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[shadowkat]

1. "While you could possibly walk in someone's shoes...you can't use their feet." I can't remember the exact quote, but I read it a while back on my flist, courtesy of cakmpls. And it struck me. So much that it hangs in my head. Yes, I think, that's exactly it. And partly the problem. Also such a great metaphor to use - feet. Shoes you can trade, sometimes you have the same size, not an issue. But feet...everyone's feet is uniquely theirs. Also...there's a whole host of ailments that arise from feet.
For some, like myself, if there's a problem with your feet - life is chaos. Others?
So not an issue.

For example? My feet? They are not made for certain types of shoes. I can barely wear heels. Too high an instep and they kill my arch. Have similar problems with sandles and forget about flip-flops. I need the arch support. Plus I walk 30 blocks on hard concrete - support is necessary.

When it comes to my feet, I put fashion last, comfort first. I have to. If I don't,
I'll hurt myself and my feet are my principal means of transportation. If I can't walk? I'm stuck, literally.

Plus? Big feet. Size 11. With a high instep. Difficult to find shoes that fit them.
Long toes, a big hairy, although not abnormally so.

2. "The real danger for “Community,” from a critical standpoint, isn’t that it will go too far into fan-boy arcana but rather that it will overly indulge the sentimentality and neediness at its core — which, as in so many of our real lives, the endless chatter about movies and music and TV is designed to cover up." - this quote taken from :

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/arts/television/community-resumes-its-study-of-friendship.html?_r=2&ref=television

Dang, that's a long link, isn't it?

Anyhow..the bit I'm focusing on is the part in bold or the last part of that sentence.
We discuss tv, comics, books, movies and music to get away from stress, to get away from pain. To escape our own insane crap.

Which is why fandom kerfuffles, while entertaining at times, can be so unproductive and often feel silly. Taking our entertainment media too seriously...can be problematic.

Been in a kerfuffle recently? Feel like the bad guy? Feel ostracized? Well you aren't alone. All of us, to one degree or another have been there done that. But most not as badly as these poor folks. Really heated kerfuffles that jumped across journals for months.

1) RaceFail 2009
*http://fanlore.org/wiki/RaceFail_%2709

*http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=RaceFail_09

*http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Race_Fail_2009

2) RaceFail 2010 aka CultureFail

http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Culture!Fail

3) RaceWank

http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Race_wank

4) Strikethrough 07

http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Strikethrough2007

5.)http://fanlore.org/wiki/Kerfuffle
http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Fandom_Wank_Timeline

And this is hilarious...http://skelkins.livejournal.com/32401.html?page=2 (the lj user does an essay on kerfuffles and a bunch of the commentators launch into a fight about an unrelated topic. To wit, the poster states - while this is an excellent example of what I was describing, please take your fight elsewhere. )

And here is an argument or discussion about the spelling of the word "kerfuffle" on wiki:http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Category_talk:Kerfluffles

Historic ones that I can't find - are on Marti Noxon's interview in SFX circa 2002, which may be a good thing. Nor the big war over Spike joining Angel the Series in 2003-2004, also a good thing.


* Got to make dinner. So quickly...now that it's no longer a spoiler and there are multiple reviews, I can comment.

So...I'm scrolling through my reading list the other day, and like most people, I scroll through it backwards.

Post 3: Well we know why Buffy shows no feelings in the comics. Hello. Robot.

Me: Wait, Buffy's a robot in the comics now? (reads comments...okay, sounds like they are joking, but hard to tell, quickly post to ask.)

Scroll some more.

Post 2: Theory - Buffy has pulled an Amy Pond. They've made her pregnant and switched her mind into a Robot.

Me: okay...weird fandom theory...can't be true.

Scroll some more.

Post 1: Review - reveal on last page of issue 7 - Buffy's arm is ripped off by zompire, revealing Buffy to be a Robot.

Me: WHAT??? Wait a minute...this is actually a real storyline? They actually have done the Amy Pond story from S6 Doctor Who?? And I thought the Twilight bit was offensively illogical and looney tunes. Silly me. Then how can she be pregnant? Seriously... talk about weird=ass retcons. Although I've seen quite a few in my lifetime. Also didn't Doctor Who already do this story, but a heck of a lot better and far less offensively? For that matter...wasn't this Caprica? And what is it with Whedon and creepy mind-wipe or transfering intelligence storylines? Someone has been marathoning BSG one too many times. I'm blaming Ron Moore for this particular storyline trope. Either Ron Moore or Issac Asimov.

Reading the reviews of the comics continues to entertain me.

LOL! Reading one's flist backwards can be an amusing experience.

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[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Long toes. Size ten. But I have flat feet not high arch so shoes with high arches just kill me.

Also, yes, she's a robot. She never noticed. Go figure.