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★mei ([personal profile] meitachi) wrote2010-03-19 01:33 pm

they email me like I still care what they do

I get an email this morning that says, essentially:

Dear old people who got out,

So our sorority's national board has decided to reform our pledging process and rename it "new member intiation" on account of various chapters being closed or suspended due to hazing violations. But, you know, everyone here thinks that the new process is way too easy and for wusses. Those of us who underwent hell to get here would resent all the newbies who got in without the same kind of suffering, so we're just going to ignore the new national policy and stick with hazing. Yeah bitches! Let's preserve our traditions of sisterhood: putting each other through uttery misery and stabbing each other in the back. Hope all y'all alums are cool with that.

Peace out,
The ones still stuck in stupid melodrama



...sororities. This is my bitchface.

Instead of wasting your time with that, you should take this HP quiz! :D Name the top 200 characters mentioned in the series. It's...hard. I only got 132/200, and that was mostly from fic recall. I have definitely spent more time reading HP fic than the actual books.

Speaking of which, I want to read some H/D fic instead of writing my seminar paper. Hell, I'd rather do almost anything instead of writing this paper.

[identity profile] transitorial.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
...and my mother couldn't understand why I refused to enter a sorority. Jesus.

Holy crap, that quiz. I failed pretty utterly but man, I think my brainpower increased by like 200% while thinking about it.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
And the law student in me is like: HOW COULD ANYONE BE SO STUPID? You don't put down in writing the fact that you are actively and intentionally choosing to engage in activities you know violates national policy! To say nothing of the university's policies regarding hazing. Common sense, why don't you have it?

Hee, it makes me want to reread [livejournal.com profile] sarahtales's HP fic actually.
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[identity profile] hoyah.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
at least they're honest and therefore more easily caught

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Honest and stupid. u___u So young, so clueless...

[identity profile] papered.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
hard quiz is hard! I only got 127, laughs, partly because I realized that I apparently can't spell some of the names I thought I could, and partly because there are so many characters my god, ♥.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Even after I saw all the answers, I was left thinking: who is that? I have a very H/D fic-centric view of the books, I think, lol.
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[identity profile] forochel.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
quiz: no, I can't.

sorority: ...


HAVE YOU READ THIS (http://megyal.livejournal.com/111089.html) H/D FIC? IT HAS CAKES IN IT.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I have not! It is so long... I do enjoy cake though! I would like some cake with my coffee...
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[identity profile] forochel.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
IT IS LOVELY. READ IT NOW. and you must remember that I am not even mainly a H/D fan, which is testament to how lovely this is.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I MUST DO WORK but I will save it and read it. :'> ♥
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[identity profile] forochel.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, very well, then. /waves hand loftily. jiayou with your work! ♥

[identity profile] loika.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow that quiz was hard, I completely forgot about some characters I should've put down straight away. Only got 110/200. ;_; (Also I realised that I've been reading Madame Pomfrey as Promfey for ages, what the hell brain.)

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I've done that with some characters! No one I can remember at the moment but it's funny how our brain adjusts things like that without our realizing, isn't it? I'm all nostalgic for HP now. I guess we still have 2 more movies technically...

[identity profile] papered.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I have always always read "trelawney" as "trawleny", for some reason asjdsakf, even if my brain knows the latter looks wrong written down. ;_;

misses this fandom ...

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the word "trawl". :D

Yeah...the fandom's not the same when the series isn't ongoing, I feel. Except maybe around the holidays with all the fic exchanges. That's still fun~

[identity profile] mardigrasmaven.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Those of us who underwent hell to get here would resent all the newbies who got in without the same kind of suffering, so we're just going to ignore the new national policy and stick with hazing.

I WANNA PUNCH A BITCH IN THE FACE!! Hazing will NEVER be cool and they shouldn't do it anymore. When someone doesn't have to do something you had to do to get the same result, what do big girls do? Put on their big girl panties and deal. We suck it the fuck up. Sure we gripe, that's fair, but we don't do this kind of bullshit. Choosing to continue the hazing initiation is the attitude of a child. And maybe they banned it because it was DANGEROUS, not cuz it was too hard. Some people... >_>

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They never said "hazing" full out but that is exactly what they're implying: I sent back a strongly-worded email essentially telling them how stupid they are. Sigh. They've been trying to resist pledge reform for ages now and it's frustrating to see people still trying to associate hazing with sisterhood and bonding and tradition. I can tell you that it doesn't make you closer - it makes you kind of just resent people. And I don't have any vindictive need to see other people go through the same thing; make it hard, okay, but there's a line between doing that and actual hazing.

...regardless of that, the fact that they're clueless enough to admit in writing their intention to violate national policy is what is boggling my mind.

[identity profile] mardigrasmaven.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. All that!

[identity profile] emeraldcrystal.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I failed the HP quiz spectacularly. XD The HP fics I read have like maybe one character that isn't mentioned thoroughly throughtout the books. Yay for small pairing fics! \o/ as for your sorority... I always thought hazing was one of those movie things. Fun to have in movies but completely untrue irl. I guess not. Lol.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm yeah, hazing definitely exists. Even more extreme than what I went through (though most likely not as bad as movies make it out to be); at least our school's not right near an ocean...

[identity profile] lyto.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Asian sorority? Asian sororities are infamous for their hazing...

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe Asian girls are particularly vindictive or something...