"Do you know what vegan chicken and rice is? RICE."

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3 unpopular opinions:

1. I can't muster up any enthusiasm at all for engagements/weddings/etc. I can understand the fuss, but I myself don't experience any excitement. It's nice that Jensen and Danneel are engaged, but I can't say that I feel excited/happy/whatever for them -- I mean, I don't know them (I don't know anything about Danneel -- other than her boobs are fake, but that's just hearsay -- and Jensen's more like a fictional character to me), nor is it any of my business, but I suppose other people are more...invested in them? (at least, this is my impression garnered from poking around online. Where are all the tinhatters and conspiracy theories? Clearly I am not looking in the right places!)

Anyway, the only thing that irks me is the profuse amount of comments about how they should start having babies now now now. I can't even pinpoint why that bothers me (maybe it's about the strong association people hold about marriage and children? maybe I just dislike children that much? ;;;). I wonder if Jensen got engaged to another man (silly US laws aside), would fans be as adamant about them adopting children?

IDK, I can't offer any explanations for this opinion.

2. The amount of negativity towards this clip (SPN 5x09 preview) is somewhat surprising. The complaints seem to centre around Becky being a poor representation of fans. SPN has never been good with representing females or people of colour -- this shouldn't be a surprise to any viewer. Being female and a person of colour myself (and a fangirl to boot), if I got offended every time SPN poorly characterized a fellow woman or POC, I wouldn't even be able to watch this show -- heck, I'd have to stop watching TV altogether.

Returning to the representation of fans on SPN, the sad fact is, the most noticeable fans in real life are the crazies. On the scale of crazy!fannishness? Becky probably only rates a 5 out of 10 (wasn't there some girl, a few years back, who wore a wedding dress and jumped Jensen? I'd give that a 10.5). If Becky was written as a "sane fangirl" who was highly intelligent and provided Sam and Dean with invaluable help on a case, I'll bet half the fandom would be up in arms about how Mary Sue-ish she is. If you can face your favourite (formerly)fictional characters without gibbering (and possibly attempting to feel them up), I'll give you all my persimmons. (see point about persimmons below)

3. Now for something completely different: I like my Macbook, I really do. What can I say? I have an affinity for shiny things. Now that I've been using my Mac for a while, I can't honestly say that it's better overall than the PCs I've used. It's prettier, yes, but I don't find the whole "Now that I've used a Mac, I'll never switch back" holds true for me. I am clearly missing the "I LOVE APPLE" sequence in my DNA.


2 yummy things:

1. Persimmons -- I always forget how much I love persimmons until the fall season when Chinatown sells them by the bag. There's something about the slight crunchiness of the centre that makes me go YUM♥

2. I bought some green tea chocolates along with my fruits and veggies today. As I was omnomnoming away, I thought to myself, "Hey, self, you have hot chocolate powder and milk green tea powder -- why not mix them?" And so I made myself a big mug of chocolate milk green tea and it was delicious.


1 adorable fluff ball:

1. If all dust bunnies looked like that, I'd be willing to clean the house more often! (but where are its eyes! and ears!)

Comments

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2. Don't people complain about anything and everything though? Not implying that there isn't anything legit behind it, but I feel like it's always either not enough or too much or this or that, and let's face it, nothing will ever be good enough. And you're right, realistically the fans that stand out are the batshit insane ones. Also they showed her writing incest porn. I don't think they could've gotten away with that had she been portrayed as "sane".

3. I am pretty sure Macs are going to get less awesome once hackers decide that the potential damage is worth the effort it takes to launch a virus. On the other hand, I am slightly jealous that this (www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html) is Mac-only. :(

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Anti-virus programmes for Macs do exist. :P

In addition, imo, if one uses noscript + firefox, one should have no need for an anti-virus programme no matter the OS.

[illuminations.livejournal.com]

Dead, but how do you prevent a virus that doesn't exist yet? Honestly I don't believe that one OS is "safer" than the other. It's a matter of what kind of person is using the computer. We've cycled through so many computers in the past 15 years and have had maybe 2-3 crashes and none were because of a virus.

[postingwhore.livejournal.com]

A lot of malware and the like works by running scripts that install shit or w/e when you visit a website, so if you don't let the scripts run (which is what noscript does) then you eliminate most of the problem. (The other problem is downloading programmes that are virus-laden, but well...that depends on the net-savviness of the person.)

I wouldn't say that Macs are necessarily safer than Windows...(although I'm tempted to say that about Linux, if only because whotf wants to hack Linux computers anyway), either. It's really a matter of personal preference in deciding what OS to get, in regard to interface and the like.

[illuminations.livejournal.com]

True, but I don't really take those seriously. I've come across a handful of those before and my antivirus took care of them right away. I don't think a script blocker is going to stop anyone if they really wanted to do damage.

Dead I definitely agree on Linux. And yeah, I don't know. I think Macs are great and will probably own one of each one day. But secretly in case some Apple fanatic decides to go HA SEE IT'S BETTER ISN'T IT!!! at me.

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nothing will ever be good enough

Heh, true enough.

Also they showed her writing incest porn. I don't think they could've gotten away with that had she been portrayed as "sane".

What, sane fans can't write incest porn? ;)

That program looks awesome! *bookmarks*

[illuminations.livejournal.com]

I just feel like most people need to take a chill pill no matter if it's rl or fandom. Yes, I understand that discrimination is bad. Yes, I understand that gender equality is good. BUT STILL. RELAX. Also, even if the show takes fan opinion into consideration and tries to change the characterization of Becky, like. It'll just seem fake. AND ALSO LIKE. Why would you ever use a normal person in storytelling? WHO DOES THAT. HOW BORING. Sorry if you're offended, but I assure you if Becky was switched out with you, even less people would want to watch. Because a normal person would not steal a phone and pretend to be someone else for their own gains and therefore, MANY THINGS WOULD NOT HAPPEN. God, facepalming so hard, I can't take this.

Dying. I know it costs money, but I assure you I've scoured the internets for Windows freeware and none of them come close to matching Scrivener's capabilities. So I think it's worth the $40, but I guess if you're not a regular writer, it's like ehhhhhh.

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I just feel like most people need to take a chill pill no matter if it's rl or fandom

But if everyone was calm and rational, imagine how boring the world would be! ;) But yes, I definitely agree with this: Why would you ever use a normal person in storytelling? Becky is over-the-top because she's used as a source of humour -- portraying fans "accurately" would be, as you say, boring. Also, if they were going for accuracy, there needs to be a whole lot more girls at the convention -- guys cosplaying as Sam and Dean? How unrealistic! X3

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Oh, but uck, that program costs $40. D: I'll bet there's something similar to that program for free for Windows floating out there somewhere!