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Oct. 4th, 2009
Dear Author
Oct. 4th, 2009 05:44 pmDear Author:
When you brag about how you've never lived in one place or held a job for more than a couple of years at a time and then you go try to get a job that requires a lot of experience and nobody takes you seriously? It's not just 'cause you're a girl.
Also, that bit about how your childhood was worse than anything Roald Dahl and Charles Dickens could dream up together, and how your young adulthood was more exotic than any seven travelogues rolled into one? I can read Marysue fiction for free on the Internet, honey.
When you brag about how you've never lived in one place or held a job for more than a couple of years at a time and then you go try to get a job that requires a lot of experience and nobody takes you seriously? It's not just 'cause you're a girl.
Also, that bit about how your childhood was worse than anything Roald Dahl and Charles Dickens could dream up together, and how your young adulthood was more exotic than any seven travelogues rolled into one? I can read Marysue fiction for free on the Internet, honey.
This is Grand. 10x Grand, to be precise.
Oct. 4th, 2009 09:21 pmspam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam, spam I'm totally avoiding getting ready for work tomorrow, can't you tell? PS: My review of The Rapture is up on USF.
I may be the only one left following the Ianto charity smackdown, but I thought there ought to be a post to commemorate the passing of the 10,000 pound mark.
Ianto Wants a Pony: 2,025.56 (second highest fundraiser for the charity)
Save Ianto Jones: 8,000.25 (*The* top fundraiser for CiN, according to the Just Giving page)
This is the Best. Idea. Ever. It doesn't matter if Save Ianto actually gets Ianto back (I'm remaining pretty skeptical about there being a Torchwood S4 at all, frankly). The triumph is that it's so easy to be snotty about people who send in coffee or pencils or whatever the "thing" drive is for the fan petition du jour. But there's no possible way to blow off (much less patronizingly blow off) that that much money without pinning on an "I'M AN ASSHOLE, ASK ME HOW" sign on that's so big that even people who don't give a rat's ass about TV will be sneering. You just don't diss charitable donations. You certainly don't diss the contributors to the top two individual fundraisers as dumb, hysterical, unable to handle drama, etc., regardless of the impetus!
I doubt it will bring Ianto back. I doubt there's even going to be any more Torchwood to bring him back to, in tie-ins or on TV. But just for introducing a form of protest that cannot be dismissed, for saving two horses and countless children, for expanding the long-standing connection between fandom and charity - this whole thing should be noted as a Great Moment in Fannish History.
I may be the only one left following the Ianto charity smackdown, but I thought there ought to be a post to commemorate the passing of the 10,000 pound mark.
Ianto Wants a Pony: 2,025.56 (second highest fundraiser for the charity)
Save Ianto Jones: 8,000.25 (*The* top fundraiser for CiN, according to the Just Giving page)
This is the Best. Idea. Ever. It doesn't matter if Save Ianto actually gets Ianto back (I'm remaining pretty skeptical about there being a Torchwood S4 at all, frankly). The triumph is that it's so easy to be snotty about people who send in coffee or pencils or whatever the "thing" drive is for the fan petition du jour. But there's no possible way to blow off (much less patronizingly blow off) that that much money without pinning on an "I'M AN ASSHOLE, ASK ME HOW" sign on that's so big that even people who don't give a rat's ass about TV will be sneering. You just don't diss charitable donations. You certainly don't diss the contributors to the top two individual fundraisers as dumb, hysterical, unable to handle drama, etc., regardless of the impetus!
I doubt it will bring Ianto back. I doubt there's even going to be any more Torchwood to bring him back to, in tie-ins or on TV. But just for introducing a form of protest that cannot be dismissed, for saving two horses and countless children, for expanding the long-standing connection between fandom and charity - this whole thing should be noted as a Great Moment in Fannish History.