men. Sometimes they even say stupid shit like "because it's Hollywood and he's an actor, so obviously he has to" because apparently, in RPF fandom, there is some kind of requirement for actors to be slightly gay. But only when they're acting. Oftentimes it's implied that it only applies to the husband, too! Because that's not offensive five thousand times over or anything, right? I don't care if real people have relationships like this, because I know real people also have marriages and relationships where as long as it's casual (or, hell, sometimes even if it's not) either partner has an equal right to sleep with people of both or either gender, and for God's sake, this is fanfic. Fanfic often by people who claim to be open-minded, and yet they have to specify that it's only okay if it's gay. Because it doesn't count. And then there are lesser counts, too: oh, he's bisexual, and he's equally attracted to men and women, be he will only have casual sex with men because he knows that no matter what he's going to marry a woman and have kids the ~natural way~ and a relationship with a man could just never mean that much! Fanfic writers, what the fuck is wrong with you lately? Why do I keep seeing this absolute bullshit over and over? Okay, yeah, I know writing/reading slash is not even remotely similar to going to pride rallies and actually voting in favor of gay marriage, but to go that extra mile to make it offensive when leaving out just a word or two would mean nobody would be the wiser to your homophobic, hypocritical, shit-stained thoughts is just too fucking much. |
| Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | |
| 7:42 pm | Rocky Horror Twilight Show This is so dumb, but I cannot help myself. Edward: I was feeling done in Couldn't win I'd only ever lived before Emmett: You mean he—? Alice: Uh-huh. Edward: I thought there's no use getting Into blood letting It only leads to sparkles and girl-fretting Now I don't want to know How to go I've tasted blood, but no more Emmet and Alice: No more, more, more! Edward: I've put up all resistance I cannot go the distance I've got an pledge to keep Need no assistance Don't touch-a touch-a touch me I feel so dirty Don't thrill me, chill me, fulfill me; I'm a creature of the night! Then if anything grows into purple prose I'll climb up and watch you sleep Emmett and Alice: Sleep, sleep, sleep! Edward: And that's just one small fraction of the main attraction You need a boring plot with no action Don't touch-a touch-a touch me I feel so dirty Don't thrill me, chill me, fulfill me; I'm a creature of the night! Emmett: Don't touch-a touch-a touch me! Alice: I feel so dirty! Emmett: Don't thrill me, chill me, fulfill me! Alice: We're creatures of the night! Edward: Oh! Don't touch-a touch-a touch me I feel so dirty Don't thrill me, chill me, fulfill me; I'm a creature of the night! Bella: You're a creature of the night? Jacob: He's a creature of the night? Carlisle: He's a creature of the night. Alice: I'm a creature of the night! Jasper: I'm a creature of the night! Emmett: I'm a creature of the night! Bella: You're a creature of the night! Edward: I'm a creature of the night! OH! |
| Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | |
| 10:16 pm | I lied. I hate cuntface mouse. HATE. Rarely is it that I really want to punch someone on the internet, and I know it's counterintuitive to get riled up about trolls, but I miss actually being able to enjoy browsing ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} wank_report. |
| Saturday, December 27th, 2008 | |
| 2:07 am | The "tip" doesn't actually apply either, but I'll let it slide. I believe the major problem with the wank_report bitchmouse is that she (or he, I suppose) seems to believe that she is qualified to give out protips. Tip to Protip Mouse: you are not a pro. You are just a cunt. Perhaps "Cunttip" would be a better header for you to use.And now I promise to stop wanking about the wankers in the wank-reporting journal. Honest. ...for all you folks who don't read this. |
| Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | |
| 10:06 pm | I kind of hate everyone. More douchenozzle mousiness on wank_report, plus people apparently defending bestiality? The second one alone is enough to make me lose my faith in humanity all over again. |
| Saturday, December 20th, 2008 | |
| 7:29 pm | GUH. I think it should be obvious by now, but I have an intense (and admittedly slightly irrational) loathing for the dickwad troll(s) hanging around wank_report. They have a problem with every other person to post and they just... ugh. Even in a wank comm, there is such a thing as not being a douchenozzle. |
| Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | |
| 4:08 am | Join the Impact — Video Copied and pasted from my LiveJournal entry. Here is a video from the rally earlier today (well, yesterday) in NYC. It shows the Gay Men's Chorus singing The Star-Spangled Banner, Anthony Wiener speaking, a girl whose name I can't remember, Kim Stolz, Heather Matarazzo, and Kate Shindle. Here's another video, with the speakers and performances listed in the video and at the side, in order. The part after the Gay Men's Chorus is when we had a moment of silence. The video and the audio are not always from the same moment. And here it looks like there's a Flickr group with pictures from the event around the country. More videos from New York City: This one was taken from farther back and is mostly of the people in the crowds; you can see some of Kate Shindle's speeches, and a few others. An ABC News report including the couple married on the 17th. The poem by Emmanuel Xavier. Daniel O'Donnell speaks. Jeff Campagna speaks (about Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr.). More of the Gay Men's Chorus. More of Heather Matarzzo. More of Christine Quinn. Yes we will! And here is another person's blog entry about today. I know this is very NYC-centric, but that's where I was, that's what I can report on, and so that's what I'm sharing, to give you a better experience of what I reported. And a reminder: Milk has limited release (major cities; New York City/Las Angeles) on November 26 and wide release (everywhere else) in America on December 5. |
| Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | |
| 4:21 pm | Join the Impact Copied and pasted from my LiveJournal entry. I didn't leave for the rally all that early, and I thought I was going to be late. I didn't check my watch when I got there, but I guess it was a good time, because I was very close to the stage. Apparently (I certainly couldn't see) there were five thousand people who showed up at New York City's City Hall today to protest the bans on gay marriage and gay adoption that were passed on November 4. As they moved out the barriers that had been put up and people squeezed in and out, I wound up (without pushing! I was a good girl!) by the end of the rally with fewer than a hundred people in front of me, twenty or so feet from the stage and the speakers. I wish I could have all of what every speaker said written down here. Unfortunately, I have a shoddy memory as it is, and there were a lot of people and a lot of words in support of equal rights in America today. There were numerous politicians. There was one religious representative, a minister from a UU church in California; another reverend couldn't make it due to a "fender bender" on his way. There was a former Miss America, an actress, a poet, a teacher, and a girl who was a contestant on America's Next Top Model, who made frequent jabs at Katie Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" and whose parents were with her. Many speakers had their families, including children, with them. One couple was just married in California on October 17. The teacher was the one who had the simplest, easiest to remember words with the greatest emotional impact; he told a story about how, when he was very little and still couldn't read and write, girls in his neighborhood would have play weddings, and would ask him to participate. They had a record to sign, and when he arrived, unable to write even his own name, he would go to his play-bride and say, "I'm here! Sign my name in the book of love!" Soon it was a chant: Sign my name in the book of love! Equal rights! It's short, to the point, emotional, and poetic. I like it. In news of less import, but related, I was unable to bring a sign. I can't even afford poster-board right now, guys. And my LOVE shirt has not yet arrived, so I had to find another way to show my support (aside from just showing up and shouting and clapping a lot, of course). I used eye shadow in a rainbow pattern; I got a few compliments on it, including my favorite one, about and hour and a half in, which was, "I just have to tell you— your eyeshadow is fabulous!" My smile was huge. (Unfortunately I lacked a full spectrum in my best eyeshadow brand, so some colors were less vibrant; I also lacked a proper red, so I used the darkest pink I had in that good brand. It worked well enough, I think.) There were plenty of signs (some of which obscured my view from time to time, so, yeah, saw those ones a lot), some with the expected, simple messaged ("Equal Rights"), many with creative and interesting ones ("No More Mr. Nice Gay"; "Should Your Marriage be MY Business?"). My favorite was "Missionaries Make Great Porn." We up in the front were not so great with the chanting. Not that we couldn't manage it, loud and clear, but we couldn't seem to keep it up for more than a few rounds, while it seemed like the people far behind us were chanting the entire time. I did a lot of shouting, like I said. Lots of "whoo" and following the chants. There were so many happy couples, guys, and so many happy families. A man a few feet in front of me put down his sign so he could hold his son. I saw a little girl in a rainbow-dotted shirt waving her arms around on her mother's shoulders in response to the calls from the stage. I saw a sign that, sadly, ended up in a wet mess on the ground: "I love my two dads!" One of the speakers who came up multiple times left the last time after introducing her wife with her daughter in her arms. And, hey, there was even a couple with there (completely, utterly adorable) dog there, a rainbow kerchief around his neck. And the recently married couple, and the others who have husbands and wives that are not recognized as such in their states. One thing I was particularly glad to hear got only a short mention, but a loud response: no more civil unions. Civil unions are not equal. They are not acceptable. Celebrate Connecticut for realizing that when even one of the most liberal states in this country has officially banned equal marriage. One girl broke down on stage. The recently wed couple shared a kiss — and not just a quick, blink-of-an eye kiss, a real kiss, the kind you can't deny when you see it in the corner of your eye. Political leaders, straight and gay alike, shouted with passion. I, despite being quite tired today, did not yawn once until I got back to my dorm, and although rain clouds are darkening the sky around here now, the sun came out for us out there and a rainless sky saw us until the end and (at least most of the way) home. One last thing, to New Yorkers — a few people on stage urged us to call Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., who, despite being a Democrat, is working against gay marriage, trying to keep gay politicians from rising in the Senate and to keep legislation on gay rights from coming to a vote. He wanted to suppress celebrations in the memories of the Stonewall Riots and Harvey Milk because he said they would spread AIDS. So they urged us to call and demand that those representing us support gay rights as we do. Here's his number, if you're interesting in calling on Monday morning too (I'll be attempting to overcome my phone phobia myself): (718) 991-3161 But whether you call or not, know this: today was a good day for equality. |
| Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | |
| 1:26 am | Stayin' Alive Method Number Three Hundred Fifty-One of Staying Awake while Sick and Exhausted: Post to JournalFen! :D |
| Friday, March 7th, 2008 | |
| 1:55 am | Hoshiz. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE INTERNET WAS SAFE— Well, okay, no one thought that. Scamming money, sockpuppetry, fake dead parents (and puppy), fake pictures, possibly even a fake ("real life") name. Summary: -PI BNF posts random drama, is friends with many. Her boyfriend, who is just as adorable and "emo" as she is, is also on PI, as is her sister. -PI BNF says "I can't tell mom about PayPal! She'll kill me!" -PI BNF and boyfriend leave PI, supposedly for good -PI BNF buys PI currency with USD amounting to hundreds of dollars -PI BNF takes back her USD/does not have money to cover any of her purchases, sending several other BNF-y PIers into the negative on PayPal -PI Feedback Forum reports one case, then two, then five, and so on -PI Feedback Forum users reveal inconsistencies in past drama as well as names used in PayPal -users report that PayPal is telling them not to try and get their money back, as it would be "nearly impossible" -PI BNF also apparently took back her money on an account renewal for actual PI Holy horseshit, Batman! All that just to get some extra fake online currency. Wowza! |
| Thursday, March 6th, 2008 | |
| 7:58 pm | Well. I guess I'll make sure to never, ever include lesbian characters in any TV show or film I ever write for. 'Cause, you know, it'd just be a cheap ratings ploy. If I hint at it ahead of time to maybe show character progression or, you know, explain it, I'm obviously just teasing the audience so everyone will tune in for the lesbian sex! And if I don't hint at it ahead of time, then GAWD, that's just stupid, because obviously this other character over here was SOOO much more gay and that's not pandering to stereotypes at all, is it? I swear to God, every single fucking day I feel more like I'm just getting ready for a trial in a case I'm doomed to be found guilty in. Every time I turn a corner I hear someone else saying "This sucked so hard!" and it's getting to the point where it seems the only films that don't suck are ones made by old white male directors who've already established themselves, though obviously they will never be better than the ones they used to make. And only sometimes, then. And they have to be the same genre and the same kind of characters. They have to be gritty and edgy. Fuck it. I'm tired of having to second-guess everything I fucking like and want to do. I'm in this for me and I swear to God I am going to do it my way. People will hate me for it no matter what. And, hyperbole, but still — it's like the only way to be hated more than a politician is to be involved in film or television and not be an actor. Yeah, some actors get to share the glory, but generally people will even be more amicable to them even if they say out loud that they suck. Yeah, I'm kind of feeling bitter. I hate being seen as a rabid Joss fan, but I think most of the reactions in the above thread are ridiculous. Kind of funny that with such vitriol, though, most people still seem to have a great idea of all his work and can remember individual episodes of Buffy better than I can. What the hell — if you had so many problems with an episode made almost a decade ago, why didn't you stop watching then? |
| Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | |
| 1:34 am | Happy birthday to me! Happy Birthday Very Zebra-like Giraffe!! According to our records, today is your birthday... everybody here at JournalFen would like to wish you a happy birthday! If you have any interesting birthday stories to share, do let us know! Or better, email them to us and also update your LiveJournal with them. :) And if you have any questions/comments about the service in general, let us know too... we're real people, not a huge corporation, so we read and try to reply to all email. Anyway... the point of this email was originally just HAPPY BIRTHDAY! XD While a nice sentiment and appreciated, I find the slip-up "LiveJournal" in there hilarious. First: Or better, email them to us and also update your LiveJournal with them. "Don't update your JournalFen with them, though. No one gives a shit here." And second: we're real people, not a huge corporation "Yes, we here at INSERT CORPORATION NAME are real people!" Heh. :D Twenty today. EDIT: Case in point: Happy Birthday Turtle on Steroids!! According to our records, today is your birthday... everybody here at InsaneJournal would like to wish you a happy birthday! If you have any interesting birthday stories to share, do let us know! Or better, email them to us and also update your InsaneJournal with them. :) And if you have any questions/comments about the service in general, let us know too... we're real people, not a huge corporation, so we read and try to reply to all email. Anyway... the point of this email was originally just HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Lawl. |
| Friday, February 29th, 2008 | |
| 2:04 am | Me = Fail! Okay, so like ninety-five percent of the movie-going populace seems to agree that my taste sucks ass. Also, I kind of got smackdowned today because I haven't read Dante and I'm apparently not allowed to express and interest in writing until I have. There were three requirements, actually: Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare. ... Yeeeaaah. I didn't bother expressing my disagreement. CLEARLY I AM A PLEBE. :[ Well, I suppose I shall fail spectacularly all my life. |
| Sunday, February 10th, 2008 | |
| 10:01 pm | !!! F!S Because I won't talk about it there. I just... I have to say this: Number 19? LOL OPPRESHUN! Anyone who whines about feeling so alooone and heeelpleeess because they don't slash is just... a total loser. Total. Thirty-two is in the same line, but not bad. I mean, it's a case of not having a similar hobby, and also of slash fans expecting non-slash fans to jump on them and being guarded about it. Still. Slash isn't oppressing you. No, really. Oh, and look, there's forty-one, too. Talk about putting slash fans (or yaoi, as the case may be) in a box. XP Say it with me now: Slashing is not a method of oppression! Aaand repeat! |
| Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 | |
| 5:36 am | WHAT WHAT It's like the internet is exploding. People are wanking about a character being mean to a character who tried to kill her. People are wanking about whether or not a quote can be funny unless context is known. PEOPLE ARE WANKING ABOUT PONIES. I know, I know, it's the internet, and am I new here or what, but it seems like I've found myself sliding rather unsuspectingly into it more and more often this... well, just this weekend! And I'm no virginal wank-free flower, either. (Well, not on the internet, anyway.) It's... it's madness, is what it is. Like Sparta. Spartaaa. I guess the crazy part in the last two cases is that I thought the people in those situations were generally friendly to each other and well aware of how to avoid wank (well, in the last case one side was supposedly able to, but has proven me so, so wrong there), and in the first and last the subject... it just boggles my mind. It really does. In more pleasant news, I just saw the Avatar: The Last Airbender pilot episode. It filled me with enough glee that I wasn't entirely sad about the non-appearance of new episodes. (I should get used to it, I suppose; it can't be long before the well is dried up in terms of television scripts, and Late Night might become my last refuge.) In other pleasant news, After School Nightmare! Also Death Note, as I've recently started watching the anime. The bad: they are so very far apart. D: D: D: A month or two in one case, and at least a week in the other. I probably won't sleep tonight. :O |
| Friday, January 4th, 2008 | |
| 4:32 am | For Safekeeping Should it become bigger: http://community.livejournal.com/custom Yeah, I know. CS wank comes ten for a penny. |
| Thursday, November 29th, 2007 | |
| 4:46 pm | Guys Seriously, Doctor Who wank, at least of the Doctor's companion type, is seriously boring. :[ I wish the mice on wank_report would just forget it and that it could not be posted on fandom_wank for, like, a year. Or ever. |
| Monday, October 29th, 2007 | |
| 3:26 am | Bwaha! wank_report's been getting a bit of spam recently, from sex sites to weight loss pills. The norm, really. There's a bit on Engrish in them, though, and I loves me some Engrish.Good afternoon! Have you ever tried to loose weight fast? You may do exercises but the fastest method is cheap phentermine i guess. Phentermine is the most powerful weight loss pill that could save you a lot of time. You may get cheap phentermine (http://web.archive.org/web/20070701060 There is no need for prescription cause you may purchase cheap phentermine without prescription online. Does anyone already tried these pills ? My favorite part? "but the fastest method is cheap phentermine i guess." Way to have faith in your product! "We're the best! ...I guess. You should buy our stuff, maybe. We might be kind of good! I'm not really sure, I've never tried it. I use this other stuff." |
| Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 | |
| 12:26 pm | LOL ILLITER8 In the continuing story of the Scrubs slash copycat, we have accusations of illiteracy because I misread the name and bio (well, switched them, really). And "gosh," we're all idiots! "MAN!" So, yeah, I'm guessing either this is Xce-ntrix and she's running out of steam and falling back on the same insults every author with a paper-thin ego does, or it's a troll who is/has been masquerading as the author to oh-so-cleverly trick us. Because, yeah, if you claim to be the author while signing anonymously, we're idiots to even think it could be possible or to dare addressing you as the person you claim to be! LAWL. I just don't get people like this. How on Earth can they see this as "winning" at all? It just makes me think of Wimp Lo from Kung Pow. "I am bleeding, making me the victor!" and "Try my nuts to your foot style!" Because clearly, when you make yourself look like an idiot on the internet, just like when you jump out from behind a wall and shout "BOOGA BOOGA," you are Teh Winnarz 4EVAR. EDIT: Also, I'm pretty sure that if we could check, we'd find that almost all, if not every single one of those comments posted anonymously were from one person. :P |