Revenge of the Spoilers

[trinityofone]

I give up. It's right at the top of sga_newsletter.

*facepalm*

Comments

[suaine.livejournal.com]

Right now I am really glad that I already knew about the thing.

Let Sailor McKay cheer you up.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Aww, Sailor McKay! Specifically, the thighs of Sailor McKay. *g*

[suaine.livejournal.com]

They are the thighs of love and justice!

[coreopsis.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much my reaction. *sigh*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yup. *hangs head, weary and defeated*

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

Saw that and thought of you ;P
I think though, that they don't have much choice in the matter - saying Season 3 Spoiler as a link in that situation doesn't really work, with a newsletter they need to specify a little. At least they haven't identified which episode it is, right?

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

They could have said "casting spoiler"!

At least they haven't identified which episode it is, right?

True. But I am (occasionally) not stupid, and now I suspect I'll figure out that "oh, this is the episode with x" much sooner that I would have liked.

Besides, it's the principle of the thing. *g*

[shusu.livejournal.com]

I agree. There were several other articles on the newsletter whose links were "first couple of words..." to avoid spoilers.

And I was so looking forward to being -surprised- this summer, even if I guessed that it was a sure thing. *sulky cry*

[aretria.livejournal.com]

I saw it and immediately thought of your earlier comment. :)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I feel like such a dork now. A big, cranky dork. More so than usual, even. *g*

[birdsflying]

:faceplants:

goddammit. I thought I would perhaps escape! Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn.

Couldn't they have called it something like 'season three casting news' instead of spelling the damn thing out?

Argh. I'm going to go write some more academic au porn and sulk. Hrmp.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Agreed. *pouts silently in corner*

Academic AU porn is of the yay, though. I, likewise, will concentrate on that.

[birdsflying]

Yay! Would you like me to beta it? Seen you're being so fabulous and betaing mine.

Speaking of which:

"Well, not so much on the inane chatter but you could at least swear at the essays you're grading. You know, for old time's sake."

"How about this one? I believe the calculations verify the fact that the moon is actually made of green cheese. Unbelievable."

"Hrm. The Russian judges give it a six for effort, but it was awkward on the dismount."

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Aww! *snuggles the snark* You They win.

I'd love to have you beta it--if/when I finish it, which may be a while. I'm working on, like, 80 million things at the moment. Ow, my too too full head!

*realizes this holds no weight with dissertation-girl*

Er. *goes back to porn*

[birdsflying]

Snark is love!

Ahahaha. Well, once le dissertation is done. (which considering I made 10k today and the official deadline is friday, will be soon) I am more than happy to beta anything you care to throw at me. :g:

[suzy_queue]

I had the same reaction. ::sigh::

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

We're gonna knock someone over with the combined weight of our sighs. *g*

[suzy_queue]

LOL That would be amusing.

Meanwhile, I left them a comment asking about the spoiling policies and if it was possible to be more vague in the future. I'm usually a total spoiler whore, so this is all new territory for me, but I've gotten to the point where I don't want spoilers for shows I am enjoying. I'm currently spoiler-free for a whopping two shows, and they aren't making it any easier for me. LOL

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for doing that. I couldn't bring myself to do it again.

I got over the spoiler thing a while ago. I like to be surprised. I WANT to be surprised. I know I'll still enjoy the show, but...

*sighs some more* *an old lady at a bus stop teeters a bit*

[wychwood]

Gah.

(Of course, I clicked through, like the moron I am. Damnit. At least it was something I'd vaguely heard mentioned, but it's still annoying.)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I mean, I have now been spoiled for this several times today, and I feel kind of like I've been hit over the head repeatedly with a 2x4. I get it.

Whatever. Moving on.

Grr.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

See, I wasn't quite with you on the last spoiler post you made, b/c I really don't think the fact that there *is* gonna be backstory is much of a spoiler (or the fact that Sheppard had a father :-), but this one's definitely moving into clear spoiler territory...

I personally have no spoiler concerns but usually try to be careful around those that do (within reason...like I won't post spoilery icons within a few days of the ep, but like months later? or i'll reference spoilers of older shows, b/c I think it's almost impossible to be in fandom and not know...but not of shows still in production, etc.)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I totally made up the thing about Sheppard's father (as it says in the footnote of that post). That was my (not so) clever, euphemistic way of talking about this spoiler.

I understand little spoilers, and things like icons, starting to slip out after an episode has aired (I'm always desperately eager to use my new icons right away, and have to restrain myself). But NOTHING HAS AIRED YET. It's a spoiler for EVERYONE. I... *flails* *takes calming breaths*

Anyway, this one is certainly irrelevant now; I just hope it doesn't keep happening.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* i didn't get that :-)

well, to me the fact that there's an ep about her and the casting are definite spoilers, yes...

and yes, this is a larger issue than just this instance, and i think everyone needs to find their own comfortzone (and unfrioend those that are too offensive to theirs!)

[of course then there's the entire fflist issue and...i think it's incredibly hard these days to be in fandom and remain spoiler free...

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*pouts* But I don't wanna have to defriend anyone! *lives in a naive world full of happiness and friendship and bunnies*

And actually, most of the spoilage I've seen has come from comms and fucking Gateworld. It is incredibly hard to stay spoiler free, but gosh darnit, it shouldn't be!

*goes back to bunny-land, apparently*

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

*pets trinityofone*

i do think that communities could try to avoid spoiling; it's a bit differnt with personal LJs after all.

but the spoiler thing *is* incredibly fraught and difficult to decide. is the above icon a spoiler? would the kiss be?

i was bitched out a while back, b/c i spoke of harem!john in a story before the cut-tag (not referencing an ep or anything) before the tower had aired in the US...

i remember a big kerfuffle a couple of years back, b/c someone used a chloe icon the summer after she'd been supposedly killed...the image was from the new season but that was (a) not clear and (b) still didn't mean that she was still alive (flashback ep or whatever could have put her in the ep)

...i think everyone has their own pain threshhold...unless tou're like me and have no spoiler issues at all...which makes life around here much easier :D

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

Heh. I remember hearing a big to-do about someone announcing an actor's new project and the spoilerphobic complaining that the news spoiled them about him not returning to another show as a regular. There was much snarking about tuning in for Season 8 of Buffy due to not having been spoiled for the show's cancellation.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

omg, yes! of course that'd qualify as a casting spoiler...but then how can you even know who's in what shows in whose fandom you're not...

crazy...

LOL about Buffy's eight season. thank god not!!! (i'm still reeling from XF :-)

[taelonmahal.livejournal.com]

Dude!

(I'm glad I already spoilered myself voluntarily)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*remembers the days of her own voluntary spoilage*

Ahh! I was so young! And perhaps on to something. ;-)

[taelonmahal.livejournal.com]

It's nothing, nothing. I do it only now and then and I can stop with it any day. Really. *nods*

No, actually, I hate being spoilered. Even though I sometimes spoiler myself voluntarily doesn't mean that others can spoiler me without giving me the choice, right? Ironically, while I don't mind casting spoilers that much (though they can suck majorly, when you a characters returns who was dead or something like that... destroys the whol element of surprise :() I am usually only spoilered about really important things by 'accident' (and by 'accident' I mean banners and icons *g*)... like, when characters are dying or kissing. *grumbles*

[fraulein.livejournal.com]

I had been trying to stay spoiler free. I saw someone else's post about this yesterday. Sort of ticked me off. It would be nice if the spoiler itself at least wouldn't be put in the actual title of the post, wouldn't it?

So far I've had more luck in the Buffy fandom in staying spoiler free than I have in this one!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember having better luck in Buffydom. Except for 'Seeing Red'--I got spoiled to high heaven for that.

(In a way I'm sort of glad. Otherwise I think it would have broken me.)

[aurora]

I thought of your rant when I saw that and wondered what the odds were you didn't have the newsletter on your flist.

Apparently slim. *pets*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*purrs*

The thing is, I adore sga_newsletter. I don't wanna fight!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I warned you? Ah, then my duty is done, sir! *tips hat*

[trobadora]

Hey there, as one of the newsletter editory I just wanted to say I'm sorry about the slip. We don't usually post spoilers; this was a mistake and has already been changed in the post. We're really sorry, but we're only human - sometimes we make mistakes.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

No, I understand--it happens. In fact, with this particular spoiler, it has happened several times today, so this post was just kind of my general frustration spilling over (again). Sorry it was directed at you. 'Cause, as I said above (to aurora_84, I think): I love you guys. You do SGA fandom an incredible service, and I doubt you get nearly enough thanks. I know I don't thank you enough.

So: thank you. And for being gracious about this, too. =)

[trobadora]

Thank you for your kind words. :-) I just wanted to make clear this was a mistake and doesn't reflect our usual policy. (Personally I'm of the opinion that spoilers belong on cars, so I'm completely on the other end with this issue, but I don't have to feel that way myself to understand it's important to others. *g*)

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, saw that and thought of you. *winces*

[kalikahuntress.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean I knew because I was okay with this kind of spoiler but everyone isn't so I was pretty shocked.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I know to avoid the newsletter now.

Though it sounds like I'm going to have to avoid all sga related posts until after the show has started again. *sigh*

[sanitylapse.livejournal.com]

I too, saw it and thought of you. Thankfully, I'd already been spoiled on that.

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm totally with you there. *sigh*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I so understand. I went through this all the time with Stargate SG-1.

Icarus