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Today I got a result which means, with certainty, I haven't wasted the last year of work

2012-03-22T04:53:28Z

Yes, this has actually been in doubt for the last year. Also, my boss almost-sorta apologized for last week when she told me I was supposed to be training a man 20 years older than me who can only just speak my language three hours after I met him (thanks for the prep time, boss).

I wanted to celebrate, but I had to cook, because I literally have cooked nothing but turkey burgers (and that only gave me 1/2 meal of leftovers) since getting back from a conference a week and a half ago.

So I put on Advent Children Complete and drank port while I cooked. Celebrate!

The weird thing is, I think being slightly tipsy actually decreased my willingness to make up excuses for the nonsense in ACC. which meant it made on the whole less sense than normal. And I am still angry that Rufus ends up explaining all of his plans and motivations without having anything to gain from it. Rufus being a manipulative bastard in AC was the only reason I started liking him; while more definitely needs to be explained in the movie, Rufus should not be the one doing the explaining. Or at least explain it to someone on his side. Reno is the stupid-face for enough of the movie, just have him need an explanation at some point. Anyway.

Love for Final Fantasy VII still intact.

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Two (quite extremely) unrelated thoughts on Sherlock

2012-01-23T04:44:40Z

( There are some spoilers here )

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New Year's Resolutions!

2012-01-14T05:04:49Z

1) Get published
2) Be more social
3) Actually post stuff

( 4) Stop wasting so much time on the internet. Contradictory resolutions? Why not! )

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In Defense of Manpain

2012-01-14T04:57:59Z

Okay guys, please don’t hate me for the title alone. I watched ThingsWithWings’s manpain video and read the meta for it a while ago, and the same sort of things pinged with me that have bothered me about many other feminist critiques: I feel as though the critique brings out the gender issue more than the source material does, or justifies. So manpain, for me, is not a problem: it’s a symptom of other problems, which are

( I actually tried to make this clear )

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Why Merlin is a Schoolyard Bully (the show, not the character)

2012-01-14T04:55:28Z

Okay, so I was a prime subject for bullying (not too pretty, smart, glasses, liked books and music and video games but not pizza or sports, grew up in the midwest) and I never was, in the way media shows it. My theory for this is that bullying as media shows it does not exist? Contradict me on this if you like, people. That’s not the point. The point is that I am picturing the Bully who takes something you really like and holds it above your head laughing while you jump for it

That’s Merlin. Whatever it is you like is the magic reveal.

( Whining about the way a show progresses? Why not! )

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My Character type (or, Why I Like Kingdom Hearts)

2012-01-14T04:50:04Z

When I first entered fandom, I shipped Yuffentine. Yep. In my defense, I was a 12-year old girl at the time, so that was really not atypical. Actual sociologists have written serious scholarly essays about why people ship what they do, so I’m not going to pretend to really understand why, but I have thought about it a bit.

( This doesn't actually have much to do with the first paragraph... )

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The Happiest Place On Earth

2011-12-13T04:53:47Z

I wrote this flying back from Disney World this summer. Then I spent three months studying for my qualifying exam and passing it and slacking. Now I will maybe be on my blog more? I've got like three more posts written, so.

I visited Disney World a lot, I think, when I was really young. I’ve seen pictures, but I don’t remember a thing. Then my family stopped vacationing there, until one New Years when I was in seventh grade. That was when I discovered the World Showcase, and my family decided we loved it there. We visited every couple of years, until last year when we bought into the Disney Vacation Club, and now we go once or twice or three times a year. Which changes some things.

( Read more... )

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Some happy things

2011-10-18T04:52:59Z

I recognize that I am OCD on some things. Honestly, it's a positive personality trait in most circumstances. For example - inability to leave things incomplete means I study well, generally. Cluttered counters make me twitchy? I have a clean house! However, in this case, maybe not so much.

( Read more... )

And now back to your regularly scheduled miserable worried studying.

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I posted another fic! Part 2

2011-10-16T06:09:19Z

Guys, I made post too big for dreamwidth. I am not sure how that happened. This is the second part.

( The difference between Seeing and seeing (again) )

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I posted another fic!

2011-10-16T06:05:32Z

I will write on here again with not!fic. Maybe tomorrow, because I have some happiness quotes. But for now, another commentary. This story is availabie by the same name on ao3 and fanfic.net.

( The difference between Seeing and seeing )

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I posted a new story!

2011-09-18T01:41:30Z

It's available on fanfic.net and AO3, but I figured since this is my blog I would put in some of the comments about it that I kinda want people to know. SO

( I believe the children are our future )

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It pays to get indoctrinated young

2011-08-27T05:13:25Z

Okay guys, let's get this out of the way. SCIENCE FICTION IS NOT THE SAME AS FANTASY. I KNOW that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I KNOW that both are not proper genres because they deal with setting and not content. THIS DOES NOT MAKE THEM THE SAME.

Okay, capslock ragey time is (mostly) over. Some day I will write a long and rage-filled post about how this has bugged me since I first discovered classification systems in libraries (a LONG TIME, people).

But NOW, the NPR 100 top/best/favorite Scifi (AND FANTASY AND SOME OTHER RANDOM CRAP) books.

( my first meme! )

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Airports: they bring out neuroses

2011-08-25T04:59:58Z

So I have this kinda weird fantasy involving airports. In it, for some reason there is doubt that I am who I say I am, and I am taken back to a back room where people ask me complicated questions about things the real Danchekker ought to know, and ask for names of references that they can go and find RIGHT NOW and check with that I am not actually a terrorist. I’m not actually found to be a terrorist, they let me go and apologize for the inconvenienct and say all my references do really think I’m a good person and I’ve probably missed my flight but that’s okay, they’ll put me up in a hotel for the night.

( I did warn you it was weird. )

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