Okay, it's been maybe a day and a half and already I forgot how I found this, but srsly - is best anime ever.
H'okay, first off: the title?
LIBRARY WARS
And yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. Librarians protecting free speech and the right to information with powerful firearms! People die for great literature! It's fuckin' fabulous!
*snuggles Library Wars* Srsly, go watch. You will love.
The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.
The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.
PROBLEMS OF THE TERMINALLY SHALLOW! Where I complain about the difficulties of being an empowered young woman in a free nation with voting rights and abortion rights and a roof over my head and food to eat.
So, I be listenin' to Nazi Halo by Jack Off Jill, and it's a very nice song. I rawk out hardcore. Anyways, I really do like this song quite a bit, except for one little part in the chorus...
you go so low your faggot rainbow your Nazi Halo won't save you this time
See, I don't know what to make of that. My head is spinning. The rest of the song sounds (to me) very anti-anti-gay, if you can understand the double-negative. But the "faggot rainbow" is offputting. If it truly is a homophobic song, then I don't want to be listening to it anymore. But then, if the song is homophobic, does this mean the band as a whole is? If that's the case, then I don't want to listen to any of their songs.
But would Colleen really listen to and recommend a homophobic band? Colleen, writer and director of "Queer Side Story"? It just doesn't seem like her. And so, at least 50% of my brain is insisting that I am paranoid, that obviously "faggot rainbow" means something that I'm just not getting.
still bored Now that it's after noon, the internet is starting to wake up a bit. I'm sure it will be back to its normal bustling self by the time I'm ready to collapse into a comatose state.
Fucking hell, world. Why are you so goddamn nocturnal?
So, I was pondering my future life at UMD, and thinking about what sort of room I should have. Double or single? My sister is all for a single, because her first and only roommate experience was a scarring one. My parents are all for a double because they're convinced it's part of the college experience and I'll isolate myself otherwise. I'd like a double because I think it would be interesting to live with another person, but I must confess that I have an idealized vision of what my roommate would be like, and odds are that's never going to happen. A single would probably be a good idea for me because I need a private space to pace in and I also have a tendancy to sleep naked. So, I'm thinking I can apply for a single and then join the Anime club if I need friends.
it's a metaphor German shepherds are fine creatures. They are fast, friendly, intelligent, pretty, and strong.
But wouldn’t it be great to be a cat?
A Siamese, maybe, with a sleek cream-colored coat and brown “socks” on your paws and tail. And you’d have the most beautiful blue eyes, and a great little voice that could yowl at irrational volumes. You could jump six feet straight up, and fit into nooks and crannies that German shepherds can’t even dream of. And you would be small, small enough to fit in anyone’s lap and be petted for hours on end and you would purr, purr, purr away, that lovely little motorboat sound of pure content. You would be an incredible hunter, wicked quick; all of rodenta would quake in fear at the thought of you.
And if you didn’t want to sit on a lap, you wouldn’t be expected to, because everyone knows that cats just do whatever they want. You wouldn’t be called stupid or lame or useless; you’d just be a cat. Disobedience is what cats do. It’s normal and accepted and sometimes even praised. Everyone would love you.
Sure, being a German shepherd has its uses, but you must admit that your life would be infinitely better if you were a cat.
THE MATRIX: REWRITTEN I wish Phil would at least consider letting me do the script. I don’t want to write the story, I just want to finalize the lines so they don’t suck. Perhaps “suck” is too strong a word, but the lines he gave us in the RPG just weren’t good. I don’t want to be just the Oracle; my part will probably just get written out of the story, anyway. I have, what, one scene? Yeah, great. And it will get chopped out during editing. Perfect. Fantastic. I’m going to throw up.
Why do I even bother hanging out with these guys? It’s not like I’m ever appreciated. They don’t like my art, they don’t care about my writing, I’m not good at videogames, they won’t talk with me about anything. Phil and Zack are the only ones that I can really have a decent conversation with, but that only happens one-on-one, and one-on-one never fucking happens.
Oh, that’s okay, Phil, you little control freak. No, no, it’s fine, really. You can be the writer and the director and the editor and the star. It’s okay. I’m sure it’s not just a vanity project.
For fuck’s sake, it’s not like I’m trying to rip the whole project out from under him. Real movies have more than one person’s input. “Well, I’ll be taking ideas from everyone and…” Blah, blah, blah, that’s great, but that doesn’t change the fact that you write stilted dialogue.
I wish real life were more like the internet. Then I would be famous and everyone would like me.
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Sometimes I worry about my friends. Common traits in the background of psychopathic children include:
* a mother exposed to deprivation or abuse as a child * a transient father * a mother who cannot maintain stable emotional connection with child * low birth weight or birth complications * unusual reactions to pain (especially to insult) * lack of attachment to adults * failure to make eye contact when touched * low frustration tolerance * sense of self-importance * transient relationships throughout childhood, or close association with another like him * cruelty toward others * animal abuse * lack of remorse for hurting someone * lack of empathy in friendships
I GOT IN TO UMD! Admissions Decision Congratulations! You have been accepted for the 2007 Fall semester. Please respond with your admissions deposit as soon as possible. $200.00 for admissions and/or $200.00 for housing.
AMWAP! On the God-forsaken morning of July 4th, 1776, the honorable Doctor Phil (with the help of Oprah Winfrey) produced a child. They called her Serenity Phil, but she protested this naming and legally changed it to Schteffnee Ananas at the tender age of eight. Just one year earlier she left home to live among the moose herds of Maine. They taught her ballet and how to play the clarinet. Quand elle a dix ans, elle a parle francais. Then, suddenly, IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, she was kidnapped by a motorcycle gang of vampires and brought to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where she began attending the prestigious Ralph C. Mahar University. At the age of fifteen she adopted an orphaned werewolf pup that she christened “Sully.”
Today, Schteffnee Ananas enjoys long walks on the beach, vampire hunting, reading, writing, and arithmetic. She currently resides in a tree house on Bangs Avenue.
I DO NOT HAVE A SHORT ATTENTION SPAN! libra girl507: we're not ethno-centric!! AmbrMerlinus: rephrase please AmbrMerlinus: your minion is tired and does not comprehend libra girl507: I just..... nvm libra girl507: It's so unimportant libra girl507: Look. It's Zuko. AmbrMerlinus: YAY ZUZU
I'm bored out of my fucking mind. I've got a wretched case of senioritis. Schteffnee is not online so that means we probably won't have a new CD to torment Art2D with tomorrow.
sometimes I wonder if I'm racist "Does history open our eyes to see, or does it blind them with ongoing ignorance conditioning?"
It is said that history is written by the winners; from that ancient truth, we can conclude that history is very subjective. Depending on how history is written and by who, we can determine whether history opens humanity's eyes to the presence of intolerance or simply reteaches intolerant practices.
Being American, the history I have the most familiarity with is the history of the United States of America. Our history is a bloody one, with great emphasis on military might and violent conquest. In the educational system, it is traditional to downplay the roles of anyone not of Aryan descent in our nation's history. This means that Pilgrims of Plymouth are touted as heroes, while the natives without whom the Pilgrims would have died out are either portrayed with offensive stereotypes or ignored entirely. More recently, these practices have been changing, with textbooks that pay heed to the accomplishments and contributions of women, natives, blacks, gays, et cetera. However, sometimes the teaching of history even leans too far in this new direction, with textbook companies seeming to compete with each other for who can dig up the most semi-important minority figure to display. For example, Benjamin Franklin would get the same amount of space in the textbook as Crispus Attucks. From a politically correct perspective, this is completely fair: a white man and a black man have equal space. But when you consider what they accomplished during their lives, it seems a little skewed. Benjamin Franklin was a newspaper editor, a printer, a merchant, an inventor, a diplomat, an author, a politician, a scientist, a philosopher, a publisher, a civic activist, and an ambassador. Crispus Attucks happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up being murdered in the Boston Massacre. Because Attucks was black, he is touted as a heroic figure by modern African-Americans. The other non-black people killed in the Massacre have been forgotten.
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