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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12647 posts

On Stubenville, the news, and victim blaming

We all know what the news did. What we might have missed is WHY they did it.

Ratings.

Angry people gets more people in. It’s free advertising. They all victim blame because that gets them more viewers to who are watching to see what stupid thing they do next.

Therefore, the only way to make them stop is to drop their ratings.

I propose to you: #NoNewsFriday

Deliberately turn off, or tune in to a better channel [cartoon network, discovery, etc] when the news comes on. Every Friday. Blog, tweet and otherwise spread the word that, until the news agencies stop behaving like asshats, you’re not watching the fuckers.

This can, of course, be extended throughout the week. The more asshattery, the more days you’re not watching the asshats.

Just as long as it gets around.

When their ratings drop, they’ll find out why you’re participating in #NoNewsFriday.

Edit: If there is a fair and balanced news source, announce that you’re watching/listening to them and why, just tag it #NoNewsFriday :)

OMG stop me, I'm nightblogging!

Feel free to step on me, but I keep wondering…

…is Airman Higgs actually Bill Heterodyne in disguise?

Think about it:

  • He knows a lot about Mechanicsburg

  • He acts like he knows the Castle

  • He’s stated he’s “undercover”

  • He knows ALL about Mama Gkika’s

  • He can deal with just about anything and bounce back

  • He’s completely unflappable

You’d think that Bill Heterodyne would have seen a lot of

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Challenge #00076: One Fine Day in Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

Scott catches one of the students testing his new policy regarding pranks and bad grades.

The first strategy, the best strategy, was not having a routine. He was such an easy target because there were places and times he liked to be and things he always did once he was there.

Which was why he found someone in his ensuite with a roll of suran wrap.

“Bobby. Can’t resist the classics, I see.”

“Um.” Bobby looked

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Fanfic Time: X-Wars, part 6

continued from yesterday:

  Warren was a very rare person. Aside from being rich, handsome, and having two wings on his back, he had the strange and slightly sick predilection of actually liking getting up early. He knew that the early bird got the worm. He liked to set his alarm just before sunrise, so he could wake up and stand on his balcony, listening to the bird song in the fresh, dawn air. (Or, perhaps, the birds coughing rhythmically [1] in the

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Fanfic Time: X-Wars, part 5

Continued from yesterday:

  Alex groaned, holding a hand to his head. He heard scuffling nearby, then a cool hand rested against his cheek, gently pressing him back down.

  “Shhh, don’t try to get up. You took quite a nasty bump to the noggin, Mr Gung-ho.”

  “Someone get me the license plate of that truck,” he replied blearily, forcing his eyelids open, and then shutting them again at the brilliance they encountered. “What happened? Jean?”

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Challenge #00075: Lactose tolerance

Olive branch diplomacy between Scott and Todd while snacking on ice cream. Jamie makes an appearance.

Todd froze as he turned away from the ice cream van. Mister military was also there. Also getting a flake cone.

“Summers,” he managed warily.

“I… uh… heard you were -um- in a bad place.”

“So?”

“I had a real bad foster parent right before I manifested. Damn rat bastard named Winters.”

“Mine was an

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Fanfic Time: X-Wars, part 4

Continued from yesterday:

  Jean crouched behind Piotr as salvo after salvo was spat out at him. They hit his metallic body with deafening clangs, and he grunted.

  Storm managed to save her butt by creating a miniature whirlwind of mighty power which spun around her and deflected all bullets.

  The others took a more straightforward approach.

  Gambit, with almost superhuman speed leaped, ducked, and dived from the bullets. He landed in the thick of the terrorists, where he brought his Bo Staff

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Whoa! Sorry, it usually doesn't do that...

Amusing/embarassing “misfires” of mutant powers in casual (or perhaps intimate?) moments.  Choices (pick any 3): Kurt, Kitty, Jean, Spike, Bobby.

(#00074)

Spyke.

“WAAAAAH-CHOOOOOO!”

{thunkthunkthunkthunkthunkthunkthunk…}

“Porcupine…”

Evan turned to look. “Oh. Whoops. Um. Sorry?”

Logan sighed, covered from the waist up in sharp protrusions of bone. “Keep outta public zones in future. Not everyone can survive this.”

Nightcrawler.

“So… you have an internal compass.”

“Ja.”

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Fanfic Time: X-Wars, part 3

Continued from yesterday:

  ‘Are you out of your frikkin’ mind?’

  The expletive, coming out of the mouth of a six armed sorceress, would be perceived by many as somewhat unusual, especially when it was directed at a demonic-looking individual.

  Nightcrawler (as he was known, there were few people who knew his first name, and almost none who knew his second) merely smiled his trademark sardonic smile.

  'Mein liebling,’ he drawled, 'please don’t accuse me of that,

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Challenge #00073: Ch-ch-ch-changes...

End with: “The effort to change was, she found, equal or greater than the amount needed to suffer.”

“Will you waaaaaaalk… The lonesome vaaaaa-lleeeeeyy…” The protesters sang.

Val shouted, “Mu-tants OUT!” over and over while she waved her sign that read, “EVIL-UTION IS THE DEVIL!”

She, along with her fellow members of the church, were protesting a mutant treatment center. It didn’t matter to Val that they were helping kids

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I freaking called it: LIVE!

I freaking called it: LIVE!

I have mentioned in my stories a product I named Nutri Food™. This was/is a brand name for a chemically derived food product that had not even seen a crop.

Now I find out there’s a person who’s (a) created something astonishingly like it and (b) volunteered his own body to test the dang stuff.

He’s blogging about it, too. Though I don’t think he can get

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Fanfic Time: X-Wars, part 2

Which is actually the teal first part of the actual fiction. Heh.

::Chapter:_:Two: Premiere Episode (part 1)

  She was running for her life. Something people who weren’t born in New York did. People who were born in New York packed heat, or at least a taser. This woman didn’t have any of those. She just had fast feet.

  Something in the darkness above was following her, leaping from building to building like something out of a horror

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Unpublished fanficcy list part 2

More of the same!

Title - Universe

Be-Longing - DS9
Beastly Passions - DS9
Changeling’s Cradle - DS9
The Clay Caper - DS9
Emotional Crisis - DS9 crackfic
Elf (Cheap) Shot - DS9 sillyfic/parody
Fever - DS9
In The Dark of the Night - DS9 darkfic
If You’ll be True To Me - DS9
Lessons Learnt - DS9
Love and War - DS9
Love Sickness - DS9
No Child Born of Woman - DS9
The Obligatory Sappy

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Unpublished fanficcy list

As I mentioned earlier, I have over 100 fanfics squirrelled around the place.

This is all the titles of the ones that have not seen Tumblr yet, and their universes.

Mother - XME
A Singular Day - XME
And Thou Beside Me - XME
Bayville By Gaslight - XME
Blue Love - XME
Blessing-Curse - XME
Little Blob Lost - DS9
Blue Summers - XME
Broken Minds - X-Men Comicverse
Could Have Been - DS9
We Need a Dang Title (The Dragon

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Challenge #00072: Dingy, Dire, Depressing

Describe the first AA meeting Sara’s mother goes to.

[my wrists hate me :P]

It was in a basement that smelled heavily of dust. And mildew. Like all truly public spaces, it was painted in a shade of easily-cleanable cream that gained a patina in seconds, and quickly smelled of cabbage. Seating was by means of folding chairs in Bargain Blue that had no basis in comfort.

Older hats, Jacqui noted, bought their own pillows.

She sat on her chosen

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