Um, Cantina, will someone pinch me? A partial request just turned into a full.
Congratulations, Filigree!
I'm sorry you are losing your boss. Good bosses are indeed hard to find.
Um, Cantina, will someone pinch me? A partial request just turned into a full.
Soooo, I'm guessing this is one of those things where they have you sign a health waver at the beginning? Glad you survived, though.Oh, oh, AND I managed to run through the final obstacle of lots of electrodes that will shock you with 10K volts, and I maneuvered around all of them! Score one for Winks.
Though I made up for that by getting shocked at least 20 times as I crawled in the mud through an earlier electrode field. Mostly on my bum because apparently I crawl like an inch worm and stick it up. Not cool. Not. Cool. There was a lot of squawking going on that had the other contestants laughing their butts off, but I couldn't help it.
Bear? Sausage? Like, sausage made out of actual furry, growling, don't-feed-the-bears, bear?Yesterday we went to the Salamanca Powwow, and it was a lot of fun. Yummy fry bread. I had bear sausage and it was yummy, too! I may have bought some beady things
Ew.I've come home to a dead refrigerator, after a 2 week trip in the UK. Disgusting icky mess.
Interesting times we're living in for sure. Curious to see what the response is going to be, and whether there's going to be a little or a lot outrage. I was, I have to admit, a bit floored at the anger over the new Star Trek series cast, when some "fans" complained about too much diversity and how that ran against the franchise tradition, which made me do a triple take.
Um, Cantina, will someone pinch me? A partial request just turned into a full. Other than the book that sold direct to a small press, none of my queries has done as well as this one.
I has a sad. One of my all time favorite bosses is leaving Arizona to go back to New Zealand after 20 years in the US. Genius moldmaker and prop master. With whom shall I make zombie cadaver props for cheap horror flicks, now?
Either the person who made that post was being fantastically sarcastic or was an idiot.an old roommate of mine runs a doctor who etsy shop. they've already blocked a bunch of people on facebook since this morning over insults they've seen towards the new doctor the best comment was someone saying "what's next? a girl batman? a girl iron man? a girl spider-man?" despite the fact that batwoman, teenage girl iron man, spider-woman + spider-gwen, all exist already. and are pretty popular.
Congrats, Filigree!
Soooo, I'm guessing this is one of those things where they have you sign a health waver at the beginning? Glad you survived, though.
Bear? Sausage? Like, sausage made out of actual furry, growling, don't-feed-the-bears, bear?
on the beady things.
Ew.
Afternoon, Cantina. I haz the afternoon sleepys, but I am wording, anyway. Not a whole lot else to say, atm. It's been a pretty normal, but pleasant Sunday.
YOU GAIS! Something terrible happened!!! I FINISHED AN ANIME!!!
an old roommate of mine runs a doctor who etsy shop. they've already blocked a bunch of people on facebook since this morning over insults they've seen towards the new doctor the best comment was someone saying "what's next? a girl batman? a girl iron man? a girl spider-man?" despite the fact that batwoman, teenage girl iron man, spider-woman + spider-gwen, all exist already. and are pretty popular.
I probably haven't seen it, but which one?
It was called "Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]"
Either the person who made that post was being fantastically sarcastic or was an idiot.
Interesting times we're living in for sure. Curious to see what the response is going to be, and whether there's going to be a little or a lot outrage. I was, I have to admit, a bit floored at the anger over the new Star Trek series cast, when some "fans" complained about too much diversity and how that ran against the franchise tradition, which made me do a triple take.
an old roommate of mine runs a doctor who etsy shop. they've already blocked a bunch of people on facebook since this morning over insults they've seen towards the new doctor the best comment was someone saying "what's next? a girl batman? a girl iron man? a girl spider-man?" despite the fact that batwoman, teenage girl iron man, spider-woman + spider-gwen, all exist already. and are pretty popular.
I'll go with sarcasm...
a bit floored at the anger over the new Star Trek series cast, when some "fans" complained about too much diversity and how that ran against the franchise tradition, which made me do a triple take.
YOU GAIS! Something terrible happened!!! I FINISHED AN ANIME!!!
It was called "Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]"
Oh, I'm actually kind'a familiar! I've only seen Fate/Zero, and then found out afterwards I should have watched other Fate series first, but oh well...
I have my doubts. Folks have also said next should be a male Miss Marple (Father Brown), male Wonder Woman (Superman), all-male Sex and the City (Entourage), and male Xena Warrior Princess (Hercules).
Which is to say, they are butt-hurt and being stupid because all those things they are trying to say would put the shoe on the other foot actually already exist and women aren't out there burning down Twitter because of it. But we might like to see a few more things with women in them instead of just all men, all the time.
I've seen both; Zero first then Blade Works. Chronologically Zero comes first but either way it can be a little confusing. The series is based on a video game with multiple endings, thus there's multiple, very different story lines out there.
Not to nitpick or anything but this isn't actually a great argument. Those who are upset are upset at what they see as the replacement of the main character within an established franchise. Your examples are all of separate franchises. If they resurrected SITC and after season however-many, suddenly decided to have one or more or all of the MCs undergo gender-reassignment surgery or something, that would be comparable. Or if Wonder Woman got hit by a Magic Ray Gun Of Mysterious Alien Origin and turned into Wonder Man, that would be comparable. But neither of these has happened (nor I think are they likely to). Do I think something like that should happen? Nah. But when it's one-directional - all major character gender changes within a given franchise have been M2F - then perhaps it becomes easier to see how some people might interpret them as being part of a politically-driven agenda. Are they right? Who knows (though in the case of Marvel it seems likely). But at least understand where they're coming from before writing them off as "butt-hurt and stupid".
My thoughts on the new Doctor are simply these: I'm quite excited. Nothing to do with the fact that she's female, just I think that given her previous she'll bring much-needed pathos (of the kind we haven't seen since Ecclestone). I'm happy it's not Kris Marshall coz the last thing we need is another wise-cracking, big-haired, slightly goofy but love-able Doctor Manchild a la Tennant/Smith. I'm still holding out for Idris Elba or Omid Djalili at some point, and given the current turn-over rate that might be fairly soon (*crosses fingers, realises that's the wrong religion, uncrosses slightly guiltily*).
I don't know much about Doctor Who, but isn't the Doctor an alien who reincarnates and just happens to take the appearance of a human, so they should be able to choose any actor in the world to portray the Doctor with no issues whatsoever?
Yup. [...] The end. Let's move on.
This being the case, I'd have to agree with what was said upthread: They seem kind of butt-hurt, and that's where they seem to be coming from, if the Doctor's sex is as irrelevant to the canon as you just said it is.
So, when the rumor started going around that the new Doctor would be female one of the comments that stood out was "No one wants a TARDIS full of bras." And, quite frankly, it's not really demonizing to tell someone that sounds butt-hurt and stupid. (In part because there have been female companions before.)
But when it's one-directional - all major character gender changes within a given franchise have been M2F