One silent tear

[james_davis_nicoll]

How sad it is to see a man reach out, only to be rejected

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Carboy of brain bleach, stat!

[eagle]

I don't think I dare click on that link. The tags are terrifying.

[thistleingrey]

I clicked, and I am going to go and read something entirely different now. whoa.

Also, like Shetterly, I cannot duplicate the browser-cookie result that a commenter alleges as linking Cherie Priest with specfriction. Commenter must've gotten something crossed in browser history after visiting her site. (Like, someone's attempt to link Priest to that Tumblr is the only other reason to skim the linked page, and here I am to say that that part is empty.)

[kate_nepveu]

Those are some excellently informative tags. I thank you.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Not usefully visible on LJ. This is James' sad face.

[kate_nepveu]

If so, it's because of people's own reading page styles; they show up just fine for me on my LJ friends page and on your own journal page when I unclick "view in own style".

[centuryplant]

__utmz cookies are used by Google Analytics to track how people get to a site. The one posted on that thread simply means that at some point in the last six months, that commenter followed a link from cheriepriest.com to authorlife.tumblr.com. It has nothing to do with the specfriction Tumblr and nothing to do with the ownership of any Tumblr.

[rydra_wong]

Likewise. I. Just. No.

[thistleingrey]

Yes--thanks for providing a clearer explanation!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

There really needs to be a way to read the tags without first clicking the post.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Hovering over the link was enough for me.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I forgot something. Sorry.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

The tags don't show up in the RSS feed, I think. So I clicked on it there. Blast it. I obviously need to look at what the link is before clicking it.

What is a "pinkshirt"? Is that a dig at Scalzi?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

OH GOD THE WILL SHITTERLY TAG MAKES ME WANT TO GO BACK TO SEE JUST HOW STUPID HE IS TODAY AND I ALREADY SAW HIM MAKING A STUPID FUCKING ASS OF HIMSELF ON MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL'S POST.

You are a bad person. I am certain of it. For the record.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes. Scalzi is a "gamma" and a "rabbit" and a "pinkshirt" because he is stupid and believes "women" might be "people" and not "vending machines with vaginas". This gives him and everyone like him a totally unmanly pink shirt.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

And men who don't brusquely domineer their women, I think.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Okay, I don't generally read comments on random blogs%, so I can't tell if I should be deeply grateful, or if I'm missing something unintentionally hilarious.

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% James is not chaotic, not random.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

My ability to understand other people's perspective fails at times.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

%James is neither chaotic, nor random. He is often very, very, Canadianly dry.

And sometimes he doesn't see things. But when he links them, Linking Is Clearly Not Endorsement, unless you miss the dry.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

LIKE SCALZI.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I associate pink shirts for men with that notoriously empowering decade, the 1950s. They were de rigueur with a gray suit.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

And he crossplays!
http://voxday.blogspot.ca/2013/07/a-scandal-day-for-sfwa.html#c6242768167212190144

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I PUT TAGS ON IT! I KEEP THINKING PEOPLE SEE THE TAGS.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Not to be confused with Redshirts, I suppose. Or have I missed the point of the joke?

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Is there any evidence that Beale has even met a woman? His Wikipedia entry claims three children, but there's no cite. Maybe they're like Lou Antonelli's furbabies.