It is too freakin' hot.

You Are Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

You are kind, popular, and generous. You tend to be successful at anything you try. A social butterfly, you are great at entertaining a crowd. You are most compatible with strawberry ice cream.

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

I'm a social butterfly? FTW? Well, at least it's not out-and-out chocolate ice cream, because THAT: I hate. Okay, I dislike it. :P Chocolate is only good when it's in hot cocoa, milk chocolate candy bars, or rich fudge brownies.

Speaking of cold treats, I had one of those tasty Whole Fruit strawberry popsicle treats today. It was only 99 cents, and it had chunks of whole strawberry in it! Pretty tasty. Now I'm trying to wolf down a lunch special of my favorite Chinese food: Sweet and Sour Chicken with steamed rice, mandarin orange slices, and a can of Coke. :D Ah, this is nice.

You Belong in San Francisco

You crave an eclectic, urban environment. You're half California, half NYC. You're open minded, tolerant, and secretly think you're the best. People may dismiss you as a hippie, but you're also progressive, interesting, and rich!

Where Does Your Inner Californian Belong?

HAHAHAHAHA. This is funny. (If you need to ask why, you don't know me well enough.)

You Are Cyclops

Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause. You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them. Power: force beams from your eyes

Which of the X-Men Are You?

Great. So this means I won't even never mind, I don't want to spoil you!!!!

You Are 28% Cynical

Generally you give people the benefit of the doubt. But there are exceptions. You buy into many of the things that mainstream society believes, but you're not anybody's fool.

How Cynical Are You?

Yeah, I suppose this is about right.

Anyway, moving away from the memes and such, I re-read "Something to Somebody" (what can I say, I'm a masochist), and I've decided that while I love the plot, I hate how I wrote it. It's dumb. And I'm so freakin' uninspired for WDKY24 (other chapters, sure. CO7 or ED? FINE! But I can't write the last 3 critical scenes of WDKY24! Darn it, I need to have a brainstorm session with a beta or something. Where has everyone gone? ;_; I wanna chat, guys!) that I may just do what I did when I *started* those other fics -work on other things until I get inspired. It's sad that WDKY24 is already 5+ months in the making and I haven't finished it, but... alas, such is the way of epic WIPs.

Fandom is stupid, why am I part of it?

ceruleansan, I apologize in advance for this. I really liked your other recs, and I appreciate you introducing me to FMA, explaining things to me, and reccing fics to me. But this one fic really pissed me off, and I have to rant about it. And the reviewers. But I'm excluding you, because you are my friend, and you don't know how I react to these kinds of things. So please don't take this as an attack on you (especially when I mention the reviewers.)

You know how I normally only read fics if they're recced to me by a friend or some such? Well, ceruleansan was reccing me some "good" FMA EdWinry fics today, and I was very excited. Many of them were quite good -cute or fluffy or whatnot,  and I liked them. I wanted to review, but FFnet wouldn't let me. Well, then I started on this fic called "Falling Away from me" and the content of the fic had me BOILING.

Not like "yum, hot cocoa or green tea" boiling either. MAD BOILING. FUCKING HOT BOILING.

I told Ceru from the beginning, when she described the fic as a "rapefic" that I might not be into it, but I trusted her previous recs, so I read it. By Chapter 5, I wanted to strangle the author. I never write flames (flames defined as a "baseless personal attack on the author, unrelated to the fic" in my book, which this wasn't), but I was certainly tempted to. I left a long, angry review, because this "fic" deserved it. The author (only 15, but writing a Mature fic involving rape AND self-mutilation) is a complete idiot.

I don't know who to blame: the senseless author, her idiot teachers for not educating her, her idiot parents for not educating her, or someone else. Maybe the idiot reviewers for pumping her with praise she doesn't deserve. Do these people not know anything about real women, psychology, human biology? I mean forgetting "getting a clue," these people need a life!

( Here's what I said. )

I admit, I was pretty harsh. And I was even wrong with the morning sickness thing -I've just found out that it can start as early as six weeks, but some women don't go through it until the 7th, 9th, 14th... some don't EVER have morning sickness (I hope I'm one of them, whenever I end up having kids). But ONE DAY? Come on. Let's not be idiotic here.

Am I in the wrong here, for sort of knowing from the start that this might not be something I wouldn't like, but I read it anyway? I didn't read it to get pissed off, and the first four chapters were halfway decent, spelling and grammar aside. And I'll keep reading it (masochist!) just to see if it gets better or not. I'm glad I'm not the only reviewer that's pointed out the airheadedness of the fic author, but... seriously, if she gets her panties in a twist and decides to quit writing, I won't shed a tear or care if the fangirl squad comes after her.

222 reviews, and for what? Character-butchering, clichés, and sheer predictability. Some suspense, and a decent style of writing, but... a decent plot idea (because rape can be done well, just not as a "device" for getting Ed and Winry together) gone horribly wrong.

Honestly. People should be made to give their exact birth date when they sign up for FFnet, and NOT be allowed to post or even read Mature-rated fics if they're underage. They just DO NOT KNOW. Maybe some do, through real-life experiences, but I doubt they can/will talk about it in a coherent, mature way. And I admit, many of my friends on my FL write mature stuff, or have read mature stuff without complaint, but...

Ugh. There's a reason we have ratings and restriction. It's not that BAM! You turn 17 or 18 and all of a sudden you KNOW about rape and violence, gore and sex, cum and other such things... but your mind has developed more to a point where it isn't just stuff you blush and giggle about. You realize how SERIOUS stuff like rape can be. Maybe by then your high school teachers have crammed it into your head that RESEARCH is important, PLAGIARIZING IS BAD, and idiots should not breed!

And fuck, this is fanfiction. I feel stupid for taking it so seriously. "It's fandom, it's fanfiction, I wrote it for me, it's just for fun!" Yeah, fucktard, take your sick immature fantasies OFFLINE plzkthx, because when you put it online, you're ASKING for people to tear it apart. And I feel like tearing this apart, because it upsets me.