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I don't like getting in the habit of not posting, you know?
So, here's what's up: It's been a few really stressful/upsetting/strange/yucky weeks for me, and I'm fine and all but I'm still kind getting over the hectic-ness, so I'm holding off on any commenting and reviewing - I mean, I love doing that stuff, I really do, but I still need time to gather myself, I guess?
Anyway, fandom-wise... Still Barnyard. Yeaaaaah. (And of course some Penguins on the side. Always Penguins on the side!) I have actually seen all of the episodes now because DVR is the devil (in a good way?) and I have no life, apparently. And I just... The show is so weird. But in a delightful way.
Um, so fic. Might be coming. Fluffy drabbles, as usual. Freddy/Peck, Julien/Maurice, Julien/Skipper, maybe some Julien/Mort in some form...
Oh. And Kowalski/Perry the Platypus. No, I'm not joking, although I almost wish I were.
- Mood:
morose
Oh, see, I even have a Julien icon I could be using for this... I just have to upload it, and obviously it's on my home computer... Dang.
Ahem.
So, bascially, summer is almost here and until then I have a ton of work to do. I've basically only been able to be on the computer for long stretches of time away from home, and even then usually I should be working anyway. So I haven't been on fanfiction.net, which is lame because I just ended my loooooong hibernation over there. I mean, I've been on the forums and I've gotten some reading done, but nothing long and not so much time for the actual reviewing. So there's that.
I've been... Well, not writing, but I've been outlining and plotting stuff in my head. Alllllll Barnyard, folks. (Well, a little bit of Penguins, too.). Yeah, I really like the show, and there's fun stuff to write about tofu chicken and puppies and eloping and movies based on books and other madness. Trust me, it'll all make sense in context. Mostly. ;)
So, yeah... Here's hoping I can get back to being active soon.
'Til then~<3
- Mood:
busy
Augh. My rl is being a real pain. Well, the people in it are.
Not everyone. I mean, most people are still awesome, and everyone I'm close to rocks my socks.
But...
There are other people who I'm friendly with and like enough and who I have to see on a near-daily basis who need to shut up a little.* Because when you are upset with something, when you can't do something, the solution is not to say who everyone who can do it sucks. The solution is not to throw a hissy fit because you're not getting your own way, but insist that you "don't care that you can't do it, because it's dumb anyway.". And the solution is certainly not to cover your ears and start 'la la la'-ing whenever the topic comes up, not if you're serious.
If people would owe up to the fact that they were feeling left out, and then asked if people could not talk about it because it hurt their feelings? That's cool. But if people insist on stupidly lying, I am going to treat their fake emotions like their real ones. I worry about hurting other peoples feelings all the time, but when people will not admit that they are hurt, because they are too high and mighty to admit it... I have no patience there.
I love people, in general, despite the many flaws of our species, but sometimes I just... Ugh.
A few other tidbits running through my head, pretty random and uninteresting, but much less depressing:
-I don't talk about books a lot here, but I love reading. Anywho, I just finished The Temple of My Familiar, by Alice Walker. It took me a month, and it would have better, I think, to have read it all at once, but it was... Interesting. Not as good as The Color Purple, but I did enjoy it... I think. Actually, I'm not sure yet. I've always been so mentally detached from issues of sexism and racism, to the point where I feel a little guilty, so it was a book full of foreign concepts to me.
-I'm not able to get on the computer at home much lately, which is why I'm still behind in some stuff. Soon, though, I should be on more regularly. (Well, regularly for me.)
-Dawn of the Dinosaurs is coming out reeeeally soon. Well... reeeeally soon-ish. I'm excited.
*Brownie points to anyone who happens to know the reference!
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annoyed - Music:My Junk - Spring Awakening
Funny, I never would have considered Donald disturbing. And there are plenty of disturbing cartoon characters.
LIKE ROBERTO. (Futurama.) Roberto scares me because he is terrifying, and distrubs me because he is scary crazy. (And there's a difference between scary crazy and the kind of crazy that talks to lightbulbs or develops a split personality disorder over vegetarianism.) Don't get me wrong, I love the character - he's hilliarious and has a wonderful design and is perfectly voiced. He's just also makes me kinda uncomfortable in a way.
OR. Ren and Stimpy. (They were not as scary to me as Aah, Real Monsters or Pinky and the Brain, but far more disturbing. Although, in all fairness, I was also disturbed by The Animaniacs and Tiny Toons, so I'm probably not the best judge here. I was a fragile, fragile little child.)
OR FROLLO! (Hunchback of Notre Dame). He is twisted. Actually, Clopin is fairly upsetting to me to. Huh...
- Mood:
weird
Wow. I certainly kept busy over the last few days. :P It wasn't even that I was doing things that were unenjoyable, they were just not what I had expected for the weekend, ya know? Most of it was a case of me being Dory-ish, "Wait, that? That's this weekend? Oh, opps... I forgot.".
Saturday was pretty bad, I had school-related-stuff to deal with, and then, of course, I couldn't work on my actual homework until Sunday, which also involved me getting dragged about shopping, but that wasn't bad. And Friday evening I got to see a friend I hadn't hung with in a while, which was cool, and then prepare for Saturday, which was not cool. So, anyway, some obligatory updates...
Well, first of all, happy birthday to Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which turns... Eight today. Two more years until a special edition DVD, maybe? (-hope-)
Second, I have... nine fanfictions in the work. Freakin' seven of them are Barnyard. One of them is Darkwing Duck. One is Penguins. I'm not sure which will end up done, but I'd really like to try and work through all of them. (And post them here, even though I feel like I'm the only Barnyard fan in the world. Ironically, since I joined the fandom, there have been three new fics posted at its section on ff.n - none mine - for a grand total of four. I, uh, haven't read any, but... Well, whatever.)
So... You know what's on this early in the morning? My Friends Tigger and Pooh. And not much else. Do not like Darby... And when did Rabbit become an inventor? And since when does Tigger call him Ra-Ra?
(Actually, since Piglet's Big Movie, and I am actually proud to know that.)
(Shout out here to Erica - started reading, so reviewing will come today unless something comes up again that I forgot. I've been very delighted thus far, by the by,)
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tired
I have reviewing to do and rambling to do and quizes to take and memes to post and probably need some new icons, but for the moment I will just leave you with this thought:
Julien should always be a cheerleader. Always. Because it is full of win.
- Mood:
chipper - Music:Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police
I don't usually post about my rl here. The interwebs is definitely something I consider separate from that, in the sense that I go on here to ignore the stress of everyday life (often by procastinating. ^^). I'm also not comfortable giving away personal information online, ya know? Also, I see this as my chance to geek out about the fandom stuff I don't get a chance to geek out about when I'm busy with irl stuff.
But, I do want to mention some irl stuff today. (And then I will geek out about one my geekiest fandoms yet, I promise). I've always been a really worried person, and over the past few days I've been realizing how much better I've gotten with my fears and phobias, and how many answers I've come to in my constant wondering about... Y'know, "Life, The Universe, and Everything." Seriously, though, I've made so many leaps and bounds in life lately. It's nice to notice that.
Now. Geeky fandomness...
A few posts ago, I reluctantly mentioned my fondness for Back at the Barnyard. Well, I've been actually watching it a lot more - I watch more Nick than Disney Channel these days. And with good reason. Now that's sad - and I really, really like it. Like, it's not... Insanely clever, and I know I said that about Penguins at first and now I think Penguins is insanely clever, but.... I dunno. I mean the show definitely has its witty moments, ("We'll have you there in no time" No time later...), but mostly I love it for the fun voices and the fun characters. Like, Otis is surprisingly likable, and I think he's very well-acted. I'm trying not to hate the token girl (technically there is more than one female character, but I mean Abby, the main female character. Not Wanda Sykes.), but she kind of suffers from that inconsistency of personality that is so common in female characters. And Pip! He's actually pretty funny and adorable, despite sharing a voice with the most annoying character ever.
But, you know, I mostly love Pig and Peck and Freddy, especially Peck and Freddy. As far as that duo goes, I kept telling myself to just let them be best friends, but then it was hard to deny that Freddy is in love with Peck. And then I saw the episode where Fred ends up having to tell his parents he doesn't like to eat chicken, his best friend is a chicken, and it really played just like your typical coming out story. (Because, you know, he was coming out, about being a vegetarian.) But yeah, it was really adorable and I cannot ignore the potential there, because it is so sweet and pure, but so clouded by angst because Freddy kind of wants to eat Peck, and Peck is completely oblivious. And I love fluff and I love angst, so, yeah. It's perfect for me.
Plus, Kevin McDonald totally guest-starred in one episode. So that's cool.
- Mood: giddy
Treasure-freakin'-Planet! I love this movie. I love just looking at it - the animation and the drawing is uh-mazing! I do not understand why this movie kind of failed, box office-/marketing-wise. And though the internet fanbase is strong, it's not as huge as it could be, I guess? I guess I understand purists who don't like the differences from Treasure Island, but I've never been a purist generally, and also, that book always made me feel really grimy and icky to read. Mostly because of Ben Gunn. (Ironically, kind of, because I love B.E.N. to bits.) So, anyway, yeah, I have no problem loving it. And love it I do. It's not a movie where I involve myself in the fandom - It's not like one of those things I kind of obsess over... But God, I love this movie.
I love that there's no huge central romance, because I love romance but it's a nice change to focus on something else. And I love the romance that is there - the relationship between Doppler and Amelia. I love all of the wonderful characters, the music, the story itself, the exploration of father-and-son family stuff - I have a soft spot for anything with fathers or father figures. I love that I like Jim, because main characters rather often bore me. I love the fantastic cast, and that Silver's speech makes me cry and did I mention that it's really, really pretty?
But. But. Are we counting Lilo & Stitch as taking place in space? I mean, obviously there are parts, but most of it takes place on Hawaii... Of course, the fact that Stitch (and Jumba and Pleakley) are from space is obviously an important factor in the film... Hmm... Well, if we want to count that, Lilo & Stitch is my very favorite thing ever, so it would have to beat out Treasure Planet.
- Mood:
geeky
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I'd definetely say a lot of it has to do with inexperience, as most have said. But another huge factor - which also has been mentioned by others - is the way most teenagers think they are invincible. Also, many teenagers refuse to take anything an adult says seriously - because that's cool, apparently - and when adults advise them to drive safely and do certain things on the road and stuff, they just ignore it. They decide it's stupid and just go and do whatever they want.
- Mood: annoyed
Last night, I found out that Penguins of Madagascar has its own section on fanfiction.net, seperate from the straight-up Madagascar stuff. I was really excited, but... Well, segway, first.
Remember when I said I don't think any of the characters on the show should be paired up? I mean it. I so do. I wouldn't want any romance or hints of romance in the show, or in my true head canon/fanon. But for just cracky fun? Sure! I like to play around with different pairings in that way. And, a lot of it is slash because, hey, there's one girl on the show. (Ha, well, not counting Alice for obvious reasons.)
Now, that in mind, I was amused to find so many slash fics in the section. But none of them were my cup of tea. Mostly because the main slash pairing seems to be Skipper/Private, which makes me uncomfortable. And, the pairings for Marlene tend to be Skipper/Marlene and Julien/Marlene, neither of which really fly with me.
Ha, but it wasn't all bad! I made another friend who likes the crack-ier pairings, too. :)
...Okay, confession time. I am currently watching Back at the Barnyard. I never saw the movie and don't plan to, but I have big hearts for this show. I really do. It's just silly and cute and kind of charming, and Rob Paulsen plays a balding rooster named Peck, and I love Rob, and Peck has an adorable design. His best friend is a ferret who sounds a touch like Megavolt to me but isn't voiced by Dan C., and who can't fight the instinct to eat his friend. I love that for it's angst-potential.
Oh, and the voice of Bushroot voices the pig. Most excellent.
- Mood:
cold
In reverse, because Good News should always be saved for last, I think.
So, the new Pokemon theme doesn't have Zoey in it.... Is she gone? (Who am I aksing this to? I don't think anyone on my flist would know!) That bites. Oh, and now we get Meowth being beat on by a Purugly? That's... Great, guys. Thanks. Okay, I know that Pokemon battle and they get hurt, and it also shows los twerpos getting attacked in the theme too, but there's a different - the whole point of their character isn't to get beaten on in each episode. With the Rocketeers, though, that is the point. I mean, seeing them being chased by a Delibird? That was funny. It's a Delibird. (And during the line 'You'll never see us run away from a fight', too. ^_^) And I don't want to be one of those psycho fans that flips out angrily when their character is hurt. That's just stupid, especially for a Team Rocket fan.
I guess it's just... Team Rocket, lately especially, has always had one or two group shots in theme, often in which they have bad luck. That's cool, yo. But when they randomly decide to give one of them an extra bit, it's kind of upset to see it being more of that obligatory bad luck. I dunno, maybe I am just being a psycho fangirl. :P (Incidentally, because it showed orange-haired Galactic chick in the corner of the screen at that point, I have to ask why Team Rocket is fighting Team Galactic? I dunno, I never saw much of the Advanced series,so I don't know how they interacted with Aqua/Magma.)
The bad? You know how I keep gripping about how I hate Disney Channel shows and then I watch them anyway? I ended up watching a lot of Suite Life on Deck, and by a lot I mean three episodes. That was the one show I flat-out DID NOT WATCH. (Well, that and now JONAS, with it's unnecessary CAPLOCKS). Because it's AWFUL. And now I am very sure I will never be watching it again. Very poor treatment of women, with the objectifying and the selfishness and the 'I'm only doing nice things so she'll give me smoochieface'... NO consistency of character, as usual.... And that crazy-annoying Bailey. Ack! But seriously, this is an awful show. I mean, the boys just went to see a bunch of lady dancers, and I'm sorry, NO. They're, what, sixteen? I don't like them being that young and going, but hey, whatever. What bothers me is that this shows target audience is the more tweenage audience, and the writers damn well know that, and they also damn well know that a large part of their audience is still in the single-digits. It's not the sexual that bothers me, really, it's the way the disgusting attitude the boys take on the show, and Cody, who is effing supposed to be the nice twin, basically forcing Bailey to dress up like one of the show girls. I hate him, I hate this show, it just... Augh, gross. It makes me so angry!
(More Pokemon thoughts: This makes me laugh. Dawn's Piloswine hasn't listened to her since it evolved, and Ash is all like, "He'll warm up to you real fast.". Ha! Like you and Charizard, Twerpface?
Also. Ash. Brock. Seriously? I'm giving Dawn slack because she's the new girl still (kind of), but that poster has a blue-haired guy, and a Meowth, and a Seviper, and a Mime Jr., and now you're at the advertised class and being taught by a red-head chick with big green earrings. AND YOU DON'T KNOW IT'S TEAM ROCKET? Oh,
Also, I love Croagunk. That thing is just... Sick. (In the good way). No, seriously, I don't know why, but he's wonderful.
Jessie: "We've tricked you twerps more times than you've had birthdays!"
Jess, hun, I'm not sure about Brock*, but Ash and Dawn are perpetually ten. So, you know, tricking them more than that? Yeah, it's been years.** I should hope you'd have tricked them at least eleven times by now. Just sayin'.)
Aaaand the good.
I like Andy Ritcher. But, y'know, with my really limited range of what I watch, I only know him as the voice of Mort. Now, let me explain something here. I loathe Mort. I mean, actually, lately I just dislike him, because a friend made me realize that sometimes he really is damn cute, but seriously. Do not want. But the second I saw Ritcher talking on some behind-the-scenes stuff for Madagascar, I was like, "I like you! Why do you voice a character I hate?!"*** But, but, I just checked the DVR, and apparently one of the episodes of Monk I recorded... He's in it! I mean, the description it gives heavily implies that he's the baddie, but that's okay, because he won't have that high-pitched voice and that foot fetish. (I... I hope.)
Also, speaking of DVR, I finally checked that episode of Wizards for the The Princess and the Frog (the probable last traditionally-animate feature-length Disney film, from what I hear) preview. Well, yeah, it was there, I recorded the right episode! And oh my God, it looks so good! Tiana is super-cute, so it's kind of a shame she's going to be a frog. And the frog reminds me very much of Jean-Bob. (From The Swan Princess? Anyone?). Which is awesome, although I'm assuming he'll turn out to be different enough from him. (I hope so, actually, because otherwise they'd both blend into one character for me which would be so weird.) But yeah, this movie looks so good. God, I cannot wait.
I mean, look: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f
And speaking of upcoming films... If memory serves, (And it rarely does), the third Ice Age will be coming out this Summer. So, soon-ish! Yay, Sid!
*According to Bulbapedia, he's fifteen as of debut. I opt to believe he was (and still is) at least sixteen. Preferably seventeen. Because all that flirting Brock does? If he's that young, it would make me sad instead of making me lolz. (It actually still does sometimes.)
**Yes, time is going by, but they don't age. I read somewhere this is the creator of the series's take on things, but even if that's not true, it's true in my mind.
***Ironically, King Julien is my probably my favorite of the entire franchise (Skipper gives him some good competition), and I really do not like Sacha Baron Cohen. I just... Don't. Can't. I'm sorry. He's brilliantly funny as Julien, because apparently he came up with most of the lines and basically the character's whole personality, and he did a grand job with that voice, but I cannot stand the man. Needless to say, I was giddy to learn Danny Jacobs took over the voice in Penguins. I think Jacobs does an equally grand job. I really do. I mean, I didn't notice it wasn't Sacha for a while. Now I can easily tell the difference, but that's okay with me.
- Mood: all of them!
Here's what I've been playing around with lately...
Penguins
-The zoo moves a new otter - a male otter - into Marlene's habitat. The idea is for them to be a couple, but Marlene so doesn't see that happening. Not Marlene/OC, or maybe one-sided at most.
-It took Skipper a while to realize that Private wasn't just a little kid anymore. Nobody likes to see their baby brother grow up. Of course, he doesn't bother explaining that to Private. Fighting and a touch of drama ensue. The angsty-iest I'll ever get for this fandom, and not too angsty. Also, annoyed!Kowalski.
Pokemon
-Lots of kinda-angsty Meowth/Rocket-centric drabbles.
-Silly, AU/in the near future Shamrockshipping fun: Movie!Shaymin is hanging out with the Rockets, because she's bored. She allows Jessie to enter her in a contest. Meowth helps her get accesorized. (Half anime-style contests, half game-style.)
Gen. Disney/Darkwing Duck
-Julius is the forgotten child of Disney - sure, they've not done anything with Oswald, but they did bother getting the rights to him back. They've had Julius for years, and not touched the poor dear. (http://www.disneyshorts.org/characters/a
-Negaduck has a plan - He and the rest of the Fearsome Five are going to rob Scrooge McDuck. My take on an idea that has been tried a dozen of times. Technically Megavolt/Quackerjack and I'm thinking Darkwing/Launchpad, but the romance is so not focus. The bit I have is a few months old, so I'm not sure how work on this will go, if it goes at all.
Over the Hedge (comic strip)
-Verne's feelings for RJ are revealed, and much to the turtle's surprise, RJ is okay - more than okay - with it. But RJ turns out - not to the turtle's surprise - to be a fairly awful boyfriend. Not really angsty, just annoyed!Verne, obnoxious!RJ, and some fluff.
- Mood: creative
I don't really like Digimon. I watched the first season when I was little. I was watching the second and third seasons simultaneously a few years ago, but once Impmon (loved that little bugger) digivolved, when pyscho, and killed the little girl's digimon, I was done.
Some of the critters designs are interesting, but a lot of them also scare me, so while sometimes I do like to look into the fandom a bit, it's never something I'd be involved in. All I've really retained is a great deal of fondness for DemiDevimon, Hawkmon, and Impmon. (Never touched season four or five. Bah!)
I really liked DemiDevimon, mostly because he was evil but kinda abused, and that's the character I tend to like.
And I had this little plastic figure that lived on my dresser with some other toys. Now, I always carry toys around with me - I need something to keep my hands busy ALWAYS - but usually I bring Kif or C3PO or something else that's, y'know, bigger.
Today, I decided to carry DemiDevimon around in my pocket, and promptly lost him.
Damn it.
- Mood:
sulky
So, one thing I love about Pokemon is that I can have so many crackshippings. I'm not sure why, but in Pokemon, it does not feel as weird to pair characters up in weird ways, (within reason - Pokemon/human is a no for me) and to play around with different pairings even if they contradict my other pairings.
So, like, even though I love KrazyShipping (and NyaNyaShipping!), and even though I would never want it to be canon, I still like the ideo of Team Rocket's Meowth/Giratina and the Sky Warrior Shaymin. I'm not sure why, or anything, I just like the idea of him having to deal with this snobby primadona, like anoher Jessie but possibly worse. (Albiet less violent.)
I assumed I was the only one, though. But Meowth/Shamyin has been at least considered, because it is listed on the big shipping lists as ShamrockShipping. (Granted, I'm not sure it's meant to soley refer to TR's Meowth and GatSW Shayming, but still!). It was a weird reminder that in the Pokemon-fandom, my 'strange pairings' aren't so strange. Heck, they're tame. (ScaryShipping is Meowth/Jessie. Scary, indeed. For so many reasons, the Pokemon/human thing not being as bad as how incredibly dysfunctional that would be.)
But anyway, I love shipping names, and I ended up coming up with my some for some of my non-Poke OTPs. (Actually, okay, one or two of these I stole from Pokemonshipping names. But that's okay.) They're not hugely creative or wonderful. But they're kinda fun.
AgrabahShipping - Aladdin and Jasmine
ThiefShipping - Iago and Abu
DisguiseShipping, WigShipping, StrandedShipping, or - of course - GaylienShipping - Jumba and Pleakley
LuauShipping LawnmowerShipping - David and Nani
HomeShipping or MemoryShipping - Dory and Marlin
GrammarShipping - Mulan and Shang
HalloweenShipping - Jack and Sally
HelloShipping or TitanicShipping or Fonfon RuShipping or SmizmarShipping - Kif and Amy
HolophonerShipping - Fry and Leela
AwkwardShipping - Omi and Jack Spicer
EarthandSkyShipping - Gertrude McFuzz and Hortno the Elephant
HeroWorshipping - Darkwing and Launchpad
(I had one I really liked for Quacks and Megs, but I cannot at all remember it!! Ugh! Given time, perhaps...)
DaisyShipping - Morgana and Bushroot
- Mood: happy
Ugh...
I think I'm getting sick.
Just in time for spring.
Wonderful.
Mutual friends aren't friends with each other now, a situation where I can't help but totally side with one friend, but I still kind of feel bad.
I want to go get the Secret Key for Pokemon Platinum, but my mother has other plans for me.
Which I don't want to do.
At all.
And this wonderful boy I know and probably am interesting in...
Keeps flirting with my best friend.
Who hates it.
Of course, relatively speaking, that's nothing, but a little self-indulgent moaning and groaning and 'woe is me!' never hurt anyone, right?
(On the plus side, I got to watch basically all of the Penguins of Madagascar marathon, which was awesome, and the new episode was pretty much win, so...)
Edit: Watching Pokemon. Actually, this is an episode I really wanted to see, because it's one of those "Pokemon get seperated from trainers" episodes, but, I just realized that Meowth looks realy different. I think he's being drawn a lot thinner now, which makes a hell of a lot of sense, since he's always starving, but still... It looks really, really weird.
Okay, this episode kind of totally is bizarre and awful. I'm dissapointed. (I think Pachirisu and Mime Jr. throw off the Pikachu and Meowth dynamic I love so much. But then again, Mime Jr. is so SO freakin' cute I can only be so annoyed...)
- Mood: aggravated
So. The past few weeks. I was MIA. Yeah. Here's what happened: Well, first there was the production of Hello, Dolly, and once that was over I had a lot of work to make up from where I'd fallen behind. But then finally, blessedly, I had time off and no work and...
A broken computer.
Well, my home computer was broken, and I didn't have any other computers I could spend an ample amount of time on, so I basically was internet-less for a while. Ironically, now, I'm on a different computer, but my home computer is working, so yeah. So I'm very sorry for going AWOL yet again, and I'll be catching up on reviews over the next few days. (Sorry about that, Erica. Oh, also, remember the Megavolt-and-Quackerjack themed gingerbread house I mentioned waaaay back? Well, I finally uploaded those. So I can have those here soon.).
Um, but in my computer-less time, I ended up watching a lot of movies. A friend of mine has been trying to get me to see Newsies for years, which I was all for, but I don't really see her much. But, anyway, I finally saw that, and I adored it. (And little Max Casella! So cute!) And I took my baby brother and some of his friends to see The Hannah Montana Movie, which could have been worse but, like... I had no expectations, so... Nothing to live up to. I also saw Race to Witch Mountain with my brother, which I found boring. It was a lot of car chases and explosions, so yeah. Actually, when I thought about it, the movie sent some really interesting (mixed) messages, but... I won't go into that now.
I'm going to stop myself for a sec here, as the rest is basically a really rambly way of me saying there will likely be mentions of Madagascar's Penguins about this journal in the future. Fair warning. (There may also be art, but probably no fic.). So, yeah, I don't want anyone reading all that if they don't want to. Because I tend to go on.
But the surprising highlight of my film fest was the second Madagascar. Now, I'm a sequel skeptic. And, I was not all that crazy about the first Madagascar. Like with Shrek, I found it funny and kinda sweet at points, but it was never a movie that, you know, stuck with me. At all. And I really can't stand 'I Like to Move It'. Oy...
Anyway, I obviously wasn't expecting to like Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa... But I really, really did. The four main character seemed a lot more appealing there - I'm quite fond of Melman, being a bit of a hypochondriac myself - and I loved the Penguins and the lemurs. (Actually, that's not entirely true. I find Mort insanely annoying. He is not 'cute' to me in the slightest.) I'd seen The Penguins of Madagascar once before, and I'd enjoyed it. Actually, that's why I decided to see the second movie. But after liking the movie so much, I decided to actually, you know, try to watch it, as opposed to "Oh, look, something to watch". And I really, really like it! I mean... It doesn't strike me as very clever or anything - although it is refreshingly absurd very often - I just... I like it. I dunno, it's fun.
Also, there's something kind of neat about having - for the first time in forever - a fandom where I don't ship anything. (Because... Yeah.)
- Mood: chipper
I made the big mistake of watching Wizards of Waverly Place, the would-be-big-but-I'm-used-to-it-by-now mistake of watching Hannah Montanna, and the surprisingly non-mistake of watching Sonny With a Chance today. I mostly yelled at the tv, but there were a few moments I felt it was worth it.
Well, not with Wizards. After going through he world's least realistic auditions ever, Selena and Justin - I cannot remember Selena's character name, nor Justin's real one - put on a kind of nonsensical version of Peter Pan (Isn't Tink supposed to be played by flashlight, not a girl?). And then a real (and really annoying) fairy got involved. As usual, Selena made me even angry than Miley usually does. Ugh, such a brat! Why do little girls want to be like her?
Hannah Montanna was the usual 'me-yelling-at-the-tv-'till-I-was-almost-h
And I think Sonny With a Chance is kind of awful, in terms of plot and most of the acting. (Although I find Sonny incredibly unattractive, which... Would be awesome if they, like, let her be a not-gorgeous girl. But no, she must be pretty! (according to the show.) It's a rule, I guess... Also, her 'funny' faces, like the cross-eyed flower-smelling-bee-thing, are so obnoxious.) But I really liked some of the little things that showed up in there. Like the prop-room-adding-a-prop-afteryour-first-s
Ooh, and I just turned on Nick, and there are Lemurs and Penguins and Monkeys, oh my! (I didn't even like Madagascar all that much, but it's still nice to see them.)
- Mood: annoyed
Still a busy little bee, still not quite ready to catch up with my internet social life in full.
But I decided to watch the move version of Hello, Dolly!, and it is still wonderful, even after seeing the stage version! Like, Barbara Streisand is perfect for Dolly. And Michael Crawford has a lot of similar mannerisms to the Cornelius in the production I'm working on, actually, I think. It's weird.
I love the idea of the adorable, sweet, and genuine romances between Cornelius and Irene and Barnaby and Minnie being contained in this crazy, not-all-that-romantic-at-all love story between Dolly and Horace. Wonderful.
So yeah, for those of you have been wondering we're I've been, both in the literal sense and the mental sense, there ya go. Most every day I get to make the trip from the real world to the world of the stage, to Yonker and New York City, to Harmonia Gardens and Ms. Malloy's Hat Shop.
What a wonderful world.
- Mood: sentimental
So, I've come to a decision on the whole 'Pleakley's internal gender' thing. A kind of off-beat decision, but a decision nonetheless.
There are a two reasons I don't think Pleakley is entirely a female. In fact, I'd say he primarily identifies as male. First, in Hunkahunka, there's the quote I used to title this entry. I just feel like, if Pleakley's guard had been let down to the point where he almost (kind of) ruined his Earth disguise - and potentially endangered his precious mosquitoes! - he would have reffered to himself as the gender he identifies with. (And I do think that Pleakley is aware, at least down in his subconcious, of his genderqueer-ness by now.). More importantly is the fact that he wears a dress when not in pulbic, but does not always bother with the wig and make-up. And even when in public, he... Well, Lilo has a very flat-chested Auntie. My point is, Pleakley isn't nessacarily fully trying to pass as female, you know?
However, I do not think Pleakley entirely identifies as male, either. I just... Don't. I think he mostly identifies as male, to the point where he is fine being called a 'he' and being physically male, but I do think a part of him is female, inside. He is a kinda sorta both, but mostly he's a guy.
Essentially, he's just Pleakley. And that's all that really matters.
Now, on an entirely unrelated note, the production of Hello, Dolly! I've been working on is up and running and wonderful. I lovelovelove the cast so much, they're wonderful, and the other crew folks are (mostly ;D) the sweetiest fellows. But it is our Minnie Fey (Fay?), that I find the most precious. She is this peppy little blue-eyed thing, with curly blonde hair and who is wonderfully talented. Yeah, basically I love the theatre.
Ooh, and while I love the on-stage chemistry of Minnie and Barnaby, and Cornelius and Irene, our Cornelius does kind of play up the gay in his character, so there might be Cornelius/Barnaby fic. I am so awful, I know.
- Mood: happy
First off, I am inolved with a musical production right now, on the costuming end of things. I've been very, very busy with that, and that's what mainly has been taking up my time.
Now, on a far less serious note, I got the special edition Lilo & Stitch DVD - seriously, the happiest day of my life, fandom-wise - and I really liked re-watching the movie and seeing all the behind-the-scenes stuff but it lead to me completely rethinking how I see Jumba, as a character. When all is said and done, I don't think any change was particularly huge, but it does oppose what the fandom widely accepts, which is nidge uncomfortable to me. And now I've been thinking about Pleakley, and the thing keeps coming up to bother me... While Pleakley is quite clearly gay, he could easily be seen as being transgendered. So now it's been driving me crazy - Do I think of Pleakley as a woman? I think, to be completely honest with myself, I might have to say yes, but I'm so used to just thinking of him as a gay man. And then there's the fact that I still use male pronouns to refer to him. I mean physically, he she ze* is clearly male (ze'scalled a 'he', has a male - albiet high-pitched - voice, and then there's the very prominent adam's apple), but psychologically... I'm just not sure. Ugh, I'm so confused...
(I actually talked to my mother about this. :P She's awesome. She said if she really thought about it, she'd call Pleakley a woman, yes, but can't he just be Pleakley?)
Update: So I talked to more people about this. :D I'm a very interesting friend/relative to have, I imagine. My best friend says woman, my father says both - and at the moment, I'm prone to agree wtih him - and my other best friend seems to be leaning towards male. So! You two! And anyone else who might read this! Opinions?
Grr, I cannot make the stupid poll work. My apologies if there is semi-nonsensical blabble at the end of this entry....
- Mood:
confused
