Proposition Eight/Yuletide

[heidi]

Dear Yuletide Team: Thank you so much for the amazing prompt that was assigned to me today! I am so excited to write for at least two of the prompts, so yay!

Dear Yuletide Writer: Meep, I have no idea what to tell you! But I know that whatever you create, I will love it, because I pretty much love everything in the fandoms I chose!

My completely disorganized tags should give some hints as to what I like to read, and what makes me especially squee-tastic about the fandoms I've chosen. I wish I had more time to write something up tonight, but I have a ridiculously busy tomorrow and may not manage to write a comprehensive letter before the weekend. In brief, though, I like happy endings - or at least endings where there's a possibility for happiness, and I don't enjoy deathfics or graphic violence. If you end up choosing The Eight, I have to admit that I prefer Catherine/Nim to Catherine/Solarin, but I'd probably be fascinated by any mash-up of any of the characters; I have, btw, read The Fire, and I liked it, but you don't have to incorporate it at all. And I check Adrian Pasdar's YouTube account regularly. In each of the fandoms, I'm just as happy with gen as I am with romance, and I'm as happy with a PG-13 rated fic as I would be with something rated R or NC-17.
9:31 PM me: I also just requested Cat/Nim fic for yuletide.
ouiwes: I saw that and we are of like minds there. I remember throwing the book across the room when Cat hooked up with Solarin.
Why exactly I cannot recall. But Nim seemed cooler.
me: It's not that he's a bad guy!
9:32 PM It's just utterly POINTLESS.
Because NIM was already so fucking cool.
ouiwes: (nods) The author is plainly infatuated with mysterious and super-successful Russian chessplayers and problem-solvers.
me: Of course, now I want them to find their Random and Heretofore Unknown Third Brother Who Is A Brain-Eating Serial Killer.
9:33 PM ouiwes: Oh, but that's such a cliche.
9:34 PM me: But it would make The Fire so much more interesting!
9:37 PMouiwes: Also, I can't believe I forgot Arcturus Winchester, the Random and Heretofore Unknown Third Brother Who Is A Brain-Eating Serial Killer (mother was a Black, hence the first name).

The thing that's frustrating me right now is that there still seems to be no organization between the forces behind Overturn Amendment Two in Florida and the Overturn Prop Eight in California. Ads can't be that different in the two states, and educational/informational materials shouldn't need a full rewrite to be used in both states - so why aren't they working together? Some of my friends in my neighborhood were so busy working on the Obama campaign that they didn't spend much time far in advance of the election reading up on the proposed amendments, and didn't even know about Amendment Two until they saw the sign in front of my house - and they voted against it because of the sign in front of my house. I know the locals thought it would never hit 60%, in large part because the polls all showed it coming in at 54-57%, so they spent almost no money on ads or information. How hard would it have been to situate *one* person at each early polling location in Miami, Broward and Palm Beach - okay, and Orlando, Tampa and Gainesville, too - with flyers saying Vote No On Two? It might've made a difference to 60 or 70 thousand people, and that's all we needed to turn the vote the other way.

Along those lines, I am rather proud of being Jewish right now - Jews in LA voted strongly against Prop 8 according to Loyola's exit poll - 78% voted in support of gay marriage, and 8 per cent voted against it (the balance declined to answer). That's the highest percentage of any religious group in the poll (although I can't tell if they separated out various Christian denominations because I wouldn't be surprised if the UU church was close to 78% if not higher). Still, cool amid the non-coolness of it all.



He looks so good in jeans.

Comments

[jocelyncs.livejournal.com]

I saw Keith's special comment on Prop 8 last night. Had me teary-eyed. (And forming carnal designs on him, as usual.)

[madam-minnie.livejournal.com]

I was saying today that I can't believe we're not doing more to overturn Amendment 2 here.

It might've made a difference to 60 or 70 thousand people, and that's all we needed to turn the vote the other way.
I didn't even know much about it or that it was on the ballot until redblaze pointed it out to me. I was so involved in the Presidential election that I left the amendment research for the last minute.

He looks so good in jeans.
Yes, he does! Is it wrong to perv on the Prez cause... um... yeah... ::happy sigh::

[dramawench.livejournal.com]

One of my friends said "We need a Harvey Milk" and I think he's right. There needs to be a strong central force to bring people together on this.

I love Keith Olbermann. He's been saying all the things I've been thinking this entire election.

Awww! Love our president-elect :) MAN, I'm never going to get tired of that!

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

Actually, UU folks don't self-identify exclusively as Christian; in fact, a minority do. There are UU members who identify as Pagan, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Agnostic, Atheist, Animist, Universalist and Unitarian, among other things (the list is LONG). And members of UU churches constitute such a small percentage of the population I'd be surprised if any survey would list them out separately; Southern Baptists and United Methodists are the biggest Protestant denominations and even they don't usually get special mention in surveys that ask people about their religious affiliation, since such things routinely only include the basic Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and maybe one or two Eastern religions (unless Catholic and Protestant just get lumped into "Christian"--and I've never seen any survey that broke out Orthodox Jews, Reform Jews, Reconstructionist Jews and Conservative Jews). Now, if they'd asked who was UCC that could have been interesting. This is the UCC's response to the passage of Prop 8. Go us!

I'm surprised that the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the ACLU haven't all bonded over fighting these horrible amendments; it really is true that the more work is duplicated the less work gets done overall. It's damn frustrating, especially when the Right is fighting the opposition to their fascism tooth and nail. (More to come on my LJ--I have something HORRIBLE to post that came into my office today, mainly because I work in a church and they assume that we're all on their side, sigh.)

And I love Keith O. so hard right now. :)

[ness-va.livejournal.com]

Those are really impressive percentages for a religion with regards to gay rights! Go Jews!