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tammaiyaSo, holidays are my new best friend. Figured I may as well make a real update, since... erm. I felt like it? It's 1:30am and I'm reading a really long fic series? *shrug* (No, I'm not entirely sure how that's relevent either.)
... I can't remember what I did on Saturday. That's really very sad. Huh. Um. Yeah. Oh, right! I watched Shrek 2 again, this time with my parents. Man, I love that movie. Puss! In Boots! *giggle* Pure love, man.
I think it was Saturday/Sunday I was up till 4- don't quote me on that, I could check my recent posts but it's late/early and I really couldn't be arsed- so I slept in to 12, whenceupon I was forced out of bed. Fair? No. Not fair. Especially given that I hadn't really been sleeping since 9, as neither my mother nor my poodle have volume control. You think I'm bad, yeah, but you have to admit I've improved since I was 14 in the loudness factor. Besides, where do you think I got it from? Mum is way louder than me, and she doesn't even seem to realise it.
I wonder if there's a problem with her hearing. Perhaps she damaged it from yelling at her children so much over the years?
Anyway, in the evening, I babysat from 6:30 to 11 and it was cool. Only one kid, we like each other, and all he wants to do is watch Cartoon Network anyway. Also, there was mudcake, and I was paid $50. I approve of this being paid to have fun thing.
Today I went to Fahye's and watched some Weiss and a lot of X, and I learned a valuable lesson:
NEVER underestimate your own stupidity. Ever.
Mum dropped me off at the bus stop across from the school on her way to work, and I caught the 34. Now, I had the foresight to take a map, just in case I had trouble finding my way from A to B, ie bus-stop to house. Just as well, is all I can say- I got off at the shops like I was supposed to, SURE, but the thing is, I got off at the shops A SUBURB EARLY.
Quite proud of self for not panicking, actually, given I am the sort wot generally is given to paranoia and hysteria and the like. (Only of the mundane garden variety, not the actual literal sort.) So I walked, and I was very glad to have the map. Arrived without incident after a fairly long but not unpleasant walk, much to my relief. Thank god I took a map, is all I can say- in that way, at least, I DIDN'T underestimate my stupidity. Or my terrible sense of direction, anyway.
I love X, it's so pretty and slashy but DAMN is that thing fucking angsty. I've come to the conclusion that when CLAMP wrote it, one of their number had, I don't know, had one of their closest friends die in a tragic accident and their parents pass away and their lover of 5 years cheat on them and then break up with them and their siblings disown them. Or something. And then they decided they wanted to share the misery, and found the best way possible to inflict mass pain upon the masses- X.
All I can say is, DAMN. They certainly succeeded- they made it so pretty and fucked up that it's like watching a train wreck; you can SEE disaster coming, but you just can't look away.
Also, CLAMP is on crack, which I already knew but had sincerely confirmed.
And my mind has the disturbing tendency to draw fandom parallels, too. We'd been watching Weiss before, like I mentioned, so when this kid called Ken shows up... "Hey, he even looks like Weiss-Ken," says I, and am suddenly struck with the absurd mental image of child!Ken in X growing up and going over into Weiss. Which was not helped by the fact that CLAMP nick their own characters from other series. Seriously.
Also, Tatsumi and Aoki have the same first name, Seiichirou. WHY, I ask you? They even look the same! *headdesk* Aoki can join the Crawford-club. Even though he's technically far too nice. Eh.
Anyway... back to the fic. Yeah. That. Mmm.
ETA: You know how much sakura there is in YnM fic? Every time it gets mentioned- which is a fucking lot!- I think of Seishirou.
This is intensely silly. Save me from the mental fandom crossing of DOOM!!!!!
... I can't remember what I did on Saturday. That's really very sad. Huh. Um. Yeah. Oh, right! I watched Shrek 2 again, this time with my parents. Man, I love that movie. Puss! In Boots! *giggle* Pure love, man.
I think it was Saturday/Sunday I was up till 4- don't quote me on that, I could check my recent posts but it's late/early and I really couldn't be arsed- so I slept in to 12, whenceupon I was forced out of bed. Fair? No. Not fair. Especially given that I hadn't really been sleeping since 9, as neither my mother nor my poodle have volume control. You think I'm bad, yeah, but you have to admit I've improved since I was 14 in the loudness factor. Besides, where do you think I got it from? Mum is way louder than me, and she doesn't even seem to realise it.
I wonder if there's a problem with her hearing. Perhaps she damaged it from yelling at her children so much over the years?
Anyway, in the evening, I babysat from 6:30 to 11 and it was cool. Only one kid, we like each other, and all he wants to do is watch Cartoon Network anyway. Also, there was mudcake, and I was paid $50. I approve of this being paid to have fun thing.
Today I went to Fahye's and watched some Weiss and a lot of X, and I learned a valuable lesson:
NEVER underestimate your own stupidity. Ever.
Mum dropped me off at the bus stop across from the school on her way to work, and I caught the 34. Now, I had the foresight to take a map, just in case I had trouble finding my way from A to B, ie bus-stop to house. Just as well, is all I can say- I got off at the shops like I was supposed to, SURE, but the thing is, I got off at the shops A SUBURB EARLY.
Quite proud of self for not panicking, actually, given I am the sort wot generally is given to paranoia and hysteria and the like. (Only of the mundane garden variety, not the actual literal sort.) So I walked, and I was very glad to have the map. Arrived without incident after a fairly long but not unpleasant walk, much to my relief. Thank god I took a map, is all I can say- in that way, at least, I DIDN'T underestimate my stupidity. Or my terrible sense of direction, anyway.
I love X, it's so pretty and slashy but DAMN is that thing fucking angsty. I've come to the conclusion that when CLAMP wrote it, one of their number had, I don't know, had one of their closest friends die in a tragic accident and their parents pass away and their lover of 5 years cheat on them and then break up with them and their siblings disown them. Or something. And then they decided they wanted to share the misery, and found the best way possible to inflict mass pain upon the masses- X.
All I can say is, DAMN. They certainly succeeded- they made it so pretty and fucked up that it's like watching a train wreck; you can SEE disaster coming, but you just can't look away.
Also, CLAMP is on crack, which I already knew but had sincerely confirmed.
And my mind has the disturbing tendency to draw fandom parallels, too. We'd been watching Weiss before, like I mentioned, so when this kid called Ken shows up... "Hey, he even looks like Weiss-Ken," says I, and am suddenly struck with the absurd mental image of child!Ken in X growing up and going over into Weiss. Which was not helped by the fact that CLAMP nick their own characters from other series. Seriously.
Also, Tatsumi and Aoki have the same first name, Seiichirou. WHY, I ask you? They even look the same! *headdesk* Aoki can join the Crawford-club. Even though he's technically far too nice. Eh.
Anyway... back to the fic. Yeah. That. Mmm.
ETA: You know how much sakura there is in YnM fic? Every time it gets mentioned- which is a fucking lot!- I think of Seishirou.
This is intensely silly. Save me from the mental fandom crossing of DOOM!!!!!
