Sorry it’s not a story update….
I’m weighing in on the same sex marriage debate…
A friend of mine received this brochure in the mail today, she cried. I got mad.
People say marriage is between a man and a woman… why? for children? I can’t have children without medical intervention – does that mean I shouldn’t be married? Or does that mean I should marry the petri dish my baby will be created in? What about those poor people who desperately want children but can’t have them, are they not allowed to be married?
If you’re not protesting for religious reasons, then you’re protesting because you just don’t like gay couples. You’re a bigot. It’s the same as being a racist, but it covers more things… go ahead… try that on and see how it feels.
And to those protesters that bring Religion into it?
The Bible is a great guide, but God didn’t write it. He was ‘translated’ by the prophets – and we all know that things get lost in translation.
I’m not telling you to discard your faith, I’m not telling you that believing in something is wrong, I’m just telling you to use the brain God gave you and put some common sense into the things you say and do.
God judges us when we die. It’s not your job. Your job is to live your life the best way you can.
People who get married don’t always love each other. People get married for money and security, because they’re lonely, because ‘it’s just time’, for citizenship… if anything is going to ruin the institution of marriage it’s not going to be because two people who love each other just so happen to be the same gender.
You learned and teach your children that it’s wrong to hate people based on the colour of their skin.
You learned and teach your children that it’s wrong to hate people based on their religion.
You learned and teach your children that it’s wrong to hate people because of their physical or mental disabilities.
You learned and teach your children that women and men are just as important as each other.
How is this any different?
There are more important, more worrisome things to concentrate your energy on – abuse, neglect, starvation, homelessness, aged care, disabled care, women’s reproductive rights… the list goes on. Two people who love each other getting married? Sooooo not a problem.
Stopping same sex marriage isn’t going to make children’s lives any better, and spreading this kind of thing around is just going to create another generation of fearful and hateful bigots.
As you can see from the picture – they didn’t proof read, using effect instead of affect… the inside is pure propaganda http://www.stand4marriage.org.au and samesexmarriage.org.au if anyone is interested in reading the bile these ill-informed bigots are spitting out.
If you don’t (and I don’t blame you) I’ll give you a general over view – basically they think that people choose to be gay. That teaching young children that there are other family types other than ‘Mum, Dad and baby” is starting ‘systematic indoctrination’ and ‘early sexualisation’.
They believe that ‘homosexual indoctrination programs’ exist in high schools in the form of LGBT support groups and fundraisers, that educating children about different sexual attractions and choices will desensitise them to sex acts that they consider wrong – oral sex, mutual masturbation and the use of sex toys. They cite that statistics on ‘homosexual’ STDs, health and relational dysfunction are hidden and that school libraries are full of explicit and pornographic materials.
“The Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st Century” was made available to high school students in Massachusetts and caused an uproar, because of the use of colloquial language, pictures of erections (to show proper condom usage) and explanations of different kinds of sex acts including fisting, rimming and urination (as part of explaining how STD’s are transmitted and what the risks are).
This isn’t in my comfort zone at all, and yes it’s explicit – but almost every teen has access to the internet, or knows someone who does so you can sure as hell assume that they know more than you do about sexual variety, but only the basics on sexual safety.
This is the reason the brochure was distributed, they’re protesting same sex marriage because they think children will be more at risk from being more informed. That’s a different issue entirely in my opinion.
I’m not condoning promiscuity or hypersexualisation of teens/tweens and children, in fact I’d love it if Bratz dolls were never invented, that there was no such thing as a baby bikini, that miniskirts and high heels for 5 year olds didn’t exist and that thong underwear wasn’t a choice for girls under 18. Sticking your head in the sand isn’t going to make it go away – but it is going to put people in danger from lack of education.
Stopping same sex marriage isn’t going to turn back the clock, it’s just going to make it that much harder for two people who love each other to be happy.
My mother in law thinks that ‘the gays’ want same sex marriage for the financial benefit… what financial benefit?
My niece probably just wants to know if she can marry her girlfriend and live happily ever after, just like the rest of us.
Hooray for True Blood S04E07!
You got it awesomely right this time HBO people!!
Plenty of Sookie and Eric time and it wasn’t all just sex either – I got all mooshy a couple of times when Eric was being sweet. This is what the last episode SHOULD have been like, although I could have done without the Alcide and Debbie spying on them part.
I just wish it could last, I know Sookie is going to fuck it all up eventually, when Eric gets his memory back… because well… she’s Sookie, but I can enjoy it for now. Alex really is doing a fantastic job this season… and I know it’s a little mean, but Anna needs to work on her sex face – it’s a bit herp derp… although I guess we’re all herp derp during sex, I’m sure I am, not that I’ve ever checked.
I didn’t hate Bill this episode! I was almost surprised about that. I mean, Bill isn’t completely heinous in the books, just a bit of a PITA… whereas, somehow they manage to make him EXTREMELY annoying in TB.There wasn’t an over abundance of useless information in the way of other story-lines this time, they were kept short and uncomplicated, which was really appreciated. It managed to keep Arlene from being annoying and Tara actually cried instead of just doing that lip thing she always does (although it did come up later). The focus of the episode was kept on Eric and Sookie – which is where it’s supposed to be IMO.
Poor Ginger, does she do anything but scream? It cracked me up laughing though, and OMG I hope Pam is back to normal soon… things just aren’t the same without a gorgeous snarky Pam.
So congratulations on a great episode HBO, maybe you should let whoever the writer was on this episode do the job more often, I’m sure you’d get a better response.
XOXO and love this time
Me.
Super Sorry
To My Subscribers,
I was messing around with the set up of everything last night and I may have spammed you when I deleted my posts and then restored them again. If so – I’m sorry.
I think I have everything set up the way I want it now
Once Upon A Screen is all indexed and pretty, and I added previous and next links at the bottom to get to the next post in order. Although there is the option to do this as part of the blog post itself, I may have posted one or two things between one chapter and the next so… all fixed
I’m just about to post a new story – well… new to those of you that didn’t get the compilation put together for flood relief in QLD earlier this year. It’s just a one shot, and I’m not sure if it’s any good – but it’s there 🙂
Hope you’re all well.
Love
S. xoxoxo
A Rant on TrueBlood – By Sarah
A Change Of Scenery and Seastarr rock my metaphorical socks
Sea managed to crawl into mah brain and catch most of what I was thinking, make sense out of it and write it down into her latest blog post.
I understand that TV adaptations and Books do not always match.
I understand that not everyone is an Eric Northman fan (they’re wrong, but I understand it)
I understand that TrueBlood could be classified as fanfiction because other than the characters names, it’s completely different to the books it is so loosely based on.
BUT OH MAH SWEET JESUS IN HEAVEN…*does ugly cry*
It’s like Allan Ball and HBO gathered together all the horrible fanfic writers out there, gave them machetes, dosed them up on meth and said “Have at it.”
Eric Northman is and always will be a FUCKING LEGEND. Even when he has amnesia, Eric Northman… is ERIC FUCKING NORTHMAN… A 1000 yr old, cocky, humorous, loyal, flirtatious, bad ass motherfucking vampire who is sex on toast. Like A Boss. You’re doing him a disservice in almost every way – FIX IT. He wouldn’t ask Bill to look after Sookie when he is finally dead, he would fight like hell to keep himself alive so HE could do it.
Alex is doing a fantastic job, making Amnesia Eric lovable and funny and oh so cute… I wish he was allowed to stretch his acting muscles a little more – he knows Eric Northman pretty damn well, get some input from him would you?
Pam would NEVER EVER betray her maker. Even when she’s rotting (gross btw – whose idea was that?) she would stand between him and a wooden bullet before she would give him up.
Kristen is a fantastic Pam, she has Pam just right. Well done Kristen – you rock. The relationship between Alex and Kristen shows through on the screen, you can see they have fun with each other and really care… awesome casting job, awesome actors… get some more input from Kristen too.
Bill is NOT a decent person/vampire. I don’t care if Allan Ball has a hard on for Bill (which I really don’t understand, has he read past book one?), you can’t make a douche-bag into a hero. If he had Eric at his mercy like he did in S04E06, you can be damn sure he’d finishing that job.
Stephen Moyer is doing a fantastic job with what he has, he’s a great actor and other than the way he says ‘Sookie’ I like him in the role of Bill. I really hate Bill – he’s a slime ball, but Stephen manages to pull something out and make him almost like-able. Well done to Stephen.
Sookie can be all kinds of stupid, but you’ve made her so many kinds of stupid that I’m surprised she hasn’t shot herself in the head because she thought that was how to make a sandwich (don’t ask – it makes sense in my head). She was worried about Eric long enough to fight with Bill and then just put it out of her mind? You realise this is the same girl who in season 3 you had fighting her way through a castle full of werewolves on V and a psycho Lorena to free Bill, who at the time she thought had left her… why didn’t Eric get the same courtesy? The guards Bill has are what? Human? they didn’t seem to be worried about having the night off to run in the full moon. So please – explain that to me.
Anna is doing a great job too, I think she needs to stop standing with her arms out so much, but she’s doing a great job with what she’s been given. Sookie can be very one-dimensional sometimes, regardless of the fact she’s a telepath she tends to be completely naive when it comes to people and I think Anna brings that across really well.
All the other story lines are just filler – why are you devoting so much time to that creepy doll and Arlene, Tara’s sex life, Andy on V, and Tommy in general? Keeping Laffayette alive was great, but I don’t care enough about him to follow him to mexico and see him possessed. Terry Bellefleur is awesome, but I don’t care enough to watch his house get smudged by a cheating pastor and a reformed alcoholic. Alcide is great – nice eye candy, but again… I don’t care enough to see him deal with Debbie… again… PS we know she’s back on V or something cause the whore makeup came back – way to be subtle.
This in no way casts any shadow on the actors playing all these side characters. They’re all doing a fantastic job and they’re great actors.
Some things I can say HBO has done well –
– Casting is awesome. Alex, Kristen, Anna, Stephen, Ryan…stellar performances. Fantastic job Casting Team.
– Set, Make-up and Costume teams? Great work – you’re doing an awesome job with scenery, set design, makeup and wardrobe.
– Music could do better, all the ‘themes’ in TB are just variations – and it gets kinda annoying – still, at least you were original.
I just don’t understand how HBO can make something so completely awesome and SO close to the books as they’ve done for Game of Thrones (AWESOME show btw – watch it… like…yesterday) and stuff up Southern Vampire Mysteries so badly… I just don’t even… there aren’t words.
This rant was set off by reading Sea’s blog post on the same topic, disappointment that after all this time, after all the waiting and Bill-ness that we had to get through – Eric and Sookie are FINALLY at the point where they can start their relationship and the writers FUCKED IT UP!!
There were so many things that were disappointing about the love scene – let alone the part where they cut to Emo!Bill on the porch kicking his own ass – I just don’t understand how you can take the material created by Charlaine Harris and FUCK IT UP BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION!!
I’m so supremely pissed that they’ve wasted all this time on everything BUT what SHOULD BE the main story line of this season… This season is where Eric and Sookie are supposed to take off… and instead they’ve stalled on the runway before taking off with one engine.
Please HBO… get new writers and rein in Allan Ball’s flights of fancy – they’re not fancy, they’re just sad.
end rant
Yes – I’m still alive.
Hi peeps,
I’m still alive, sleepy, but alive. I’ve finally landed a job – I’m working in the library for a local university. It’s a lot more fun than I thought it would be, the people are really nice and there’s an onsite gym, so there are a lot of pretty boys to look at too.
Chapter 33 is still in the works. A friend on twitter has kicked my chair to wake me up and I’m working on it again – I’m really sorry I got sidetracked – I hope you’ll forgive me and keep reading when I eventually get it posted. I couldn’t resist having Pam give KBos a talking to for dressing like she does… I don’t know if it’s apparent by the words I’ve used, but when you get to that part – that’s who i’m talking about.
Awfully sorry…
I’m having trouble with my muses at the moment, they’re being snobby bitches and I can’t get a word out of them. I’ve been working on OUaS chap 33 for a while, but it’s nowhere near publishable yet.
I’m sorry and I’ll try to get it finished sooner rather than later, it’s not that I don’t know where I need the story to go, it’s that I can’t get the words working together to make the current chapter something readable, so thank you for your patience and as soon as it’s done i’ll post it… promise.
Epic Fail @ interview
Didn’t get the job, but I don’t really care that much… it was nice to be asked, it was nice to have the option of a job, but it wasn’t something that I was really wanting to do. Now I have to get up the… will (?) to apply for more. I like being apathetic, it’s easy.
Hanging out on MSN with SophieMyst is so much fun… Hey Soph – You know how I know you’re a robot? Because you have all the good lines 🙂
Nothing really going on with me at the moment. I’m stuck with Once Upon A Screen… Sookie doesn’t feel like talking to me and I have no idea how to get Band Geek Eric out of his uniform…. wait… mental picture….
Suggestions? Helping hand anyone?
Finally an interview!
I’ve been unemployed since late May and although I could still bitch and whine about the company that fired me, I’m trying not to… really really trying hard not to… sigh.
Anyway, after applying for heaps of jobs and getting millions of rejections (well… at least 30 anyway) I finally have an interview on Thursday at 9… I’m nervous as fuck
I’ve had two interviews in my whole life, they both ended up with me getting a job – one was great, the other had great people and a sucky backstabbing executive unit…. not that I’m bitter or anything.
I’m at a loss as to whether to feel excited or sad – I like being at home – I’d rather not interact with the world at large because more often than not I get kicked in the guts. At least online I can weed out people I don’t want to talk to… Also, I like spending time with Hubby – he makes me all warm and squishy inside 😀
On the other hand, money makes the world go round… you thought it was the swirling magma and the pull of the sun… you’d be wrong… there are little goblins underground pushing money from one side of the world to the other and completely missing my back yard… little fuckers.
Side note and totally off topic
Alexander Skarsgard is my celebrity crush and get out of jail free card and he looked mighty mighty fine at the Emmy’s… whoo boy… Doesn’t that man know what he does to womens brains? No fair leaving the house looking that hot – getting me in trouble with Hubby and totally rocking my world… *le sigh* *le pant* *le swoon*
Sometimes I wish there were two of me so I could have happily ever after with Hubby and go seduce AS to be MINE… *evil cackle*… now where did I put that cloning machine…
It’s not easy being Green…
Why are people still fighting over Global Warming? If nothing else the weather should be proof enough.
I’m bringing this up because recently we’ve had an election in Australia and the parties are both so completely crap that the country is practically split down the middle…
On one side we have a woman who overthrew the last prime minister at the request of the other party members and can’t seem to make it work without him… also she sounds like a complete bogan when she speaks and pronounces negotiate – knee-go-sea-ate, I have no idea why but this bugs me… almost as much as people who say new-cule-er or use the word wench or panties… ick… it just sets my teeth on edge and gives me the heebie geebies.
On the other side we have a man who looks like a wingnut and (I can’t believe I’m going to say this) makes George W. sound like a frickin Mensa candidate. He comes across as a nice guy, but I would think he was more suited to small town life rather than politics.
So… in protest to both of these… awesome options…. I voted Greens in the senate…. I almost voted for the Australian Sex Party just because their ad’s make me laugh and they support gay marriage, but I didn’t because the Greens are more organised and more likely to get a seat.
I sincerely hope that same sex marriage becomes legal world wide. It’s just wrong to stop two people who love each other from being happy… one of my best friends from high school is gay, and not only did he have to put up with being completely rejected by his family for 3 years, his relationship is taxed the same way as a hetero couple but he’s not allowed to get married. He’s not even able to have a child unless by some miracle either he or his partner is allowed to adopt as a single person (unlikely) or they find someone who would be willing to be a surrogate for them… it’s just sad that he’s not allowed to get his dreams just because of who he loves.
At what stage of our lives does politics finally become interesting? I normally don’t give a crap about who’s running the country as long as they don’t do/say/legislate something stupid… Is it like getting a taste for something you used to hate as a child? I used to hate olives… now not so much.
I want people to be happy… I want children to be safe… I want people to stop talking about climate change and actually do something to fix it… I want world peace… do you think if I click my heels together three times and wish really hard it’ll happen…?
*sigh* Didn’t think so
Hello World
Hi,
My name is Sarah 🙂 but I feel more like a Charlotte… or a Beth
I’m married and I even like my in-laws
I’m almost 29 – I keep forgetting how old I am and having to ask people… it’s not a woman thing about not telling people their age… I genuinely don’t remember… I feel 18 and useless most of the time
I live in Australia – in Queensland on the Gold Coast – it’s nice…
I have 2 cats – they are called Book and Page – my last name has to do with reading so it’s kinda like a pun… it’s fun 
I HATE driving – didn’t learn until I was 25 and didn’t get my provisionals until after I was married… I’d rather not do it, the only thing I like about my car is my kick ass stereo that rattles the mirrors when I have my doof doof turned up.
I’m currently unemployed and loving it – except for the money part
I LOVE to read – I’ll read almost anything and everything, although some books that have been suggested by my Father in law are just plain boring!
I paint, I sew, I knit, I quilt, I write – I like to think I’m creative 
I have PCOS and I really want to have kids, but things keep coming up and stopping me from getting my shit organised.
I eat when I’m moody, any mood at all… chocolate or a nice pear, depending on how emo the mood makes me
I can play the piano – as long as there is no-one nearby that can give me feed back – I really need to teach myself how to read music again so I can get better
I never know what to say when someone gives me a compliment – it’s weird and uncomfortable so I’m more than likely to brush it off or just say nothing at all.
I’ve been married for 5 years now and I still haven’t done up thank you cards… I’m very very naughty
I love cooking but I hate cleaning up – I would have thought that having a dish washer would have fixed that, but it didn’t…
I’m absolutely terrible at keeping house – it’s probably a good thing that I don’t have kids yet, they’d probably get lost in the mess and I’d only find them when they grew tall enough to see over the crap on the floor.
My brain is completely random – incase you haven’t already noticed – I don’t think in straight lines – I think in…. flower patterns. I think of one thing, that makes me think of something else – that brings me back to the original thought, that finishes with another idea and I go off on a tangent about that before coming back again… it’s fun, but very confusing for my poor husband who is a very linear thinker.
What the...? 