Word. Yet I've been known myself to get worked up about trivial things, I admit, and waste a lot of my free time on them. So if someone is writing letters to get an author to switch gears on something she's had plotted for years ... well, it's their time to waste, I suppose.
Where I start to verge on clucking with disapproval is fundraising for fan campaigns to keep TV shows on the air or such. My money for donations is limited, but even if it weren't, there are far more important causes than, say, pleading for another season of "Angel" or another "X-Files" movie (two examples that I know of). Except, yeah, I'm a hypocrite here too, considering the money I spend on DVDs of favorite series and other inessentials (like this LiveJournal account), but at least I know I'm getting something for my money. So maybe I don't think donating the money is immoral so much as just stupid?
I think I've talked myself in circles here. In any case, I will giggle in a lurking sort of way at someone getting themselves into an irrational fit of self-righteousness over their trivial pursuits, as in the metaquotes thread, because that's just funny.
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Where I start to verge on clucking with disapproval is fundraising for fan campaigns to keep TV shows on the air or such. My money for donations is limited, but even if it weren't, there are far more important causes than, say, pleading for another season of "Angel" or another "X-Files" movie (two examples that I know of). Except, yeah, I'm a hypocrite here too, considering the money I spend on DVDs of favorite series and other inessentials (like this LiveJournal account), but at least I know I'm getting something for my money. So maybe I don't think donating the money is immoral so much as just stupid?
I think I've talked myself in circles here. In any case, I will giggle in a lurking sort of way at someone getting themselves into an irrational fit of self-righteousness over their trivial pursuits, as in the metaquotes thread, because that's just funny.