Comments | nematoddity: the roses smelled strongly of Pledge

nematoddity

the roses smelled strongly of Pledge

Jul 28, 2005 11:40

"It's about hope, it's about imagination, it's about the future..." Discovery has launched.

Unfortunately...there is GAAAAH--the shuttle program is now indefinitely on hold. FRACK. (Tipped by starlasoma, who seems as depressed as I am over this. Grraagh.)

WTF? There's a community on LJ called antigayslashers. Buh? Slashers against homosexuality?? But, but, isn't ( Read more... )

music, fashion, quizzes, space travel

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mistress_weaver July 28 2005, 18:59:43 UTC

"oh my gods" is just the funniest bits of truth i've seen in a long time...it just rocks!!!
as for the fashions....looks like any number of fetish shows I've seen,especially the lycra body stocking complete with either dancable or tieable arm stockings :D

nematoddity July 28 2005, 19:13:25 UTC

Including the face caging? Because that's just downright bizarre.

elenbarathi July 28 2005, 19:54:58 UTC

"WTF? There's a community on LJ called antigayslashers. Buh? Slashers against homosexuality?? But, but, isn't that the point of slash? Dudes. Way to breed internal conflict."

It's a joke, hon - a nice little piece of irony aimed at those slashers (yes, there are some) who reject the concept of equal rights for actual, non-fictional gays.

A ninja flinger, woahhh, we wants it, precious.... we NEEDS it... must have the ninja flinger! LOL, how have I ever survived this long without one? and I can think of a bunch of other people who're going to want one too. Let the Ninja Wars commence!!!

I am sad because of my grief, and my journal is as skary as a head-in-a-jar. Good to know, I suppose.

In the story Claws From The Night by Fritz Leiber (which is in the book Swords Against Death), the rich and fashionable women of the decadent city of Lankhmar take to wearing ornate filigreed face-cages to protect against mysterious birds that attack them and steal their jewelry. Torture Puppet's face-cage wouldn't be very effective protection, though ( ... )

nematoddity July 29 2005, 00:06:17 UTC

I just can't put that together in my brain. Slashers who write about two men or two women being together, with all the attendant baggage that already brings, and they're anti-gay rights? Can we shoot them?

Ninja flingers. You know you crave it. I crave it. It's the must-have item of the season, I'm telling you.

And yeah, birds would get right through that face cage. Maybe that's why the anti-grav girl's bird is stuffed, so it wouldn't get loose and attack the Torture Puppet! Whew, crisis averted! :)

elenbarathi July 29 2005, 02:51:15 UTC

I know; it's too surreal, but it's really true. Apparently their rationalization is that gay sex is like non-consensual sex: okay to write about as a fictional fantasy, but Wrong and Evil to actually do. And yeah, shooting them would be fine as far as I'm concerned.

I totally do need a ninja flinger... LOL, I'm already plotting who to fling ninjas at first.

Poor Torture Puppet looks like she's already suffered enough, without having birds coming at her too.

nematoddity July 29 2005, 07:41:09 UTC

Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time...I mean, when I started writing, people were still freaking out over the fact that there were gays and lesbians writing slash. It was like, why would you write about it when you can do it? Which was never the point.

I'm hoping I can find more pictures of that show. All the outfits look...well. You've seen what some of them look like. :)

thehush July 29 2005, 00:00:22 UTC

Those outfits... terrify me. And I feel bad for the space program, and you would think more people would be interested in hearing about the progrom too - cause your the second person (other than my stepdad and someone else on my FL) to even mention it. *sigh*

By the by, thanks for reintroducing me to Oh My Gods, I can't believe I forgot about it! Shame on me.

nematoddity July 29 2005, 00:11:23 UTC

I'm slow on the uptake. Everyone finds the cool webcomics before I do. I'm still traipsing through their massive backlog. I'll be posting more of the ones that struck me especially funny. :)

On the space program...well, here's the thing: these shuttles really are old. They were built when I was in grade school, and I'm 38. For a spaceship, that's ollllld. They were due to all be formally retired in 2010 anyway, and--regardless of how impossibly far that seemed in the early 80's--we're five years out now, from that date. So this is "indefinitely on hold" until they figure out how to fix the problem, or scrap everything and start over with the new design. *shrugs*

I gotta keep remembering that. It's not a "dead forever", it's a "dead right now", and we're still in space...sort of...with the international space station. We'll get out there--it just probably won't be in my lifetime, like I wanted it to be.

thehush July 29 2005, 00:29:22 UTC

They are old, and from what I hear, they don't get the best funding. I just wish they did, so they could scrap the older model early and maybe start fresh. *shrug* I dunno, I'm an idealist I guess.

nematoddity July 29 2005, 01:35:35 UTC

Eh, NASA gets gutted for everything. There was a $20 million satellite planned several years back, the first one to use emergent solar-sail technology--by the time it lauched, it had been drained to a $2 million satellite, much smaller, with much less onboard data and photographic capability...then it was launched, and people complained when they weren't getting the nifty-snazzy pictures they'd been promised at the original planning meetings.

Well, of course not, nimrods--you stole the money for them, what did you expect?? Beaurocratic morons.