But where's the bloody horse?

Dec. 7th, 2008

9:46 AM

I love Christiane Amanpour. She is wonderful.

Also; stop what you are doing right now, and go out and buy The Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Someone else has reviewed it far better than I could on Amazon. Read this book. Even if you don’t know anything about Africa or African history, or if you think any book pertaining to Africa is too heavy or depressing for you, read this book. Seriously. It is important that you read this book.

When you’re done reading that, go buy The Gone-Away World for a palate cleanser. Is awesome, is fun. Yes.

( Two small tidbits I never found a use for drifting aimlessly through space. One looking at Thundercracker (and assuming that there is a Cybertronian equivalent of a dog) and one looking at Smokescreen (Armada.) )

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Jun. 13th, 2008

7:55 PM

Exams are over. Whee. Need some kind of distraction, so if anyone wants to request something small for BW, G1 or Armada that I will get round to writing in the foreseeable future, that would be nice. Gimmie a name, or two names, and/or a prompt of some kind. Not promising that I will not pervert said prompt for my own disgustingly evil purposes.

If there were a zombie apocalypse, I would probably be doing exactly the same thing. We gots barred windows, bitches.

Hmm. Unless they came up the hole in the kitchen floor.

oh shi

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incompetent bloody ants

Jun. 8th, 2008 at 5:30 PM

There is a colony of ants somewhere in the region of my bedroom-probably under the floorboards. I’ve been letting them go about their business for a few days because god knows I’m never going to get round to picking up those crumbs. Whenever I knock on the table, they all panic and run around in circles. Not an efficient site evacuation; takes them ages to agree on any sort of direction and half of them start off by running towards the loud banging noise. I don’t know who is in charge of these ants, but he is doing a pisspoor job. I could lead my own army of ants against these guys in retaliation and, despite having no experience in ant strategy, and no knowledge of the landscape of Underneath My Floorboards, it would take me two hours max to lay siege to their territories and cut the neck of their queen.

I do not have my own army of ants, so I’m just starting at them. Sometimes going, “Food for the colony…”

Mood: groggy

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Jun. 6th, 2008

3:13 PM

I hate exams so much, so fucking much.

However, Rebooted Reboot (name is fun) is worthy of not being destroyed. Only now I am crazy to find out what happens next.

In addition; FreakAngels is currently making me happy.

In addition: I am going to see CHESS!

And why is there no milk in the fridge? Most of what I take into my body is milk. WHY is all the milk gone?

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On xenophobia...

May. 30th, 2008 at 5:43 PM

...I have never, in all my life, had as many quotes from Pratchett's 'Jingo' pop into my head at random intervals as I have had in the last two weeks. The man really is a bonified genius at human nature.

Nor have I ever disliked the president quite as viscerally, but I was a lot younger and less capable of hate when the whole AIDS denialism thing was going on.

As always, Zapiro says it best.

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May. 26th, 2008

8:18 PM

Title: This Generation
Universe: Beast Wars, Season One
Summary: Whatever happened to class? Rattrap, Dinobot, sex, crude, short and charmless. Just me musing on TF gender. And probably going to hell.

Warnings: Rattrap would like it clarified that he absolutely isn’t like that.

Disclaimer: Not mine.

( This Generation )

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it'll take more than that...

May. 23rd, 2008 at 12:43 PM

I am not well versed on the subject of weird internet things; I come here for the fic, the cartoons and occasionally to bitch about how deeply, deeply shit a lot of humans are. I also don't know a lot about furries, except that they dress up in costumes and write stories about humans with fur having sex with other humans with fur. Scales. A trunk. Whatever. Just from wandering blithely through the confines of lj, it seems that this writing of humans with fur having sex with other humans with fur isn't really approved of by a lot of people. Quite a few people, in fact, seem to hate it with a deep, righteous wrath. So I went to Google and I typed in 'yiff' and I said, "Well. That's a human with fur having sex with another human with fur, that is. No doubt about it."

Is it just because I write and read giant robot porn and Shredder/Krang slash that this doesn't squick me? (Probably, yes.) Is there some extra dimension of gross here that I'm not getting? I can see how maybe you could be worried about the bestiality angle, but... it's a human. With fur. And sentience. And maybe big ears. Hell, I've seen weirder looking humans than that in real life, and the thought of them having sex doesn't break my brain.

On the other hand, Storm/Black Panther throws my brain out of a fifth floor window and dances on its shards, so what do I know.

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Random thought...

May. 21st, 2008 at 3:05 PM

I haven't really examined the Pit in forever, but... is it just me, or is there a preoccupation with baby transformers? 'Sparklings' is a cute word for a newly-activated soldier, sure, but the concept of TFs starting out with small, cuddly bodies and getting bigger as they get older seems as weird as the idea of testicles on a Decepticon. Even if it is the 'natural' process, we know that they can build one another, and we know that the ones we see being built in any series do not start out life as an armful. Presumably because their creators realised that being small and cuddly in the middle of an intergalactic war would not really make anyone's life easier.

I don't mind babies. But there's only so much untempered cute I can handle.

*goes to find some good Rattrap fic*