'i'm camouflaged by the timeline, i'm camouflaged when the sun shines...'
RL: So one of the independents has backed Julia Gillard. ^_^ One down, three to go! She just needs two more, I think, to finally claim victory and be confirmed as PM! I just lol’d because Abbott’s people were so childish and attacked that independent over choosing her side, I mean, wow, what sore losers! *shakes head*
I’ll be happy if Gillard wins- even though my vote technically went to Abbot. >_< I liked the local rep, Sarah Henderson, who seems like a sweet and down-to-earth person, so I voted for her but kept my fingers crossed that Julia would win. And since Sarah didn’t end up getting this seat *pouts* I'm just fervently hoping Abbott will lose, lol. And it looks like it might happen, yay!
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I have this ‘Dare to Succeed’ Event happening on Thursday. The job-search lady told me last month that she had a surprise, which made me give her the suspicious eyes; job-search conventions and training are SUPER BORING, so I was praying she hadn’t signed me up for something ghastly…
I don’t want to flail about it too much, in case I get my hopes high and it ends up being failtastic, but basically, we get pampered for a day! They provide stylists to do our hair and make-up, give us some styling tips, PLUS provide free clothes and shoes!
Professional outfits, of course, suitable to wear to interviews [and seeing as I’ve never been to one, this’ll be handy for the future], but still, gift bags and free stuff, I am excited! *bounces*
The lady asked for my size, so she could let the sponsor people know, and I was like, ‘Um, 10-12? And a 9 ½ for shoes.’ And she goes, ‘Oh, most of the other girls are 10s.’ UNCOOL, LADY. *glares* [And no, telling me I have the smallest shoe size doesn't make up for it]
I’m probably a 10, anyway, I just wanted to be on the safe side. *sniffs* Because I’m always bigger at the expensive stores, like Myers, but I drop a size or two at the cheaper stores, K-Mart, for instance. So I hope they bring something that’ll suit me, I’d be crushed if I got a free outfit that didn’t fit me properly. *frets* And shoes are especially difficult, I have such a terrible time finding something that’s comfortable, so yes, this day might bring some angst if I end up leaving empty-handed!
Still, I’ve been longing to have people pamper me, I’m looking forward to having them play with my hair, hee. ^_^ I think in my next life, I should be a cat, I absolutely adore having my hair stroked, but it rarely ever happens. *sads*
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CANNOT WAIT FOR SEASON THREE, WOOHOO! HOW CUTE ARE THEY?!
Although I don't know why Alexis is performing 'I'm a little teapot...' O.o
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KFC! A man after my own heart, lol! *twirls*
So, I skimmed through this Alan Rickman movie, Bottle Shock, in which there's this exchange when his character’s car’s broken down on the side of the highway and another character pulls over to help.
Good Samaritan Dude: Is your spare in that trunk?
Alan Rickman's character: Oh, yes, and a First Aid box with a snake-bite kit.
And that just made me LMAO.
Firstly, everything he says is hilarious because it’s delivered in this tone of superiority and condescension, that slow arrogant drawl just kills me…I wish I could mimic it in real life, but I think people would just hit me and order me to speak faster, I can’t pull off his style at all!
Secondly, I mean, seriously, a snake-bite kit?! That’s quite a non-sequitur and rather irrelevant unless you think to DH, and then I was giggling so hard because it made me imagine how Snape would castigate the Clueless Trio for how they treated him in the Shrieking Shack- or rather, for NOT treating him at all.
‘Brightest witch of her age, hmm? Couldn’t spare a few drops of Dittany for the man who spent his life protecting your best friend? And Potter, no bezoar at hand this time? Didn’t the Half-Blood Prince teach you anything? Weasley...you're beneath my notice. Imbeciles, the lot of you.’
And jeez, as boring as this movie was, I have to thank it because for the first time ever, I LAUGHED while thinking of that horrifyingly stupid and pointless end to Snape’s character that JKR wrote. This was pretty effective therapy, lol.
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Throughout HP, Emma has had two really flashy, hyped-up dresses. The Yule Ball dress, which was like the Event of the Series dress, lol, and then the one she wears to the wedding in DH. Now, I like the color palette she's going with, but I have to say that I'm really not fond of either of those dresses. Too many frills! I mean, she's gorgeous enough to rock them both with her natural beauty, but god. The GoF dress was one thing, she's at that age where cutesy pink is acceptable, but when she's wearing all those frilly frippery bits in DH, well, it bugs me. *sighs*
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I'll admit, I adore her hair in the GoF shots! That one dangling curl across her smooth creamy shoulders... *approves* And those matching red heels for the DH dress, GUH. <3
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Then I caught a glimpse of the dress she wears to Sluggy's party in HBP, and I want to scratch out the camera-people's eyes because they totally don't focus on it properly and it's easily the prettiest of her entire wardrobe! It's a gorgeous color, emphasizes her cleavage nicely and is just really clean-cut and simple and flattering. And we don't even get a proper full-length shot! *glares*
My crappy caps don't do it justice, but it really is a gorgeous dress. I wish she'd worn this in DH instead. *pouts*
The weird thing is how JKR keeps referring to fancy outfits as 'dress robes', and the movies don't even bother to try and make anything wizardly-robey looking, lol. I have no idea what dress robes are supposed to be. O.o
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Survivor: Tocantins- episode 11.
Disclaimer: sorry, woodchoc_magnum, I feel that this ep's recap is a little lack-lustre. I was off my game for some reason. >_< I'll do better next time!
I really like the Survivor tradition of picking an interesting phrase from one of the contestants to use as the episode title. This one particularly tickles my funny bone. Hee. How does a person go bananas, exactly? *confuzzled* Or how about people that ‘go nuts’? I DON’T KNOW, IT’S RIDICULOUS. People are people, not fruit and nuts or anything else out of a Cadbury line-up! I always wonder how these sorts of nonsense statements become popular expressions recognized by many but explicable to none.
Debbie starts off the ep on a good note, I must say. She does Sierra the courtesy of pointing out rocks on the path as they’re walking together. So at this point, she’s doing okay with the whole ‘get Sierra on board’ thing. It’s only later, when it really matters, that she drops the ball.
JT schmoozes with Coach, all, ‘Dude, you are the most honorable, word-abiding, integrity-loving warrior for all that is Good, Fair and Just in this world, and we did not want to taint your pure, untarnished soul with lies and deceit.’
THIS IS AWESOME. JT is a spin-master! Look at him, spinning his web of duplicity so skillfully, I am amazed! What’s Coach gonna say, ‘No, you don’t really think I’m honorable or noble, you’re just saying that to lull me into complacency before brutally eliminating me from the game.’ Pfft! No!
JT picked up on his weakness for grandstanding and styling himself some sort of spiritual leader [can’t you see Coach as one of those wacko cult leaders with brainwashed followers?] and just manipulated him expertly.
Future Survivors, pay attention: this is how you chop off an ally’s ally, without pissing off that person enough to fuel a vendetta against you.
Remember how Russell eliminated Danielle to weaken Parvati and that really screwed up things for him? I mean, okay, so nothing would have changed the end result- NOBODY WAS EVER GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM- but it was still a tactical error, the way he went about it. Alienating your allies never bodes well. As Coach and Debbie shall so ably demonstrate.
JT continues. ‘Please, don’t believe that us taking out one of your strongest allies without so much as a hint to you in any way affects the bond between us, for we are brothers of the heart and nothing can come between us! Our successful play to weaken you totally does not indicate that you are headed anywhere but top four with us!’ HAHAHAA.
‘I’ve got really good intuition, and I didn’t see it coming.’ *g* Is this the same Coach who professed to be a weather-man and miserably failed to predict the coming storm? Yeah, the intuition is strong with this one…NOT.
‘Both Coach and Debbie realized that the dynamics of the tribe had suddenly dramatically shifted, and they were trying to curry favor with us.’
Firstly, I’m still not sure whether it’s not ‘the dynamics had suddenly traumatically shifted’, which would be lolarious.
Secondly- ‘curry favor’? STEPHEN, MARRY MEEEE. *bounces* Who speaks like that these days? It’s like something out of my regency romance novels! :D
I do like that Stephen isn’t at all taken in by their fawning admiration; he realizes, as the Latin saying goes, latet anguis in herba. That is, a snake lies in the grass. Y’know, as snakes do. Camouflaged, silent hunters. Just waiting for their moment to strike. Savvy? Except in Debbie and Coach’s case, they fall into hibernation mode and totally fail to accomplish any sort of meaningful attack.
Randomly, I do giggle a little at these interviews. Like, Stephen’s hiding in the bushes, ‘Don’t let the others see me! If anyone wanders by, I’m just gathering some sticks for the fire!’ Heh.
Look at the body language here- these are not guys who want to be cuddling Coach!
OSTENTATIOUS BIRD IS OSTENTATIOUS.
WHO WOULDN’T TRUST THESE FACES?
*snickers* Debbie, you have absolutely no chance of reading these guys, ‘k, give it up as a lost cause. Coach shook JT’s hand upon his word that Sierra would be going home without realizing he was being played, despite his GREAT INTUITIVE POWERS, FFS, these are masters of deception with magnificent abilities beyond your puny brain’s ability to comprehend!
Coach: So who would the new alliance be? You, me, Sierra and Erinn?
Me: Otherwise known as Timbira? The tribe-that-was, before your petty sniping and bullying ways fractured it beyond repair?
Debbie: Otherwise, we’re taking out all our people, and you and I are sitting ducks.
Me: But wait, this is sounding eerily familiar…oh, yeah! Taj cheerfully cackled over this very thing a few eps ago and it’s only just dawned on you now how counter-productive it is? *eyeroll*
Erinn is cutely raring to go on this challenge!
The camera pans over J-Steve at the words ‘in tune’. Coincidence?
The whole tribe is very smiley and cheerful. Because Stephen prepped them beforehand on what to expect and how to proceed? :P
It’s odd that the tribe exclaims when the test statute is shattered. Usually, the challenge is shown to us before the survivors actually play the game, so it’s not in real-time, but did someone actually go up and chop the rope to show the destruction of the statue right in front of them? It’s interesting, because the test run was on red…JT’s statue! Are the producers getting irritated at JT’s godlike invulnerability during this game so far and striking back passive-aggressively? :P
I totally agree with Jeff that this challenge was rigged- by the survivors. What a twist! Because come on, there is no way that COACH would believe that anyone would think he hadn’t lived up to his potential! This man has had the fullest life imaginable, globe-trotting all over to the most remote and dangerous locations, escaping butt-eating pygmies and paddling through piranha-infested waters with his bare hands and so forth! He is full of life experience and wisdom! Obviously they are lucky he deigned to share his awesomeness with them!
Yeah, I just don’t see his ego allowing him to consider that he might be a failure by their standards- they’d have to club him over the head with the truth before he could accept that.
I laugh at JT’s expression. :D ‘BZUH? THE EYES OF SEDUCTION, THEY HAVE FAILED ME.’
I think they were quite prudent first choices- Erinn took on Sierra, who’s pretty obviously the next one out. It’s not going to be personal because everyone’s targeting her, and even if Sierra does take it personally, she’s not a threat to anyone.
And Debbie took on JT, who’s popular and who screwed her over. So her chopping him doesn’t affect anything, but it’s gonna relieve a bit of her anger at him and he can’t really fault her for that.
Then along comes douchebag Coach. *headdesk* Didn’t this man JUST decide he wanted to win Sierra over to his alliance?! Despite the horrendous relationship she endured, in which he patronized and victimized her, which he would have to work hard to overcome as it is…AND HE CHOPS HER, WTF. I- I cannot even begin to comprehend the lack of thought that went into this decision. >_<
Obviously, Coach has cheese for brains, and there are mice gnawing away as we speak.
I agree with you, bb, Taj should’ve been the obvious choice- as a trophy wife to a millionaire, money would be no object to her. And yet Sierra is the consensus? I think it’s age-ism, Sierra’s the youngest so she’s automatically seen as more fiscally irresponsible. [I love that term! Got it from all the election propaganda, heh]
Gen Y is always picked on by its elders. >_< Just watch Talking ‘bout Your Generation! Shaun NEVER lets Josh’s team win, EVER. And he takes every opportunity to mock poor Josh. *squish*
Hey, so Jeff’s finally calling her ‘Debbie’ like everybody else! I guess he wised up to how suss it was that he was calling her ‘Debra’, lol.
WTF, DEBBIE CHOPS ERINN.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND, WHY IS SHE SO STOOPID, DID THE OWLS OF DOOM EAT HER BRAIN?
Erinn is adorable and shrugs it off, ‘I had that coming.’
Well, okay, payback and all, since Erinn chopped Debbie first, but…how is this a strategy? Debbie’s smart enough to realize that Timbira needs to reunite if she’s to have any shot of making it to the end, and then she squanders her opportunity by picking on the very person she’s trying to ingratiate herself with?!
I think Coach’s manky ponytail has started weaving its way into other people’s heads at night and sucking their brains out while they sleep. TRUFAX.
And anyway, Taj chopped Debbie first of all, so why wouldn’t Debbie get her back, over the ex-Timbira chick she wants as an ally? Little tip here, Debster- trying to deny someone reward is not the way to win them over!
Although it is interesting who she chose to chop and who she left well alone. It seems that Debbie is more intimidated by Stephen than JT- maybe she knows who is the power behind the throne?
Guess who I would trust with my life? Hint: it ain’t JT.
JT stupidly chops Erinn, thus getting knocked out- or is it stupid? Perhaps it was a deliberate tactic- does he want to ensure that Stephen wins by getting himself and Erinn out? If he’d gone after Taj, Erinn might’ve followed suit to get her out, but by targeting Erinn, it almost certainly ensured she would take her last whack out on him. Thereby leaving Stephen in the last round with only one competitor. I like this line of reasoning, I shall go with that- it doesn’t entirely redeem JT for being a fat hobbit, but still.
Erinn is adorably vengeful. But look- no hard feelings!
Everyone is ecstatic at Stephen winning reward! Apart from Taj, initially, who thwacks him on the head. [He makes the cutest squawk, d’aww!] YAY, STEVE-O! *bounces*
I like that Stephen picks Taj first as his reward buddy, because she was the first to involve him in an alliance and it’s nice to show her some respect for that. Sure, the J-Steve alliance may be running the show now, but she was there for him when he was on rocky ground, and I think it’s very decent of him to be looking out for her still. *squish* Especially after she hit him!
BUT STEPHEN PICKS ERINN FOR EXILE, I AM DISTRESSED, HDU, STEPHEN! THIS IS A TRAVESTY, ZOMG, I AM VERY CHOKED UP RIGHT NOW.
I just really really wanted JT to suffer on Exile at least once. *angsts* Everyone in his alliance has been there, ‘cept for JT. Come on, he made the cold harsh choice to send Stephen there before on two separate occasions, why couldn’t you send him now and show him what it’s like? Give him a taste of his own medicine?
Coach: *hopes*
Stephen: DENIED.
Me: *flails for joy* ^_^
This reward strikes me as awkward. I mean, it’s one thing when they’re treated at hotels and spas and such, those are businesses that provide commodities, but someone’s home? Do they go around asking all the locals who’d be willing to cook a meal for some sweaty, smelly, dirty strangers? Must be a lot of takers! They probably bribe them with cows or goats or something.
Why else would people risk having their kids around scary obsessive mama figures who are on the verge of child abduction? Seriously, there ought to be a warning: CHILDREN-DEPRIVED MAMAS ON THE PROWL, LOCK UP YOUR KIDS.
You’re messing with their child-rearing practices, Taj! The parents were happy to let the kid lie there and cry and you just waltzed on in and undermined their whole strategy! LET THE KID CRY ITSELF DRY, DON’T FEED ITS NEED FOR ATTENTION.
Taj gets creepier and creepier as she wibbles, ‘This is my baby, this is my baby…’ Er, no. That’s someone else’s kid, okay? Don’t go having a psychotic break on us now!
I have to say, I am SO GLAD none of the girls in this years AUSNTM are mommas. The most boring and mind-numbing scenes are where the mothers start sniffing and crying over their kids and it’s like, you chose to leave them behind to be on this competition, FFS, nobody put a gun to your head! Get over it!
That spring is the coolest natural hang-out ever! I love the fact that there’s no bottom to it, the sand just flows up and you kind of bounce around, lol. So pretty! And it’s cute how giggly and excited the three of them were!
Also, Taj speaks for Erinn, noting that she is a strong supporter of their alliance. GEE, I WONDER HOW SHE FEELS NOW THEY SENT HER TO EXILE, HUH? *scowls at Stephen*
I have quite a few Erinn caps this time round! But I can't help it, look at that jawline, her facial structure, it's just gorgeous.
The clue Erinn finds is the same old clue to the idol that isn’t there. Now, I’m really upset with TPDB. See, Brendan and Taj had idols. The former was sent home without his and the latter retains hers. Then they merged and got a new tribe name and made camp together as a new tribe and people still get sent to Exile- it follows that Brendan’s idol should be re-hidden with a new clue! And it’s just a jackass move for them to jerk the unfortunate Exiled people around by making them suffer for no reward!
If Brendan was still around with his idol, Exile wouldn’t be such a big deal and they could send Coach there, for instance, but noooo. There’s still the tantalizing possibility of an idol turning up so good people like ERINN have to endure Exile, UGH.
Coach finally says something semi-sensible, ‘With Erinn on Exile, and getting pissed off at Stephen and JT…’ I concede that yes, any rational person would be harboring a lot of resentment towards the people that sent her there. And Coach so rarely has moments of lucidity and empathy that I thought I ought to point it out, because it’s never going to happen again.
Too bad for him that he’s pissed her off so much more that nothing would be able to sway her back to his side. As horrible as she’s feeling right now, come on, even SIERRA works out that the J-Steve alliance is where the smart and powerful people are at, so Erinn’s not gonna bail on them for a sinking ship!
Coach and Debbie attempt to sell Sierra the ‘reunite Timbira’ plan.
The reunification goes poorly.
Debbie mentally regresses- she misses her kids so much that she does the next best thing and reverts to their level of emotional immaturity but overshoots it by a mile. I don’t remember any teens acting this pathetic when I was at high school, honestly.
I have a theory…Debbie has trouble with numbers. We get concrete proof in the next ep when she can’t calculate increments of 20 *eyeroll* but there was foreshadowing here.
Sierra: You have two people.
Debbie: Who? You don’t know who we have, you have no idea who we have.
Er. So, Debbie, there’s you- one.
And…Coach- two.
Plus zero = still two. Oh, dear, maths.
I get that she was trying to intimidate Sierra, but it’s a pretty pathetic obvious ploy. The Jalapao Trio are inseparable, and these two just admitted they don’t have Erinn on their side, and Sierra’s definitely not throwing in her lot with them, so who the hell else does that leave?! *shakes head* No, Debbie, imaginary friends don’t count.
Now comes the worst challenge ever. >_< Worst because just when Coach was in jeopardy and could possibly have been voted out? HE WINS IMMUNITY. *whimpers*
Debbie hands over her immunity necklace to Jeff. I always wonder if anyone forgets the necklace and has to run back to camp to get it. Of course, then everyone has to back up and line up once more to come in again at Jeff’s introduction, lol.
Oh, Debbie. Why, when I dislike you so, do you make me laugh? Her mimicking Jeff with that, ‘Debbie with her first bag’ was funny, okay!
Debbie/Jeff vibes! Oh, my, Jeff’s dimples do funny things to me. I’m such a sucker for dimples. ^_^
Erinn is cutely disgruntled by Coach’s surprise win.
Coach: This is the first immunity that I have won. I feel that it kind of justifies my presence here.
Hmm. Which makes your presence throughout 90% of the season completely unjustified, eh? Glad you’re seeing it my way!
And shall we count how many times Tyson won immunity, yet for some reason, it didn’t extend his presence in the game? And when has JT won immunity, btw? Yet nobody’s questioning his right to be in the game!
Basically, immunity =/= justified existence.
But Coach's immunity = MY SOUL SCREAMING IN OUTRAGE.
High on his first win, Coach screws over his one constant faithful ally and tells the group that Debbie was the one who betrayed them by suggesting a Timbira alliance. Debbie looks sour but stays silent.
WHAT IS THIS POWER HE HAS OVER HER, WTF? He’s selling her down the river, he’s blackening her rep and blatantly lying his ass off, and she doesn’t call him on it! She doesn’t speak up in her defense! Her major crime was to tell Sierra to go along with what Coach was saying- which was to get the band tribe back together!
I mean, yes, I get that she’s fed up with Sierra and wants her out, so she’s not going to buddy up to her now and join forces against Coach, but how does letting him diss her to the rest of the tribe benefit her in any way? She’s a dimwit! COACH IS NOT GOD, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BLASPHEME AGAINST HIM.
Gah, it irks me so. Why is she so loyal to him? I want it to go all Jerry Springer, damn it.
But no, even now, when he’s sabotaging her, she can’t get in his face about it. Does he have some sort of protective enchantment on him? It’s inconceivable that nobody’s punched him in the face yet. Because man, has he provided ample provocation!
Coach: I said, Sierra, I do not want a Timbira alliance and that’s it…We did not ask you for an alliance.
I can’t even deal with this BS! He’s the most lyingest liar that ever lied and he gets away with it, ARGH! *head!splodes*
Debbie, you SUCK for letting him pull this crap! And then you want to dissolve into tears like a fragile little flower that’s been pushed to the limit when you’re the one responsible for ‘all this drama’ in the first place! GAH.
Stephen: I think Sierra caught Coach out in a lie. It sounds like they actually approached her about let’s take out Jalapao and she said no.
Oh, Stephen, I love you!
Then JT enrages me with this wimpy, whiny, wussy, ‘It seems like it’d be less uproars and dramas to send Sierra home tonight.’ OMFG, you pussy! I can’t believe this guy! He has the power and influence and control, and he squanders it by pandering to the eliminatees! GRR!
There’s this quote I’mma badly paraphrase, ‘A leader takes his people down the path they want to follow. A great leader takes his people down the path they should go.’
That’s really awful, seriously, I wish I could remember the exact quote, but the meaning is basically- weaklings in power, who are insecure and hesitant, will just take the direction the masses are clamoring for. But those leaders with strength and vision will see the path they should be exploring and will inspire their people to follow it.
Guess which one I think JT is? *glares*
I hate the whole notion of blaming the victim. Last time, Sierra was scrambling pathetically and I had no respect for her, but this time, she does what nobody else has been gutsy enough to do EVER, which is to call out Coach in public, and try to maneuver things to ensure she gets through tribal, so I feel worse for her. I really wish she’d gone last week, because she deserved it then, but this ep…no, I hate that she’s the scapegoat when it’s all Coach and Debbie’s shit-stirring that’s the problem.
I can’t take recapping tribal council because of the ridiculous injustice, but I will note that Taj votes for Debbie, which is rather odd. Isn’t she part of the J-Steve alliance? Did they ask her to vote for Sierra and she refused? Did they not talk to her at all? And what about Erinn? I know she said she wasn’t going to vote Sierra- and actually honored that, which I find praiseworthy. Yes, bb, I know you despise her for writing down Stephen’s name, but she did it because she KNEW that nobody else would vote for him so he wasn’t in any actual danger!
I just find this interesting because this is one elimination J-Steve wasn’t directly responsible for. They’ve manipulated all of the others, but here, it required Debbie and Coach’s co-operation, since their own alliance didn’t follow the party line. Weird, huh?
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Meme:
HP meme- Day 4: Least favorite female character and why.
Mrs Weasley. I've loathed her since that cow sent Hermione a tiny Easter egg in response to the articles by Rita Skeeter. *kicks her* I can’t believe the nerve of that woman judging Hermione based on the word of a notorious gossip-monger! It was such a catty thing to do, not the actions of a grown woman! But then, look at the way she treated Fleur. God, how immature do you want to be?
And I know everyone says she’s all warmly maternal and loving, but she’s more of a control freak and a fame whore. I mean, she isolates her kids, they don’t seem to have socialized with other children when they were young, because she’s gotta dominate the whole family [her older kids all ran off first chance they got to escape her grasping clutches, I think that’s telling]. The way she treats Ron, especially, what was that all about? Was she so upset he wasn’t a girl that she had to punish him all his life for it?! Never giving him the right color sweaters, always making him the sandwiches he doesn’t like, and the dress robes… *cringes in embarrassment* She spends ages picking out the most perfect robes for Harry, ones that complement his eyes, but for her own son, meh, she doesn't give a damn, he can die of social humiliation.
Anyway, so, she takes Harry under her wing, poor little orphan that he is, omg, she's so wonderful and giving and affectionate...! But what about Luna? She apparently lived in the same neighborhood, mom tragically died when she was a kid, and Molly doesn’t nestle her into the family’s bosom like she does with Harry. But Luna’s not famous, so the poor motherless girl with the wacko father doesn’t get any mothering from Molly.
Molly is domineering and overbearing, she’s always picking on Arthur and acting embarrassed of him. She bans his Muggle artifacts from the house, in effect, exiling him to the shed which keeps him out of her sight most of the time he’s at home. When he is in the room, she always nags at him and he responds by being passive-aggressive and bland and completely unaffected by what she says, to the point where it seems he’s a lost cause she’s bitterly disappointed by and harangues as a matter of course.
I just want to rip her hair out whenever she's around, she's such an annoying judgmental shrew.
Writing Meme: 5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
Youngest would be Naomi Wildman, and I think the oldest is...Chakotay? How old was he in Voyager anyway?
And I obviously didn’t create them, but I first wrote Mulder and Scully. More recently, Hermione and Snape. Trying to, anyway.
TV meme: Day 13 - Favourite childhood show
Xena: Warrior Princess! I was so incredibly obsessed with that show as a kid! *adores*
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Vidspam: This makes me laugh so!
I’ll be happy if Gillard wins- even though my vote technically went to Abbot. >_< I liked the local rep, Sarah Henderson, who seems like a sweet and down-to-earth person, so I voted for her but kept my fingers crossed that Julia would win. And since Sarah didn’t end up getting this seat *pouts* I'm just fervently hoping Abbott will lose, lol. And it looks like it might happen, yay!
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I have this ‘Dare to Succeed’ Event happening on Thursday. The job-search lady told me last month that she had a surprise, which made me give her the suspicious eyes; job-search conventions and training are SUPER BORING, so I was praying she hadn’t signed me up for something ghastly…
I don’t want to flail about it too much, in case I get my hopes high and it ends up being failtastic, but basically, we get pampered for a day! They provide stylists to do our hair and make-up, give us some styling tips, PLUS provide free clothes and shoes!
Professional outfits, of course, suitable to wear to interviews [and seeing as I’ve never been to one, this’ll be handy for the future], but still, gift bags and free stuff, I am excited! *bounces*
The lady asked for my size, so she could let the sponsor people know, and I was like, ‘Um, 10-12? And a 9 ½ for shoes.’ And she goes, ‘Oh, most of the other girls are 10s.’ UNCOOL, LADY. *glares* [And no, telling me I have the smallest shoe size doesn't make up for it]
I’m probably a 10, anyway, I just wanted to be on the safe side. *sniffs* Because I’m always bigger at the expensive stores, like Myers, but I drop a size or two at the cheaper stores, K-Mart, for instance. So I hope they bring something that’ll suit me, I’d be crushed if I got a free outfit that didn’t fit me properly. *frets* And shoes are especially difficult, I have such a terrible time finding something that’s comfortable, so yes, this day might bring some angst if I end up leaving empty-handed!
Still, I’ve been longing to have people pamper me, I’m looking forward to having them play with my hair, hee. ^_^ I think in my next life, I should be a cat, I absolutely adore having my hair stroked, but it rarely ever happens. *sads*
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CANNOT WAIT FOR SEASON THREE, WOOHOO! HOW CUTE ARE THEY?!
Although I don't know why Alexis is performing 'I'm a little teapot...' O.o
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KFC! A man after my own heart, lol! *twirls*
So, I skimmed through this Alan Rickman movie, Bottle Shock, in which there's this exchange when his character’s car’s broken down on the side of the highway and another character pulls over to help.
Good Samaritan Dude: Is your spare in that trunk?
Alan Rickman's character: Oh, yes, and a First Aid box with a snake-bite kit.
And that just made me LMAO.
Firstly, everything he says is hilarious because it’s delivered in this tone of superiority and condescension, that slow arrogant drawl just kills me…I wish I could mimic it in real life, but I think people would just hit me and order me to speak faster, I can’t pull off his style at all!
Secondly, I mean, seriously, a snake-bite kit?! That’s quite a non-sequitur and rather irrelevant unless you think to DH, and then I was giggling so hard because it made me imagine how Snape would castigate the Clueless Trio for how they treated him in the Shrieking Shack- or rather, for NOT treating him at all.
‘Brightest witch of her age, hmm? Couldn’t spare a few drops of Dittany for the man who spent his life protecting your best friend? And Potter, no bezoar at hand this time? Didn’t the Half-Blood Prince teach you anything? Weasley...you're beneath my notice. Imbeciles, the lot of you.’
And jeez, as boring as this movie was, I have to thank it because for the first time ever, I LAUGHED while thinking of that horrifyingly stupid and pointless end to Snape’s character that JKR wrote. This was pretty effective therapy, lol.
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Throughout HP, Emma has had two really flashy, hyped-up dresses. The Yule Ball dress, which was like the Event of the Series dress, lol, and then the one she wears to the wedding in DH. Now, I like the color palette she's going with, but I have to say that I'm really not fond of either of those dresses. Too many frills! I mean, she's gorgeous enough to rock them both with her natural beauty, but god. The GoF dress was one thing, she's at that age where cutesy pink is acceptable, but when she's wearing all those frilly frippery bits in DH, well, it bugs me. *sighs*
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I'll admit, I adore her hair in the GoF shots! That one dangling curl across her smooth creamy shoulders... *approves* And those matching red heels for the DH dress, GUH. <3
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Then I caught a glimpse of the dress she wears to Sluggy's party in HBP, and I want to scratch out the camera-people's eyes because they totally don't focus on it properly and it's easily the prettiest of her entire wardrobe! It's a gorgeous color, emphasizes her cleavage nicely and is just really clean-cut and simple and flattering. And we don't even get a proper full-length shot! *glares*
My crappy caps don't do it justice, but it really is a gorgeous dress. I wish she'd worn this in DH instead. *pouts*
The weird thing is how JKR keeps referring to fancy outfits as 'dress robes', and the movies don't even bother to try and make anything wizardly-robey looking, lol. I have no idea what dress robes are supposed to be. O.o
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Survivor: Tocantins- episode 11.
Disclaimer: sorry, woodchoc_magnum, I feel that this ep's recap is a little lack-lustre. I was off my game for some reason. >_< I'll do better next time!
I really like the Survivor tradition of picking an interesting phrase from one of the contestants to use as the episode title. This one particularly tickles my funny bone. Hee. How does a person go bananas, exactly? *confuzzled* Or how about people that ‘go nuts’? I DON’T KNOW, IT’S RIDICULOUS. People are people, not fruit and nuts or anything else out of a Cadbury line-up! I always wonder how these sorts of nonsense statements become popular expressions recognized by many but explicable to none.
Debbie starts off the ep on a good note, I must say. She does Sierra the courtesy of pointing out rocks on the path as they’re walking together. So at this point, she’s doing okay with the whole ‘get Sierra on board’ thing. It’s only later, when it really matters, that she drops the ball.
JT schmoozes with Coach, all, ‘Dude, you are the most honorable, word-abiding, integrity-loving warrior for all that is Good, Fair and Just in this world, and we did not want to taint your pure, untarnished soul with lies and deceit.’
THIS IS AWESOME. JT is a spin-master! Look at him, spinning his web of duplicity so skillfully, I am amazed! What’s Coach gonna say, ‘No, you don’t really think I’m honorable or noble, you’re just saying that to lull me into complacency before brutally eliminating me from the game.’ Pfft! No!
JT picked up on his weakness for grandstanding and styling himself some sort of spiritual leader [can’t you see Coach as one of those wacko cult leaders with brainwashed followers?] and just manipulated him expertly.
Future Survivors, pay attention: this is how you chop off an ally’s ally, without pissing off that person enough to fuel a vendetta against you.
Remember how Russell eliminated Danielle to weaken Parvati and that really screwed up things for him? I mean, okay, so nothing would have changed the end result- NOBODY WAS EVER GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM- but it was still a tactical error, the way he went about it. Alienating your allies never bodes well. As Coach and Debbie shall so ably demonstrate.
JT continues. ‘Please, don’t believe that us taking out one of your strongest allies without so much as a hint to you in any way affects the bond between us, for we are brothers of the heart and nothing can come between us! Our successful play to weaken you totally does not indicate that you are headed anywhere but top four with us!’ HAHAHAA.
‘I’ve got really good intuition, and I didn’t see it coming.’ *g* Is this the same Coach who professed to be a weather-man and miserably failed to predict the coming storm? Yeah, the intuition is strong with this one…NOT.
‘Both Coach and Debbie realized that the dynamics of the tribe had suddenly dramatically shifted, and they were trying to curry favor with us.’
Firstly, I’m still not sure whether it’s not ‘the dynamics had suddenly traumatically shifted’, which would be lolarious.
Secondly- ‘curry favor’? STEPHEN, MARRY MEEEE. *bounces* Who speaks like that these days? It’s like something out of my regency romance novels! :D
I do like that Stephen isn’t at all taken in by their fawning admiration; he realizes, as the Latin saying goes, latet anguis in herba. That is, a snake lies in the grass. Y’know, as snakes do. Camouflaged, silent hunters. Just waiting for their moment to strike. Savvy? Except in Debbie and Coach’s case, they fall into hibernation mode and totally fail to accomplish any sort of meaningful attack.
Randomly, I do giggle a little at these interviews. Like, Stephen’s hiding in the bushes, ‘Don’t let the others see me! If anyone wanders by, I’m just gathering some sticks for the fire!’ Heh.
Look at the body language here- these are not guys who want to be cuddling Coach!
OSTENTATIOUS BIRD IS OSTENTATIOUS.
WHO WOULDN’T TRUST THESE FACES?
*snickers* Debbie, you have absolutely no chance of reading these guys, ‘k, give it up as a lost cause. Coach shook JT’s hand upon his word that Sierra would be going home without realizing he was being played, despite his GREAT INTUITIVE POWERS, FFS, these are masters of deception with magnificent abilities beyond your puny brain’s ability to comprehend!
Coach: So who would the new alliance be? You, me, Sierra and Erinn?
Me: Otherwise known as Timbira? The tribe-that-was, before your petty sniping and bullying ways fractured it beyond repair?
Debbie: Otherwise, we’re taking out all our people, and you and I are sitting ducks.
Me: But wait, this is sounding eerily familiar…oh, yeah! Taj cheerfully cackled over this very thing a few eps ago and it’s only just dawned on you now how counter-productive it is? *eyeroll*
Erinn is cutely raring to go on this challenge!
The camera pans over J-Steve at the words ‘in tune’. Coincidence?
The whole tribe is very smiley and cheerful. Because Stephen prepped them beforehand on what to expect and how to proceed? :P
It’s odd that the tribe exclaims when the test statute is shattered. Usually, the challenge is shown to us before the survivors actually play the game, so it’s not in real-time, but did someone actually go up and chop the rope to show the destruction of the statue right in front of them? It’s interesting, because the test run was on red…JT’s statue! Are the producers getting irritated at JT’s godlike invulnerability during this game so far and striking back passive-aggressively? :P
I totally agree with Jeff that this challenge was rigged- by the survivors. What a twist! Because come on, there is no way that COACH would believe that anyone would think he hadn’t lived up to his potential! This man has had the fullest life imaginable, globe-trotting all over to the most remote and dangerous locations, escaping butt-eating pygmies and paddling through piranha-infested waters with his bare hands and so forth! He is full of life experience and wisdom! Obviously they are lucky he deigned to share his awesomeness with them!
Yeah, I just don’t see his ego allowing him to consider that he might be a failure by their standards- they’d have to club him over the head with the truth before he could accept that.
I laugh at JT’s expression. :D ‘BZUH? THE EYES OF SEDUCTION, THEY HAVE FAILED ME.’
I think they were quite prudent first choices- Erinn took on Sierra, who’s pretty obviously the next one out. It’s not going to be personal because everyone’s targeting her, and even if Sierra does take it personally, she’s not a threat to anyone.
And Debbie took on JT, who’s popular and who screwed her over. So her chopping him doesn’t affect anything, but it’s gonna relieve a bit of her anger at him and he can’t really fault her for that.
Then along comes douchebag Coach. *headdesk* Didn’t this man JUST decide he wanted to win Sierra over to his alliance?! Despite the horrendous relationship she endured, in which he patronized and victimized her, which he would have to work hard to overcome as it is…AND HE CHOPS HER, WTF. I- I cannot even begin to comprehend the lack of thought that went into this decision. >_<
Obviously, Coach has cheese for brains, and there are mice gnawing away as we speak.
I agree with you, bb, Taj should’ve been the obvious choice- as a trophy wife to a millionaire, money would be no object to her. And yet Sierra is the consensus? I think it’s age-ism, Sierra’s the youngest so she’s automatically seen as more fiscally irresponsible. [I love that term! Got it from all the election propaganda, heh]
Gen Y is always picked on by its elders. >_< Just watch Talking ‘bout Your Generation! Shaun NEVER lets Josh’s team win, EVER. And he takes every opportunity to mock poor Josh. *squish*
Hey, so Jeff’s finally calling her ‘Debbie’ like everybody else! I guess he wised up to how suss it was that he was calling her ‘Debra’, lol.
WTF, DEBBIE CHOPS ERINN.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND, WHY IS SHE SO STOOPID, DID THE OWLS OF DOOM EAT HER BRAIN?
Erinn is adorable and shrugs it off, ‘I had that coming.’
Well, okay, payback and all, since Erinn chopped Debbie first, but…how is this a strategy? Debbie’s smart enough to realize that Timbira needs to reunite if she’s to have any shot of making it to the end, and then she squanders her opportunity by picking on the very person she’s trying to ingratiate herself with?!
I think Coach’s manky ponytail has started weaving its way into other people’s heads at night and sucking their brains out while they sleep. TRUFAX.
And anyway, Taj chopped Debbie first of all, so why wouldn’t Debbie get her back, over the ex-Timbira chick she wants as an ally? Little tip here, Debster- trying to deny someone reward is not the way to win them over!
Although it is interesting who she chose to chop and who she left well alone. It seems that Debbie is more intimidated by Stephen than JT- maybe she knows who is the power behind the throne?
Guess who I would trust with my life? Hint: it ain’t JT.
JT stupidly chops Erinn, thus getting knocked out- or is it stupid? Perhaps it was a deliberate tactic- does he want to ensure that Stephen wins by getting himself and Erinn out? If he’d gone after Taj, Erinn might’ve followed suit to get her out, but by targeting Erinn, it almost certainly ensured she would take her last whack out on him. Thereby leaving Stephen in the last round with only one competitor. I like this line of reasoning, I shall go with that- it doesn’t entirely redeem JT for being a fat hobbit, but still.
Erinn is adorably vengeful. But look- no hard feelings!
Everyone is ecstatic at Stephen winning reward! Apart from Taj, initially, who thwacks him on the head. [He makes the cutest squawk, d’aww!] YAY, STEVE-O! *bounces*
I like that Stephen picks Taj first as his reward buddy, because she was the first to involve him in an alliance and it’s nice to show her some respect for that. Sure, the J-Steve alliance may be running the show now, but she was there for him when he was on rocky ground, and I think it’s very decent of him to be looking out for her still. *squish* Especially after she hit him!
BUT STEPHEN PICKS ERINN FOR EXILE, I AM DISTRESSED, HDU, STEPHEN! THIS IS A TRAVESTY, ZOMG, I AM VERY CHOKED UP RIGHT NOW.
I just really really wanted JT to suffer on Exile at least once. *angsts* Everyone in his alliance has been there, ‘cept for JT. Come on, he made the cold harsh choice to send Stephen there before on two separate occasions, why couldn’t you send him now and show him what it’s like? Give him a taste of his own medicine?
Coach: *hopes*
Stephen: DENIED.
Me: *flails for joy* ^_^
This reward strikes me as awkward. I mean, it’s one thing when they’re treated at hotels and spas and such, those are businesses that provide commodities, but someone’s home? Do they go around asking all the locals who’d be willing to cook a meal for some sweaty, smelly, dirty strangers? Must be a lot of takers! They probably bribe them with cows or goats or something.
Why else would people risk having their kids around scary obsessive mama figures who are on the verge of child abduction? Seriously, there ought to be a warning: CHILDREN-DEPRIVED MAMAS ON THE PROWL, LOCK UP YOUR KIDS.
You’re messing with their child-rearing practices, Taj! The parents were happy to let the kid lie there and cry and you just waltzed on in and undermined their whole strategy! LET THE KID CRY ITSELF DRY, DON’T FEED ITS NEED FOR ATTENTION.
Taj gets creepier and creepier as she wibbles, ‘This is my baby, this is my baby…’ Er, no. That’s someone else’s kid, okay? Don’t go having a psychotic break on us now!
I have to say, I am SO GLAD none of the girls in this years AUSNTM are mommas. The most boring and mind-numbing scenes are where the mothers start sniffing and crying over their kids and it’s like, you chose to leave them behind to be on this competition, FFS, nobody put a gun to your head! Get over it!
That spring is the coolest natural hang-out ever! I love the fact that there’s no bottom to it, the sand just flows up and you kind of bounce around, lol. So pretty! And it’s cute how giggly and excited the three of them were!
Also, Taj speaks for Erinn, noting that she is a strong supporter of their alliance. GEE, I WONDER HOW SHE FEELS NOW THEY SENT HER TO EXILE, HUH? *scowls at Stephen*
I have quite a few Erinn caps this time round! But I can't help it, look at that jawline, her facial structure, it's just gorgeous.
The clue Erinn finds is the same old clue to the idol that isn’t there. Now, I’m really upset with TPDB. See, Brendan and Taj had idols. The former was sent home without his and the latter retains hers. Then they merged and got a new tribe name and made camp together as a new tribe and people still get sent to Exile- it follows that Brendan’s idol should be re-hidden with a new clue! And it’s just a jackass move for them to jerk the unfortunate Exiled people around by making them suffer for no reward!
If Brendan was still around with his idol, Exile wouldn’t be such a big deal and they could send Coach there, for instance, but noooo. There’s still the tantalizing possibility of an idol turning up so good people like ERINN have to endure Exile, UGH.
Coach finally says something semi-sensible, ‘With Erinn on Exile, and getting pissed off at Stephen and JT…’ I concede that yes, any rational person would be harboring a lot of resentment towards the people that sent her there. And Coach so rarely has moments of lucidity and empathy that I thought I ought to point it out, because it’s never going to happen again.
Too bad for him that he’s pissed her off so much more that nothing would be able to sway her back to his side. As horrible as she’s feeling right now, come on, even SIERRA works out that the J-Steve alliance is where the smart and powerful people are at, so Erinn’s not gonna bail on them for a sinking ship!
Coach and Debbie attempt to sell Sierra the ‘reunite Timbira’ plan.
The reunification goes poorly.
Debbie mentally regresses- she misses her kids so much that she does the next best thing and reverts to their level of emotional immaturity but overshoots it by a mile. I don’t remember any teens acting this pathetic when I was at high school, honestly.
I have a theory…Debbie has trouble with numbers. We get concrete proof in the next ep when she can’t calculate increments of 20 *eyeroll* but there was foreshadowing here.
Sierra: You have two people.
Debbie: Who? You don’t know who we have, you have no idea who we have.
Er. So, Debbie, there’s you- one.
And…Coach- two.
Plus zero = still two. Oh, dear, maths.
I get that she was trying to intimidate Sierra, but it’s a pretty pathetic obvious ploy. The Jalapao Trio are inseparable, and these two just admitted they don’t have Erinn on their side, and Sierra’s definitely not throwing in her lot with them, so who the hell else does that leave?! *shakes head* No, Debbie, imaginary friends don’t count.
Now comes the worst challenge ever. >_< Worst because just when Coach was in jeopardy and could possibly have been voted out? HE WINS IMMUNITY. *whimpers*
Debbie hands over her immunity necklace to Jeff. I always wonder if anyone forgets the necklace and has to run back to camp to get it. Of course, then everyone has to back up and line up once more to come in again at Jeff’s introduction, lol.
Oh, Debbie. Why, when I dislike you so, do you make me laugh? Her mimicking Jeff with that, ‘Debbie with her first bag’ was funny, okay!
Debbie/Jeff vibes! Oh, my, Jeff’s dimples do funny things to me. I’m such a sucker for dimples. ^_^
Erinn is cutely disgruntled by Coach’s surprise win.
Coach: This is the first immunity that I have won. I feel that it kind of justifies my presence here.
Hmm. Which makes your presence throughout 90% of the season completely unjustified, eh? Glad you’re seeing it my way!
And shall we count how many times Tyson won immunity, yet for some reason, it didn’t extend his presence in the game? And when has JT won immunity, btw? Yet nobody’s questioning his right to be in the game!
Basically, immunity =/= justified existence.
But Coach's immunity = MY SOUL SCREAMING IN OUTRAGE.
High on his first win, Coach screws over his one constant faithful ally and tells the group that Debbie was the one who betrayed them by suggesting a Timbira alliance. Debbie looks sour but stays silent.
WHAT IS THIS POWER HE HAS OVER HER, WTF? He’s selling her down the river, he’s blackening her rep and blatantly lying his ass off, and she doesn’t call him on it! She doesn’t speak up in her defense! Her major crime was to tell Sierra to go along with what Coach was saying- which was to get the band tribe back together!
I mean, yes, I get that she’s fed up with Sierra and wants her out, so she’s not going to buddy up to her now and join forces against Coach, but how does letting him diss her to the rest of the tribe benefit her in any way? She’s a dimwit! COACH IS NOT GOD, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BLASPHEME AGAINST HIM.
Gah, it irks me so. Why is she so loyal to him? I want it to go all Jerry Springer, damn it.
But no, even now, when he’s sabotaging her, she can’t get in his face about it. Does he have some sort of protective enchantment on him? It’s inconceivable that nobody’s punched him in the face yet. Because man, has he provided ample provocation!
Coach: I said, Sierra, I do not want a Timbira alliance and that’s it…We did not ask you for an alliance.
I can’t even deal with this BS! He’s the most lyingest liar that ever lied and he gets away with it, ARGH! *head!splodes*
Debbie, you SUCK for letting him pull this crap! And then you want to dissolve into tears like a fragile little flower that’s been pushed to the limit when you’re the one responsible for ‘all this drama’ in the first place! GAH.
Stephen: I think Sierra caught Coach out in a lie. It sounds like they actually approached her about let’s take out Jalapao and she said no.
Oh, Stephen, I love you!
Then JT enrages me with this wimpy, whiny, wussy, ‘It seems like it’d be less uproars and dramas to send Sierra home tonight.’ OMFG, you pussy! I can’t believe this guy! He has the power and influence and control, and he squanders it by pandering to the eliminatees! GRR!
There’s this quote I’mma badly paraphrase, ‘A leader takes his people down the path they want to follow. A great leader takes his people down the path they should go.’
That’s really awful, seriously, I wish I could remember the exact quote, but the meaning is basically- weaklings in power, who are insecure and hesitant, will just take the direction the masses are clamoring for. But those leaders with strength and vision will see the path they should be exploring and will inspire their people to follow it.
Guess which one I think JT is? *glares*
I hate the whole notion of blaming the victim. Last time, Sierra was scrambling pathetically and I had no respect for her, but this time, she does what nobody else has been gutsy enough to do EVER, which is to call out Coach in public, and try to maneuver things to ensure she gets through tribal, so I feel worse for her. I really wish she’d gone last week, because she deserved it then, but this ep…no, I hate that she’s the scapegoat when it’s all Coach and Debbie’s shit-stirring that’s the problem.
I can’t take recapping tribal council because of the ridiculous injustice, but I will note that Taj votes for Debbie, which is rather odd. Isn’t she part of the J-Steve alliance? Did they ask her to vote for Sierra and she refused? Did they not talk to her at all? And what about Erinn? I know she said she wasn’t going to vote Sierra- and actually honored that, which I find praiseworthy. Yes, bb, I know you despise her for writing down Stephen’s name, but she did it because she KNEW that nobody else would vote for him so he wasn’t in any actual danger!
I just find this interesting because this is one elimination J-Steve wasn’t directly responsible for. They’ve manipulated all of the others, but here, it required Debbie and Coach’s co-operation, since their own alliance didn’t follow the party line. Weird, huh?
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Meme:
HP meme- Day 4: Least favorite female character and why.
Mrs Weasley. I've loathed her since that cow sent Hermione a tiny Easter egg in response to the articles by Rita Skeeter. *kicks her* I can’t believe the nerve of that woman judging Hermione based on the word of a notorious gossip-monger! It was such a catty thing to do, not the actions of a grown woman! But then, look at the way she treated Fleur. God, how immature do you want to be?
And I know everyone says she’s all warmly maternal and loving, but she’s more of a control freak and a fame whore. I mean, she isolates her kids, they don’t seem to have socialized with other children when they were young, because she’s gotta dominate the whole family [her older kids all ran off first chance they got to escape her grasping clutches, I think that’s telling]. The way she treats Ron, especially, what was that all about? Was she so upset he wasn’t a girl that she had to punish him all his life for it?! Never giving him the right color sweaters, always making him the sandwiches he doesn’t like, and the dress robes… *cringes in embarrassment* She spends ages picking out the most perfect robes for Harry, ones that complement his eyes, but for her own son, meh, she doesn't give a damn, he can die of social humiliation.
Anyway, so, she takes Harry under her wing, poor little orphan that he is, omg, she's so wonderful and giving and affectionate...! But what about Luna? She apparently lived in the same neighborhood, mom tragically died when she was a kid, and Molly doesn’t nestle her into the family’s bosom like she does with Harry. But Luna’s not famous, so the poor motherless girl with the wacko father doesn’t get any mothering from Molly.
Molly is domineering and overbearing, she’s always picking on Arthur and acting embarrassed of him. She bans his Muggle artifacts from the house, in effect, exiling him to the shed which keeps him out of her sight most of the time he’s at home. When he is in the room, she always nags at him and he responds by being passive-aggressive and bland and completely unaffected by what she says, to the point where it seems he’s a lost cause she’s bitterly disappointed by and harangues as a matter of course.
I just want to rip her hair out whenever she's around, she's such an annoying judgmental shrew.
Writing Meme: 5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
Youngest would be Naomi Wildman, and I think the oldest is...Chakotay? How old was he in Voyager anyway?
And I obviously didn’t create them, but I first wrote Mulder and Scully. More recently, Hermione and Snape. Trying to, anyway.
TV meme: Day 13 - Favourite childhood show
Xena: Warrior Princess! I was so incredibly obsessed with that show as a kid! *adores*
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