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May. 27th, 2009
09:06 pm - Pretty dress day, whee!
I wore a pretty dress today! It was exciting, and I was cute. And it warmed up enough that I could take the sweater off and just wear the sundress.
We read each others' rough draft essays today in Gothic Lit. My group wasn't helpful, they wanted me to tie my essay into more of what the class read or do an overview of comics as a whole being tied into American gothic literature. No dammit, it's JUST RUNAWAYS! I am tying Runaways into the American gothic tradition! The guy in my group wrote about how Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" wasn't actually particularly gothic, so I was irritated -- he can write about something NOT being gothic but I can't write about something being gothic? Just because we read "Young Goodman Brown" for the class and we didn't read Runaways? I got an "okay" from the professor to write this freaking essay, stop telling me I can't write it, classmates!
So I didn't really get much help out of the whole thing. I'll probably take it to the professor and get some one-on-one help from her instead. One of the girls suggested that I narrow my focus down to one character or one event instead of the first story (18 issues), but dammit, it IS American gothic! It's got caves and (potential) incest and the unveiling of secrets and kids who just can't get out of the goddamned house and violations of time and space and bodies and roles and all sorts of shit! IT'S GOTHIC, DAMMIT.
So that was less than pleasing. Then I came back to the apartment and failed to do homework, and then I left early so I could do my reading in the sun before watching Blood Feast. Which was really, really bad. MST3K bad. Me and several other people had a running commentary going throughout the whole thing, and not one person told us to "shut up, I'm trying to hear!" I don't how I can write a thousand-word essay on this movie without going into slasher movies. Or possibly the appearance of at least two Playboy Bunnies acting as victims. Ooh wait, the hysterical boyfriend! Dibs!
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busyFeb. 23rd, 2008
12:27 pm - Writing/Editing rant
( Cut because ranting = large block of text )
Gahhh. At least this part of the class is almost over.
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crankyAug. 3rd, 2007
12:08 pm - Ohio has developed a case of Lose
Ohio legislators have submitted a bill that would give men the final say in abortions.
Fucking hell no. Stay the hell away from my uterus or I will make you useful as an iron supplement.
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angryJul. 9th, 2007
02:49 pm - Runaways #27 plus a mini-rant
Got my hands on Runaways #27 today, since I was out of town when it came out last week. I chatted with the lady at the comic shop about it, she says that she orders extras now because Joss Whedon is writing it now.
( Spoiler-y review goodness beneath the cut )
At the tail end of the comic, there was a full-page ad about Madeleine McCann. I really hope that she's okay, but fucking hell what were her parents thinking, leaving those kids alone in an unlocked apartment?! There were babysitting and creche services available, what were they thinking?! Gaaaah.
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thirstyJun. 25th, 2007
11:59 pm - Sometimes I want destroy people
Doctor's beliefs hinder patient care.
Yeah. This is exactly the sort of thing I wanted to read before bed.
These assholes fucking knew that they'd have to deal with people in this and similar positions when they took the damn jobs they did. And then they have the gall to say that they deserve "not to have other people's beliefs forced on them" -- they're ob/gyns and ER doctors, what the FUCK did they expect?!
People fucking suck sometimes.
angryMay. 23rd, 2007
10:03 am - G.A.P. fuckers are back
The "Genocide Awareness Project" doesn't actually have anything to do with genocide. It's a bunch of anti-choice assholes who come to campus saying that everyone who is pro-choice is a Nazi who wants to kill all of our precious baaaaaabies.
Naturally, the vast majority of Western students protest this. Last year, we had a bunch of people (I think they were guys, actually) go and buy some PVC pipes and tons of white cloth and create a giant wrap-around sign (far enough back that the G.A.P. couldn't claim we were stifling their "free speech") and people wrote Pro-Choice stuff on them. There were people there with signs reading "I am Pro-Life, These People (the G.A.P.) Don't Speak For Me" and people with signs apologizing for the G.A.P.
Well, they're back again this year. There's going to be a "Pirates Against the G.A.P." thing tomorrow, celebrating Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and protesting the G.A.P. It'll be awesome. I'll take pictures.
These people are not Pro-Life, as they claim. They're pro-hate and making the pro-lifers look bad. Get off the Pro-Life side so we can have an intelligent discussion, assholes!
irritatedApr. 17th, 2007
11:09 pm - "Born-Again Abortion Clinics"
This makes me so mad I could spit. These people disgust me, with their lies and comparing abortion to the Holocaust and making "memorials to the unborn", basing those memorials off of memorials of tragedies just so they can pile guilt onto women who are already likely to be in an uncomfortable mental space!
In a perfect world, there wouldn't be any abortion. Every time a woman became pregnant, she would want the kid and would love that kid and treat it well. There would also be no rape and no murder and no fucking asshats like this bastard making my Pro-Life friends look like uncaring assholes.
But this isn't a perfect world. This is a world where women still die from complications of pregnancy, a world where women are still raped , a world where people kill and neglect and abuse the very children that these people are claiming to "save".
I've talked to and befriended people who are Pro-Life who, while I don't agree with them, I can understand.
Flinging Bible verses around doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't even make you Christian. In cases like this, it just makes you a hypocritical, holier-than-thou fuckstick giving the real Christians a bad name.
It makes me uncomfortable to wish ill on people, but in this case I am oh-so-tempted to make an exception. I'm sure it would screw with my karmic balance, if there is such a thing, but it might be worth it.
angryMar. 10th, 2007
12:43 pm - Laundry woes
To: The inconsiderate bimbo who left her laundry in the washing machine
From: The girl who had to haul all your clothes out of the washing machine so she could use it
I hope someone steals all your thongs.
No love,
Me
hotFeb. 21st, 2007
09:39 am - Some Math Myths Are True
HA!
HahahahahahahaHA!
Can we just get rid of the damn CORE program? "What color are the flashing lights" is NOT a math question!
Why is "smug" not a mood option?
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satisfiedNov. 7th, 2006
09:41 am - Civil War (bleh) update
Oh look, they're FINALLY going to send out the final Young Avengers/Runaways crossover. Too bad they KEEP FUCKING WITH THE KIDS POWERS.
Billy's voice is a CONCENTRATION AID. He does not NEED to speak to cast spells! Or even hear himself speak! He just needs to fucking CONCENTRATE.
When Nico tries to cast a spell she's already cast with the Staff of One, it BACKFIRES. It does NOT do NOTHING THREE TIMES IN A ROW.
*gnaws*
In better news, the webcomic Year One has the Young Avengers in it today! :D
Wookit da kyuuuuuuute widdle Young Avengerers!
hotNov. 5th, 2006
06:51 pm - OW!
Guess who hates the next book for her "Images and Memory" English class!
I don't even know what the damn thing is ABOUT. Do you know why? Because the first five paragraphs cover EIGHTY-TWO PAGES. Oh sure, there are pictures scattered around in there, but they're MID-SENTENCE and don't offer a break.
My head hurts and I've only read twenty-eight pages. That's just over a third of the pages that I'm supposed to read by class tomorrow. *is a sad, sad bookwyrm*
BOOKS SHOULD NOT MAKE MY BRAIN HURT, DAMMIT.
grumpyAug. 29th, 2006
04:37 pm - *cue swearing*
Dammit dammit dammit.
Okay, so awhile back, my iPod stopped working properly. My computer would acknowledge that it was plugged in, but iTunes wouldn't register an iPod. Okay, fine. My installation disc was in storage, but no big. As soon as I could, I'd go and get it and reinstall everything and it'd be fine.
Guess what I did today?
So, iTunes is still ignoring my iPod, and now I am Annoyed. Rarrgh.
More experimentation to follow. Or possibly percussive maintenance.
annoyedAug. 16th, 2006
10:01 pm - Runaways #19
It’s Wednesday, comic-book release day!
And today we got Runaways #19!
( Spoilers Beneath )
Whoa. Two and a half pages.
In other news, Mom has almost finished the first Runaways trade paperback. She asked if she could borrow it and my Young Avengers. She’s either more bored than I thought or she’s trying to figure out what the hell I’m so excited over.
Also, if D.C. wants me to buy their shit, they need to stop killing off or brutally driving insane every single character that I find interesting. *hugs poor Skeets tightly*
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geekyJun. 1st, 2006
10:06 am - When I write comic books...
I shall create a super hero. Who will be advertised as a LESBIAN. All over the place.
And this superhero will be a pansexual male. From Lesbos. And he will be a feminist. And his older sister will occasionally drop by to check up on him and tazer the ass of whatever villain he's fighting that day for "picking on" her "baby brother".
Now I just need superpowers for him and a name and code name and we're all set to go.
Because "lesbian" is almost the same as "personality", right DC?
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deviousMay. 30th, 2006
10:06 am - I seriously love this person
Kung Fu Monkey: Lions Led By Donkeys.
Verbalizing my beliefs in a way that I couldn't. Rock on, Kung Fu Monkey!
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sleepyMay. 23rd, 2006
09:05 pm - Save Nazanin
What. The. Fuck.
A seventeen-year-old Iranian girl was defending herself and her niece against three men who were attempting to rape them and accidentally killed one of the would-be rapists.
And she gets condemned to death for murder for it.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
Here's the Save Nazanin hompage. It has more information as well as a petition that you can sign.
Save Nazanin
What. The. Fuck.
enragedMay. 18th, 2006
11:26 pm
"Forever Pregnant"
*gapes*
"Pre-pregnant"? They want to call me "pre-pregnant" just because I am capable of having a kid?!
FUCK. NO.
It's things like this that almost make me want to get my uterus removed so that I can use it to KILL PEOPLE. Fucking stuff it down their throats so that they SUFFOCATE on it. Considering they seem to think that I should be using it for is creating life, death-by-uterus strikes me as delightfully ironic.
I am NOT "pre-pregnant". I will NEVER be "pre-pregnant".
Fuck you, assholes. Fuck. You. Sideways.
infuriatedMay. 11th, 2006
09:04 pm - Smackwater Jack: A feminist rant
( A little over a page's worth of thoughts )
You know, I just wish that it was this easy to write my Shakespeare paper. Or my psychology stuff.
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creativeApr. 30th, 2006
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Experts disagree with jury verdict against woman in boy's drowning.
What.
The.
FUCK?!
Some asshat lets his two-year-old kid wander off towards a river TWICE and then his GIRLFRIEND gets in trouble for not jumping in to save the kid?
WHEN THE GIRLFRIEND CAN'T SWIM?!
Bloody fucking hell. Those jurors need brain trasplants, STAT.
Aagh.
infuriatedApr. 25th, 2006
10:34 pm - ranting about cartooning
I got my first in-class-essay test back in Intro to Shakespeare. I got a 97 (percent, I assume) on it! *happy dance*
I also found out what those red and blue flags out on the lawn are for - they're to help raise awareness about sexual assault. Apparently, they applied the stats to the student body and found that out of however many women we have on campus, such-and-such a number will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. Same with the men. I'm assuming that it's blue for men and red for women, but that's just a cultural assumption.
I'm having a kick-ass time in sociology. Studying people! Whee! I know, I'm a dork.
( Yeah. I was flipping through my art books. )
Gahh. End rant.
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