[ a very merry birthday ]

Happiest of birthdays to ros_fod, who deserves all the best things, especially today. Dear Fodlet, I wish you a day full of the things you love - friends, family, and Vincent Kartheiser.

And anybody that feels like raining on that parade would do very well to think better of it.

♥

[ clear blue summer sky ]

[Poll #695210]

and, if you wish to elaborate in comments, PLEASE DO SO.

[ stirrin' my brandy with a nail ]

i rec you.

hard to come by, by sevenfists.

lots of the time, dark!fic just seems gratuitous - it's totally beyond me why some people get off on seeing much-beloved characters in pain. mind, i'm not judging. to each their own. but i don't often care for it, myself.

what i do like is dark!fic with a point to it, some reason for all the anguish and torment and sturm and drang. i'll let you decide for yourself what that is in this fic - i know what i think it is - but this little story's got it in spades. looks like a brand new person to fandom, too, or maybe this is just her fandom journal, but. it's good. read it.

[ hi there, fandom ]

( the glossing wank )

so, to short all that up: ros, kita, ruby, vi, lar, jane, wg, maybe we don't talk every day, but y'all rock. i've seen enough to know that, and i hope you know it, too.

and on a wider note about wank in general, i think it's really inevitable in any fandom. sooner or later, people are going to disagree and fight and argue, and i think if we didn't do that, we wouldn't really be human.

and i think it's our responsibility, as a community, to stay informed when these things happen. we don't have a governing body, but we have a society, so we have to police ourselves. there's, like, whistle-blowers and journalists and resources out there among us.

i know there's folks who hate wank, and i can't blame them, but i'm not afraid of it. there was a time that i was, but i'm not anymore. i promise you all i won't shutter up and be silent just because someone might not like what i have to say, and i further promise i won't start shit just to start shit. that's my way, man. kind of a pacifist activist.

in the spirit of that, i got an email to send. :)