I just deleted my very first internet book club review (the one I did on The Name of the Wind). It went up about a year ago and every couple of weeks since I've gotten a youtube comment telling me how wrong I am, how stupid my opinions are and, occasionally, to go f*ck myself. The final straw came today with this little masterpiece:

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I've been doing some thinking in the wake of certain things: the ignorance of some Hetalia fans that we all saw over the weekend and and finishing Supernatural season 2 ( and the subsequent viewing of this), mainly, and how both of these things made me think about how I was actually ashamed to think of myself as a fan of things that sometimes raise ( Read more... )

I really wanted to hate this new series. I really, really did. As a person, I'm somewhat opposed to change in general and deeply opposed to it in this case in particular. I fell for David Tennant's Doctor hard. I actually can't remember much of his last episode because I was in floods of tears for the last fifteen minutes. I wanted this episode to ( Read more... )

7 Days of Happy/Good/Generally Joy-Inducing Things

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip

day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

So! In light of my previous post, I'm going to put up this quote.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our ( Read more... )

Hay Being Human. Just thought I'd remind you of something! Christians=/= crazy religious fundamentalists. The fact that you had this view espoused by Ivan, who appears to be the king of all dick vampires, gives me some hope, but seriously lay off the heavyhanded anti-religion thing, okay? I don't want to ragequit the show this early into the second ( Read more... )