the race is not for the swift

i wanted to let this hate meme thing go, i really did. this post will be followed with silly, fun, drool-inducing picspam, y'all take heed.

however. it appears that some people out there - some women that i may not consider my close and personal bosom compatriots, but whom i nonetheless have experienced as valuable, decent people at their hearts - that they have been hurt by the pack of idiots out there who decided it was their mission to liberate the internets from the dictatorly rule of the dreaded BNFs.

there's nothing i can do about the fact that my friends are hurt. that saddens me, but i know where to pick my battles. i offer contact and continued love to them, and i pick my target.

anonymous posters, i choose you.

( an open letter. )

now. picspam, right? you're all good with picspam?

( 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. :)

Points, in random order:

( I make the thinking. )