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athene1miranda: also, is it just me or is the whole 'INTERNET DEATH THREATS' thing really melodramatic and basically an excuse for the jerk in question to throw a pity party?
lunikilo: it is :D
lunikilo: and, really, death threats?
lunikilo: pffffft
lunikilo: a lot of drive by "die cunt die!" isn't ....like, frightening
athene1miranda: YEAH exactly - someone says something really nasty and inflammatory, says 'IT'S NOT OFFENSIVE BECAUSE I DON'T MEAN IT THAT WAY', gets all SADFACE when people do find it fucking offensive, then when someone says 'oh just go die in a fire' suddenly casual speech is offensive again! and they need to be protected from it! and it's all about them them them them them again, woe is them!
athene1miranda: this happens OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
lunikilo: it really does
lunikilo: on the other hand, it's a college campus, I can totally see her gettin dragged off and raped
athene1miranda: okay, so people should really not indulge their drama complex by saying 'diaf' in the first place, it's just unwise at this point, but really? this shit is WAY OVERBLOWN.
lunikilo: or smacked around
lunikilo: or something bad
lunikilo: but probably not death :D
athene1miranda: ting stop having antifeminist fantasies :-)
lunikilo: :( my bad
athene1miranda: :-)
athene1miranda: it might offend someone :-)
lunikilo: indeed!
lunikilo: and might death threat me!

In other fail news, I can't write because I can't feel anything, and I can tell I'm getting my fandoms mixed up because at the back of my head I'm currently writing LHM meta about nuclear war. /FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL

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Pffff yes, so agree. I mean, death threats aren't good -- but gotta love how articles are harping on the death threat side of things, and also that campus security is there for her. Where was campus security when nooses were hung up in the black students' areas in the name of fun?

I love how you know which racist screed we were talking about without it being directly indicated. :)

It WOULD be nice if people would stop indulging such dramas by going for 'die in a fire' comments, but? It is all about recentring the conversation around the person with the privilege. The last really egregious one I remember before this was part of the Penny Arcade; a sockpuppet troll, who made no secret of being anything but that, essentially said 'well if casual jokes about rape are a-okay, I'm gonna respond by make casual jokes about murdering your family' AND OH LOOK SUDDENLY JOKES CAN BE HARMFUL AND IT IS NOT OKAY TO MAKE THEM. *sigh*

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii. I am stalking your Dreamwidth thingie. Oh thank baby Jesus for mobile internet on long ass roadtrips WHERE I DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE. FOR FREAKING ONCE.

LOL, I am punchy already and it's barely midnight.

I finally decided to try reading you LHM/Inception fic, and um. I was lost. The Stef/Van stuff was nice, but not much with the making sense out of context. :/ FFFFFF I need to watch that film.

OMG HI. *does the happyhappyjoyjoy dance* I am totally stalking your irl lj too. Where are you driving?

that fic, it is not the best at making sense but I had tons of fun writing it XD The film is great but I got more interested in the world/mechanics than the characters...and I definitely came out of it thinking about entirely the wrong pairing.

I was on the way to Savannah. I spent all day in downtown AND IT WAS SO FREAKING MUCH FUN /sarcasm. We came to see my sister and BIL, and it just so happens our visit coincided with the Savannah Music Festival, and apparently Saint Patrick's Day is like a weeklong thing here, wth. I'm still thinking about moving here, because it's still better than where I live now. But, only just barely. At least on the coast I have access to fresh, delicious seafood.

I am kind of thrown by what a big deal it is for all the young people I know in GA, period - I guess it's just because it's an opportunity to party all night without being judged for it? Whatever, I am too broke and too weirded out to participate. A week sounds bad even by that metric though - is Savannah a real party town or is it because of the music festival or what? /perpetually confused immigrant is confused

NOM SEAFOOD. I get some lovely stuff from the farmers' market in Dekalb, but I guess nothing beats being on the coast.

All the best with your decidings; srs bsns is hard. ;_;

I don't get it either. And hell, I actually *am* of Irish descent. And German. And yet, I don't drink, and getting shitfaced seems to be the preferred way of celebrating, so that probably has something to do with it. But there also seems to be a large Catholic population in Savannah, so that's probably why it's such a big deal here. When I lived on the Gulf coast, the big thing was Mardis Gras, of course. Which I didn't get the point of, either.

I never seem to stay anywhere long. I have no roots. Although I love my family, I just...can't handle being around them all that much, without feeling guilty and depressed. I've been ''home'' for over a year now, so, away I go! I've pretty much made up my mind to move, so it's just a matter of saving up some money (lol) and waiting for my lease to expire. And finding a new job, and new roommates.

*nod* When I've been anywhere other than a big city, I've got bored fast. I think I'd be okay with settling if I lived somewhere decently urban but the Marietta area sure isn't it.

So I want to move - I am not yet sure when or how; we'd talked about moving up to Pittsburgh or some other place in the northeast this winter or next winter, but, once my siblings have got our father's house sold we might be able to afford to move to the UK instead. Starting over workwise will be terrifying but probably worth it in the end. I have verrrry little family (and I literally packed my bags and got on the train the day after I finished high school - albeit to move in with my sister in London) but I do love my brother and sister very much and I miss being able to spend time with them. ♥

*nods back* This, exactly. I like the convenience and the energy of a city. I like being able to *walk* to places, ffs, instead driving for a half hour one way just to buy five things at the grocery store.

*sigh* Whereas I can't freaking *escape* my family. We're like...the Ashkevrons, lol. I still can't get over the fact that I am about to become an aunt. God. *And* I'm the oldest of five. And that's not counting the dozens and dozens of cousins I have. My paternal grandmother (who is still living, btw) has *great great* grandchildren. I swear I'm related to half of Alabama. :/

But I actually like all my siblings, too, even though my sister who lives in Savannah and I used to fight like cats and dogs. We have *scars* to prove it, lol. My only brother is a dumbass for getting his girlfriend pregnant *and then marrying her*; but he's my baby brother, and we still get along even though he's made a truly dumb life choice.

Yeah, I miss not being car-reliant. :/ Even being a bit closer to ATL would be an improvement.

THAT IS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. I have, um, an older sister, a younger brother, and a maternal uncle (plus his wife and their son, and his wife, who I've never met). That's it, afaik. No parents or grandparents. My father had a handful of cousins, but I have a feeling they used to avoid him because I've never met some of them and couldn't even find them all in his address book when he died because we didn't know them well enough to know all of their last names.

M, on the other hand, has a huge family I have barely even started running into - both grandmothers and both parents and four ex-stepmothers, two siblings (one of whom has married twice) and one half-sibling THAT THEY KNOW ABOUT, plus a foster sibling, and oh god I have met stepsiblings-in-law and a half-nephew and a step-niece and at that point I just stand there and look lost.

I hate that I can't be there for my siblings right now :( Siblings are awesome even (especially?) when everything is going to hell.

I hate having to depend on my car. Cars are so freaking expensive, even when gas wasn't so high. I need new tires like WHOA. Keeping the oil changed, and other fluids, basic maintenance, just ugh.

WOW I THINK YOUR BF IS RELATED TO MY MOM'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY. They are from Georgia, lol, and that sounds like them. I can't even keep track of who's married, divorced, etc. When my grandfather died, there were so many relatives at the funeral I had not only never met, I didn't even know they existed. It's my dad's side that is breeding uncontrollably.

Yeah, siblings are great. Being the oldest makes me kind of mother hen-y, though, lol.

(and I am getting stuff down about the American nuclear ethos in the LHM, about mutually assured destruction and the preaching of nonproliferation and reliance on conventional weaponry, and I am not sure if I am stupider for thinking about it in those very 1980s terms right now or for not having done so before.)

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