'you've gotten into my bloodstream, I can feel you floating in me...'
How adorable is it? Linked to me by sunaneko, and yes, I had a huge smile on my face after reading that!
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I don’t suppose anyone’s seen any icons similar to this gif:
Doesn’t have to be an animated icon, just that sort of expression/text… *peers hopefully* butter_cup27 and I were just agreeing on how a ‘character x is judging you’ icon ought to be a userpicstaple, lol. MUST FIND ONE. If not Snape, links to icons of any other character I fangirl would be gratefully accepted…
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The sixth season of SYTYCD has just started airing! (I think I’ll have to d/l it and burn it so mama and I can watch together- it airs on Friday nights, when I’m at Ma’s. >.> Poor timing is poor!) I did not realize how much I missed having these crazy hilarious folks in my life! Look, if you’re a reality tv snob, I’ll try not to sneer at you :P but honestly, this show is AWESOME.
Mary and Nigel are just two of the best judges of any reality show, imho, they’re so funny and play off each other really well and have great chemistry, I’m just laughing fit to bust a rib at some of their antics. But they’re also really insightful and have great commentary, instead of ‘hedging’ the way some annoying judges do (BONNIE. MARCIA. PAULA. *eyeballs*), and Nigel’s sarcasm is made of EPIC WIN.
Also, one member of my tv girlfriend harem, hehe. The incomparable Cat Deeley! ♥ x infinity. SO. MUCH. LOVE.
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Totally gonna revisit books from my childhood, methinks. Starting with Tamora Pierce! (the woman who single-handedly converted me to shipping younger woman/older man couples with significant age differences, lol)
I think I was talking about the Circle of Magic books with someone lately? I actually love the first two quartets, the first more than the second, because it makes me sad when characters split up and go their separate ways- I want my book/tv families to stay together always!- but the first book of the 'adult' quartet just pissed me off majorly.
It's like what disappointed fans of the new series says LJ Smith did to Vampire Diaries- illogical plot developments, character regression, inconsistencies, tackling ~issues~ instead of dealing with the world on its own terms, etc. etc. Gah. >_< I wanted to love Will of the Empress as much as the earlier books, but it was such a letdown, and some of her decisions for 'character growth' was seriously annoying and at odds with the characters' earlier strengths and then it felt like she shoe-horned in social issues just to get up and preach from her soap-box rather than because it made sense.
And it was ridiculous how fractured they were- these kids were all about being a united group, once. The books preceding this were all about how strong they were together, how they could overcome anything if they worked together. Sure, they had their squabbles, because it's only human nature, but then all of a sudden, here they're total strangers to each other and can't relate to their BFFs anymore and they're all fighting for idiotic reasons and it just really made me angry to see what their beautiful friendship had degraded into. I know love can make people do stupid things, but it shouldn't disengage their brain altogether or make their other relationships fall apart as a result. It was just so shallow and miserable and unnecessary.
(It kind of reminded me of HBP, in that sense. People tearing each other apart and being absolutely horrid to their supposed best friends/love interests and hormones overpowering their brains)
Look, the lesbian relationships didn't bother me- that's something for conservative moms to rail over, lol- but the way she incorporated them into the book really irked me, (I think she wrote on the preface or something that she wanted her kid to feel it was okay to be gay?) and it felt like she wrote these relationships as some sort of morality tale rather than because it suited the characters.
Anyway, less with the negative- while she didn't wow me with this new series, I'm actually quite eager to read Tris' next book. The other forthcoming Circle book will be set after the events of Empress, and will follow Tris as she enrolls "at the mages' university in Lightsbridge under an assumed name, in an attempt to become an ordinary mage practicing normal academic magic (spells, charms, potions) with no one knowing her real name or power." She does so after realizing that her prospective employers only want to use her weather craft as war magic...
I know I'm setting myself up for disappointment by expecting it to be wonderful, but I adore Tris so much. <333
She really made me feel better about myself as a kid. Have you guys had that experience with a book/character who you identify with and who makes you happy to be who you are? (Or less angsty about it?) Tris is this antisocial, bespectacled, chubby bookworm- sound familiar? lol!- who doesn't really fit in with her peers, is picked on by the other girls, snarks at everyone around her 'coz she doesn't know how to interact with them, has wild, untameable hair... *sighs nostalgically* And her power is totally the coolest of the quartet! She's a weather witch who can influence the ocean tides or magma flows, and harness the winds to carry visions to her and create tornadoes, plus, you don't want to touch her hair, 'coz you might get a shock from the lightning she stores in her braids, hee. BADASS.
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