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You know, it scares me when I have to say that comparatively, DW/TW/SJA fandom is so sane, but it is, especially in comparison to the antics over in Supernatural fandom ("let's send RPS to the actors" and "let's call security on the actors' gfs") and now SGA fandom (poor bastard). Of course, I know not to tar whole fandoms with the crazy brush, and I'm sure it will be my poor little fandom's turn soon, but perhaps, oh perhaps, we will heed these cautionary tales of batshittery. At least our bad boundary stuff has mostly happened in private. Christ.

Saw the SyFy name change ads on the bus this morning. STILL WRONG.

Forgot to mention I saw the preview for the new Trek when we saw Watchmen the other day. It looks AWESOME.

Orson Scott Card has joined the board of NOM or 2M4M or whatever the anti-gay marriage gathering storm bigots are calling themselves this week. No, I'm not surprised. And at this point, one can hardly even be disappointed. But I am, just a little, because at a given point you just run out of ways to boycott the work of someone that objectionable. That's right, I'm annoyed because I can't find a way to reject Card and his work enough.

Working my butt off. Lots of wacky freelance writing and deadlines for the Germans. In limbo on various creative/criticism projects. Fighting pothos.

Woo! Hey, got a CoT nomination for that Jack/Andy/Ianto porn I wrote the other day. Meanwhile, trying to finish a ton of small stories and feeling increasingly dubious I will make the Tardis Big Bang deadline. IHNIIHBT and one of its installments (The Most Beautiful Girl in the World) also won some other awards a couple of days ago. Yay.

Patty, still in Atlanta. Cool things there yesterday, but for her to tell.

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The thing about SPN is that when it’s good, it’s really, really good, but when it’s bad it’s awful, and some of the bad stuff involves race and gender. For example, I’m bothered by the fact that of the three recurring characters played by black men (an FBI agent, a hunter, and an angel) two of them turned out to be villains and all three died. The show has also racked up quite a tally of dead blondes. That said, I do think some writers make an effort to subvert the women=victim paradigm. For example, the original backstory was that Sam and Dean’s father, John, became a hunter after his wife, Mary, was killed by a demon; however, early this season we learned that Mary was a hunter before her marriage (and successfully hid this from her husband, since the whole supernatural thing caught him completely off guard). I also fondly recall a season 1 episode in which Sam and Dean ran into a teenage couple in a haunted sanitarium; when asked if either of them could handle a shotgun (in the SPNverse you can fend off ghosts with rock salt), the girl was the one with a hand up.