oh my god I LOVE MY FANDOMS

[thepettycoat]

THIS SO SO FREAKING MUCH. I have a particularly strong vendetta against the WBC for picketing a high school in my city, and I am literally crying this makes me so fucking happy. It makes me want to cuss and giggle and kick things, which in me is a normal reaction to *utter bliss*. Ohmigod. Breathe, Al, breathe

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[thepyromanical1]

Dude, they protested a high school in my area too.

I was really hoping that protesting SDCC would backfire. FANDOM, I AM NOT DISAPPOINT. THE FACT THAT THEY SANG NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP MAKES ME SO HAPPY. :D :D :D

[thepettycoat]

How is that even legal? I mean, I get freedom of speech and all that, but shouldn't schools be protected from this kind of bull?

THEY DID DIDN'T THEY. SO MUCH AWESOME. I SOSOSO WISH I WAS AT SDCC THIS YEEEEEEAR...

[thepyromanical1]

They are protected under freedom of speech and freedom of assembly which means they can protest as long as they don't actually go onto the school's property and if they have the right permit, IIRC.

But there's always a police presence just because people fear it's going to get violent because the ideals they're promoting are so incendiary. :(

I WISH I WAS THERE TOO. I WOULD'VE COSPLAYED AS THE DOCTOR AND HAD A "GOD HATES DALEKS" SIGN OR SOMETHING.

[thepettycoat]

Augh, that sucks. I'm always crossing my fingers and hoping they get just rowdy enough to get arrested (I don't want anybody hurt, but I do want these assholes locked up.) I was reading an interview with Fred Phelps' daughter and it was so, so headdesk-y. The interviewer called her a fame whore to her face, though. :D

THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. VAGUELY RELATED, I'm cosplaying a Time Lady!Tenth Doctor to Emerald City Comic Con next year. Ffff, and I'm trying to get my BFF to be Gwen. S'gonna be epic.

[dragon]

That is wonderful.

Because I live right in the middle of the Bible Belt, last week was some convention for the Baptist churches in our convention center downtown. WBC was there. And Lady Gaga was playing the venue across the street. When I got there, WBC and all the other people were protesting her and yelling at the people in line for the show... The people in line were having so much fun just yelling "why you mad?" and variations at the protesters. And there were various signs from the people in the Gaga line that were in retaliation to the protesters.

Basically, Westboro needs to sit down.

[thepettycoat]

Ha! That's awesome. WBC protesters vs. Little Monsters, round one to the Little Monsters!

They do. They need to get the message that no one takes them seriously and just have a seat in the corner. :/

[c0ntrarywise]

NERDS :DDDDDD Seriously, I love them forever :) I followed Bleeding Cool's coverage of it, but thanks so much for linking to that catch-all post. I am seriously so impressed that humans came out and outnumbered those hateful troglodites, it lifts my spirits like mad to know that people are awesome!!

But ugh, they picketed a school? I knew about the funerals they protest, which is really rather disgusting. But a school? They should be arrested, kids can't really fight back against that kind of bigotry.

[thepettycoat]

Geeks are the best kind of people. :D And crabby_lioness is great for compiling it all for us.

Yeah, apparently they've protested more than one school; the one I knew of, they left before school hours, and they were technically across the street from it, but still; they even announced beforehand that they were targeting the school's GSA. I support freedom of speech and all, but I think schools should be protected from this kind of crap. Augh, these people make me sick. Their website literally terrifies me - I looked at it once and I was like, oh my god. These people are sick.