I'm making a new post because holy shit, having actually sat down to make my own list, and having tried to actually make it sort-of representative of this decade really brings out what a fucking terrible job they did over at GI! More on that in a second: First, my list.

~Now with badly done composite image~ (Thank you Pickle)

JAPANESE1. James/ ( Read more... )

It annoys me that the discussion about -isms and policing and dogpiling on LJ always gets boiled down to two perspectives: "rich white uni girls competing over who can be the most liberal" vs. "-ist ignorant assholes who care more about their squee being harshed than injustice in the world." I do think there is a space in the middle, and I think ( Read more... )

I don't even play Aion yet and I find I'm already invested in the Elyos v. Asmodian "culture war," or whatever you want to call it. Barriers between Alliance and Horde broke down as WoW went on, but they feel pretty fresh in Aion, and I've once again chosen the smaller side to align myself with ( Read more... )

So today I was writing my Classical Sociological Theory exam and I got to the part where I was writing about identity, individuality, solidarity and the division of labour. I got to thinking about fandom for some reason and I was wondering whether or not I'm correct in assuming that fandom tends to have a certain hostility towards individualism (" ( Read more... )