This is the first time I've been sucked back into an older fandom...make that two, since I did like Beast Wars/Beast Machines and Transformers: Robots in Disguise when I was younger.

*headwall*

Now everywhere I go I see Avatar.

*headdesk*

Once again, I ship a ship in despair.

*facepalm*

But here's a saving grace: [link]

Hope? Please?



The shipping. It's killing me.

X X X

I don't read. I DEVOUR. Give me something I want to read, and I'll eat it all.

NOM NOM NOM.

I feel sorry for this family's "loss", but I don't feel sorry for the actions they took to compensate for their son's brain damage: [link]

If my kid got a bat to the head, I'd try to deal with it, not go suing everyone for saying the bats were safe for children. Life sucks but accidents happen all the freakin' time.

Eight Belles was a freak accident, and everyone's all over the horseracing industry for it. Okay, so she's a horse, and we're not, but a lot of the horseracing industry goes into giving these horses the best of everything, despite the breeding for money/speed and the steroids issues. Ever since cycling and baseball and the Olympics got crazy over steroids...

And a teacher at my suite mate's high school got arrested for having sex with a student.

Joy.

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Saw Prince Caspian. WOW.

Pop art for VIS1? Fucking A...

Colonel John will head out to the Swaps Stakes and then the Travers, skipping the rest of the Triple Crown. Maybe it's for his benefit. I certainly hope so. I'm disappointed he's not going to try the Test of the Champion, but hey, there's always Casino Drive and his family to try and take it the third year in a row.

Michael Bay has the Transfans on a wild goose chase to differentiate between smoke and mirrors, and right now word is out that Soundwave is in it. True or false? I don't fucking know. I just don't like how some people want the G1 character, centimeter for centimeter, down to the bluish coloring and the shoulder cannon. Give me a break; this is a completely different continuity so characters don't necessary have to imitate their counterparts in other universes. I am now undoubtedly sure that my fanonverse Soundwave is a flyer...like a B-2 Spirit Bomber flyer.

Sexy. But not as sexy as Screamer's F-22 Raptor...two of them, really...chasing Iron Man...mmmmmm....

Liquor before beer, you're in the clear.
Beer before liquor, never been sicker.

Aka, folks, a surefire way to pass out is to pull an all-nighter, and then drink vodka, wine cooler, and three shots of coconut rum...and THEN go to the schoolwide concert.

I know I can hold my alcohol pretty well for my size (at least I don't turn red like my mom does, ) but I should've known better than to drink up when my body's exhausted. Perhaps my exhaustion added to my misjudgment. Pretty funny, though; as soon as I downed the last cup I said, "Oh shit, I drank too much."

Reign of Starscream: I'm gonna sound stupid, but I wish the issues started coming out faster, because I am REALLY itching to learn how to draw 2K7 Arcee properly. The wait + desire is crazy-inducing.

Also need to get my hands on some 9x12 illustration boards. I think I want to take up acrylics and such again, thanks to my experience with the piece "Spring Foal".

Okay, I think I'm gonna go to bed now. The Sun God only knows I need sleep.

Hail the Sun God!

I hate this research paper essay shit. I read the wrong book for a few hours before realizing that things just weren't adding up. I should've known the moment the dates weren't on the dot with other material, but what did I know - there were two Roberts of Gloucester, and only one of them is an Earl.

In absence of ANY way to satiate my unfulfilled obsession with the fictional relationship that I favor in my current fandom, I've gone and obsessed myself with Avatar fics. It sucks. I don't mean the actual fanfiction - some are quite excellent - but it just annoys me to all heck that I can't find anything as good as the stories I've been reading in the Transformers/Beast Wars category of FF.net. Looking for fics on LJ and IJ are even worse, and transfictions.net is pretty cool, but just as lacking.

Wistfully I wonder of the birthday wishes that never had been. No RCBee fictions/arts, no Colonel John, no PS CS3 Extended, and idiots retiring Big Brown after his three-year-old season ends...I'm so pissed I might as well break my vow and go on The Bloodhorse, just to see what kind of outrage this all is. What is IEAH Stables thinking? Thoroughbred horseracing already has an awful PR disaster with the 2008 Kentucky Derby, and now they want the Derby winner retired at the end of this year. When was the last time the Derby winner continued running after his three-year-old season? Funny Cide? But he's a gelding. How about a whole horse?

Fucking tards.

I've been having a nostalgic turn of sorts and checking up on my older fandoms. I don't consider Avatar: The Last Airbender to be that old, but when I look at my track record, it's a "had been."

One of the reasons why I left was because I was sick of the shipping wars, of the way people would hurl insults and flames at each other, mock each other, and obsess like INSANE. I got tired of it and I left. Next thing I know, I'm back in it again. I've been trying to extract myself from the situation, but it looks like I'm headed to a war of words with someone who CLEARLY hates shippers on someone else's dA journal. All because I said Kataang was a turnoff because of the rather Buddhist element (I can't help it! My grandma and aunt are Buddhists! I've been visiting their temple for all my life! The monks there know me!) and the Bryke interview seemed rather arrogant and condescending. Sure things could have been much worse...but they aren't, and that's what I'm answering to.

I can't stand people who sob over the phone for hours and "call up the troops" in defense of a fictional relationship that's headed for the noncanon realm. I'm sentimentally connected to all my ships, but if it's headed for the rocks at the shores of canon, then so be it. It's not my call. I can whine and complain all I want, but in the end I'll take it and move on. It's that simple. That's what I did with Digimon's Tai and Sora. That's what I did with Kingdom Hearts' Roxas and Kairi. And if Bryke chooses to go with Kataang, fine by them. Whatever.

Do I sound pissy? Gods, I hope I don't sound pissy. I don't want to sound like an angry fangirl. I mean, I am a fangirl and I do have a temper and I hate it when people criticize me (I heat up really fast and get all irrational and furious for at least thirty minutes) but I don't apologize for what I'm saying here right now.

If only I didn't care about shipping. Then being a fan of anything would make life so easy. But since I don't look for irl relationships (I'm not interested) I mess with fictional ones. Can't hurt, can't help it, suck it.

VIS1 pissed me off again today. My work was the second-last to be talked about. Fuck those people.

I mean, this dude found an image of a carp and Chinese characters online, and then redrew it as a tattoo on someone's arm. And somehow from there people deduce that it's about people tattooing other people's artwork onto someone's skin and whether or not they can get sued for it. Me? I don't fucking care. It's someone's skin, it's someone's livelihood, and if someone wanted to tattoo my shit onto their epidermis (who knows why) then fine by them. They have to live with it, not me.

If that (anti)troll comments, I'll have to reply. I can't help it. Challenge me, and I'll respond. Only problem is, my thoughts make more sense than my speeches or essays. So what do I do?

Edit: Once again I caved into my temper. Turns out this person ain't so trollish after all. S/he was pointing out things I hadn't considered and responded to my reply quite nicely.

But I'm just saying...I was hoping ATLA would remain as different as it already is. Guess I was wrong and I'll ahve to live with it.

Also, my track record sucks. I suck at shipping with books, TV shows & cartoons, videogames, and movies. I should just stop shipping altogether and write humor.

Yeah...subversive humor...Skippy humor...Sideswipe humor...now THAT would be awesome.