paraka | Pre-Meta Post, and a call to my Canadian Flisters!

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY

xdigital_kittyx! I hope you've had a great day! :D

In other news, I think it rained blueberries when I wasn't looking. Seriously.
When I left work today there were blueish/purple spots all over the ground and on people's cars. And some of them had what looked like the skin bit of the berry. I have no idea WTF happened :-/

In other, other news, I've been talking a lot lately with

paradise_city. We seem to spend a lot of time having... "deep" meta conversations (so what if some of them involve how hot Colby is...).
One of the things that we were talking about was some of the wank that has gone on in fandom, like the race wank from earlier this year, or the more recent thing about

yuletide being anti-semitic, and how a lot of this could be avoided if people took the time to explain what bothers them in fandom to other people. My most common complaint is how fandom represents Canadians (which is funny, since they don't much :P). In the interest of not being all talk and no walk, I've been thinking about making a post about it. Post about what it means to me to be Canadian, and how we're unique. Talk about how I see Canadians represented in fandom, and fanfic, and how people get us right/wrong.

Saying all that though, I mostly just whine about it because it's something I can relate to and not because I have rage issues against fandom associated with it, so in the interest of not being boring, I'd like to ask the people on my flist for help.

So, what kind of representations of Canadians have you seen that strike you as off, or make you angry or roll your eyes? And particular trends, stereotypes?

Hell, even if you're not Canadian, feel free to add your input. Things that you used to think, but now know to be untrue (what do you know, it's *not* always winter up here), or things you still think to be true (and they might be!)
If you have any questions about Canada that you've wanted answered but didn't know how to ask, fire away. I promise not to be offended!

I think it'd be especially interesting to hear from people who are in the due South fandom, since that show was stereotypes personified.

I'll start off by screening comments, in case anyone is shy but will probably unscreen them as I go, depending on the content.

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Heeee! PancakeHead!Rodney is adorable.

Oooh, thank you! I'll try downloading them with a download manager thingy first.

I went to zap2it.com and found all the channels that are showing eps in my area in the next week or so, and I think I should be able to get most of the channels showing. I have a PVR, so I'll be able to record whatever I can get, and just watch it whenever.

If and when I feel the urge to read some SGA fic, you will definitely be the first person I come to!

Heeee! PancakeHead!Rodney is adorable.
Someone, somewhere on LJ made a post where she had pics of the entire cast with pancakes on their head, but Rodney's turned out best. There's also an animated one where Rodney has the pancake on his head, and John smacks it off. :P

I went to zap2it.com and found all the channels that are showing eps in my area in the next week or so, and I think I should be able to get most of the channels showing.
Cool. That would probably be the easiest thing to do if you're not in a rush.

Also, I have a really random question. Did you used to live in Kingston?

Lol. That is a random question! Yes I did used to live in Kingston, but then I dropped out of school and had to get a full-time job, which I discovered was pretty sucktastic when you don't have a car and Kingston has a crappy transit system. In addition to just being a generally crappy city. Nice place to visit, though.

I ask because....

Well, remember way back when I did that RL meme, and I said I'd send you a letter? Well in the letter, I wrote about visiting Kingston and thinking of you, and then when I got home and started to write your address on the envalope, I saw you lived in Toronto and had a freak out, because I thought I was making things up.

I still have that half written letter... :S

Lol! At least now you know you're not going crazy. I moved back at the end of January.

See, I remember once we had a conversation about me going to jail, and the commute being kind of long for you to visit me. I had meant the commute from Toronto to Kingston ('cause I thought you lived in Toronto), and you thought I meant from Kingston to China ('cause that's were I was at the time). Then it came out that you were in Kingston, and I felt really stupid.

And then I saw that you were living in Toronto, and though "OMG this poor Kingston person on my flist, I never know where they live! I probably *still* think they live in Toronto!" :P

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