not looking for God, only for myself

1. Well, onemanga.com is closing down. Which is fine with me, because I rarely ever read manga series anymore and when I do, it's because I've purchased the books from Borders. Still, it's a little sad to see it go since it was a great source for manga series that hadn't been licensed in America yet. Now I haven no idea how I'm going to read series like NANA if the artist ever picked it up again.

2. Thanks to gemkazoni, I watched A Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I didn't expect to like it as much as I do, but it really was a good film! (I may or may not have tear bended twice.) So um. If anyone hasn't seen it yet, you should really check it out!

3. Avatar: The Legend of Korra! I'm so excited; I'm glad that the critical mess that is the godawful The Last Airbender doesn't seem to be effecting the progress of this show. And the new Avatar is a lady! (My younger sister was surprisingly excited about that. The first thing she wanted to know is if the new Avatar was going to be a girl. SO PROUD OF HER.)

Although I heard that the fandom is already being incredibly immature about the fact that Aang's son is going to appear in the series, and the strong possibility that he's also the son of Katara? To be honest, I'm so over the canon vs. fanon battle that I really don't care about either ships anymore. Both of them aren't worth the effort, in my opinion; I care but I don't care that much. I just want to put that aside, move onto the new show and welcome it as it is.

4. I'll work on meme prompts either tonight or tomorrow. I'm just so ... blah lately. I haven't been able to crawl out of my insomniac habits yet. :\ Real life is incredibly dull, too.

Um. I actually signed up for schmoop_bingo. I'm not sure if I'll complete this table, but it could serve as motivation to actually get some writing done.

( My table, plus some thoughts... )

I'm debating on getting a table for that Hurt/Comfort challenge at hc_bingo; thankfully you can request to leave off abuse and sexual trauma as prompts, because I'm um, really not comfortable working with any of those within the genre at all. That and I'm curious as to which prompts I'd get. (I probably won't sign up for them, though. Some of the prompts are just...a little too much.)

I won't even bother with kink_bingo because I'm such a bashful person over smut. I can read it but writing it is a completely different field for me. That and most of the prompts are just too silly to even comprehend why anyone would find some of these things kinky.

Currently I'm watching The Shining. It's a little disturbing, but not really creepy, because the weird, psychotic music playing in every scene ruins the build-up. THANKS FOR RUINING A FAIRY TALE ABOUT PIGS FOR ME, THOUGH, YOU DAMN MOVIE.

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I had to sit and think about this! I'm usually tolerant of movies. It doesn't take much to please me. Even if there's something bad about a movie, I'll try and find something enjoyable about it.

I can't think of the worst movie ever--it'll come to me eventually, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment--but I think the worst movie I've seen recently was Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. It's a horrible spin in a classic story about Christmas. The plot basically goes like this:

A selfish womanizer is visited by the ghosts from the past, present, and future, to show how big of a douchebag he's been towards women all his life, shortly after he ruins his brother's relationship with his fiance the day before their wedding. The love interest/trophy is Jennifer Garner's character, who used to be the main character's childhood friend. Even though he used her for sex once upon a time, and he acts like a prick to everyone around him, Garner still loves him against her better judgment and secretly pines for him. (Watch the movie, and come back and tell me whether or not even Garner herself doesn't believe this. Her performance is painful to watch.)

The plot itself isn't as bad, but the main problem I had with this film is that the main character doesn't seem to completely learn his lesson until the very last minute, and it seems to find excuses as to why he acts the way he acts. The film showcases how his uncle was a womanizer himself and taught him how to follow in his shoes, as though this is supposed to excuse his deplorable behavior. His uncle was a bad influence, I'll agree with that, but it was the guy's choice to follow in his uncle's footsteps.

Another problem I had with the film is the future sequence the main character is shown. Garner is marrying a successful, handsome doctor who's a decent, loving guy, and she appears very happy with him. What does he do? He keeps insisting, "She was supposed to marry me! She's supposed to belong to me! This isn't how it's supposed to go!" It's like, yes, how sweet that you selfishly insist that this woman gives you another chance and marries you and you realize her importance, even though you used her for sex and moved onto the next woman because of your overwhelming fear of commitment/getting hurt. Boo-hoo for you! How dare she move on with her life and finds a man that treats her right!

Both of these don't measure up to a strange scene where the ghost of his uncle--who is seemingly a new man in the afterlife and regrets his own lonely existence--appears with the character in the middle of a street, and makes it rain with tissues and tears to showcase how badly the character's hurt his past girlfriends. Then the uncle makes it rain used condoms to showcase how much of a whore he is. They didn't show the condoms, but it was still...pretty disgusting.

Predictably, the plot wraps itself up lazily, the main character stops taking scandalous photographs of half-naked women for magazines and becomes a wedding photographer instead, and Garner gets back together with him instead of, you know, finding a man that she can actually trust.

The only good thing about the movie was the fact that he kept a photograph of Garner from when they were children in his wallet. That was sweet and it could've worked if it was a different movie.

I got the Diamond Edition of Snow White. ( My thoughts! )

Overall though, I enjoyed it. I can't watch the bonus material, though. The Diamond Edition came with two Blu-Ray discs and alas, the bonus material is on one of those. And I lack a Blu-Ray machine and PS3, so I can't watch it. Sigh. I'll have to wait to see how they made the movie like the Disney geek I am.

But! Good news: Beauty and the Beast is coming out on Diamond Edition next year. meaning, I can finally have a DVD copy of the film. */FLAILS FOREVER!!!* Seriously, it is in my top five Disney films: The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules tied with Mulan, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Fox and the Hound. Okay, so it's actually Top 6, but it sounded cooler the other way.

Dumbo is coming out on Diamond Edition next year too, but I'm not sure if I should get it. :\

Speaking of Disney, I'll end this entry with this note: there's this video game coming out for the Wii called Epic Mickey. It looks awesome.

lmao, Secret of Nihm 2 is on and I'm watching it right now. I haven't seen this movie since it aired on the Disney Channel, when I was in the 7th grade. It is so horrifyingly bad. It's like a Disney sequel, except it's blander than the usual Disney sequel.

Also, Martin is the goofiest villain ever. Do all brainwashed villains get this weirdass accent they didn't have before, and magically conjure a dark, flowing cloak?

( SPOILERS? )

In short, I enjoyed the movie, despite the mistakes. I can't wait to see what the last movie(s) is going to be like.

Edit: Um, there's spoilers in the comments, too. BEWARE.

So Up made me cry. Three different times. It was a good movie. <3

I also adored Pixar's animated short, Partly Cloudy. SO FUCKING CUTE.

Edit: Also, razorsaw, I am SO sorry about not replying to your IM. I was really busy with something over here and I didn't pay attention when I logged out of AIM. :/

→ This week has been pretty badass. Hope the weeks to come are just as awesome! Though, I have a feeling I won't have time for ... anything anymore. I'll probably start going to work directly after school, so my entire morning and evenings will be filled these days. I also discovered that I have a lot more classes to take before I even get my associates, sonofabitch I'm so sick of school. :/ But I'll have money to pay for classes now, so I won't burden my parents anymore.

→ Got that DVD of Disney's Pinocchio. I forgot how much I love the music in that movie. Though, now that I'm older ... the Pleasure Island sequence disturbs me a lot more now. The kid turning into the donkey and freaking out never ceases to chill me. (That whale is pretty creepy, too.)

→ Meme time!

It's simple: provide a muse/character name and I will answer the following questions.

01. Full name:
02. Best friend:
03. Sexuality:
04. Favorite color:
05. Relationship status:
06. Ideal mate:
07. Turn-ons:
08. Last sexual experience:
09. Favorite food:
10. Crushes:
11. Favorite music:
12. Biggest fear:
13. Biggest fantasy:
14. Quirks in bed:
15. Bad habits:
16. Biggest regret:
17. Best kept secrets:
18. Last thought:
19. Worst sexual/romantic experience:
20. Biggest insecurity:

I may or may not be able to answer the sex questions for everyone, so I'll either not answer or try to guess. Characters are here:
kory_of_tamaran - Starfire
trickstersparx - Lightning
seemoreofhive - See-More
regainmyhonor - Zuko
oh what the hell, feelsconflicted - THE BOULDER
And any original character you can think of, or if I'm missing anyone on this list that I've played before, shoot away.

Hmmm... Ash Wednesday is today. This means I have to a) go and get ashes, b) give something up, and c) not eat meat today and on Fridays. I think the indulgence I'm going to give up is soft drinks and soda. I have to, because it's not good for me anyway.

Also, dude, I just. I just came across the soundtrack for The Pagemaster movie, ajgklajgklajvklag, memory lane.

I got books! Books I've wanted for awhile! "Let The Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist - which is cool, because the title wasn't changed in this translation, thank God - and "This is Not Chick Lit," edited by Elizabeth Merrick.

We also got Mary Poppins, Treasure Planet, and Igor on DVD today. Whoo! \o/

I kinda hope I stay up past 7-8 o'clock tonight. I've been falling asleep around those times. :/ I don't mind sleeping through the night, but I hate falling asleep that early. It's not natural for me.