whining/poem

At some point I will get back into making real posts. Things I need to get around to posting: May Feedback Challenge, the developing Iron Man movieverse fandom, the possibility of Iron Woman, Ms. Marvel's history and how parts of it are really quite skeevey, more on Birds of Prey and some comments Gail Simone made about the end of her run, the awesomeness of The Plain Janes, Criminal and Fun Home.

And hey, fellow Canadian geeks: do you watch Hypaspace? I'm a little in love with Natasha Eloi. She made a Wii Cake. A WII CAKE. I want Wii cake.


Until then, another poem. This is my first Sara Teasdale poem. Man, I love the intensity.

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I Am Not Yours, by Sara Teasdale

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

eljay elections

Have you voted? Polls close Thursday, May 29, 9PM PDT. If you haven't been following the dramarama, icarusancalion has a collection of election links here, with a focus on fandom.

The current first preference frontrunner, with 28.1% of vote, is legomymalfoy, a longtime member of fandom and the lj Abuse Team. jameth, with 17.9% is next. I'm sorry to report that I am in fact pathetic enough to have read through all of the comment threads of the vote post, and a ridiculous number of related threads at various candidates' and voting bloc's journals.

I'm am not impressed with jameth. Why?

1. He's done nothing to reign in, or even distance himself from his supporters' bullying and outright trolling, of anti-Jameth posters.
2. His supporters employ icons which can trigger seizures in epileptics. He finds this funny.
3. He has accused legomymalfoy and rm of ballot stuffing.
4. He has thrown a bushel of strawmen at rm, in order to paint her as a despotic, censor-happy evil thing that does no good.
5. He considers fans to be inherently dishonest and mentally imbalanced.

Also:

Livejournal users, Jameth needs your help to support the lulz!

Please login to LJ, go here, enter jameth in all three fields and submit your vote for LJ board!.

Encyclopedia Dramatica endorses jameth. Nuff said.

ETA: Anti-Jameth Bingo Card. Fandom is running a smear campaign against jameth. O rly?!

Even knowing that the LJ Advisory Board will likely have an extremely limited capacity to affect LJ policy, I don't want to reward this utter jackass with a great item on his resume, emotional validation and a free trip to Istanbul.

Do you?

For the record, I voted for legomymalfoy, rm and vichan.