LIIIIIFE, HAVING TO WRITE RESEARCH PAPERS IS MAJOR SUCKAGE, OKAY? I don't care if there are only two short ones and are supposed to be double-spaced two pages, bibliographies and footnotes are the devil and a paper solely reliant on research is always at risk for someone to shout plagiarism and I hate them and why can't I do two opinion papers instead. And all by tomorrow? COME ON.

DX Siiiiigh. But I'll go on back to it, really, as soon as I post this.

Ask me anything. Fandom-related, personal, something completely random--whatever. I'll answer honestly.

There. Now I have been an appropriate little following pansy to my F-list and can start to work again. :3

Well, I just saw the Clean House episode for the yard sale Mama and I went up to see that while ago...we didn't appear anywhere in the episode (as I kind of expected), but it was interesting to see how some of the stuff we saw filmed was clipped together. I must say, though, the family for the house we went to for the yard sale has perhaps the brattiest, most ungrateful little boy I've ever seen. He was sharing a room with a stepbrother, and he seemed to just refuse to accept having any less than 90% of their shared room, not because he disliked the brother, but because he seemed to think he needed that much of the space. Of course he got 50% by the end of the show, and he was just determined to complain about it. No offense to the parents, but that kid needs serious counseling. Hell, even Niecy Nash had trouble with the kid.

And I have a set of mini-Philosophy papers due on Monday and I've only now just started working on it. Rawr. I hate non-opinion papers, particularly ones where people make their own damn special requests for bibliography format....but hey, that's partly just because I despise bibliographies in general, as no one can decide on what stupid format to use across the board. >>

I'm thinking of possible AMV projects for Christmas...guess one of those projects will probably end up being for whoever I get for the Tutu Gift Exchange. I'm curious to see who I get. Whatever I do, though, I hope to do a huge-ass video where I can use clips both from Christmas movies and from Tutu to the song "What is Christmas?" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (no videos with it on Youtube so you can hear it: TOTAL FAIL), sung by Autor. Just because it's been a lawlzy idea for me for months. XD; If not that, who knows, maybe I'll think of something else.

And this weekend we're getting headshots done so we hopefully can have them ready for Actorfest next week in LA...I really, really want to go with other people in my class, but I REALLY NEED TO REGISTER, DAMN IT, GET OFF YOUR ASS, TORY. DX *sigh* After this Philosophy paper is done, maybe.

All right~~! Two days now until la day of Halloween~! Meeses be eager. What's going on? Well, for one, tomorrow we're going to try to film more for Film class, as we now officially have a month until the project is fully due and we got to hit the ground running...and when we shifted seats in Biology a bit I learned the girl now next to me likes anime and I am able to introduce her to Tutu~! I let her borrow my DVD set so she could watch it...from what I told her she seems excited about it, so I can't wait to see what she thinks. Maybe if she likes it enough I'll ask her if she'd be interested in RPing it at the Tutu dressingroom. XDD;

But anyway! On the DR, weeses will be starting a Halloween event tomorrow~...meeses is eager for that as well. I've decided to make Guyliner's a total surprise after choosing something other than what I'd been thinking of earlier...but I'll probably end up posting with Sweethearts first tomorrow. I wonder what everyone else'll put their characters in~. XD

And last but certainly not least, to steal from Haley~...

❝the image match-up meme❞
Comment here and I'll find an image (or a few) on my computer that reminds me of you. In return, post this up on your journal.

All right, now to eat. On something OTHER than the Halloween candy, too. The Tootsie Rolls, they call my naaaaaame. DDDDX

Well, Mama and I saw the movie Whip It today...I liked it a lot more than I was expecting, to be honest. Even though it had Drew Barrymore and Ellen Paige (you know, the girl from Juno?) in it, I honestly just wasn't sure what I'd think, considering I knew next to nothing about roller derby, but I really, really quite enjoyed it! It was witty, charming and engaging, and all of the characters were sympathetic and (if a protagonist) likable. And the singing, guitar-playing love interest Oliver was a hot tamale. His actor has the strangest name ever, though. Landon Pigg? He must've been teased so badly as a kid, I feel awful! So good job, Drew Barrymore: I'm impressed with your directing ability. (For yes, she directed as well as starred in it. Pretty cool.)

We've finally started putting up the rest of the Halloween decorations too...now we have a hologram sign on the gate outside our door that says "Enter" in one angle and "If you dare" in another, a plastic picture of a sinisterly grinning ghoul with a scythe peeking through our screen door (which I've christened "Clarence Sylvester": he seemed to need a darkly grand name), a spider on a web on the window beside the door (which I've christened "Belladonna" after the plant), a light-up Jack-O-Lantern in the front window (which I've christened "Jack" for obvious reasons) and finally our newest addition, a crow on top of the lantern beside our door (which I've christened "Kraehe": haha). We plan to hang the cobwebs and the bats on the garage door tomorrow; overall, though, I'm pretty happy with what we've got now. Nothing that jumps out at you, and yet enough to give a creepy atmosphere...just the way I like it. Excuse the girl with the big phobia of things jumping out at her to the extent that she avoids haunted houses like the plague and gets viciously creeped out even by realistic wax figures.

On a more serious note my college is apparently cutting teacher jobs again due to lack of finances and the cutting of courses...none of the permanent teachers are in danger, but a great majority of the substitute and part-time teachers are, and my step-mother is one of them. That is really worrying me, as my step-mother losing some of her classes this and last semester is already hitting my dad and her hard; if she loses her job, I don't know how they'll make ends meet. Considering how depressed Dad is, though, I dare not bring it up with him...he's purposefully avoiding my mother even though they are good friends even after the divorce so long ago, likely because Mama has stayed afloat during all of this and he feels ashamed, as financial difficulties is one of the big reasons they split in the first place. I'm making it a point to ask Dad if there's anything I can do to help him next time I see him...dunno if I can help, but as this guy just refuses to accept help and he won't talk to Mama, he'll have to talk to me, at the very least. I know I don't accept help easily and I like to be alone when I'm upset, but I don't purposefully shut people who care about me out of my life whenever I have problems.

...Except that I replied to Trish's and Manda's posts and it says, "copy-paste this and post it to yours."

Quote a bit of my writing at me? Find that one story of mine that you really like, and find a sentence or a paragraph that presses your prose-buttons in the right way, and comment here with it, no matter how long or short.

Then copypasta this into your journal, and we'll all have a big love-in!

If you can't think of anything I've written, and I wouldn't blame you, considering how long it's been since I've written anything outside of RPing I've probably written about ten times as much RPing characters than I have Princess Tutu fanfiction, then don't worry about it. XD;;;;;;

Yaaaaay, it is now officially October~! Break out the Nightmare Before Christmas, guys, make way for my second favorite holiday ever~. X3

Okay, so what besides me singing those songs everywhere and getting all giddy about dressing up as Belle again and eating tons of candy is going on? Well, in my Film class, the idea of doing a modern Swan Lake...didn't really take off, to put it bluntly. How could it, though, I guess, when no one could get past the idea of doing something based on a ballet? At first the majority of the class wanted to throw their hats into this..."Horror Comedy" idea which made me awfully think of an amateur version of Scary Movie. That turned me MAJORLY off, but fortunately that group went to an extent with their idea that several people dropped off, joining the other smaller group that I'd gone with that hoped for something more dramatic, and by the end, our group had two more people than the other group, so I guess our idea is better? XD; And that idea of ours? Well, we went in an entirely different direction that what I had originally proposed. Someone had suggested a film about a serial killer and a detective, and we decided to run with it; now we have the story about a detective chasing a murderer who in fact is a brother he didn't know he had, taking revenge upon society for the wrongs they inflicted on him, and now the detective must decide between right and wrong and his brother and the law. So the story is something I can get behind, anyway. :3 Another group member and I proposed film plotlines, and upon finding elements in the other's that we liked, yet another group member and I are going to find a way to combine them and then write the script for that combined scenario. Yeah, I'm doing a bunch of writing. Oh well. I expected as much. XD I'm looking forward to writing for the killer (who we see as a Charles Manson type) and his accomplice who we've named Ursula Quinn (who I see as a mixture of Harley Quinn and Bellatrix Lestrange).

Oh~! And I've been thinking about that DR idea I proposed a few days ago regarding a Halloween event where everyone is placed in random costumes, and I'm trying to decide what to do. My ideas here are now~:

Heartless!Ahiru - Dorothy Gale, Eternal Sailor Moon, Medusa (...just to see her looking entirely unlike herself and to have her scare herself when she looks in the mirror. XD;;;)
Guyliner - Adam Lamber's KISS ensemble, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" costume
Fakovu - The Cat in the Hat (THIS IS IN STONE, DAMNIT. D:)
Mytho Skywalker - the Mad Hatter (Disney version), No Face (from Spirited Away), Buzz Lightyear (from Toy Story), Darth Vader (...to torture him out of his wits. 8D;)

Oh, and before I go...PRINCESS AND THE FROG, YAAAAY. Damn iiiiit, all these behind-the-scenes-stuff is making me anticipate November sixteen as much as before.

So Sarah Palin's book is coming out in November. Whoop-dee-friggin'-do. I'm amazed that anyone is still taking that woman seriously, let alone wanting to hear her speak. As if the ignorance she showed during the election wasn't bad enough, she seems to think that she's enough in the right mind to give a speech to Chinese bankers in Hong Kong where she blatantly disrespects the sitting president while overseas and deliberately shutting out all American press. And yet some people still give her enough referance that you'd think she's the Second Coming of Christ, bah. She doesn't deserve anything close to such treatment.

I'm thinking of finally doing a Rue/Mytho AMV next as fuck, I've done nothing lately practically that doesn't give most of the focus to Fakir/Ahiru, and I'm thinking of using the song Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park. I love the song and I think it'd work well for their relationship...too bad it's associated with stupid Twilight as it's featured on its movie soundtrack. >> Speaking of Twilight I saw the New Moon trailer the other day when going to see Fame and I declare that it looks even stupider than the clips I saw for the first movie. I didn't read that book, but...Bella is a FUCKING IDIOT. Honestly. The trailer only accents it all the more. And Robert Pattinson, where the fuck is your acting? I KNOW you can act, you played Cedric Fucking Diggory...Edward must just...suck all of your acting ability dry or something with his blandness, 'cause there's nothing there anymore, babe.

*sigh* ...And all right, as everyone else is doing it I'll do this too. XD;;;

Name a fandom and I'll tell you:
♦ OTP
♦ Runner-up
♦ Honorable mention(s)
♦ Crack pairing(s)
♦ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't

Well, the network connection on the laptop went down yesterday morning, and so I had no Internet and none of my documents on my other computer for two whole days until we were able to get our friend Will to come and fix it. And apparently it wasn't even our fault; damn AT&T. That made it so that I had to transfer any documents I needed to my mum's computer if I wanted to print them, and couldn't get on the computer at all day as Mama had to work, and made it so I was late in sending off that one film project proposal I had to one of my classmates so she could write a draft for a section of the script, so that makes me feel bad...at least we are not in a rush yet.

Talking more on that, this Acting for Film and Television class I'm in either has very little real passion for being here, or is just lazy. Thus far we are writing a 1 minute monologue for the characters we played as in our interviews (therefore I'm the Goth I was then), but we're also having to start discussing our final project, which will be a short film. Le Docteur (what I call our teacher, as he is firm on us knowing him as "Dr." rather than "Mr.") wants us to split into two or even three groups, and then write, direct and act in our own films...but thus far very few of us are opening up and proposing creative ideas for projects, or even showing much interest in getting started. Le Docteur's not happy about that, of course, and is almost at the point of having us reinact scenes that have already been done, which those of us who are passionate (including me) would HATE doing and which would suck all possible creativity out of the idea. He's letting us think about it, before we can talk about it more on Thursday. Fortunately, though, as I was mentioning above, I'd written a short film concept a while back, and when one of my groupmates, who also is passionate about this class, talked to me about getting a project going early, I mentioned it to her, and she loved the idea. So yeah, now we're starting to write it, so that we can propose it to the rest of the class next week. The idea is, basically, a modern version of Swan Lake, with a father named Robert Locke (in the role of Rothbart) being overly protective of his two twin daughters Odile and Odette (self explanatory), who has fallen in love with a paperboy named Sean Printz (in the role of Siegfried). And yes, it ends tragically; I prefer it that way. XD So yeah, that's one thing going right...I'm really excited!

In other news I looked at something for the DR...and I noticed something interesting, looking at the numbers of members.

22 Fakirs
20 Ahirus
8 Rues
6 Mythos
3 Autors
3 Femios
2 Uzuras
3 Lilies
2 Piques
2 Raestels
1 Karon
1 Mr. Cat
1 Edel
1 Freya
1 Hermia
1 Malen
1 Wili Maiden
1 Lamp Spirit
2 Others
2 NPC muses

(83 chars in all; 23 minor chars in all; 11 chars yet to post)

...WTF?! LOOK AT HOW MANY FAKIRS AND AHIRUS. I mean...I knew they were the majority but SHIT! The number of Fakirs almost outnumbers all of the other minor characters combined! I love him like everyone else does, and I know I contribute two of them, but...where's the Mytho and Rue love, guys? T.T Boy, now I'm glad I brought in Luke!Mytho. Now I need to bring in a Rue...it seems like everyone seems to think she's so hard to play... ._.

Stealing this meme from thaizertazerll ~! :D

Post with the name of any of my old or current muses, and I'll give you five head canon facts about them. :D

Current:
Heartless!Ahiru "Sweethearts" schwanherz
Adam Lambert!Fakir "Guyliner"itsaveryvery
Kovu!Fakir "Fakovu" knightkovu

Former:
Hogwarts!Ruehime_no_karasu
Hogwarts!Amu amulet_witch
Hogwarts!Elphaba wickedygreen
Raven-Prince!Siegfriedblacksiegfried
Magic-Flute!Kraehe ravenpamina

In other news Fakovu and Kiarahiru have tumbled into pools of WANGST with the arrival of Ziraestel (who...is JUST SO AWESOME, WAAAAAI) and the revelation that, in fact, Fakir had been using her to get close to Mytho. Hooray. Now we just need someone to remind Kiarahiru not to "Forget About Love" during Musical Days and we're alllllll set. 8D

And, upon getting all the pieces for it together, my costume for this film project is going to KICK ASS. BOUGHT A CORSET AND EVERYTHING, HA.  I will post pictures after Tuesday when I have to do it. 8D

Well, I'm getting in the groove of school tiemz. Less time for RPing, but...hey, whatcha gonna do? At least I could have myself a healthy share of Fakovu/Kiarahiru cuteness today. X3

In Film we have a project where we have to play as characters that are in the middle of an interview, and the theme our group got was the frame that we are a group of dancers on a dance-off sort of show (like So You Think You Can Dance or something, though more with a America's Got Talent structure, as you can have groups), and the audience will ask you questions and you'll have to Improv your answers. Our group had some flexibility, though: we could decide if we were auditioning to be on the show, if we were at the finale, or what, as well as what our relationships were, if any. My group decided that we would each play a distinctly different and comically extreme character, with our own style of dance, that nonetheless is friends with the other character and has to find their place in this strange dance group that we are auditioning as. Our characters are a self-defined "gangsta metrosexual" guy who does breakdancing, his bombshell girlfriend who does dirty dancing, a popular diva who does hip hop, a preppy boy who does ballet, a shy nerd who does interpretive dance, and a Goth who raves. Guess which one I am. XD I'm looking forward to figuring out my costume, as the stereotype of "Goth" can go several ways, fashion-wise, in either the spikes, fishnets and chains image, the sleek, high-collared black jacket with thin black pants and necklaces look, or the Lolita route. I'll ask my group's opinion tomorrow when I see them.

I've been thinking on Musical Days for the EC, which is supposed to start on Labor Day next week Guyliner is supposed to prompt it too, I believe, with the Wishing Well...gotta figure out the wording for that wish XD. So far for possible songs I've thought of:

Heartless!Ahiru "Sweethearts" -
"They" by Jem (?: Kenzo!Fakir and I were considering giving Sweethearts back Regret around then, so this seems like a good Curiosity/Regret song for when she gets it back. =?)

Kovu!Fakir "Fakovu" -
"Hey Juliet" by LNMT
"Love Will Find a Way" from The Lion King II (?: Dunno if he and Kiarahiru are really at that stage, but...)

If any of you have any other ideas for these two and Guyliner, I'd love to hear them!

And, finally!...to steal this idea from Sammie...!

♥  If you put "MOO!" somewhere in your comment, I will say five things about you that I love. ♥

Well. I had to see Inglourious Basterds today, as it was assigned in that Acting for Film and Television class I'm now in to watch it before Monday. I would NEVER have seen this movie normally, and I really rather wish I hadn't. Don't worry, not many spoilers here, just more like a rant.

I didn't know ANYTHING practically about this movie except that it was about a group of people who shot up Nazis...and after seeing it, yeah, that's practically all it was, with some vague reference to them being a group within the OSS in the 40's that was made to scare the Nazis. And it was offensive. That is the only word I could use to describe it: offensive. For one, to think that we Americans have been reduced to becoming spectators in a coliseum watching people shoot each other for entertainment is just disgusting...for another, on the side of that, although the Nazis found a bizarre satisfaction from the death of millions doesn't mean us finding enjoyment from their deaths is okay. As well, it entirely put out of character Hitler, who was the sole historical aspect practically in the entire film, putting him in a royal mantle in one scene and then showing him go in a movie theater in 1944 when Germany was losing, around which time he would've been contemplating suicide in his bunker. It also badly characterized the Americans, having our sole "protagonists" in the form of those Basterds, who without a doubt would NEVER be allowed in any army, nor should they have been! Good God, if there were people going around scalping people in war times, particularly back then when there was still a trace of honor to be found in our military, they would be severely punished and known throughout the world as a disgrace. In edition it entirely rewrites history, showing these Bastards as well as this French Jew who somehow escaped the Nazis by running away (literally, I'm not making this up! She ran through a field in clear sight of the Nazis...and they didn't SHOOT HER?!) as having ended the entire war by setting fire to a theater with all of the Nazis officers stupidly sticking together inside. WTH?! I don't understand why this isn't bothering people! It's entirely wiping D-Day and the American casualties in that time out of history, as well as the involvement of the British and Soviet armies in assisting us in defeating Germany: how is that something that people can overlook? And to think someone created this movie, as well as its story, in my mind, shows a great disturbance in the writer. I don't know Tarantino: I know he did Kill Bill, but I never watched it. I don't know anything about him, but if this is what he is so proud of, I frankly don't see anything to be proud of. The critics somehow are giving it positive reviews, too. That is just sickening. I give it a D, not an E as the story was told clearly and the acting was decent...but as the story was so deplorable and I couldn't like practically any of the characters, it can't redeem the picture. Unless you like watching people get scalped and Nazis getting blown up with no rhyme or reason, I'd advise skipping this movie.

Sigh. Well...at least I'll have plenty to say about it to the class when I go on Tuesday.

Well, school starts on this upcoming Monday...and I still need to make some possible schedules. Damn it.

In other news I unfortunately have to do a bit of a political talking here, excuse me...but honestly, what does the average American truly think about health care reform? I just don't have any idea anymore. Obviously they don't think that Obama has death panels like those stupid right-wing extremists taking after Sarah "Pitbull" Palin's little comment that she's since revoked: you know it's bad if SHE takes something back...but I'm sure that a lot of them aren't thinking like I am either, that Fox News is full of bull shit and that the insurance companies are funding these protest groups to fake a "grassroots" movement of resistance that is instead filled with racists, paranoid conformists and anti-Obama Republicans that are determined to shout lies at the top of their lungs so no one gets the facts, which would turn people on to reform. So what DO they think? Obama has had to put the record straight several times already, on several news stations not that Fox News would show such a thing, or give it any of its proper screentime, but do any average Americans that aren't political at all hear any of it? What do they hear? If they don't watch the news, they probably don't hear the "anti-reform" people's lies either...and I believe there was a poll saying about 80% of Americans want reform...so do they support Obama right now? Do they think Congress is being stupid? Do they think that it's Obama's fault that nothing's being done?

Oh, and. The Princess and the Frog can't come out soon enough. With every new thing I see for it, I want the movie to come out all the more! I daresay Disney's leaking some of this stuff rather on purpose...but I don't care, it's working with making me go "OMFGSOAWESOMEWAAAAAIIII" and want to see it all the more. Here's the thing that I've been watching over and over again here.



The little blond girl is Tiana's best friend Charlotte, and her father is Eli "Big Daddy" LeBoueff, who rather spoils his daughter so that she's a real diva when she's grown up. I...LOVE HER. I can't even say, I love her. She makes me think of a little Galinda from Wicked, she's so precious. I sense after I've seen the movie I may be able to even write fanfiction ir roleplay scenarios with Aerin for her, too. XDD

I was rewatching an old Muppet movie with my mother today, Jim Henson's The Frog Prince: it really is so sweet, I don't know why it doesn't get any love. Kermit and the frogs kick ass, Sweetums is friggin' hilarious and Robin/Melora is JUST SO CUTE. ...At least it's on Youtube so I can pimp it to anyone who hasn't seen it.



...Come to think of it, that would be a terrible curse for someone to get thrown at them at the loverly DR, the one that's sent at Princess Melora. Basically, it makes it so the first sound of all the words she's saying are all switched around, so it's hard to tell what she's saying. So basically where someone would say, "I'm under a terrible curse!", they'd say something like "I'm cunder a errible turse!" Wonder if any of our baddies would find that amusing enough to do it. XDD

Disneyland in a weeeeeeeeek~. ♥

I've been procrastinating on video making again...mostly because I know before I do anything else I REALLY should work on my Princess Tutu Does The Phantom of the Opera vid, which was meant to be the first prize for that AMV contest I did a while back. The thing is...I have to rip the entire film all over again, and I'm having difficulty focusing on it with this school nonsense I'm now worrying about. I have to make several versions of possible schedules for classes, and then try to crash as many as I can. What if I get into one on one schedule and one on another and they conflict? It's a real mess.

In other news my Fakir Lambert muse has been going crazy thanks to Ren and Sammie and their fanaticism, he's been posting everywhere. It's good I'm exercising my RPing even while procrastinating on contacting Doctor!Fakir-mun concerning the Regret heartshard plottage...and while I'm seriously contemplating dropping my SH characters before I get dropped and coming back if/when I feel good about them again. Rue's graduated anyway, but my Amu and Elphaba muses are just...really having trouble right now. They sort of always did, I was never entirely confident in either of them, but...now they're just really sleeping. Hard.

I love Steve Colbert. I really do. But the Colbert Report episode from the other day (the 28th, where he also interviewed Arianna Huffington, for reference) where he had Orly Taitz on...oh my god. I'm sorry for being political, but...Orly Taitz just scares me. She's the woman who is the head of this so-called "Birther" movement that claims Obama is from Kenya (AHEM, his father is the one from Kenya, guys!) and is not a citizen of the United States (Hawaii doesn't count? Sure, it was annexed to be used as a military base and America's vacation home, but it IS still a state)...her lack of knowledge regarding the Constitution and the country scares the shit out of me! For one, let me start by saying that she is a dentist, a real estate agent and a lawyer of Orange County, California UGH! Bitch, get out of my state!, NOT a politician: she got her fame and "credibility" from Fox News, for christ's sake. But putting that aside, she seems to think that unless your parents are American born AND you're born in America, you're not an American citizen. Let me tear that apart in several ways: number one, you would only be not American-born if you weren't born in America, you could still be a citizen, as people can apply for citizenship...number two, that's not what the Constitution says...and number three, if that's your logic, then NO ONE is an American citizen, unless they're pure Native Americans. I mean, think about it: by that logic, if you're not an American, and you give birth to a kid, then they wouldn't be an American, and so when they have kids, they won't be Americans, and so on and so forth! If people that aren't American can't become citizens, or birth in America isn't the deciding factor rather than heritage, then no one is an American, unless they were on the North American continent from the beginning! And finally...isn't it a bit fucking ironic that the main person saying Obama is from Kenya when Hawaii has released his birth certificate several times...was originally from the old Soviet Union and so wouldn't be an American citizen by her standards of the term either? Fortunately Colbert made her look like an idiot, but Orly Taitz is scary, in how stupid she is, I can't even say. Keith Olbermann, when you get back from vacation, kick her ass. PLEASE. Better yet, have Howard Dean do it, as he's been doing a few of the recent shows for you.

Stolen from saft ~. :3

List the first ten series that come to mind. Your friends will comment with the character from each series that they think you are most like.

1. Princess Tutu
2. Shugo Chara
3. Harry Potter
4. Merlin (TV series)
5. Disney (any movie)
6. The Chronicles of Narnia
7. Teen Titans
8. Avatar the Last Airbender
9. Ashita no Nadja
10. Axis Powers Hetalia

...Pfft, I almost forgot to insert my own series choices. XD

Haha, insert LJ-cut here. Do not click unless you want your ass spoiled, y'all. 8D

( Oppugno! )

Ask me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you're interested in - it can be anything from the house I live in or what I look like, to what pets I have or my favorite shoes. Leave your choice here in a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and replying to your comment with them. That way you get to know a little bit about my life, if you're remotely interested in it.

Yeah, I'm that determined to avoid stressing too much about my fall courses. Don't beat me up for it. XD

Also Merlin's Lancelot is kick-ass times a million. He looks like a young Inigo Montoya, only cuter. 8D

Y'know...I have nothing against Michael Jackson. I think he's perfectly brilliant as an artist, and a bit of a man-child in behavior (in a good way, I assure you, though it made him do weird things). But I'm perfectly annoyed by how the news is Michael-Jackson-ing all over the place for the last two days, particularly when many of them are the same ones that scorned and made jokes about him during all those scandals several years ago. For one, people are forgetting Farrah Fawcett, a brilliant actress and a wonderful person, died on the same day from cancer, leaving a fiance grieving for her when he was hoping that she'd soon get better enough to say "I do." I mean, gosh, guys, I know that Michael Jackson's death was sudden, but Farrah left a great legacy behind as well...she was part of the original Charlie's Angels and she was nominated for multiple Golden Globe and Emmy awards, she does not deserve to be ignored. And making a documentary about her illness is probably one of the most admirable things I can think of to do, if you're famous and have cancer: talk about giving inspiration to others! Even ignoring that, though, all that people are talking about, in mourning Michael Jackson, is his death. I have refused to stay sad about this longer than the moment where I first found out...no, instead I am watching NC's Moonwalker review and watching old music videos of him to see him when he was happy. He wanted to make a comeback, so that he'd be on TV again for all to see him, but he didn't want to seen like this, with us paying attention only to how he died. He'd want to be remembered for his life, and when he truly lived it, before all the scandals and nonsense of the early 2000's. So I am determined to see him as I always did, not as a "tormented soul" who I have to play a violin's warbling toward. He was flawed, he did some stupid things, and he was not a saint. The point is, though, that despite being a flawed, normal person he was able to become an icon that lasted much longer than many famous people could hope to, particularly those who start as child stars. With that said,


Now that I've said that, I'll go back to playing this free Deal or No Deal game I bought for my IPhone. I hate how fun it is.

Lawlz, this Tory started watching Merlin with her mama...and we both love it. We've only gotten up to episode 2 thus far, but I absolutely want to continue. Merlin is my favorite, followed closely by Guinevere and Morgana. Arthur is an asshole, but I think I'll pretty easily fall more in love with him after a while. The show is pretty interesting and has great interpretations for the characters...the only criticism I have for the show is that the dialogue makes it so easy for people to ship Merlin/Arthur, it's no freaking wonder those two dominate the shippers' train. I haven't pledged my loyalty yet, though...for one, I'm still not totally in love with Arthur yet, and for another, I am wanting to see Gwen and Morgana interact with Arthur more before I make up my mind. Though I must say, Morgana reminds me a bit of Rue. An elegant dark-haired woman with a strange connection to magic that she keeps secret while being fated to marry a prince? Hello. On the other side of it, though...when I first watched the show with Mother (we saw the second episode on TV before going back to watch the first one) and saw Arthur and Merlin dueling...both of us were like, "THEY LOOK LIKE EDMUND AND PETER FROM NARNIA, WHUT." I mean look at this.

Arthur <-------> Peter Pevensie

Merlin <-------> Edmund Pevensie

Their hair color, eye color, skin tones, overall physique...plus both of the first two being in almost identical armor? Can I say fangirl freak-out?

On top of that, Morgana's acting and face remind both my mother and I of a young Kate Winslet.

In other news I'm working on a new AU AMV idea with a song by Suzanne Vega called "In Liverpool". Basically, it's a scenario through Rue's POV if the finale had ended with Mytho saving her but still being faithful to the "white swan" and taking Ahiru/Tutu to be his princess. She would be struggling to forget her pain, and Fakir would be in the belltower struggling to write their story inside the story happily, even while Ahiru and Mytho are secretly unsatisfied and longing for what's back in Kinkan (the ballet class/Fakir and Rue, respectively). I'm not sure if it'll end happily or not yet. XD;

And Nostalgia Critic's review of Gargoyles just made me squee. Yeeeeeees, Keith David's voice is awesome, isn't it, NC~? I want a Keith David plushie. :(