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To Free or Not to Free
I have a small bugbear. It really gets my goat when people describe autographs or photo shoots that are included in the ticket price of a convention/event as “free”. I especially hate it when it’s the con organisers or people involved in the running of the con that do it. If they’re are listed on the website as being included in the price THEN THEY ARE NOT FREE. They are not extras. They are not specials. They cannot and should not be held over attendees as a special thing if they complain about something in the running of the con (as in “yeah, but you got all this other stuff…
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This is the James Marsters Queue T-Shirts
Plug, plug, plug… A “This is the James Marsters Queue” T-shirts, bags and badges All products are on sale at CafePress base prices so I am making absolutely no money whatsoever from their sale.
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Buffy’s Message of Failure and Redemption
I still fail to see how a story where a guy who has literally been presented as more animal than man (vampire), manages to stop himself from raping a girl (even when she’s sent him the biggest slew of mixed messages ever) and then gets pushed to brink of insanity with remorse and finally manages to make peace with her and himself before saving the whole fucking world by sacrificing himself is an offensive storyline! Especially when it’s also paired alongside the story of woman who’s driven to a nervous breakdown by years of hardship and horror, who treats him like an animal for her own ends, but ultimately realises…
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Give Me Money
I’ve been active in online fandoms for a frighteningly long time and it’s occurred to me that other people seem to be making a good living by fleecing their friends with barely credible scams and sob stories. Thought it was long past time that I gave it a try. 🙂 My sob story in bullet points… All my sock puppets have been attacked by the – previously thought only to be legendary – gull winged cyber moths and need darning by professional virgins in the mountains of Tibet. My flesh eating plants have eaten my cats My great aunt Ephemera needs money to finance her gambling addiction or she’ll have…
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Bonekickers
If you didn’t watch Bonekickers then OMG, you missed one of the most appalling shows ever made. It was ace in all the wrong ways. But that sounds as if I’m recommending it… I’m not, I’m really not. It was basically the Da Vinci Code, but less intelligent and not as well written. *snort* Shame really as it was by the Life on Mars folks. (NB. The BF refers to Bonekickers as “Life on Uranus”) From BBC comments site for Bonekickers. “Well, if you get rid of the pathetic writers, the appalling actors, put it on another channel and give it a different name they might just be able to rescue…
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On Fat Shaming
Gah, if shaming people promoted weight loss, no one would be overweight. When are people going to learn that being nasty to people who are trying to change doesn’t inspire them? Never teh Bride, Gillian McKeith – Guru or Fraud?
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Stick a pin in it
“I’ve always believed acapuncture[sp] works on the principle that when you stick enough needles in somebody, eventually they’ll stop complaining.” Comment by Kees, Natural Therapies: Healthy or Hogwash?
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On Fandom
Fandom is hilarious. You know how you asked why I go read things that make me cranky? It’s because, at times like these, I regard fandom as an elaborate piece of performance art created entirely for my amusement. Also, masochism. lizbee, in ‘Moffat’s Doctor’
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How the Internet ruined the Doctor Who series 4 finale for it’s own biggest fans
This pretty much applies to any fandom, it’s just Who that’s brought it into sharp focus. For weeks and months leading up the finale, on fan sites up and down the land (and overseas) fans were watching and speculating and thinking, thinking, thinking. Puts “clues” together and forcing pieces to fit into patterns. We (yep, I’m definitely one of them) were thousands strong and one person’s dumb theory gave a gem of an idea to someone else, and that person’s theory may have been dumb too but they passed on a little more to someone else. Thousands of us, plotting and coming up with fantastical ideas that required no budget,…
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Death for Who? Journey’s End Thoughts about Donna
I’m coming to believe that how you feel about the Doctor wiping Donna’s memories can be compared with how you feel about switching off a coma victim’s life support. (Except that the coma victim doesn’t normally beg you not to do it – unless they’re Sam Tyler, when they spend two whole series being emo about it [deliberate Life on Mars reference *wink*]. It’s the begging that makes this 100 times worse. If only she’d suggested it and forced HIM to do it, or even just had it presented as more of a choice and agreed to it.) It’s about quality of life. It’s about whether you think that life…
