My head is too full.

[kiya]

There was baseball today! I was in withdrawal. It was really horribly played baseball by both teams, but it was baseball. Maybe there'll be some decent-quality baseball tomorrow. Or at least by Monday. (Note to me: must talk to yehoshua.)

I have a revised date for Dad's knee surgery; he's been through the cardiologist who's cleared him for repairs. Must go through the plane reservations process again and let him know.

I was saved again by one of the dot-communities. Without it, I would have had to say, ". . . you're arguing that people should stay in the closet so that their sacred spaces won't be irretrievably and uncorrectably polluted by bad vibes from non-believers?" in a conversation where that would have been even less productive than what led up to it. I didn't think Thelema produced such fragile hothouse flowers. Learn something new every day.

Spent far too long attempting to extract information for non-traditional student financial aid out of reality; my brain is now melting out my ears. However, keshwyn has given me earplugs, so I probably won't lose much. Got distracted in the middle of it by oneironaut providing a link to an impressive bit of "BUH?" on a fandom-wank community. Reading the four pages of comments was both more appealing and less dangerous to my SAN than scholarship research. (iced_spice, do you actually have a good definition of 'wank' as you use it? I only know it from UK slang, though I can work it out from context. ;) )

I have homework from PA again; must find the capacity to do it. And we're getting around to discussing Ritual in next lesson, which I'm looking forward to. (I also learned that there's someone with the title 'Spokesperson for Ifá in the World' teaching at BU, or was recently; another reason to get my act and application in gear.) Meanwhile, there's someone on a local mailing list sounding out interest in Feri, and I think I've lost my half-finished HON application entirely. I'm completely nuts; I'm going into a feed-my-brain-and-soul ravenous craze, and I'm afraid I'll drive myself insane again. Of course, the thinking about it is taking the place of the actual stressful doing stuff; mind, it's also taking the place of stressful fretting about other stuff, so 'tisn't all bad.

I think I'll go print out the college application form so I can scribble my answers and sort out what I need to do. That's much more productive than staring at the WIP, and will keep me from just going in circles about how much stuff there is. Baby steps. Addendum: Or not. Printer hissy.

Comments

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

LOL, you've discovered fandom_wank! Addictive, that. :) Wank in this context is drama, flame-baiting, foolish pomposity, tin-hattery, and generally treating the trivial as a world-class disaster. Which wank were you reading? (There were some especially choice ones today, for some reason.)

And speaking of wank, where might I find the wank you're catting about, and does it involve a certain Purple Drama Duck?

[kiya]

The entire context for the introduction of this particular wank to my reality was:

[Public] Ol' Sap-Nipples Tesla says, "Oh my GOD. http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/346086.html."

This was insufficient data. ;)

While I was pretty sure that was more or less what you meant by it (and it's certainly easy to see how one would get there from a word for masturbation), clarification is always good.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

Oh, the TRIPZY wank! *sporfle* That was a rather infamous one. And my ship, too. *weep* This would be why I avoid FAP like the plague.

[kiya]

"FAP"?

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

FictionAlleyPark, if context is anything to go by. Original source of the wank in question.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

Yes, linenoise has it. Fiction Alley Park is an extremely large Harry Potter fan site, with a fiction archive and message boards. The place is overrun with people who are slavish fans of one fanfic writer or another (most notably Cassie Claire) and devotees of particular pairings. FAP contributes quite a bit of the general flood of Harry Potter wank.

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

Which makes it into a ridiculously amusing acronym, for me. Entirely too apropos to not have been designed that way.

Cassie Claire has the honor of being one of only two Draco-centric writers that I can actually stand to read. The other being AJ Hall. Note also that I don't ever really choose to look at Draco-fic, unless am pointed at it with astoundingly glowing reccomendations.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

LOL, it's a wonderful acronym. I don't think it's intentional, though... that site takes itself entirely too seriously for that.

I don't like Cassie Claire's fic, it's just too full of Speshal Majickall Powerz and OOC characters for my taste, but I know lots of people adore it. My main beef with Cassie Claire is that she started this whole damn SexGod!Draco-in-leather-trousers fanon virus in the first place. Draco is an interesting character, IMO, but entirely too much Draco-fic comes out straight out of that school of thought. (Although the wussification of Snape in the fanon is just as bad, and that one can't be traced to her doorstep!)

[kiya]

And if you're referring to the stuff that was in templeofthecat and my most recent dot_cattiness entry, which I realised belatedly was likely what you meant, see the coming out thread started a few days ago in nonfluffypagans.

And wow, was that a lot of lj-tags all at once.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

hooooooooooooooly shit! The desire to bitch-smack that woman (no, not the Purple Drama Duck (00Goddess) for once, but another Thelemite who thinks they walk on water. I sense a trend...) is incredibly strong, but I keep saying "no, wouldn't be prudent." But the assumptions in there are just amazing. That everyone with an interest in psychology has a Jungian orientation, that *really* pisses me off. And this notion that everyone has a "circle" that needs "protecting." AFAIK, no recon religion functions this way. You may be told someday to get a naos, but that's Netjer's job, not hers!

(just for this, the Royal Fandom_wank hallelujah STFU chorus!)

[kiya]

Oh, is that who the Purple Drama Duck is. Yes, I've had the displeasure of playing with her (in polyamory).

Not only the assumptions, but the stunning displays of reading comprehension. I've been trying to figure out if just dropping it is a good idea; I've got that terrier-like persistence problem.

So that qualifies as "wank", you think? To get back to the original subject? :}

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

It's rather ickle wank, but it's definitely wank. *peers at it* She's probably breaking several Jurisimprudence laws, too. (That's a community on Journalfen for making laws about wank, take one dose of Godwin's and expand outward.)

Oh, wait... I used Britslang. I can't say "ickle," as I live in America. Damn. I'll have to wait until I get an official Britpatent. :P

As for the Drama Duck, she has become infamous enough to warrant a webpage (http://www.lynxfeather.net/minirth/lunatics/). And as for whether you should drop it or not, I think a timely "uh, my religion doesn't DO that, and assuming it does is fluffy" should suffice. I'm rather surprised that none of the Hellenes have smacked her around, since normally an assumption of a "circle" and "astral space" is just asking for a thwupping.

[kiya]

I more or less tried to point out that this was, in fact, bad presumption; I come away with the impression that this person thinks that all pagans are circle-casting mystery religion types. Or something.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that the secrecy makes zir feel important. Reminds me of the magician in The Magician's Nephew who keeps intoning "Ours is a High and Lonely Destiny!" and other such impressive phrases (I think that book was responsible for the installation of my first-ever BS filter, and I am very grateful to C.S. Lewis for it, too.)

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that this is another person along the line of what I ranted about last week-- someone who has magic and religion mixed up and doesn't quite get that there are Pagans whose religion is about, y'know, religion and not "workings."

[morningwind.livejournal.com]

Oh God, I've now spent who-knows-how-many hours gaping at/reading fandom_wank, despite having a paper due tomorrow that I haven't even started. That place is damn addictive!

*looks at f_w browser window and struggles to click the little red X at the top of the page* Must...step...away...

[ardaniel]

(I also learned that there's someone with the title 'Spokesperson for Ifá in the World' teaching at BU, or was recently; another reason to get my act and application in gear.)

That ought to be, unless I miss my guess, the guy who spoke at my film class's lecture, who was introduced to us as the Grand Diviner of the tribe.

You want to talk to Steve Geller in the film department wrt African religions, though; he's the guy as got the Grand Diviner to come talk to us in the first place. (And he should, vaguely, remember me by RL name from his Sacred Drama class around 1996. I miss Professor Geller...)

[redbird]

I didn't think Thelema produced such fragile hothouse flowers. Learn something new every day.

For some reason, this reminds me of the friend who, in the course of dealing with his brother's death, mentioned "the irony of a Thelemite dying without a will."