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Apr. 29th, 2011 01:59 pm[Poll #1735986]
( mine has always been a combination of @mindykaling (most obvious, boring answer outside of @kanyewest, i know: but whatever, there is a reason everyone loves them), @stevemartintogo and I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY, it just turns out i find him really hysterical for no reason, and @boa_1105 because she is precious and ridiculous. but actually what i want to talk about is @bryanfuller, because his twitter is PRESH )
EYEHEARTING ASIDE THOUGH, isn't celebrity twitter culture weirdly interesting? It gives us all access into these lives in a way we have never had before, and it's interesting how many people you end up liking more, but how many people you end up liking less. The ones who are exactly like you would have pictured them (SEAN MAHER: super sweet but boring as hell) and then the ones that surprise you, idk. And then the ones who just make asses out of themselves all the time, which is always fun.
Also I've kind of been using tumblr again (I know, I hate myself, etc) and I'M SICK OF LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE, so yeah this is me. I had this elaborate fantasy about how before I mentioned this to my lj friends I would have a ~cool~ tumblr, not in the lame-o tumblr popularity sense but in that it would be like THIS GIRL'S TUMBLR, which I love so deeply it probably borders on creepy. I was going to think of a new username and take pictures of stuff but then I remembered that I am just... deeply uncool. Anyway I am lame and my usage is pretty sporadic soooo no pressure or anything, I'm here more anyway. But if you do want to be tumblr friends...... yeah. WHY IS THIS SO AWKWARD, GOD, I hate tumblr.
OOOH WHILE WE'RE AT IT THOUGH IS THERE ANYONE I'M NOT FRIENDS WITH ON LAST.FM??? Because if not friend me, that is the actual best place. Even though mine is embarrassing, whatever, I'M EMBARRASSING EVERYWHERE, let's face facts.
Also is there any Troy/Annie fic besides this and this? Because delicious said "not really". But enquiring minds would like to know for sure :(
( mine has always been a combination of @mindykaling (most obvious, boring answer outside of @kanyewest, i know: but whatever, there is a reason everyone loves them), @stevemartintogo and I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY, it just turns out i find him really hysterical for no reason, and @boa_1105 because she is precious and ridiculous. but actually what i want to talk about is @bryanfuller, because his twitter is PRESH )
EYEHEARTING ASIDE THOUGH, isn't celebrity twitter culture weirdly interesting? It gives us all access into these lives in a way we have never had before, and it's interesting how many people you end up liking more, but how many people you end up liking less. The ones who are exactly like you would have pictured them (SEAN MAHER: super sweet but boring as hell) and then the ones that surprise you, idk. And then the ones who just make asses out of themselves all the time, which is always fun.
Also I've kind of been using tumblr again (I know, I hate myself, etc) and I'M SICK OF LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE, so yeah this is me. I had this elaborate fantasy about how before I mentioned this to my lj friends I would have a ~cool~ tumblr, not in the lame-o tumblr popularity sense but in that it would be like THIS GIRL'S TUMBLR, which I love so deeply it probably borders on creepy. I was going to think of a new username and take pictures of stuff but then I remembered that I am just... deeply uncool. Anyway I am lame and my usage is pretty sporadic soooo no pressure or anything, I'm here more anyway. But if you do want to be tumblr friends...... yeah. WHY IS THIS SO AWKWARD, GOD, I hate tumblr.
OOOH WHILE WE'RE AT IT THOUGH IS THERE ANYONE I'M NOT FRIENDS WITH ON LAST.FM??? Because if not friend me, that is the actual best place. Even though mine is embarrassing, whatever, I'M EMBARRASSING EVERYWHERE, let's face facts.
Also is there any Troy/Annie fic besides this and this? Because delicious said "not really". But enquiring minds would like to know for sure :(
weather gage
Jan. 31st, 2011 08:25 amI don't know, one of those mornings where I was super curious about your opinions on something, couldn't go to class without posting a poll, you know how it goes.
[Poll #1675078]
[Poll #1675078]
K so I was trying to limit this ~very scientific experiment~ on western beauty standards to real life, but there are JUST NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE and all I ended up doing was intriguing myself by the small smattering of results that I do have. And now I want to see patterns, so... idk, you are a largish, easy to access sample, so I choose to exploit you. And admittedly it's a bit of a different pool, you are all ladies (and most but not all of you are straight?) and most of the people reviewed were straight dudes, but. Whatever. Please do this!
There are nine girls in the following video. Each of them has a number on her shirt which you can use as a handy-dandy system to fairly well keep track. Your task is to pick out the one that you find the most objectively attractive.
[Poll #1630282]
( this is here in case you are confused by which closeup shot goes with which girl/number, although i would not use this in lieu of the video because some of them were unfairly maligned by my inability to get a good cap )
That is all, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
There are nine girls in the following video. Each of them has a number on her shirt which you can use as a handy-dandy system to fairly well keep track. Your task is to pick out the one that you find the most objectively attractive.
[Poll #1630282]
( this is here in case you are confused by which closeup shot goes with which girl/number, although i would not use this in lieu of the video because some of them were unfairly maligned by my inability to get a good cap )
That is all, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
yes let's all have fun judging each other
Jan. 18th, 2010 08:36 pm[Poll #1513465]
ETA: And by "would" I meant "wouldn't". God Alexandra, learn to type.
ETA2: Also tread carefully in the comments if you don't want to be spoiled for what's aired so far in season 3!
ETA: And by "would" I meant "wouldn't". God Alexandra, learn to type.
ETA2: Also tread carefully in the comments if you don't want to be spoiled for what's aired so far in season 3!
i'm getting around to my last post, SRSLY.
Apr. 2nd, 2009 09:39 pmYesterday I realized that I kind of just... assume... that everyone in the (livejournal) universe watched and loved Firefly. THIS HAS TO BE FALSE, even among my friends list, thus, a poll:
[Poll #1377209]
( bonez )
[Poll #1377209]
( bonez )
Things I should be doing instead of writing up this post:
- finishing my last paper of the semester
- studying for Chem tomorrow
- writing my yuletide
- UM, ANYTHING?
So I kind of want to talk about Harry Potter again (sooooooorry) and how I think the epilogue is so much better when you're not a) reading it for the first time and b) interpreting "all was well" as "happily ever after". Because it isn't happily ever after-- they lost so many. It's about how if the survivors cannot enjoy life, what was the sacrifice of the dead for?
OKAY BUT YOU GUYS! I feel like between this and my drunken confession to reading Next Gen fanfic last weekend I am coming off as some weird psychopath (...because who else reads Next Gen fanfic? I MEAN REALLY? All I wanted was stories about 11-year-olds discovering hoggy warty Hogwarts and having dumb adventures, but all there is is like... a bunch of people who can't let go of their Draco/__________ pairing continuing it on with Draco/[child of __________] porn). I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, I am having fun with my mini-Harry Potter phase, because like, I haven't felt this way since Deathly Hallows came out and even thaaaaaat was pretty much just excitement stretching from the OotP movie to the discussion![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
superskittles76 and I had over Tex-Mex a couple of days after the book was released. I totally used to write Harry Potter fanfic, and once it was done it actually felt like I was totally over it. Like actually completely forever only passingly interested in Harry Potter. But silly self, you don't get over these things for good.
ANYWAY WHAT THIS POST IS ACTUALLY ABOUT IS THE POTTER FAMILY NAMES-- James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna, because I HATE THEM LIKE BURNING. Part of that is maybe me being neurotic, because it actually drives me a little batty that like, every baby ever born in fiction is named after someone. LIFE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, friends. And I would like to demonstrate that with a poll!
I know a lot of you actively think about what you would name your kids (captaincatapult and goldenmelisande did their own polling to this effect pretty recently): is that because you think they're beautiful names, or is it because you want to honor someone in your life?
( this poll is really awkwardly phrased, I apologize in advance. )
I... don't mean to belittle anyone that does want to name someone after someone. I think it is a lovely, lovely way to honor someone important to you (I found out recently that my favorite Aunt Monti is named for a Professor Montague that my Nana was especially affected by, which I think is so lovely), what I take issue with is the frequency with which it happens in fiction. It's like anytime anyone pops a kid out it has to be named for someone, they cannot be bothered to come up with their own names. (It is lovely, though, in the West Wing when Toby calls his baby girl Molly after the dead secret service agent.)
I guess the other thing is that they're all Harry's names he wants to give to honor all the dead in his life, and it just... doesn't sound like Ginny had much input at allllll in what to name them. You know? She lost family too, but the scope of people represented in the little Potter's names is all Harry. Something about that really kind of bothers me. (BUT, on the other hand, I think a legitimate argument can be made that Ginny recognizes that having kids and a family means... not necessarily more to Harry than it would to her, but it's special to her, the youngest of seven, in a different way than it would be to little orphan Harry, who has always craved that family connection. It's like Scully and Mulder! And the way poor, emotionally abandoned Mulder really desperately would like a family, but Scully has grown up in a big family with brothers named Bill and Charlie and even if she would like kids, Exceeeeeept it's not like Scully and Mulder at all, because Mulder does not view himself as deserving of that family, and they weren't supposed to have kids. BUT STILL, I think Scully named William for Mulder's William and not her Williams for the exact reason that Ginny might let Harry give all her kids really awful names.)
Hi my name is Alexandra and sometimes I like to write up six long paragraphs about something everybody already agrees with anyway/doesn't even think about anymore and post them on the internet.
P.S. LAST NIGHT'S CHUCK WAS AMAZING.
- finishing my last paper of the semester
- studying for Chem tomorrow
- writing my yuletide
- UM, ANYTHING?
So I kind of want to talk about Harry Potter again (sooooooorry) and how I think the epilogue is so much better when you're not a) reading it for the first time and b) interpreting "all was well" as "happily ever after". Because it isn't happily ever after-- they lost so many. It's about how if the survivors cannot enjoy life, what was the sacrifice of the dead for?
OKAY BUT YOU GUYS! I feel like between this and my drunken confession to reading Next Gen fanfic last weekend I am coming off as some weird psychopath (...because who else reads Next Gen fanfic? I MEAN REALLY? All I wanted was stories about 11-year-olds discovering hoggy warty Hogwarts and having dumb adventures, but all there is is like... a bunch of people who can't let go of their Draco/__________ pairing continuing it on with Draco/[child of __________] porn). I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, I am having fun with my mini-Harry Potter phase, because like, I haven't felt this way since Deathly Hallows came out and even thaaaaaat was pretty much just excitement stretching from the OotP movie to the discussion
superskittles76 and I had over Tex-Mex a couple of days after the book was released. I totally used to write Harry Potter fanfic, and once it was done it actually felt like I was totally over it. Like actually completely forever only passingly interested in Harry Potter. But silly self, you don't get over these things for good.ANYWAY WHAT THIS POST IS ACTUALLY ABOUT IS THE POTTER FAMILY NAMES-- James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna, because I HATE THEM LIKE BURNING. Part of that is maybe me being neurotic, because it actually drives me a little batty that like, every baby ever born in fiction is named after someone. LIFE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, friends. And I would like to demonstrate that with a poll!
I know a lot of you actively think about what you would name your kids (
captaincatapult and goldenmelisande did their own polling to this effect pretty recently): is that because you think they're beautiful names, or is it because you want to honor someone in your life?( this poll is really awkwardly phrased, I apologize in advance. )
I... don't mean to belittle anyone that does want to name someone after someone. I think it is a lovely, lovely way to honor someone important to you (I found out recently that my favorite Aunt Monti is named for a Professor Montague that my Nana was especially affected by, which I think is so lovely), what I take issue with is the frequency with which it happens in fiction. It's like anytime anyone pops a kid out it has to be named for someone, they cannot be bothered to come up with their own names. (It is lovely, though, in the West Wing when Toby calls his baby girl Molly after the dead secret service agent.)
I guess the other thing is that they're all Harry's names he wants to give to honor all the dead in his life, and it just... doesn't sound like Ginny had much input at allllll in what to name them. You know? She lost family too, but the scope of people represented in the little Potter's names is all Harry. Something about that really kind of bothers me. (BUT, on the other hand, I think a legitimate argument can be made that Ginny recognizes that having kids and a family means... not necessarily more to Harry than it would to her, but it's special to her, the youngest of seven, in a different way than it would be to little orphan Harry, who has always craved that family connection. It's like Scully and Mulder! And the way poor, emotionally abandoned Mulder really desperately would like a family, but Scully has grown up in a big family with brothers named Bill and Charlie and even if she would like kids, Exceeeeeept it's not like Scully and Mulder at all, because Mulder does not view himself as deserving of that family, and they weren't supposed to have kids. BUT STILL, I think Scully named William for Mulder's William and not her Williams for the exact reason that Ginny might let Harry give all her kids really awful names.)
Hi my name is Alexandra and sometimes I like to write up six long paragraphs about something everybody already agrees with anyway/doesn't even think about anymore and post them on the internet.
P.S. LAST NIGHT'S CHUCK WAS AMAZING.
SO I LEFT CLASS EARLY TODAY TO DRIVE MY DAD TO THE DMV, only to discover (in an ironic twist, seeing as I had his car) he was gone. I called him and he said something about "having two meetings" and he's going tomorrow instead, but he didn't want to bother me in class. WHICH, WHATEVER, but isn't telling your daughter not to come get you so she doesn't ditch her next class for no reason (especially after last week, OH GOD) what text messaging was INVENTED FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE? >:(
WHATEVER, WORLD, I AM GOING TO BE A STUDENT-DELINQUENT AND SIT HERE AND WATCH LAST NIGHT'S FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
Idk if you remember my purse dilemma, but I ended up buying the blue one from the place and about a week ago I got the package, and inside was NOT, in fact, a strawberry purse, but the ugliest little faux-leather crocodile wallet I have EVER seen in my life. I emailed them about exchanging the thing I got for the thing I bought, but I think the guy misunderstood me, because he was all "well we can process your return for AMICI ACCESSORIES STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE and refund you and then you can buy a new purse!" BUT I DO NOT WANT A NEW PURSE, I want to be free of ugly crocodile wallet, and I want the purse I bought. YOU FUCKED UP, AND YOU SHOULD FIX IT. I really just need to call them, but I keep remembering at odd hours :( Except for now, when it is actually the middle of the day. I have no idea why I am writing a whiny LJ entry instead of calling them right now.
But I actually didn't decide to post so I could be fussy, I wanted to make a poll about the pimping of new fandoms (and pretend, for the sake of argument, that the new fandom in question is not something you have seen everywhere already and have whatever preconcieved notions about-- it is new, relatively fresh, and you do not):
[Poll #1300985]
WHATEVER, WORLD, I AM GOING TO BE A STUDENT-DELINQUENT AND SIT HERE AND WATCH LAST NIGHT'S FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
Idk if you remember my purse dilemma, but I ended up buying the blue one from the place and about a week ago I got the package, and inside was NOT, in fact, a strawberry purse, but the ugliest little faux-leather crocodile wallet I have EVER seen in my life. I emailed them about exchanging the thing I got for the thing I bought, but I think the guy misunderstood me, because he was all "well we can process your return for AMICI ACCESSORIES STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE and refund you and then you can buy a new purse!" BUT I DO NOT WANT A NEW PURSE, I want to be free of ugly crocodile wallet, and I want the purse I bought. YOU FUCKED UP, AND YOU SHOULD FIX IT. I really just need to call them, but I keep remembering at odd hours :( Except for now, when it is actually the middle of the day. I have no idea why I am writing a whiny LJ entry instead of calling them right now.
But I actually didn't decide to post so I could be fussy, I wanted to make a poll about the pimping of new fandoms (and pretend, for the sake of argument, that the new fandom in question is not something you have seen everywhere already and have whatever preconcieved notions about-- it is new, relatively fresh, and you do not):
[Poll #1300985]