Makotic Crack

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:45:49 GMT

Amazon yesterday recced that I read a book. It's ridiculously expensive so I just read the first three pages of it on that previewy thing.

...You know, I think my faith in Amazon's recs are renewed.

It's interesting the theory that action movies are a way of feeling homosexual desire on the part of the intended male viewer that's both non-threatening to the societal definition of masculinity, and subconscious - and I love that it identifies the male-male relationships as the point of the genre, which I think is correct, and I don't think it's out of a malicious or patriarchal idea to remove women from the equation. We need more films about female friendships in general; I don't think it's right to attack a single genre for ignoring women when ALL THE GENRES DO IT and the action movie genre is just more shameless about it - and therefore less subconsciously damaging - than most.

ALSO IF YOU ARE IN THE MGS FANDOM OR IF YOU LIKE MGS AND FANCY YOUR CHANCES, GO HERE. IT IS INTENTIONALLY RIDICULOUSLY HARD SO HAVE FAITH AND IF YOU GET THE HIGHEST SCORE AT THE END YOU WIN A PRIZE.

THERE ARE TWO BUTTSHOTS IN THE FILM MY FRIEND. AND BOTH ARE OF THE UGLY ONE.

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:54:32 GMT

TODAY INSTEAD OF DOING ANYTHING CONSTRUCTIVE cockpuppet AND I BUILT A SNOWMAN, AND THEN WE WATCHED THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY AND LOLLED HEARTILY AT ANGEL-EYES' CREEPINESS AND THE PLOT-SENSING CANNONS

But seriously. That. Film. I need for it to have a fandom. Out of all the works of media I have ever liked, nothing has ever left me with such a desperate, hollow craving for MORE. MGS? If all of the fandom suddenly vanished off the face of the planet it'd kind of suck but I'd have enough awesomestupid in the games to last me for a long time loving it. FF7? I'm craving less. Doctor Who? I seriously have absolutely no need or want for anything besides the canon. But with GBU, I want so much more. More of all the characters. More characters. More backstabbing. More backstory. I have seen it about five times over the space of about six months and every single time it's like watching it the first time and every single time as the credits roll I just want to put it on back from the beginning so it never has to end, like listening to a song on loop. I want the sequel that will never be, I want the prequel that will never be, I want Blondie to put Tuco on his horse and travel off with him on awesome Wild West adventures. this is why i am waiting desperately for 2010 because then I can go back to Leedshome and READ THE GBU COMIC

Basically, I don't think I have ever craved fanfic to read as much as I have for that movie. And naturally, there is none for it. I love reading MGS and FF7 fic, it's completely amazing, but I like producing it more. But for this, I want to read something, and THERE. IS. NONE.

Weirdly enough I'm not craving long plotty fics like the one I'm writing. I'm craving PWP. Not necessarily porn, just - vignettes, anecdotes, drabbles, okay maybe porn a little, oneshots.

It kind of makes me realise just how much I take the ability to find fandom porn for granted. And it sucks that I've fallen so mad in lust for a fandom that doesn't exist.

OH WELL I'M GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE THAT SOMEHOW WITH MY MASTER COWBOY MANIPULATOR PLAN THAT I HAVE COME UP WITH BUT NOT TOLD YOU BECAUSE THAT'S MY SECRET PLAN

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:11:25 GMT

Sorry about uncut Snake/Otacon MGS4-related drabblefreakout yesterday, it was 1AM and I didn't know what I was doing.

THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT

1. Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name is the UK Christmas Number 1 instead of Whatsisface Xfactor McThing. Simon Cowell is hopping mad (always a good sign, even though I actually like Cowell), justice = prevailed. I love legal music downloading for making these things possible. (Also - I downloaded a copy myself. :) )

2. I finished writing that first chapter of that fic! I just need to go through it, fix the misspellings, rearrange some incoherent sentences, take out bits of random worldporn prattle that aren't relevant or interesting, and then go and write the other chapters ~~the first one was 10000 words and nothing happened in it oh god ;___;~~

3. SNOW. I feel curiously vindicated about this because during last year's Snow Week, when the papers were going on about HOW BRITAIN HAS COME TOGETHER IN THE FANTASTICNESS OF SNOW ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ALL WEEEEK, Parenthome was the only bit in the country that got no snow at all. Not a sausage. It was like all your friends had been invited to a party and you hadn't.

EDIT: 4. I have a white hat which I, while putting on, pulled over my face. I'd done this and was just admiring myself in the mirror when my brother comes bounding down the stairs, screaming in his best Solid Snake voice, "GRAY FOX!!! YOU CAME BACK!!!" and gave me the most enthusiastic hug I've ever received in my life.

i should be betaing fic but when i get tired i break out in ambiguously Snake/Otacon ficlets

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:27:54 GMT

She'd proven her identity by sending a picture of him, naked.

It's not a very good photograph, in terms of either picture quality, artistry or resemblance to the subject. It's probably not even a photograph - it looks more like a still from a camera feed, melting shades of white and pink and red and black, timestamp in the corner. It's blurry and pixellated as hell, because back then that was the dose of Vaseline smeared on the world's lens, making the old look ten years younger - not like these days, when every crease and vein and fold of skin is in shocking HD and there's no way anyone can imagine it away.

But it's of him, and it shows him sitting on sitting on the side of a bed, or something - it's hard to make out, just a brushstroke on a black canvas behind him. His head is bowed slightly forwards, and his shoulders curve out behind his neck like a bull's. One hand is rested on his thigh, the other on his knee, holding the cigarette, mushrooming smoke to the sky in imitation of the worse kind of cancer stick. He is very, very naked and his thighs are wide apart.

After making sure everyone else is asleep, or occupied, or uncaring, Hal who's still Otacon to one person in the world forces himself to open the file. While over the years he'd kept his frustration at bay with a few incredibly strange images and ideas and people, even he wouldn't get turned on by a two-gens-old screenshot of his best friend with no clothes on. But there's something, about the way his stomach is curled backwards so that it catches the light, that makes him interested in the picture in a way beyond the hope that it represents. Hal finds that after these years he has trouble imagining Snake stripped bare of all his old trappings, planted in front of a camera, posing there clean, and naked, and new - sometime since, the old man's life had just turned into an endless forced repeat and now he brings all that weight and expectation everywhere with him. It's the worst nostalgia Hal's ever had, and he can't help himself from taking a backup.

He keeps it in his Printer Settings folder for two days, in an unmarked archive, disguised as a batch process, before he finally puts it in the Trash.

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:07:41 GMT

View Poll: don't worry, all your responses are anonymous

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:06:39 GMT

If your list of reasons why I should see Avatar contains the phrase 'it's not a movie, it's ______', then you're not convincing me.

'It's not a movie, it's an experience!' = it's a pretty movie
'It's not a movie, it's childish wonder!' = it's a pretty movie
'It's not a movie, it's a technological experiment!' = it's a pretty movie

No matter how pretty the movie gets, IT'S STILL A MOVIE. THAT IS WHAT IT IS. I don't try and convince you lot to play MGS by saying 'IT'S NOT A GAME, IT'S A PSYCHIC INTERFACE WITH THE EXPERIENCER THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF CONTROLLERHOOD' or 'IT'S NOT A GAME, IT'S AN OTHERWORLDLY EXPERIENCE OF ANOTHER LIFE' or 'IT'S NOT A GAME, IT'S A PICTURE OF A PIPE' or whatever. MGS's mastery lies in that it is a game which exploits its gameyness to underscore and enhance the narrative and atmosphere. Saying 'it's not a game' is an insult to everything it stands for. And I feel the same with Avatar. If it's truly trying to do something new and wonderful as a movie, CALL IT A MOVIE. And say WHY what it does MAKES IT A BETTER MOVIE.

chaos_r, I respect your right to have subversive opinions of the duty an audience pays to a creator and I agree with you to a point, really, I do. But I still have the right to say 'shitluxliekitsux, not interested'. I've been burned by pretty!movies with massive plotfail before, hello Advent Children.

So. THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN AVATAR, PLEASE CONVINCE ME THAT IT'S A GOOD MOVIE.

Tell me what it has going for it - not as an experience or a childish wonder or as a technical experiment, but as the movie that it is. As a combination of story, characters and picture. If it's a highly visual film (which it is), tell me why those visuals are so important, why they work with the story, what about them is special other than that 'they're pretty'.

Please?

...And just how bad IS the racefail?

EDIT: my mother got the New Moon calendar. She showed me all the pages. It's quite nicely made and printed, big production stills, fanservice for both Team Edward and Team Jacob, and so on. I just couldn't get over the irony - it's a New Moon thing which has MONTHS PRINTED ON THEIR OWN ON THEIR OWN PAGES

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:17:22 GMT

Please send help, I am considering changing the title of my Secret Santa fic from 'Alaska' to 'Inglourious Zanzibarsterds'.

PW DUB

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:19:11 GMT

I'm not totally sold on Big Boss's voice, but considering they're going to be going a Snakeier direction with BB in this one I kind of like it. I don't think it's as EPICALLY HORRIBLE as everyone else is saying even though I'm Team Doyle. Dayter's actual performance and line delivery is excellent, especially since I never felt like he really grasped BB the way he grasped Snake.

I'm not totally sold on Miller's voice. I like Atkin Downes as a voice actor, but I just cannot get over how much like Genesis he sounds. And considering this is the VA who played Genesis, and Miller is later impersonated by the guy who basically is the MGS world's Genesis (posing, crushing apples, monologuing, crazy, envy, SYMBOLISMMMM, retcons, decaying on a cellular level, homoerotic obsession for the world's greatest soldier, etc.) he could STAND TO HAM IT UP A LITTLE MORE. Cam Clarke is my Miller and I can't hear Atkin Downes talking about gameplay ergonomics in a way that I'm going to listen to for hours. But, hey, this Miller is young.

Paz sounds great but Tara Strong is always amazing, I <3 her so much.

And I can't work out if the guy playing Galvez is a bad actor or if Galvez is a bad actor, so I'm withholding my judgement here.

MGS IS STILL MY MAIN FANDOM, I JUST CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:18:31 GMT

RANDOM SQUEALING UPDATE;: MY DAD RANDOMLY BROUGHT ME A CD BY SOME ARGENTINIAN GROUP AND IT'S COMPLETELY AMAZING, IT SOUNDS A BIT LIKE DANNY ELFMAN TRYING TO SCORE METAL GEAR AC!D 2 WITH A BUNCH OF MARIARCHIS

OTHER STUFF UPDATE: I'm reading a book about a bunch of secret American government-made clones of the same guy who have to join together to kill the guy they were originally cloned from who is trying to start nuclear war. One of the clones is gay; he's a Marine for whom the story constantly stops to talk about how beautiful his muscley body is, and it's making me ship clonecest harder than I thought I knew how. I'm proud to report he's only my second favourite. My favourite clone so far is the neurotic, mouthy criminal psychologist. But I'm also massively moe all over the adorably weepy priest who has nightmares about not having a soul because he's a clone.

MOVIES UPDATE: Also, I watched Trading Places. It's a really good film and surprisingly intelligent for an Eighties class-based screwball comedy, and all three main characters are wonderful (my favourite was Jamie lee Curtis') and I found the romance in it was actually believable and adorable rather than annoying (what I loved about Jamie Lee Curtis's character was that SHE was just as much a quirky caricature as the men, and a lot of comedies forget that women can be funny characters as well). BUT. I did not like the train subplot or how the plot with the security guard was handled - it felt like it belonged in a totally different movie. I also didn't enjoy the increasingly creepy racial symbolism of that subplot (which ended up with one character in blackface and another character dressed up as a gorilla being shipped 'back to Africa for a scientific experiment' when a 'scientific experiment' by a bunch of white people was what got the (black) main character into his situation - I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT MEANS AND I'M PROBABLY OVERTHINKING IT MASSIVELY BUT IT MADE ME TREMENDOUSLY UNCOMFORTABLE.)

RANDOM FANDOM THOUGHT UPDATE: In The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, how did Tuco know who Angel-Eyes was when he recognised him in the prison camp? They'd never met, although Angel-Eyes was watching him and Blondie and had the scam figured out by the second hanging scene. And Angel-Eyes isn't really a bounty hunter in the same way Blondie says he is; he's a hitman, so he's not someone Tuco would specifically have to know about to AVOID. It's the little plotholes like that which make me realise just how badly the movie was eviscerated. Is there a translation of the original script available anywhere?

CHRISTMAS FIC WRITING PROCESS UPDATE It's not as good this time around.

GAY COWBOY FIC PROCESS UPDATE So this OFC I created to be basically a plot device has decided she wants to be a woman in a Western who isn't a sexy victim of nasty men, a prostitute or a genderless vigilante, and she's also decided she wants to be manipulating everything from behind the scenes. I JUST WANTED TO WRITE SIX THOUSAND WORDS OF A SIMPLE PLOT BEING RESOLVED WITH BONDAGE, WHAT

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:36:52 GMT

View Poll: once the fic instinct surfaces it never sleeps again

Voice Post

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:30:46 GMT

Voice Post

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:11:35 GMT

no-one commented to my previous post so I feel lonely

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:41:14 GMT

When I was young, I read a maths puzzle in one of my primary school maths textbooks which has stuck with me for a really long time. It kind of floats to the top of my head semi-randomly and it's doing so now, probably because it involves cowboys.

Anyway.

There are three cowboys. Their names in the puzzle are Cowboy A, Cowboy B and Cowboy C, but just for a personal touch and because it fits the story I'm going to call them Angel Eyes, Blondie and Tuco (feel free to call them Adamska, Big Boss and Otacon if you'd prefer but it's a lot less IC for them). Anyway, Angel Eyes, Blondie and Tuco get into a three-way Mexican standoff over some gold. Each is holding a revolver fully loaded with six bullets.

None of them can work up the nerve to shoot or lower their guns and they have been staring at each other for several hours and their eyes are all getting tired, so eventually they decide they will take turns to shoot once. Angel Eyes has a 5/6 chance of hitting his target, Blondie can hit his target half the time, and Tuco can hit his target 1/6th of the time, so they agree, to be fair, that Tuco gets to shoot first, then Blondie, and then finally Angel Eyes.

Tuco, if he takes the correct decision, actually has the best chance of earning the gold. What should he do, and why?

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:50:08 GMT

On the bright side, while eating, I had an in-depth discussion with my father over whether Danny Elfman or Ennio Morricone would win in a fist fight.

Dad voted Ennio, because he'd bring 'all his people along' and he'd have The Man With No Name on his team and Elfman would just have Peewee Herman and Homer Simpson.

I pointed out that Elfman also scored films like Spider-Man.

We then ended up discussing whether Spider-Man or Blondie would win in a fight.

It's nice having a fandom my parents have, you know, heard of. ~~not as nice as it would be if I still had that fic, though~~

MY PENANCE FOR CAPSLOCK_MGS HAS FINALLY FINISHED, THOUGH. NO MORE FUGWOLF.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:37:56 GMT

MY SECRET SANTA FIC JUST CORRUPTED

IT WAS 10000 WORDS LONG

I am crying IRL. I worked so hard on it, and for so long.

This hurts like I can't describe.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:20:26 GMT

So let's say I want to play One Song To The Tune Of Another with my family this Christmas - where you sing lyrics from one song to the tune of another song to which they scan, extra points if the lyrics are comically inappropriate for the tune.

.......I need suggestions.

EDIT - My running list:

Poker Face to the tune of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (works JUST well enough) EDIT forget this it works better with Good King Wenceslas
I'm currently trying to wedge My Immortal into The Muppet Theme

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:41:03 GMT

MY MOTHER IS TURNING INTO A TWIMOM OH GOD SEND HELP

She came to get me so I could spend the Christmas holidays at home, and she LEANS OVER while I'm eating pizza and earnestly says, "I want to see New Moon again! I can't stop watching the first one! I've seen it about three times!" And then went on to gush over Edward. And then when she went into Forbidden Planet with me she said "WHERE'S THE TWILIGHT SECTION" in the impassioned voice of someone begging for crack.

.......D:

I'll confess grudgingly that I liked New Moon, but I really don't want to see it again, thanks. Especially not sitting next to a creepy Twimom and her being related to me is even creepier.

On the bright side, when we found the bag in Forbidden Planet which had 'I just like watching over you' printed on it and I did a DDDD8 face/noise, she laughed and said 'that bit really creeps you out, doesn't it? I agree, it's why when you were little I made sure Father Christmas never went into your bedroom'. And she did have a long discussion with me about the treatment of women in spaghetti westerns (after I admitted to her I was getting into them), which she actually initiated. And fangirled over Clint Eastwood to me. And let talk to her in the car how I write fanfiction. And I watched For A Few Dollars More on my PSP in the car on the way home. I apologise for the icon, it is stupid.

Anyway, Christmas cards.

Basically, I'm not going to get them out on time. HOWEVER if you asked for a Christmas card, I'll send you a Random Hello Internet Person letter later in the year. Cross my heart etc etc.

Also, the Twilight action figures are HIDEOUS. I thought the Medicom MGS2 Snake was off-model and fugly but god. damn. They're way out into the Sader/MOK-KOS end of the stratosphere. Easily the worst figures I've ever seen anyone make and expect someone else to buy.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:13:23 GMT

It occured to me while wrapping Christmas presents, LJ, that one of my earliest childhood memories is my mother giving me a picture-book version of The Wrath of Khan, which came with a tape with the story read out on it. Death and brain slugs and all.

I vaguely remember finding it very sad. I wish I could remember what else I thought of it. It might solve the terrible mystery behind my current mental state.

Also I've got to the point where I'm so fascinated by YouTube comments, I'm keeping a folder of them -

(btw that downthumb was mine, before you go accusing me of looking at downthumbed comments)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:22:00 GMT

youtube fanboys are the best

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:21:26 GMT

View Poll: just answer it

yes i should be writing why do you ask

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:51:15 GMT

Today, I tried writing some music but I couldn't get anything done because Touch Ivan And Find Out (warning - pretty NSFW, also lolrape humour) was playing in my head the whole time

IT DOESN'T EVEN GO LIKE ANYTHING

FML

On the bright side, I tidied my room while listening to Hot Chip, and I'm also torrenting a massive pile of Calexico because I've decided if I'm going to write cowboys I NEED CALEXICO.

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:28:18 GMT

GUYS. GO AND JOIN cpslk_spaghetti. I DON'T CARE IF YOU DON'T WATCH SPAGHETTI WESTERNS, GO AND WATCH SOME AND THEN JOIN cpslk_spaghetti. WE ARE GOING TO GAY UP SOME FORTY-YEAR-OLD FANDOMS AND BOOGIE DOWN TO THEIR AWESOME MUSIC.

COME ON, THE PROFILE HAS ZOMBIE CLINT AND BATHTUB TUCO.

WEACE PALKER

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:47:31 GMT

Dear Hideo Kojima,

Yes, we know that Ashley Wood is a fantastic artist but gives all his female characters exactly the same face.

Like, it's impossible to tell from scans the difference between his Mei Ling, his Wolf and his Fortune, and one's Chinese, one's white and one's black.

BUT.

THAT IS NO EXCUSE FOR GIVING ALL YOUR FEMALE CHARACTERS THE SAME FACE IN RENDERS.

This isn't something you've ever done before, Kojima, you bastard. Before, all your women had faces at least as distinct as the men's, unless required otherwise for plot reasons (Ursulisa and Meryl/Olga).

But Cecile, Amanda and Paz all look so... bland. Their eyes are creepy enormous, it doesn't even fit with the canon's art style. There's no wrinkles or movement to their faces, when previously you've had incredibly expressive women like The Boss and FOR GOD'S SAKE EVEN EVA HAD LITTLE EYEBAGS. They all have the same skin tone. The same drawn-on-with-a-paintbrush eyebrows. The same eyes, just with a different Hue layer in Photoshop. Cecilé has slightly sharper cheekbones and upper lips, Amanda is rounder-looking, Paz is so far in the uncanny valley I have to resist the urge to punch my monitor to get rid of the zombie that's appeared inside it, but, overall, THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME FACE.

They're all plasticky and creepy as hell. Your desperate attempts to arouse me have failed. One of the things I love about the character design in Metal Gear is that everyone has a different face (well, yeah, except the clones). Snake has a W-shaped muscle running under his mouth, like Christopher Walken's (which makes sense since Young Walken was the original facial design for him, IIRC). The Boss had a mole. EVA's very self-consciously movie-star perfect and still has a point on the end of her nose and a little bump up the bridge.

I only hope they just look plastic and don't act plastic.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, YOUR ATTEMPTS TO AROUSE ME WITH HUEY HAVE SUCCEEDED. BECAUSE DAMN I'D HIT IT SO HARD I'D NEVER WALK AGAIN AND HAVE TO JOIN HIM IN HIS WHEELCHAIR. I don't even care about the creepy shiny arm (or the fact that he has exactly the same face as Otacon), I just want to comb his fluffy hair and tell him everything will go okay ~~until he drowns himself and his stepdaughter when he realises his wife is sleeping with his son~~.

AND COLOURRRRRS. COLOURS THAT AREN'T A BLUE FILTER, A GREEN FILTER, A GREY FILTER OR A BROWN FILTER OVER BROWN BROWN AND A BROWNBROWN (MGS4). It reminds me of the colour scheme of MG2, actually. AND IF IT REMINDS ME OF MG2 THAT'S ABOUT THE MOST AWESOME THING.

I should replay that, actually, seeing as it's almost Christmas.

EDIT: DISREGARD THAT, I EAT MUFF. Because then I saw Strangelove and. oh god. oh god i WANT

WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF PRETTIES, WHILE GOOGLING FOR OTHER STUFF I FOUND THEY MADE A SEQUEL TO THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, AS A COMIC. I can only find a few scans and a bit of discussion from when the comic was released and I have gleaned these facts:

Father Ramiréz is involved apparently because Blondie promised Tuco he'd protect his brother or something. If you hear a high-pitched keening noise in the back of your skull right now, that's me squealing over this.
There's a CLINT EASTWOOD ZOMBIE ON THE COVER. A CLINT EASTWOOD ZOMBIE.
The storyboarding is really lame. I mean, it does its job, but they could have tried to have used some of Leone's angles/thing where he does a really long shot and then an extreme closeup/so on
Not only does Blondie now not look like Clint Eastwood (perhaps they couldn't get rights to buy his face?), he now looks like Solid Snake. Down to the haircut (not my image). Not Sure If I Want.

I'd love to squeal about it more but I haven't read it yet. Does anyone know where I can download scans?

I'd also like scans of the Jennifer's Body comic, if anyone has those.

Let's do that calendar meme

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:16:49 GMT

JANUARY: So I read the official MG2 translation script. I'm not entirely happy with all of the dialogue changes, but I like the official version more, for the most part.

[And yet I write based on the fan translation. Eyeroll.]

FEBRUARY: Alright, fine. I'm going to be honest with you all. If you were going to lose all respect for me, go ahead. God knows I already have done: I saw the Twilight movie and I liked it. WITHOUT IRONY.

MARCH: The HPV jab has left me really really really sore and swollen.

APRIL: I just watched the leaked DVD of the Wolverine movie.

MAY: just a warning. I was stupid enough to skip school today, on impulse. The school, naturally, figured out, and rang home.

JUNE: Looks like the weather's getting a little better! Which is just as well. I was starting to get SAD from looking at the thunderstorm for hours. [note - this is about weather on the Clocktease, not in the real world]

JULY: I had a really vivid dream last night that Twilight was a graphic novel in the nine-panel page format, like Watchmen, and in the dream Jacob was the Comedian's son. And it was frigging awesome. They were chaingunning vampires together.

[I wish I still remembered this. Sounds awesome.]

AUGUST: So here's that twenty most recent first lines thing - going off posted order rather than actually-written order - and I'm not including WIPs.

[okay as you can imagine I'm not posting a list of first lines within a list of first lines]

SEPTEMBER: Tomorrow is my dad's birthday, so I might not get on until the day after. Not that ANYONE CARES EVER. I'm going to repost something that got posted to fandomsecrets ages and ages ago and got filtered out, because I just found it again and it's funny.

[It's this and it's still funny]

OCTOBER: Poll #1465062 team pride
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 64
If there was a gun pointed at my face and I had to pick one to save myself, I would consider myself
Team Solid
Team Big Boss
Team Raiden
Team Psycho Mantis
Team Metal Gear RAY
Team Hideo Kojima
Team Butts
Team Edward

[Note - the clear winner was Team Butts, followed by Team Solid, with Team Raiden and Team Hideo Kojima finishing in joint third. Last place was Team Metal Gear RAY, which only has two members.]

NOVEMBER: WHY DON'T THE BB CORPS DO ANYTHING FORTUNE DIDN'T DO BETTER

DECEMBER: There are two kinds of fandoms in the world, my friend. Those which tell the story with words, and those which tell the story with silence.

So, basically, I had some miserable RL, then I bummed around wasting time in fandom making stupid polls and reposting other peoples' content.

Sounds about right.

soviet handshake

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:30:20 GMT

You know what I like?

Making stupid and incredibly out-of-context gifs of the movies I am currently watching.

TELSTAR

REVIEW IN FIVE WORDS: Good, insane. There's canon gay.