Curious but don't want to be ghoulish
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cornerofmadnessWhen I came home today the ambulance is over all the parking places (I'm now on the ice floe wondering if I'm going to work tomorrow after all). No one was about, no doors open so I don't know who they were here for but we have a lot of 70+ people here. I hope they'll be okay.
My nursing students gave me hope today. They did really well on the micro test for the most part. Out of 37 less than 5 failed. I'm happy with that.
Nearly finished my vampire story.
Speaking of vampires, let me do Tuesday's fannish 50 tonight. I found, by accident, a station showing Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wanted to talk about her for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
halfamoon which I just don't have time to write for, not with my deadlines. Sigh. I WILL do at least one more but I'm on the struggle bus.
But it occurred to me watching now almost 30 years later (OMFG HOW) that it really hits different than it did then. I always maintained that Joss Whedon wasn't the champion of women he pretended to be back then but I wasn't believed much. I've said this before. I just watched the last few episodes of S3 and the beginning of S4. I know that Xander was meant to be Whedon's avatar which is weird. He's rather incel coded for one but that aside, Xander was never a stand up guy to me. I was also struck about how many age-difference couples there were. I can almost look past Angel (and Spike) as immortals but while the age gap between Wes and Cordy wasn't ridiculous, we don't take too kindly to a mid 20s man trying to date a 17 year old (oh 18 years old, how many times have we heard them screaming that on this show, with her, with COnnor, etc) even in the prom a lot of the dates looked way older than the random girls. Sure that could be bad casting.
Then I remember we now know that they had to protect Michelle Trachenberg from being in the same room with Whedon. Amber Heard told me herself about the pressures put on her.
So do you have any older fandoms that feel different now?
While we're talking about shows, I'm trying to get into a new one, Inspector George Gently. Okay it's not new but new to me. It's interesting but I have never hated a character more than I do in this, at least not in a long time. If I thought Troy was bad in Midsomer Murders, he's a Woke snowflake in comparison to the sergeant in this, Bacchus is frigging awful. Yeah it's set in the mid 60s. I don't expect him to be LGBT friendly. But he's misogynistic, xenophobic and worse, a bully. He uses his job to bully people he doesn't like the Gently has called him out more than once. I'm like either give this man a redemption arc, kick him to the curb or maybe I just need to give up.
My nursing students gave me hope today. They did really well on the micro test for the most part. Out of 37 less than 5 failed. I'm happy with that.
Nearly finished my vampire story.
Speaking of vampires, let me do Tuesday's fannish 50 tonight. I found, by accident, a station showing Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wanted to talk about her for
halfamoon which I just don't have time to write for, not with my deadlines. Sigh. I WILL do at least one more but I'm on the struggle bus. But it occurred to me watching now almost 30 years later (OMFG HOW) that it really hits different than it did then. I always maintained that Joss Whedon wasn't the champion of women he pretended to be back then but I wasn't believed much. I've said this before. I just watched the last few episodes of S3 and the beginning of S4. I know that Xander was meant to be Whedon's avatar which is weird. He's rather incel coded for one but that aside, Xander was never a stand up guy to me. I was also struck about how many age-difference couples there were. I can almost look past Angel (and Spike) as immortals but while the age gap between Wes and Cordy wasn't ridiculous, we don't take too kindly to a mid 20s man trying to date a 17 year old (oh 18 years old, how many times have we heard them screaming that on this show, with her, with COnnor, etc) even in the prom a lot of the dates looked way older than the random girls. Sure that could be bad casting.
Then I remember we now know that they had to protect Michelle Trachenberg from being in the same room with Whedon. Amber Heard told me herself about the pressures put on her.
So do you have any older fandoms that feel different now?
While we're talking about shows, I'm trying to get into a new one, Inspector George Gently. Okay it's not new but new to me. It's interesting but I have never hated a character more than I do in this, at least not in a long time. If I thought Troy was bad in Midsomer Murders, he's a Woke snowflake in comparison to the sergeant in this, Bacchus is frigging awful. Yeah it's set in the mid 60s. I don't expect him to be LGBT friendly. But he's misogynistic, xenophobic and worse, a bully. He uses his job to bully people he doesn't like the Gently has called him out more than once. I'm like either give this man a redemption arc, kick him to the curb or maybe I just need to give up.
