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[basildestiny]

So some jernalz wer baleeted cuz they had bad words in their interests. Oops, some of them were support groups. Oops, some of them were kiddingz. Oops, some of them were fandom related. So then oops someone made a really crazy post on a news website and then the LJ fandom reacted. Then were was some exodus to other jernall sites. Really, I don't care that much. Guess I'm like that. Meh. ._.

but I have an ingrown toenail and it hurts like an angry rottweiler. Don't you love feeling your pulse in your toe? Yeah. Me too2.

But I am now an epik durid. I can fly uborz fast. Yeah, we took out Anzu the Raven God in Heroic Sethekk Halls and now I have uber flight form aka Class Destroyer! w00t. We got the guild leader to help us. I've always joked with him that he doesn't like me. Cuz he's a warrior and I'm a drood. Also when I first joined the guild, he was in an instance so he invited me, but didn't promote me to member. The initiate rank doesn't allow you to talk in guild. And he didn't promote me, an officer did. So I joked that he didn't like me. He's a nice guy though. I really do like him.

I'm eating some KFC tomorrow. Mmmmm for fulfilling cravings before back onto the diet.
~Jay

ETA So here's the official LJ word cuz some people don't have ljnews friended. People such as myself before the infamous... Deletegate as it has lamely beeen referred.

Previous to this incident, I simply got all of my LJ news from the Flist, usually from the ol' Artist Formerly Known as Halogirl8, but whose name was changed to protect the innocent. Well actually because she got tired of the ol' video game references and likes Johy Mayer muchly.

I'm going astray with my ETA here! N E way! Here's the short version of what went down, which I found while perusing her flist for answers. Seriously I think she has at least half of LJ friended. ;D It does use naughty language which I do not I do support so do not baleete my jernal plz, kthxbai http://www.metafilter.com/61636/livejournal-suspends-hundreds-of-accounts#1712054

Comments

[froggymcgee.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how fast being religious will take away your ability to care about being censored and having your freedom of speech and action taken away.

I know you're gonna be offended by this post, but I can't help it. I hate the direction you're going in, and I miss my old Bas.

[coachvee.livejournal.com]

Nice one with the epic form, Kim really is enjoying druid, he's trying to level his from around 52 I think. I borrowed it while he was away and its pretty fun/fast to grind with! o.o
Meanwhile I can't flippin decide what class to try and take to 70! I'm thinking I want to try shaman out. But I am always a little weird with hybrids, I like to actually focus on one main thing (dps/tank/whatever...) so my rogue is highest on the new server but I like mage too, but I don't knowwww! XD bleh.

[tilmitt.livejournal.com]

I totally missed the whole LJ delete thing. They mistook some Harry Potter communities for places that encourage... Pedophilia? xD I wonder if I can write protected entries about sex in my journal anymore without them reading it and banning me.

Yay for epic flight form! I'm farming rep for my flying squid thing... I love the idea of daily quests! You can get recent rep without actually having to do any mindless grinding at all.

[basildestiny]

Why would I be offended? You didn't mean it to be offensive. Besides, I knew that was the response I would get. Typing out the first sentence, I imagined how my bff from public school would have reacted. And she'd have said it was because I'm different. And I'm not open anymore. And because whatever else.

But it's just not true. I've never once said to you "Froggy, you aren't a boy so stop trying to be one." Or that "God loves you so you should go back to your family because they know what is right." I've tried, poorly I admit, convulutedly yes, to explain how I feel and how I grew up and how I've changed.

Freedom of speech is fine. But so far, what I've read of the situation is that LJ banned journals that had pedophilia and child rape as interests. It was reactionary (their words) and ill planned. And they deleted support groups. But I'm not sure how freedom of speech applies. I'm not really supportive of people having the freedom to talk about raping children because they think it's cool. So I'm not sad to see those journals deleted. And yeah, it sucks that LJ handled the situation the way they did. But I know that they will fix it.

I'm not religious. Maybe I come across that way in some of my entries. It can't be helped. Just as you come across as angry and hurtful in some of yours. And it's not how you mean to be. Unless you say as much in your entry. I've read those ones too. I think religions are destructive. I believe I even said as much in my last comment to you. That I grew up religious and it made me silly. I thought I had to be perfect. I was just trying to follow the rules of the religion. Trying to do everything perfectly so that I could be the perfect little zealot who believed everything I was told and obeyed without question.

But then I found out the truth. And the truth says to question the truth. Put it to the test. Then, if it survives the test, it is the truth. So when I read that LJ deleted some communities, I try to find out what happened.

My ability to care about being censored and having my freedom of speech and action had nothing to do with it really. Firstly, I had more important things to do today than try to figure out what was going on with the community I use to post my online diary entries. Secondly, when I log back on later, much much later, I read that it was all a bit of a misunderstanding and poorly planned resolutions. And that all entries of the deleted communities are still archived and will be restored. So this leads me to say "Hmmm, I don't suppose I care too much about what happened." I'll give it a few days. See what happens. Maybe it will be worth taking action later. I doubt I will post any banners or other such in my journal though. Mostly because I don't post much anyway and I'm more likely to just stop posting altogether than to use the site again.

[basildestiny]

As for the direction I'm going in, I'm sorry you hate it. I'm sorry you miss the old Bas. I miss the old Froggy. I hate the direction you're going in. Not for the reasons, you might think though. I hate the direction you're going in because I hate that you're going in any direction that causes you pain. I wish there was a direction you could go in that helps you sort things out. I wish I could talk to you and not have you feel like I'm just trying to change you. Or that I don't care about you. I wish I could be the old Bas and say what I feel and not have you say that I'm just being religious and conservative. But I don't say them because it doesn't matter. That's how I will be taken. And there's just so much to say that any time I attempt to comment, it comes out all wrong. And I know it comes out all wrong. And I hope as I leave the comment that you'll be the old Froggy and just blurt out what you're thinking and help me to explain myself more clearly. But I know it won't happen. And I know it won't happen because that's what happened with all of my friends who labeled themselves liberal in one way or another. And I know because I can still think like a liberal and I wouldn't bother with someone like me. So I don't post in my LJ. Or I make cryptic and sporadic posts. Or I make horribly confusing comments.

But there is always hope. Mulder finally did find Scully again. And it turns out that they hadn't changed as much as they thought they had. That the things they had thought were important and life changing were actually the smaller things in life. Love is all you need. Which is all just a metaphor. I am Mulder and my childhood best friend is Scully. And I still just want to believe and she's still the skeptic. And the only thing that has changed between us is the calendar.

And so I think that we will at some point, sit down and email each other. Long thought out, thoroughly explanatory emails. Cuz you don't share the kind of love we shared for each other, you don't love someone like a sister (or sister-brother) and then just turn it off.

I know you care. And so I am not offended by this post. And some day soon, we'll have that email. Cuz you're not that different from my old Froggy and I'm not that different from your old Bas. We've just let time fool our eyes.

[basildestiny]

3 comment responses cuz I wrote 5600 characters in a space reserved for 4300.

[basildestiny]

I'll need to update this icon, right? heh

Good for Kim! Druid is such a pain in the neck. Especially if you're like me and you spec all wrong cuz you want to heal. But at least it can be viable. Now I'm a feral tank. We have a 5 man group of friends, including a priest, a mage, a warlock and an extra druid. The other druid isn't always around though so I got nominated to be the group tank. It's actually growing on me. I have really decent gear and I've OT'd a bunch for Karazhan. So much so that I think I might be a little put off if I had to go into Kara and DPS only. haha

My husband cannot stand his shaman. But he was trying to heal with it. He loves it for farming though! So it's all a matter of what you plan to do.

I think I like priest the best, but then I haven't played mine in a while. It's hard to chose! And then I get addicted to the leveling parts.

[basildestiny]

Hehe I don't think they are going to ban you for writing protected entries about sex. According to the LJ official statement that I read, they can tell the difference between the evile ones and the benign ones. They said they screwed up by having a deadline and under trained folks doing the baleeting. But that they baleeted 500 out of how ever bazillion journals that exist. We'll see what happens. I missed most of the hooplah myself. I logged in earlier and read a friend's cryptic post about some kind of LJ drama, log out, and come back 12 hours later to try to work out what happened. Craziness!

My mage friend already has his netherwing dragon. I'm jealous, but I haven't been doing the daily quests. I've been watching TV and writing fanfic and I count that as a valid use of my time. So I can't QQ too much about not having the uber kool dragonz! Take some screenshots when you get a squid. Maybe you'll motivate me to get started on those daily quests.

[bloominglotus.livejournal.com]

The main LJ page now has a note that clarifies both sides of the issue. Maybe that will calm things down a bit.

As far as I am concerned - I could care less if a community like childlove goes away. Buuuuuhbye, and good riddance to bad rubbish. What caused me concern is the mistake that they now admit that they made, which is jumping the gun and deleting journals and communities that didn't fit the profile because they didn't research them or ask for clarification. I would like to think that 6A has learned a hard lesson about being more careful in the future, but I can understand why some are a bit aggro over it.




I don't know if I told you this yet, but I do have a Horde character now. She's a level 19 blood elf paladin. Both of my characters are paladins. I think I might be a little partial! Anyway, it's weird seeing the Horde seal and running toward it instead of away, but I'm having fun with it.

[froggymcgee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your response. I read it all through...what email are you using right now? I don't have it saved in my Gmail account and my Hotmail one got wiped. I'd rather respond in emails, if that's okay with you? I would've screened the original comment if I'd had the ability to.

I didn't know you thought a lot of the things you said in your response, and I wouldn't mind talking and explaining where I'm coming from a bit more...eloquently. And perhaps when it's not 6:30 am and I haven't slept yet. Heh.

[basildestiny]

heh understandable! I have a tendency to post when I just wake up which is just about as bad as getting no sleep. I'm still on robbinsjay at aol dot com.

[basildestiny]

The hullabaloo made 6A and MetaFilter give a response so maybe it wasn't all that bad. Maybe it was one of those things where I was glad I didn't have to pretend to have a life? I don't know. But I was glad to have missed most of the commotion and glad there was an official response by the time I had time to bother with the thing. And thus, glad I didn't have to care about it. And definitely good riddance to bad rubbish. No tears from me over that nastiness.

Haha! Yeah, I started out as an orc hunter. I didn't like the character so I went with Paladin. That's the class I usually play. And so I was a human pally. Played her to 60 back before the expansion. Then we decided to go Horde so I had to pick a different class and thus drood! I really like Belfs. I have a hunter and a priest belf. 40 hunter, and the priest is an alt I'll level with a group of my friends as a group. We were on an RP-PVP server and just moved back to RP. It's weird seeing a human and not having to run away. But hey, welcome to the dark side! ;D

[froggymcgee.livejournal.com]

Thank ya. I'll email you soon.