I decided I wanted scrambled eggs so I went down the stairs of my house
to my kitchen and got out my skillet and scrambled my eggs that I bought
with my money earned at my job and brought home in my car and now I'm
eating my scrambled eggs and with every bite I'm giving the middlest of
my fingers to every teacher, principal, and counselor who tried to tell
me that If I didn't follow the high
school-college-career-marriage-family-mortgage-white-picket-pence
lifestyle track then I'd be a grizzled bum living in a cardboard box
under an overpass sad and alone by this point in my life.
Fuck every single one of you. I can adult just fine.
Friday, August 21, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Nice try, but no.
A feminist argument I've been hearing more and more often lately is that anyone, and in particular, any woman who opposes feminism should logically also oppose equal pay, suffrage, etc.
NO.
FUCK NO.
This is another spin on the same equivocational nonsense as ever. 'You can't oppose us because we have this name, because this name means this thing and if you oppose us you oppose this thing."
Having inherited a label does not mean that you stood for the same things as the previous owners. it doesn't matter what the movement calls itself. Modern feminism does not have the same views, the same goals,or even the same proponents that it did back when it made those strides.
Third-wave feminism is not first- or second-wave feminism and it has no right even calling itself the same name, let alone trying to take credit for those movements' accomplishments, and it CERTAINLY has no fucking right to demand that anyone who oppose it forego any benefits they might receive from what those movements did.
It is perfectly consist to be anti-feminist and oppose the dishonest, hypocritical, responsibility-abdicating, censorship-promoting victim-culture CULT that modern feminism has become and still have respect for what actual advocates for gender equality have accomplished and never let anyone tell you otherwise.
NO.
FUCK NO.
This is another spin on the same equivocational nonsense as ever. 'You can't oppose us because we have this name, because this name means this thing and if you oppose us you oppose this thing."
Having inherited a label does not mean that you stood for the same things as the previous owners. it doesn't matter what the movement calls itself. Modern feminism does not have the same views, the same goals,or even the same proponents that it did back when it made those strides.
Third-wave feminism is not first- or second-wave feminism and it has no right even calling itself the same name, let alone trying to take credit for those movements' accomplishments, and it CERTAINLY has no fucking right to demand that anyone who oppose it forego any benefits they might receive from what those movements did.
It is perfectly consist to be anti-feminist and oppose the dishonest, hypocritical, responsibility-abdicating, censorship-promoting victim-culture CULT that modern feminism has become and still have respect for what actual advocates for gender equality have accomplished and never let anyone tell you otherwise.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
NOT WHAT THAT WORD MEANS.
"This is our six-month anniversary!"
Oh my fucking gods MENSIVERSARY. It's your sixth MENSIVERSARY.
The word for a monthly recurring date is a mensiversary.
Open a godsdamned dictionary or at least understand enough fifth-fucking-grade etymology to grasp that the prefix 'ann-' is derived from the latin 'annum', as in 'annual', meaning ONCE A GODSDAMNED YEAR. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ANNIVERSARY OF ANY PERIOD OF TIME BUT A YEAR.
And I freaking GUARANTEE that if your enough of a stereotypical chick to want to celebrate monthly dates, you've seen the prefix 'mens-' SOMEWHERE and ought to have a vague grasp as to its meaning.
Oh my fucking gods MENSIVERSARY. It's your sixth MENSIVERSARY.
The word for a monthly recurring date is a mensiversary.
Open a godsdamned dictionary or at least understand enough fifth-fucking-grade etymology to grasp that the prefix 'ann-' is derived from the latin 'annum', as in 'annual', meaning ONCE A GODSDAMNED YEAR. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ANNIVERSARY OF ANY PERIOD OF TIME BUT A YEAR.
And I freaking GUARANTEE that if your enough of a stereotypical chick to want to celebrate monthly dates, you've seen the prefix 'mens-' SOMEWHERE and ought to have a vague grasp as to its meaning.
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Marketing FAIL.
Did I seriously just receive an email offering me free online college courses...at LIBERTY UNIVERSITY?
Ahem. Folks? I feel that perhaps your marketing team all suffered SPONTANEOUS SIMULTANEOUS DEBILITATING STROKES, because you literally could NOT have missed your target demographic harder with that one.
Ahem. Folks? I feel that perhaps your marketing team all suffered SPONTANEOUS SIMULTANEOUS DEBILITATING STROKES, because you literally could NOT have missed your target demographic harder with that one.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Chainimals Sale!
For those of you who don't know, my latest pet project has been the Chainimals: a series of chainmail plush animals.
Meet Tinsel the Cat:
Turpentine the Rattlesnake:
Thistle the Rabbit:
And Trellis the Treefrog:
Pretty cool, huh? Well, I am completely broke and in desperate need of supplies, so Ravengel Ringworks is delighted to present the first ever Chainimals sale! 20$ off any Chainimals commissioned for the next month. Remember, I'll never make the same animal twice, so order now before someone else takes your favorite critter.
Price is 70$ per Chainimal, after discount. Offer good through 8/14/11. Shipping (if applicable) not included. Allow 4-6 weeks for completion. Specify animal and color (only colors that appear in nature, please; I'd rather my portfolio not look like a kindergartener's coloring book). Please note that chrome silver is the closest color available to white. Animals not available: Rabbit, wolf, cat, rattlesnake.
Discounts of up to 10$ may apply for smaller Chainimals. Contrariwise, larger-than average Chainimals, or ones that require special features (such as the rattlesnake's tail), may incur additional charges of up to 10$. Reply to this post to contact me, or email me at stellar_raven@hotmail.com to order.
Incidentally, Trellis the Treefrog is available for sale. While obviously not a new commission, I'll let him go for the sale price, since he's a bit smaller than standard.
Oh, and a tip of the hat to Kaiser and Kalen for the pics. Asante, guys.
Meet Tinsel the Cat:
Turpentine the Rattlesnake:
Pretty cool, huh? Well, I am completely broke and in desperate need of supplies, so Ravengel Ringworks is delighted to present the first ever Chainimals sale! 20$ off any Chainimals commissioned for the next month. Remember, I'll never make the same animal twice, so order now before someone else takes your favorite critter.
Price is 70$ per Chainimal, after discount. Offer good through 8/14/11. Shipping (if applicable) not included. Allow 4-6 weeks for completion. Specify animal and color (only colors that appear in nature, please; I'd rather my portfolio not look like a kindergartener's coloring book). Please note that chrome silver is the closest color available to white. Animals not available: Rabbit, wolf, cat, rattlesnake.
Discounts of up to 10$ may apply for smaller Chainimals. Contrariwise, larger-than average Chainimals, or ones that require special features (such as the rattlesnake's tail), may incur additional charges of up to 10$. Reply to this post to contact me, or email me at stellar_raven@hotmail.com to order.
Incidentally, Trellis the Treefrog is available for sale. While obviously not a new commission, I'll let him go for the sale price, since he's a bit smaller than standard.
Oh, and a tip of the hat to Kaiser and Kalen for the pics. Asante, guys.
Proximate Cause VS Free Will...
If someone holds a gun to a little girl's head and tells me he'll shoot if I take another step, and I take another step, and he shoots her, whose fault is it that the girl is dead?
It absolutely APPALLS me how many people would say that it's mine.
Folks, even if I held a gun of my own to the guy's head and DEMANDED that he pull the trigger, it would be HIS FAULT that the girl is dead because HE CHOSE TO DO IT.
You can make a case that shooting her under those circumstances was the right thing to do, but you can't make a case that it wasn't his choice to kill her. He could have chosen death. Instead he chose to kill. Me? I never shot anybody. But I'll bet his first words after he pulled the trigger would be something to the effect of, "I had no choice."
People are fond of saying that actions have consequences. Fine. I'll buy that. For every action there's a reaction. Pretty fundamental, really. A child throws a brick through a window, it'd be downright ridiculous not to expect the window to break. Action, consequence.
What I refuse to buy is the idea that anybody's actions ARE consequences. An action is someone's choice. You can't claim that someone's actions are consequences of someone else's actions and still claim to believe in choice. It's Free Will OR Proximate Cause, people. Not both.
This confused me most when I was a kid, getting trouble, and I'd get grounded, and there'd be something in the accompanying lecture about this being my own fault, and how we all have to accept the consequences of our actions.
Wait, what? Parents, this makes no sense at all. The grounding wasn't the result of the child's actions. The broken window is the result of the child's actions. Grounding the child is YOUR action. YOUR choice. You could just as easily NOT ground him. The child isn't grounding himself. You can't rattle off an entire spiel about taking responsibility for one's own actions, and then in the next sentence claim that you're not responsible for your own.
It absolutely APPALLS me how many people would say that it's mine.
Folks, even if I held a gun of my own to the guy's head and DEMANDED that he pull the trigger, it would be HIS FAULT that the girl is dead because HE CHOSE TO DO IT.
You can make a case that shooting her under those circumstances was the right thing to do, but you can't make a case that it wasn't his choice to kill her. He could have chosen death. Instead he chose to kill. Me? I never shot anybody. But I'll bet his first words after he pulled the trigger would be something to the effect of, "I had no choice."
People are fond of saying that actions have consequences. Fine. I'll buy that. For every action there's a reaction. Pretty fundamental, really. A child throws a brick through a window, it'd be downright ridiculous not to expect the window to break. Action, consequence.
What I refuse to buy is the idea that anybody's actions ARE consequences. An action is someone's choice. You can't claim that someone's actions are consequences of someone else's actions and still claim to believe in choice. It's Free Will OR Proximate Cause, people. Not both.
This confused me most when I was a kid, getting trouble, and I'd get grounded, and there'd be something in the accompanying lecture about this being my own fault, and how we all have to accept the consequences of our actions.
Wait, what? Parents, this makes no sense at all. The grounding wasn't the result of the child's actions. The broken window is the result of the child's actions. Grounding the child is YOUR action. YOUR choice. You could just as easily NOT ground him. The child isn't grounding himself. You can't rattle off an entire spiel about taking responsibility for one's own actions, and then in the next sentence claim that you're not responsible for your own.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Dear aspiring Fanfiction writers of the Net:
I, Jareth Valentine, would hereby like to make the following points perfectly clear. Please pay attention.
1. The word 'chemistry' is not spelled with an 'a'. Misspelling words in the synopsis of your story is bad enough, but if you cannot spell the title right, no one will read your story. Especially if the title of your story is a third-grade spelling word.
Misspellings in titles are very rarely acceptable. If the premise of your story is that your protagonist cannot spell, is failing chemistry because of it, and winds up having a relationship with his tutor, fine. That makes it clever. Otherwise, fix it.
2. The body-switch Freaky Friday-esque walk-a-mile storyline is cliche, but arguably a classic, and if done well, or if skirting such tabboo topics such as gender reversal, CAN function as the premise of a good story. However, it does not work if the characters in question are identical twins. Identical twins could simply trade bedrooms and go about their own lives with no one the wiser, as they are IDENTICAL. Stop trying to write Olsen Twins or Zack and Cody stories using this premise.
3. Stories about the actors who portray characters of a particular show do not belong in that show's fandom. They belong in that actor's fandom. A Superman fan will probably not give a crap about Christopher Reeve. He'll want to read about Superman. Stop putting your Zac/Vanessa stories under the High School Musical category; High School Musical fans want to read Troy/Gabriella.
And yes, there IS a difference.
4. Not EVERYTHING should crossover. Seriously. Somethings just don't mix. DeGrassi/South of Nowhere? Sure. Harry Potter/Peter Pan? Why not. Bambi/Tron? No. Use a little discretion, please.
(Gods. I just know somebody out there's going to write a Bambi/Tron story now...)
5. The people who read slash already believe that it's okay to be gay, or they wouldn't be reading slash. Stop using the characters in your slash stories as mouthpieces for your own pro-gay affirmation propaganda; you're preaching to the choir.
6. On that note, choir is spelled 'choir', not 'quire'. There's not a word processor made these days that doesn't have spell check. Please use it.
7. Stop putting up disclaimers. FF.net is a fanfiction site. Everything there, by definition, belongs to someone else. You don't need to tell us that it's not yours.
8. If you put something up in the wrong section, or rate it wrong, or if the synopsis is not an accurate representation of the story, or if you spring something controversial on your readers with no warning, do not be offended when you start to get bad reviews complaining about it. Contrariwise, if the story is right where it's supposed to be and the synopsis says, plain as day, what to expect, do not read the story and then leave reviews complaining about the content. You knew what you were getting into when you clicked the link. Don't like a particular pairing? Don't read that particular pairing. It's easy as that.
That's all for now. It's okay, I forgive you folks. everyone makes mistakes. Just...TRY to do better in the future, K? Thanks.
1. The word 'chemistry' is not spelled with an 'a'. Misspelling words in the synopsis of your story is bad enough, but if you cannot spell the title right, no one will read your story. Especially if the title of your story is a third-grade spelling word.
Misspellings in titles are very rarely acceptable. If the premise of your story is that your protagonist cannot spell, is failing chemistry because of it, and winds up having a relationship with his tutor, fine. That makes it clever. Otherwise, fix it.
2. The body-switch Freaky Friday-esque walk-a-mile storyline is cliche, but arguably a classic, and if done well, or if skirting such tabboo topics such as gender reversal, CAN function as the premise of a good story. However, it does not work if the characters in question are identical twins. Identical twins could simply trade bedrooms and go about their own lives with no one the wiser, as they are IDENTICAL. Stop trying to write Olsen Twins or Zack and Cody stories using this premise.
3. Stories about the actors who portray characters of a particular show do not belong in that show's fandom. They belong in that actor's fandom. A Superman fan will probably not give a crap about Christopher Reeve. He'll want to read about Superman. Stop putting your Zac/Vanessa stories under the High School Musical category; High School Musical fans want to read Troy/Gabriella.
And yes, there IS a difference.
4. Not EVERYTHING should crossover. Seriously. Somethings just don't mix. DeGrassi/South of Nowhere? Sure. Harry Potter/Peter Pan? Why not. Bambi/Tron? No. Use a little discretion, please.
(Gods. I just know somebody out there's going to write a Bambi/Tron story now...)
5. The people who read slash already believe that it's okay to be gay, or they wouldn't be reading slash. Stop using the characters in your slash stories as mouthpieces for your own pro-gay affirmation propaganda; you're preaching to the choir.
6. On that note, choir is spelled 'choir', not 'quire'. There's not a word processor made these days that doesn't have spell check. Please use it.
7. Stop putting up disclaimers. FF.net is a fanfiction site. Everything there, by definition, belongs to someone else. You don't need to tell us that it's not yours.
8. If you put something up in the wrong section, or rate it wrong, or if the synopsis is not an accurate representation of the story, or if you spring something controversial on your readers with no warning, do not be offended when you start to get bad reviews complaining about it. Contrariwise, if the story is right where it's supposed to be and the synopsis says, plain as day, what to expect, do not read the story and then leave reviews complaining about the content. You knew what you were getting into when you clicked the link. Don't like a particular pairing? Don't read that particular pairing. It's easy as that.
That's all for now. It's okay, I forgive you folks. everyone makes mistakes. Just...TRY to do better in the future, K? Thanks.
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