I PUT ON MY ROBE AND WIZARD HAT.
(1) After ten billion people mentioned it on twitter and LJ, I finally figured out where to watch the new Fall Out Boy video. I, um. I don't get it. I mean, it's very emotionally evocative! I just don't get the plot of the video. I do want to DL and listen to the album, though, so I guess it does what it's supposed to do? I am just really bad at following... anything, I guess. So I read everyone's posts about what happened in the video and I'm like "...Did you see the bird? There was a birdie!"
(2) Big Brother delighted me in every possible way. It took out my favorite fight, and that was sad, but it also had Ronnie looking like an ass on multiple occasions, so I'm okay with it. Although if you were wondering, Ronnie said Hitler was a terrible person but a great speaker, other HGs yelled at him for it, Lydia pointed out that "THOUSANDS of people died in the Holocaust," Kevin and Ronnie got into a screaming fight which included Kevin telling Ronnie that he always plays semantics to avoid telling the truth, "fuck your semantics," and also there was a "chest bump" that made Ronnie cry to Chima, everyone ganged up on Michele, and in general this was amazingly poor gameplay, considering that Michele and Kevin were their two hopes for a swing vote. WHICH DIDN'T COME. SUCK IT, RONNIE.
Plus, you know, Jeff has the wizard power. The coop de tat. Hee. This is what we call "best case scenario"!
CELEBRATE WITH ME, LIVEJOURNALS. I AM THE HAPPIEST OF STUPID FANGIRLS RIGHT NOW.
(3) I assume this is all over LJ, but just in case it's not, the Justine Larbalestier Liar controversy has been settled: They changed the cover, and not only did they take away the white girl, they have a woman of color on the cover rather than just text. I'm thrilled this worked out well because I love JL's work (her quote is this icon!), but also because it's nice to see RaceFail become RaceWin, and I especially love that the change is coming through materials aimed at younger readers, because it speaks to wonderful things about the way the industry might be changing. GO TEAM. (Huh. My JL tag is "magic or madness". I should fix that.)
(4) An alarming number of my responses this week are tied up in this XKCD comic. It bothers me immensely that my life is best represented via XKCD.
(5) Is anyone else not getting LJ comments? I am convinced you are all going to think I'm ignoring you. I'M NOT IGNORING YOU. (Well, most of you. I am ignoring one or two of you. The rest of you, though, I am totally just missing LJ's emails! :D? :D?)
(2) Big Brother delighted me in every possible way. It took out my favorite fight, and that was sad, but it also had Ronnie looking like an ass on multiple occasions, so I'm okay with it. Although if you were wondering, Ronnie said Hitler was a terrible person but a great speaker, other HGs yelled at him for it, Lydia pointed out that "THOUSANDS of people died in the Holocaust," Kevin and Ronnie got into a screaming fight which included Kevin telling Ronnie that he always plays semantics to avoid telling the truth, "fuck your semantics," and also there was a "chest bump" that made Ronnie cry to Chima, everyone ganged up on Michele, and in general this was amazingly poor gameplay, considering that Michele and Kevin were their two hopes for a swing vote. WHICH DIDN'T COME. SUCK IT, RONNIE.
Plus, you know, Jeff has the wizard power. The coop de tat. Hee. This is what we call "best case scenario"!
CELEBRATE WITH ME, LIVEJOURNALS. I AM THE HAPPIEST OF STUPID FANGIRLS RIGHT NOW.
(3) I assume this is all over LJ, but just in case it's not, the Justine Larbalestier Liar controversy has been settled: They changed the cover, and not only did they take away the white girl, they have a woman of color on the cover rather than just text. I'm thrilled this worked out well because I love JL's work (her quote is this icon!), but also because it's nice to see RaceFail become RaceWin, and I especially love that the change is coming through materials aimed at younger readers, because it speaks to wonderful things about the way the industry might be changing. GO TEAM. (Huh. My JL tag is "magic or madness". I should fix that.)
(4) An alarming number of my responses this week are tied up in this XKCD comic. It bothers me immensely that my life is best represented via XKCD.
(5) Is anyone else not getting LJ comments? I am convinced you are all going to think I'm ignoring you. I'M NOT IGNORING YOU. (Well, most of you. I am ignoring one or two of you. The rest of you, though, I am totally just missing LJ's emails! :D? :D?)