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Back from Corpus Christi! My parents and I watched the Blue Brothers last night, which was great fun. ♥ The Runaway Five are even more awesome now~ ♥ And now, I have images of Venus going after Gorgeous and Lucky with a flamethrower and rocket launcher. XD Hee hee.
Venus: I will kill you and your brother!
Gorgeous: *begging on his knees* PLEASE DON'T KILL ME I LOVE YOOOOOU
Venus: ...
Gorgeous: ...
Both: *SMOOCH SESSION*
Lucky: *stays ducked on the floor* *hiding in his hat*
Also, all this whining about Livejournal is pissing me off. Nutshell: O NOEZ R SPESHUL INTREZTZ IS GON3!1!11
Um, no. I can give you inevitable proof why this "censored interests" bogus is a big fat lie.
Why the heck would LJ delete something harmless like "fanfiction" or "fandom"? I dunno, I think the first thing they'd think of when it comes to fanfiction is giggly little Justin Timberlake fangirls writing sappy OOC shippy fics than pr0n. :P These words were also supposed to be wiped out from the LJ database: yaoi, smut, erotica, fanfiction, that kinda thing.
I have 150 interests. I checked upon reading the news and I still do. Guess what's still listed? Yaoi. And yuri. (Plus why would you go out and ban a stupid word like "lemons"? :P) But here's the clincher: I still have "orgy" in my interests. I have this interest because it's the name of one of my favorite bands. But when most people think of "orgy", they think of "group sex". Likewise with "lemons", where those in fandom are likely to think of "graphic sex" before "yellow citrus fruit". Why the hell should you censor a common ordinary word like "lemons" because of the pr0n connotation it has in fandom? Likewise Orgy didn't name themselves after anything sexual at all, but a synchronization and harmony of sounds working together, an "orgy of sounds". Trivia: J.M. Barrie used the word "orgy" in his book Peter Pan. Again, it had nothing to do with group sex whatsoever. Just like in old movies and musicals such as West Side Story where if you say you're gay, it means you're happy. Nothing to do with your sexual orientation.
If LJ truly censored our interests, why do I still have 150 (the maximum) instead of 146?
I guess what makes me twitch is that someone shouted out they cut "bisexuality" as an interest and everyone cried out "ZOMG OPRESSHUN!1!1!1" That is total fucking bullshit. Geez, it's like freakin' mob-psychology. Do you want to know the REAL meaning of oppression, guys? Watch Philadelphia with Tom Hanks. You won't believe the disgusting things people spoke of others with AIDS that we take so much for granted now. Hell, I just read several letters high-schoolers sent to a newspaper columnist about the nasty backlash that happened after they came out. Sure, they weren't physically beaten, but they're still ridiculed by kids at school, their parents constantly remind them how disappointed they are and try to "change" them, and if they hadn't been lucky enough to have close friends and now that they have a future for them somewhere in college or becoming an adult, they would've been completely convinced they're alone in the world. I can't put justice to describing their experiences, but I know I've encountered much homophobic instances with my own eyes and ears. When you're there, you're there. It's a disgusting feeling prejudice leaves on people.
So, LJ whiners? If removing a popular interest is considered "oppression", you guys are really damn sheltered. Arg, is it worth trying to keep a clear head in a mob?
I'd also type about what hypocrites shallow fangirls are for loving their yaoi and pretty bishies but vomit and scream at the thought of real-life gays and canon yaoi (OMG KURAMA AND HIEI 4EVR!!1!1 BUT WAIT. Itsuki & Sensui? EWWW. Tony from Earthbound? OH NOES). But maybe I'm better off writing "EW SCARY THAT'S SO UGLY" Teddy/Loid with Jean instead.
Venus: I will kill you and your brother!
Gorgeous: *begging on his knees* PLEASE DON'T KILL ME I LOVE YOOOOOU
Venus: ...
Gorgeous: ...
Both: *SMOOCH SESSION*
Lucky: *stays ducked on the floor* *hiding in his hat*
Also, all this whining about Livejournal is pissing me off. Nutshell: O NOEZ R SPESHUL INTREZTZ IS GON3!1!11
Um, no. I can give you inevitable proof why this "censored interests" bogus is a big fat lie.
Why the heck would LJ delete something harmless like "fanfiction" or "fandom"? I dunno, I think the first thing they'd think of when it comes to fanfiction is giggly little Justin Timberlake fangirls writing sappy OOC shippy fics than pr0n. :P These words were also supposed to be wiped out from the LJ database: yaoi, smut, erotica, fanfiction, that kinda thing.
I have 150 interests. I checked upon reading the news and I still do. Guess what's still listed? Yaoi. And yuri. (Plus why would you go out and ban a stupid word like "lemons"? :P) But here's the clincher: I still have "orgy" in my interests. I have this interest because it's the name of one of my favorite bands. But when most people think of "orgy", they think of "group sex". Likewise with "lemons", where those in fandom are likely to think of "graphic sex" before "yellow citrus fruit". Why the hell should you censor a common ordinary word like "lemons" because of the pr0n connotation it has in fandom? Likewise Orgy didn't name themselves after anything sexual at all, but a synchronization and harmony of sounds working together, an "orgy of sounds". Trivia: J.M. Barrie used the word "orgy" in his book Peter Pan. Again, it had nothing to do with group sex whatsoever. Just like in old movies and musicals such as West Side Story where if you say you're gay, it means you're happy. Nothing to do with your sexual orientation.
If LJ truly censored our interests, why do I still have 150 (the maximum) instead of 146?
I guess what makes me twitch is that someone shouted out they cut "bisexuality" as an interest and everyone cried out "ZOMG OPRESSHUN!1!1!1" That is total fucking bullshit. Geez, it's like freakin' mob-psychology. Do you want to know the REAL meaning of oppression, guys? Watch Philadelphia with Tom Hanks. You won't believe the disgusting things people spoke of others with AIDS that we take so much for granted now. Hell, I just read several letters high-schoolers sent to a newspaper columnist about the nasty backlash that happened after they came out. Sure, they weren't physically beaten, but they're still ridiculed by kids at school, their parents constantly remind them how disappointed they are and try to "change" them, and if they hadn't been lucky enough to have close friends and now that they have a future for them somewhere in college or becoming an adult, they would've been completely convinced they're alone in the world. I can't put justice to describing their experiences, but I know I've encountered much homophobic instances with my own eyes and ears. When you're there, you're there. It's a disgusting feeling prejudice leaves on people.
So, LJ whiners? If removing a popular interest is considered "oppression", you guys are really damn sheltered. Arg, is it worth trying to keep a clear head in a mob?
I'd also type about what hypocrites shallow fangirls are for loving their yaoi and pretty bishies but vomit and scream at the thought of real-life gays and canon yaoi (OMG KURAMA AND HIEI 4EVR!!1!1 BUT WAIT. Itsuki & Sensui? EWWW. Tony from Earthbound? OH NOES). But maybe I'm better off writing "EW SCARY THAT'S SO UGLY" Teddy/Loid with Jean instead.
