First times

[wiseheart]

Firstly, the good one: I went to Etka Yoga for the first time today. It's not yoga in the traditional sense, rather a series of stretching and twisting exercises, which will probably be good for my bad back. I have no high hopes for the hissing and whistling noises in my ear that I've been having on and off for months by now. All women in our family had them, at least up to three generations. It's stress related, and once it appears, it won't go away again. But one learns to live with it. Etka Yoga is fun, though, so I'll go there again.

Secondly, I got my first rabid homophobe reviewer. Some idiot poured out his/her hatred against homosexuality in general and slash fic in particular on my FF.Net review board, leaving a long rant disguised as a review for "The Equinox Logs". More or less along the line "you write well, why do you write such utter shit and why don't you warn us poor, sensitive souls that there will be perverted stuff".

Idiots tire me so much.

Comments

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Homophobic rants are kind of fun, in a twisted way. The writers are so earnest! They genuinely seem to believe everone else in the world ought to bend over backward to accomodate their prejudices.

The yoga sounds like a good way to release tension. I hope it helps your back!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's kind of "slash upsets me, how do you dare to write such stuff". Or, in the aforementioned review, "why made you a pervert the captain of the Equinox.

The only sad thing is that the rant is actually longer than all my (postitive) reviews for the story counted together. I wish people who like what they read would be equally verbose. I love praise. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

What I forgot to mention: People like this guy remind me of an interview with Hal Sparks, the (very straight) actor who played one of the lead roles in the gay drama series Queer As Folk. He told the reporter that he was often asked (by idiots) whether he had become gay after playing a gay character for x years. He always replied them that being gay isn't the flu, one can't "get it". But he still had the impression that many people think they could get contaminated with it if they don't fight homosexuality with all their might.

Interview here (http://www.sparksfan.com/art_lumino.html)

It's very interesting stuff.