Oh, god. Just reading all the wank surrounding LJ's stupid election makes me sick.
Yeah, I voted for
legomymalfoy because a lot of my good fandom friends supported her and I wanted a good fandom representative on the board. I also have a few VERY anti-
legomymalfoy people on my f-list (luckily, none of them actually watch my journal, I don't think) who wanted me to vote for
jameth.
The truth is that I really don't particularly care much about who wins, I just want to be able to use LJ for what I use it for now -- RL stuff as well as fandom things. Hence voting for a fandom representative. Yeah, I know there are some sick fandomers out there, and plenty of examples of bad fanfiction for fandom-haters to throw at us, but god. Can you really expect me to like someone with supporters like
this? Getting drunk and going around calling people pedophiles is worse than writing about fictional characters, if you ask me. Even if I didn't read/write fanfic, your stance would not appeal to me in the least.
(Also, I really love the people that stood up to him/her and others, mad props to you. I'm staying the HELL AWAY because just reading your comment threads makes me a bit sick to my stomach.)
Yes, I'm crossing my fingers right now that none of those crazy drunkards find my LJ. It's my nice, safe corner of the internet. Plz to be leaving me alone, I don't like your kind of wank. (And if you do find your way here... the other kind of wank is really much more gratifying. You should try it sometime.)
On a brighter note, I really do hope things get a bit better for fandom. I think I might be in the minority in thinking that the underage sex part in fanfiction (especially teacher/student, incest, and chan) is sick and wrong and not how I want to think of the books (although there are some Bellatrix pairings with much younger people that I like, because they ARE sick and wrong, so even I'm not innocent), but
dude. I know people who had sex by the time they were 13, way more sex than I've had in my life, in fact. And they don't see anything wrong with it, either. It
happens.
Here's to hoping they stop painting everyone with the pedophile brush and take their drunken anger to the actual, real life child molesters. *resists urge to point fingers at the Catholic Church, not very successfully*
... I know, I know. I'm getting all ranty again. I should take myself away from the internet until I cool off.