Have I mentioned lately how much I HATE my Mom?

I have come to the conclusion in regards to the people I hate the most in the world, and deserve to be in the lowest, most torturous form of all the circles of Hell.

POSERS. Wannabes, conformists, copycats. Unoriginal SAUCEPANS.

Grr.

I think my mom's one of them too. But I hate her for different reasons. After a chat session with the RPers yesterday, I was pretty tired and achy, and wanted to take a nap-- but nope, Mom's blasting music and jumping and crap, and even though I told her I wanted to take a nap, even though I asked *once* if she could please (and I did say please) turn the music down, when she didn't and I tried to ask a second time, she just gave me this blank look and was like "Whut?" So I said "Forget it, I'll just sleep on the couch." And a GOOD mother would have been like "Oh no, if the music's too loud, I'll turn it down or wear my headphones." You know, she has those cordless headphones that let her listen to whatever's playing within a 3 yard radius or something. I don't know WHY she doesn't use them. Lazy ass.

But nope, she keeps jammin'. I finally fall asleep on the not-entirely-comfortable living room couch. Sometimes I'm a light sleeper, and the slightest little noise will freak me out (speaking of freaky noises, yesterday in the shower I kept hearing things POP. Like bottles popping. o_O Or exploding?) and I won't be able to sleep. But yesterday, once asleep, I slept LIKE A LOG. I only woke up twice and even then, I fell back asleep pretty fast-- just after 3:00am, and then again, around 6:00. I finally decided to STAY awake at 8:00am, and I got to watching Saturday cartoons.

o_O The FOX BOX scares me. Shaman King DUB scares me. The Lenny kid? Bakura. Totally Bakura. And the announcer for the shows? Kaiba. That scared me. I'm scarred for life. And this whole WINX club *looks* cool, but you just know they're giving witches a bad name, as usual. Blech. Thank goodness for cool books. :P Oh right, but NO ONE READS ANYMORE! Har har.

Other irritations...
* Still have my room to clean-- and my PG18 cover to find. Where the heck could it have gone after I scanned it!? GRR! Much stuff to burn once Eva comes back and we stage a party/bonfire. And we have to. It's the start of summer, the end of a school semester, and the start of a NEW LIFE for me! Yay, freedom from MOMINATOR! I'm going to burn the old uniform too. Why the hell should I give it back to those assholes?

* Tried playing more FFX2 yesterday, and twice got beaten by the Level 60 boss. So I decided to Level up by starting over from Cloister 0. Not so bad of an idea. I made it to Cloister 6 or so before I found an Elder Drake. Being at Level 82, while IT was only at level 56 or so, I decided to take it on. Sure, the battle lasted a bit longer, but it still KICKED MY SORRY ASS! I don't know how to beat these things! Both the LVL 60 boss *and* the Elder Drake have no weaknesses to particular elements, and fight strong and fast. How the heck do I beat them!?!?!? ARGH! I considered switching to FFX (since it would make sense, ya? And there's all these scenes I haven't ... well, seen yet!), but I remembered I was stuck fighting Evrae. o_O And I don't know how to defeat THAT either. At least leveling up and learning stuff is easier in FFX2, where characters aren't stuck being one thing (Fighter, Mage, Long Distance, etc).

* Decided to go drop off some of the beer bottles that Mom and Gary have stockpiled here. I filled up the entire cart with 'em, and in trying to get downstairs, broke two. Oh joy. Well, one bottle broke and caused a disaster, and another one fell all the way down the stairs, rolled down the hill and into the gutter, and stayed intact. By the time I had the mess all cleaned up and I left, I picked up the gutter bottle only to have ANOTHER bottle fall out and break its bottom. I said "screw it" and tossed the pieces into the street. :P And for the record, redeeming doesn't give you much. I got sticky, beer-smelling hands, and a measly $3.12.

* I tried working on the Rose Chronicles layout, but apparently the whole concept of having images instead of scrollbars is a lot more complicated than it sounds. So I asked Fin for help, and I got the coding, but for some bizarre reason, it really screwed up my layout. Fin told me that using layers rather than iFrames allows the coding to work better, but the layers totally f*d my design up, and now I don't know what to do. Anyone that knows layers or Java, your help would be much obliged!

* Damn. Got an evil reply ready for Seto's newest post (and damn, it was a good post! Go Mamono!), but I need Shizuka. And she's back and all, so... *grin* Hey! IM me when you get a chance! We're plotting evil! :DDD Ooh, and evil plan with Yugi, too! ^_______^ Man, I'm full of good ideas today.

SO WHY AM I SO COLD!??? BRRRR....

I need a title.

Damn. This was funny.


100% Seto's Sera: you're just like me! That's
pretty scary. Seto Kaiba is the man for you,
nobody else will do. When Tea yelled at Seto
for being mean, you got pissed. When Pegasus
stole Seto's soul, you screamed and cried. When
Seto declared Battle City officially open, you
cackled right along with him. He is Seto and
you are Sera. You two should be joined at the
hip!


Are you the match made for Seto Kaiba? 20 questions long
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Anzu HAS to take this quiz. Come hell or high water. I will find a way.

But what does "Sera" mean?

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People have the stupidest reasons for hating either Seto (rare) or Anzu (unfortunately common). I've decided that for my next BEA update (and I have to check and see why no one's joining) I will list reasons why it's stupid to bash either of them. Here are a few I have thus far:

Anzu/fashion sense - Has it ever occurred to you that a) Yu-Gi-Oh was written by a Japanese guy? He probably doesn't have the same fashion sense as YOU, whoever YOU are, oh queen of all things Prada. And b) Yu-Gi-Oh was initially written in 1996. Time doesn't pass so fast in the anime world as it does in the real world, so likely some clothes that were worn in YGO actually MIGHT have been in-style when the series came out in 1996. Another thing-- c) in anime, it's a given that characters that look and dress like everyone else in the real world are BOOOORING. EVERY SINGLE FANDOM HAS THIS. There are always characters with exotic hair colors (Bakura, Marik) or styles (Yugi, Marik, Odion) or outfits (Kaiba). So what if purple and gray don't match according to YOUR book? Better than being plain old black and white!

Anzu/friendship speeches - If anyone tries to use this as an "excuse" then I swear I will shove a 2 x 4 down their throat. Yugi and Joey (hell, even in the Japanese version, with Yuugi and Jounouchi!) both make friendship speeches just as much, if not MORE often than Téa/Anzu. Another thing to consider is that in the dub, much of the romantic stuff or serious stuff is "toned down" for kids *cough*immatureviewers*cough*. So yeah, where ANZU would usually be saying stuff about kicking Kaiba's pompous ass, Téa would be telling Yugi to believe in the cards. Things change from the original to the dub. Get over it. This is NOT an excuse.

Anzu&Seto/voices - Regardless of whether it's the anime or the manga, the voice does NOT make the character. Read the manga if their VA damages you so badly. And plenty of people complain about Seto's Japanese VA just as much as his (or Yugi's, or Dark Marik's) dub voice. When I first heard Dark Marik's dub voice, I burst out laughing. Anyone that has seen the original series will know why. But you know what? There ARE such things as closed captions/subtitles and the MUTE button. USE them. Or hell, do a FANDUB! Some people might appreciate that. It's been done for series like Sailormoon, where the dub acting was ATROCIOUS! Oh, and for those that hate the Japanese seiyuus, it's a matter of preference. But all the YGO cast characters --at least Seto and Anzu-- are also singers. And they do a damn good job at what they do and manage to say in character, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for some of the DUB voices.

Seto/attitude - Frankly, I think Kaiba's attitude is part of his charm. :> Yes, he's a pompous, egotistical ass, but he's far from the only example of such behavior on this planet, let alone in anime (or the YGO fandom). Every person has, at one time, met someone whose head was so inflated you thought it would detach itself and float away. Well, that person is Kaiba. He's rich, he's intelligent, he's an excellent duelist-- but he has his flaws. He's a sore loser. He's a lonely guy. He needs people, but he won't admit it. So yeah, his attitude needs tweaking, but that's what the show is about-- people finding out who they really are, underneath their exteriors. Making friends, making enemies. *SHOCK* What, you thought it was just about dueling? Loser.

Hmm... I'm sure I can think of a few more if you give me time. But my back is killing me, and I want to work on WDKY10. ;_; And I wish I had a tablet so I could fix up my fanart!

Grrrr...

I CAN'T FIND IT.

I know I typed out a planner or an ideas page for "Prophecy Girl" somewhere-- I remember staring at the monitor and looking at my plan for the Chapter titles and going "Hey look, there's a pattern to the number of words in the chapter titles!" And I thought that was cool.

But I couldn't find it in any of the usual folders, and now I'm using the slow-as-hell Search feature to see if it can find the file. But there's no luck.

I could have written it out, but I *so* remember typing it! And even if I did write it out, why wouldn't it be in my Pucca or London books, where the original idea was conceived? >_< !! Maybe I put it here in my LJ? But my back hurts and I want to nap... I suppose I'll sift through my old entries later.

WHERE COULD IT BE!?!?!?