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I have like a bazillion tags open regarding using Pinkwashing language regarding human rights, but instead of that serious business, I'd rather talk about fandom.
For serious.
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Yays!
His new blog can be found here: Strange Days and In Between All Things.
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*The acronym of awesome: Queer/Questioing, Undecided/Up Yours, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans*, Bisexual, Asexual/Allies, Gay/Genderqueer.
Last year, today, I watched the entirety of Torchwood: CoE in five hours straight. I watched it twice more over the next week.
It was a doozy.
It was brilliant.
It broke my heart and the way I viewed television and my own participation in fandom changed. I'm still not a huge participator, being the uncreative standoffish person that I am. I have many ideas for various fics in various universes, but I'm a lazy ass and don't really take the time to write. The last fic I wrote was for Iron Man two years ago.
Gah.
My Meta still flows out of me like I dunno what, but that too, is often curtailed for writing about local politics and my own perspective of them.
My fangrrl self cannot be removed from my actual self, so my personal politics very much informs me on the way I view media, which is kind of why I never considered creating different blogs for the mish-mash of subjects I talk about here.
Speaking of which, onto some squeeage... of sorts. Tonight the new episodes of True Blood and Leverage will be airing and I'm happy, though honestly, both of the shows previous episodes left a bad taste in my mouth for different reasons.
In the previous episode of True Blood we see lots of stuff happening. Plotty things which left me utterly bored.
We get it,Darla Lorena wants Angel Bill back and he hates her guts and because the vampires of this hyper-realistic world are somehow incapable of killing their Sires Makers they have... angry hate-sex instead, during which we get to see Bill basically rape and mutilate Lorena.
Am I supposed to feel sympathetic for this guy?
Sookie, dump his ass and hook up with Pam, 'kay?
Speaking of Pam, how freakin' hawt is she?! Seriously! I'm glad we're seeing more action (including some lesbian sexuality without a freakin' man there to make sure he's having fun) out of her and taking little Baby-Vamp Jessica under her wing is a beautiful thing, because Bill... negligent vamp-Daddy. Very negligent.
Frank and Tara... I do not know what to make of this. I want Tara to be happy goddamit! I don't think Frank the-vampire-who-forced-himself-into-Tara's-domain is the best thing that ever happened to her.
Lafayette, I'm sorry Eric traumatised him, it can't be easy trying to make ends meet by a working for two white Vampire supremacist ass-holes like Eric and Pam (not that I don't love them... I do... I adore them. But I adore Lafayette at the same time).
Any way, the last episode sucked. I hated it. It didn't help that throughout the ep I was sitting around with my friends and they kept making comments on how Tara looks like a man and laughed out loud at the scene of rape and mutilation.
Seriously? I dunno what I'm going to be tomorrow night when I see them again for another evening of Pizza and True Blood.
Onto Leverage.
Dear US Networks and Shows, stop making up third world countries onto which you can shove everything that is wrong with cultures not Western. It is fucking irritating! I'm looking at you West Wing and "Qumar".
People! Made up corporations are not like made up countries, no matter what some governments thing about their people, you cannot create a country in order to "fix it" because you can't really fix... oh, I don't know, Burkina-Faso or Togo (two West African countries that actually exist, unlike... Wadata, the African nation made up for the ep).
The episode with the Iranian opposition activist was better done, despite the Orientalism, not sure what the deal with the "ethnic food" thing was there, but still, it dealt with an issue that actually exists with a smidgen of respect I thought - though it's debatable how ethical it is to use the lives of people living under a dictator right now for entertainment.
In the episode with the African nation; I think that by trying to tip toe around the fact that right now Congo is a disaster area because the multinational corporations take advantage of the conflicts and mine for everything and you (the show, the producers, the writers) are not comfortable tackling that, so you'd rather make up a place in which you can talk about this on a much smaller scale and without being outright critical is problematic.
Why even go there, if you're not going to go all the way?
That was me being Doylist.
On the Watsonian level, I'm not keen on the direction the show is going regarding the ships. I like the family dynamics, which overt couplings can very easily destroy. I mean, while in Torchwood there was overt couplings, the dynamics of the group in the Hub made it very dark and fucked up, and in Leverage it's supposed to be an ocean of Normal in the Crew's abnormal state of being - a bunch of extraordinary people trying to a bit ordinary.
And I don't think I like it.
Also, I'm totally attached to Eliot. He's the character I'm attached to, attracted to and kind of want to be (it's the hair, really, I've never seen a character so defined by his hair before, other than Spike from Buffy and to a lesser extent Angel. But Eliot, my god, the man is a modern rendition of Samson! I can't even begin to imagine what would happen to him if it was cut off - I see a trauma episode coming up if that happens). So the whole, fifth wheel thing is something I hope gets rectified, despite him being characterised as a flirt and lady's man, I think he's a very lonely man and I don't want his new family to be all "we're together, IN YOUR FACE".
And that's all for now.
For serious.
neo_progidy blogs about comic books and fandom on his LJ from a progressive perspective focusing on the inclusion of women (feminist/womanist perspective and issues), QUILTBAG*, non-white/poc (perspective and issues) in comic books!Yays!
His new blog can be found here: Strange Days and In Between All Things.
In addition, you can follow the rss reeds on LJ -
strangedays_rss and on DW - strange_days_feed.*The acronym of awesome: Queer/Questioing, Undecided/Up Yours, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans*, Bisexual, Asexual/Allies, Gay/Genderqueer.
Last year, today, I watched the entirety of Torchwood: CoE in five hours straight. I watched it twice more over the next week.
It was a doozy.
It was brilliant.
It broke my heart and the way I viewed television and my own participation in fandom changed. I'm still not a huge participator, being the uncreative standoffish person that I am. I have many ideas for various fics in various universes, but I'm a lazy ass and don't really take the time to write. The last fic I wrote was for Iron Man two years ago.
Gah.
My Meta still flows out of me like I dunno what, but that too, is often curtailed for writing about local politics and my own perspective of them.
My fangrrl self cannot be removed from my actual self, so my personal politics very much informs me on the way I view media, which is kind of why I never considered creating different blogs for the mish-mash of subjects I talk about here.
Speaking of which, onto some squeeage... of sorts. Tonight the new episodes of True Blood and Leverage will be airing and I'm happy, though honestly, both of the shows previous episodes left a bad taste in my mouth for different reasons.
In the previous episode of True Blood we see lots of stuff happening. Plotty things which left me utterly bored.
We get it,
Am I supposed to feel sympathetic for this guy?
Sookie, dump his ass and hook up with Pam, 'kay?
Speaking of Pam, how freakin' hawt is she?! Seriously! I'm glad we're seeing more action (including some lesbian sexuality without a freakin' man there to make sure he's having fun) out of her and taking little Baby-Vamp Jessica under her wing is a beautiful thing, because Bill... negligent vamp-Daddy. Very negligent.
Frank and Tara... I do not know what to make of this. I want Tara to be happy goddamit! I don't think Frank the-vampire-who-forced-himself-into-Tara's-domain is the best thing that ever happened to her.
Lafayette, I'm sorry Eric traumatised him, it can't be easy trying to make ends meet by a working for two white Vampire supremacist ass-holes like Eric and Pam (not that I don't love them... I do... I adore them. But I adore Lafayette at the same time).
Any way, the last episode sucked. I hated it. It didn't help that throughout the ep I was sitting around with my friends and they kept making comments on how Tara looks like a man and laughed out loud at the scene of rape and mutilation.
Seriously? I dunno what I'm going to be tomorrow night when I see them again for another evening of Pizza and True Blood.
Onto Leverage.
Dear US Networks and Shows, stop making up third world countries onto which you can shove everything that is wrong with cultures not Western. It is fucking irritating! I'm looking at you West Wing and "Qumar".
People! Made up corporations are not like made up countries, no matter what some governments thing about their people, you cannot create a country in order to "fix it" because you can't really fix... oh, I don't know, Burkina-Faso or Togo (two West African countries that actually exist, unlike... Wadata, the African nation made up for the ep).
The episode with the Iranian opposition activist was better done, despite the Orientalism, not sure what the deal with the "ethnic food" thing was there, but still, it dealt with an issue that actually exists with a smidgen of respect I thought - though it's debatable how ethical it is to use the lives of people living under a dictator right now for entertainment.
In the episode with the African nation; I think that by trying to tip toe around the fact that right now Congo is a disaster area because the multinational corporations take advantage of the conflicts and mine for everything and you (the show, the producers, the writers) are not comfortable tackling that, so you'd rather make up a place in which you can talk about this on a much smaller scale and without being outright critical is problematic.
Why even go there, if you're not going to go all the way?
That was me being Doylist.
On the Watsonian level, I'm not keen on the direction the show is going regarding the ships. I like the family dynamics, which overt couplings can very easily destroy. I mean, while in Torchwood there was overt couplings, the dynamics of the group in the Hub made it very dark and fucked up, and in Leverage it's supposed to be an ocean of Normal in the Crew's abnormal state of being - a bunch of extraordinary people trying to a bit ordinary.
And I don't think I like it.
Also, I'm totally attached to Eliot. He's the character I'm attached to, attracted to and kind of want to be (it's the hair, really, I've never seen a character so defined by his hair before, other than Spike from Buffy and to a lesser extent Angel. But Eliot, my god, the man is a modern rendition of Samson! I can't even begin to imagine what would happen to him if it was cut off - I see a trauma episode coming up if that happens). So the whole, fifth wheel thing is something I hope gets rectified, despite him being characterised as a flirt and lady's man, I think he's a very lonely man and I don't want his new family to be all "we're together, IN YOUR FACE".
And that's all for now.