An Open Plea to Luminosity
Aug. 20th, 2003 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetIn honor of today being No Kerfuffle/Keruffle/Kerfluffle Day (I wonder what we will do on DB's birthday?) I am changing my ways.
From here on out, I will no longer shamelessly exploit images of naked, half-naked, and sometimes fully-clothed men for my own depraved amusement. As a human and a member of Planet Earth, I am deeply ashamed. I apologize. I was sick, sick, sick.
Lo, though I know the error of my ways, there are still people out there whom I call friends that are still on this path of evil and darkness.
Lum, I'm looking at you. Tsk, tsk, tsk... how could you?
Your "Ability to Swing" vid is just...well words fail me to accurately describe this overt den of sin. In order to make this post I have had to watch the opening sequence over, and over and over and over again and let me tell you: I am appalled.
Appalled.
The way you endlessly detail every nuance of his movements, every stretch of muscle, moving from front to back in quick succession... [rewinds] well it is just sick. I mean the way you go from a full body shot to a close up of his chest and then linger a bit...[rewinds] it is just so...hypnotic...no! Not hypnotic, degrading! Yes, degrading...[rewinds] and the way you end that sequence with him holding the sword and the intense concentration and that leetle droplet of sweat that I'm gonna get...Wait! No. I am not gonna get it, because that would be wrong. Poor Duncan can't even do an intense, shirtless kata without you treating him like a piece of meat! He has a mind, you know. Duncan is a person, not just a hunky bit o'manflesh. Well, okay - Duncan is not a person, he is a fictional character, but he is played by Adrian Paul and I am fairly certain that Adrian Paul is a person and not a robot. [checks DVD box] Okay - nowhere on my season one DVDs does it implicitly state that Adrian Paul is not a robot, so the jury is still out on that. However, if he is a man and not a machine, treating him as such an object of lust is wrong. I am certain that Mr. Paul did not ask to be held in such a light. He has no idea of the perverseness of our fannish mentalities and that any time he appears naked on the screen our jaws drop. Why, I bet he would be shocked - shocked and appalled - at such a reaction. I know I am.
What kind of world is it when a buff Immortal can no longer perform half-naked katas without slipping on the drool of a gazillion depraved women? Not a world that I want any part of. Because it is wrong!
Now, I have not figured out exactly what we can and cannot do to occupy our time in pure and wholesome non-exploitative ways. There is always the food-slash, which can be kinda compelling, but I fear I've gained 5 pounds already. Also - if we can determine exactly which male celebrities are in fact man-droids, I think that we can then slash them at will, because, y'know - robots, not people.
I am also going to learn to play the guitar.
Perhaps retile the kitchen floor.
Watch a lot of Home and Garden TV.
Eat Pizza.
From here on out, I will no longer shamelessly exploit images of naked, half-naked, and sometimes fully-clothed men for my own depraved amusement. As a human and a member of Planet Earth, I am deeply ashamed. I apologize. I was sick, sick, sick.
Lo, though I know the error of my ways, there are still people out there whom I call friends that are still on this path of evil and darkness.
Lum, I'm looking at you. Tsk, tsk, tsk... how could you?
Your "Ability to Swing" vid is just...well words fail me to accurately describe this overt den of sin. In order to make this post I have had to watch the opening sequence over, and over and over and over again and let me tell you: I am appalled.
Appalled.
The way you endlessly detail every nuance of his movements, every stretch of muscle, moving from front to back in quick succession... [rewinds] well it is just sick. I mean the way you go from a full body shot to a close up of his chest and then linger a bit...[rewinds] it is just so...hypnotic...no! Not hypnotic, degrading! Yes, degrading...[rewinds] and the way you end that sequence with him holding the sword and the intense concentration and that leetle droplet of sweat that I'm gonna get...Wait! No. I am not gonna get it, because that would be wrong. Poor Duncan can't even do an intense, shirtless kata without you treating him like a piece of meat! He has a mind, you know. Duncan is a person, not just a hunky bit o'manflesh. Well, okay - Duncan is not a person, he is a fictional character, but he is played by Adrian Paul and I am fairly certain that Adrian Paul is a person and not a robot. [checks DVD box] Okay - nowhere on my season one DVDs does it implicitly state that Adrian Paul is not a robot, so the jury is still out on that. However, if he is a man and not a machine, treating him as such an object of lust is wrong. I am certain that Mr. Paul did not ask to be held in such a light. He has no idea of the perverseness of our fannish mentalities and that any time he appears naked on the screen our jaws drop. Why, I bet he would be shocked - shocked and appalled - at such a reaction. I know I am.
What kind of world is it when a buff Immortal can no longer perform half-naked katas without slipping on the drool of a gazillion depraved women? Not a world that I want any part of. Because it is wrong!
Now, I have not figured out exactly what we can and cannot do to occupy our time in pure and wholesome non-exploitative ways. There is always the food-slash, which can be kinda compelling, but I fear I've gained 5 pounds already. Also - if we can determine exactly which male celebrities are in fact man-droids, I think that we can then slash them at will, because, y'know - robots, not people.
I am also going to learn to play the guitar.
Perhaps retile the kitchen floor.
Watch a lot of Home and Garden TV.
Eat Pizza.
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Date: 2003-08-20 09:38 am (UTC)See? (http://home.1asphost.com/sihaya2001/infocus/nobleandadrian.jpg)
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Date: 2003-08-20 09:47 am (UTC)[goes to eat another jelly doughnut]
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Date: 2003-08-20 09:40 am (UTC)Pervert.
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Date: 2003-08-20 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-20 10:30 am (UTC)Oh, we've all had that shit planned out for months. DB's birthday will be SUPER!MEGA!KERFUFFLE!DAY, and instead of trying to be nice and avoid arguements, we will all picks fights incessantly, steal each others bandwidth, hack into & deface each others LJs, and beat each other over the head with pointy sticks.
Um... who's "DB"?
::blinks innocently::
::cackles maniacally::
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Date: 2003-08-20 10:54 am (UTC)Wait - was that exploitative of me? I don't know DB - how can I make a value judgement on his behalf?
Damn, now there must be much wailing and rending of fabric.
Shit - maybe by making NKD on JM's B-day we are exploiting him?
NOOOOOOoooooooooo
Do Not Exploit The James Marstersssssss!!!!
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Date: 2003-08-20 10:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-20 10:58 am (UTC)http://kamil.slashcity.com/eyecandy/
Poor Duncan. He is like a little exploited kitten. Please save him from Lum. I fear she isn't even gentle.
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Date: 2003-08-20 11:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-20 10:58 am (UTC)Maybe instead we can write a Plea to Adrian Paul?
Date: 2003-08-20 11:26 am (UTC)I'm SURE he would appreciate the artistry with which his movements, his image, his body is put to song- based simply on the artistry of the vid- I'm sure he would approve.
Of course, it would be best if my name weren't on the appeal, there are still certain legalities prohibiting my writing him- but I'm sure he would give his approval- & then we can all watch ~Ability to Swing~ with a guilt free conscience.
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Date: 2003-08-20 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-20 11:51 am (UTC)I mean--
What an attractive, intelligent actor that plays a character I have no interest in defiling in any number of ways with various food items, and I certainly have no interest in watching him engage in sexual acts with any males real or imagined, such as Spike or Angel, for instance, or females even though I've practically watched him have sex with Alexandra Vandernoot on any number of occasions. Nope, all purity and sweetness and light, here.
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Date: 2003-08-20 12:58 pm (UTC)*runs off to watch vid for purely educational reasons*
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Date: 2003-08-20 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-20 07:58 pm (UTC)