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Today, after an hour of mysterygoogling with Livi, I got really bored and put in this:

"Casey/Ira/Tash = OT3"

The response?

"aids are delicious like aborted fetuses"

MLIA.

Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favorites and why I love them.

Do it! Do it or I will be forced to edit this post and gush about your characters anyways. I am not even joking. :)

Okay, so. I've tried to restraint my anger with the Rome fandom to a few tamped-down comments here and there. But it's not going away, so here's my space to scream and rage a bit. Feel free to ignore this post.

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Not that there isn't a perfectly simple explanation. There is! And it's that in fandom, manly angst takes precedence over women's actual suffering and trauma.

SCREW YOU ALL.

ETA: ...I feel a little better now.

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Thoughts on Rome: Vorena makes me cry. She is, in my opinion, both the bravest and the most tragic of the characters on the show, and I love her, and what she goes through makes me want to cry. And I'm glad that despite the focus on the male characters, the show doesn't once make me feel as if she should be blamed. (Unlike the show's fans.)

On Merlin: I LOVE FREYA KIND OF A LOT. A WHOLE LOT. **criiiies**

( from comment on camelot_fleet. spoilers )

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Can we goddamn fucking well get rid of the "female characters used only to advance/influence male characters' plot/emotions?"

From tavella:

But... I'm just not very optimistic, because the real problems I have with the show are less with character arcs and plot holes (though they don't help), but underlying principles. The constant gender!fail -- when a producer bursts into laughter at the suggestion that Morgana and Gwen could have their own episode, that's not a sign anyone is thinking it's a problem. And of course, the whole having Arthur leading the slaughter of a village and then thinking it doesn't even have to be addressed.

Maybe not.



THE ONLY WORTHWHILE THING IN THIS SHOW. Well, Freya can stay too.

( quote that, for the moment, sum up my general feelings. more coherent post probably to come later. spoilers )

On rereading The Vampire Diaries: I love how the explanation for why, in the end, Elena is not at all afraid of Stefan basically boils down (from somewhat flowery terms, as Stefan is a bit of a sap regarding Elena) to 'she totally tops and she knows it.'

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What do you do when the fun is gone?

I LOVE AND ENDORSE THIS SENTIMENT.

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I am going to be spending all day tomorrow on NaNo. This means I will not be online at all. If you need to get a hold of me, ask Erin or Bijou to text me. I may take a break to come talk really quick if you absolutely need me. <3

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Whenever someone says Jo was 'too immature'--ostensibly in general but, it is fairly easy to discern, meaning 'for Dean'--I have to laugh. By anyone's estimate, Jo Harvelle is a great deal more mature than Dean Winchester.

Let's see...wants to strike out on her own, seems perfectly capable of it. Doesn't collect venereal diseases like stamps. Behaves with maturity, is self-contained, isn't a total sleaze. Independent, quick and clever, capable...although Dean may have those qualities, too.

Just--can't you shut up now that [spoiler] has happened?.

Supernatural has been leaving me with a bad taste in my mouth for far too long. It's amazing how you run into this stuff when you no longer have the slightest amount of interest in the canon and never had an interest in the fanon.

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I... did not expect to actually complete this, this month. It's a good job my BFF is as inspiring as she is. And I've definitely forgotten to add some tags from RoS/OUAD but the thought of going back and adding kind of horrifies me. I'll keep it up until the 30th and see how much I've got.

EDIT: 22,871 is from 2 PSLs which I've done in about... a week I believe. I'm kind of impressed with myself.

I have been watching Rome.

Surprise! I am fond of it. It is, in some ways, all about the menz, but the female characters are fabulous, despite the fact that their lives seem to revolve around the male characters--I think that's not unreasonable for the time period. There was--GODDAMNIT--what I would definitely classify as a fridging, but I'm hanging on for the other women. I don't actually know that there are any male characters besides season 1 Octavian where I'm actually interested in finding out what happens to them, never mind liking them. The fandom corners I've dipped my toes in are full of raging misogyny--how dare she be angry with the man that caused her mother's death! How dare she try to move on and pursue a life of her own after her husband's death! Bitch, slut, whore, etc--as to be expected, I suppose. But I love the way the show never makes me feel as though I'm intended to blame Niobe for her choices, or Eirene or Vorena for their anger. And while male characters are shown as sympathetic after doing terrible things, female characters are too. Which is really cool.

The sets are pretty fantastic, and I'm told that it goes to great lengths for historical accuracy. I think they do a really good job of making the characters' certain outdated views understandably their own without supporting it textually, which far too many shows/movies fall into doing.

My favorite characters are Eirene and Octavia, but even the female characters I find reprehensible are fascinating. The male characters are well written as well, but a lot of the qualities I'm intended to find interesting and sympathetic fall flat.

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So, this morning I was woken up by my dad being scared and thinking he was having a heart attack basically. I woke up 'Steph, get out of bed, you need to take me to the hospital.' Bit scary as beyond that he wasn't very forthcoming with information because he was having trouble breathing. My mum was down south visiting my aunt and so a few hours away. It turned out not to be a heart attack or anything to do with his heart, luckily. They think it's a stomach ulcer though my dad thinks otherwise. It was still kind of scary. He got saw quickly and had an ECG? and then we had to wait for a while.

It's just so much is piling on at once. Little things which are slowly adding up to big things. Even without this I'm emotionally wobbly right now. I'm just waiting for another thing to be added on. Usually RP is my escape but that isn't helping. In fact I'm dreading it. I look at things I have to tag and nothing is coming. Nothing wants to come. It's more than just this thing with dad or family stuff. It was before this and it's being going on for months. For a long time I've been kind of... numb. I take a lot of things in my stride but the past few months have been emotionally hard for me and really I'm not sure why. It isn't like I've been through much but... I don't even known. It's just been hard.

Hopefully the end of that is here soon though. I have tags I should do but... I just can't face that right now.

WHO ORDERED THE WHOOP ASS FAJITA?!

"If" Black Women Were White Women"

Written, apparently, in the style of 'What if Men Could Menstruate' by Gloria Steinem. To quote fiction_theory: There is some discussion of sexual assault in the essay - but I feel it is worth it.

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The fall of Grindlewald had set the Wizarding World at peace once more thanks to the efforts of Albus Dumbledore and a small band of people wishing to fight the good fight. That same band of people would be brought forth from the ashes in the future to fight a budding threat…or that would have been the case. You see though that isn’t how this story goes. Voldemort’s rise to power was much different here. Tempered with wise council Tom Riddle came to the decision that taking the Wizarding world over by terror was not as wise as winning them over from within. After all, the old adage went you caught more flies with honey than vinegar. At twenty-five the charismatic young man has made quite a name for himself. The Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic himself Tom has been master behind the puppet for two years now. The time has come to cut the strings though, to let the truth be known of who is behind all the good being done. There are those though that think ill of all the good being done. There are those like the wise old Albus Dumbledore that knows what truth lies in the heart of Undersecretary Riddle. It has yet to be seen how the cards will be laid out, though. Power Corrupts is a Riddle Era Alternate Universe Harry Potter Role Play set in 1951. Voldemort was a name barely mumbled among trusted friends these days and Tom Riddle is the master behind the thrown. There is change on the horizon though and it is anyone’s guess how things will turn out in the end. Premise Available Rules Application Taken Characters Friend All Player Contact