Laughter Through Tears

There are so many Things going on that I have to post even though I should be studying. Perhaps I'll intersperse my observations through this post?

So, Game of Thrones. I have so many thoughts, so many. My main two are: I can smell bait; and, way to hang a cliff, jackasses. How do I make it through the next almost a year until season two happens? Assuming they can bring about such an elaborate production for a regular, yearly season. Good thing I have other fandoms to distract myself with, I could never deal with fandom monogamy.

( So much rambling. )

Well, this is already ludicrously long enough, rambling enough, and took *glances* over an hour to put together, so I'm just gonna hide most of this behind a cut and go ahead and post it.

THE AVATAR DEAL IS SO CLOSE TO CANON, GUYS. SO CLOSE.

Why are the internets collapsing? LJ is down so I can't access captchalogue or homestuck1000, and Twitter is now down too. I'm almost afraid to check Facebook.

In school news, my group (actually a pair) managed to get a grip on our experimental psychology assignments, which were proving to be an enormous pain in the general rear vicinity.

In writing news, junetide! So many delicious prompts. Mine were pretty cracky and I suspect someone who knows me moderately well could guess them easily. But, that's not the point of the challenge, and then again neither is hiding my identity? I guess? Anyway, it will all be super cool and there are some really creative people on board. Plus I've already encountered about five things I forgot/had no idea I might want to request. Like this.

In food news, I want to make a post about ptitim because I just made some. They came out not like my mother's and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Also they are a weird Israeli thing.

Anyway, I need like a mini-program, an HTML page or something, that can take a list of names and compute all possible pairings out of them. That way I can turn my desire to write every Homestuck femmeslash pairing from a cracktastic dream into potential reality. Except this fandom has the only femmeslash pairing ever that I might not be able to bring myself to write. Dammit LJ, grar rar, I need my anonymous prompt memes!

Yesterday I signed up for purimgifts and now I am googling for chocolate krakens.

I will now post a bunch of "the Muppets sing the Beatles" videos, because I feel like it.

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I am pretty excitable today!

How did I not know there was an anon Homestuck meme? So much goodness. So little time. Damn you, laundry, my nemesis.

One of my nerdycookies posts has gotten a lot of action. I opened my e-mail sometime this morning (I think) and I had about fifty new messages, almost all of which were notifications for this one post. A bunch of new followers, too. :) They are pretty awesome cupcakes, but I think it was the multi-nerdity that did it. I mean, Daleks and the Mad Hatter in one sugary post? Hell yeah.

This week I did a bit of frog dissecting. It was gross and fascinating and a little exciting. And very funny, because everyone who stayed in the lab to watch the gory bits was passing around all sorts of weird jokes. School-wise, the thingamajig that simulates and measures the nerve was more interesting, because I am not really going into zoology or anything. But the most interesting thing by far was that the lab was full of old taxidermies, mostly birds, with one enormous, terrifying-looking dolphin that sort of lurked on top of one of the cabinets waiting to catch the looker unawares. It freaked me the fuck out. I will never believe the myth of dolphin cuteness again.

Oh! I forgot follow Friday as usual but some people need to join pose_as_a_comm so that I don't feel like I'm talking to myself.

Tonight for supper I made rice with onions, carrots and zucchini, and I cooked the vegetables as little as possible with the hopes of avoiding the mushiness that is often their lot. It actually came out awesome and I have enough for (some of) the week. Shopping plus cooking success! I win at being a grownup!

This is such a cute idea:

This is my thread.

Lately I've been filling spare minutes with trawling various parts of the web for anything Lost Girl-related. I swear this show is my fannish crack. It's been ages since I've been so single-minded about a fandom, and never a TV fandom, I think. I'm pleased to report that After Ellen has finally picked up on this show's existence (off a Twitter tip, I think) and will apparently be doing weekly recaps from now on. I also adore this Ksenia Solo interview where she says:

When I first got the script, I thought, ‘My god! They will never cast me for this! To be honest, I had a really hard time preparing to play this role. It took me some time to find who she really was because I didn’t click with her right away. But then, something very indescribable and interesting happened. By the time we had wrapped our first season, I couldn’t shake Kenzi off. It was like I was in character every single day!

( More fannish blather )

You know, femmeslash that bashes male characters is not really an improvement over male slash that bashes female characters. Also, stating your ship of preference doesn't have to be prefaced by listing the shortcomings of another ship, even if the two are embroiled in a love triangle, canonical or otherwise.

This is like hooking up with your ex and everything is wonderful until ey start leaving eir gross socks all over the place again OMFG.

I am tired of school and I have a headache, so let us have some awesome stuff.

For National Coming Out Day, FYLGBT had a post entitled Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect, which is fascinating and sort of terrifying, and well worth a read.

nextian made an awesome post called the female character Yenta meme where people recommend awesome stuff with awesome ladies to each other. Sharing the love is always cool, and it's interesting to see what people are into. I posted here even though I already have a reading list a mile long, because I am greedy.

As a sort of down payment, I'd like to throw out some names of stuff I like with awesome ladies in it, and say something about why they're awesome: ( Cut for list of epic rambling )

Hey, it turns out I have less stamina for this than I thought. Maybe I'll do more tomorrow, or on the weekend. On the upside? My headache is mostly gone.