Veni Vidi Vivi

Gah.

Clearly I was hit by the tired stick tonight. I am moving sloooowly and my head wishes for sleep.

It was a crazy busy day. But tomorrow should be easier AND tomorrow is Order of the Phoenix!!!! I have tickets, a cape with Hogwarts badge on, and I am ready to go. Volide inna suit, here I come!!!

This evening I acquired necessary dress up items for Millicon. This pleases me muchly. I was so very sad because some things I'd planned on wearing for LARP and for HP 7 release most definitely do not fit anymore. I think I have reached my limit for girth allowance. When I am back and recovered from next week, it's back to the gym in earnest for me!

Is it can be sleep tiem nao? Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Hmm...

I was saddened by the loss of pornish_pixies, mostly for the authors who wrote there. I've read many a fine smutty story featuring adults who were not related in any way to each other! I think it's ridiculous for a business to commit such knee-jerk reactions that go against their ToS, when you get right down to it. I think it's terribly pathetic when a small, vocal, wacko group can wreak havoc with their threats.

I am going to take some actions. I'll turn off my automatic bill payments. I'm changing my interests to only one - "freedom of speech", as suggested by a few folks I saw while catching up this evening. I joined fandom_counts (and will be joining with each of my RP journals). However, I'm not going to leave LJ. It's been my online home since 2002, and I quite like it here. They made a big mistake. We'll take a stand, and I bet we'll be heard. They'll learn from this and make the rules and the ToS better.

I am also going to make myself possibly unpopular here, but this is a topic I feel strongly about. The sexualization of children in our culture is a real and scary thing. It makes me extremely uncomfortable to even hear about chan and other pedophilia-esque forms of fiction (including the incest ones), much less read it. It, I feel, doesn't belong in an easily accessed public forum (if anywhere at all, to tell you the truth). I know - believe me, I know - that what you read and write isn't what you do, and most of the folks who read stories like these are normal fandom folks, but I have absolutely no problem with having that kind of content purged from LJ.

Now if you're talking age of consent and older (or for heavens sake, at least 16! Please???), they can do what they like in fiction (though I feel strongly that extreme NC-17 fic should be kept under lock, just out of courtesy to those who shouldn't be exposed to it yet). But the line between "just for fun fiction" and depiction of adult acts with a child is one that I feel is dangerous to cross. It's not free speech, in my opinion, to weed it out, and I don't mind one bit that it's gone. If that extends to an RP character, well, sorry. Pretendy funtime games should be pretendy funtime games, and not include illegal acts against tweenage children or younger.

ETA Yes, I know that real literature contains situation when pedophilia is written about, and that fanfic about the topic can be therapeutic. This is when the Supreme Court definition of obscene comes in. Is it a prurient fic about Tom inna Diary screwing Ginny Weasley at age eleven, or is it an account of an incest survivor's experience? These are two totally different subjects. I am much more concerned about the former.

Now do I agree with the nutjobs behind the latest furor? Uh, hell no. But I have to wonder if the nutjobs voices get loud enough for the mainstream to hear because the mainstream doesn't speak loudly enough on this particular topic.

*steps off soap box*

Even with my strong feelings on the subject of pedophilia, I do recognize the creep of censorship. I don't feel that LJ was wise to make blanket deletions of journals based by interests alone, and I will stand up for my freedom of expression.

I watched some of the Lost Season 2 dvd's! And then I fell asleep during my viewing.

So tired. Today was not a great day. But I am making long range plans to do something about it. And I dragged myself to the gym even though I wanted to stay home and whine. Go me.

I now muster up real enthusiasm for this:


And even more for this:
Happy birthday mecuriazs and twintailmadb and rhymester!!!

Now I go crawl into bed. Zzzzzzzzz....

At my house, Steve Irwin was loved and appreciated. My husband, who is criticial of all things pop culture and who thinks most movies are stupid or annoying and refuses to watch them, loved the Crocodile Hunter movie. We watched all the shows, including the later Crocodile Hunter Diaries that focused more on the zoo and its workings. So I am sad Steve died. He was a good guy and did a lot for the environment and for Australian wildlife.

There have been semi-comparisons made between Steve and the naturalist who was eaten by the bear in Alaska. Steve, for all his goofiness, respected animals, knowing they could kill you with one sudden movement if you weren't careful.

I find it highly ironic that it wasn't a venomous snake or a powerful crocodile that killed him, but a sting ray (which I am sure will now be touted as much fiercer than the species is).

Sigh.

Ooh, sit_good_dog tagged me, and I hardly ever get tagged!


How about your five current favorite movies?
1. Amadeus
2. Pirates of the Caribbean (just because it's so much fun)
3. The Dresser
4. Neverwhere (I am counting it as a movie, so there)
5. Star Wars

And I shall tag silveraspen, tigerlilyaj, jmcgarry, miraielle, and indy_go.

On a slightly less la la la note, the situation in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is actually starting to get to me, and I am one of those hardened weirdos for whom disasters don't usually effect. I've stopped watching coverage.

I think what is upsetting me most is how an entire city can go from lovely, cultured place to disaster zone filled with scary, Lord of the Flies-like people so quickly.

I got absolutely nothing done today. No writing, no making of cd's like I planned. I was also not able to find good cape material - but I haven't checked the good fabric stores yet. Monday just comes way too fast.

I am also quite devastated that The Simpsons episode in which Lisa meets JKR isn't to show till next season. How cruel.

Oh, I did do one thing. I made my first Ebay purchase. A Hogwarts patch for my cape. And I called Mom and Aunt and Mom-in-law, so that counts for something.

Must work 15 minutes a day on writing. Must spell check my posts before sending. Must maintain sanity till I have some time off.

FAIRY TALE

nce upon a time there has a young SCIENTIST named SEVERUS. He was JOYOUSLY WRINGING in the ORANGE forest when he met BRILLIANT TOM, a run-away PROFESSOR from the OBNOXIOUS Queen MINERVA.

SEVERUS could see that BRILLIANT TOM was hungry so he reached into his TUPPERWARE and give him his TOWERING QUICHE. BRILLIANT TOM was thankful for SEVERUS's QUICHE, so he told SEVERUS a very MAD story about Queen MINERVA's daughter HERMIONE. How her mother, the OBNOXIOUS Queen MINERVA, kept her locked away in a CASTLE protected by a gigantic KNEAZLE, because HERMIONE was so GLISTENING.

SEVERUS SWUM. He vowed to BRILLIANT TOM the PROFESSOR that he would save the GLISTENING HERMIONE. He would SMOOSH the KNEAZLE, and take HERMIONE far away from her eveil mother, the OBNOXIOUS Queen MINERVA, and FLING her.

Then, all of the sudden, there was a VERDENT TIDAL WAVE and BRILLIANT TOM the PROFESSOR began to laugh. With a puff of smoke he turned into the gigantic KNEAZLE from his story. OBNOXIOUS Queen MINERVA SKATED out from behind a WAND and struck SEVERUS dead. In the far off CASTLE you could hear a BAM.

THE END.

Make your own Fairy Tale at fuali.com

This was pretty damn funny.

So I didn't post at all yesterday cos I was watching the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. P and I have watched religiously for about 10 years now. Love those doggies! Although if I could own a dog, I would either get a mix from the animal rescue or a Greyhound from Greyhound rescue. But it's still fun to see all of the breeds. Except the fucking poodles. I hate the poodles and they always win at least one category. LET THE HAIR GROW. LET THEM BE DOGS!

My car is in the shop. $275 this time, and the clutch is wearing out. The mechanic advised driving it till it goes out and maybe trading it. It's been an a wesome car but it's 11 years old and it passed 123,456 miles a few weeks ago. Sigh. But we do have some savings for a new car now, so that's good.

Well, must go watch Tuesday night shows on silveraspen's new big ass tv. And I mean big. 50 inches of Spike and Lex. And man, does that sound bad actually written ;)