oh *fandom*

[mimesere]

sometimes you make me want to cry. and/or punch people.

but hey! On the other hand, now I totally know who to avoid in fandom! So...that's a plus. *tries to look on the bright side*

(god, it JUST KEEPS GOING and horrifies me more and more).

ETA: the posts in question
In which Teyla and Ronon are white! No, really! - I swear, the more I hear about race relations in, um, England/Ireland/Wales/Scotland/what-have-you, the less likely I am to ever ever go there.

and!

In which the reason there's not more fic about characters of color is because they are not leads! or not hot enough! or interesting enough! Because when they *are*, there's a lot of fic! No, really!

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[norabombay.livejournal.com]

My main goal for this evening, after I finish the great clothing put away project:

I'm making myself a Jay-Z icon, with the tag "Welsh People?". Because I can.

But, wow do people see things differently in different places. And I will confess, that as someone who doesn't watch the L Word, and has only seen flashdance? I kinda thought Jennifer Beals was hispanic. Although it doesn't really matter, as what I actually thought was "God, this is a bad movie. She's pretty, but it's a bad movie".


But I'm surly. And this is only partially related to my discovering last night that there is a 23 year old man in america who is a huge buffy fan, but had never seen Bring it On. And didn't know who Gabrielle Union was. Grr.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Your Jay-Z icon will be a thing of beauty and joy forever.

Hah. I thought the same of Jennifer Beals. And I totally thought Pete Wentz was biracial white and A/PI of some kind. Which, uh, the biracial part is right! He's just not A/PI for the other half.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Shirley Bassey is both black AND Welsh, so she is the trump card in any fandom discussion of race. She should be on an icon that says "TRUMP CARD: AUTO-WIN FOR ME" and then people would have no clue what it was about but I'd laugh and THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS.

Shirley Bassey, bitchez. SHIRLEY.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

I knew she is Welsh! it is one of the things I learned during WelshGate '06.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I say we start a letter-writing campaign to get an episode of Torchwood centred around Shirley in some way.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I think I would actually watch that episode!

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

It would be their best yet. Better even than the one with the fairies and maybe equal to "robowoman beats up a pterodactyl."