Oh, the epic WTF-ery, it stings and burns...

[zinnith]

Okay, so between the fail marathon of the SGU-writers (yeah, I said I'd give it a fair chance but I think I'm changing my mind) and this sad excuse for a human being, I only have this public announcement to make:


*hides under the bed until all the stupid has gone away*


Good things: Leverage! I want Parker to be my crazy sexy girlfriend! I want to take Hardison home and keep him! Why is there only one ep left on my harddrive?

sgabigbang status report: 43,5k

Comments

[wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie, is there room under your bed for me too?!? I just made the mistake of skimming John C. Wright's... I don't even know words strong enough to describe that sludge of deliberately hateful... thing. The man has the soul of a Nazi.
I need brain bleach & alcohol wipes for my eyes now, plz.

:: shudders in disgust & fear ::

Every once in a while it just hits me that there are people out there who want to hurt & kill me, yes, me. I know that intellectually; but usually I'm pretty good at not feeling it. The monsters aren't under the bed, they're out walking around.

I guess that makes me lucky, that I don't feel that most of the time, eh? Jezus, how depressing is that??

On a lighter note, I love Rodney above! Did you make that? :-)

[zinfic.livejournal.com]

*makes room for you*

God, I couldn't even finish that post. It made me physically ill. And that man calls himself a Christian? His bible must be a lot different from the one I used to have.

I think I'm lucky too, beeing able to keep that distance. If I couldn't, I probably wouldn't dare go outside in fear of the wolves. I don't even know how to handle it, other than keep doing the best I can to be a better person than them in every possible way. (And even that feels wrong somehow. We shouldn't have to prove ourselves to be worthy, they should.)

I accept responsibility for tiredofidiots!Rodey *g*

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

What really disturbed me about that article is that embedded among the hate rhetoric were one or two points that made sense... and because I could see that, I wondered what the heck was wrong with me. It's insidious the way this type of person can tie in things that you might have a problem with (protraying drug use in a positive light on televison) with things that have no bearing on the matter whatsoever (diversity in televison) so that if you support one, you must somehow support the other as well.

It really burns me up in this country the way a certain segment of the population has excelled at this, and if you somehow don't support *their* viewpoint, you aren't a 'real' American. They've got some really smooth marketing people working for them, that's all I can say. *sigh*

[zinfic.livejournal.com]

Yep, I know what you mean. I think they just take everything they don't like and put it together into one big raging ball of hate. I prefer to take little bits of dislike and apply them where necessary.

Now, the 'real American' thing, I don't get. Shouldn't, you know, being a citizen qualify you as a real American, or am I getting it all wrong?

Of course, over here everyone is Swedish, to the point where identifying as Iranian or Somalian or Turkish or Kurdish or whatever is almost frowned upon. We're definitely not racist, God forbid. It doesn't matter what colour you are or where you were born, as long as you're Swedish and speak the language and lay off the ethnic clothes and blend in like a good Swede. (Sorry, different rant...)

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Argh. Don't get me started on the 'real' American thing. Apparently it applies only to people who believe the 'right' things.

Sometimes I think we as a nation as seriously messed up.

I meant to add, hooray for all of you being Swedes! How very nice and refreshing. At least the blending in requirement is better than the racial profiling that goes on here--hey, if you're a POV in the 'wrong' neighborhood at night, the cops might well stop you and ask what business you have in the area...

but then I am distinctly disgruntled today and am thinking maybe I should just stop commenting and posting to everything in general until I get out of this particualr snit. :-(

[zinfic.livejournal.com]

Well, I should've said that's the official view of things... When it boils down to it, being an immigrant at the wrong place at the wrong time can still get you in a lot of trouble.

One of my co-workers at the Dungeon of Doom had to tell the customers his name was Anders because the bosses didn't think people would trust a guy named Ahmed. (It was actually kind of hilarious listening to his calls since it was so obvious he was lying - he speaks perfect Swedish but with a noticeable middle eastern accent.) He also told me the story of the time his car alarm suddenly went off for no reason, while he was driving, and couldn't be turned off. He said he was very nervous trying to get home because he knew that if the police stopped him they would never believe it was actually his car.

And I apparently shouldn't write things until I've managed to get rid of this word-diarrhea I've contracted from somewhere *glares at bigbang*.

*hugs you*

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

I seriously needed the hug. I think I am suffering from what someone described elsewhere as a 'surfeit of WTF?'. It seems everywhere I turn online these days, something upsets or offends the sensibilities. Add to that the fact that everyone seems extraordinarily touchy and you can't make a comment or state an opinion without a backlash of misinterpretation and I think I need to take a break from LJ for a few days. Or a few weeks. Maybe longer.

Then I go an read melagan's happymaking post regarding some LJ sites I was unaware of and I think maybe *I'm* the one over-reacting.

[zinfic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know that feeling. Usually I just go to my happy shiny place of McShep porn and stay there until the crazy is gone.

Which reminds me, I still have a sex-scene to finish.

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! *porn*

*waits patiently for you to finish*