Seconded. I respect peoples' rights to bash mercilessly on a show that they don't like the direction of, as long as it's done in a padded room where I don't have to listen.

Heh - if you look now, now that both DW and LJ have stopped trying to eat my frakkin' coding, you'll see that I'm talking about fandomsecrets. The problem is, there's a lot of fun stuff going on there. It's my own lack of discipline. I can't resist checking the posts after the lead post has made it absolutely clear that the conversation is going to be about Who and/or Moffat. I know what they're going to say (it's depressingly predictable.) There are some reasonable arguments, and tons more unreasonable crap. And even the reasonable arguments start grating on me when I read them over and over and over without reasonable conversation being initiated in response. And I suppose I could be the person to initiate the response ... but not in that arena. Dogpiling is an ugly thing.

I also have to avoid things that talk about Rose, too, because of the mindless lovers and the even more horrible mindless haters going at each other, hammer and tongs. I have a wonderful wallpaper I got from someone that shows River and Rose embracing rather ... intimately ... with a title that says "Fuck Ship Wars". I occasionally put it up.

The sad part is that so many of the secrets are wonderful, and a lot of the people on that comm are pretty enjoyable to read. I keep telling myself not to get upset.

Yeah, that works really well.

And I know the feeling of seeing something that's incredibly important to my mental health being dismissed. It sucks. Especially when DW - in all its forms - is so life-affirming, so full of wonder, so rich with the love of people like you and me.

train wreck level sense of curiosity

Oh, I like that! That's good, that is!

Not having it; I mean I like that phraseology. Heh.

THIS.

A good reason why I had to drop the comm myself. Had to get away for my health. Constant jolts to the nervous system that waffles between happy and rage just doesn't do me any good. And I can't help myself, unfortunately. Stupid knee-jerk OCD...

*HUGS YOU*

Isn't it, though? Feel free to take it and credit iconomicon, which is where I got it.

Oh my goodness, it is Colleen Moore! In my head (and I think in my BB's head, he who gave me several GIFs of her) I think I'd conflated her with Louise Brooks. They look a great deal alike, but now that I think of it, I don't think Brooks did many light-hearted comedies.

And I think you have the best attitude about this silliness. I really need to laugh at them more, and mean it.

Brooks was an amazingly intelligent, gifted, unorthodox woman by all accounts (my BB has read a couple of biographies of her); I think she did short-circuit her film career, but she probably would have said (at least in some moods, she would have) that it was precisely what she wanted to do.