rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated
I am not actually dead. The few noble people who once track of me may have thought as much, but I am still very much alive. This summer has been a bummer. I really shoulda taken summer courses... Bored doesn't really cover things. I guess the best testament to how disinterested I've become in LJ is the fact that my subscription account expired and I didn't bother to renew. My interest was already dwindling and then my custom layout was effing up and I had to switch to an unpleasant generic layout and that basically sealed the deal.
So why am I bothering to write in my journal now? Short answer is because I been drinking. Curse the person who came up with whipped cream flavored vodka; you've pretty much assured that I will never be sober for any extended length of time. Mix it with orange soda and that shit is awesome! Right now I am watching Tosh.0 while digest copious amounts of salmon in the hopes of being able to go on the elliptical tonight. It is very strange that I like to watch this show since I find Daniel Tosh himself very offensive and unfunny in his misogyny. I guess it is because the YouTube garbage is the real star of the show.
If any of y'all have been keeping up with the news lately you'll know already that I am going to be losing my job very soon. It was about time I started looking for another one, or an internship, but it is still very sad times anyways. My darling is a supervisor at another Borders store and will be losing his job, too (along with way too many other awesome people). And I am losing my favorite store along with my job. But this LJ is no pity party, so on to more positive things!
Sunday morning, me and my Edward will be heading up to Ocean City Maryland for a short but much needed vacation. It will be my first time to the beach in many years and also the first time the two of us have been on a trip together. I am so excited! And we'll get to celebrate his birthday while we are there, too!
I can't wait for school to start again because I am bored and my family (specifically my granny) is driving me crazy. The one plus is that I've had lots of time to read. I read Game of Thrones and am on Clash of Kings now. I want to make Jon Snow forget his vow of chastity for realsies. Surprisingly, though, I have not seen any of the HBO series. I do not have HBO at my house and when I went over to my sister's in the hopes of catching it on In Demand, it was no longer available. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD/Blu-Ray release. In any case, Arya and Jon Snow are my favorites and direwolves are awesome.
I am also about halfway through Clockwork Angel, the first book in Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices series. I am loving it! Especially Jem. I have only read the first of the Mortal Instruments series and I am liking this prequel better. And before anyone asks, I am well aware of CC's wankity wank wank fanfiction past. Frankly, I find it all just mildly amusing and wouldn't let it keep me from reading her books. I don't abide by the unwritten "rules" of fandom anyways... you know, the ones that say what you are and are not allowed to enjoy and what issues you must care about?
I am a fangirl indeed, but I admit that I am a bad one and find many aspects of Fandom (that's capital F version, encompassing all little f fandoms) totally ridiculous. I think what gets me the most may be how sacrosanct everyone's "kinks" supposedly are. You are allowed to judge people as idiots with no taste for enjoying Twilight (not thinking it is great literature but merely enjoying it for any reason) but thinking someone is fucked up for getting off on colostomy porn is reprehensible. Makes me feel like I'm in the fucking Twilight Zone (hurr hurr). If you are turned on by someone getting fucked in his/her stoma, you are a sick fuck! Snarry shippers are sick fucks! These are not all beautiful expressions of sexuality as far as I am concerned!
Moving on... I can't really say what it is that makes me hope aboard some fandom bandwagons and not give a fuck about others. I picked up Blue Exorcist and really like it (of course, as with most fandoms I don't give a fuck about the stupid boyslash and incest that plague it). But some popular things not only fail to capture my interest, but actually annoy me in their ubiquity and all the space that is wasted on them on Fandom Secrets and the rankings on Pixiv. Without further ado, here is the ever-growing list of fandoms I couldn't give a shit about if you paid me.
• Homestuck- sorry but this looks like the most asinine shit ever
• Supernatural- congratulations on being so consistently high on this list!
• Tiger & Bunny- whatever the plot is, it looks like yaoi fodder to me
• Madoka Magika- underage moe shit for fanboys to wank to; also, the characters' heads look way too childish
• Doctor Who- never gonna care about this
• Avatar The Last Airbender- I couldn't bother to care about the "racebending" wank simply because I couldn't bother to care about ever watching this series at all
• Uh... a bunch of other shit I am too lazy to mention this time around but have probably bitched about before
• m/m... just m/m... it's not as deep and subversive and super special as a lot of fangirls seem to think. Really.
Mmm... I have to admit, that kind of embittered cynicism fills me with a strange glee. Ooh! Glee! But I do enjoy the musical numbers...
As a final testament to why I have to throw up my hands and give up on Fandom, this is a comment I got on my Hetalia fanfiction:
"Well it was a pretty good story...only thing was...Finland was a mary-sue...I mean major mary sue going on there. otherwise I liked it, I was even able to like the usuk scenes! even tho i despise that pairing...well I liked it up until You went and called America Mommy...It has been agreed that the only person who tops America is Russia and Russia tops the world. It has also been agreed the only people England tops are (MAYBE)Japan and small children... that being said, you did pretty well~!"
I really wish I had sent this person an obnoxious response, I would do it now if it hadn't been so long ago. Seriously, fans like this are why yaoi fans have a reputation for being morons.
So why am I bothering to write in my journal now? Short answer is because I been drinking. Curse the person who came up with whipped cream flavored vodka; you've pretty much assured that I will never be sober for any extended length of time. Mix it with orange soda and that shit is awesome! Right now I am watching Tosh.0 while digest copious amounts of salmon in the hopes of being able to go on the elliptical tonight. It is very strange that I like to watch this show since I find Daniel Tosh himself very offensive and unfunny in his misogyny. I guess it is because the YouTube garbage is the real star of the show.
If any of y'all have been keeping up with the news lately you'll know already that I am going to be losing my job very soon. It was about time I started looking for another one, or an internship, but it is still very sad times anyways. My darling is a supervisor at another Borders store and will be losing his job, too (along with way too many other awesome people). And I am losing my favorite store along with my job. But this LJ is no pity party, so on to more positive things!
Sunday morning, me and my Edward will be heading up to Ocean City Maryland for a short but much needed vacation. It will be my first time to the beach in many years and also the first time the two of us have been on a trip together. I am so excited! And we'll get to celebrate his birthday while we are there, too!
I can't wait for school to start again because I am bored and my family (specifically my granny) is driving me crazy. The one plus is that I've had lots of time to read. I read Game of Thrones and am on Clash of Kings now. I want to make Jon Snow forget his vow of chastity for realsies. Surprisingly, though, I have not seen any of the HBO series. I do not have HBO at my house and when I went over to my sister's in the hopes of catching it on In Demand, it was no longer available. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD/Blu-Ray release. In any case, Arya and Jon Snow are my favorites and direwolves are awesome.
I am also about halfway through Clockwork Angel, the first book in Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices series. I am loving it! Especially Jem. I have only read the first of the Mortal Instruments series and I am liking this prequel better. And before anyone asks, I am well aware of CC's wankity wank wank fanfiction past. Frankly, I find it all just mildly amusing and wouldn't let it keep me from reading her books. I don't abide by the unwritten "rules" of fandom anyways... you know, the ones that say what you are and are not allowed to enjoy and what issues you must care about?
I am a fangirl indeed, but I admit that I am a bad one and find many aspects of Fandom (that's capital F version, encompassing all little f fandoms) totally ridiculous. I think what gets me the most may be how sacrosanct everyone's "kinks" supposedly are. You are allowed to judge people as idiots with no taste for enjoying Twilight (not thinking it is great literature but merely enjoying it for any reason) but thinking someone is fucked up for getting off on colostomy porn is reprehensible. Makes me feel like I'm in the fucking Twilight Zone (hurr hurr). If you are turned on by someone getting fucked in his/her stoma, you are a sick fuck! Snarry shippers are sick fucks! These are not all beautiful expressions of sexuality as far as I am concerned!
Moving on... I can't really say what it is that makes me hope aboard some fandom bandwagons and not give a fuck about others. I picked up Blue Exorcist and really like it (of course, as with most fandoms I don't give a fuck about the stupid boyslash and incest that plague it). But some popular things not only fail to capture my interest, but actually annoy me in their ubiquity and all the space that is wasted on them on Fandom Secrets and the rankings on Pixiv. Without further ado, here is the ever-growing list of fandoms I couldn't give a shit about if you paid me.
• Homestuck- sorry but this looks like the most asinine shit ever
• Supernatural- congratulations on being so consistently high on this list!
• Tiger & Bunny- whatever the plot is, it looks like yaoi fodder to me
• Madoka Magika- underage moe shit for fanboys to wank to; also, the characters' heads look way too childish
• Doctor Who- never gonna care about this
• Avatar The Last Airbender- I couldn't bother to care about the "racebending" wank simply because I couldn't bother to care about ever watching this series at all
• Uh... a bunch of other shit I am too lazy to mention this time around but have probably bitched about before
• m/m... just m/m... it's not as deep and subversive and super special as a lot of fangirls seem to think. Really.
Mmm... I have to admit, that kind of embittered cynicism fills me with a strange glee. Ooh! Glee! But I do enjoy the musical numbers...
As a final testament to why I have to throw up my hands and give up on Fandom, this is a comment I got on my Hetalia fanfiction:
"Well it was a pretty good story...only thing was...Finland was a mary-sue...I mean major mary sue going on there. otherwise I liked it, I was even able to like the usuk scenes! even tho i despise that pairing...well I liked it up until You went and called America Mommy...It has been agreed that the only person who tops America is Russia and Russia tops the world. It has also been agreed the only people England tops are (MAYBE)Japan and small children... that being said, you did pretty well~!"
I really wish I had sent this person an obnoxious response, I would do it now if it hadn't been so long ago. Seriously, fans like this are why yaoi fans have a reputation for being morons.