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Really, I think I'm just ranting as an excuse to use this icon (♥ Karkat)

( Finished Dragon Age 2 tonight. Lots and lots of end game spoilers! )

So, in the end, something like 5/10? A really slow start, some odd corners cut, and a fairly unconnected plot really do drag it down.

Photobucket dropped their account size limit from 1GB to 500MB. Now where am I going to store all my animated gifs of Mr. T punching a shark?

Actually, going through my account to try to delete the 33MB I need to be able to upload new stuff is really difficult. What will I do without all these hilarious things? I mean, sometimes I'll just open up this and smile for a few seconds before closing it out of boredom.

I guess I could cull some of my collection of Star Trek gifs, but... most of them make me laugh too.

I suppose while I'm still thinking about Star Trek I might as well finish up my Season 1 various thoughts.

( Various thoughts about episodes 21-29 (yet another excuse to post gifs) )

Oh, and by the way, in case you were wondering about the phaser vs. tricorder thing? I ended up ordering a phaser and a communicator, but the communicator arrived broken, so the company I ordered from sent a replacement communicator along with another phaser. So now I have two phasers and a communicator! Let me tell you, dual wielding phasers is actually pretty awesome.

So I've been watching the entire Star Trek: The Original Series run, with the occasional episode of some other series in between, at which I shake my head and lament that although Q is, in fact, hilariously awesome, he is not quite enough to make me love the other series as much as the original.

Once again, if you're in the U.S. you can watch all the episodes for free.

I did get to see the new Star Trek movie again, and I've pretty much figured out why certain things bothered me about the movie and have accepted that they are just alternate universe and I should just relax! Movie!Spock != Original!Spock, and while there's no good reason why that should be so, I will accept that and move on.

( Various thoughts about episodes 1 - 10 (mostly an excuse to post gifs) )

Finally saw Star Trek today!

( Thoughts (spoilers) )

So, overall? GOOD: Characters (casting and personality), excitement. BAD: Plot, science, promotion logic. I really liked it! I didn't love it more than the old TV series. But I didn't hate it like I was worried I would.

I got my Coraline shoes... uh, a couple of weeks ago now. Um.



They're pretty cute! I like the gratuitous stitching, and the big buttons are nice. They're even the right size! Which was shocking, actually, because the Coraline website asked you to put your shoe size in men's size, and I had little/no idea what my shoe size is in men's.

But I'll never wear them, largely because the soles are glow-in-the-dark and I don't want to ruin that.

Re: Firefly

Episodes 2-5 remain pretty awesome! I'm starting to feel a little depressed, though, since that means I'm already more than a third through the series. I-I really can't see why they would have canceled this show? It's really enjoyable, much better than anything I've watched on TV lately.

If any of you guys want to watch it (and you're in the US, I guess), the whole series is up on Hulu.

If I ever write a vampire story:

1) It will contain absolutely no romance between an ancient, 100+ year old vampire and a teenage girl (because I have not found one story where I don't find that creepy. And no, making her the reincarnation of his previous love does not make it any less creepy. Nor does "freezing" the vampire. It's creepy).

2) The vampires will be weak to friggin' everything. Garlic. Stakes. Holy water. Sunlight. Scattered rice. Running water. EVERYTHING. If humans can't crush vampires when they show their pasty undead heads, I begin to wonder why vampires haven't just enslaved the human race yet.

3) They'll be very powerful physically, though. Maybe have some sort of hypnotism power, I'm not sure yet. They'll be totally weak if you're prepared. But if not... odds are good the vampire's getting dinner tonight.

4) They will not be able to turn into bats, wolves, or mist.

5) There will be no secret vampire overlord council. I just don't like that particular plot device. I like the idea of lone wolf vampires.

6) Vampires won't be able to cheat and drink animal blood. I'm fine with them being able to go without blood for long periods of time, though.

7) There will be no whining about souls.

8) Or children.

9) Or "equal rights."

9) They will not have any weird powers I decided to give them on a whim because I didn't do much research about vampires.

10) If at all possible, there will be a reference to Chinese hopping vampires ♥

I want to try doing a daily sketch again.

Since I don't want to spam anyone's friends-lists, though, I've created a community for it - brazen_art. In all likelihood I'll end up abandoning it a week from now. Still, it's always possible I might stick with it.

I'm actually seriously considering deleting all the stuff from my deviantArt account. There are too many creepy people on dA. Plus I've had the account since 2002! While I haven't really improved as much as I'd like in the last 6 years, my old stuff is still mildly embarrassing. I find it difficult to delete things, though? I wish there was some sort of "Make Private" option. That way I could keep all the idiotic comments, but without having to worry about getting more.

EDIT: It's snowing AGAIN. I don't like driving in the snow. I skipped class last week, but I don't think I can do that again. ARGH. ARGH ARGH ARGH. Why can't the snow come at a convenient time for once?

I voted today.

In all honesty, the only thing I'm really happy about was being able to vote against Amendment 48. Most everything else was just annoying.

I now have four Tear One Coin figures. D-does anyone want one?

On the plus side, I also got Anise and Luke this time, so I'm done collecting them now! (unless I find a long-haired Luke for a decent price)

If they come out with a Vesperia One Coin set, I'm just ordering a set of them from somewhere. None of this blind-box stuff.