My apologies if I'm derailing things, but I simply had to share this.
New ship: Trixie/Blue Blood.
I have nothing relevant to contribute to this conversation.
Don't forget about the part where Chretien grabbed a protester by the throat (in his defense, the guy got in his face); all while wearing a leather coat and sunglasses. People made Terminator jokes for months.
Kill for the Living, Kill for the Dead.
Ah, yes. And the best part is, Chretien isn't the craziest man we've ever put in charge.
Yeah. Our longest serving PM was known to talk to his dog and dead mother.
Kill for the Living, Kill for the Dead.
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Okay, for a second there
I Read That As "
walk his dog and dead mother."
Panhandling sign glued to hands. Need $5 for solvent.
...People write songs about the weirdest things XD
Tick Tock, goes the clock/ He cradled and he rocked her/ Tick Tock, goes the clock/Till River kills the Doctor.
Who's writing fanficiton?
Anyone doing anything good?
Nothing is cooler than science and ponies
I have the idea of writing my own essay about FIM:
"Why are you watching that? Don't you know that's for..."
Gender Politics, Social Expectations and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
"the worst feeling in the world is not thinking anybody else feels the same as you, but you'd be surprised how many people do."Thom Yorke
T Hink that's a bit TOO deep?
Nothing is cooler than science and ponies
Too deep? Here we have one of the greatest social mysteries of the era, with not only cultural gender expectations playing a role, but also the diffusion of information and culture through the Internet, not to mention the contrast this provides to modern-day gender roles and the such.
This fandom is a sociology goldmine; you can't go deep enough.
edited 25th May '11 7:06:42 AM by Astrosimi
A child may be raised to think that light is darkness, but the light still enlightens.
Well, considering what I wrote, it does make sense.
I mean hell, I fully intend on starting a philosophical debate in my next culture and ethics class.
Nothing is cooler than science and ponies
Friendship Is Magic is great material for an essay like that.
I took a course about gender in modern history this semester, and I was hoping for a chance to bring up My Little Pony somewhere. That never happened though.
Bide your time and hold out hope.
It was triggered by reading "Self-Made Man", an account of a lesbian who passed successfully as a man for 1 1/2 years. The insights she gleaned about being a man are unique, as far as I know. Here's the bit that really stood out for me, RE: this fandom:
Somebody is always evaluating your manhood. Whether it's other men, other women, even children. And everybody is always on the lookout for your weakness or inadequacy, as if it's some kind of plague they're terrified of catching, or, more importantly, of other men catching. If you don't make the right move, put your eyes in the right place at any given moment, in the eyes of the culture at large that threatens the whole structure. [...]
The worst of this scrutiny came from being perceived as an effeminate guy. Other guys, it turned out, were hypervigilant about the rules of manhood, and they were disconcerted, sometimes deeply so, by my failure to observe those rules. [...] But it felt as if most men were genuinely afraid, almost desperately afraid sometimes of the spectral fag in their midst.
"the worst feeling in the world is not thinking anybody else feels the same as you, but you'd be surprised how many people do."Thom Yorke
and Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi
