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Feelin' ranty.
Things that irritate me:
Made up fandom words. 'mun', 'cosplay', 'acafen', etc. WTF?
Whoever came up with 'cosplay' needs to fuck off and die now. That's costuming, fuckers. I'm so fucking sick of hearing it called 'cosplay' that if I ever meet the person that first coined the term I *will* smack them and possibly attempt murder.
'mun'. This word is so fucking pretentious. And I think I realized why it's used. It's because the people who role-play, and have RP-character journals don't want to be associated with the unwashed masses known as 'gamers'. Since, really, a 'mun' is a gamer.
Is 'Academic fandom' so hard to type out? Really? Apparently all of those big words you use to sound important aren't, though.
Anyone claiming a show 'is Whedon-esque, becuz, like, OMG, someone MIGHT DIE.' Please step off, fuckers. Doctor Who and Blake's 7 did it long before Whedon wanked his first screenplay onto the air. And they did it without writing the same fucking characters in every single fucking show. Corrollary: stop telling me how New and Edgy Whedon is. He's neither. He's taken existing concepts and ideas and simply written them with leet-speak.
Stargate's inability to have more than two leading female characters. Let's review, shall we?
SG-1: Three guys, one girl. When one of the guys leaves, do we get another girl? No. We get another guy. When one of the women leaves for personal reasons, we get another girl. But she's not sticking around so that there are two major female characters.
Atlantis: Well, it's a slight improvement. To the *counts* SIX guys, we have two women. So, I guess the way it works is "one woman for every three guys".
Gosh. I feel so represented.
Made up fandom words. 'mun', 'cosplay', 'acafen', etc. WTF?
Whoever came up with 'cosplay' needs to fuck off and die now. That's costuming, fuckers. I'm so fucking sick of hearing it called 'cosplay' that if I ever meet the person that first coined the term I *will* smack them and possibly attempt murder.
'mun'. This word is so fucking pretentious. And I think I realized why it's used. It's because the people who role-play, and have RP-character journals don't want to be associated with the unwashed masses known as 'gamers'. Since, really, a 'mun' is a gamer.
Is 'Academic fandom' so hard to type out? Really? Apparently all of those big words you use to sound important aren't, though.
Anyone claiming a show 'is Whedon-esque, becuz, like, OMG, someone MIGHT DIE.' Please step off, fuckers. Doctor Who and Blake's 7 did it long before Whedon wanked his first screenplay onto the air. And they did it without writing the same fucking characters in every single fucking show. Corrollary: stop telling me how New and Edgy Whedon is. He's neither. He's taken existing concepts and ideas and simply written them with leet-speak.
Stargate's inability to have more than two leading female characters. Let's review, shall we?
SG-1: Three guys, one girl. When one of the guys leaves, do we get another girl? No. We get another guy. When one of the women leaves for personal reasons, we get another girl. But she's not sticking around so that there are two major female characters.
Atlantis: Well, it's a slight improvement. To the *counts* SIX guys, we have two women. So, I guess the way it works is "one woman for every three guys".
Gosh. I feel so represented.
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And acafen?! That makes me never want to write anything fandom-related in academia EVER if I get that little epiteph. WTF. What a shit word. GOD.
*grumbles*
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