Yoinked from Kathy

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After ten long years, Disney has released Gargoyles Season 1 to DVD. They've done a good job with it. The packaging and presentation live up to the product.

So, let's tell Disney how we feel about it!

Take ten minutes and write them a nice thank you letter. Even a postcard will do. Keep it short and sweet - this isn't the place to take them to task for sending you on a retail scavenger hunt to find the disc. Most importantly, tell them how much you look forward to the release of SEASON TWO.

Here is the address:

Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Department CS
Burbank, CA 91521
(This is the address off the disc.)

Thank you.

I may live to regret this

other people's LJ- primarily KWS- has brought my attention to this recent DVD review posted in the Ask Greg question queue on Dec 13, 2004, by one "Ryan".

I'm not LJ-cutting, for I wish what people there are to get the full impact of it:

"Ryan writes...

I've watched the DVD now (twice most of the way through), plus all the bonus features... ready for season 2 now. :) To comment on the little Gathering bit on the DVD, at the risk of making myself unpopular here, I'd just like to say, jesus, I hope I never have to go to any of these things. Brought back some really bad flashbacks to the several BotCons I attended, because my girlfriend at the time was a HUGE Transformers freak. oh my god, the people there, biggest dorks in the universe. Just.. plain... SCARY. They make the most inane esoteric jokes in the world (typically obscure references to fanfiction charcters or comic geek lore or whatever, frequently interspersed with sophisticated penis humor or whatever infantile thing is on their mind at the time), stuff no normal person would find funny, and then laugh hysterically like it's the funniest thing in the world. The get SO passionate about the weirdest things, having debates over the most meaningless asinine thing in some episode of the show. Then there's the cosplaying and the role-playing and ... ugh. I didn't know it was possible but it looks like the average person at the Gathering is even geekier than your typical BotCon attendee. Why is it none of these people seem to know anything about personal grooming? You can't even go to pick up chicks because most of the girls there are borderline not-doable. I noticed two exceptions on the Gargoyles DVD. One girl who spoke frequently on the DVD though she REALLY looked out of place with the rest of this crowd... she was totally hot... ambiguous ethnicity... Indian? Pakistani maybe? She said she was considering getting in to voice acting. Then there was another girl who was pretty cute, said that she got picked on a lot in high school and the Gargoyles fandom became her family, she reminded me a lot of my first girlfriend and also looked a bit like Anna Paquin. She was hot too.

Anyway, sorry for the negative rant. Just... ew... bad flashbacks, like I said. Keith David is cool tho, isn't he?"

*

So I must respond. *clears her throat*


YES!! YES MY GEEKY GATHERING-ATTENDING BRETHREN!! THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!! LET US REJOICE TOGETHER IN OUR TRADITION OF THREE DAYS OF NO SLEEP, INFREQUENT SHOWERS, CONSTANT RP-ING, AND PASSION ABOUT A QUIRKY LITTLE SHOW WE ALL LOVE!! LET US RISE UP AND SAY, *I am a GARGOYLES fan!!* *I AM obsessed with a cartoon show!!*



LET US REVEL IN OUR OBSCURE FORMS OF HUMOR, OUR LACK OF SHALLOW OBSESSION WITH SURFACE APPEARANCES (and only ever talking to the people we consider "do-able") OUR PORNOGRAPHIC ANTHRO ART, OUR FANFICTION, OUR DEBATES OVER THE TINY ASPECTS OF A SHOW THAT IS SUCH A GREAT MIRROR FOR OUR SOCIETY!!



COME!! CELEBRATE YOUR GEEKTITUDE!! DANCE IN THE STREETS DRESSED IN NOTHING BUT SCARF OF GRYFFIDOR COLORS, WAVING A LIGHTSABER!! LARP YOUR WHOLE WEEK AS SAILOR NEPTUNE!! GREET EVERYONE BY SAYING "may you never thirst", AND BID THEM FAREWELL WITH "breathe deep, seek peace". YES, WE ARE THE BIGGEST DORKS IN THE UNIVERSE; BOW BEFORE THE AWESOME MIGHT OF OUR DORKS!!!
];)

....besides which, wasn't nearly all of the audio from the con itself cut, other than the individual interviews? How the hell does this guy know what people were talking about anyway? ASS-U-ME. Rather, ASS-HIM. You formed your entire opinion of us from one BOT-CON you attended with your "do-able", battery-driven "girlfriend"? Well fuck sure, gargs fans ain't that different from trans-fans, we just have a smaller, younger fan-base and less merchandise to sell.
...I'm sorry, but this guy couldn't even find acceptance somewhere in a fandom THAT size?? sheesh.

And once again...if we're lame for spending so much time expounding on something he thinks is so trivial...than how lame must HIS life be that he actually takes time out of his day to mock people for having something that interests them? We may be freaks obsessed with a cartoon show (or shows ; ) But at least we aren't BORING. What kind of life must he have where he still has to make fun of other people for entertainment? Most people grow out of that before they graduate high school.

And yeah. Keith David is cool. No Ryan, you are not, not even because you made a great big insulting post about us "uncool" kids.
And when was the last time YOU were cuddled in a bed with fifteen other people, hmm? ; )