the Your Kink Is Not My Kink But That's Ok fandom days are over, aren't they?

there doesn't seem to be much 13 resons why content on tumblr.

wondering if it's reaching its twilight as a platform or if 13 reasons why is one of those shows more popular with non-fandom inclined teenagers.

i devoured the secret history and all i wanna do now is talk about how it ain't shit.

i have never in my entire life hated the protagonist of an anime, his LI and their fandom as much as i hate katsuki, victor and the yoi fandom.

it's A LOT of hate for something that is nothing but an enormous BL cornball, but uuuugh, the ubiquitousness.

yuri on ice can't end soon enough.

i'm way too old to have so much hate in my heart for an anime (and its colorful fandom). but here we are.

eta: i might delete this post in the future. it's embarrassing that this thing got me so riled up. i want to put this experience behind me and forget all about it asap. a 2016 glitch.

some time in the next 10 or 15 yrs more attn will be paid by western media to russia's far eastern federal district, right?

bc that's a hell of an interesting place that's prob going to become "historically relevant" soon-ish.

(how many ethinically chinese ppl even live there right now? like, where can i find stats that are not from the last decade and heavily altered by the russian gov?)

The most tragic irony of the new geopolitical landscape is that the U.S. and Russia appear headed towards the same position on Assad where they were three years and more than 150,000 lost lives ago—and before the real rise of ISIL—when that communique was signed in Geneva and opened the door to peace negotiations that never took off. “We could have done this a long time ago,” says Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma who is sometimes consulted by the administration.
Three years ago, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was a special UN envoy to Syria who managed to get both Lavrov and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to sign the communique, which called for a political “transition” in Syria. Afterward, Annan flew to Moscow and gained what he believed to be Putin’s consent to begin to quietly push Assad out. But suddenly both the U.S. and Britain issued public calls for Assad’s ouster; Annan felt blindsided. Immediately afterward, against his advice, then-UN Ambassador (now national security advisor) Susan Rice offered up a “Chapter 7” resolution opening the door to force against Assad, an effort that Annan felt was premature. Annan resigned from his post a month later, privately blaming the Obama administration for succumbing to fears of political attacks from Mitt Romney and other Republicans during the 2012 presidential season. “He quit in frustration,” explains one former close Annan aide. “I think it was clear that the White House was very worried about seeming to do a deal with the Russians and being soft on Putin during the campaign.”

Landis had advised—long before such views became conventional wisdom—that Assad had greater staying power than U.S. officials were saying back in 2012. But, he says, “the price was too high a long time ago, because Syria was not important. The French, the British, the Americans—everybody was a coward. They hung the Syrian people out to dry because it was too expensive domestically to make a deal with Assad.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/obama-putin-syria-alliance-russian-intervention-213205#ixzz3nELYq458

thanks, politico. i've stopped reading articles whenever they start going on a tangent about how unpredictable russia's foreign police tends to be.

the kremlin is easier to understand than the west. the kremlin doesn't change its mind as often.

doctor who season 9:

* i still don't actually care about what's going on in any given episode.
* i'm still besotted with jenna coleman, peter capaldi and the colepaldi dynamic. michelle gomez is a gift, i want her in every episode.
* i still get a mega unpleasant vibe from old-time whovians & moffat fanboys/girls in general, way more than i get from the man himself, it's fucking bizarre.
* i've decided to just focus on the actors, the actual reason i'm watching anyway. they're all great, it's easy, i'd watch the three of them doing sudoku for 45 minutes.

(i've finally watched melody pond episodes and the final veredict is that i don't give a crap about melody pond. skippable x-mas special unless michelle is there. i can't resist michelle.)

i want an animated, ghiblified version of the movie scarlet's witch, with a better constructed magic background, more witchcraft, feel good moments & a sophisticated ending.