I've totally checked out people's public profiles and scanned them for fannishness, but my goal is making new friends, not scoring points. (I'm hesitant to send friend requests to people I've "met" in other contexts unless I'm relatively sure my own geeky ramblings won't scare them away.)
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Jul 17, 2017 6:42:40 am PDT #13924 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Steph L. - Jul 17, 2017 6:44:50 am PDT #13925 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
but my goal is making new friends, not scoring points.
Yeah, I might not have articulated properly -- the creepy part was the fact that he was trying to bust me on lack of fannish cred and therefore proclaim that I have no right to have an opinion.
Gudanov - Jul 17, 2017 6:47:22 am PDT #13926 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
That is on the creepy side.
It seems like such a natural move. You get to open up some fresh ideas and material and there's no reason the Doctor can't be female in the internal logic of the show.
Laura - Jul 17, 2017 6:50:57 am PDT #13927 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
For the record, I did tell him that he was creepy and stalkery and told him to go fuck himself, before I blocked him. Because I'm classy like that.
Thank you for my first outburst of laughter this day.
I'm playing classical music loud an effort to fool the dog and have her not notice the thunder. I don't think it is working.
Dana - Jul 17, 2017 6:52:01 am PDT #13928 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
You get to open up some fresh ideas and material and there's no reason the Doctor can't be female in the internal logic of the show.
Yes, but you leave out the part where these people hate women.
Jessica - Jul 17, 2017 7:07:42 am PDT #13929 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
the creepy part was the fact that he was trying to bust me on lack of fannish cred and therefore proclaim that I have no right to have an opinion.
Oh yeah, I got that.
Silly Broflakes. You wanna go up against a BUFFISTA in a fan-off? Really? We are legion, we are cranky, many of us are professional research librarians, and we have been doing this a LONG LONG TIME.
NoiseDesign - Jul 17, 2017 8:17:52 am PDT #13930 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
Some of the special snowflakes out there amaze me. Women fans run up against the worst of it by far. It just never ceases to amaze me. I've had fans challenge me on horror cred. I'm not a fan, I'm actually the guy making it.
smonster - Jul 17, 2017 8:22:43 am PDT #13931 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
::high-fives Steph::
Right, Jessica? We will destroy you, if we deign to do so.
Atropa - Jul 17, 2017 8:29:46 am PDT #13932 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Steph, that was a great way of dealing with the bro.
I've had fans challenge me on horror cred. I'm not a fan, I'm actually the guy making it.
I've had some of the elitist gatekeeping babygoths challenge me on my goth cred. Apparently I'm not a Real Goth [TM] because I wear color, don't exclusively listen to classic old goth bands, and don't like Joy Division. But I never have to say anything to them -- other people jump in the posts and tell them off.
amych - Jul 17, 2017 9:08:37 am PDT #13933 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Elseweb, one super-conservative bro just went on a whole long self-justifying rant about the fact that he's not mad because they cast a woman! Really! He's super super angry about the fact that the War Doctor broke the regeneration rules and they should never have regenerated again at all!
Second non-bro dude fabulously shut him down with
well, true fans of doctor who believe he should have never regenerated to begin with, the lore was added after the fact. technically, if you stick to the original storyline, the Doctor is still William Hartnell. He's 109, but only in human years.
(both dudes are ex-coworkers of mine who I quite like aside for the politics on #1. But I'm posting here because unlike facebook there is ZERO overlap.)