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the Sooz's LiveJournal:
| Friday, February 12th, 2010 | |||
| 12:01 pm | |||
| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | |||
| 3:03 pm | Return of the Bizarre Fandoms! For unknown reasons, I've gotten re-obsessed with the Mario Opera. Sadly, the bits of second-act music that I'd seen long ago seem to have disappeared. I really want to listen to "Summoning Luigi" again. But at least I have "Things Are Familiar" and "Freakout" and "Chorus Back and Forth" to enjoy. :D I hope the folks doing it will finish it sometime. It's pretty great. I mean, check out the synopsis: Mario gets canon-punctured, Luigi is a PSYCHO, Bowser and the Princess break out of their original roles... It's cracky brilliance! | ||
| Friday, May 9th, 2008 | |||
| 12:22 pm | Me: Law offices. Caller: *something too fast to understand* Me: Pardon? Caller: I'm calling from the Teamsters Union with regard to referring new clients. Is the managing partner available? Me: I'm afraid not. Can I take a message? Caller: You're a fucking idiot! *click* Me: o_O?! | ||
| 12:01 pm |
SOOZ IS LIKE A PLANT GODDESS?! STOP THE PRESSES!!! | ||
| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 | |||
| 11:56 am | Further LOC: On Homophobia and its impact Lack of Original Content, go! Take My Arm, My Love I don't obsess about this -- as in -- it doesn't eat up my days and nights -- and I'm probably about as "out" as a queer can be in this country -- but every single time I take my partner's hand on the street, or toss my arm over her shoulder or around her waist, hug her goodbye or hello, I do a little, tiny "security sweep". ( Cut for length ) I don't edit myself this way because I am ashamed of being a lesbian. I do it because I'm afraid that someone else, who thinks I ought to be ashamed of being a lesbian, might hurt me -- or worse, hurt my beloved. ( Personal response time ) The writer also challenges a straight friend: Spend an entire week pretending that you're not a couple. Don't write a check from a joint bank account. Hide all the photographs in your home and office which would identify you as a couple. Take off your wedding rings. Touch each other, and talk to each other, in public, in ways that could only be interpreted as you being "friends". Refer to yourself only in the singular "I", never in the "we". When you go to work on Monday, if you spent time together on the weekend, include only information which would indicate that you went somewhere with a friend, rather than your life-mate. If someone comes to stay with you, sleep in separate beds. Go intentionally into the closet as a couple. For a week. . . . . For those of you straight allies who are not coupled, but who want to play along, your challenge is (perhaps) simpler: Spend one week in which you make no mention and give no hint of your sexual orientation at all. When straight people around you are parsing the hotness of the opposite gender, go silent, or play along in a way that makes it seem as if you are part of the gang, but never reveals any real personal information. If someone asks you about your love-life, be evasive and non-committal. If you went on a date, and you're talking about it later, de-genderize all the pronouns, or consciously switch them (him to her, her to him, etc.). This, this right here, is why ANY -ism is bad. Anything that puts any minority person into a place where they NEED to self-edit, to constantly analyze their actions and speech, to feel like they can't act naturally in case someone from the majority will do them harm. (I focus on the minority/majority divide not because harm never happens in the opposite direction, but because the majority, by definition, has the structural power and cultural power to do greater and more enduring harm. Were it otherwise, nobody would HAVE to fight for rights.) | ||
| 10:06 am | Are you fond of toffee? First of all, a post from Seeking Avalon: Walk the Line WARNING- sexual assault triggers It covers the recent flareup on the Melissa Bruen story (there's linkage in the post, if you haven't read this particularly sickening account*) a bit, then expands on the culture surrounding things like that. It also offers another angle of why the sexful superheroine stuff we've got going on these days is not so good: ( Quotes and me going on about it under the cut ) *I'd just like to say now, please do not comment on that story here. There are other places where you can discuss it, and I'd really rather avoid talking about it at the moment. It's far too sickening and terrible. **Not I say "probably." I am not a consumer of shonen ai, so I can't say for sure. I do know that the sexualized prettyboy covers repel me from picking them up in the first place. I am not generally interested in sexy romps outside of filthy doujinshi. | ||
| Friday, May 2nd, 2008 | |||
| 8:59 pm | Here's some more art ( Paintings! Like, with actual PAINT! ) | ||
| 10:10 am | This is why I think nuns are awesome. Not that a non-nun would be incapable of doing that, but DAMN. Er, so to speak. >_>; | ||
| 9:48 am | Mary Sue meme! Instructions: Go to Fanfiction.net and go to "search." Choose the "Harry Potter" category, and "search by keyword" and then put in your (first) name, and see what kind of Mary Sues have your name! No results for "Sooz." And I can't tell if there are any under "Susan" because of Susan Bones. :/ And I don't feel like trying to find out if they're Sueish. | ||
| Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | |||
| 8:38 am | Gone! Just FYI for y'all, I'm headed out this weekend to visit my grandmother in Maryland. I leave at OhGod o'clock on Saturday and then I should be back late Tuesday. This obviously means no Creativity Meeting, although if y'all who are in it want to show up and help Lira haul things to her new place, that would be pretty awesome. This also means I'm not around for RP longer than usual, although I am fairly certain that affects little to nothing. | ||
| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | |||
| 2:07 pm | You know the Bible 82%! Wow! You are truly a student of the Bible! Some of the questions were difficult, but they didn't slow you down! You know the books, the characters, the events . . . Very impressive! | ||
| 11:33 am | Apologizing! Another one that everyone ever needs to read: How to Apologize (OK, so it's actually titled "How to Fuck Up," but it's about how to actually apologize.) ( Quoting the main chunk here for future reference ) | ||
| 11:10 am | I wrote "Deadly Since" at first :/ Here, have some not-original content: The Seven Deadly Sins of a Relationship Important for everyone, ever. Well, unless you plan on being single always. And/or you're a robot. | ||
| 9:14 am | Things 1) It feels really weird to see one's artwork in an LJ icon all of a sudden. (Well, my lineart, someone else's colors.) 2) I have somehow mucked up my arm, to the point where it hurts to turn it a certain way. I'm hoping this is just pulling a muscle during my enthusiastic gardening work yesterday. 3) I need to get a wagon. | ||
| Friday, April 25th, 2008 | |||
| 5:16 pm | It is the best. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present to you the best thing on deviantArt. Enjoy. | ||
| Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | |||
| 9:04 pm | Faceblindness followup 1) I am now on Google's front page for "prosopagnasia." 2) I actually misspelled it. It's "prosopagnosia." Which I should have known, what with having taken a Greek class and all, but there you go. 3) Anyway, I mentioned an online test for it. Here it is. Of course, online test =/= official screening, but it can give you a hint as to whether or not it's likely you have the condition. There's also a contact area if you have it and want to be part of research on the condition. | ||
| 4:14 pm | OK this is really the last post I will make on this. Really.  | ||
| 2:29 pm | My boss has just answered a client's question with, "Because they're jackasses." I don't know what question, but LOL. | ||
| 11:44 am | I don't see faces. OK, so, veering away from the usual srs bzns of this eljay, I kind of have wanted to post about this for a little while. I've got a kind of mild form of a condition called prosopagnasia, or, more simply, face blindness. It means I don't really "see" faces. ( Cut for fairly long ) That's pretty much how it is. I can't really think of anything else useful. I guess if y'all are curious, you can ask in comments. | ||
| 11:33 am | I didn't realize my flist was as lit-up about this but anyway Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program, plus anecdote about a skeezy Vampire LARP which is ULTRA CREEPY OH GOD. ( The Manifesto Bit ) Also, for the fellas, because I know some of y'all like to be non-assholes: "[F]ollowing a "Friends don't let friends be Creepy Guys" policy. More than serving as distractions for Creepy Guys or as back to the Backup as described, we. . . men can look at our friends, and say,"Dude, you're being a dick. Stop it." before things get to the point where the Backup has to intervene. And, if a situation warrants it, we can educate them in the wrongness of said behavior, so that they go forth and be Creepy no more."... This is what women cannot do for ourselves. We cannot be guys talking to other guys. That is a job only the Gentlemen's Auxiliary can do. Guys. Talk to each other. I promise most of you can be lots of fun. You will enjoy it. There can be beer involved! It is traditional. Go to! I will hopefully not post more about this particular thing, because I think the ones I've got are pretty much all one absolutely needs. | ||
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