Fandom Pet Peeve #1

People who take a personal argument and turn it into an inter-list war.

Boysbands of old

I can't believe I'm listening to this song. *glares at RobbieMuse* This is your fault!

Friendship

Apparently, for a lot of people, being a good friend means fighting your friends' fights for them. I don't quite get that.

I remember in elementary school, whenever people'd have a fight, they'd go around asking the rest of the class whose side they were on. I remember my usual answer would be "I'm not on anyone's side," and of course, people wouldn't understand that, wouldn't understand that their fight is not my fight, especially because usually, the people fighting were both as much my friends [or not] and the issue so petty and personal I really wouldn't know who was 'right'.I usually ended up siding with the 'underdog' on general principle.

These days, the people I consider my friends don't ask me to pick sides. And I don't. When I notice someone 'bashing' my friend[s], I will alert them to this, and then it's really up to them to react or not. If they do, I will follow the conversation, sometimes jump in to correct a fact or clarify what my friends are trying to say, or whatnot, but if they don't, then why should I?

I think 'defending' your friends is generally a bad idea. First of all, you will inevitably have to assume certain things about your friend and their relationship to the person 'bashing' them. Secondly, if your friends don't feel the need to defend themselves, is it really worth your time to do that for them?

Opinoins, anyone? Do you defend your friends? Why? Why not?

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Help! I'm listening to Take That and I can't stop!

Oh ye flippin' gods, it's the Slash Song!

Shut up, brain!

Shitload of new userpics

Yay paid accounts! *grin* And looking at this one, I really kinda still like that t-shirt.

I do not like this song!

I don't.

*insane giggling*

Brad's LJ is amusant.

Fandom Musings

Apparently, the latest XF ep was horrendous. According to Viridian's recap, it's essentially brought to the screen an MSR, and a badly written one at that.

I'm so glad I'm out of that fandom. I'm glad I'm not into any fictional fandom anymore. Sure, groups may [semi-]split and people may argue, but at least with real people you're sure they're always in character, and they're never really over until all of them have died.

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I'd just like to note this is the slashiest song ever.

That'll do, pig.

Pet Peeve #2

We're Christians, okay? Christians. Not xtians, Christians!

Audiogalaxy.com rocks!

Thank you, Mary!

Huh

In my quest for the actual text of Green Eggs and Ham, I came across this. Huh.

Oh Ruuuuuth ...

Look!

Shrub-ism

But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

Awww, and was so close, too. Just one little word too many. [Much?]

*dies laughing*

 

Something I Did Not Need To Know

Cliff Burton was an REM fan.

Oh yes.

My brain is exploding!

So.

[Note: If you're not in Metallica fandom, you may want to look away. I'm going to sound strange to those of you who don't know the backstory.]

The 'official story' is that tallific has disbanded. Yesterday, the group'd been deleted from y!groups, and people's passwords for the archive stopped working. Sorcha emailed Spooky, who said the list had been disbanded because "it was too much a stress on her and others".

I'm not buying this, people. If the list's disbanded, how come none of your LJs mention it? How come all of the comments you've posted since the supposed deletion of the list are just as cheerful as ever? How come no one but the people who've openly associated with us seem to know about this?

You know what? I think you're a bunch of

Paranoid freaks

That is all. Feel free to inflict your wost comments on me. I can take it.