Letters and icons

[icepixie]

Dear Mother Nature,

In case it's escaped your notice, this is Nashville. Will you quit with the snow already? Good grief.

Shiveringly yours,
Me

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Dear Long, Clause-Laden Sentences in the Fic I Am Writing,

Where are you coming from? How can I make you stop? One or two for effect are nice, but the fic is starting to read like a Cormac McCarthy novel (only with punctuation), and that is NOT A GOOD THING.

Yours in desperation for periods,
Me

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Dear Jack of All Trades

HOW did you get the Marquis de Sade episode past the censors? I...wow. Just wow.

Astonished,
Me

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Icon meme from fallingtowers. Let me know if you want your own.


Caprica getting nuked to oblivion by the Cylons in the BSG miniseries. The quotation is the title to an exceptionally bitter autobiography by a WWI vet, who basically spends the book lambasting everything about the English social order of the time, the war, etc. etc. It seemed appropriately tumultuous for the beginning of BSG.


My favorite Astaire/Rogers publicity photo (from Roberta) paired with lyrics from Swing Time's "The Way You Look Tonight." The pose comes from the "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" dance, which also happens to be my favorite, 'cause I love gloriously slow dances. It came out of my epic icon-making spree. I don't really post about the films much anymore, but I keep it around for somewhat sentimental reasons (always the best reasons for Fred and Ginger, aren't they?).


Scully yelling "Noooooooo!" as Mulder gets shot in "Monday." A product of my sporadic rewatch this past spring; mostly I find the image amusing, because Big Nos are generally hilarious to me.


One of my favorite events from B5: Ivanova, Delenn, and Lyta staging a rescue of Sheridan after he dies at Z'ha'dum. Okay, so it's not successful, but for 1997 or whenever this aired, it's still pretty awesome that they're taking over the war. "Strength" is also an accurate descriptor; not only are they strong in the face of personal grief over Sheridan's apparent death and the consequent near-fracturing of the alliance, all three of them are strong characters in their own ways.


Peter and Olivia from Fringe talking to the nutty Star Trek fan in...uh, whatever episode that was. Late S1, I think maybe "The Road Not Taken"? Anyway, the fact that Peter's enough of a fan to play along with the crazy informant by telling him to live long and prosper makes me giggle. (P.S. Fringe returns tomorrow! Eeeeee!)

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Oh damn, don't make me laugh like that while my lungs are pissed at me!! (The sooner this hacking cough goes away, the happier I will be!)

I am really wondering, having sort-of attempted to get into his head for a moment (eww!), to just what extent he hates women. It seems to me that he must. (Either that or he's a sociopath, which I wouldn't rule out based on the intensely negative crap he spews.) And, having worked for a woman who despises women, we can't rule out the possibility that he's a she.

I have this terrible feeling that we should, perhaps, be pitying him. But...nah.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I am really wondering, having sort-of attempted to get into his head for a moment (eww!), to just what extent he hates women.

You know, when we were discussing this, and icepixie (hi!) said she thought that this poster was a girl, just based on the whole Theories About Girls! thing? It didn't even cross my mind - and reading this comment kind of put it together for me.

So, here's the thing: my brother is a chauvinist. And a sexist, and a misogynist. However you want to put it. And he's really big on the whole "what women should be like" thing. So he has all these double standards about what is and isn't acceptable behavior. His male friends can do something and it's cool; if his girlfriend does the exact same thing, he screams at her. (Example: canceling plans.) It's not even about stereotypical female roles; he just holds women to a higher standard. And they always don't meet it - because women are people, too, and therefore flawed - so he's always justified in calling women horrible names and treating them like shit.

When I kept going back and forth with him about how the male characters on the show do the same stuff as Delenn, but he never brings those things up, just uses her actions as justification for why she's a horrible character, it was basically the same thing. I can't say that he hates women necessarily, but there is that kind of attitude.

Now, how all that fits in with his interpretation of Kosh as a sadistic bastard who tortures people for fun and treats all the humans like his puppets and just "rewrites personalities" for the fun of it...I have no idea.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

It's not even about stereotypical female roles; he just holds women to a higher standard. And they always don't meet it - because women are people, too, and therefore flawed - so he's always justified in calling women horrible names and treating them like shit.

You might have just described the most misogynistic woman I've ever met--which is the thing that makes sussing this guy out so difficult. Plenty of feminist women hold other women to an impossible standard in the hope that they'll outshine all the men, so...could still be a girl. But there is definitely that sense of justification in treating women terribly because they're not perfect enough, either way.

I actually kind of wonder if that's part of why he sticks around--if he's figured out that we're all women and therefore enjoys taunting us all the more.

Now, how all that fits in with his interpretation of Kosh as a sadistic bastard who tortures people for fun and treats all the humans like his puppets and just "rewrites personalities" for the fun of it...I have no idea.

Yeah, me either. In fact, that's part of why I had a slightly easier time ignoring his lengthy reply to the post today--it was just so far out of absolutely nowhere that I couldn't even begin to compose anything that would have been coherent in response. All the random screaming would have just looked hysterical, and even considering it made my brain hurt.