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SPN fandom is at it again, but this time in a truly horrifying way that is hard to even comprehend.

Someone has written a J2 AU Bigbang set in post-earthquake Haiti. She uses the setting of a massive (RECENT) disaster that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Haitians as a prop and a background for a love story between two white men.

....

Better people than I have said many things about this, and they are all worth reading. There is nothing that ISN'T wrong about this, including the author's reactions to criticisms falling back on the old "I didn't MEAN to" trope. We know this fandom often fails, but this is a particularly pungent brand of privilege and racism that turns my stomach.

Please read about it and say something, as the OP at that link says.
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*whine whine whine*

I woke up this morning with pink eye! Not surprising, since my roommate has it, but BLEH. Additionally, when I woke up it was 10:20, and my class started at 10. Whoops. I kind of sighed and started getting ready to make it to my 11 oclock. I get into school and... there IS no class! It's "reading week" for the humanities, which I just thought meant no tutorials, but apparently no lectures as well! So I trudged home, went grocery shopping (FOOD YAYE) and am now contemplating if I want to make the effort to trudge all the way BACK to school to see the doctor.

Meh.

I'm still stressing about the money that I'm spending. Some of the pairs of MCR tickets I was watching ended up selling for muuuch cheaper than we paid, which, um, was unexpected because all the other ones went up to over 100 pounds per pair in the last minutes. Dammit. Also I keep putting off buying the plane tickets because it's so expensive! >.< My dad can be zen about this all he wants, but it doesn't change that I fucked up pretty badly :-/ The only thing that's keeping me from hating myself is that I did this for a friend, and if I hadn't I would have let her down badly. There's no way we could have known other tickets were going to go cheaper, because none of the others did, so that's not really our fault. We're going to have an amaaazing time - if I manage to get there. So. Chin up! Stiff upper lip and all that! (also, FRAAAANKIE)

My flist is distinctly unentertaining right now. I seem to inhabit this weird corner of fandom (no matter what fandom I'm in at any given time) where I don't see any of the actual wank, but I see people talking ABOUT the wank and how stupid it is to wank in the first place. I always agree with those posts, but I don't think they do any good. People are going to wank, period. It's stupid and annoying but it's a fact of fan life. I just close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears and go "lalalala" until it goes away. Like Mikey and Gerard in that one fic whenever their brother's sex life was brought up, hahaha. Good times.

Okay before I got around to posting this I bought my plane tickets. 116 Euro. On my American debit card so conversion fees apply.

Sigh. I kind of want to cry. But I have a flight now. I have a flight and concert tickets and a place to sleep. I think I'll survive.

*deeeeep breaths*

I'm gonna go watch Heroes to make me feel better.

August 2023

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