Do you remember me?

[zvi_likes_tv]

I said I wasn't coming back until I had doc_santa up and running, and well, I just got Doc Santa up and running. If you make Grey's Anatomy art or write Grey's Anatomy fanfiction, please sign up. It will be too, too sad if only my co-mod and I participate.

Also, 3_ships is a go. (Some of you knew that, because you have I Saw Three Ships friended, but some of you don't.)

I've been watching the Xmas/Judaism imbroglio. I have some thoughts:

• This is the only post I will make on the subject, because I fully intended to retire from discussing racism in fandom shortly after muskratjamboree, and certainly by the 1st of July. I refuse to do something which I find uncomfortable and unpleasant during the Christmas season (which starts for me when I open 3_ships.) (When I said retire, I did indeed mean "retire like Jay-Z" and not like, um, someone's grandma. But I did envision more time in retirement than the days between July 2nd and July 30th.)


• I am adopting imbroglio as my permanent replacement for race or Christmas or Judaism kerfuffle or wank. NB The problem with calling these discussions 'wank' or 'kerfuffle' is that it implies that the people who are doing the discussing are approaching it with a seriousness or passion unwarranted by the subject at hand. Dude, whether or not human beings respect one another is worth at least as much seriousness as the question of whether or not fictional characters enjoy buttfucking, so, seriously, stop using wank and kerfuffle.


• Everyone who chastised mamadeb for her tone is made of massive amounts of fail, having missed all three race imbroglios, the extremely recent Judaism imbroglio, and ibarw, or having learned nothing from them. Repeat after me: If, as a member of a majority addressing a member of minority, I find myself more fixated on the minority person's tone than their message, I have gotten the center square in a game of Dumbfuck Bingo.


• I feel really badly for the yuletide mods, who are being made to stand in for all of the Secret Santas. I have run I Saw Three Ships since 2004 and I just started Doc Santa for Grey's Anatomy, so, to the extent that Secret Santas are a problem, I am part of the problem.


• That being said, I like Christmas. I particularly like the sorts of Christmas activities which are about giving people things that did not cost money. And the Secret Santas are now part of how I celebrate Christmas. From a sheer scheduling point of view, they are the primary way I celebrate Christmas, right before the watching of as many Rankin-Bass specials as I can sit still for.


• The question everyone thinking of running a Secret Santa should ask themselves before running a Secret Santa, in light of this most recent imbroglio, is this: Do I want to do a fun Christmas thing in fandom? or Do I want to do a fun fandom thing where people give and share? If you want to do a fun Christmas thing in fandom, do it. But if you just want to do a fun, sharing fandom thing … do a gift exchange at some other time of year, or help musesfool with Remix, or understand full well that if you do your sharing in December, it's going to look a lot like Christmas.