Eppy's Space

SPN S3 finale post.

2008-05-18T03:03:35Z

For everyone who is tired of political discussions getting in your SPN: this post contains zero discussion about racism, sexism, or specism. (Because, hey, as a vegan, Dean OFFENDS me. Pigs in a poke. GRRR.*) Not that I don't have strong feelings (hey, it's me), but I'm going to do my best to keep this controversy free.

Also, there's a wee spoiler for the end of SGA S4.

Is there any doubt after the finale that Dean is Fucked Up? I want some fanfiction, stat, about his last year, and about how selling his soul affected him. Because I refuse to believe that he was all normal, hunky-dory and then suddenly -- HALLUCINATIONS. Also, it would make his stupid as hell behavior this season a little more understandable. (Sadly, though, not Sam's.)

So I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I fucking LOVED the car scene. Everyone I've read has said they hated it, but whatever, I thought it was perfect and sweet and was a great brother moment that we haven't really gotten this season. (Yeah, we've had a lot of overwrought manpain moments, but not many when the boys are just being boys ~~and so fucking in love I can't stand it~~.) And HA. I CALLED Dean being a Bon Jovi fan. TAKE THAT, FANDOM.

(And now I have this random vision where Dean is moaning about Bon Jovi going country, but Sam really diggs it, and then Dean gets "Who Says You Can't Go Home" stuck in his head.)

The little girl creeped me right out, but creepy little children always do. I know, I know, it was lame, whatever, I'm easy. Give me creepy children and I'll enjoy it.

I love Bobby. I would watch the Bobby spin-off. If Bobby is dead, I may possibly have to slit my wrists. I'm also more upset about the possibility of a Bobby death than an actual Dean death, if only because we all know Dean's coming back.

And that's really the kicker, right? Because 90% of the emotional impact that season finale should have had is all gone because, hello, Dean isn't going to be in hell forever. That's just a known fact going in. (Much like the GIANT EXPLOSION 'O DOOM at the end of SGA...hello, we all know they aren't killing off the entire main cast.)

But I teared up. I did. Not so much after the shot of Dean in hell, because, um, over-the-top is generous, there. But jeez, when Sam was holding dead!Dean? Yeah, I got a little emotional.

And for the love of all that's holy, they had freaking better follow up on Sam's powers.

*Um, that's a joke.

gah

2008-05-16T17:26:52Z

Last night's episode broke me into little, itty-bitty pieces. I'll probably post more when I have time...right now I'm drowning under a heavy work schedule and finals week. But just...*wimper*. I knew it was coming, but it still kills me dead.

I LIVE IN THE BEST STATE EVER OMG.

2008-05-15T19:23:36Z

I have not been able to stop smiling since I heard the news.

SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

headdesk

2008-05-09T18:07:46Z

FUCKING SUPERNATURAL.

Let me get the squee out of the way first. *deep breath* OMG KAVAN SMITH!!! Yes, he died and that was sad, but OMG! Yay!

Also, I thought the MOTW was creepy as fuck and while it crossed my squick line (I had to close my eyes and cover my ears a couple times) I thought that whole storyline was totally awesome.

But the episode still sucked giant monkey balls.

1. Dean. What the fuck. "Don't flatter yourself." WHAT THE FUCK. I'm almost incoherently angry right now, and I'm better than I was last night. That was it for me this season. I have been trying to defend Dean's increasingly misogynistic behavior, but that's indefensible, that is SO FUCKING OFFENSIVE, and just taken with all the shit that he has said and done this season...gah. Pissed as hell.

It's shitty writing, most of all, and I still can't believe that line was penned by a woman. Because I cannot like the guy who threatens a girl with sexual assault (and yeah, so he didn't say "I'm gonnna rape you", he had a gun and it was body language, and any chick on the fucking planet would get that vibe) and then says, "Don't flatter yourself". Because that's not UNUSUAL, okay? I've had assholes do that to me, most of my friends have had a situation like that occur, and it's horrible and deeply offensive on so many levels. (And if you need someone to explain why...well, first, go hit yourself with a brick for me, and then read this.)

2. Bella storyline. Because we can't have a ruthless, badass chick. No, that would be too much. She was molested, that explains it. It's annoying on two levels, really...the first being that a woman couldn't be self-serving without some underlying (sexual) trauma, the second that a woman who is sexually abused will grow up damaged and evil. Sigh. I don't have words for how much I hate rape as a plot point. I despise it in fanfic, and it drives me nuts in TV and movies as well.

You didn't need the molestation subplot. There were other ways to make Bella sympathetic...the first being that she made a deal when she was a child. (Because, come on, at 14? Can you imagine how many 14 year olds would make stupid-ass, horrible crossroads deals?) So annoying!

Yeah, I'm gonna keep watching the show, because I love the characters and I really believe that at it's best, SPN is a phenomenal. But I'm starting to feel a little like Luke Skywalker, here. I know there's good in the show! I can feel it!

Sigh. I'm gonna glut myself on fanfiction tonight.

(PS: The discussion in esorlehcar's post is pretty good.)

Really?

2008-04-30T17:47:04Z

Dude. Why do all of my favorite sci-fi writers have to be so batshit?

Quote:

Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.

“The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by illegal aliens who aren’t going to pay for anything anyway,” Niven said.

And Ringworld is one of my favorite novels, too. Sigh.

More Ani-Recaps!

2008-04-28T04:16:06Z

A couple more half-assed recaps. Sorry it took so long to get more out, but, uh, I've been a little busy.

Book #2: The Visitor

Summary: The Animorphs decided to infiltrate Principal Chapman's house to learn more about the Yeerks. When exploiting her tentative friendship with Chapmen's daughter, Melissa, doesn't work out, Rachel morphs into Melissa's cat and sneaks into the house. She gets caught and taken to Visser Three, but the Animorphs manage to rescue her with their usual dumb luck and overall insanity. Well, they also use an earthmover.

Comments:

I love how K.A. decides to give us batshit insane Rachel right from chapter one. "Oh noes, people are shooting at us! Let's...DIVE BOMB THEM!" Also, I can't believe everyone went along with her idea without complaint. Come on, Marco. You're falling down on your job as the voice of reason.

(Of course, the one redneck saying to his buddy, "That ain't right. It ain't right that no bird should take my rifle like that," always makes me laugh.)

On the way home from gymnastic practice, Rachel gets chased by a pervert. So she does the only sensible thing and morphs into an elephant in broad daylight. Okay, okay, I know it's all bad for security and whatever, but I'm with Cassie: I would have wanted to see the look on the creep's face, too.

"You know what we need?" I said. "We need another kitty. We should have thought of that. Then we could have the second cat call out to Fluffer."

Marco turned to stare at me. "Meowfluffer, comeoutmeow, meow come and play meow?"

I <3 Marco!

God, the whole Melissa sublot is so frigging depressing. I defy anyone to read "What did I do, Fluffer? Why don't they love me anymore?" and not get a little teary. And then this little scene...

"But why didn't you just tell me that?"

Chapman looked confused. "I...I didn't notice you."

Melissa stepped back like she'd been slapped. "But Daddy, I was crying."

"Sorry." Chapman shrugged.

::sniffle::

So, like, does Melissa get anything more than a mention until MM4? Because damn. That girl is going to be fucked up.

It's a decent book with some good moments, but the plot is just "meh" for me, and it pisses me off that we never hear from Melissa.

Rating: B-

Book #3: The Encounter

Summary: Angst. There's a cloaked ship in the woods. More angst. The ship is collecting air and water. Even more angst. The Animorphs decide to morph into fish, swim up the collecting tubes into the ship, and then uncloak it so the world can see it. Tobias does his best emo impression. Also, he crushes on a girl hawk. (In other words: angst.) The plan goes terribly wrong and they barely make it out alive, while not really accomplishing anything. And then Tobias angsts poetically. The End.

Comments:

Let's just get this out of the way up front: On a creepy scale, where does the Tobias/Girl Hawk romance fall? I was skeeved by that as a ten year old.

Rachel and Tobias team up to save a bird. I think, like, 70% of the books open with this sort of scenario.

Marco and I will probably never be very close. Aw. This just makes the latter books where he, Marco, and Ax are the three (gay) musketeers so much cooler.

I guess I felt that if I ever started to feel really sorry for myself, I might never stop. Wow. Okay, so that explains the entire book.

"Excuse me," Marco said. "But does anyone ever stop to realize that some of the things we talk about doing are totally INSANE?"

"What? Turning into a fish, so we can be carried by a hawk and let ourselves be sucked up the pipe of an alien spaceship, so that we can then turn into tigers and gorillas and whatever and overpower the creepy aliens?" Rachel said. "Is that what you mean by insane?"

"That's it exactly."

Ah, Marco/Rachel banter. Why didn't they get together again? It's a much more natural (and interesting) pairing. (Yeah, okay, so Marco/Rachel is my favorite het pairing. But Marco/Ax will always be my OTP to end all OTPs.) *hides from all the T/R shippers*

But, okay, I guess I'll have to quote:

"Rachel...I never told you..."

"You didn't have to, Tobias," she said. "I knew. Good-bye."

So now you can't kill me, shippers. :p

Man, this book bores me to tears. I really don't like Tobias all that much (though he does get cooler as the series progresses), or, rather, I don't like Tobias books. Too thin on plot and way too heavy on the emo birdpain.

Grade: D

Surgery Update!

2008-04-25T20:37:11Z

So I'm still alive. Everything went pretty well, I think, and I'm recovering quickly.

I got to the hospital at 10:30, then waited around for four hours until surgery. Everyone was super nice, though. :) The hardest part pre-surgery was putting in the IV (I'm a really hard stick, and it took almost 30 minutes to get the IV in my hand), but the anesthesiologist was great. The surgery itself took about 2 1/2 hours -- of course, that's according to the parents, as I was obviously not around for that. During surgery, they took my stomach (previously the size of a football) and created a new pouch (now about the size of a finger). They also bypassed about five feet of intestine and connected it to my new tummy pouch.

After surgery, I woke up in the recovery room, and started praying for death. OMG PAIN. It took awhile for them to bring it back under control, but when they did, I was reunited with my parents in my (thankfully private) room. I had a totally awesome button I could push whenever I wanted more pain meds, and by about 11pm, I was feeling pretty good. This was actually not so good, because I dropped my CD player, and without thinking (like I said, I was feeling awesome), I rolled over out of bed to pick it up. OUCH. Then I spent the next four hours trying to get the pain back under control.

The doctor sent me home Tuesday morning. I was given the option of spending an extra day in the hospital, but I figured, what the hell, I'm feeling good, let's go home. Um, no. If I could do anything over again, it would be that. Day Two sucked giant monky balls. I couldn't find a comfortable position at all (and boy, how I was missing my adjustable hospital bed) and I could no longer shoot pain meds right into my IV, I had to take them orally, but of course I couldn't keep them down. Day Two was spent being miserable and weepy and nauseous and generally regretting everything and wishing I would just die already. Day Two, yes, has capital letters now, because it's suck was EPIC. And now whenever my brother makes some crack about surgery being cheating, or taking the "easy way", I'm like, "DAY TWO MOTHERFUCKER."

Day three was marginallly better, mostly because I could keep down the pain meds. Day four I felt almost normal, aside from some annoying twinges in my abdomen. And today I feel really hunky dory. Still a little sore, and I've got a wicked headache. Also, mood swings liek whoa, but I'm blaming the vicodin for that, because I generally have a pretty bad reaction to vicodin.

Weird shit: I'm not hungry at all, which is just creepy, as I haven't had any food since Saturday. (Protein drinks and water, that's all.) So, okay, that works. I pretty much have to force myself to get anything down (eating makes me feel sick), but luckily, I haven't had any upchuck issues since Day Two. Also, I have terrible breath that frequent brushing isn't really helping. Sigh.

I lost 13 lbs by the time I made it to the hospital, which was great (the doctor wanted me to lose 5-10 lbs pre-surgery). I haven't weighed myself since then...they warned me at the hospital that weight loss might be initially slow, a) because they filled me up with tons of fluid, and b) because all the weight I lost pre-surgery was probably water weight, and now I've got to lose genuine weight, which takes longer. But I'm not really stressing about it. It'll happen when it happens. :)

I really appreciate everyone's prayers and good thoughts! So far, this has been a (mostly) good experience.

Shame

2008-04-19T04:47:18Z

Just typing this out kind of makes me want to shoot myself, but, um...I kinda sorta love Miley Cyrus. "See You Again" is such a cute song, and I've been playing it all day. But come on, these lyrics...

The last time I freaked out
I just kept looking down
I st-st-stuttered when you asked me what I'm thinking about
Felt like I couldn't breath
You asked what's wrong with me
My best friend Lesley said "Oh she's just being Miley"
The next time we hang out
I will redeem myself
My heart it can't rest till then
Whoa Whoa I
I can't wait to see you again

...are totally adorable.

My mental age is like 13, I guess.

::blush::

2008-04-18T06:02:49Z

This is probably the most narcissistic meme ever, but what the hell, everyone else is doing it. Stolen from mizzmarvel, but I've seen it everywhere.

If you would like, please 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. I don't care how long or short the excerpt is.

All my stuff is here.

O.o

2008-04-17T20:24:15Z

What. The. Fuck.

Seriously, I don't get it. This isn't art, this is batshit insane, and disturbs me on a level I can't quite articulate.

::shudders::

ETA: Actually, it's all fake. (I still think it's massively gross, though.)

ETA 2: Or maybe it's real after all. WHAT.

not dead, honest

2008-04-17T03:45:50Z

I'm really not dead. Or even seriously injured. Just, between school, work, big bang fic, and getting ready for surgery (OMG MONDAY!!!), I'm not having a lot of time to be all posty. I probably won't have much time to update in the next couple weeks, but I will try to let you all know how the surgery goes (again, OMG MONDAY).

Although I do want to say, real quick, that I got the cutest damn haircut in the world. I might post pictures if I could ever find my digital camera. ;)

ETA: Um, really?

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headdesk

2008-04-07T15:44:18Z

You know, if we're going pick a president based on how they eat (or don't eat) a cheesesteak or their bowling score, we really don't deserve democracy.

Sigh.

YAY

2008-04-05T00:10:09Z

So last night I went to the My Chemical Romance show with ataniell93, who is as awesome in RL as she is on the internets. It's always fun to meet LJ friends in RL, and last night was no exception.

The concert itself...okay, so I'm probably going to be pelted with rocks for saying this, but if I was Supreme Ruler of All, My Chemical Romance would have opened for Billy Talent, instead of the other way around. Billy Talent kicked so much ass last night. I think the highlight of the entire show, for me, was when they did Fallen Leaves, although Red Flag was pretty fucking awesome, too. Benjamin Kowalewicz (lead singer) is so insanely talented, and it was pure joy to be able to watch him live. LOVE.

MCR was awesome. Of course. What else would you expect? Tragically, I was hoping for a little kissy groping (I've seen the pictures my bandom friends have thrust upon me), but not so much. But the music was great, Ray Toro was ridiculously good (I just adore him) and Gerard was fucking adorable, so yeah. Cute. I enjoyed it loads. Way worth the money.

After the concert, my mom was late picking me up (*insert epic sigh*), and ataniell93 didn't want me hanging out in front of the Warfield, so she brought me home with her, because she is made of win. Then I pulled up Google Maps and directed my poor mother through San Francisco, like a real live TomTom. That was fun.

All in all, SUPER AWESOME night!

Fat Vegan DRAMA

2008-03-31T07:00:13Z

I had a not-so-happy work experience, today.

While setting up the store, a group of us started talking. Somehow, the subject of diet came about, and I was surprised (and happy) to learn that one of the girls was also a vegan. I love meeting other vegan people, because we'll always end up exchanging recipes and commiserating about the realities of being vegan in a omnivore's world. The other girls were really curious about being vegan, so I shared some of my experience and gave them some advice.

A little while later, Vegan Girl cornered me, and she was angry. "You shouldn't say you're a vegan when you're not," she snapped.

"Um, I am a vegan?"

"You're so fat," she said. "You can't be a real vegan and be fat."

So at this point, I'm straddling the line between being totally humiliated and totally pissed, and I kind of wanted to punch her smirking face. I mean, what the fuck? Why do people think it's ever okay to say something like that? You know, with as much static as I get about my weight, I still am always shocked by people's behavior.

I could have educated Vegan Girl about my health problems which led to excessive weight gain. I could have talked about how all bodies are different, and while a vegan diet might keep most people nice and trim, that certainly isn't the case for everyone. I could have said that vegan doesn't always equal healthy. I could have even admitted that no, I haven't been strictly vegan because I'm preparing for WLS, but I was a vegan for a long time without ever losing much weight.

Instead, I said, "Think what you want. It doesn't matter to me, and it doesn't change the facts. I'm not going to argue with you."

Then, as the icing on her fucked up bitch cake, she told me, "You shouldn't tell people you're a vegan. People won't want to become vegan if they think they'll get fat. You're hurting the movement."

I kind of gaped at her, and she went back to her work before I could respond. I wish I could have thought of something witty and cutting to say, but honestly, I still don't have a response. What do you say to something like that? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Vegan Girl was from another store and had just come down to help us set up, so I'm glad I won't have to work with her on a regular basis. It's just...hours later, and I'm still a big mess of embarassment and hurt and anger. I like to think that I don't care what people think about me, that ignorant opinions don't matter, but...I guess they do.

(PS: I blame PETA)

Blog Against Torture Day

2008-03-28T22:42:56Z

Torture is wrong. The End.

(ataniell93 has a much better post up on the subject. I'm so insanely angry that there's debate about torture, in 2008, in America, that I can't even articulate right now.)

I almost feel like a grown-up.

2008-03-28T05:20:12Z

So I keep hearing about the X-files movie that they're (finally, finally) making. And it is so weird, because five years ago, I would have been FREAKING OUT, gobbling up every bit of news and second guessing the casting and just basically hyperventilating ten times a day over the movie, but now...I don't care? It's almost sad, how little I care, when X-files was such a HUGE part of my adolescence. Sigh.

In other, real life news, I am loving my job. Bath and Body Works is the coolest place to work, ever. It's impossible to be sad when I'm there. Everything smells good, and everyone who comes in is happy, and there's bouncy music playing, and it's almost not like work at all (except for the ENDLESS BOXES I have to go through, but whatever). Also, employee discount! My boss is super awesome and my coworkers are great. Okay, so it's only been three weeks and this might just be the honeymoon period, but for right now, I am loving it. :)

Happy Easter!

2008-03-24T19:44:38Z

I hope everyone had a good Easter! Or a good Purim. Or, you know, a good weekend, for those of you who weren't observing any holiday. :)

My Easter was incredibly normal. We had an Easter brunch at church, like always. I sang "I Know My Redeemer Lives." Like always. As a congregation, like always, we sang, "He Arose," "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" and "The Easter Song" then put those songs away for another year. (Question: Why does every traditional Easter song go so incredibly high?) Then we had a big Easter dinner at home with tons of people, like always.

My mom made Resurrection Buns and they were, like always, completely delicious. (Resurrection Buns, for those not in the know, are made with sweet roll dough wrapped around a marshmallow. When you cook the rolls, the marshmallow melts, leaving the roll hollow inside. Like an empty tomb, get it? Resurrection Bun? Silly, I know, but very yummy.)

So yay, Easter was awesome, and now I'm on Spring Break, which is double awesome. :)

fanfic laziness

2008-03-20T07:45:43Z

I wrote a SGA fic this week. Not to brag, but the beginning is great, and the end is solid, and I even managed to write decently hot sex, for once. So I was feeling pretty good, until I read the whole thing over again, and realized that without even trying, I can pick out like 10 plot holes. Sigh.

Yeah, I could gut the thing and rework it, but...I'm incredibly lazy. And I just plain don't care that much. I think I'll keep it, though, and cannibalize it later. (I've got a whole folder called "The Chop Shop" where I keep fics that suck ass but have some redeeming qualities, and borrow when I need spare parts for other fics.)

Wow.

2008-03-19T04:50:04Z

And this is why I'm an Obama Girl.

It so refreshing to have someone so articulate and intelligent running for president, instead of a rush to the lowest common denominator. Obama isn't trying to convince us that we want to have a beer with him, he's trying to convince us that he has the intelligence and conviction to help solve the deep problems of our country -- problems beyond "oooh, brown people are going to hurt us! -- problems that don't get addressed in a serious way by politicians, like racism and homophobia and religious bigotry.

I don't agree with Obama on every issue -- his position on gay marriage, for one, infuriates me -- but I do believe that his stance on issues is thoughtfully considered, rational, and open to change with new information.

I do think it's sad, though, that I'm looking at this video going, "Oh my God! We could have a president who can speak intelligently," and that's, like, not a given. Sigh.

Animorphs Recaps

2008-03-16T07:05:38Z

So in a fit of nostalgia, I've begun re-reading my Animorphs collection. For the last couple years, I've mostly cracked them open for scene-specific fic research, but I haven't gone through the whole series in ages. (As a wee thing, I used to re-read the entire series, in order, once every few months. Because I am a huge nerd.)

Inspired by poisonivory's BSC reviews, I've decided to comment the books as I read them. These won't be super in-depth, and, disclaimer, I'm not even going to attempt to make this a regular thing. My goal is to have a new entry every week or so, but I'm pretty busy right now, so it'll happen when it happens. :)

Oh, PS, my commentary is going to include spoilers through the whole series. I'd apologize, but the series has been complete for seven years, now.

Summary: Five kids take a shortcut through a construction site, meet an alien who lets them in on the secret invasion of Earth, get superpowers, try to be heroic, and then get their asses handed to them. And it's awesome.

Comments:

Aw, Jake has a Sega at home. I miss the 90's.

Poor Tobias. He was introduced to us with his head in a toilet. It's an omen. ::pets him::

As always, Jake gives the "she's my cousin so I don't really think about her that way" disclaimer before going on for a paragraph about how totally hot Rachel is. Shippers, don't kill me, but Jake and Rachel have more chemistry than Rachel/Tobias and Jake/Cassie combined.

But, no, we learn that Jake likes Cassie. Enough that he keeps an eye on how she wears her hair, and has a preference for it short. For some reason, that always amuses me. Maybe because I have three little brothers, and I would have to shave my head before they'd notice my hair was different.

God. Re-reading the construction site scene, knowing the backstory, makes my chest hurt a little.

Thought-speak was hella cooler in this book. Sending images? Sending emotions? Being able to send thoughts when you weren't in morph? Too bad they lost that later on. Also:
And this...this warm...this...I don't have any words to explain it. It was just like this warmth that spread all through me. It was like when you're a little kid and you've had a terrible nightmare and you've woken up screaming. You know how you used to feel better when your mom or dad would turn on the light and come in and sit beside you in bed? That's what it was like.

Dude. Thought-speak Ativan. Awesome.

You know, Visser Three got pretty cartoonish as the series went on, and I'd forgotten that in the beginning, he was fucking hardcore.

The scene with Tobias and Jake will never stop being funny. Tobias, at the start of the book, is this loser kid who "figured [Jake] was his friend" and kind of invites himself along, but a couple chapters later, Jake knows some pretty intimate details of his life, including his cat's name and all his family drama. My explanation? Secret boyfriends.

"He looked at me with those deep, troubled eyes -- eyes I can now only see in my memory." Ooooh, foreshadowing. Also, so gay.

"Tobias knelt down and patted my head. When he scratched me behind the ears, I felt a little better." Okay, boyfriends, and I want fanart of this scene now. How cute is that?

Woe, Tom. Until the end of the series, I truly expected them to save Tom. Jake losing EVERYONE instead just kicked me in the gut. Which makes the earlier optimism all the more tragic. (And also explains Jake's "fuck it" attitude in the last arc.)

"Not me," Tobias said softly. He smiled his sad, crooked smile. "It's true. No one gives a rat's rear about me." Aw. Buck up, little camper.

I don't care what anyone says, Cassie rocks. "We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves." And Jake just plays along: "We need to get some help from Mother Earth's toughest children." So cute.

Also, I think it's funny how Cassie and her parents are all vegetarian, "save the animals" etc., but are totally cool with the zoo-slash-amusement park. Right, because those types of places are totally known for being great for animals. ::eyeroll::

In response to Cassie worrying about her test the next day: Rachel laughed. "We may not have to worry about tomorrow." Wow, Rachel is psycho from day one.

"My family is very old fashioned about dinner. We all have to sit at the table. No TV." That's considered old fashioned? That makes me sad. :(

So the newly-minted Animorphs embark on the first of their many dumb, suicidal plans. Jake hasn't yet learned that he needs to listen to Marco. He's still following Rachel's advice. Idiot.

POOR TOBIAS. ::sniff::

"Come on, Tobias," I said. "Morph back. You can stay here. I'll even let you have the bed."

And, in conclusion: boyfriends.

Grade: A

James Dean

2008-03-14T05:38:05Z

Valarie just loves shitty teen dramas. You know--misfit kids, high school hell, usually a suicide attempt or some cutting. Her favorite movie is Odd Girl Out, which she watches at least once a week and usually cries over. Gag me with a spoon.

In desperation, I decided to get the ultimate angsty outsider teen movie, and rented Rebel Without a Cause, which she had never even heard of. She was willing to give it a try, though I was a little worried that she'd get bored, because it's a very different style of movie than what she usually likes. While the movie was playing, I couldn't see or hear her--she was on the top bunk, I was on the bottom--so I wasn't sure what she was thinking, until the end, when from above me I heard great gulping sobs, and a choked-up, "Wow."

So, uh, the movie was a hit. Also, she has a huge crush on James Dean, now. Go me. :)

STRESS STRESS STRESS

2008-03-13T17:51:11Z

Just finished my Western Civ. midterm. Whoosh. It was an essay question that was so broad--"Trace the rise of the British, French, German, Russian, and Japanese Empires and their impact on the rest of the world"--it could have been re-worded "Please write down every word that has come out of my mouth since the beginning of the semester" and would have achieved the same result. We had an hour and half, and after forty-five minutes, I finished up Great Britain and freaked when I realized I still had four countries left. I squeezed everything in with a minute-thirty left to spare, and while it's far from the best thing I've ever written, I do hope it'll be acceptable. I got a 94% on the objective part of the midterm (taken two days ago, she splits the midterm over two sessions...100 pt. objective, 100 pt. essay), so I have a little wiggle room. Not a lot, but enough that I'm not stressing out too bad.

My American history midterm in an hour and a half, however...*silently screams*

Oh well, by this time next week I'll be all done with midterms. Yay.

But this little bit of Supernatural (gen) fanart just made my day.

ETA: All done for today! Other than confusing the various conquistadors, I think I did alright.

nerdy naughty meme

2008-03-12T01:42:48Z

Stolen from lordhellebore...

List 10 fictional characters you'd have sex with.

For my own purposes, I'm going to assume that each character is completely unattached, because I ain't no homewrecker. ;)

1) JEANNIE MILLER OMG. So yeah, I may have a wee bit of a crush on her. All the McKay genius and adorability wrapped up a (hot) girl package? *swoon*

2) Elizabeth Shelby. Look, I can't explain it, either, but I've been a tinsy bit in love with her since I saw Best of Both Worlds at age 9.

3) Kat Mueller. Because she kicks ass.

4) Dana Scully. Um. Obviously. Does that even need explanation?

5) Elizabeth Bennet. BBC miniseries version. Snarky and gorgeous.

6) Dawn Schafer. Cute, healthy-food lovin' environmentalist with a totally gay little brother? Yummy.

7) Willow Rosenberg. Quirky, brilliant, and cute: my type in a nutshell.

8) Anne of Green Gables. Um...quirky-brilliant-cute? Check.

9) Rodney McKay. Sigh. I want to make geeky babies with him. (And, uh, again: quirky, brilliant, cute.)

10) And because I'm a giant dyke cliche, I've got to say Shane from the L-Word.

Part of me wants to say Dean Winchester, because he's so epically attractive, but he's also been a sexist fuckwad this season, and I'd spend the entire encounter afraid I was getting an STD.

Also, I was considering Marianne Dashwood, but then I realized I wanted Kate Winslet, not the character. :)

I want everyone on my flist to do this one! It's fun. :)

...wha?

2008-03-10T07:44:35Z

Would Christ Carry a Concealed Weapon?

I...I don't have words.

Just. Really? Really? This isn't satire? Someone truly believes this?

Sigh.

It took me three tries to get through the piece because I kept having to reboot my brain.

Shopping sucks.

2008-03-08T20:05:06Z

Look, I know it's my own fault. I'm too picky.

But darn it, it is really really hard (or, I'm thinking, impossible) to find cute, modest, plus-sized, fair-trade vegan clothing.

ETA: Ask and you shall recieve. Deva Lifeware is awesome. Maybe not the greatest selection in my size, but much better than nothing. :)

Eppy's Space

SPN S3 finale post.

gah

I LIVE IN THE BEST STATE EVER OMG.

*headdesk*

Really?

More Ani-Recaps!

Surgery Update!

Shame

::blush::

O.o

not dead, honest

*headdesk*

YAY

Fat Vegan DRAMA

Blog Against Torture Day

I almost feel like a grown-up.

Happy Easter!

fanfic laziness

Wow.

Animorphs Recaps

James Dean

STRESS STRESS STRESS

nerdy naughty meme

...wha?

Shopping sucks.

headdesk

headdesk