lullabelle

Hi, dreamwidth. What's poppin'?

I haven't posted here much, but I think I would like to. I haven't really decided how much this is going to intersect with my livejournal account, but basically there is a lot of uck on lj and less here. Also the fact that livejournal is getting cyberattacked and is super glitchy and my online time has been limited lately -- but at the same time, I'm not really sure if I want my dreamwidth to be a carbon copy of my livejournal.

In any event, I would like to be more precise in general. I have a very rambly way of speaking and writing. It drives ME nuts sometimes; I can only imagine how it is for those around me.

I would like to write more reviews. Of everything.

I'm going to worry less about what people think of me. This is one of those topics where I talk a pretty good game, but I need to practice what I preach.

I'm not sure what I think about this.

On one hand, if anyone's got the chops to pull this off, I think it's Kripke. And I'm kind of excited for the Sandman to have a larger fandom. I just don't want it to suck.

whoverse_las is open for voting! I haven't had a chance to read the entries yet, but I've been hearing good things. :)

ALSO~!

Get thy ass over to tw_gleeclub for the Gold High Tops Challenge! Ficcage for a cause!

Dreamwidth, you're looking more and more tempting...
Whining: But I like it here.

I'm not too worried about these shiny, new, intrusive features on lj just because there is so little (read: no) intersection between my fb and my lj friends, and Twitter is a hot mess that I care a lot less about, but it bothers me on behalf of everyone with mixed viewership. I'm considering going friends-only, just so that attention won't be drawn to my posts from people's comments auto-posting from my public entries onto their facebooks... It's not attention that I particularly want.

(I don't want to be all friends-only, though. I encourage fanlurking. *waves*)

I did go private with my Twitter account, however, so that you can't read my half of the convos with my increasingly-protected follow-list. Also so I can retweet more freely.

Torchwood star Barrowman is ready to whip his kit off in charity strip on stage via Scottish News of the World.

Some one bring a cameraphone, I beg of thee.

I just got kidnapped and forced to eat my weight in french toast. The horror!

Also, we had a bit of a DC Comics love-in, watching The Losers and Batman: Under the Red Hood. I admit, I've never read the Losers, but the movie was highly "meh". There were a few funny lines, and some neat action sequences, but neat action sequences are a dime a dozen these days, and the plot was pretty uninspired. After movies like The Dark Knight and The Watchmen, DC really has no excuse for this kind of stinker.

I completely vetoed the idea of watching The Spirit. My dislike of Frank "whores whores whores" Miller is a rant for another time.

Under the Red Hood was a lot better. There were some tweaks to the established cannon that I thought really worked to tighten the story. Elements that fell kinda flat in the graphic novel really popped here -- especially the end scene, where you discover Red Hood's motivations. Wangsty in the comics, fairly devastating in the movie. I liked that they kept the same ending line, because the last two panels of that story arc were one of the only things that really stuck with me from the comics.

Also, I gave my friend $20 to pick up Mockingjay for me since I'm all limpy today. Patience: I don't has it. I'll probably finish it before I go to bed. All in all, it's been a pretty good day. :)

ETA: The tw_gleeclub poll to cast Esther Katusi is super freaking close! Cast your vote here! You could be a tie-breaker! You don't even have to vote for who I voted for! (coughjasikanicolecough youknowshe'dbesohotcoughcough)

The sack:


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So, I <3 Runaways. It's one of my favorite comic books ever. (Or it was when Brian K Vaughan was writing... since then it's been spotty to say the least.)

One of the things that's made Runaways so great has been its diverse cast. Which is why it's very upsetting that the casting call for the upcoming movie has caught the attention of racebending.com for not specifying that "girl #1", Nico Minoru, is Japanese-American, just "unconventionally beautiful" which is in itself insulting. "Girl #1" has me twitching, because it implies that names could change, since Nico's name is identifiable as Japanese. "Girl #3", Karolina Dean, who is blonde-haired and blue-eyed is described in the casting call as "conventionally beautiful".

"Boy 1", Alex Wilder, has been specified as African American, but of course (SPOILERS) he ends up being the villain.

I've been looking forward to this movie for a long time. I sincerely hope it's not ruined by boneheaded casting.

So, I'm working with the owner's son, and two twentysomething guys come to check in.

J: We've got you in a room with one king bed. Did you need a room with two doubles?
Guy: Nah, the one king's fine.
J: Are you sure? We have plenty of two doubles available, and that way you won't have to share.
Guy: *incredulous stare*
J: *blank stare*
Me: HERE ARE YOUR KEYS.

Awkward.

Twenty minutes later:

J: Oh, they were gay!

Sigh.

A good friend to whom I completely owe my sanity has loaned me his old laptop for the next two weeks. It's an Acer and it predates God, but it has Explorer, so yay. :D

So I might have... um... dropped my laptop? Anyways, now the power cord is really loose, and it will only charge if I have it at JUST THE RIGHT ANGLE. I brought it to Best Buy to see what they could do about it. I thought my warranty had just expired, but it turns out I have 5 days left on it. WOOO! The bad news is that I have to say goodbye to my laptop for two weeks while it goes to the HP laptop pit hospital. And even though there's nothing wrong with it aside from a loose connection, they're going to run a full diagnostic and I run the risk of having my hard drive wiped. Mother. Fuckers.

So now I'm burning everything I don't want to risk saying goodbye to onto DVDs, and trying to decide whether or not I'm going use my whoverse_las skip this week, even though I've got my fic 2/3rds written (in a notebook, thank jebus) and I really don't want to use it this early on.

So basically, I'm going to be doing crazy shit like reading actual books for entertainment for the next two weeks. Weird. Let's see how I do with an ~unplugged life~ for a while.

I'm really going to freaking miss you guys. :(