fandom go boom.

I have nothing new to add to the WTFness going on with LJ comms and users being permanently suspended with no warning for listing "incest" or "underage porn" or some other dumb shit as an interest. It doesn't affect me directly, since these are not my particular perversions, but I'm just as angry as if they were. If there's any group/petition/serious effort of any kind to fight back against this ridiculousness, sign me up. I like LJ. I don't want to leave LJ. I don't intend to leave LJ. But I would like for Six Apart to be less stupid sometimes.

For now: fandom_counts.

I'd like to keep watching the situation as it unfolds, but I've really got to write this paper. Don't go more boom while I'm working, okay?

oh, academia

I think I'm really going to like this paper, once I finish taking notes and actually start writing it. Machismo and the Western man, in Death of a Salesman, True West, and M. Butterfly. Lemme get my gender studies bitch ON.

Although, really, for the record, I absolutely despise Willy Loman. I have less sympathy for him every time I read this play, and I've read it a few times over the years. Ugh. Misogynistic lying delusional bully. Maybe I just need to see a really talented actor make him sympathetic, but on the page, he's a complete jackass.

Gah, last paper EVER. I cannot get over this, I just can't. I mean, I know I'm not suited for academia, but still.