A mixed bag of stuff I just wanna say...

[ash48]

I had a lovely afternoon with cupidsbow today (yay! another WA vidder!) we chatted all things vidding and I'm excited to be part of a vidding panel at SwanCon.

She shared a vid that was made for her for festivids and IT IS AMAZING!!! SERIOUSLY! You HAVE to watch this vid. (It was recced to me earlier but I had only got a chance to watch it today).

Staying Low by the amazing hollywoodgrrl. The footage is from the Alien films and it will BLOW. YOU. AWAY.

I saw a heap of other awesome vids which I will share if I can get my act together. I am playing catch up with a number of things at the moment. /o\


I watched Amour last night. One of the most amazing and affecting films I think I have ever seen. No wonder it won the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. It's absolutely beautiful - beautifully directed and acted. It's also incredibly heartbreaking and painful. The title is perfect for the subject matter. I couldn't stop hugging my husband after watching this. I recommend it to anyone who likes stories that explore the human condition.


Watched eps of Arrow (I'm getting all the Oliver and Tommy feels now...<33), Haven (an ep that reminded me of Mystery Spot (Groundhog Day). It was wonderfully constructed and I was having all the Nathan, Duke and Audrey feels) and the latest ep of Spartacus (just when I thought it couldn't get any more brutal...*guh*. It was hard to watch, but still amazing).

And now...

Dear Flisties,

I love you all and I hate seeing you hurt. Please stay away from that insidious anon non-community (I can't call it a community because that word suggests something positive) because it can only end in tears. I get that there might be a place for speaking anonymously but by the sheer nature of being able to do so enables trolls and people who like to stir up trouble to comment and sit back with their popcorn and watch the drama (and hurt) unfold.

The problem is that it is immensely popular so I figure there is obviously a place (need?) for it. God knows why as it seems like nothing more than a place to put down fellow fans and say hurtful things about them rather than to them. It seems to go against everything fandom should be about. But *sigh* no amount of ranting or ignoring or talking about how horrible it is makes it go away. The best way to make it go away is to not go there.

I keep hoping it's miraculously disappeared but then I see it's obviously alive and well and doing a fine job being horrible.

Yours
Me

PS: If you don't know what I'm talking about LUCKY YOU!


Yay, long weekend! Another day off tomorrow! \o/ I so need it...

Comments

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

I've ended up on anon coms a couple of times through following links, and while it was entertaining for about 5 minutes in that reallity TV show-way where you lol at those who are making a spectacle of themselves, it holds no interest beyond that for me. Full of trolls, and teens and meanies, it's like 15 again, back in highschool, with all the tolling and backstabbing and wanking.

There is absolutely no need for anonymity in friendship - if you don't dare to say it with people knowing who you are, it's not worth saying. I am in fandom and on LJ for friendships, so I have no interst in that side of fandom, and happily leave the trolls to shred each other to pieces.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Word!

When I first found it I was fascinated by the content and then I soon got bored. Very repetitive. I get that some like it and I suppose live and let live, but when it starts to hurt people who are awesome and don't deserve it I get kinda pissed.

xx

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Thing is, it can only hurt you or upset you if you either go there or you have somebody on your flist who posts about the wank going down over there. I totally with you - the only thing that works is ignoring, and telling everybody you care about to do the same. Don't feed the trolls, don't go where the trolls play and chase any trolls that creep out of that cesspit off your lawn.