Dear Friends Currently On Livejournal

LIVEJOURNAL / 6APART / SUP

We're in ur journal, banning ur queers.

Also banning/preventing from showing up in interests: depression or pain.

Fuller list at the top of that entry.

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For those who want to comment to the poster using their lj, her livejournal posts are here: Circle the one that doesn't belong and 6apart erases porn all spawned from her very well listed: Nostalgia: 6A/SUP's Greatest Fuck-Ups.

Look, I'm not going to tell you to run for the hills, because the hills are bare. I'm fumbling daily dealing with blogger. But I figure some of you over there, who apparently read my blog, might want to a) know what's been going on and b) possibly SAY something to TPTB over there just what you think of their tactics.

Because whether or not you think your content in your journal is being sold as product to advertisers, this blocking of interests - y'all remember how you can't search for Spice Girls or the Holocaust, right? - says something about your viability or lack, as a pair of eyes and presence on their site.

PS: Those of you who voluntarily flagged your journals ADULT CONTENT? I can't access your journals. I keep getting this page over and over again. Even when I'm logged in using OPENID. I apparently have to have a journal to see your content.

While this is likely a bug, it's a badly timed bug. I suggest your open problem ticks and complain about it.

The Anonymous Commenter

Is not originally mine! Lo I have discovered that they posted to Ragnell's blog first so she was likely their impetus for creating a blog account.

Well, I feel less special. (/end sarcasm)

On the plus side - I don't have to keep their comment around for the next few months, cause "Willow no brook no Troll." Yeah, I got some Billygoat in me. I got horns. Uh huh. Check my moves!

Also, YAY for backlog reading and finding new information.

Also Also? On the plus side - Dear folk I never even heard about who're apparently reading me?

HELLO :)

Green Folk & Other Sexy People

HULK

Uhm... HULK trailer goes live

On the one hand, I happen to really like Edward Norton. Don't ask me why, he's sort of grown on me. And the thought of him as Bruce Banner? I can almost see the comic version drawing in my head, and I LIKE IT.

Also, HELLO Arwen Liv Taylor. I haven't seen you in a while. And now here you are in another geek movie. That's kind of sweet and awwwh.

For the individuals noting how I haven't actually talked the trailer itself as in a promo for the movie, well - meh.

Wait, not quite meh. There is also the "We don't wait 7 years between remakes for the same character anymore" ? The time shift is now 5?

And if that's the case, does this mean that there'll be a new X-Men Movie coming up real soon? Hopefully one that doesn't suck?

Oh! THOUGHT! Which young actress looks like she could be Edward Norton's cousin?

I'm currently thinking Eva Mendes with a CGI SHULKIE.

...

I'm dreaming aren't I? I've seen the clips from Beauwolf(The Movie) ain't no way a CGI SHULKIE wouldn't end up wearing high heels and having breasts the size of basketballs.

Crap, I'm still not talking about the movie, aren't I? But I don't have anything much to say - Except that that I noticed a lovely POC mother and daughter in the trailer and thought 'YAY, there's black people in this city' and then realized that Monsters were about to wreck "Harlem".

Yeah...

It's much cooler thinking up possible SHULKIES.

Back in the day before Jessica Alba went blonde and apparently a bit stupido she could have be a....

HEE! BRAIN FLASH.

Ok, not a WoC but Sarah Michelle Gellar as Jenn Walters then CGI-ed into SHE-HULK, would actually made me giggle, and perhaps want to see the movie so I could see the woman kicking ass again. Yes yes, lose face time in front of the cameras in Hollywood and get forgetten about. But all I ever see her in these days is victim, victim, supernatural victim.

Right, where was I? Oh yeah, fangirling Eva Mendes and oh yeah, Lenor Varela, I heart me some Lenor Varela - though would she be considered too old for the part? Eff damn.

Any suggestions?

Also coming up in my next post an organizational chart of W.I.L.L.O.W - cause minions and protoges and vizers suggest a conclave of some sort, or at the very least a committee for world domination.

Also Lurkerwithout: I am scarred for LIFE. And if it is Kalinara's fault, you need to go into detail, so I may cause her pain.

Annihilation & My Mutant Powers

First: My Mutant Powers

So apparently someone out there has seen themselves reflected in my general description of individuals who refuse to do their own race homework and who bask in their privilege and they felt so threatened and so affronted, that their eyes went all crosswise and their brains stopped comprehending English and they just had to set up an anonymous blogger account, in order to tell me I'm a mean girl who protests too much about not being a magical negro and who cuts down all opposition by throwing around that nasty word, racist.

Wow.

*cracks up*

Who ever you are, I hope you realize I'm now picturing you as Youtube's Angry German Kid. Pimples and all.

Anyway, the rest of y'all will see the stupidity with your own eyes at the bi-annual 'What Fools These Be', post.

But uhm, yo? Y'all folk I control with the powers of my POC mind? Where are my tributes? I'm just saying, I should get tributes. I mean Doom gets tributes.




Annihilation

Ok, I gave it entirely too much credit for ease to follow. Yes, I know where it begins, but geeze, is there a list somewhere telling me what order stuff comes in? And why is there no love for the Super Skrull (whom I never heard of before now, but what. ever).

Still, I believe I like me some Drax and some Nova and the Annihilation Wave is kickass creepy!

Also, I believe I find Silver Surfer boring.

Yes, I know that will cost me some minions. But I'm sure they'll direct me to some interesting Silver Surfer if they know what's good for them if they truly want to share with me their love and excitement for the character. Cause his appearance in the story so far is just not doing much of anything for me.

Also, it's possible to buy the books without having to buy his part in it, right? I'm just - he makes me think of Superman. Superman back when I didn't like him. An angsty, boring superman, who's silver, with no clothes, out in space, being emo.

Yes I linked to a dictionary definition. That is how Doom Willow rolls.

Also also? I received GLA as a b-day pressie. I have read all four issues. I have cried. I have awed. I have wanted to reach into the chest of a fictional character and squeeze until they went blue - and I have cheered. It's like team Spiderman! When Spiderman was good! Also it was a mutant team with absolutely no Wolverine. Sweet Aunt Jemmimah's Pancakes, what a novel concept!

I REPEAT - WILLOW IS NOT YOUR MAGICAL NEGRO

Anyone who wishes to explain this fact further to this individual here is more than welcome.

In future, I will be saving up all the stupid white people remarks, stupid race questions and comments and doing a bi-annual 'LOOK AT THIS FOOL'. Cause I seriously don't have the energy or inclination to slap people individually anymore.

My time is valuable to me.

MY BIRTHDAY; a little happiness, some rant, some smack talk and plea for reccs

Let us describe what I did with my birthday.

I relaxed. I had easy, yet delicious food. I bundled up for warmth. And I read comics. All. Damn. Day.

I read me some NextWave. Agents of H.A.T.E - FINALLY. And got me some squee over Monica (Who will ALWAYS BE MY CAPTAIN MARVEL).

I read me some Shadowpact. Ragman is f*Cking cool! Seriously. Jewish hero. Kicking ass. Taking names. And BRINGING YOU YOUR REDEMPTION!

I think I'm in love.

Also it was very sad to learn that they stopped at #25. Also I only read up to #21.


Also also? Shadowpact? That was one white ass team, yo. WHITE. ASS. And I sincerely appreciate Nightmaster's vague allusion to that fact (mentioning getting his white ass handed to him)

Also? The JL in that series? WHITE AS WONDER BREAD.

Are there no POC magical heroes in DCverse? And please don't tell me Blue Devil is a person of colour, or I will rip your still beating heart from your chest and piss on it.

Which reminds me I've had a post brewing to one side about Supergirl getting kicked to the curb from the WHITE AS MOON ASS Teen Titans - but it's a rant involving lots of frothing at the mouth from me, at how things went down via summaries from Maid of Might and scans_daily. So it might not ever see the light of day.

Seriously the only way that whole set up could be redeemed to me is if someone comes back and does THE STORY WE DIDN'T KNOW, where Cassie fricking Stargirl had herself some lesbian experimentation using Super-Girl as something to hump in her grieving over Kon-EL, selfishly not considering that using a person, moreover a person with limited understanding of human interactions and no clue this could be a possibility, is WRONGER than WRONG especially when one calls oneself a hero.

*breathes at that run on sentence*

AND the misunderstanding between Cassie and Kara when this is all explained is that Cassie confesses and Supergirl is understandably pissed off and is all very much "Lose my number you user skank!"

*breathes, exhales*

But where was I? Oh yes.

GREEN LANTERN CORPS.

Seriously - WTF is up with that? I repeat. WHAT. THE. F*CK. IS. UP. WITH. THAT.??!

A girl on her birthday tries to get into GLC, look at some stuff, cause the Rainbow Wars look interesting and the latest previews look exciting.

AND................

Apparently in order to know WTF is going on, I have to read shite from 2004! Because Geoff Johns is a -looooooong- view writer?

SERIOUSLY?

SERIOUSLY?

This is supposed to encourage me to buy the TPB's HOW?

Cause you know, so far on my list of things to acquire by the end of the year, I've got - NEW EXCALIBUR (the first half 1-15) and NEXTWAVE.

But I need to know about ION and Sinestro Corps War in order to appreciate The Alpha Lanterns and the fact that the big headed blue dudes have felt fear and like George Bush Jr after 9/11 are now running around going 'PATRIOT ACT!' and 'ILLEGAL PHONE TAPS' and 'OH NOES WE NEEDS US SOME CIA INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN HERE!' ?????

I don't have a clue if I'll even like GL, why do I need to know all that? How is this attractive to the causal but intrigued new series reader?

Also GL fans, are you aware that while Kali921 is one of you, she's also a Nova Corps fan? Not only that, but she and others have been pimping Marvel's Cosmic Comics at me, like it was naked women covered in chocolate whose mouths constantly produce whipped cream and caramel?

And one of the bloody damn hooks of Nova Corps & Anahilation is that I don't bloody well have to do bloody homework in order to understand it??

Despite some scant knowledge of GL's from my childhood, including a parent's love of Alan Scott, I am a definitive DCAU baby! I have one true Lantern and his name is not HAL or KYLE. And my kickass female lantern love is PINK and likes dark meat!


Why do I need to read about people I only know of as peripherals in order to understand a story that seems as if it should have a broader more encompassing pov? Is the Rainbow Corps not a truly epic undertaking after all? Epic as in universal, as in not complicated requiring endless footnotes to comprehend???

*breathes*

Seriously though Nova has a Raccoon and the GLC has a chipmunk, or maybe it's a squirrel. Either way, glowy people kicking ass to save the universe. My money's only going to be spent on that story ONCE. And it's going to be spent on something that's enjoyable and doesn't give me a damn headache.

So if any GL fans out there want to point me to something, or inform me of what to read that's not 4 trades prior to what's going on right now. I think my vote's been cast.

Also. Nova has/is a lesbian.

So seriously. Y'all GLC pimpers are getting rolled!

Right, now that all that bemused WTF is out of my system :) And it is bemused, cause I was all about the happy on my b-day....

Who wants to recc me something to spend birthday money on? Keeping in mind my icons are generally women, with close to cosmic level powers who'll kick a bad guy in the face or groin?

Also, is there a light based heroine (maybe even hero) I DON'T know about?

Monica, Allison Blaire... (I know I'm forgetting someone)

BOW DOWN

Before Zod The Willow,

For today is my birthday. I am happy and perky and celebatory. And after today there's still the rest of my BIRTHDAY MONTH!

Even More Tangent Universe

Via Zombie Mallet in IM.


Ghost Rider: The Viral A.I.

A combination of Jack Hawksmore and Deadman, he transfers through city after city, possessing people to stop his creator Hacker: Zarathos from taking over the world net!

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My reaction to ZM's idea?

Well, given the fact I happen to love Deadman and this makes his concept even cooler - I have been kicked in the face by awesome and can't but post about it!

*Appoints ZM as Minion #1*

Do Note: Minion ideas may kick me in the face and be filled with awesome. Any actual kicking in the face involves immediate target lock and the individual classified as enemy.

Lurker would you like to be Minion #2?

See Lurker's continued kickass ideas here.

Also can any of us do something with these ideas? Granted I seriously doubt many of us have the time to write out long involved fanfiction. But seriously could it hurt to do summaries once a week or something?

*ponders*

On second thought, it'd be more than one summary, wouldn't it at the rate I'm going.

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Just off into the woods next door or down the street, just down that alley, behind that old neglected house, just behind that dumpster, that burnt out car, is a place of ambient energy that calls to the guilty and the sorrowfully bereaved.

It is judge and executioner. It is hope and redemption.

Have you ever wondered about amnesiacs?

Sometimes the person who finds this place has searched long and hard, discovered symbols and ceremonies to bring it to them, they believe that with one single act of self sacrifice they can bring someone back who died before their time.

Have you ever wondered about the maniacs who're never caught? Or the ones you've never heard of?

Sometimes the person who finds it, stumbles upon it, drenched in hubris that their dark deeds will never be discovered. These individuals discover that something has been watching them all along or has been sent to them and now, violently, it will judge them guilty.

Either way, it uses the spirits it finds to generate magic to sustain itself. It can be a puddle, or the shadowy figure of a man, the cat who walks through walls to stare boldly into the eyes of a butcher of men or the crow on the sill listening to a mother's weeping.

It is the Deadpool.

Tangent Universes 2

Racism makes me cranky. So more Tangent Marvelverse

Utilizing Luker's X-Man, I did this bit in comments.(side note: y'all folk who want to win minion have a LOT of sucking up to do. He's got you beat by three laps already)

After hundreds of years of protecting the human race, Gambit loses X-Man in 2014. But not before his heroic actions catch the eye of a group within Exiles.

Engineers and computer entrepreneurs all, the group steals X-Man's remains, but only so they can create The Uncanny X-Men, technological heirs of a fallen hero who will now take his place many times over in the fight to preserve sentient life on planet earth and in this galaxy.

Come follow the adventures of The Uncanny X-Men and their pit crew in their fight to right all wrongs the Milky Way is not yet otherwise equipped to handle.

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I'm not quite sure which individual in this one inspired the others :)

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The demi-goddess Circe is an often forgotten bit of Greek lore. Certainly the three women whose lives she forever changed likely hadn't thought about her as more than a mention in highschool, or on some television show about Odysseys.

But Circe lives and while she no longer focuses solely on condemning and in fact now chooses champions, her methods haven't changed too much over the years.

A young, black police woman about to be surrounded by neo-nazi's finds herself transforming. Misty Knight is now Black Panther.

A law student on her way home from school rushes into a burning building to save a child and finds herself transforming from Allison Blaire into White Tiger.

Fleeing the hit men who murdered her parents, Jubilation Lee feels a surge of new found strength sweep over her as she becomes Silver Fox.

Forever given the ability to transform into beings half beast and half human, these women will be found one by one by Circe's original champion, Ekletra Natchios, The Wolverine, chosen by Circe since the tender age of five and molded by the goddess into a capable warrior. Because Circe intends to create a group of warriors loyal to her who'll respond to the injustices against women and innocents she has viewed in the world. Her chosen champions will be The Avengers.

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Oh! It's so corny and happy making! *hugs her little tangent Avengers*

Racism 101

I am c/ping my exchange with one tombrazelton of livejournal who has not yet done his racism homework, unpacked his privilege and a whole host of other things.

I am c/ping it because the movie being discussed got me angry enough that I did a little Racism 101. I HATE DOING RACISM 101. It is not my life's dream to open up whitey's eyes, one by one, to his own idiocy, hubris and stunted philosophical and ethical growth.

So here is our exchange where it might serve as Seeking Avalon's monument to Racism 101. Anytime someone says something stupid to me on this blog, I'll only have to link back here.

I think it might make things a bit easier.

ALSO: Lurker asked how come he's a dense white boy and he can get it. I hereby PUBLICALLY explain to LURKERWITHOUT that if you get it, YOU ARE NOT a dense white boy. But I make no claims I might not call you slow at some later date.

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Tom Brazelton: In the movie, Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black play spoiled actors making a Vietnam war film. Downey Jr. plays a method actor so serious about his craft, he surgically alters himself to look African American when he finds out the role he was originally hired to portray was written with a black actor in mind. Stiller and Downey Jr. aren't making fun of African Americans. They ARE making fun of ridiculous actors. Personally, I think it sounds hilarious, especially if Downey Jr. plays it completely straight.

Of course, there are going to be some people out there who will reduce this down to it's bare element - a white man in black makeup - and be offended. These people are looking for something to offend them. If you can't see the potential for satire in this, you don't see very many movies....


Lurker: You know when white boys from the midwest start telling people what they should and SHOULD NOT find racially offensive, it never ends well. Just saying...


Tom Brazelton: I'm not sure I understand what you mean. In what way was I dictating what anyone should and shouldn't find offensive?

I'm splitting the difference between people who can appreciate a joke within context and people whose knee-jerk reaction is to be offended.


Willow: Your ass. You are showing it.

Here and there and probably all over the comments to this post.


Tom Brazelton: Okay, so you're saying I'm spouting off about racism without any knowledge or experience to back it up. "My ass is showing." I get it. You could have come right out and said it. You wouldn't have hurt my feelings.

But I appreciate your condescension.

I guess I'm still not seeing the point of contention here. The commentary I'm making is thus:

1. Robert Downey Jr. is an actor, portraying an actor who is making himself look black for a role in a movie.

2. Some people will find this controversial because they will only see a white man in makeup, think "blackface" and everything negative that implies.

3. These people are wrong because the point of it all is to make fun of narcissistic actors, not to make fun of black people or steal opportunities from black actors.

4. There is no controversy.

In the comic, Tom's makes light of the entire "controversy" by comparing White Chicks to minstrel shows. Obviously that is not a fair comparison. It is an exaggeration made for comedic purposes.

Is there anything we're overlooking here?


Willow: Once again, yet another white person believes that racist actions are all about intent.

Once again another white person says if someone steps on your foot, the fact that they may not have meant to step on it, should mean that your foot. DOES. NOT. HURT. And saying OW is WRONG.

Once again another white person decides that black people have no valid point of view. They are people who are WRONG because HE doesn't see what could be painful or insulting about something. Therefore it can't be painful or insulting.

Listen if the jism you and this movie's actors and producers are spitting out with your privileged cocks are MEANT to be hitting the faces of 'narcissistic actors' IS ALSO hitting the faces of people of colour passersby then it DOESN'T MEAN SHIT WHAT THE ORIGINAL INTENTION WAS.

YOUR JISM < INNOCENT FACES.

YOUR PRIVILEGE = 400 YEARS OF POWER AND PREJUDICE CREATING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM.

This is a racist movie. Your commentary is racist commentary.

Racism is NOT just about Jim Crow laws and the Klan. It's about the very blindness and hubris that has you deciding that anyone who criticizes and calls attention to the obvious and blatant skanky race issues involved in this production are WRONG because the MOVIE IS ONLY INTENTIONALLY MAKING FUN OF ACTORS, ANY POC WHO FEEL INVOLVED ARE JUST OVER SENSITIVE & WRONG. I AM WHITEY. MY WORD IS LAW/GOD.

Do note the part where I don't call you Massa.

Maybe some day you will unpack your privilege and get a clue in which case you might want to click the latter link. I'm told it's easier to swallow what a racist ass you're being when told by a white person.

Meanwhile I'll just add you to the list.

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Willow: *telepathically contacts the hive mind of the FoCing Cabal*

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ETA: Latest Comment

Tom Brazelton: I guess all I can say is that I'm sorry. But it appears either I'm damned if I do or damned if I don't.

If I express an opinion about it at all, "my ass is showing." If I state a lack of understanding and try to draw you out in a conversation where you can help me understand, I get firebomed.

So it's not really about having an open dialogue. It's about 400 years of oppression, your anger and me getting the hell out of your way.

Sans obscenity, your explanation of the situation made more sense than what you originally posted - and that's all I really needed.

So, again, all I can really say is that I'm sorry. I tried to make a joke and it backfired. If that's not good enough for you, we can both be on each other's lists.

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My interpretation of said above comment: Damn it! You're being intelligent, black woman. But at least I can point out that you won't lead me by the hand to the waters of racist absolution and pour it over my head while whispering the secret of never being confronted ever again into my ear. So I'll point out your TONE! And I'll make googly, sorry, pathetic eyes so as to let people know, I tried, but the angry black woman wouldn't kiss my cock.
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Ladies and gentlefellows, this is why I don't do RACISM 101. It'd land my ass in jail for stabbing.