User Profile

I've opened this journal as a place to put my writing. I've written since I was a small child, and I love my words, ironically, more than I can put into writing. As you can see from my interests, I support leftist politics and I am heavily emotionally invested in Fandom, so these will be recurrent topics. I use anger as a tool to get my point across, so you'll see a good amount of venom in my writing, but no, actually, my blood pressure is fine, thanks for asking.

My linguistic style could be described as "dry". A friend of mine forgivingly called it "old-fashioned". I don't, honestly, see a reason to change this. I recognise that it could be perceived as arrogant or pretentious, but any manner of speaking can carry its fair share of pretense. George W Bush, for example, has made a career in my country of using uneducated language to sell himself as a common man. It's my opinion that we on the left should further distance ourselves from this kind of anti-intellectualism. Academic language is one way I take pride in my political community.

My fandoms run on the nerdy side of things, but I don't do anime or Star Wars because I feel much the same way about them as I do about black jelly beans: if you like 'em, you can have 'em. I'm a slasher at heart, and I don't generally go in for het pairings as I often find them either creepy or off-pissing. I'm a complete follower of the slash community, though; if it's slash, I support it.

Disclaimer:

This is not my day job. I do this in my free time out of love for writing, and because I am passionate about my convictions. I strive to be neither fully academic nor entirely casual. My writing is purely observational and philosophical; it's intended to cause speculation, to point out patterns, to note what I've observed and contrast it with what I understand. I therefore will rarely cite statistics or sources in order to make a point as I believe this leads to a misrepresentation of my qualifications to judge the authority of a source, and I believe any source is questionable to a degree. Think of my writing as seeking to pose questions more often than to answer them.

Friending, Lurking, Replying, Oh_My!

Since my interests can be somewhat rare, I often find people who are happy to find someone else who shares them. That's great; it can get lonely being This Way, I know. Introduce yourself. Friend me if you like. My RL self has struggled quite a bit with shyness, so I understand the temptation to lurk, and I certainly wouldn't condemn anyone for it. But it does make me really happy when people tell me they enjoy my writing. ^__^ As for disagreements, I love a good debate. If you have questions or you want to call me out on something in a constructive way, go ahead and do it. However, that being said:

Unpleasantness:

Remember how I said I'd opened this journal as a place to put my writing? Well, problem is, my writing draws a lot of polarized feedback. See, I'm a queer atheist leftist feminist pacifist vegetarian intellectual living in southern America during right after the Bush regime. So, yknow, I'm kinda angry. My writing can reflect this defensiveness and, as a consequence, people get pissed off. So this means I've spent a lot of years trying to educate people past 100- and 200-Level Liberalism. Needless to say, I've grown impatient with this.

But what should one do about this sort of thing? I go back and forth about whether it's my civic duty to laboriously explain to people that religion is make-believe, or that women do actually own their own bodies, or that eating dead flesh is gross, etc, because those seem like important things that everyone should be aware of. And in addition to being vital, these concepts are so obvious in the absence of organized misinformation that it casts most people's ignorance of them as a sort of victimization. On the other hand, it gets tedious and I've begun to feel it's a waste of my time. I find myself arguing with people and wondering why I'm bothering, because my place is at 400- and 500-Level Liberalism, and I could be growing so much more as a person if I were working in that range instead of having the same argument over and over with people trying to argue that, for example, Killing Is Good.

But really, one does what one can in this life, and it can hardly be my responsibility to educate every single person who's waiting behind the velvet rope for their turn to cleverly insinuate I'm a hypocrite for my hating of hate-mongers. So I consider it a situational thing. I like to think of myself as compassionate and open, but I'm human, and an irascible one at that, so I don't have unlimited patience. If you wander into my journal and spout a bunch of offensive bull all over the place, I might argue if I'm in the mood. If I'm not, I'm all over the Ban Button. It's quick and it's easy and neither of us will remember the other in 20 minutes. Oh, and I reserve the right to totally pwn your face. Cool? Cool.

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