Memoirs of the Angst-Bitch

I love this icon. LuLu is so very special. I love how happy he looks about blowing his brains out.

I very much dislike it when Nickelodeon decides it's going to start playing the new episode of Avatar five minutes early so that when I turn to the channel at the proper time, I'm in a world of confusion. But mmm Zuko needs icons for this episode. I so saw that ending coming.

Caught up with Heroes. Is is bad that I get the painter and that guy whose father died confused? I think so. I still hate the cheerleader. She's so damsely worthless. Hiro and his new girlfriend made me sad.

Geass: Limited gay subtext this time around. Unless you count Millay, who's completely gay for Shirley. Too bad she has an arranged marriage. Also too bad that Shirley is ga-ga over LuLu. LuLu made the cutest noise ever when his father turned on him when he was a widdle princling. I guess LuLu is not the extremist I thought since he does have deep attachment to his sister. Also, C.C. looks hotter in the Zero costume than Lelouch. I'm bored of watching Britannia slaughter the Elevens. Can we have some actual fighting between the groups for once? Even watching LuLu get PWNED is something.

Stomach achey again. I wonder what that's all about. I bet if I thought long enough, I could figure it out.


ETA: I'm very happy I missed the next Avatar episode preview. Seriously, Zutara can DIE!!!

Sis is not going with to RennFest. There goes my whole family fun time idea. I regret.

The live action Tenipuri movie just creates this weird emptiness in me. I think it's because I see the actors but they're not singing and some part of me keeps wanting them to but they don't. The special effects make me laugh though. And I love the new Ryoma.

Did I mention in yesterday's Code Geass rambles that Suzaku stole Fafner's flight suits because he totally did. He must have raided poor Kazuki's closet. Also, all of my Lelouch icons shall refer to him as Not!Kamui for the crack of it all.

Avatar, I'm not sure how to feel. It was an emotional episode but it was dragging a bit for me until the Teen Girl Squad showed up. I love ninja Ty Li. Bro pointed out to me that they couldn't be the Teen Girl Squad since they lacked a fourth member but I had a backup for that one.

Presenting the Teen Fire Squad starring
-Ty Li as Cheerleader.
-Azula as Whats-her-face
-Mai as So-and-so
and....
-Zuko as THE UGLY ONE!

Do hold your applause. I need to make icons first.

I was thinking about Death Note the other day and how awesome and original idea it was and how the mangaka never truly explored the whole psychology of what Light does and whether he's right or wrong, which I think would have made the story even better. I think that's what held me through Death Note, even when I started to stop caring, the sheer potential for what was laid out. Light might have done everything because he was still bored but as he puts it, the rest of the world had to make their own conclusions and were secretly siding with him. I think that alone is worth pondering. I would have liked us to meet one of Kira's fans, who wasn't madly in love with him but just felt that what he was doing was Justice. Not someone who knew a victim of a crime. Not someone who was spared. Just an ordinary person who deep down believed that all of the worst criminals should die and that what Light was doing would make the world a better place. It's disappointing that so many take Death Note at face value when the world it proposes is full of intrigue.

Same as my take on those Tsubusa fans who need to stop screeching that Clamp ditch X world. You can have your porny KuroFai fun while we learn about the happy vampire/hunter family. I don't want to be snippy but I just don't get how a work that is, at its basic level, derivative can be held so much higher than works that were at one time semi-original. You know what this tells me, it's time to stick with the icon comments and glaze over the rest of this fan stuff.

Filler episode = best Avatar ever. No not really but Zuko was sooo cute. I just wanted to squeezle him forever and ever. Even cuter than when he was a child.

Going to do the work thing soon. Just finished watching the Avatar special. It was awesome. Much better than the one we got a few months ago. They even showed Sokka's talents in this one, and Toph was in her best form. ( Now for the slash. ) I'm so glad to hear they might be returning to a regular Avatar schedule now that the regular fall season is upon us.

People need to stop making fun of Zuko and his emo. His acting really gets to me when he's really hurting. When he was roaring at that storm, you could really *feel* the emotion. I like when Zuko acts his age. No matter how pissy and arrogant he can be, he's still an angry, hurt teenager deep down. I do hope the poor dear doesn't fry himself on that mountain top.

People also need to stop bitching at Toph. She's bitchy because her element is earth. She's tough like the earth. It is natural for those associated with the earth to be strong-willed and not easily deterred from their path. The earth is not a giving element like water and air. Nor is it destructive like fire. It simply stands its ground, as Toph tells us throughout the episode. Now I know where Haruka (and my Erik) get it. Heh.

I guess I can use this view to re-examine Katara as well. The reason she's so dynamic could be the contribution of her element. Water is always changing and can easily go from a gentle brook to the fierce rapids, depending where you stand. I can forgive her sudden burst in power if I relate it back to this idea of the inability to truly predict the path of water. I hope it's a view that might be applied ot Sokka too, if only for just a short while.

As for Zuko, his element puts him in the danger of being quickly burnt out. Fire can easily take down almost anything, but once it eats up all its oxygen and material sources, it doesn't have much left. I would also argue with the one firemaster's views that all fire does is destroy. What about the heat used to cauterize wounds? What about the heat used to keep people alive during the cold nights? What about the trees that only release their seeds when bathed in flames? Fire is vicious but without it, change oculd not occur. On that note, I just love the idea of having lightning be a purer form of fire since its more precised and contained.


And now back to the overprotective stalker and his pantless charge. Oh Fakir, how I love you. Let me count the ways.

Holy shit, Avatar! Holy shit.

Um...Toph friggin' rocks. As do every one of Azula's bitches, especially Tai Li. Three-way fight was hot. As cool as the group fight was, I would have preferred it as the three-way fight. I love whenever Zuko and Aang work together. There's just so much tension between them. It's beautiful and Aang's pure spirit just makes it all the more complicated. I'm starting to not like Katara. I hate how she's almost as strong as all the villains. Not sure why I'm starting to dislike her when Toph isn't much different, and I love Toph immensely. I guess Toph's badassery just makes sense to me, while Katara's seems more of a woman-power thing. I really really hate her healing powers. Such stereotypical Mary-Sue abilities. My annoyance could also arise from my insane hatred of Zutara. It would be funny if this episode introduced some Zutoph fans. It's such crack. Or maybe Soli. It would be hot. Come on.

I'm amazed at how good Avatar seems to be these past episodes. Usually it sucks for a while, and then has one or two episodes that are worth anything. It's staying pretty true to its main storyline for once while still keeping the corny humor I love.

( I also loved... )

Off to X-men now.

New layout. Yes, tis obnoxious and probably not the most attractive thing I could have attempted but it makes me happy so I don't mind everything else. I would have prefered a larger header but since I'm borrowing someone else's resizing would make it look crappy. That and the Nobody symbol kicks ass. You could kill somebody with it. I wonder if the Organization zippers are shaped like it. That would be amusing. I need to make an angstier AkuRoku icon that doesn't look so identical to the header image. Also, yay for Within Temptation lyrics of AGONY.

I guess it's time to stop slacking off and hit up Tom's place. No clue how I'm going to find anything to wear.

Oh, Avatar was crap last night. Utter crap. Even the Blue Spirit couldn't salvage it.

Avatar's Azula continues to amuse me. I am more convinced than ever that she is truly the missing Uchiha sibling. I can just picture her and Itachi gathering to paint their nails and talking about torturing their brothers. She's even forming her own Atatsuki, which is a bit of a Charlie's Angels right now. I'm not crazy about Mae (what's this about Zuko? grr) but the circus performer seems a riot. Now that Azula has encountered the Avatar things should get even more interesting. I want to see Azula and Zuko battle over Aang. That would rock. Bumi is still one crazy old coot. He should hook up with that other Earthbending woman who told Aang about the frogs that heal people by sucking on them. I want one of the little octopi.

Sasuke's screams in the latest dubbed episode of Naruto are so delicious. Orochimaru is suitably perverted. Sakura was a bit grating, but that could have also been my irritation with the animation in the episode. I dislike the fighting-style animal immensely because it destroys details. I'm completely shocked at how much the Canadian YTV was allowed to get away with. I wonder if Toonami will play the same way during its two hours of Naruto next week. For a second, I thought Orochimaru said Sasuke's eyes were even cuter than Itachi's and had to rewind it to hear him say "keener." Itachi's voice...I'm still undecided. Right now a bit too bordering on rapist!Itachi and I don't like that.

Found two awesome AkuRoku fics on thedancinglight last night, which took on the deeper aspects of both Axel and Roxas and also lacked in smut. Why don't I want smut in the AkuRoku pairing? Because most of the people who focus on the smut don't explore the characters themselves. I wouldn't mind smut if it was paired with character interpretation. I think I found one author on rayemars journal that did this. Now if only I could hope to find some decent takes on SoraRiku, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

I don't want to do my work today. ;_;

Note the 1st: Tsubasa!Kamui is Batman. No, seriously. He has a utility belt. And if Fuuma's pimpin' it out on a cycle, you know Kamui's gotta have some equally insane form of transportation. Not only that, the moves are straight Christian Bale out of Batman Begins. And why the hell does he need a thigh holster? Is Kamui packing these days?

Note the 2nd: Just because there's a new girl on the set of Avatar doesn't mean people should automatically start thinking "Hey, I wonder what it would be like if she and Sokka were an item." This is the exact thing that pisses me off about Zutara. There is no evidence! Ok, Zutara had the pirate episode. He taunted her with the necklace and teased her about "saving her from the pirates." I'm sorry people, that's not love in the air. That's blackmail. Zuko feels nothing for Katara. Nothing. She's just in the way of his goal: the Avatar. Zuko is entirely single-minded when it comes to things. He only has eyes for the Avatar. And if nutters fanwriters want it otherwise, they better come up with a good reason for him to give up chase rather just have Katara and Zuko instantly fall for each other. I usually love love-hate relationships, but only if the two interact on a steady basis and, I don't know, think about each other now and then. I don't think I've ever seen Katara or Zuko think about the other when not involved in combat. This is the same reason I barely see Zukka. The only possible canonical pairings at this time would be Zuko/Aang or Katara/Aang, and they just doesn't float my boat right now. As for Azual and Sokka, she would take all of the two seconds it takes to slap him around, and that would be the duration of any interaction they were to have. Moral of this story: many Avatar ships = random.

It reminds me of that joke I made to Rache the other day about how random pairings were driven by that state of fandom in X. I doubt it's true since random pairings had to exist before then. But that's the point where they really started to bug the hell out of me. Unless they involved Yuuto because Yuuto would do anyone.

Note the 3rd: If Kishimmoto decides to cheat me out of Sasuke yet again, I'm going to hunt him down and devour his soul.

Work's been killing me, which is why nobody's been seeing me the past few days. I think it's almost under control now. Either that or I'm going to stop being a whiny wuss and letting it consume me in how tired I am. I will be with the Tom tonight, but might come back sometime mid-day to write stuff. Saw Goblet. Was good. Longer report when LJ stops being a little bitch. Remember, not in a bad mood. Just really tired when I come home and not wanting to do anything but slug about.

I really really want the new Avatar. ZUKO vs. ZHAO nummy!