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pocochina

sherlock feelings vomit, link farm, and meme

May 18, 2011 04:32

NEW MEME (thanks eowyn_315 !): Name me a fictional character, and I'll tell you what shows they love/would love, and if/how they would show their fannish devotion.

SO I STARTED WATCHING SHERLOCK BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL TERRIBLE INFLUENCES quick reactions to the first episode under the cut.

( I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research. )

tv, feminism, sherlock, my f-list is the best list

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pocochina May 18 2011, 16:31:52 UTC

I know. I KNOW. And OB/GYNs specifically. What happens when a normally-150lb woman is at the end of her pregnancy? It's such transparently hateful bullshit. (And I'm trying not to get started on the crying about lawsuits. SUCK IT UP AND DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS RIGHT.)

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pocochina May 18 2011, 17:00:32 UTC

ugh, yes, it is appalling. Michigan and I think a few US cities have specific protections, but generally there's nothing protecting people.

ceciliaj May 18 2011, 12:54:17 UTC

Oooh, I like that meme. Talk to me about Helena Cain.

ceciliaj May 18 2011, 13:48:09 UTC

Also, re: sleep, I just read this tweet and thought of your post:

zephoria danah boyd
News report sez Internet interferes w/ teen sleep. Duh. So does school. Probably more so. Yet, which one will we try to stop?

pocochina May 18 2011, 16:54:14 UTC

OH MY GOD, YES. Teens especially. DSPS is so common in teens. Making them be in school at the ass-crack of dawn (7:30 AM, every damn day, I don't know how I lived) is completely counterproductive. It is just to be cruel. There is no other reason.

pocochina May 18 2011, 16:33:24 UTC

OOOOOH GOOD ONE. I'm trying to decide if she would (a) run a fantasy football betting site, (b) be a hard-core early sci-fi purist or (c) really love Dexter. Maybe all of the above.

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local_max May 18 2011, 13:38:50 UTC

Funny, I just watched the Basil Rathbone The Hound of the Baskervilles last week. Not sure if Holmes and Watson were doing it there, but Holmes did enjoy playing elaborate pranks on Watson. It'd be interesting to see a real Holmes/Watson relationship though because of the power differential (in many versions, including the one I just watched), wherein Watson sort of unquestioningly does what Holmes says, just occasionally complains about it. Potentially problematic but potentially interesting.

I feel like I have heard that about memory before but I can't quite recall. (See what I did there? Boom! I'm so hilarious!!!! But seriously, what joke did I just make? Depression sucks.)

At least I sleep more than six hours a day (though I may have undiagnosed sleep apnea based on a then-gf's reports that I wake up and gasp for air pretty frequently).

pocochina May 18 2011, 16:44:36 UTC

I don't think I've actually seen any of the old movies, come to think of it. I do really like the update.

Also this Sherlock looks exactly like Tom Riddle should. It's really fucking creepy.

I feel like I have heard that about memory before but I can't quite recall. (See what I did there? Boom! I'm so hilarious!!!! But seriously, what joke did I just make? Depression sucks.)

ha, I laughed. The one thing about the article that bugs me is that it totally buys into the "think happy thoughts" theory of getting over depression. Like, well, if your memory sucks, and you get sucked into downward spirals, it must be because you can't remember happy things! Which I think is disguised trivializing, victim-blaming crap. It is a psychiatric disorder which has cognitive effects.

I don't know what inspires actual researchers to speak to reporters, honest to God, because the incompetence seems to be contagious.

blackfrancine May 18 2011, 19:07:43 UTC

The one thing about the article that bugs me is that it totally buys into the "think happy thoughts" theory of getting over depression. Like, well, if your memory sucks, and you get sucked into downward spirals, it must be because you can't remember happy things! Which I think is disguised trivializing, victim-blaming crap. It is a psychiatric disorder which has cognitive effects.

I noticed that.

I could see discussing that as a potential factor in suicides or failure to seek treatment--you know, ACTIONS. But it doesn't make any sense to blame depression on... depression? What? You're still depressed, and it's all because of your depression! BOOM! I've solved all your problems. You're welcome.

pocochina May 18 2011, 23:47:09 UTC

RIGHT? RIGHT? What, did these shitheads think The Secret was their Psych 101 text?

shehasathree May 18 2011, 14:04:31 UTC

yay Sherlock!!

pocochina May 18 2011, 16:45:44 UTC

SO AWESOME.

blackfrancine May 18 2011, 15:13:30 UTC

and also EVERYTHING IS JUST THE WORST

HAHAHA. So... according to that sleep article, I've been legally drunk for YEARS? That sounds about right. It's amazing I have a job. If I didn't have insomnia, maybe I could rule the world. Or at least pay my student loans on time.

That gynecologist article? OMG. People are horrible.

Everything is the worst. Except for LaToya Peterson, for whom my love continues to grow every time I read something by her. She's fantastic. The chick I sit next to at work is a huge food snob--and a big ol' judgey mcjudgerson about it. I feel like casually leaving a copy of that article on her desk.

pocochina May 18 2011, 16:51:20 UTC

I can't even....you know, I read a lot of sleep articles because apparently I LOVE BEING OUTRAGED, but I think 100% of them have mentioned COMPUTERS! ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING! as causes for sleep problems. Absolutely none of them have raised the point that computers and artificial lighting also make more flexible workdays possible and are therefore the answer to sleep problems for a lot of us - or they would be, if we as a society would decide to use them right. Is everybody THAT FUCKING USELESS not to have thought of that?