Engaged in an epic quest of finding healthier things to drink than diet soda and fruit juice. I'm trying to teach myself to like the taste of tea by buying sweetened and flavored tea products, and things with vanilla. So far seltzer water and flavored water are failing, but the sweetened tea and the vanilla latte are mild successes (e.g. I could force myself to drink them). I'm going to try seltzer water mixed with juice.

Failing at the second half of springkink. I took those prompts to get me started writing, but there ended up being so many that now every time I think I should write, I end up thinking "AHHHH I'M SO LATE THE PRESSUREEEE /does something else"


In exciting news, Marina is doing a canon fourth-wall event, which is going to be epicccc and right now GIR is the warden, which is being pretty epic sdfljkslkgj. I'm also apping Fran from Final Fantasy XII, which will give me a whopping full plate of Lelouch, Gino, Roxas, Allen, Orihime, and Fran. In short, I'm going to kill myself.

If anyone knows any Lenalee/Link/Crowley players, point them my wayyyy? I would kill for them to get in this app period. And Kallens... I'm nervous about the cast filling up again without one.


Will post later with Bleach thoughts. Cheesecake Factory!

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...yogurt is an ingredient in yogurt-making. Why is that so creepy.

I've been laughing at how completely The Last Airbender is tanking, even without all the race issues. But some of the things M. Night says really kind of anger me. "I'm the only Asian director in Hollywood, so I can cast whoever I want and it isn't racist!" "I made all the other groups culturally diverse, so why not make this one group that happens to have two of the lead characters, Caucasian? And the lead actor looks vaguely ethnic so pretend he isn't Caucasian!" "I included black people so my movie is even more racially diverse than the source material!" Just. Get out.

I've been playing SMT: Devil Survivor, for completely innocent reasons, not at all related to the fact that Allen is dating the main character in Marina. Goddamnit. I'm almost to Day 6, trying for the Amane route, since that's the one "Riddle" is from... But I'm also behind. I have two springkink prompts due tomorrow: Aizen/Gin and Hitsugaya/Hinamori. I'm not done with either, but have started both. So, uh. I should do that.

.../plays more DeSu

New laptop tomorrow, since the motherboard on my old one failed. Life is hard.

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Ten things your sign hates...

Virgo

People who are messy or disorganized - kinda?
People who do not return calls - I am this person.
People who don't wear watches - No.
People who don't do their taxes - kinda?
People who don't return memos - I am this person.
Wasting time on Facebook - AS OF MY ESCAPE FROM FACEBOOK, YES.
People who use bad grammar - Yes.
People who swear too much - kinda?
Emotional confrontations or scenes - Lord yes.
Stand up comedians - No I love stand-up comedy. :(

/dorkything

...just to make this entry less pointless. I claimed a bunch of things for springkink, 2/3rds of them Bleach. There were zero prompts for Code Geass that I was interested in, but I did get caught by a DGM, a FFXII, and a Tales of the Abyss prompt.

I've already finished one of them! More to come on this shortly.

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This is not as funny, IMHO, as my Diamond Dust Rebellion writeup, because that I strung together from my main thoughts, and this I wrote from my Twitter observations, so this is more of an actual opinionated recap. I post it regardless.


( This movie's premise is that Rukia is visited by the whimsy fairy, and loses her memories. )


I think I'm going to have to say that in terms of plot, the first movie is the best, both for lack of COMPLETELY impossible things, and for actually not falling back on the "long lost best friend you forgot about" schtick. (Just the memory loss part.) Third movie is best in animation, and second movie is best... in... volume of Hitsugaya angst. I got nothing.

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Li and I are watching some mediocre anime Bleach for the lulz! Second movie, third movie, then zanpakutou arcs lololol. Anyway, thoughts on the second movie! I didn't Twitter them but I should have.

( First off, a summary of the premise for those of you who haven't seen it. Then: on to Renji's belief that punching is better than CPR. )

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Okay, so, caught up on Glee. libekory and I agreed that we like this show 50% for the music numbers, and 50% for Sue Sylvester. When we started watching, the first thing we said to each other was, "You know, I like this because it doesn't take itself too seriously!" It was like 30 Rock: everyone was so completely absurd that you just laughed at them all the time.

...halfway through the season that changed. Everything became very serious and dramaful. Are there still humorous statements and cracky absurdity? Yes, but. Now everything is very Serious, too. We're not enjoying like -- any of the plotlines. For instance:

( Cut for spoilers for pretty much every plotline in the last two episodes. )

At some point everyone's drama started taking over the show. And there's been LESS Sue and LESS awesome musical numbers. (They're flashier, with bigger budgets, but Li is upset over synthesizers, FYI.) I miss when it was 30 Rock, but with musical numbers: when everyone was a ridiculous caricature and I could just have fun with it.

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We're watching Glee, and I'm enjoying myself, really. The characters are neat, the music is good, and it's just a -- fun spectacle of a show.

But I have one complaint: In "Preggers" and "Rhodes Not Taken", Rachel quits the club because Will assigned a song from West Side Story to another girl in the club, when Rachel had specifically said that she'd like to do any song from West Side Story, because she deeply relates to the main characters, and has been in love with the play since she was an infant. His excuse is that Rachel already does a lot of songs; he wants this other girl to have a chance to be the star.

That's reasonable. But making it this song is not. It's deliberately slapping Rachel in the face. Unless he did it on purpose like to teach her a lesson, or he has so little respect for her that he just ignores her when she talks, this doesn't make sense.

Rachel's a prima donna. It would have been easy to establish that, say, she has requested the songs for the lead role from every play ever. But we don't say that. Rachel emphasizes that this play, this role, is one she's always been dying to do justice to, and for no reason other than "Well I choose this precise moment and song to let someone else be the lead", she gets shafted.

But the show doesn't seem to notice. Rachel loses track of the emotional appeal of her argument and instead just argues that she's the best so she should get to sing whatever she wants; even though the club is falling apart without her, Will learns a completely irrelevant lesson about chasing an old girlfriend, and seems to think that they should do it without Rachel if she's going to leave. He doesn't show any awareness that her leaving is because of a very deliberate and very informed decision on his part; he actively is a brat to her.

And then -- and then in the end, they don't even do the West Side Story song, and Will's old girlfriend becomes the lead in everything! Without her, the show collapses! So if it's cool to make one woman the only important member of the troupe, and that woman used to be Rachel, why did he make her leave in the first place over a song that he had no reason not to let her sing, or intention to ever perform?! This forces Rachel to come crawling back to the glee club at the last moment, trying to help them, and they're rude to her. Will making a big deal out of this succeeded in making an already unpopular girl even more of an outcast! What is this??

...So, there is a gripe. Me applying too much logic to a show about caricatures singing and dancing. Don't mind me, like I said, it's a great fun spectacle show, I love the song numbers and I'm not precisely in it for the awesome realistic characters. But I can't stop analyzing things that I'm watching, so -- there you go.

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sldkfjlskg I was just thinking about forking out for a paid account for Orihimeeeee~ ♥

Now Lelouch and Orihime are permanent, Gino is paid, Allen is paid, and I don't need more icons for Roxas. I am a total winner. ♥

/hunts more Orihime icons
//tries not to write an essay about Hinamori

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Yeah, I'm back into Bleach again. Partly my playing Orihime again, partly the awesome of recent chapters.

Getsuga Tenshou sdflkdsjlgkj hahahaha, we copped out on the Rangiku confrontation this time but I had glee at the end.

( More rambling, for the last few chapters and more, cut for spoilers. )

Yeah, I'm back into Bleach.

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Wait I remember now.

Birth By Sleep! Kingdom Hearts! Leonard Nimoy as Master Xehanort. And Mark Hamill! And James Woods? I knew they would have an awesome voice cast, because -- Kingdom Hearts, it's big-budget, they always have awesome voice cast. But this is an unexpected amount of awesome and it's making me happy. Excitement level +9000! I've loved everything I've seen (and played) of this game and I want to have it. Why isn't it out until September argggh.

Way to revive my flagging interest in Kingdom Hearts. ...although it has to compete with my renewed interest in everything else. Stupid interest in things.

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First of all, Bleach 404: LOL GIN YOU ARE SUCH A CREEPER. I love him. He was amazingly awesome this chapter, and sfkjsldkgj Rangiku and sdldfkjsldk Gin/Aizen and Gin/Rangiku why do you make it so hard to choose.

The only thing awesomer than that clusterfuck is Yoruichi because -- ngh. Like every panel of her in 403. *fans self* I went back and read my Yoruichi/Urahara sentences. Those were really good.

...and the only thing that could make all this happier for me is if Aizen would get out of that gimpsuit and go back to also being hot. The gimpsuit is -- kind of weirding me out.

There were other things I wanted to say, but I forgot what it was.

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Surprise Shadow Labyrinth run! My first real time tanking as a druid, and Li's first real time healing as a priest. We were with a decent hunter (a little dumb), and a warrior and a dk, both of whom were totally fail. Each took a turn wiping us with stupidity.

But overall I did a good job tanking, and Li did a good job healing, and then we got to Murmur

Wiped once, due to stupidity

On the second try, there was more stupid, and I lied to Li about a good strategy. We lost the warrior -- then the dk -- then the hunter

Then it was just me and Li

And the instant Li got killed, he went down.

I was the last bear standing. |D

I was also second on the damage dealt chart after the hunter, and took over 50% of all the damage despite the warrior and the dk failing to understand how aggro works, so, success! I was also second on the healing done chart, lol Leader of the Pack. Hit level 71 after turning in the Murmur quest. \o\

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Aaaaand meme! Taken from ladycrysiana:


→ Give me an AU and I'll write you a short scene from it.

It can be an AU with a change of events ("What if Lelouch had accepted Clovis's offer to go home with him?"), or an AU with a different setting ("What if Lelouch and Suzaku lived in the Kingdom Hearts universe?"). No direct crossovers plz.


Fandoms: Code Geass, D. Gray-man, Bleach, Kingdom Hearts; Final Fantasy (6-7-9-10-13?), Tales of (the Abyss-Symphonia-Vesperia), Xenogears, The World Ends With You, Warcraft, Marina Asylum canon!
You can use other fandoms you know I know for the base setting -- like, putting Kingdom Hearts characters in a Persona 4 setting.

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Well, that was less than a success. The person apping someone very important to my character turned out to be in chat. I introduced myself avidly and was completely ignored! Even when I pointed out that I had said something! This does not assuage my discontent.

I forgot to fangirl about Bleach! This chapter made me flail a little like a fangirl. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. Gin still says Captain Aizen! They are still awesome together! Isshin and Ichigo bickering, hee! Plot revelations! URAHARA!


Meme tomorrow, I have a rage headache from something unrelated and amazingly minor, I don't know why I flipped out so much over it.

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Despite all signs pointing towards total disaster, like libekory having a nearly completely sucky birthday -- saved only by improv strawberry shortcake and the love of a few crazy people from Marina who are amazing -- I'm having a pretty okay week. Today is Earth Day (?) and both Baskin Robbins and Chipotle are having ridiculous deals, so I'm thinking of getting in on that.

Playing a lot of WoW since there was some drama in my tiny guild, as related by maladaptive, who were so desperate for a tank they brought in a creeper, so I obviously needed to be leveling my bear druid some more. I'm awesome though -- she went up like four levels in three days and is a few bars from 70 now, so I've started messing around in Borean Tundra.

Having now officially watched the Thrall quest chain in Nagrand, I feel comfortable saying again that Horde is so much cooler than Alliance it's not even fair. (And that Garrosh is a tool and will never be a good Warchief, and everyone knows it.) (P.S.: Saurfang loves me.) So excited for Cataclysmmmm.

On the other hand, not playing a lot of FFXIII -- the linearity doesn't bother me, and I like it, but I think it's weighing on me when I consider playing it. Still early in chapter 11.

In Marina news, I'm really enjoying current events, and I think the new app system is totally working for me; I'm excited about incoming apps starting Sunday, less burnt out on new people and app review. We have another Sora reserve, which I have mixed feelings about, because Roxas is doing kind of better without one and I don't feel we really need more cast, but I'll talk to the player. Awesome can change my mind about anything. ♥

...but I suddenly find myself with an intense interest in Riku/Roxas that I've never had before. And now I want a Riku so bad. But I also don't think we need more cast. Aieee

Imma do a writing meme later. *pumps fist* I wrote a cg_flashfic piece as per my assignment, which can only be described as gargantuan at over 4200 words, and I'm still not sure I like it as much as I wanted to. I think this can be remedied by writing... more of it.

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sfkjlskfjslgj "Ban" "Kai" omgggg DO WANT WHEN'S NEXT WEEK sdkfjsldgjl I literally gasped with excitement. Oh god I'm a loser.

Also, I'm not surprised that the line "The son of a shinigami and a..." was revised to "The son of a human and a..." -- I feel like they were trying to build up tension by dramatically revealing Ichigo's lineage to Ichigo, not to us, we already knew, but he didn't; instead it unintentionally made it seem like there was something even more dramatic at the end of that sentence, so we were all waiting to hear what Masaki was. But her sacrifice is sort of diluted if she was also a superhuman who just happened to die really super easily, so I'm not surprised they went "Whoops, that sent out the wrong signals... Pretend it didn't happen!"

Oh hey there's technically spoilers in there.

SPOILER: LAST CHAPTER WAS A LIE.

P.S., Isshin and Ichigo's conversation was kind of adorable. They're so cute. *ruffles their spiky hair*

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Soon, Earth Hourrrrr

I have like no candles and barely any flashlights, so I expect it to be -- very dark. I will however be attempting to do more writing during the hour, so that should be fun. I, I may still be online. I plan to use Twitter, at least.



Got a haircut yesterday, and it seems to be turning out okay now that I've showered and styled it myself. Whew.

I'm doing a lot of new things I historically haven't, like -- buying and wearing accessories, buying and wearing clothes that fit and flatter me, dressing nicely every time I leave the house instead of only when there's an "occasion". I feel good doing it and I think I look good doing it, but damn, I still am having difficulty taking good pictures of myself. Sigh. But I feel like -- I've gone up from a 3 to a 5!

...I'm working on it, Dad.

Okay, going to try to get in some more FFXIII before I turn out the lights and stuff!

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I just realized something.

I read this article about a crazy redneck using his stereotypical pickup truck to attack a man and a little girl in a car with an Obama bumper sticker. Joshes thought it was sad, but I don't think the pair was hurt, and the crazy guy was arrested for stupidity with a vehicle. I was like "lol good, go rot in jail where you can't vote anyone stupid in office".

and then I had a vision of the future

a beautiful future, you guys

It is a future in which the especially crazy frothing at the mouth teabaggers have all committed various forms of vandalism, assault, conspiracy to assassinate a sitting president, etc, and they all get put in jail.

That leaves just us: the sane people, capable of rational discourse! There will be no more rabid wingnut constituency for the politicians to worry about! We will all have a mature adult exchange of ideas and tolerate the opinions of others and not endorse ridiculous hyperbolic claims about how health care reform is the holocaust and slavery combined (I can't take the credit for this bit of stupidity, it's in the comments to that very article)!

Oh, it's a beautiful, beautiful fever dream totally true vision of the future.

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