SO. MUCH. FUCKING. EXCITE.
We should lobby on Neil Gaiman's blog to have him read Mark's Blogs live with us this time. I'm sure he'd be excited since he liked the American Gods posts so much! ~~/cannot get over this/ Neil Gaiman is basically like a deity in my pantheon of writers I sacrifice heads of stuffed animals to/ in the hopes that one day, I too, can run into them in an elevator somewhere, make a witty joke or clever observation, become friends with them, and then have one of their books dedicated to meeeee.
I just want to say, even though I know I'm lightyears behind everyone else in this blog, that these kind of conversations are the reason why I love Mark Does Stuff. I know it may have gotten heated and I'm sorry for any stressful reactions any of this conversation may have aroused or caused in the actual participants but it is truly wonderful to get to read so many varied viewpoints and be forced to run them through your own thought-filter so that you're forced to think about things you previously hadn't considered when you were originally watching this show when you were at the tender, innocent age of 8. __Thank you guys all so much for sharing and existing and being so passionate about those first two. And at least a round of applause to our moderators for getting personally involved in conversations and actually CONVERSING in them as opposed to abusing the authority they're given. Somewhere in the universe, I've a batch of freshly baked cookies for all us cut into the shape of gold stars. (Gluten free, vegan options available - trying to be all inclusive here).
I'm not saying the drug usage was a good thing but it did do this really weird thing for social justice at the school. People who bullied gay kids were the ones who got their asses laid out -- because none of our gay youth were taking it (not when we're so close to Gay Retirement Heaven, also known as Key West) and because no one wanted the entire drug scene screwed up by one asshole who couldn't stand to see two girls holding hands
(Other interesting notes: the only team that caught more derision than the basketball team was the golf team - yeah, we had a golf team - and the journalism kids were the ones that kind of took the place of the indie, interesting, quirky art club students who pretty much were 98% drug users... but then again, at my school, that pretty much applies to the entire school wide population. The really weird thing is that the drug usage helped create a weird connection between all the groups because everyone knew who else in the school scored from their hook-up so whenever they were unable to get into contact with said supplier, they would seek out someone from a completely different cross-section of the high school experience to hang out with them and try to go see their mutual dealer together.
For what it's worth, (I was in high school three years ago), band and marching band kids were pretty much over the cheerleaders in terms of popularity. In fact, I don't think I ever even knew about more than two of the cheerleaders of our school becoming popular. The cheerleaders almost weren't even THERE for all the impact they had on the social heirarchy. Volleyball team girls... totally different matter.
The football team shared popularity with the baseball team and the soccer team, no one cared about the basketball team (they even started giving out service hours to any student who would make a poster and come sit through a game just to support them -- it was really sad) and the AP kids pretty much had free reign over the school.
Seriously. And I promise, half of the rot13 is "I can't wait to he gets here and we get to hear his ~thoughts~ on *this*!!!"
...The other half is stuff I would have to rot13. Damn.
I started using them after the 90s for my school's GSA's Day of Silence. I'd put it around my mouth and write on sharpie "LBGTQ Day of Silence"... and yet people would still try to get me to talk unironically. *eyerolls*
Made this mistake in the last few days. I was very nicely corrected so thank you, sporkaganza and sorry again for being weird and making assumptions :)
We are indeed a formidable fandom. If Whedon ever had such an inclination, he could, like, easily become a mayor of a pretty sizable city or governor of a pretty small state.
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