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[minervasolo]

Ugh!

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Oh, many were made by me, but certainly not enough to save me from my inbox. I opened when I got home to find it dominated by two names: charabok and almighty_frog. Now, Anria I expected. She's been involved in a long debate, which now seems to have ended peacefully with an agreement to disagree.

But who is this Charabok person? Well, it's someone who assumed I must know a person named Kanna and various details about them (I don't even look at who posts replies, just the replies themselves, usually, so I had no idea what she was on about for a moment). It's someone who made patronising and insulting comments. It's someone who apparently took generalistions as applying to her specifically, rather than allowing that she is part of an acknowledged minority (straight girl who likes femslash) and seemed to be very offended. Or possibly amused and feeling wanky. Gotta say, she was the first person to invoke the word wank, against both myself and Anria, and I'm sure it was justified but dear god was she being worse!

I'm mostly amused by it all. She really is being very wanky herself, and if we don't get fandom_wanked now we never will. Yes, I made assertions I couldn't back up. Yes, Anria made sweeping generalisations. Other people had pointed this out. We had responded. We didn't need to read the same thing again, but this time with a very condescending tone. I'm 17. I'm not stupid.

Really, amused. It's been my default method for dealing with insults for years now, not that I've used it much.



Um... oh yes, still ill, but less so now. Mentioned to Mr Long that I babysit for the kids of one of his ex-pupils, who knew him when he had long blond hair. Merican grl will find this amusing (must remember to hunt her lj down and friend it, scome to think of it). What scared me is he remembered the guy. We're talking 20+ years ago, and he still remembers a student. He's ben working at the college for over 30 years, and I can't imagine him young. If he was, he'd be the kind of guy I'd come back to in a few years and date. Sweetheart! Opera-loving sweetheart!

I have an urge to type up the first half of a story I scribbled down while sitting for those kids, actually. It's about a girl who grows up with an increasingly insane mother who insists they leave food out each night for her deceased father, and when she grows up and gets married she continues to do the same. Her husband makes her stop and she starts to have terrible nightmares. So she does it in secret, and even gets her daughter to. That's as far as I got, but it's got to be one of those is she mad/isn't she fics, becaus the nightmares might be real angry ghosts, or she might just be insane and inflicting it on her daughter. I really have to dig it out and type it up so far, because it's better than the description and it deserves finishing.

I have a cat on my lap. I think he gets jealous whenever someone's doing something that isn't petting him, such as reading, writing, eating, tying, washing... He makes life so awkward. Still, snuggle.

I rally wish 'bemused' was on the mood list. Because I am, most of the time, and 'amused' isn't the same.

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[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

and if we don't get fandom_wanked now we never will.

Damn. It could be amusing to have that notoriety.

You know what? I really wish I was able to just laugh off insults all the time the way you can. I can do it most of the time, but some of them just get under my skin - mostly when they're unprovoked or out of proportion. Must practise my insult-giggle. ^_^

. . . more the point, must go do more revision. Exams, oh how I hate thee.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I accept and listen to her opinion of what I said. That matters. Her opinion of me, however, doesn't. I've never met her, she's never met me. We will never meet, all things considered. She's drawing assumptions and conclusions that are wrong. If we showed those posts to anyone who knew us, they'd laugh at how petty she sounds. She was being far and away the wankier, she was swearing like it emphasised her point rather than making her sound like a teenager who thinks it's cool to swear, and her patronising tone was compeltely 'out of proprortion', as you say.

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

The reason all of that still gets under my skin is that there is absolutely no reason for her to say all that and assume all of it. I just can't think of any reason why she would have behaved that way, especially when it makes her look like a complete twat, and it annoys me. Grah.

I shall practise your zen, my dear. Ohhhhmmm . . . morons don't matter . . . ohhhhmmm. . . .

^_^