Quick State of the Nea

If you've been waiting to hear back from me, I haven't been online for email since early Friday night and not on LJ since Thursday night. There's going to be a long catchup... after today's Team Wench Dickens Tea, with pictures of Montpelier Mansion and NYC.

Until then, for your amusement, a posting poll: Long story short; I had a Christmas notebook with everything. One of my things-to-do for a while now was to update that notebook, but it didn't get done and trying to pull everything together involved ripping through three stacks of paper, four cookbooks, and calling my Mother. So *this* year, everything I need to know *next* year gets posted to LJ with a tag - if I remake the notebook or not, I'll be able to find the basics.

And now, a silly, pointless poll: Anyone want to see these or shall they be under private lock? We're talking about three posts - one with menus and full recipes under cut tag, one with links to holiday events in the New-Del-Mar-Va area, and one "other handy stuff to know" links.


[Poll #1498397]

Who Thought THAT Was a Good Idea?

Cheezewhiz, I leave the Internet for a weekend and wank breaks out all over. I haven't got anything deeper to say about the latest failure of humanity on F-W aside from "transbashing is NOT COOL." Moral high ground != trashing gender identity.

I'd also like to seriously knock some Ianto fans heads together. Donating to charity in the name of a fictional character? Pretty cool, actually, especially when the numbers start climbing. (Ianto Wants a Pony is at 2,291 quid and change; Save Ianto is at a highly respectable 12,230.)

But hoovering up everything ever said on LJ and turning it into some incoherent, novel-sized screed that is sent to The Powers That Be in an attempt to make them change their minds is so many versions of fail that I am publicly saying "I'm out of Ianto fandom." I'll be adjusting my feeds accordingly as time permits.

One more time for the obviously slow class:
Stealing other folk's writing and co-opting it for your cause without permission is unacceptable for any reason. It's also the very definition of stupidass, because it turns your own allies into your worst enemies.

Producers base their decisions on ratings, and CoE's were quite high. That reality has not changed for Torchwood fandom. Doing something productive for the real world, like the charities, was about the only slim way to counterbalance that and it does so by showing by speaking to the same business bottom line as ratings.

Nagging producers like a dumped date who texts 4000 times an hour is an ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE that you will not get what you want because they don't want to deal with the batshit. TPTB for Beauty and the Beast eventually made it very clear that they would rather cut off their own fingers than deal with the wank flying at them. Even that full-page ad in Variety telling them they screwed up their own show somehow didn't convince them of the error of their ways.

So thanks, morons. You've permanently branded all of Ianto fandom and a good chunk of Torchwood fandom with "batshit, do not touch with 10-foot cattleprod" in the eyes of the producers AND you've made for damnsure that when you come crying back to the rest of fandom that you didn't make them give you what you wanted, half of it's going to be waiting with tar and the rest with feathers because of what you did to *them.*