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I totes read the last two pages of the last book in the Twilight series and I know OMGWUTHAPPENZ. I was thinking about making fun of it here, but then I realized I might have LJ fans that read those things, they'd really get mad if I told them Bella ends up with the vampire guy. So I won't. No spoilers here.
But seriously...if that ending shocked you....you need to be hit with a shovel. She and the vampire guy are the only two characters I'd ever heard of before. For her to end up with Mr Third Wheel What's His Name would be like Lois Lane choosing Jimmy Olsen. There's a huge Twilight fan contingency at work, and they have been going on and on over EDWARD OR WHAT'S HIS FACE?! and I told them one day when I got sick of it "Look, she's going to end up with Edward. You know how I know? Because I know him, and not the other guy. Main characters end up together. It's how these things work. Pam ends up with Jim, not Dwight. Lois ends up with Clark, not Jimmy. Keitaro ends up with Naru, not Shinobu". But man...Keitaro and Shinobu were MEANT to be. I'm going to use my Keitaro/Shinobu icon now...
OH!
I've been meaning to relay this for a while. I had a naughty--but funny--conversation with my co-worker who was REALLY INTO describing Twilight to me and why the chick should choose Edward.
Erin: But the whole werewolf thing seems so....disgusting. When a werewolf picks his mate, he has to imprint himself on her.
Me: What? Like in her hair?
Think that was bad, kids? THIS ENTRY ONLY GOES DOWNHILL FROM HERE.
I've been thinking lately that I might be, like, one-eighth gay. Not because I have been kissing any dudes or anything, but because I have been noticing the hotness of guys on TV way too much. Like in a "Check out his abs", "He's got great hair" kind of way. I've been noticing the attractiveness of guys more than I have ever done before. Very weird. So I put about 7 seconds worth of thought into this, and then realized I don't think I could be gay because the idea of two guys having sex really makes me squeamish and tense. But I put a minute amount of thought into it! Isn't that weird? I'm telling you, guys can't be any bigger twats than the chicks I've dated.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS ENTRY? "Dudes". "Chicks". "Twats". WHERE IS THIS VERNACULAR COMING FROM TONIGHT?
This entry has been brought to you by San Diego, I guess.
There are a lot of hot dudes on TV, though. I respect that. I could be a hot dude! But I'd need a personal trainer. But I could be a hot guy that makes other men watching TV think "Wow, he's pretty hot" and then question their heterosexuality for 7 seconds before realizing the thought of gay sex makes their libido die a lot.
Whelp, no one is still reading this, so I'm going to take off my pants and blog in my underwear.
I TOLD THIS IT WAS GOING DOWN HILL.
I need to look through my tags for some of my political argument/social discussion blogs so I can reassure myself that I'm not really this awful and uneducated.
Ever you ever been in the middle of reading or watching something that is so all-encompassing to you that you can't get anything else done at 100% capacity because you can't stop thinking about how much you want to get back into the world that you left behind when you closed the book/turned off the TV?
I feel like that.
I am on the third and "final" game of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series, and I am just engrossed in it. I know this would draw some eye-rolls and laughs, but this game series is so beautifully written and absorbing and entertaining, and I can tell that this game is leading me inexorably to a final case that will bring together so many loose ends and resolve all the characters in such a way that I will be spastic with glee. I've always said that video games are a highly underrated form of multi-media in their ability to tell a story, and this series is proving me right (wright?). Everything is so fleshed out and real, and the characters develop and grow over the course of play, and I can't help but cheer and yell in shock and pull for the truth to come out.
The final case in the second game was so amazingly told and gripping. And after you win the case, there is about half an hour of exposition and dialogue and character growth--and I'll admit this: I teared up at the very last scene. After seeing it, I replayed the end of the game and the post-game exposition just to see that final image again.
The third game in interesting. It starts off in the past in a dual dynamic of giving new players (who have NO BUSINESS starting on the third game because they'll ruin things for themselves) a tutorial case on playing the game, while also establishing something I KNOW is going to come back up. Nothing this game does is throw-away. Just when you think you'll never see a past character again, they come back!
I could talk about this game forever and how I love the relationships between Phoenix, Maya, and Pearl or Phoenix and Edgeworth or Edgeworth and Franziska. I could discuss how I love the growth and use of characters like Dick Gumshoe or Adrian Andrews or Will Powers. And I could blather on about how the Judge constantly has me putting down the DS to laugh.
It is such a fantastic story. When I finish this third case, I'll be sad to leave it behind. [There is a "fourth" game, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, and I'm sure I'll end up getting it, but it takes place a few years after the Phoenix games, and not all the characters come back, so it may end up just making me sad]
But seriously...if that ending shocked you....you need to be hit with a shovel. She and the vampire guy are the only two characters I'd ever heard of before. For her to end up with Mr Third Wheel What's His Name would be like Lois Lane choosing Jimmy Olsen. There's a huge Twilight fan contingency at work, and they have been going on and on over EDWARD OR WHAT'S HIS FACE?! and I told them one day when I got sick of it "Look, she's going to end up with Edward. You know how I know? Because I know him, and not the other guy. Main characters end up together. It's how these things work. Pam ends up with Jim, not Dwight. Lois ends up with Clark, not Jimmy. Keitaro ends up with Naru, not Shinobu". But man...Keitaro and Shinobu were MEANT to be. I'm going to use my Keitaro/Shinobu icon now...
OH!
I've been meaning to relay this for a while. I had a naughty--but funny--conversation with my co-worker who was REALLY INTO describing Twilight to me and why the chick should choose Edward.
Erin: But the whole werewolf thing seems so....disgusting. When a werewolf picks his mate, he has to imprint himself on her.
Me: What? Like in her hair?
Think that was bad, kids? THIS ENTRY ONLY GOES DOWNHILL FROM HERE.
I've been thinking lately that I might be, like, one-eighth gay. Not because I have been kissing any dudes or anything, but because I have been noticing the hotness of guys on TV way too much. Like in a "Check out his abs", "He's got great hair" kind of way. I've been noticing the attractiveness of guys more than I have ever done before. Very weird. So I put about 7 seconds worth of thought into this, and then realized I don't think I could be gay because the idea of two guys having sex really makes me squeamish and tense. But I put a minute amount of thought into it! Isn't that weird? I'm telling you, guys can't be any bigger twats than the chicks I've dated.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS ENTRY? "Dudes". "Chicks". "Twats". WHERE IS THIS VERNACULAR COMING FROM TONIGHT?
This entry has been brought to you by San Diego, I guess.
There are a lot of hot dudes on TV, though. I respect that. I could be a hot dude! But I'd need a personal trainer. But I could be a hot guy that makes other men watching TV think "Wow, he's pretty hot" and then question their heterosexuality for 7 seconds before realizing the thought of gay sex makes their libido die a lot.
Whelp, no one is still reading this, so I'm going to take off my pants and blog in my underwear.
I TOLD THIS IT WAS GOING DOWN HILL.
I need to look through my tags for some of my political argument/social discussion blogs so I can reassure myself that I'm not really this awful and uneducated.
Ever you ever been in the middle of reading or watching something that is so all-encompassing to you that you can't get anything else done at 100% capacity because you can't stop thinking about how much you want to get back into the world that you left behind when you closed the book/turned off the TV?
I feel like that.
I am on the third and "final" game of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series, and I am just engrossed in it. I know this would draw some eye-rolls and laughs, but this game series is so beautifully written and absorbing and entertaining, and I can tell that this game is leading me inexorably to a final case that will bring together so many loose ends and resolve all the characters in such a way that I will be spastic with glee. I've always said that video games are a highly underrated form of multi-media in their ability to tell a story, and this series is proving me right (wright?). Everything is so fleshed out and real, and the characters develop and grow over the course of play, and I can't help but cheer and yell in shock and pull for the truth to come out.
The final case in the second game was so amazingly told and gripping. And after you win the case, there is about half an hour of exposition and dialogue and character growth--and I'll admit this: I teared up at the very last scene. After seeing it, I replayed the end of the game and the post-game exposition just to see that final image again.
The third game in interesting. It starts off in the past in a dual dynamic of giving new players (who have NO BUSINESS starting on the third game because they'll ruin things for themselves) a tutorial case on playing the game, while also establishing something I KNOW is going to come back up. Nothing this game does is throw-away. Just when you think you'll never see a past character again, they come back!
I could talk about this game forever and how I love the relationships between Phoenix, Maya, and Pearl or Phoenix and Edgeworth or Edgeworth and Franziska. I could discuss how I love the growth and use of characters like Dick Gumshoe or Adrian Andrews or Will Powers. And I could blather on about how the Judge constantly has me putting down the DS to laugh.
It is such a fantastic story. When I finish this third case, I'll be sad to leave it behind. [There is a "fourth" game, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, and I'm sure I'll end up getting it, but it takes place a few years after the Phoenix games, and not all the characters come back, so it may end up just making me sad]