LJ vs. Tumblr?

I see people talking about how all the cool stuff seems to be happening over on Tumblr these days and how LJ is dead and how sad that is. Peeps, if you want to move to Tumblr, more power to you. But if you want to stay here, on LJ, and... un-dead? resurrect? *hands* the thing, do something about it. Yes, you, personally. It's not a criticism, it's an advice given in good thought, honestly. The hardest lesson I've ever learned was that if you want something, you have to do it yourself, nobody else will do it for you.

I post frequently, once a day at least, usually three or four times - it's the one thing I warn new friends about, that I post a LOT. Whenever I find something interesting on the net, I post it here. I rec fics, I squee and I bounce. I try to keep it as positive as possible - I have to literally see red to rant. Try doing the same? It's the only way to stop this exodus to other places, if you want to do something about it that is, you know?

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ANYWAYZ!

I found this vid on YouTube - Xavier dies - don't worry, it's not a spoiler for XMFC, it's from the old animated series. So, I thought it might be interesting and clicked on it and started watching it and... Then Jean Grey asked Magneto, "How much do you love Charles Xavier?"

AND I CRACKED UP. Seriously, I know that it should've been touching and all and it really was, but come on! If these two aren't a couple I'll eat my hat - I'm doing a lot of hat-eating these days, aren't I? I guess that's as far as comic book writers in America can go with creating a gay pairing without giving someone a homophobic apoplexy, huh? XD And I was surprised by the amount of slash in XMFC. Ha!

Dune books? No, thank you!

As you may have noticed, I've fallen in love with the two Dune mini-series - well mostly with Children of Dune but you can't really have one without the other, right? They are great on their own, but what makes them special is this:



The thing is... As much as I like them and as much as I would love to learn more about Leto and Ghani, I won't read the books. Not after I found out what a homophobe Frank Herbert had been - seriously, kicking out his own son for being gay? Classy. I'm just not one of those people who can separate the work and its creator. I just can't.

That's why I'm so happy that Children of Dune is - apparently - really different than the book, starting with Ghani and Leto as teenagers, not little kids. Sure, the main events are the same but after I read what the book's about, I realized that if it weren't for James McAvoy and Jessica Brooks, if they had kept Leto and Ghani as kids... The mini-series just wouldn't have done it for me. I realized that it's not the mini-series itself, it's them, these two actors and their chemistry that's the be all and end all of it for me.

I just don't understand why so many sci-fi writers are homophobic. Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey and now Frank Herbert. And I bet there are dozens and dozens of others. Shouldn't sci-fi be about spreading the wings of your imagination? About discovering new frontiers? But these authors, instead of going forward, are real throwbacks, spreading prejudice instead of tolerance, setting boundaries instead of crushing them. Sad. Really, really sad.

Just sayin'...

Found on Tumblr... somewhere -_-;;