I need to remind myself to take a deep breath and not to snap at people.
Having a crappy work week: and it's only 8am Wednesday.
Having a crappy work week: and it's only 8am Wednesday.
So frustrated.
Network guy thinks entirely too literal.
( network guy rant )
And this is why I would never want to be a manager (as discussed in a conversation with some co-workers yesterday). The truth is that I have enough trouble dealing with 'stupid people' as a programmer. I should hate to have to deal with stupid people ALL THE TIME as a project manager or team leader.
Hell to the no.
(ps. this is going to be the shape of things for the day, I suspect. I'm going to rant on here because there's not really anywhere else to rant.)
Network guy thinks entirely too literal.
( network guy rant )
And this is why I would never want to be a manager (as discussed in a conversation with some co-workers yesterday). The truth is that I have enough trouble dealing with 'stupid people' as a programmer. I should hate to have to deal with stupid people ALL THE TIME as a project manager or team leader.
Hell to the no.
(ps. this is going to be the shape of things for the day, I suspect. I'm going to rant on here because there's not really anywhere else to rant.)
The employers always want the sun, the moon, and the stars.
The job agents rarely have any idea of what the client is looking for and insist that they know best. (When the client has specified something where it doesn't matter which version, they'll insist that you don't have the specific version experience - like complaining someone doesn't have Word 2003 experience, where they have other version Word experience. Where the client has specified something that is clearly a hardline must-have, they'll insist that it's quite okay, I'm sure they don't really mean they want it.)
They always ask if I'm an Australian citizen. (Yes. It's on my freaking resume if you bothered to read it.)
They're all in places-that-are-not-Sydney right now. (I just got settled here after years of wandering all over the map. I was liking making friends here and putting down roots, instead of being stuck talking to friends overseas that I don't even get to talk to that much because they're online at their nights during the middle of my day, when I'm working.)
The job agents rarely have any idea of what the client is looking for and insist that they know best. (When the client has specified something where it doesn't matter which version, they'll insist that you don't have the specific version experience - like complaining someone doesn't have Word 2003 experience, where they have other version Word experience. Where the client has specified something that is clearly a hardline must-have, they'll insist that it's quite okay, I'm sure they don't really mean they want it.)
They always ask if I'm an Australian citizen. (Yes. It's on my freaking resume if you bothered to read it.)
They're all in places-that-are-not-Sydney right now. (I just got settled here after years of wandering all over the map. I was liking making friends here and putting down roots, instead of being stuck talking to friends overseas that I don't even get to talk to that much because they're online at their nights during the middle of my day, when I'm working.)
It's amazing how many people seem to believe that the problem with the human race is religion and that if we did away with religion, the world would be somehow full of sunshine and roses and puppies playing with each other instead of war and hatred and anger and selfishness.
I hate to break it to them, but the problem with the human race is the human race. Religion (or a political mentality or a social philosopy) is simply the excuse that people have used through time immemorial to be nastier versions of the people they already were in the first place.
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No, I don't want a husband. Or a boyfriend. Or kids. I don't think that someday someone will come and I'll suddenly want to be a housewife, mother of his progeny, and sex toy for his pleasure - especially considering all evidence in my history points to exactly the opposite, and the numerical odds of me finding someone of suitable age and inclination to marry me - let alone who wants to marry me - are slim enough without adding the decreasing likelihood of healthy children given that I'm turning 35 this year.
And I'm not worried about it, and neither is my mum.
Thank. God.
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Yes, Praha (Prague) has a lot of bridges. There's a freaking river running through the city.
I just said that we were going up to the castle for dinner.
If I'm not talking, that's because I'm trying to retreat into my cave where I don't have to make human contact, so I can come out tomorrow and be something resembling a human being capable of speaking with other human beings.
No, I will not wake you up when you snore because there's no point. You'll just turn over and keep snoring.
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I want to go home. Only, when I get home, I have to bury the cat and start the hunt for a job.
It's not exactly something to look forward to.
I have a feeling it's going to be a long, cold winter for me.
I hate to break it to them, but the problem with the human race is the human race. Religion (or a political mentality or a social philosopy) is simply the excuse that people have used through time immemorial to be nastier versions of the people they already were in the first place.
--
No, I don't want a husband. Or a boyfriend. Or kids. I don't think that someday someone will come and I'll suddenly want to be a housewife, mother of his progeny, and sex toy for his pleasure - especially considering all evidence in my history points to exactly the opposite, and the numerical odds of me finding someone of suitable age and inclination to marry me - let alone who wants to marry me - are slim enough without adding the decreasing likelihood of healthy children given that I'm turning 35 this year.
And I'm not worried about it, and neither is my mum.
Thank. God.
--
Yes, Praha (Prague) has a lot of bridges. There's a freaking river running through the city.
I just said that we were going up to the castle for dinner.
If I'm not talking, that's because I'm trying to retreat into my cave where I don't have to make human contact, so I can come out tomorrow and be something resembling a human being capable of speaking with other human beings.
No, I will not wake you up when you snore because there's no point. You'll just turn over and keep snoring.
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I want to go home. Only, when I get home, I have to bury the cat and start the hunt for a job.
It's not exactly something to look forward to.
I have a feeling it's going to be a long, cold winter for me.
Paris is going fine, but for some sad news from home on Monday; my cat died, and now I have a tendency to leakage at unexpected times.
There'll be a travel update on my personal LJ sometime in the next few days.
Some fannish things in the meantime:
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helpthesouth: Bid to appear as a walk-on character in the Stargate Atlantis Legacy series!
Sanctuary fans - go forth to thesfa_ficawards! Voting is now!
het_bigbang: sign-ups until 1st June.
Merlin folks may be interested in thesummerpornathon! Time for some Arthur/Gwen porn! (Merlin/Gwaine? Merlin/Lancelot? Morgana/Morgause?)
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trekreversebang due date due to the trip and the cat.
( small rant on ebooks )
There'll be a travel update on my personal LJ sometime in the next few days.
Some fannish things in the meantime:
helpthesouth: Bid to appear as a walk-on character in the Stargate Atlantis Legacy series!Sanctuary fans - go forth to the
sfa_ficawards! Voting is now!het_bigbang: sign-ups until 1st June.Merlin folks may be interested in the
summerpornathon! Time for some Arthur/Gwen porn! (Merlin/Gwaine? Merlin/Lancelot? Morgana/Morgause?)--
Didn't get my
sga_genficathon entry in on time for art. Will have to either create my own or go without.Am not sure I'll make the
trekreversebang due date due to the trip and the cat.( small rant on ebooks )
A show that isn't utilising all its existing female characters is not going to utilise new female characters any better than it does the existing ones.
The problem is very rarely the lack of existing strong female characters but the lack of knowledge of what to do with them - or, specifically, with more than one of them.
And because the problem is that the (white, male) writers don't know what to do with more than one woman (especially when the second female character isn't white), this problem is never, ever solved by throwing more female characters into the mix.
eta: Yes, shows need more female characters, without a doubt! However. I've never yet seen a show that could do better with more female characters when it was doing not-so-well with less.
And yes, Sanctuary does fine with one female character. Most modern shows do right by at least one of their female characters. It's when you have more than one that problems crop up. The second female's skills tend to be ignored or dismissed, her characterisation is underdeveloped or tossed every which way according to convenience, and/or she's turned into a stereotype and never rounded out.
The problem is very rarely the lack of existing strong female characters but the lack of knowledge of what to do with them - or, specifically, with more than one of them.
And because the problem is that the (white, male) writers don't know what to do with more than one woman (especially when the second female character isn't white), this problem is never, ever solved by throwing more female characters into the mix.
eta: Yes, shows need more female characters, without a doubt! However. I've never yet seen a show that could do better with more female characters when it was doing not-so-well with less.
And yes, Sanctuary does fine with one female character. Most modern shows do right by at least one of their female characters. It's when you have more than one that problems crop up. The second female's skills tend to be ignored or dismissed, her characterisation is underdeveloped or tossed every which way according to convenience, and/or she's turned into a stereotype and never rounded out.
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glass_icarus: A crystal-sharp piece about Americanness, and how she, an American citizen of Chinese appearance and descent, will never be allowed to own the term 'American' - not unchallenged.
If my experience isn't anywhere near as painful as hers, it still has barbs.
I was born here. ( This *is* my country. )
glass_icarus: A crystal-sharp piece about Americanness, and how she, an American citizen of Chinese appearance and descent, will never be allowed to own the term 'American' - not unchallenged.If my experience isn't anywhere near as painful as hers, it still has barbs.
I was born here. ( This *is* my country. )
Someone's stealing the sweet stuff I bring in to work for personal consumption.
Chocolate blocks are messily broken off (I break them off by neat squares); packet sweets are suspiciously lower the next day; yesterday, I chopped up a chocolate bar into thirds and ate one: this morning there's only one third left.
My suspicions are on Smarmy Bastard. Mostly because he's one of the few people who wouldn't have a care for my personal space (I don't mind, right?) and who would repeatedly do something like this and think it's perfectly okay.
My alternative is Mister Knows Best (who always talks like I'm too stupid to fix the problem myself), who would probably think it a lark to steal from me.
I have thought about replacing the sweets with my cat's poo. That would be rather fun, I think. At least until they smeared it all over my desk. My boss is pretty indignant that someone's been stealing from me, but working out who's the thief will be the trick.
Now I'm wondering if they're going to nick off with the fundraising chocolates sitting on my desk.
Chocolate blocks are messily broken off (I break them off by neat squares); packet sweets are suspiciously lower the next day; yesterday, I chopped up a chocolate bar into thirds and ate one: this morning there's only one third left.
My suspicions are on Smarmy Bastard. Mostly because he's one of the few people who wouldn't have a care for my personal space (I don't mind, right?) and who would repeatedly do something like this and think it's perfectly okay.
My alternative is Mister Knows Best (who always talks like I'm too stupid to fix the problem myself), who would probably think it a lark to steal from me.
I have thought about replacing the sweets with my cat's poo. That would be rather fun, I think. At least until they smeared it all over my desk. My boss is pretty indignant that someone's been stealing from me, but working out who's the thief will be the trick.
Now I'm wondering if they're going to nick off with the fundraising chocolates sitting on my desk.
Dear co-worker,
It is not at all funny to say we should put a guy in a dress to pass him off as a woman because we don't have enough female players to play in the mixed soccer competition. Not. At. All. Funny.
You know why? Apart from the fact that 'putting a man in a dress' does not make him a woman, and that the idea that wearing a skirt defines gender is ridiculous in both an office where women were trousers all the time and in a sporting competition where not a single woman has ever worn a skirt on the field, and that you persistently make this 'joke' every time we're down on female players and seem to think it hilarious every time, it is frankly insulting to have my femaleness boiled down to what I wear, as though my body or history or the way I was brought up or my body chemistry has nothing to do with being female.
As though anyone can be a female just by not 'doing man-things'. (ie. wearing a dress.) As though being female is the refuse-pile of gender binary thought. (I'm not even going to address the problematics of gender binary with someone like you. You're not educated even halfway enough to attempt that conversation.)
That is what your comment boils down to - a particularly nasty breed of sexism that shoves anyone who doesn't adopt the behaviour or dress of what you think of as 'manly' into the category of 'a woman'.
I've been polite before. I slapped you back today with hints as to why it was aggravating. Make the 'joke' again, and I will have to explain with painstaking detail why this shits me and just how it is offensive.
You have a 12 year old daughter whom you love. For her sake, at least, think about the world you're helping shape and which she's growing up in and what your stupid suggestion really means when you peel off the layers of alleged 'humour'.
It is not at all funny to say we should put a guy in a dress to pass him off as a woman because we don't have enough female players to play in the mixed soccer competition. Not. At. All. Funny.
You know why? Apart from the fact that 'putting a man in a dress' does not make him a woman, and that the idea that wearing a skirt defines gender is ridiculous in both an office where women were trousers all the time and in a sporting competition where not a single woman has ever worn a skirt on the field, and that you persistently make this 'joke' every time we're down on female players and seem to think it hilarious every time, it is frankly insulting to have my femaleness boiled down to what I wear, as though my body or history or the way I was brought up or my body chemistry has nothing to do with being female.
As though anyone can be a female just by not 'doing man-things'. (ie. wearing a dress.) As though being female is the refuse-pile of gender binary thought. (I'm not even going to address the problematics of gender binary with someone like you. You're not educated even halfway enough to attempt that conversation.)
That is what your comment boils down to - a particularly nasty breed of sexism that shoves anyone who doesn't adopt the behaviour or dress of what you think of as 'manly' into the category of 'a woman'.
I've been polite before. I slapped you back today with hints as to why it was aggravating. Make the 'joke' again, and I will have to explain with painstaking detail why this shits me and just how it is offensive.
You have a 12 year old daughter whom you love. For her sake, at least, think about the world you're helping shape and which she's growing up in and what your stupid suggestion really means when you peel off the layers of alleged 'humour'.
I imagine it would be unfortunately snarky for me to tell the security access team in the US:
I solemly promise that I shall be responsible with the Production system access you give me. Pinky swear!Although it would be damn satisfying...
Okay, other than the fact that your three attempts over two years at getting this system live FAILED like a big flaily faily thing.
( cut for work rantage and control freaks )
( cut for work rantage and control freaks )
Is there a single scene in Season Five of SGA after the first episode that suggests that anyone other than Ronon feels friendship or affection or care for Teyla?
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I was hoping to get through Christmas and New Year without that awful sick feeling in my stomach that another SGA episode had aired.
And, really, there's only the awful sick feeling in my stomach that another SGA episode has aired, because all I see now is Whitey McWhiteness: Teyla and Ronon no longer meaningful in episodes or in storylines, Keller - a.k.a. "The New White Girl" - so prominently displayed, and any sense of the awesomeness and potential of the Pegasus galaxy dumbed down, eliminated, or made out to be nothing more than an inferior copy of Earth.
( disturbing on levels that I can't fathom )
*suddenly laughs*
Years ago, back in 2nd or 3rd Season of SGA, someone commented that SGA was like a boyfriend whom you knew was bad for you and whom you knew you should dump, and whom your friends told you you should dump, and whom your family told you was a loser and a no-hoper, but you just couldn't let go of the belief that one day, he'd get his act together and change.
I wonder if she got out before The Crash.
Incidentally, I've been taking hints that people are ignoring this LJ for the negativity on SGA because they don't want their squee harshed. In which case, feel free to consider this a defriending amnesty. I'm sorry that it's all we had in common, but that's the way that fandom goes - as I've been discovering these last few months. It was a good journey while we were companions with a common interest, now that we're not, it's probably best that we part ways. Cheers, and no hard feelings.
And, really, there's only the awful sick feeling in my stomach that another SGA episode has aired, because all I see now is Whitey McWhiteness: Teyla and Ronon no longer meaningful in episodes or in storylines, Keller - a.k.a. "The New White Girl" - so prominently displayed, and any sense of the awesomeness and potential of the Pegasus galaxy dumbed down, eliminated, or made out to be nothing more than an inferior copy of Earth.
( disturbing on levels that I can't fathom )
*suddenly laughs*
Years ago, back in 2nd or 3rd Season of SGA, someone commented that SGA was like a boyfriend whom you knew was bad for you and whom you knew you should dump, and whom your friends told you you should dump, and whom your family told you was a loser and a no-hoper, but you just couldn't let go of the belief that one day, he'd get his act together and change.
I wonder if she got out before The Crash.
Incidentally, I've been taking hints that people are ignoring this LJ for the negativity on SGA because they don't want their squee harshed. In which case, feel free to consider this a defriending amnesty. I'm sorry that it's all we had in common, but that's the way that fandom goes - as I've been discovering these last few months. It was a good journey while we were companions with a common interest, now that we're not, it's probably best that we part ways. Cheers, and no hard feelings.
John Sheppard is not a woobie in need of wuv, peoples.
No, really, he is not.
In Stargate Atlantis canon, he is a full-grown man capable of making his own decisions, living his own life, living with the consequences of his choices and those of the people around him, and doing his job without needing someone to constantly pat him on the back and tell him what a good boy he is and what an awesome job he is doing.
Angst him, whump him, thump him, break him, put him through the emotional wringer if you must, but do not make him out to be an emo, internally-sobbing mass that only needs the validation from [character of choice] to be a 'real boy'.
Thank you.
No, really, he is not.
In Stargate Atlantis canon, he is a full-grown man capable of making his own decisions, living his own life, living with the consequences of his choices and those of the people around him, and doing his job without needing someone to constantly pat him on the back and tell him what a good boy he is and what an awesome job he is doing.
Angst him, whump him, thump him, break him, put him through the emotional wringer if you must, but do not make him out to be an emo, internally-sobbing mass that only needs the validation from [character of choice] to be a 'real boy'.
Thank you.
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The top twenty-five awesome female characters meme.
I have great love for female characters. It's almost always a female character that gets me into writing fanfic for a show. I've never been in all-male-character fandoms, although Atlantis is rapidly heading that way. Ultimately, however, in my years of fandom, the only female character I've ever felt I've had to apologise for liking is Teyla.
Sam Carter? Faith? Zoe? Wonder Woman? Jean Grey? Brennan? Inara Serra? Elizabeth Weir? Kara Thrace? No problem. They have huge fandoms. Rabid fans. People who are willing to concede that the character might be awesome, even if she doesn't hit their particular marrowbone.
But Teyla?
Sorry, Teyla isn't awesome. She can't be.
( skip the rant, I just needed this off my chest )
My top ten list of awesome - TV and book:
1. Teyla Emmagan - Stargate Atlantis
2. Sam Carter - Stargate SG1 & Stargate Atlantis
3. Faith Lehane - Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel
4. Diana/Wonder Woman - DC Comics
5. Temperance Brennan - Bones
6. Inara Serra - Firefly
7. Surreal - Black Jewels (book series)
8. Eve Dallas - In Death (book series)
9. Jean Grey/Phoenix - X-Men
10. Phedre no Delaunay - Kushiel's Dart (book series)
Further down the list are Zoe and Kara and Elizabeth and Janet, Sioned of the Desert and Nita Callahan and Sarra Ambrai and Vala Mal Doran, Angela Montenegro and Sarah Connor and Eowyn and Lyra, Claire-who-goes-through-the-stones and Delia Peabody... (I think I might have filled my top twenty-five, right there.)
And in spite of all those names, Teyla's the only one I've fangirled where I felt as though most people who watched the series expected me to apologise for liking her.
The top twenty-five awesome female characters meme.
I have great love for female characters. It's almost always a female character that gets me into writing fanfic for a show. I've never been in all-male-character fandoms, although Atlantis is rapidly heading that way. Ultimately, however, in my years of fandom, the only female character I've ever felt I've had to apologise for liking is Teyla.
Sam Carter? Faith? Zoe? Wonder Woman? Jean Grey? Brennan? Inara Serra? Elizabeth Weir? Kara Thrace? No problem. They have huge fandoms. Rabid fans. People who are willing to concede that the character might be awesome, even if she doesn't hit their particular marrowbone.
But Teyla?
Sorry, Teyla isn't awesome. She can't be.
( skip the rant, I just needed this off my chest )
My top ten list of awesome - TV and book:
1. Teyla Emmagan - Stargate Atlantis
2. Sam Carter - Stargate SG1 & Stargate Atlantis
3. Faith Lehane - Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel
4. Diana/Wonder Woman - DC Comics
5. Temperance Brennan - Bones
6. Inara Serra - Firefly
7. Surreal - Black Jewels (book series)
8. Eve Dallas - In Death (book series)
9. Jean Grey/Phoenix - X-Men
10. Phedre no Delaunay - Kushiel's Dart (book series)
Further down the list are Zoe and Kara and Elizabeth and Janet, Sioned of the Desert and Nita Callahan and Sarra Ambrai and Vala Mal Doran, Angela Montenegro and Sarah Connor and Eowyn and Lyra, Claire-who-goes-through-the-stones and Delia Peabody... (I think I might have filled my top twenty-five, right there.)
And in spite of all those names, Teyla's the only one I've fangirled where I felt as though most people who watched the series expected me to apologise for liking her.
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I haven't seen anything since Quarantine, due to bandwidth issues. I'm trying to avoid as much spoilerage as possible in the meantime, although a little is to be expected.
This is my musings on what little tidbits I've heard. Some spoilers, but not the major kind, a few reflections on S4 and hopes for S5. What can I say? I'm getting in ahead of tomorrow's crowd. *g*
( mostly relationships, characters, that kind of thing )
So, I think I've gotten the most pressing of my Stargate Atlantis fandom issues out in there. There's a backlog of issue-ness, but it can wait. :)
This is my musings on what little tidbits I've heard. Some spoilers, but not the major kind, a few reflections on S4 and hopes for S5. What can I say? I'm getting in ahead of tomorrow's crowd. *g*
( mostly relationships, characters, that kind of thing )
So, I think I've gotten the most pressing of my Stargate Atlantis fandom issues out in there. There's a backlog of issue-ness, but it can wait. :)
I remember thassalia from SG1 fandom, vaguely.
She's posted a meta about women and the removal of them from fanfic - you know, the stories where John and Rodney are the Best Things Evah, or where there's no 'Teyla' in Team?
I'll bet that more people have written Teyla (or Elizabeth) out of the longer, plotty stories that could have reasonably contained them, but claimed that "it's all about the story and there's no place for the women."
"There's no place for the women?"
( Doubleyew-tee-eff? )
Today, I hate fandom.
Yes,greenconverses, this is my feminist rage. My feminist rage, let me show you it...
thassalia from SG1 fandom, vaguely.She's posted a meta about women and the removal of them from fanfic - you know, the stories where John and Rodney are the Best Things Evah, or where there's no 'Teyla' in Team?
I get a little angry when I put forth my "if there are no women" in the story hypothesis and get the "it's about the story not the gender" argument in return because the truth is that we as a society constantly strip women from the story. We as storytellers strip women from the story, and as viewers and readers, when we accept that, we're complicit. We allow mothers to be absent, lovers to only exist in context with the men in their lives, women to exist at the edges of the story and not at the heart.And later,
We tell these stories, and we, in fandom, celebrate these stories of women, but we also deny them in equal measure everytime we write them out of the narrative.This is probably why I have very little patience for the John&Rodney BFF genre, and only marginally more for the John/Teyla "reads like an 'insert the names here' romance novel" stories.
I'll bet that more people have written Teyla (or Elizabeth) out of the longer, plotty stories that could have reasonably contained them, but claimed that "it's all about the story and there's no place for the women."
"There's no place for the women?"
( Doubleyew-tee-eff? )
Today, I hate fandom.
Yes,
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So, um, after three years in Atlantis, as the city's premier ally, being on Sheppard's team for all that time, and occasionally even being left in charge of the city...
Is it possible that maybe, perhaps, Teyla knows some people over at the SGC other than the bigwigs? Is it possible that Teyla might have, perhaps, the faintest clue as to how to go about ordering basic things from Earth - you know, greeting cards, Earth gifts, nail polish (it's extremely useful stuff, you know), and tent tarps? Is it perhaps vaguely suggestible that she would have already learned about Valentine's Day, Independance Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas simply through living in the city with all those people from Earth? That she might not just be able to use a weapon as fluidly as the military men, but that she could probably use a computer as fluently as do you or I?
I mean, we're talking three years, here - one thousand days. An intelligent person can learn a lot in three years. Or is Teyla perhaps exempt from being intelligent, resourceful, or useful since her people aren't on technological par with Western culture Earth?
sjhw_tolerance is wont to say that I'm hanging around with the wrong people at times like these.
Clearly, the broader Stargate Atlantis fandom are "the wrong people" in this situation.
Is it possible that maybe, perhaps, Teyla knows some people over at the SGC other than the bigwigs? Is it possible that Teyla might have, perhaps, the faintest clue as to how to go about ordering basic things from Earth - you know, greeting cards, Earth gifts, nail polish (it's extremely useful stuff, you know), and tent tarps? Is it perhaps vaguely suggestible that she would have already learned about Valentine's Day, Independance Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas simply through living in the city with all those people from Earth? That she might not just be able to use a weapon as fluidly as the military men, but that she could probably use a computer as fluently as do you or I?
I mean, we're talking three years, here - one thousand days. An intelligent person can learn a lot in three years. Or is Teyla perhaps exempt from being intelligent, resourceful, or useful since her people aren't on technological par with Western culture Earth?
sjhw_tolerance is wont to say that I'm hanging around with the wrong people at times like these.Clearly, the broader Stargate Atlantis fandom are "the wrong people" in this situation.
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Doubtless everyone who's interested in this knows about this already.
Joss Whedon has something to say about the Writers Guild of America strike.
I have an interest in this because I have cherished (largely fantastic) dreams of someday being published. Or having a screenplay accepted. And I would like to be paid for when a network makes money off any part of my work no matter how the money is made.
If money is made off regular television-screen advertising that is sold during the screening of something I wrote, I would like to be paid appropriately for that.
If money is made off regular printed-page sales of something I wrote, I would like to be paid appropriately for that.
If money is made off internet advertising that is sold for display during the internet screening of something I wrote, I would like to be appropriately paid for that.
If money is made off the psychic waves that the cadence and tone of something I wrote which causes people to randomly give large sums of money to the networks - guess what? I would like to be appropriately paid for that too!
As long as someone is making money off my work (and, yes, internet advertising is "making money off the work being displayed", no matter how "new and uncharted" the internet is being touted by the networks fighting the WGA), I would like to be paid.
In terms that someone who works a 40-hour week might comprehend, the networks want to take away a writer's overtime pay, but they still want the writers to work overtime. Do writers work? Well, how about we get the 40-hour-a-week worker to put together an effective and original story that appeals to the masses, creating their own universe - all using their own phrasing, give them a deadline, and ask them just how "easy" writing is?
Doubtless this is blogging to the choir - there isn't anyone reading this who hasn't already seen this before or thought this themselves. But I think it bears saying.
( plus, I want to get some links in for later reading, because I'm like that )
Joss Whedon has something to say about the Writers Guild of America strike.
I have an interest in this because I have cherished (largely fantastic) dreams of someday being published. Or having a screenplay accepted. And I would like to be paid for when a network makes money off any part of my work no matter how the money is made.
If money is made off regular television-screen advertising that is sold during the screening of something I wrote, I would like to be paid appropriately for that.
If money is made off regular printed-page sales of something I wrote, I would like to be paid appropriately for that.
If money is made off internet advertising that is sold for display during the internet screening of something I wrote, I would like to be appropriately paid for that.
If money is made off the psychic waves that the cadence and tone of something I wrote which causes people to randomly give large sums of money to the networks - guess what? I would like to be appropriately paid for that too!
As long as someone is making money off my work (and, yes, internet advertising is "making money off the work being displayed", no matter how "new and uncharted" the internet is being touted by the networks fighting the WGA), I would like to be paid.
In terms that someone who works a 40-hour week might comprehend, the networks want to take away a writer's overtime pay, but they still want the writers to work overtime. Do writers work? Well, how about we get the 40-hour-a-week worker to put together an effective and original story that appeals to the masses, creating their own universe - all using their own phrasing, give them a deadline, and ask them just how "easy" writing is?
Doubtless this is blogging to the choir - there isn't anyone reading this who hasn't already seen this before or thought this themselves. But I think it bears saying.
( plus, I want to get some links in for later reading, because I'm like that )