Well, there's the conclusion to the piece, anyway.
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Jesse - May 22, 2005 4:48:18 pm PDT #7110 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Betsy HP - May 22, 2005 4:48:34 pm PDT #7111 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
What's bothering me is that I, too, am kraxy.
The thing is, real life has continuums. I'm fannish, you're obsessed, he's crazy. You can be obsessive without being crazy. Mostly.
I have the same midnight fears you do, that I'm really the crazy one. It seems to me, for what it's worth, that you still have a sense of proportion, Allyson: you get upset, but you're capable of walking away. The hallmark of the genuinely crazy people is that they never let go.
Typo Boy - May 22, 2005 4:53:50 pm PDT #7112 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
X-post; I should have known you would already be aware of the identification issue. Then especially why not run with it? Use your fear. Write about how how this is [one of] the person[s] you have always been terrified you would turn into.
Allyson - May 22, 2005 4:57:25 pm PDT #7113 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The hallmark of the genuinely crazy people is that they never let go.
That's excellent, Betsy. I wonder how it is that people can hang on to rage for as long as they do. It's an emotion (like any other emotion) that is supposed to have limited sustainability.
Gus - May 22, 2005 4:57:36 pm PDT #7114 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
So why get mad at the kraxyfen?
Don't.
Betsy says the same, in paraphrase.
The thing is, real life has continuums...
BetsyH has the pure view. All hail Betsy.
Allyson - May 22, 2005 5:00:15 pm PDT #7115 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Use your fear. Write about how how this is [one of] the person[s] you have always been terrified you would turn into.
I'll have a hard time making that seem interesting.
Better put meat on the bones and then carefully send out for beta.
Tamara - May 22, 2005 5:05:33 pm PDT #7116 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Let me know how you work this all out, Allyson 'cause my anger at the krazies knows no bounds at this moment.
DavidS - May 22, 2005 5:11:44 pm PDT #7117 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Are you going to be writing about the Kitten board in this section, Allyson?
Because I thought their reaction was overboard, but I could understand it too.
Gus - May 22, 2005 5:14:46 pm PDT #7118 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Tamara, love of my electronic life, I implore you ... Point out these krazies. I shall thump them, in ways that make their mothers rue their birth.
Topic!Cindy - May 22, 2005 5:38:59 pm PDT #7119 of 10001
What is even happening?
Because I thought their reaction was overboard, but I could understand it too.I was a poster there briefly, because they hunted down all the best spoils around that season, because of all the big scooby death rumors. I think Sail might have been too, or there was a similarly named poster, with a similar background. I've always meant to ask. Anyhow...
...Anyhow, I could understand some of it the whole time (there's a real dearth of loving gay relationships that exist outside of the hot chick-on-chick realm, in TV and film, and Tara and Willow were just so darn sweet), and much of it at first. By the end though, the evil there outweighed the grief.
They wrote manifestos about Whedon as homophobe. They kept their board open, but had a double-super seekrit forum for posting about S7.
They started scheduling themselves to post on other boards (primarily the Beta, because of the VIP attention), with the expressed intent of harassing the posters on those other boards.
They allowed no dissent, but did allow posts saying that Joss (or DeKnight, or both, I disremember) had better stay away from windows at personal appearances.
The kitten board crazy became far too crazy to call craxy. Not all of the people who posted there, even at the height of the craziness were crazy, and maybe not even all who stayed through it were crazy. But from the moment Tara said, "Willow...your shirt," the group dynamic type of crazy got bigger than anything else around. I was long gone by then, because it was clear just from the reaction to the spoilers that the crazy was too big to fight, and they started requiring registration to post, and I knew they were too crazy to join. Posts were getting deleted and people were getting bounced if they even questioned the party line.
It's not good to cloister (in fandom at least) to the degree where certain topics or characters are tabboo, and dissent is seen as grounds for expulsion, because sooner or later, the words "the emperor has no clothes" are outlawed, and nobody can admit to the crazy without being seen as killing the group.