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A matter of choice
Jan. 23rd, 2008 08:26 am... You ever have a moment where you're absolutely, positively sure that you're dreaming, and hey, waking up right now would be awesome? Reading the paper and finding out Heath Ledger is dead? Total. Mindfuck. Because, as you see, I wasn't on yesterday afternoon to have the news broken to me gently via the ol' FL. My inner teenage girl's heart is broken. Broken, dammit. I have loved him [in a non-stalker, crazy sort of way] since Ten Things I Hate About You, if not a little before. Even when everyone said I was crazy, and they did, I would ignore them. Ignore. And oh, how they came back, groveling and admitting the error of their ways. Woe.
Moving along, I spent the weekend burning through the Pretty Little Liars series, not realizing book four hadn't come out yet. So I'm sitting here, ticked as hell because I do not do well with mysteries left hanging. I want to know, and I want to know now! Also, on a totally superficial note, you cannot convince me Hanna would let anyone take a picture of her where her face would look round. So, uh, what's with the model not angling her head or something a fraction of an inch, dude?
And now, for the ultimate frosting on the cupcake of what the fuck:
Somehow in the last four or five pages of the "Too Much Phoebe/Alyssa bashing?" thread, the topic veered off from "we bash because it's easy. We bash because SHE's easy. We bash because good lord, she's a self centered skank" and into "well, who says anyone super powered HAS to use their powers unselfishly? Who says you HAVE to use them at all? Why can't you think for yourselves, why do you have to help anyone?"
You, my friend, are Peter Parker right before karma kicks his ass. Great power, great responsibility. No one says you have to use these gifts you find yourself in possession of, but once you've stumbled into a world where you do use 'em because you've got them, you don't get to bitch about how stupid it is. Not just Charmed. Nope, nuh uh. We also get the Buffy bash and pretty much any story EVER [Spidey included] where a super power finds a person and the person choses to use it. Because this person doesn't see it as a choice. It's a pre-made thing. Uh, no. No, not really. I think each time you could do something you want to do and say to hell with the fallout of not saving the people being terrorized by a giant squid, but you chose to do what you've got the power to do and stop the people eating squid terrorizing wherever, you have, I dunno, made a choice.
Because I lost the ability to form fully coherant thoughts, I'll just cut and paste:
( next stop, cuckoo-ville. )
Dude, you are so in the wrong genre. And in a turn that'll surprise no one at all familiar with the Charmed-fandom, this is all from a frickin' McMahoniac, or whatever they're actually called, if they're called anything at all.
If not for the personal attacks and snotty attitude in the wrong thread, I'd say they've got a leg to stand on in terms of asking why, but, uh, dude, you are the last person I want bitten by a radioactive spider. :P
Moving along, I spent the weekend burning through the Pretty Little Liars series, not realizing book four hadn't come out yet. So I'm sitting here, ticked as hell because I do not do well with mysteries left hanging. I want to know, and I want to know now! Also, on a totally superficial note, you cannot convince me Hanna would let anyone take a picture of her where her face would look round. So, uh, what's with the model not angling her head or something a fraction of an inch, dude?
And now, for the ultimate frosting on the cupcake of what the fuck:
Somehow in the last four or five pages of the "Too Much Phoebe/Alyssa bashing?" thread, the topic veered off from "we bash because it's easy. We bash because SHE's easy. We bash because good lord, she's a self centered skank" and into "well, who says anyone super powered HAS to use their powers unselfishly? Who says you HAVE to use them at all? Why can't you think for yourselves, why do you have to help anyone?"
You, my friend, are Peter Parker right before karma kicks his ass. Great power, great responsibility. No one says you have to use these gifts you find yourself in possession of, but once you've stumbled into a world where you do use 'em because you've got them, you don't get to bitch about how stupid it is. Not just Charmed. Nope, nuh uh. We also get the Buffy bash and pretty much any story EVER [Spidey included] where a super power finds a person and the person choses to use it. Because this person doesn't see it as a choice. It's a pre-made thing. Uh, no. No, not really. I think each time you could do something you want to do and say to hell with the fallout of not saving the people being terrorized by a giant squid, but you chose to do what you've got the power to do and stop the people eating squid terrorizing wherever, you have, I dunno, made a choice.
Because I lost the ability to form fully coherant thoughts, I'll just cut and paste:
( next stop, cuckoo-ville. )
Dude, you are so in the wrong genre. And in a turn that'll surprise no one at all familiar with the Charmed-fandom, this is all from a frickin' McMahoniac, or whatever they're actually called, if they're called anything at all.
If not for the personal attacks and snotty attitude in the wrong thread, I'd say they've got a leg to stand on in terms of asking why, but, uh, dude, you are the last person I want bitten by a radioactive spider. :P
