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!

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you had to suffer such an idiot running into you. The least negative thing I can say about it is `Well, it keeps them from the street'.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

P.S. The yoga sounds like a brilliant idea! I hope it helps with your back. I find body work of that sort often does wonders for my general energy level and mood - may it be so for you, as well!

[makamu]

I just don't get people like this guy. Because I seem to remember and am fairly sure you do say in the first chapter of your slash-contaning fics that this is slash. I just can have very little sympathy for people who don't read warnings when they are clearly in place and then complain about the "trauma" they got from reading them...

As for the general ideas behind homophobia: So, homosexuality is a sign for a satanic/damned world? Sorry, but as it happens there are cases of homosexual relationships in the Catholic Church during the early and high Middle Ages and there are societies on this earth for whom relationships with either sex are "normal" in their society.

Unfortunately, believing in freedom of speech and pluralism of ideas as I do, means I actually think it's good that the guy has an opinion and he is free to voice it. I just reserve the right to empathatically disagree :)

Glad to hear the yoga is working for you and maybe it can help you relax a little *crosses fingers*

[jilba.livejournal.com]

I guess....it's better on a computer screen then this person is off annoying people on the streets...at least you can ignore it unlike the whistling noises in your ears. Apparentely, William Shatner didn't know he had the same thing until he went camping and in the silence he could finally hear the weird noises!!

Congrats on the yoga, this is why I bellydance, for the stretching and twisting. You feel so good afterwards, but please, watch your back!