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dear Diary,
Ah'm writin' you this from a secret location, surrounded by guns and experimental body armour. Th
el jay election has gotten out of hand th way only stage mothers and hockey fathers usually do. Cliffs Notes version: two primary factions have asserted themselves voting-wise this past week, identifying themselves as Fandom and Dramacrats. Let's save a syllable and call them Elves and Orcs, respectively. Elves love Harry Potter; anime; porking one another through animal suits; writing about Dr Who having a five-way w/ Buffy, Draco Malfoy, Morpheus, and th tiny prince from Katamari Damacy; and tentacle rape. Orcs love Internet fame; nerdy slang; idiosyncratic conjugation a.k.a. talking like babies; making fun of ppl who take their jokes too srsly; denying taking any of this srsly; and
!!!!
Th shit-sniping this week between these two factions has escalated to levels of str8-gayness previously unseen outside of prison: Orcs (supporting el jay jameth) have accused Elves (supporting el jay legomymalfoy) of epidemic fakejournal voting; Elves have accused Orcs of encouraging seizures in epileptics by using rapidly-flashing user icons. This is what it's like, unless I am lying. But I guess it's not as stupid as it can get until somebody receives a death threat. And den I got this e-mail msg from el jay HQ:
From: Marta G. (LiveJournal, Inc.)
To: mizzahh
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:02:16 PM
Subject: Election update
An update on the current election situation:
Within this election process, there have been many, many positive messages coming through. Everyone who has been a candidate has had an amazing amount of passion and ideas. There have also been some destructive and negative aspects, which is very sad.
On Monday of this week, one of our candidates received a threatening message which was sent through the private message feature. This message included personal information about that candidate and was sent specifically to warn the candidate to drop out of the race.
As follows our policies, this candidate notified local authorities. We cooperate with law enforcement in investigations involving the service, and will continue to do so.
[...] As of right now, I want you to know that we have not received any information that anything similar was sent to any other candidate. Therefore, we can move forward in the knowledge that this was an extremely distressing but isolated incident.
We will continue to work for the next day and a half to make sure that the remainder of the election process continues properly. If you have questions please do contact me.
Marta
I have a question. Can we change it so instead of a tiny stoical bust next to our usernames like so--
lostcosmonaut--can we permanently change it so it looks like
lostcosmonaut?
Love and rockets,
MZA
P.S. my good friend
jamezm has answered th other question that burns all our tongues:
[1] 1. Establish a zone of "don't fuck with us".
2. Denounce violence.
3. Stare down the universe.
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1. What Would Subcomandante Marcos Do?