A few things

-- Cracked did the Terminator timeline. They're bigger men than I. (That wouldn't take much. Warwick Davis is a bigger man than I.)

-- seperis has thoughts on STXI. I approve and wish to subscribe to her newsletter.

-- Fox non-apologizes for Nigel's SYTYCD remarks the other day. As in, "I'm sorry you were offended," not, "I'm sorry for what was said." Classy. And seriously, does he always say that shit to gay dancers, or is it just me? Granted, one of the dancers from the other day wasn't gay, but he was dancing with another man, which Nigel would leap on in a heartbeat.

-- Apparently there's a Jon and Kate Plus 8 marathon today. ... okay.

-- I'm watching an early episode of Law and Order in which James Earl Jones is playing the defense attorney. This is surreal.

-- I'm going to finish chapter 17 of Heroine Addiction and then drag my sorry ass up to my parents' house. I am so not in the mood to deal with family drama today, I swear to god.

-- If somebody wins the Powerball tonight, please pay off my bills and buy me a bulldog puppy.

Because the Uhura bashing gets to me ...

... now she's a Mary Sue? As ficangel pointed out, anybody who can say that when Uhura's standing on the same bridge with James fucking Kirk has BALLS. Big ones. Please have those looked at by a medical professional.

There's a comment that hits home with something that hasn't just struck me in STXI fandom, God knows: I can't speak to Uhura specifically, having not seen the movie, but I just roll my eyes and tune out completely whenever I see the phrase "Mary Sue" because at this point it's applied to any female character under the age of seventy who can make it home in a rainstorm without drowning.

The term "Mary Sue" loses all power the way fandom throws it around anymore. As is pointed out in that post, if the cries of fandom were any indication, the ratio of Mary Sues to Marty Sues is staggeringly unbalanced. But like I said, that's if you listen to fandom.

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The story goes that last night when my parents went out to dinner with my grandparents, my dad yelled at my grandma on behalf of me and my brother. My dad NEVER yells at my grandmother. He gets a cookie. :D

*sobs*

I'm watching Whale Rider with my parents and I'm reminded why I don't watch it -- because this scene makes me sob like an infant.

Kickass chicks sometimes come in tiny packages. :D

EDIT: Huh. My parents just dropped everything to watch the end of this movie. That's kinda amazing. :)

I'm avoiding people.

Heroine Addiction:

33554 / 100000

I'm not really completely happy with the details of how I finished off chapter 17, but ... eh, it's nothing I can't tweak relatively quickly in the editing process, I can live with it. Now I think I'm going to skip out on the rest of the night and head down to the cafe to see if I can start chapter eighteen.