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Hey guys - thanks to my flist, two things have been brought to my attention that I feel I ought to share. One is fun, the other is not fun.
The fun thing is that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmiere linked me to this piece of awesome:
I love it for a couple of reasons. The music itself is not my favourite thing ever, though I like it. But I do really love her voice, it reminds me of some of my parents stuff from the sixties, I think, though obviously updated via 2010. Which ties into the real reason I keep watching it, almost hypnotically: the dancing. I do not even know what she is doing but it's amazing! It's like some fantastic hybrid of tap dancing, jive dancing and ballet!
Plus apparently her entire ArchAndroid album is basically her pretending to be rebellious android named Cindy Mayweather. I mean, really, what's not to love?
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On the other end of the spectrum,sabaceanbabe linked to this. Basically it's about a fic that some people in SPN RPF fandom wrote that is incredibly racist. I'm not in SPN fandom, and I dislike RPF, so I've only heard about this because it's making the rounds on LJ, but one of the points in the linked post is that silence on the issue isn't really helpful. So I'm not posting this because I have anything new to say on the matter - all the issues of intent and effect and apologies and who is hurt at what point and why and when that matters - all that is dealt with in the post linked to and various posts and comments branching off of that. I have nothing smarter to add on the topic that others have not already said. This is just me not being quiet about it, and practicing the idea that when something that ridiculously nuts comes across one's path, the correct response probably isn't to quietly excuse oneself because "it doesn't affect me" or "isn't quietly disapproving enough" or "it wasn't in my fandom" but to comment, "This is wrong, I do not approve" publicly, before moving on.
This is wrong and I do not approve.
And if you ever see me doing anything a fraction as weird as this, please stage some kind of intervention.
The fun thing is that
emmiere linked me to this piece of awesome: I love it for a couple of reasons. The music itself is not my favourite thing ever, though I like it. But I do really love her voice, it reminds me of some of my parents stuff from the sixties, I think, though obviously updated via 2010. Which ties into the real reason I keep watching it, almost hypnotically: the dancing. I do not even know what she is doing but it's amazing! It's like some fantastic hybrid of tap dancing, jive dancing and ballet!
Plus apparently her entire ArchAndroid album is basically her pretending to be rebellious android named Cindy Mayweather. I mean, really, what's not to love?
* * *
On the other end of the spectrum,
sabaceanbabe linked to this. Basically it's about a fic that some people in SPN RPF fandom wrote that is incredibly racist. I'm not in SPN fandom, and I dislike RPF, so I've only heard about this because it's making the rounds on LJ, but one of the points in the linked post is that silence on the issue isn't really helpful. So I'm not posting this because I have anything new to say on the matter - all the issues of intent and effect and apologies and who is hurt at what point and why and when that matters - all that is dealt with in the post linked to and various posts and comments branching off of that. I have nothing smarter to add on the topic that others have not already said. This is just me not being quiet about it, and practicing the idea that when something that ridiculously nuts comes across one's path, the correct response probably isn't to quietly excuse oneself because "it doesn't affect me" or "isn't quietly disapproving enough" or "it wasn't in my fandom" but to comment, "This is wrong, I do not approve" publicly, before moving on. This is wrong and I do not approve.
And if you ever see me doing anything a fraction as weird as this, please stage some kind of intervention.
