Yesterday my roommate brought me a cinnamon roll for breakfast, ran snide commentary on Project Runway and fangirled Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name with me (she thinks it's hilarious to share a name with a certain spazzy paranormal investigator), and we sat around until two in the morning discussing Mary Sues and other irritating fanfic tropes. Best ( Read more... )

I am in desperate need of a new fandom. I've always got U2, but that's more of a constant baseline thing and just a part of my identity at this point. LOST is also my love, but aside from fanfic it's a closed story now. I'm only about halfway through the Dark Tower series, but I left all of those at home, and too much Stephen King in one sitting ( Read more... )

Went to see Watchmen tonight with a bunch of friends. I now feel like I need to scrub my brain a bit with a mild bleach solution.

Note to self: Just because you're now actually old enough to see R-rated movies unaccompanied, it doesn't mean they're actually worth seeing.

(The movie wasn't bad, exactly, and was in fact very true to the comic. However ( Read more... )