Why a whelk...

I went to post a comment somewhere and found I'd been banned from someone's journal. I've never been banned from anyone's journal before, and I quite like the person in question and don't recall ever having had a disagreement with them of any kind. Random defriendings by people who I thought were my actual friends I can deal with, but banning? Wow. Ouch.

Speaking of which, this is kind of where I am at the moment:

• There's not a lot of joy for me left in Whovian fandom. I'll probably post something later about how much I hated Waters of Mars. I have no desire to watch anything RTD has produced or DT stars in, and I am only just managing to hold on to a scrap of enthusiasm for when Moffat and Smith come in. I hate Russell, I hate everything he's ever written, I think he's awful. His insistence on bringing all this emotional manpain and trauma into these shows that used to just be a joyful experience for me and, in the case of Who, for my kids, has ruined my fannish experience. I want the last three years of my life back, I wish I'd never started watching Torchwood, I wish I'd stopped watching Who. I don't need television that pisses me off and makes me sad, that's not what I watch television for. Fuck you Russell, I hope LA chews you up and spits you out and fucks you in the ass with a pointy stick.


• Ianto did make me happy for quite a few years, which is why I'm working on a last epic picspam of my favourite teaboy doing shit. I hope to have it done in a week or two.


• I'm also working on something of a personal project celebrating Torchwood Series One and Two, which I hope to tell you more about in the coming weeks. Or maybe I'll just abandon it.


• I was hoping to do a Christmas push on the Ianto Jones Wants a Pony campaign, but the Lluest Horse and Pony Trust's continued inability to update me is starting to annoy me a bit, so maybe I'll leave it. After Christmas, I'm done promoting it because I think I've done enough. I'll leave it up, of course.


• Any takers for ninja_teaboy may give me shout here or in PM. I'm putting it up for adoption per January 1st. If there's no-one interested, I'll close it down.


• Oh, in case you were wondering, no. If there is a new series of Torchwood, I won't be watching it, as I don't really like Gwen, or Jack. I liked Tosh and Ianto and I quite enjoyed disliking Owen. I liked Ianto, I liked Tosh, I liked the Hub, the embossed SUV, the pteranodon, the old ladies, the poodles, the victorian lesbianism, the cyberbikinis and that stupid fucking invisible lift. In fact, I loved all those things. Apparently I loved those things far too much. Those things are all gone, so there's nothing for me to come back to. Not that there will be a new series.


• It's been really fun, people, but if you've friended me for Torchwood content, please, feel free to defriend me in the coming weeks, I won't be offended. I am completely spent. Done. Thanks, Rusty.

I've stated quite clearly in my userinfo that I'm not hugely keen on discussing actors' private lives in this journal, and I realise I'm breaking my own rules with this one, but I have some issues with John Barrowman that I'd like to get off my chest once and for all, and because they pertain loosely to characterisation in Torchwood, and Torchwood's depiction of homosexuality, I'm going to make an exception.

( It's cut for length and gayness... )

My conclusion? I don't really have one. Barrowman tends to think that everyone is like him, or everyone is not like him, depending on the circumstances. His relationship with Scott is what all gay relationships are like, except when they aren't, and straight people sit on the sofa every night not having sex and eating crisps or something, unless they start dressing up, in which case they'll need a safeword, or someone will end up getting hurt. Yeah, I make about as much sense as he does.

ETA: The reason I brought up The Making of Me and the reason I say I was confused by it, is that I find it odd that John would be so adamant about proving that his homosexuality is innate and genetically defined, while at the same time, aside from this show, he does a very good job of painting homosexuality as fun and exciting lifestyle choice, by virtue of his apparent inability to A) distinguish his own homosexual experiences and lifestyle from a broader experience of the gay community as a whole and B) separate his homosexuality from other aspects of his public persona and lifestyle, which are all things he chooses to be and do. I find that... kind of weird?

Ummm... nah, I got nothing. They were just a bunch of words I typed out. Feel free to go back your humdrum lives now.