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This is not an April Fool's Day post because I have no sense of humor. But I am curious:

[Poll #465990]

Another week, another missed deathnote100 deadline. Off to comtemplate whether it's even worth writing anymore.

Guess who's still on campus? I got into an argument with a supporter earlier today. Or, well, Y got into an argument with F1 (on wherther's there's any such thing as absolute truth, of all things) while I stalled for time with F2. We came to the conclusion that he had points and I had points, but since his main point was that if I just read enough campaign literature I'd see the Truth, and mine was that I Already Had, Thanks, we weren't able to conclude anything. Of course.

Chrissie is evil. No one do this thing, ok? It's positively awful and patently unfair.

If you use Firefox, there's a really cool extension you might want to look into. It automatically downloads everything on a page, very useful for those many-linked fsts. We'll see whether this manages to fix the "download more than one file in a row and I'll crash, bitch" problem I've been having with Firefox lately ever since I got it.

Sunday is my mother's fiftieth birthday, and she'll be visiting tommorrow with the rest of the family and a new car. My new car! XDXD I know nothing about cars, but it's a red, automatic transmission two-door semi-sport. Haha, my mother very casually mentioned that red cars are much more likely to be stopped for drunk/erratic driving, and I said, ok mom, I get it.

...I still need to buy her something. ACK.

Before I go! The Best Meme Ever, via obakesan:
Comment and I'll tell you what my favourite story of yours is and why. You may have to refresh my memory about what you've written and where you've posted it.

We're at that point in Modern Chinese History (technically Modern East Asian History, but don't let the course name fool you) where everything becomes an "ist" or "ism". Which segues neatly into:

( Lyndon LaRouche IS A NUTCASE ) This guy proves that all you need to do to gain a following is keep talking.

P.S.Princess Tutu. I swore to myself I'd never like That Jerk With the Pouffy Black Hair, but I am weak and easily swayed. I don't feel too bad: Princess Tutu might very well be the most deviously manipulative anime ever produced.

Livejournal mood analyzer (enter your username):

I'm distressed in my fandom-journal (Why can't you post about something happy once in a while? Your friends would appreciate it) but "a rosy-cheeked ray of f'ing sunshine 24/7" in my real-life journal. Um. I'm not trying to be duplicious? But art is born of frustration, struggle, and a hopeless defiance of conventional thought, so of course it comes out like that. Really.

I worte an L's childhood "drabble" for the current challenge at deathnote100. It won't make sense if you haven't read chapter 59--actually it probably won't make sense, period, as I dragged it out of a longer in-progress fic and stripped all the context away. I love deathnote100: it's the only "100" community where less than one out of every 15 submissions actually ends at 100 words.

And! I finally worked up the courage to re-read that HxH fic. Not as bad as I'd feared, not as good as I'd hoped. I added a little bit to the last section, which was literally written with my father standing over me taping his watch as we missed one train after another.

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rianax totally gives the best writing prompts ever. Can we put some of those in the Avatar 20 themes woah, getting ahead of myself there. Does anyone else want to do an Avatar: the Last Airbender 20themes list with me? The show's got a stupid-simple premise and a where-haven't-I-seen-that-before magic system, but the writing is sharp, the acting is top-notch, the characters rock and it is so, so pretty. It needs fiction.

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Right. Themes?

I'd like to take this time to thank riko for making this icon. I'd also like to thank photoshop for allowing her to make it, livejournal for allowing me to use it, Vienna Teng for providing the photograph and, of course, the internet, without which none of this would have been possible.

The Oscars! I'm watching them RIGHT NOW; updating from my parents' hot new "why couldn't I have been born two years later" laptop. (It. Is so. HOT! I am insanely jealous.)

( Quick thoughts )

This picture is different from every other picture of The Gates because it has me in it. I must have seen a million photographs of them by now. Transience in art is all very well, but how transient is it really when ten million people go to see a piece of "temporary" art, take pictures, and then post those pictures to the internet? (Because the internet is permanent, hahaha, but you see my point?)

That said, have some more. They're big, sorry: no image editing program and I'm pressed for time. Also, the gloves I'm wearing in the first one? Worth hundreds of dollars and I found them abandonned on a park bench. Score!

Internet access will be spotty for the next few days. It's not that I can't, it's just that I'm on vacation.