I'm skipping the intro, and going straight to the biggest fangiggle I've had in months. About five minutes ago, I found out who was cast as the caterpillar in the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland. Ready?

ALAN FRICKING RICKMAN. AS THE GORRAM CATERPILLAR. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR FIVE SECONDS. OMFGASDFGHJKL; TIM BURTON STOP BEING SO AMAZING ARGH AASDFGHJKLJHGFDSDFGHJKLKJHGFDFGH~

*sigh* Ok. So, Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter, this I knew. Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen; I would only assume she was in it. And then you know who is the White Queen is? Anne Hathaway. That was sort of a surprise; I'm glad, though. I like her alot, and she hasn't been in anything that great recently. SO. I just wondered... Is Alan maybe becoming a part of the Tim Burton crowd? OOOOOOOH THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT~

BUGMAN!ALAN ON CRACK!

So. *giggle* Ok, I'm good now. Anyway, while I'm on the topic of Tim Burton, I finally saw Sweeny Todd. At Kenny's house, actually, at the end of Christmas vacation. Surprisingly, I didn't geek out as much as I thought I would: only during Alan's two singing bits. I mean, I didn't dislike it by any means. I guess Alan was just so evil, and creepy rather than snarky. Come on, he was creepy, and totally sketchy/stalker-like/child-molester. BUT I did love By the Sea; I couldn't help but think of the buttfacemakani pic with Bella and Voldie... Also, we told Erica that NPH played Toby once, and so she kept screaming that he was going to die, and freaking out every time he showed up, and we were just like, "THAT'S NOT NPH, DEARIE." Also, Borat makes me laugh. Now back to the Misadventures of Sev and Wally!

Newsflash! Snape wants to be the pope!

Really. But anyway, my mum has since finished it. I did read this one little part where Waleran came up with this battle plan, and William was all, "YEAH, LET'S GO SLAUGHTER SOME PEOPLE!" and Wally was just like, "Erm... You can... You know... Go without me. Please." Oh, also? I did find a bit that mentioned how he hardly eats anything. And I'm like, 'Heh. I knew that was totally in-character.' But he really was evil, whereas Sev is not, so you know.  He ended up having something to do with this plot that killed some guy, and something about dethroning the king, and apparently it was really easy to guess what it was.

You know what kind of drove me nuts, though? The way this guy writes dialogue is weird. It's like it goes, "Waleran said: 'Wow, why am I a snarky, evil bishop and not a snarky, not-really-evil professor?'" It's really funky with the colon and all.
 

I've been singing Sound of Music, like, a ton. Do you think we could give Snape a guitar and make him sing Eidelweiss? We already know from Sweeny that he can sing... (XDDDDDDDDD SORRY: THIS IS HOW I THINK~)

I've added House and Dr. Chase to my List, because, you know, they're cool. They aren't very high up, but still.

You know you're turning into Echo's little sister when people from the Constitutional Convention are showing up on your List. I was studying for my history midterm, and I found this blurb about James Madison. Basically, he was like a little shoebox!Remus. You know, he was always reading, and he was sort of quiet and cute and good at being the research-guy and... Well, Remus-y. I can just see it: "Um... Mr. Washington, sir? I was reading last night, and I found this really interesting chapter about Ancient Rome, and it gave me a good idea, but it might not be so good, I'm not sure-" And Ben Franklin all, "Out with it, boy!" "Right! Yes, so I was thinking..." Hee. <3

On the same page, I was still studying in art, and I was talking about this one thing with my friend Emily. Basically, during the war between France and Britain, this guy called Citizen Genet was stirring up the Americans to join the French. And Washington was all, "Hey, we're not getting involved here." So Genet set up this whole meeting and basically dumped on Washington. Emily said, "So he said to Washington, 'So go away, or we shall be forced to taunt you a second time!'"

Of course, Mr. Hanchett noted that Genet was then "forcibly removed from the country" which Ellie translated to "drop-kicked across the pond."

I want to point something out here. Trauma Center? Back when we were playing it at the Fantastic Five sleepover, we looked up some sprites and were horrified to see the similarities between our/my favorite Kassal brother and a certain lavender-suited defense attorney...

 

I'm typing fast; I have Nano and an english paper and a test and some other things so- yeah.

It was D's real birthday, so we made him cake. It was a new type of cake, however, one that apparently had some sort of tunnel of fudge. Now, we made this bundt cake, and there WAS NO TUNNEL OF FUDGE. This cake was a lie. It was. I almost had a stroke, but indeed it was a lying cake and the cake was indeed a lie.

 ceiling_smiley has very good opinions. About Twilight, about Alan Rickman, about Harry Potter... Generally. (COL. BRANDON ILU)

Ok, here's my Twilight thing. (Possibly my Rant of the Day.) I read the books and I liked them. I didn't love them, but they weren't bad. It was just a regular vampire romance novel, and I'm not all too fond of the genre anyway. But it was still okay, and I counted it under my fandoms. BUT THEN. I started hearing the cry of the fangirls. They got louder, and louder, and more annoying and arrogant than any normal fan would. Why? Because it's all about Edward. Just like High School Musical is popular because girls like to drool over Zac Effron (who was totally in Firefly, BTW!) or because Harry Potter is popular because girls like to drool over Snape- AHAHAHEM WHO SAID THAT? that is why it's so huge. I think. It might have just been the publicity. And you know how they're saying it's the next Harry Potter? IT'S NOT. As lyricalecho said, Twilight's writing is not fantastic, and neither is its plot particularly original. Harry Potter's writing is not all that amazing either, but the characters, and the places and animals and plotline and that entire universe is just that- an entire universe. Harry Potter > Twilight. I'm sorry.

Oh, also? I summed up Twilight for a friend in art who hasn't read it. It went something like, *in a low, yet oddly feminine pitched voice,* "Oh, Bella! I want to suck your blood and kill you horribly, but I love you!" *in a high, squeaky voice* "Oh, Edward! I love you so much, and I really don't care that you're a vampire and could kill me even by accident! Please, Edward! Make me into a vampire like you!" "No, Bella! I could never do that to you! To curse you with my fate is too horrible!" "Oh, Edward, please, bite me, please! I want to be with you foreeeeeeeverrrrrr! <33333333"

Also? What's this I hear about vampire babies? I mean, like, I wouldn't want to spoil Clean Mondays with this, but... Like, you know, wouldn't the guy need actual blood in his body to, you know- ANYWAY. SEE, THIS IS HOW NONSENSICAL TWILIGHT IS. THE VAMPIRES? THEY SPARKLE. FRICKING SPARKLE.

In other news? Tyler likes Benny Goodman. My life is now complete. <3333333333333333333333333 SPEAKING OF WHICH:

I was writing my english paper, and I went over it again only to find how... Well, how shoebox-y it sounded. "And so there I was, raking, with my nose in a terrible upset on account of being half-frozen off. My ears, though they were clamped tightly beneath my hat, were rather irritable as well. My fingers? Don’t get me started. The more I thought about it, the more I was sure that my neighbors’ appendages were in a far better state of well-being than my own." So yeah, that. I hope they get the account up and working again; the whole hacking thing was really the epitome of suckage. *Russians. I told'ja, we gotta go over there and be all, 'Shoo! Git off our eenerneyts now, we got some shoebox to read don'cha know!"

Today in Bio, we were talking about fossil fuels and the cabon cycle and that stuff. My teacher was talking about how decaying animals got buried in bogs and stuff, though the exact phrasing was, "and they sank into the swamp." I laughed hysterically, and no one else got it. But it was so worth it.

Um... I should get back to My Life's Work, as Echo calls it. My Life's Work = Snape!fic. It does seem like that, though. Trust me, I started *and I know* on August 27, 2007. I don't know how I ever survived without Snape.

Which, by the way? I was reading through the earlier Harry Potters just to get some characterization stuff for Sev and all of that? And he was cruel. I mean, really awful and abusive. And I was like, "wow, I had forgotten how horrific he was." But then it mentioned something about him sneezing, and I dove right back into, "D'AWWWW! SEV, ARE YOU GETTING SICK? LEMME GET YOU SOME TEAAAAAAAAA!!!"

But in my story, I killed Snape's cat. D= I know, I know... But I'm nicer to my fic!peeps than Echo is. =p

G2G WRITE NOW GUYZ~
 

So... If anyone has not had the ability to gaze on the awesomeness that is the Great Snape Debate (Part II) in the comments for the previous post... I suggest you suck it up and do so anyway. IT'S INCREDIBLE.

Here's an interesting thing: I'm actually thinking about NaNo. I mean, I have this Snape!fic that I haven't touched in a while, but it's always on the brain and I just want to do something with it. Cripes, I started it over a year ago, doesn't it deserve to be finished? It's also one bigass fic with all of these funky little tropes (which I will one day identify) and stuff like that. (And yes, it would certainly take at least 50, 000 words to complete.)

But anyway, the Debate (which I will call it from now on) sort of made me rethink the direction a little. I admit, it was rather Jo-like, all for happy endings and all because I enjoy that... And now something in me's sort of turned all Joss-y, and it wants to go in a more bittersweet direction. (BTW, it is- I'm sorry- a Snape/OC fic.) That being said, now I'm not sure that Snape is capable of participating in a healthy relationship. And also, now that I think about it more, my OC has evolved into someone who isn't exactly a good example for him (in some ways she's as screwed up as he is.) So I guess... I dunno. Before, I had always planned that, you know, she's healing a broken heart and all of that crap, and now it kind of seems like she's condemning him to life in this ignorant little world, where they can be all blissfully unaware and clingy and dysfunctional together. In fact, this thought process even went to the point where I was thinking that, yeah they end up together, but I have two of my other OCs discussing how utterly pathetic they are, and how Snape was probably better off dead... I mean, it makes for a better story, but it kind of wrecks the reason of why I wrote it, but don't things like that change, and that doesn't mean I like it, but I do want it to be substantial rather than fluff!fic, but do I want to end something I've spent countless hours on like that, or...

lyricalecho Look at what you've done to me. You've ruined my childish idealism. MY HAPPY!SNAPE FANTASY IS RUINED. (But that's ok, because I had fun getting there, and ILU anyway. <3)

In other Snape-y news, I was snoozing in Bio (I know, I know, but my teacher is so boring. My mom, after Parents Night, even extended her sympathies, saying, "Oh my God, she's such a drone.") ANYWAY. I was snoozing in Bio and we had been doing this lab about counting populations of snakes and all of this stuff, and since she sort of mumbles alot, I could have sworn she said "Take out your Snape Lab." And I was like, "Huhwhutwhere?" And then she said it again, and I was paying attention, and it still sounded like she was saying "Snape."

Aspeaing of Bio: that day, the entirety of my notes looked like this: (And technically speaking, those were the actual notes.)





Also, in Psych, there was some joke about "Mmmm, yummy mammoths." And I can't remember it for the life of me.

I've had no time to really post all the little things that happened this week, for reasons that are neither entertaining nor even interesting.

Today was strange. I almost got mowed over by a runaway wheelchair, I found a lone straight noodle in my lunch of curly ones, and I saw four Teletubbies, a gorilla, a girl covered in caution tape, and a half-naked guy in a Native American headdress. Such was the end of Homecoming.

Also, I was somewhat excited about the presidential debate, and I stayed up late to watch it. The few things I gleaned from it were: that Barack Obama has super shiny shoes, and blinks approximately 82 times a minute, and that John McCain opposes nailing jello to walls.

I gotstella_muse to read Havemercy. She loves it. SUCCESS!

I was in Psychology, and we were talking about Konrad Lorenz, who did that thing with geese and imprinting and stuff. So afterword I went over to this kid, Steven, and said, "Well, that Lorenz guy might have had all these goslings following him around, but at least he didn't juggle them." =D

I had a particularly Snape-y bout of geekery on Wednesday. I went to the Fair again, and I went into the beekeeping place to get some of those honey sticks that rot your teeth. They had an exhibit talking about different kinds of honey taken from bees who had been pollinating different kinds of plants. I saw one jar labeled 'asphodel' and immediately (and nonchalantly) thought, "Oh, if only they had wolfsbane, we could make some Drought of the Living Death!"

Also at the Fair, I saw a 1,400 pound, big-ass pumpkin, and a guy that looked just like Harrison Ford.

My mum is redoing the outside of the house, and she was worrying about the landscape. To D she said, "I know the shorter ones are cheaper, but would the taller ones hide the foundation?" To which I said, "You should get some of each, and have the two-level effect! With a little path down the middle!"

lyricalecho told me to go watch Neil Patrick Harris chatting with Elmo on Sesame Street. I think she was trying to kill me with cute, I swear. I mean... D'AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! *hence the avatar- just a 100x100 taste of otherwise lethal adorableness*

After my last post, LE and I got into a bit of a playful tiff about whether I was correct in using the word "suave" to describe Snape. For future reference, I was using it in the context of being "sophisticated and elegant." I was certainly not using it to say he was a social butterfly- which I find so laughable, I'm wholly guilty of mocking the poor fellow.

Also, there was some joke about Voldemort being green that I can't remember.