A Dozen Snowflakes

[cornerofmadness]

I'm too tired for anything. Last night was hard mentally and today (Dad's birthday) is worse in many ways because OMG not only are some Prodigal Son fans mad about the BLM issues and them addressing police brutality (as it is a police procedural and MANY of the police procedurals are doing the same) they are actively being hateful on the official FB page (I'm not on it) and worse are trying to tank the ratings by going on Amazon Prime and one-staring it because of its social justice inclusion (and doing the same with other shows too. I know others were doing this with Star Trek having LGBT characters). This is the dark side of fandom and if you are so moved and this is happening to your shows, feel free to leave reviews combating the hate.




Speaking of combating the hate fandomtrumpshate is back and sign ups are open. I HAVE signed up but only for Prodigal Son. I debated including Buffy again this year but I decided not to (I have a few days to change my mind.) I wanted to include this in case someone from snowflake_challenge dropped b y and didn't know about this charity challenge. It's been a positive experience for me.



And I DO have some good news. The dark fic I posted last night has 3 dozen kudos in a day. Now that is fantastic!! And <lj user=kingstoken> made me two Gil icons thanks to the challenge







In your own space, resurrect an old meme. Have fun with it! Which is the goofiest meme you can think of? Put on your party hat and be silly!! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



Here you go, the oldest Meme I know (god that thing was everywhere and it creeped me out)

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But if you're looking for something more interactive head over here. They're both end of the year fandom round ups I've been doing for a long time and thought others might enjoy doing if they don't already. ETA - DW is still being a jerk either posting in one block no matter what I do and in rich text it wouldn't let me put in any of the codes

Comments

[bay_alexison]

I haven't watched Prodigal Son, but I wonder if the backlash towards the show addressing police brutality is how when the BLM movement began there's this "all cops are bastards" mentality going around. So, if you have a cop, especially someone that is a person of color, second-guessing their role as a cop and such people will still be like "all cops are the same no matter what."

Congrats on your fic getting kudos there! Also oh my gosh I remember the dancing baby meme haha.

[cornerofmadness]

There is some of that but most of it seems to be a) we watch tv to escape reality (which I could almost sympathize with ) and a LOT of it is more B) this is hollywood BS about a fake issue.

we all know it's not a fake issue but to them it is. One made me laugh saying he didn't even realize Aurora Perrineau was black (she's obviously a biracial woman and was very active in the BLM protests in the beginning)


thanks re: the story and I know, I can't believe that dancing baby is like 25 years old

[tsuki_no_bara]

oh my god, i remember the dancing baby. it's still kind of creepy.

[cornerofmadness]

he IS creepy

[paulamcg]

Congrats on all that kudos!

I hadn't seen that baby before! Creepy, yes!

It seems that your link to the end of year roundups doesn't work?

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

That baby goes back to the mid-90s and very creepy


Ugh, I don't know what's up with DW right now. HTML isn't keeping paragraphs and rich text is destroying link outs. thanks I'll go look at that.

[dreamersdare]

Oh my god, the dancing baby! I think I had blocked that thing out of my memory as being the creepy-wrong stuff that nightmares are made of, ack.

Wasn't it on that TV show about the female lawyer... Ally McBeal? That's dredging my memory right there!

[cornerofmadness]

I think I broke a few people with the dancing baby. I love that my brain went right to nightmare fuel with this prompt.

OMG yes, Ally McBeal did have it on there

[sperrywink]

{{{hugs}}} I hope things ease up today emotionally for you.

People are stupid.

[cornerofmadness]

thank you. Mostly it's me sitting here doing MY homework for my class so at least I'll be distracted.


People can definitely be stupid and narrow minded

[ysilme]

Darn, I'm sorry to hear about crappy days and fandom hate... I just talked with a friend the other day about how naive we both were, coming into fandom, and expecting it to be a generally open, tolerant, non-judgemental and hate-free space.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks.

Yeah you'd imagine that we would be better in fandom but sometimes we just aren't

[used_songs]

I had forgotten about the dancing baby!

[cornerofmadness]

It's been a long time since that baby was around