It's Crazy Meme Day!

[jetpack_monkey]

Gakked from peonybrandybuck and veggiebelle:

This is a top 5 meme, but a bit different. Comment here with what you want my top 5 list of (e.g., CDs, places to eat, characters, favorite toes on my left foot, etc.), and I will reply to you and and also edit this entry to put them in there.

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[bellatemple]

Top five fandom pet peeves, any fandom

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

1. Xander does not have superpowers. Xander does not WANT superpowers. Please do not give him superpowers.
2. Canon happens. Please do not ignore the hard work of occasionally fallible writers so that your OTP makes more sense. Parker/Giles was never going to work anyway.
3. The Doctor *cannot* cross his own timestream without an enormous effort being put forth. As cute as it is to have 4 and 9 meet, it better be damned important.
4. Character bashing of any kind. Also, creator-bashing. If you're going to muck about in somebody's universe, have a little respect. They were there first.
5. Actually, this should be #1, but it's such a specific incident... I was on an ezboard for Buffy back before my time on LJ, where there was this idiot who hated Tara because she was a "fat bitch" and loudly argued that Buffy got exactly what she deserved in Seeing Red. Apparently, it wasn't really attempted rape anyway, since in his skewed little world, rape didn't actually exist; it was just an emotional ploy used by women to hurt men (and goes on to say that he'd "raped" his girlfriend once and they were happily married now). I wanted to fucking rip his eyeballs out with my teeth. I don't understand how any Buffy fan could be such a misogynist prick, but there you go.

*cough*

Oh, yeah. And Spike does not say "Cor."

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

where there was this idiot who hated Tara because she was a "fat bitch"

What. The. Fuck?

I mean, I can understand people not finding Tara attractive - it really comes down to personal taste and to each their own on that. But fat? Good lord. Healthy is what she looked like. This person was clearly smoking the tainted crack.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I know! And in person, Amber's such a tiny little thing. I could put my hand around her, practically.

This guy was an idiot. To further the story along, I left the board in disgust (and somewhat wankily) when the "rape does not exist" thing came up. I got a rather nice e-mail from somebody who was rather adamant that they were not this asshole, but who hoped that I'd watched my mother and sister get raped at some point as punishment for being such a pansy.

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

Well, I think she's lost quite a bit of weight since leaving the show. It's a shame - I think she looked great for the most part when she was on it, her wardrobe notwithstanding of course.

And I'm sure that guy who sent you the email was not the same guy who made the post you talked about. After all, he was adamant about it!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I need to icon my pic of her and I, but the height difference may make that impossible.

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

You should've crouched, or something. *g*

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

She was actually on her tiptoes. It was cute.