ToM Dracone

WOAH WHERE DID YOU GET THAT.

Also, such a thing as Lyi has would be quite lovely. Could you ask how I might acquire it?

also TORO WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE.

Well, it is a science museum, so it's kinda assumed that they're going to go off the scientific explanation of things, isn't it? I'm not sure what else you could expect from the place.

But at any rate, in my experience it's really not a good idea to even bring this subject up in the blogs, so you might want to just take that little aside out entirely. Sorry.

And that's why it's a challenge to those of us who make basically everything using both.

Besides, it's not like Bionicle sans System is guaranteed to look awful.

Oh my god. Oh my god.

 

We're going to have to kill you now that you've shown us these, you realize.

Get in line, I think.

Do you want this to turn into a Murder on the Orient Express situation?

Oh my god. Oh my god.

We're going to have to kill you now that you've shown us these, you realize.

Everyone has a learning curve. I cringe at the memory of some posts I made when I had just become staff.

Let up on them a little, please.

What's your school do for prom? Sounds exciting...

Nothing out of the ordinary; I just have awesome people to hang out with. And we're having dinner with a bunch of my other friends at someone's house beforehand, so that'll be cool.

The most exciting part of it is my shirt. :3

Seriously? That DBQ was the easiest one I've ever written for AP US, or I guess tying for easiest. So easy to bring in outside information, and all the documents fit together perfectly...

(and I -hate- DBQs, so this made me very happy)

This ship could go in interesting and entertaining directions. (Not the Enterprise, the slash one.) But I'd have to watch the movie again with it in mind to properly assess it.

But I -did- like this movie a lot more than I had expected to, being generally not interested in Star Trek as I am. It was fun.

I'm going through pretty much the same ordeal right now. Debating between Vassar and University of Chicago, both of which are awesome schools, with great people and professors and classes, but then they're so different as well – one small, one huge; no core curriculum at Vassar, then Chicago has this massive core; Vassar's close, Chicago's pretty far away... and so many other things. Including in the way of paying for these things.

We should talk/rant about this on AIM some time.

Well, in the parallel universe of the Golden Compass, Texas is its own country. What's to say the same couldn't happen in our world too?

But see, that's because Texas originally was its own country, the Republic of Texas. So, it just stayed that way in Lyra's world.

The fact that this argument is going on on a day where I was feeling rather good about people's general support for LGBT folk, after the Day of Silence today, makes me very sad.

While it does date a while back, it's always been a social thing. Heck, a middle school in my county went through a trend (just like goth, emo, prep, etc) where a bunch of kids were bi. It is just a social trend. Eventually people will get bored of it and grumble about something else.

Um.

"Just a social trend"?

Now, clearly there are some who flop around on both sides of the sexuality spectrum just for the sake of being deviant – as you seem to have encountered. But then there are people who actually are gay or bi. You seem to be confusing the two. You seem to think that everyone who's LGBT is that way "because it's the latest social trend" and that somehow they just decided "hey, I'm going to be gay now."

I do not know any way to address this other than to say that, quite flatly, you are wrong.

One should always do research before making claims like this. I advise you to do a little research. Ask a few people who actually are gay or bi if they're "following the latest social trend" or if they made some sort of "decision" to be that way. Or, you know, I could tell you the answers to those two questions right now: no and no.

Being gay has absolutely nothing to do with social trends or decisions. It's about what gender(s) one feels physically attracted to, which isn't something that one has any control over. Now, one can choose to act in a certain way, and to suppress and hide homosexual desires if one wants to do so that badly – but that doesn't change what one is at heart.

Yes, I'm sure there have been hate crimes against straight folk committed at some point or other. However, you seem to be glossing over the fact that every day, everywhere, LGBT folk are silenced, discriminated against, tormented, beaten up, murdered for nothing other than not being straight. For something that they have no more control over than the color of their skin.

Compared to the staggering amount of hate crimes LGBT folk have been subject to throughout history, it is not only not naïve but accurate to say that there have been barely any hate crimes against straight people.

Hopefully, that will clarify some of the things you two were debating over.

Advocate, I don't think you have any idea how offensive you're being to some of the LGBT community right now. Kindly consider that before you post something on this subject again.

And now, I think I really have no choice but to close this, because there's no way leaving this open will end well at this point. If anyone has issue with what I've just said, they may PM me.

But that wouldn't make any sense at all, and nor did I say anything remotely like that. What I said was that events like this – the Day of Silence, Black History Month, various others – exist because a particular group of people has been/is being discriminated against, and so a special day (or month, or week) is created to bring people together in support of that group.

As heterosexuals have not generally been discriminated against, been the victims of hate crimes, or any other sort of thing of that nature because of their sexuality, there's simply not that impetus to create a day in their honor. LGBT folk, however, are regularly discriminated against, hated, abused, the list goes on, and so the Day of Silence is partly to show support for them and say "Hey. This mistreatment needs to stop."

Not that one should need a single specific date on which to celebrate something one likes, but I hope you see what I'm saying here.

That would have been extremely nice. A fair amount did at my school, and it made me very happy.

It also is rather hard.

I've gotten mine down to Chicago, Vassar, and Brown, pretty much. But I can't choose at all yet, because I still haven't visited Chicago at all. Once I've been there, stayed overnight, and dropped back in on the other two it'll be ... probably harder, actually.

Are you going to visit any of yours again? (assuming you've visited them already)

Where's the day celebrating hetero people?

 

Some would argue that that's the whole rest of the year. Straight folk aren't usually discriminated against, y'see.

And Seran, that is indeed ironic. I think it started over here in the US, so maybe it doesn't have as much of a presence in Britain?

As for Tom, I'm glad you're willing to respond civilly.

 

It's simply not a natural event, not something man was made for. So, yeah, I'm not that comfortable with it. Hate the sin, love the sinner and all that.

We could get into a very lengthy discussion about being natural and all that, but that would quite definitely cross the line of discussing controversial subjects, so let's not here. But at any rate, you object to the day because of your religious beliefs, not because it's inherently anti-heterosexual. It's pretty much a given that a day in support of some thing is going to be disapproved of by those who dislike said thing.

Also, sorry if it sounded like we were mocking you! If anything, we were mocking Sméag and his frequent(ly hilarious) typoes.