Round omg I don't know what of my terribly exciting life:

[azurelunatic]

This was the infamous 1-day weekend. Saturday was primarily anime, with the aforementioned Target and Home Depot runs. Sunday was work; I hyperventilated on the way in and was OK coming out, if exhausted. Then I went straight to my secondary job. Then I came home and went to bed. (I'd shut down my computer Saturday night, since she was sounding tired and she needed rebooting.) Monday I was a little better before work, and again went straight to the secondary job, where I uncovered all the insanity with that bloody 11mb spreadsheet. ELEVEN MEGABYTES, PEOPLE.

I tagged & tracked the latest round of suggestions in between the 11mb stuff doing its crazy thing. I am on the verge of refusing to work with it anymore, which is terribly selfish but they are not paying me half enough to contend with that piece of crap. If I quit that job now, it will be because of that spreadsheet (and because I can now afford to quit over something like that).

Today was a little calmer at work; less 60 in queue going on. I went almost straight home, though a detour for refueling Vash was in order. I spent three solid hours trying to catch up with Sunday and Monday on LJ. I'm right smack dab in the middle of this thing. I volunteer for LJ, and I'm fannish (though not in the middle of fandom). I know I'm not the only support/fan crossover person, and I know I'm not the only person looking at both sides of this and watching in dismay as two of my closest groups of friends square off to start hitting. I know if I try to intervene I'll get caught in the crossfire. I think we all know that.

Dinner tonight was Mongolian Barbecue, gameboyguy13's first official exposure to it (that I know of). It was delicious!

gameboyguy13's last day at his summer job is Friday; after that he will have about a week off before we return him to the general area of school for more happy school. He gets the week to loaf around and do touristy things.

I got some grocery shopping done. The disturbing part was where I drove past on my way to the store and I saw someone lying in the middle of the street. There were people clustered around and one guy was waving traffic past, so I didn't stop. I'm not trained, and there was someone who looked like (s)he knew what (s)he was doing looking the person over. There were police cars all over when I drove back past that way.

Somehow my spare time got slapped down to near zero. I didn't start the laundry that I was intending to do. I did get groceries, though, so that's a good thing. This weekend will have two days. I can get things done then. There is still glass in my garbage disposal.

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[lacey]

I spent three solid hours trying to catch up with Sunday and Monday on LJ. I'm right smack dab in the middle of this thing. I volunteer for LJ, and I'm fannish (though not in the middle of fandom). I know I'm not the only support/fan crossover person, and I know I'm not the only person looking at both sides of this and watching in dismay as two of my closest groups of friends square off to start hitting.

I know. It makes me sad. It makes me sick.

[azurelunatic]

All we can really do is stick together and not start hitting ourselves, eh?

[lacey]

That's the truth.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Two weeks, actually, to the day. And yes. First Mongolian. I think that's a Significant Life Milestone of some sort.

[azurelunatic]

A very tasty sort!

[azurelunatic]

(Clarification, since my phrasing is awful: the piece of shit that I'm on the verge of quitting over is the spreadsheet. suggestions remains a delight.)

[wibbble]

I suspect that the current wank is entirely due to it being the beginning of the end for Harry Potter fandom.

Harry Potter fandom is largely the main one affected, since most other fandoms aren't into stories/pictures involving even potentially under-age kids, and it's a notoriously insane wanky fandom to start with. The timing of this - just as the last of the canon material has appeared - has been terrible. All the insane Harry Potter fen need a release for their madness and LJ is it.

But Harry Potter fandom is on the way out - with no more canon material, and only a couple more movies, it'll die a slow death from now on. In two or three years time it'll be almost gone and media fandom in general will be a little saner.

I wonder if the age of Harry Potter fen is relevant? They tend to be quite young, and of the 'internet entitlement generation' - I'd imagine that old-school Slashers would be shaking their head at people posting underage slash fanart in public places. Has HP fandom forgotten 'keep it secret, keep it safe'?

This is a bit rambly, but I think you can dig my meaning out of it.

[azurelunatic]

Unless another fandom with equal sanity points replaces it. All the cracktastic insane fen have to go somewhere. Az and I were speculating at one point that the relative sanity of the author has something to do with it -- the ethical standard of the "good guys" in that universe is quite low, which says something about the ethical standard of good fen in that fandom. Relative morality does everyone involved a disservice.

[wibbble]

To be honest, I think that all the cracktastic insane fen will just grow up a bit, graduate (either from high school or college/uni), and be a bit embarrassed if anyone ever reminds them about their 'Harry Potter' phase.

They're not fandom lifers.