100 things about me- # 1-26

Finally, I've gotten around to this meme.

100 things about me, first section:

1. I've never gotten a brain-freeze. Instead (since I was a child), I get a sharp, piercing pain right between my shoulder blades. Hurts like all hell. Ever been stabbed in the back? I get stabbed every time I drink a slurpy.
2. I've considered buying a ferret as a pet later in life.
3. I've been around sailboats since I was 4.
4. I'm 19 now.
5. I love broccolli, hate asparagus.
6. I'm a teenage American female otaku fanfiction writer, and I'm guilty of every sin that implies.
7. My parents are always telling me about this time at age 3 when I ran out into the living room butt-naked with a blanket for a cape, fake sword waving in the air and claiming I was She-Ra with my Sword Of Power. I have no memory of this, but it sounds like me.
8. I have love of swords.
9. I'm fascinated by the permanence of tattoos, but doubt I'll ever really get one.
10. I've got a pretty low ranking in Aikido, because I stopped taking lessons a while ago. But I loved it, and will again in the future.
11. I'm a virgin.
12. I've known since early elementry school that I didn't want to be a teacher or a doctor. Because that's what everyone else always said, and I'm rebellious that way.
13. I have a goal never to be bored in my life because of my job.
14. I have no job. Q.E.D.
15. I've never been on an official "date," but I did managed to get kissed before graduating HS at least. That's what fandom conventions are for, I tell ya.
16. I've been reading fanfic since 7th grade, as much of it NC-17 as not.
17. I really think a lot of people say they can't draw, but it's because they've never taken an art class not because they're somehow lacking. Everyone who takes a good art class can become passable at it, if not a Renoir.
18. Most rap music makes my head hurt and my righteous female indignation rise to the surface.
19. I hate coffee.
20. I prefer Breyer's Strawberry ice cream or Baskin Robbins' Mint Chocolate Chip, please.
21. I can't read NC-17 fic for Sailor Moon. My brain just collaspes every time.
22. I disapprove of recreational drug use, illegal or not: for myself, because I dislike having my judgement impaired; and for others-- because I think anyone who willfully puts themselves under addiction is a fucking idiot.
23. I loved the movie Trainspotting. Even though I did think they were fucking idiots (see above). But cute and funny idiots.
24. When I was little I used to draw pictures from bird's-eye-view.
25. I feel it's every smoker's legal right to poison themselves to a slow and painful death, but not in front of me while we're standing in line.
26. I have painted my own room, for the first time. Which means I'm covered in blue & white paint as I type this. It also means that my room has been rearranged and crowded so much that I'm sleeping in the living room.

GIP

Check out the "My fandom" icon. it explains perfectly why Spuffy fic is best BTVS shipper!fic out there. Because it has all the cool writers. wisteria_ did made the icon! Everyone should use this icon... it'll make anniesj's head explode with luv.

So apparently

I read too much smut. Or at least that's what I'm told.

I was driving back from seeing the Cowboy Bebop movie tonight (will get to that later) with A, also known as meryl_stryfe, and I was in the car stopping at a stop light, talking about this Mexican restaurant in Vacaville that I loved, and when I started to say "best salsa" I accidentally said "breast." Of course A starts crowing that I read too much smutfic, this is undeniable proof, and I reluctantly was forced to agree.

I just don't understand how I got from salsa to breast. Maybe because we were discussing cosplay possibilities for being Faye Valentine... I dunno. But I read too much smutfic.

I've decided I blame BTVS for this!

Damn you, James Marsters, for spending most of last season half- or more- naked!

Damn you, Buffy writers, for having a major season arc centered on Buffy-Spike sexcapades!

And DAMN YOU, fic writers, FOR TAKING THEM UP ON THE CHALLENGE!

And damn myself, for ruining my poor little mind by reading it.

DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

Look what's become of me.

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In other news, I watched the Cowboy Bebop movie!

It was very cool. Seeing it on a big screen, with high-quality sound, excellent picture and clear well-done English voice-acting is much superior to watching it on a low-quality, too-high-contrast bootleg VHS with bad subtitles and poor tracking.

I loved LOVED the music for this movie. I might have to buy the suntrack. It was all by a Japanese band called Seatbelts, but their lyrics were in English. The music was very well integrated into the scenes, especially action moments.

I think I actually liked this movie more than most of the series episodes. I still haven't seen the end of the series though, and I know someone dies but DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME WHO OR I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS! But everyone said it was sad, so that means someone dies. This is why spoilers are bad.

Anyway, the movie takes place near the end of the series, but before the big finale episodal arc. So it's like an episode in that it takes a case story (they're bounty hunters who catch people), and instead of being the half-hour episode, you get a fully-fleshed out two hour movie. They could honestly do a dozen more like this.

However, there were nice touches in that the characterizations in the movie did appropriately reflect where the characters were emotionally in the show at that time (around episode 21-22). Jet is feeling left out and taken for granted, Spike is feeling moody about his past, Faye is pleased that she finally is feeling more like a valued part of the team instead of the hanger-on who needs them more than they need her. Details like that pleased me, as a fan.

Visually, this was a pretty movie, lovingly animated with detailed character and landscape designs. There was no skimping on using a lot of frames, especially for the action sequences. The fights were pretty damn cool in this movie. My favorite being the fight between Spike and guest character Electra in the pharmacutical facility, I think. It also had one of my favorite lines: "I love a woman who can kick my ass!"

I admit part of loving that line was automatically attaching my Spuffy fandom to everything I see and hear. But really, it was a cool fight scene, the visually complex type of fight you typically only get in anime if you're watching an anime film, versus a lower-quality tv show. But the fights have always been good on Cowboy Bebop. Being a movie only made them that much better.

That's all I can think of right now... I'm feeling tired even though it's really not as late as Daylight Savings Time says it is.