Hmm - I personally enjoy Morgana's snark.

And just for perspective, one can really dislike one aspect of a show and still enjoy the show overall. Let me take an example that I've never seen any strong passion about. Medium is a show I came to late and really enjoy. But there is a subtext that drives me into a rage. People who disobey the law are evil - unless they are cops and friends with the main character. Then they are indpendent thinkers. They even took a poke at the innocence project where the guy was innocent of the crime he'd been convicted of, but the cop who framed him (the main characters friend) did so because he got away with a different rape-murder. So the cop who did the frameup was the good guy and the innocence project were a bunch of not good interfering trouble makers, probably with nefarious motives, but at any rate indifferent to the horrible real life consequence of their interference. And this was not the only Medium where we've seen this. Civil liberties are just this horrible irrational thing that makes it harder for good cops to do their job. And Medium is one of the more liberal cop shows out there. Closer is far worse. Anyone who "lawyers up" is a scumbag ect...

And I really hate that aspect of cop shows. But some of the best writing and acting out there is on cop shows. So I don't let the fact that I think cop shows really do long term damage to our society stop me from enjoying them. I mean I think they have played a huge role in the tolerance we have for torture, and the exaggerated fear of crime in the face of a crime rate that has fallen for decades that leads to weak support for civil liberties. But I'm not going to let that stop me from watching cop shows any more than the Tudor propaganda aspect of Shakespeare's plays kept them from competing successfully against bear baiting.

I would say I have a far more serious problem with cop shows than Morgana has with the treatment of Sam, and yet it does not keeping from enjoying them. I presume most people on this board have a problem with sexism. So does that mean we can't enjoy 19th century literature about 99% of which had horribly sexist attitudes?

So you can ask how someone can enjoy a show they have huge problems with. But it seems to me a fairly easy question to answer.

The good news: I found an extensive rec. page to feed my new Castiel cravings. [link]

The bad news: it's in red and white text on a black background. Is there a way to override blogspot styles? If it were lj I'd put "?style=mine" at the end of the url, but I don't know from this blogging platform. I want to explore the offerings, but the color choices kinda make me want to claw my eyeballs out of my skull. And that would interfere with reading the fic.

And I apologize for the critical commentary if this is a secret project of someone at b.org that I didn't know about, but that color combo is kind of like the anti-readability design scheme. (And when you mouse over one of the red title links, they change to black. On a black background. Did I mention it's a long, long list addressing a new obsession?)

Calli, your browser should let you override the styling, but how depends on which one you use.

While I was chasing down Dean/OMC I found an interesting fic whose second and third chapters were dark grey on black text. I have no idea what that was about.

I can't wait to hit up that list too...so much to do!

Calli, Readability is a lifesaver for those pages.

And askye, hot damn, that fic was AWESOME.

Man, I hate making typos.

Oh, readability is fantastic! Thank you, Amy.

If you use Firefox, turn you styles off by choosing View PageStyle NoStyle. Most browsers can do the same with slightly different commands.

Massive X-post, and yeah readability is even better.

Baseball (I think . . .some damned sport) is screwing up my Thursday evening horrory goodness: VD is delayed 'til 10:30 Central and SPN 'til 11:30. That's if the game doesn't go long.

I like readability because I don't have to remember to turn styles back on when I'm done with a given site. But thanks for walking me through how to do so.

I'm sorry, sumi.

Ailleann introduced me to Readability and it's one of the many, many reasons I love her.

If I had to screw with styles in Firefox, it ... would not be good.

VD is delayed 'til 10:30 Central and SPN 'til 11:30. That's if the game doesn't go long.

Sorry sumi. That's crazy troll logic.