NET.

Um um. Moved in to new apartment! Wires everywhere! Ahaha I need to. Work on this net thing. Y-yeah. BUT NET. In lieu of real content, have a post I wrote up yesterday. WARNING: This is almost entirely me rambling about how much the sequels to Twilight hurt me in my kokoro.

I. I'm so sorry.

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In my desire to find something to do while I have 1) no net and 2) no job, I've been making some poor decisions.

Two poor decisions.

( Supernatural season one. )

( New Moon and Eclipse, sequels to Twilight, as I read them. Spoilers for those books, and also Megan Whalen Turner's Eugenides books. )

chash: LOUD I am drinking and watching Harold and Kumar
inupr0n: I ATOMO WTF... Fuck someomd defaulted my phone to spanish. HI LOUD HI
( So much more drunk texting under the cut. )

Back from NJ.

( Media whore--talking about books and movies )

Other than books and movies, we also went to the beach a few times! It was cold. So very cold. The first day the three of us were just bundled up in blankets, sitting in the beach house crying. The next day was nicer and we actually went to the beach (shocking!) where Becca and Chaos tried to tan while I made a sandcastle and fought the sea. I think the sea won. I did go all the way into the water on a dare; this is not a good idea. At all. In fact, it is a terrible idea. It was cold and I cried. We drank some and watched season two of The Office. I sent some text messages. We tried to go to the beach again the next day, and the sand attacked us. Like, it blew into our legs and stung and was terrible. I fought some seagulls and won. Fucking seagulls. We then just decided to hang out on the deck and sunbathe there, as then the sand didn't try to kill us. The beaches were nice and deserted those days, but when we returned on Saturday (our last day at the beach) all these impossibly thin, tanned girls with schleppy boyfriends showed up, and we got intimidated and ran away. True story.

We also did some of a puzzle, hung out in Baltimore, and were all dizzy and confused. Overall, it was good times.

Now, I have so far not addressed one book. A book Becca and I both read. A book no one should ever read.

( DIAMONDS IN THE NIGHT )

I read Twilight.

Why? Let's break it down.
Morbid curiosity: 28%
Wanting to understand complaints about the movie and/or casting: 2%
Self-loathing: 20%
Wanting to be able to use this icon: 30%
Not wanting to do my final papers: 30%

Yes, I gave this book 110%

Because it's worth it.


In fact that is lies. I gave it about 30%, and that was more than it deserved.

chash: LOUD
chash: My loud is like some raven at my window with a broken wing
inupr0n: My loud is xmas in iran
chash: My loud is Christopher Walken


chash: Hi floor hiiiii
darknightrain: Hi buffy how goes the drinking? :D
chash: Well 4 am dohng ht so there's that we drink whenever we eorget the words
darknightrain: ...I'm still trying to decipher that last message.
chash: I forgot what I said hi Floor <3
chash: I just punched myself in the face

Niko: Happy birthday, Chash! Sorry I didn't actually wish it on time, I did remember but was at the games store until way later than expected. Hope it was good.
me: I'm pretty drunk right now
true storu
Niko: lol
Well, grats then
me: word up

So, it's spring break. I've been watching a lot of random TV shows, reading fic, and generally chilling out after a hectic first half of the semester.

But Chash, you might say, didn't you spend tons of time in the last few weeks watching Jonny Quest and playing video games?

I did! But I was also doing work while I did these things. I multitask like a mofo. It's really probably bad. But true. And I was stressed out. So I am now R-ing and R-ing. And reading and writing Jonny Quest fanfic.

Don't judge me :(

hey dudes hey dudes

nostalgia_fic

There's a post here with information about my vision for the comm, and you should all comment there or here with stuff that needs work. And then you should join this community. Because I loev TV fanfic. You should also tell me things to add to the interests.

/o/

I've been reading a pretty ridiculous amount of Jonny Quest fanfic over the last few days, and frankly I am disgusted and saddened by the total lack of hot, hot, Dr. Quest/Race fanfic on FF.net. Also by many other things, like the number of fics there are where Jessie gets raped or nearly raped so that Jonny can save her, but that's another thing.

In any case, I have written a short fic to 1. Rectify this terrible oversight on the part of fanfic writers and 2. Explain it.

( You probably don't want to click this. )

In less terrifying news, or perhaps more accurately, news that is a different kind of terrifying, gaisce and I were discussing the possibility of a comm for fic (writing and recs) of childhood nostalgia fandoms--basically, TV shows from the 80s and early 90s that have pretty dead/small fandoms at this point. The dates could be kind of tweaked, probably, since that's pretty focused on my childhood, but. Would anyone actually want/join/enjoy a community like that?

From chili_das_schaf!

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick seven [or as much as you want] of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

( The ones she asked me about. )

After seeing Superbad last night (which I very much enjoyed), I find myself filled with an old rage--the abundance, in pop culture, of geeky guys getting really hot girls (a good summary of this phenomenon in newspaper comics is in #1 here, and I have similar feelings about it in film), contrasted with the lack of geeky girls getting hot guys. There are, of course, many films in which "unattractive" (read as: very attractive actresses wearing glasses with their hair in pony tails--see Teen Movie (or actually, don't)) girls are made over so that they can get together with popular guys, who (of course) like them for themselves. I will give points here to several Molly Ringwald films--notably Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles, in which the socially disadvantaged girl gets the attractive guy for whom she pines. At the same time, however, I would point out that in both cases, the faults that make Molly Ringwald's characters generally unattractive are not based on her, exactly--in Pretty In Pink, she's an attractive girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and there's no reason to think that, were she not poor, she would have problems with popularity. Similarly, in Sixteen Candles, there's an age difference between Ringwald and her prospective beau--a younger, dorky student (who, incidentally, ends up hooking up with "the hot girl") repeatedly hits on Ringwald because she is an attractive, older girl.

I have trouble thinking of films where girls are genuinely socially inept and also protagonists. Even She's All That, where the female lead is, supposedly, ugly and unpopular, attributes the girl's attitude to her mother's death, and not any kind of social issues.

In the genre of socially inept female protagonists, gaisce brought up Ghost World. I haven't seen the film adaptation, but I can speak to the comic book, and the film illustrates two of my points. First, socially inept female protagonists (and, often, non-protagonists) will get together with unattractive, inept males (I don't think it's possible to argue Steve Buschemi as an attractive male lead). Second, films in which female leads are used this way are, in general, not at all mainstream.

The final movie type I can think of here (and I think this might be more books, even, and I'm failing at coming up with examples) is the "dorky male best friend" model. In this model, the female protagonist, often an unpopular girl with self-esteem issues, spends the movie longing for the football/basketball/insert-sport-here star, while oblivious to the affections of her similarly popular male best friend. Invariably (excepting Pretty in Pink), the girl will realize that her male best friend is really the one for her and gets together with him, even though he's a dork. Actually, you can observe this pattern in the TV show Lizzie McGuire, where Lizzie spends most of the show longing for hunk Ethan before finally being charmed by her best friend Gordo, who plays video games. I can't believe I just admitted I know that much about the long-term plot of Lizzie McGuire. Bear in mind, though--that's a TV show aimed at preteen girls. I'm as big a fan of dorky guys as you can get, but seriously. Where's the love for dorky girls plus hot guys?

So, basically, I liked Superbad, but it made me think, not for the first time, "Where is the female nerd escapist fantasy?" Why can't we have an inept female who wouldn't look like a model if you took down her hair and removed her glasses, plays Magic: The Gathering on the weekend, and gets together with the football guy? Guys don't have to change their look radically in film to get girls, so let's have some equality.

That's why I'm writing a screenplay where this happens. Because god, if no one else is doing it, I will.

Hokay, so, as I mentioned, I'm cleaning out my room, and I have a lot of various fandomy things I don't really want. So! Under the cut is a list of mostly manga, but also some American comics and a few DVDs, that I don't want and will sell/give away to anyone who wants any of them.

( Come see! )

So yeah, if you want any of these highly desirable items, leave me a comment with what you want and your e-mail address and I will e-mail you so we can discuss postage and stuff. Also, we can negotiate any prices you want I AM EASY.

Okay, so there is this song by Hysteric Blue that I got off fst a while ago, and I like it a lot, and I thought I'd try translating it. Unfortunately, the internet didn't actually have the lyrics, and I of course don't own the CD. So I figured, what the hell, the song is pretty easy to understand, I'll just try writing down the lyrics myself. Which is harder than you (read: I) would think! So what I'm going to share with you, the viewer at home who probably doesn't care, is my process of attempting to translate the song. FIRST we have the song itself, as I just wrote it down. There's a star next to one line—that's the one I'm least sure of, and I'm unsure of a lot of them! My first step will be basically reading through what I have here without any dictionary, using only my MacGuyver-like skills of kanji-taking-apart, and also my less MacGuyver-like skills of knowing some vocabulary already.

( tl;dr )

But who cares about all of that. JUST LISTEN TO THE SONG.

\o/

Hey kids, time for another round of Good Idea, Bad Idea!

Good Idea
Reading Grant Morrison's impressive and moving graphic novel WE3.

Bad Idea
Reading Grant Morrison's impressive and moving graphic novel WE3 at work where you would not feel comfortable breaking down crying because oh god the poor animals oh god the Lost signs god that was a terrible life choice.

Luckily I was coming up on lunch break anyway! So I fumbled around trying not to think about wah the animals oh god the animals wah and then was just like "....I'm going on break!!!" and probably I will have to meander to the bathroom later and like. Cry. Damn you, Grant Morrison. But it's not like I didn't know what I was getting into.

I also have been reading a random film review journal, due to a critical lack of anything else to do at work today. I read a pretty bizarre article about Cruel Intentions and why the Sarah Michelle Gellar/Selma Blair kiss won "Best Kiss" at the MTV Movie Awards, which was...actually pretty interesting! Because the article made a pretty convincing argument about how you couldn't boil it down to just "hurr hurr hurr two girls kissing" while still acknowledging that was a big part. I also learned that Cruel Intentions is based on a French book from the eighteenth century. I can only assume Cruel Intentions 3, which was both so bad and so offensive that I could not finish it, does not share this distinction.

Right now, I am in the process of reading an article about why Saddam is gay in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, which will hopefully help me repress the wah the animals oh god the animals wah which has still not gone away.

At the advice of gaisce, who, I suspect, is still angry with me for making her go to Superman Returns, I got Simply Irresistible. Which is a Sarah Michelle Gellar movie. That should probably tell you everything you need to know about the quality of the film. But I will be writing up commentary as I watch it, just in case you ever wanted to know even more about it. Here's the summary from the back, to get your mouths watering:

"Sarah Michelle Gellar (TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") "brings her bewitching charms to a tale of love" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) in this seductive story of "hex" appeal.

"Beautiful restaurant owne Amanda Shelton (Gellar) is falling head over heels for handsome, hard-driving executive Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery). Unfortunately, Tom is too busy to recognize that she's truly the girl of his dreams...until Amanda puts him under her tantalizing spell!"

( Come with me, won't you! )

Title: Puzzle
Fandom: DC :/ TT/FMA
Notes: I hate myself and you. Only vague spoilers because I haven't actually read these. lol.

Hate myself and others! \o/ gaisce, don't read this. Actually, no one should.

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