I am Legion, I contain Matter-Eater Lad

[dvandom]

Like pretty much everyone, there are contradictions in my nature. But two that are helpful to know are these:

1. Despite my preoccupation with the fantastical and speculative, I am a rather hard-headed skeptic when it comes to drawing a firm line between what happens in fiction and what I accept can happen in reality.
   
2. Despite my finely-honed critical faculties (or, at least, frequently-exercised faculties), I can enjoy something like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, because just as I can distinguish between fantasy and reality, I can distinguish between fun and good when the two don't overlap. ;) RotF is NOT good. But it's fun.
   

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[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

But are those faculties tenured?

[gary-williams.livejournal.com]

I'm still boycotting it. :)

Maybe I'll watch it on DVD in a year. Or two.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, we all have those problems. I hate pain, in all forms, and consider killing to be disgusting. Yet my first (and only...) response to encountering any rabid animal is to shoot it in the head. So my response to my general phobia of a disease that drives you into violent insanity is to remove the threat...through violence.

I consider those contradictions to be conclusive proof that you're human!