Productivity

I was awesomely productive this weekend. Got my car registered in PA, got my epic new license plate with the best default license plate number ever, mailed out all my packages, bought most of my gifts, wrote like 3000 words, did all my Sif tags...! I'm on the ball.

Sadly, I have to go in to work early on Monday and I'm terrified I'm going to be blamed for this latest mishap and I wish I could just live under a rock for the rest of my life.

So it's time for a meme! Since I never do these anymore.

Pick a character I've written and I will explain the top five [or so] ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.

SEXISM IS OVER, and James Gunn

Oh, and I assume that by now everyone knows about the epic that is The Hawkeye Initiative? Excellent. Good.

Today while fumbling around on Dreamwidth I've seen a few angry posts about James Gunn's thoroughly gross comments about sluts and fags, but I haven't seen anyone who also posted or commented on the apology, in which he says that the post was intended to be satirical and it obviously failed, and he'll do better in the future, because he can't stand that sort of thing.

Now, there's no doubt that it failed. The kind of commentary that he was offering was not satirical, it was just reinforcing. If your commentary leaves good people going "DISGUSTING" and bad people going "YEAH, WHAT HE SAID" instead of [in the majority] good people smug and bad people uncomfortable, your satire-fu is weak, and you have failed.

But I respect the fact that he turned around and said, "Even though I didn't mean it seriously and would never mean it seriously, I completely understand your anger, and I am completely sorry."

I just wanted to put that out there, in case anyone hadn't seen it, and in case it eases any of the justified anger. I know it made me feel better about this guy being in charge of an MCU movie.

(Also, I love that blog, btw.)