I like spoilers sometimes and do not want them other times. If it is a creative work that I think I will enjoy, I am much less likely to want spoilers in terms of plot. I feel like casting spoilers are barely spoilers.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Aug 11, 2011 7:30:12 am PDT #20137 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
zuisa - Aug 11, 2011 7:42:04 am PDT #20138 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I also am very suspicious about that spoiler study. There are a couple shows where I don't care (sitcoms, mostly) but any show I am even the slightest bit invested in, I just do not want to know. And books? Forget it. It takes hours and hours and hours to read a book, and so I just absolutely no not want to know what is going to happen.
This is proving problematic right now, in fact, as I want to both watch Game of Thrones and start reading A Song of Ice and Fire, but whichever I do first will spoil the other. Quite a conundrum.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2011 8:14:45 am PDT #20139 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There is now a rum drink with the same name as my sister. Which is weird, but now that I think of it, there's been a rum drink with almost the same name as my sister for the longest time. Still odd.
My midyear performance review! It was due Monday! Don't they understand they have to remind me constantly? I wonder if that's a question on the review. I can't even remember if 1 is good or 4 is good. Suck.
Tom Scola - Aug 11, 2011 8:15:17 am PDT #20140 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Cat Fashion Show. The cats are not amused.
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2011 8:19:38 am PDT #20141 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But are they as sad as the sad etsy dogs?
OK, they're more pissed than sad.
eta: And why are so many of these cats hairless? Are people more prone to dress up their cats if the cats are hairless?
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2011 8:22:38 am PDT #20142 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh dear. Tattooed sphynx cats dressed in S/M gear: [link]
I think we've had the "is tattooing hairless cats wrong?" discussion before....
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2011 8:26:41 am PDT #20143 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What is wrong with people? Why would you do that to an animal? I don't get it.
Okay, half of my midyear review completed. God, I wish I were more verbose. Yeah, that.
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2011 8:28:04 am PDT #20144 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What is wrong with people? Why would you do that to an animal? I don't get it.
Yeah, me neither.
Jesse - Aug 11, 2011 8:31:34 am PDT #20145 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What is wrong with people?
SRSLY!!
DavidS - Aug 11, 2011 8:33:05 am PDT #20146 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Why would you do that to an animal? I don't get it.
Because people see their pets as an extension of themselves.
Or sometimes just as their property.
I don't endorse these notions, but I think that's the logic.