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Is it time to break out the "Panic! At the LJ" tag again?

I think it is.

I'm pretty sure Pingbacks don't ping from locked posts.

Yes, people can crosspost comments, and there's clearly a not-insignificant chance that if they have cross-posting set up they might do it accidentally because it's set up poorly (and why would they want to crosspost their COMMENTS, anyhow?)

But... uhm. People could post your unlocked LJ entries to FB if they wanted to before. It just took a little more effort and wasn't quite so "look at my comment, aren't I witty" self-serving. It's not like I don't randomly post blog entries that catch my eye to Facebook regularly.

Yes, it's poorly set-up. Yes, there's a chance for abuse and for mistakes. But I'm still getting mountain-out-of-molehill vibes.

This video is odd. I mean, clearly it's aimed at an age-bracket higher than mine. But even then, this video doesn't seem like it would work for anyone who has a) dealt with that exact situation with an actual insurance agency or b) is pro-choice and sees no connection between surgery for old people and abortions (and/or women's health services, considering that most money going to Planned Parenthood isn't spent on abortions at all.)



Opinions?


And to make up for the rage-inducement, I'll picspam Gabourey Sidibe later.

Dear book defacer,

I understand that this children's book about Sodom and Gomorrah focuses on the Sodomites' hatred for strangers and uncharitability, but cuts out the rape and the fact that Lot's daughters fucked him and got pregnant at the end of the story. However! Please refrain from writing about those things in the margins again.

And if you do plan to do it again, remember that anything you write in pencil can and will be erased.

No thanks,
Ryuu
Thankless library intern

Why hello there, Lambdawank! I believe you shall be extremely useful during my Yaoicon panel. After I'm done headdesking, anyway.

Basic rundown: Lambda Literary Awards clarifies rules to make it clear that it's an award for books about and by LGBT people. Cue lots of straight slash writers flailing all over the place.

Linkspam picked it up here.

I'm thinking of going through and picking out choice bits for my panel "What's a Nice Lesbian Like You Doing in a Fandom Like This". Any suggestions from the peanut gallery?

I'm pretty sure the webcomic Wicked Alchemy has ripped off my favorite tabletop RPG, In Nomine.

The problem is that IN uses some pretty general biblical stuff-- you see "elohim" a lot in biblical literature, and the same with Seraphim and Cherubim.

But it feels like there's enough tip-off for me to get my hackles up. There are seven types each of angels and demons, and the types are all pretty near the name of the type in In Nomine, and they all have similar powers. Also, the musical references: "resonate", "Angelic Choirs", "Demonic Bands" are pretty IN-specific.
Compare the IN MUSH's description of the Choirs with the Wicked Alchemy version of the same.

(Hell, I'd like to point out that I found these when someone posted this meme-- and I originally mistook it for an IN-based meme.)

I found one mention of the game at the top of the Celestials page, pretty hidden (it's not at the top of the Histories & Stories page, where everything is linked, not at the top of the Angelic or Demonic pages, and it's certainly NOT on the credit page.) So, there's credit given, just not where anyone's likely to find it. I didn't even see it there until cpip pointed it out.

cpip thinks I should check with archangelbeth about the most appropriate person at Steve Jackson Games to direct this to. What do the rest of you think?

And if you don't know In Nomine, you should buy the books, you bastards. And then run a game for me. D:

Dude, I'm sorry we made your penis feel small. Do you want us to beg you to come back?

Sheer and utter FAIL, Harry Potter fandom.

What bothers me even more is that a number of people apparently didn't know the term "miscegenation" and thus the daily_deviant mods could define the term in a stupid and really fucking offensive way, and otherwise well-meaning people ended up thinking that was the actual meaning and that it was OKAY.

FAIL. Epic fucking fail, people.

You even got me distracted enough that I didn't post the book quotes I had all ready and everything!



... Strangely, I pulled a book titled The Interracial Dating Guide For Black Women Who Want to Date White Men off a book cart today. The author uses the pseudonym "Adam White" (COUGH). Maybe I'll do some quotes from it tomorrow, instead of the book I was planning-- that is, if I don't want to burn the book/author.

FOX News discovers 4chan and 420chan. Epic FAIL ensues.

Or epic LULZ. For, as FOX says, "They do it for what they call 'lulz'."

Domestic terrorists! Exploding vans! Gay porn! Myspace! Anime porn! Motivator posters! IF YOU ARE NOT WITH US YOU ARE AGAINST US!

Apparently, reading my LJ is "like pouring sugar in your eyes." Good to know!

(No. Seriously. WTF?)

Racewank always makes me want to write a tl;dr post about my fandom habits and kinks, and analyze them in light of current gender norms and racial prejudices.

And then I try to work it all out and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Because, yes, I am well aware that I do, on occasion, fetishize Black and Asian men. I have a kink for androgyny. Tattoos and piercings turn me on. I like fantisizing about what, in most literature, would be termed "Other."

After all, I'm a short, well-educated, middle-class Caucasian girl.

And then I start trying to fit in my religion, and something in the back of my brain points out that to some people being Jewish means I'm not White. Granted, I can pass, but my Whiteness is certainly questionable by some lights.

I mean, Jews have areally weird history when it comes to dealing with ethnic minorities-- nannies, for instance, are common, and what with the whole civil rights movement, and the huge fights over whether jews are White or not... There's the whole "epidemic" of Jewish women adopting Chinese babies that's been going on for a few years now. And this is a total tangent, but it gets wrapped up in my race issues.

And I want to focus on simple appreciation, because why is it inappropriate for me to appreciate a certain cant to features, or a certain body type, or skin tone? Is the fact that I think the facial features of a certain set of Asian men attractive any more or less appropriate than someone who likes, say, redheads?

Not to mention the subset to my Black guy thing: which is that I find the stereotypical thug unappealing,and the black men that I like are the ones who look and act intelligent-- is this simply filed under my appreciation for intelligence along with my pretty? Or can it be read as a back-handed complimentwhere the rest of my subconcious has issues with the "dangerous, unintelligent animal" stereotype of a Black guy?

Am I allowed to say that there are certain black men whose abs I find quite lickable? And there are some nice Asian men that I wouldn't mind touching in naughty places?

... ... And that there's a certain chubby white chick that really should be in my bed right now because she's hotter than all the Black guys in the world?


Fuck this shit. I don't need to analyze my kinks because they ARE my kinks. If it's racist to like what I like, that's not going to stop me from being attracted to it-- all it does is make me feel guilty for fantasies (well, the white girl one isn't a fantasy, but she's not in my bed right now, and should be.) So, here. Have visual aids. Go ahead. Tell me it's wrong.

( Visual Aids ahead. By which I mean half-naked men.Collapse )