{"id":5018,"date":"2013-11-02T02:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T09:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2013-11-02T02:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T09:11:15","slug":"disappointment-requires-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/02\/disappointment-requires-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"disappointment requires expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty neat watching all these folks who weren’t going to go see Ender’s Game<\/i> because of OSC’s queers-must-be-kept-illegal NOM-board-membership Russian-anti-gay-law history posting their Ender’s Game<\/i> reactions tonight. Not all of them, but… many.<\/p>\n

Peter David is leading a charge already to get it a Hugo, and says if it doesn’t it’ll be proof that fandom doesn’t “have the balls” to defy the dreaded Political Correctness that apparently rules it.<\/p>\n

I’ve been blocking a lot<\/em> of Facebook posts this evening. I’m expecting I’ll have to unfollow some Tumblr people for a bit, too, ’till the 65% it’s getting on Rotten Tomatoes catches up to it and it fades away.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should just stay off the net a while. Because here’s the thing: I realise that, for most of fandom, a couple of hours of entertainment outranks not supporting a writer<\/a> who actively works to make law against me, and who believes I should be illegal, who has a history of being onboard with the queers==pedophiles newtype blood libel, whose organisation lobbied in Russia for their anti-gay crackdown laws, and all that.<\/p>\n

I get that. I have for a long time. This is not a new realisation. I don’t much like<\/em> it, but I get it. This has just been a reminder.<\/p>\n

I’m not even that<\/em> upset; disappointment requires expectations that I don’t have. I mean, obviously, I’m displeased<\/em>, but this isn’t exactly shaking my world. I know better.<\/p>\n

But being reminded of it every time I check my web browser? That, I really<\/em> don’t like.<\/p>\n

So I’m just gonna say: if you go see this thing? I don’t want to hear about it. His politics and his political friends and allies and his organisation and the organisations they support have been trying to destroy me my entire life<\/em>. His side<\/em> has assaulted me, sent me to hospital, waged newtype blood libel campaigns against me, run sometimes-successful initiative campaigns against me, forced me into a political life out of sheer self-preservation – they have quite literally cost me blood and treasure<\/em> – and I’ve got one hell of a lot of trench warfare I can go off about if I have to.<\/p>\n

And I don’t fuckin’ want to.<\/p>\n

So if you’re gonna go see this thing – okay, whatever<\/em>. Me, I’ll just hang over here, mostly offline for a few days; I’ve got a lot of shit to catch up with anyway. But you? Do me this much of a favour: don’t fuckin’ come telling me about it. Don’t fuckin’ come rationalising it to me. I don’t want to hear about it. I don’t want to hear about what donations you’re pledging to make to “counterbalance” it, I don’t care if you “separate the art from the artist,” I don’t care about your reasons: I don’t want to hear them<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Just. Don’t.<\/p>\n

And once the novelty wears off, we can hopefully just forget about this whole thing.<\/p>\n

Comments disabled. Because leaving them open… that’d just be a little too tempting, wouldn’t it? Yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty neat watching all these folks who weren’t going to go see Ender’s Game because of OSC’s queers-must-be-kept-illegal NOM-board-membership Russian-anti-gay-law history posting their Ender’s Game reactions tonight. Not all of them, but… many. Peter David is leading a charge already to get it a Hugo, and says if it doesn’t it’ll be proof that fandom [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}