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riseupwithfists) wrote2009-11-24 07:34 pm
riseupwithfists) wrote2009-11-24 07:34 pm
a thought and a question
a) My hatred for Damien Wayne and my hatred for Adam Lambert*: STRANGELY SIMILAR, especially measured against fandom's widespread love for them.
b) I have just now realized that "Competence Porn" John Rogers and "wrote twenty-odd issues of THE BEST COMICS EVER WITH 'BEETLE' IN THE NAME" John Rogers are one and the same! Would I enjoy Leverage? Are there those half-jokey, half-derisive gay jokes that plague most of television these days? I seriously can't handle gay jokes in my media right now, it's like one more knife in the eye.
*which isn't hatred really so much as extreme ambivalence which soars into annoyance when fandom treats him as the Gay Messiah. I hate to be the negative political Nancy (okay, so I kinda like) but two queer kids were fucking slaughtered last week. I know what I give more of a shit about. So please don't turn the comments into telling me how much I should love Adam Lambert? The week I've been having and that my community has been having, I will seriously cut you.
b) I have just now realized that "Competence Porn" John Rogers and "wrote twenty-odd issues of THE BEST COMICS EVER WITH 'BEETLE' IN THE NAME" John Rogers are one and the same! Would I enjoy Leverage? Are there those half-jokey, half-derisive gay jokes that plague most of television these days? I seriously can't handle gay jokes in my media right now, it's like one more knife in the eye.
*which isn't hatred really so much as extreme ambivalence which soars into annoyance when fandom treats him as the Gay Messiah. I hate to be the negative political Nancy (okay, so I kinda like) but two queer kids were fucking slaughtered last week. I know what I give more of a shit about. So please don't turn the comments into telling me how much I should love Adam Lambert? The week I've been having and that my community has been having, I will seriously cut you.
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...I did not make the Rogers connection! I have been avoiding Leverage because of Christian Fucking Kane + fandom, but I hear consistently good things about it. So.
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(...wow, this allergy medicine makes me *punchy*.)
I've been hearing good things about it, too, but I don't know if it's Fandom Good or Actual Good, you know? And I need stupid television for my holiday weekend.
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I HATE THE WORLD X 1000
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On top of which, I am fucking tired of being told gays should be nice and normal so straight people like us. Like, fucking, accept our queens, and butch chicks, and everyone in between or get out.
uh. not that you care. Just...I am so pissed off after reading all these the gays on tv are now hurting the cause articles. anyway.
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And Word to the rest of your comment, natch. A huge Word sandwich.
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But it's not a new idea, and I loathe it so goddamn much. Though it does make me think of Patrick Stewart in Jeffrey going GET HER in the best gay voice ever. I miss my copy of that movie.
Also, am I missing all the awesome gay movies now? Because I had Jeffrey, and Billy's First Hollywood Screen Kiss, and It's my Party, and I mean, they weren't high art, but the last movie I remember seeing that was gay and enjoyable was The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, and then uhhh, shit, that one with Dean Cain and Timothy Olymphant? Oh god, the Dawson's Creek guy made it and I can not remember the name but I can recite half the dialogue. I hate getting older.
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I have not yet watched second season (my interest in hour-long television is at a low ebb right now), so I cannot speak to that. But the first season is my Happy Place. It is, in fact, a perfect, completely sealed piece of television joy, and if you want to stop there it is perfectly willing to let you. It's like a big, pre-housebroken dumb puppy that only wants to love you and make you happy.
(As for the Christian Kane thing raised in comments, I really didn't care enough about ANGEL or whatever other shows he's been on before to recognize him so I don't know what that's about. I actually thought he was a wrestler guy before someone pointed out that he was Lindsey or however you spell that, that's how much I noticed any of that.)
Also argh Adam Lambert. I have friends who LOVE HIM but honestly I am ... kind of getting so fucking tired of him because unlike everyone ever I think his singing is horrible and his status in fandom as some sort of ... torchbearer creeps me the fuck out.
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Kate knows my issues.
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b) i had not made that connection either! huh. cool!
i do like leverage. i don't think there were any gay jokes, but they might have been on a day when i was in a la-la-la mood so i don't want to swear to it. there is a huge chunk of moralizing about which people deserve better than being screwed over and left poor (hint: usually one person or family per episode, always with a heartwarming story attached; usually some variety of "just plain folks"; there's a strong preference for veterans). sometimes it bothers me and sometimes i don't care in the slightest, so, y'know.
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This sounds like it could be right up my alley, I have SUCH a weakness for this kind of show.
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EVER.
Just because they both like to stab a bitch sometimes does not make them alike. And Jason tried to kill Tim for actual reasons, and because he was having mental issues, not because he's a whiny cunty ten year old vile sucker.
wow. I am like having a lot of rage on your journal. sorry.
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!@&%#&@divide by cucumber error: reboot universe, y/n?
there is no way those two should coexist without deeply unpleasant levels of violence.
This sounds like it could be right up my alley, I have SUCH a weakness for this kind of show.
it is utterly cute really a lot of the time, and if you ignore the fact that fandom appears to care about kane for unknown reasons, he makes a great third for the hardison/parker/elliot ot3. (i recommend second season if you want to like nate and sophie.) the capers are...silly? but in a fun, clever-geeks-sticking-it-to-the-man kind of way.
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Well. Jason's 30 birthday present to me was shooting the little bastard so. er, maybe that does not count as unpleasant.
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When? What?
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Warning: I say "slaughtered" because it really was that. Both cases are just horrifying. It has been the shittiest month for queers and all everyone on the fucking internet wants to talk about is how Adam fucking Lambert's going to lead us to the promised land or some shit like that. I hate people sometimes.
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I don't even understand that second one...it's I'm so much more horrified that Project Innocence got that guy out because I support them. Look at these kids, they're so tiny.
I accepted his sexual preferences," she said. "But I told him, 'You're young and don't understand life.' I told him, 'Plenty of young women would love to be with you.' He said he likes boys. Young people don't like to listen to adults, but I told him I'm not going to push him away."
I don't know what to think of that really. I mean it's nice that she wasn't pushing him away, but why do people always think it's something people grow out of? Especially guys. When the hell does that ever happen?
I don't even understand why Adam Lambert is even really a topic of conversation so much since I don't even understand what he did that was such a big deal. He mimic'd Velvet Goldmine, so what? I mean, stonewall was in 1969, haven't straight people gotten the fuck over this shit yet?
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b) I enjoy Leverage. Mostly for the female characters and Hardison, who is a nerd icon. I can't promise anything about gay jokes, though. I don't remember any, but there are so many things I mentally brace myself for whenever I watch television (lately the one getting me is constant portrayal of overweight people as gluttonous, food-obsessed pigs) my shields are pretty indestructible and may have deflected them.
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b) My mental braces have been faulty recently! Which is the trouble. I agree with you that there's usually bullshit that I just have to accept is there if I want to watch *any* television. Ugh.
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I think Adam Lambert is cute and his music is catchy, but it seems like every time I hear something about him as a person it just irks me more and more.