I'm like a billion years behind on LJ. Sorry.

[trenchkamen]

GUYS.

GUYS.

...GUYS.

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING RELEASE DATE.

IT IS IN LIKE A WEEK I CAN'T HANDLE THIS. I don't know if I want to just order it from Amazon now, or go to the game store next Tuesday. Also, Valentine's Day release LOL. Except I have three midterms the following week. Fuck my life.

I think I need to write more. It's been a year. A full year. I can't believe this the Summer of Love 2008 when I was spending hours a day reading the KinkMeme and producing 300+ pages in three months seems so recent, and now I'm grossly behind on everything in this fandom.

So is Naoto/Kanji, but I haven't done anything creative in that arena, and I don't think making a costume counts.

I've been on semi-hiatus (unannounced) as of late. Kind of. What with grad school interviews (just did UCLA~! I saw skuldchan and fabula_umbrae and Hillel, faggotry good times were had by all, even if it was for all of two hours) and honors thesis and poster symposium and graduating and other bullshit this semester. Oh, and I have to do my scientific public outreach project, which is going to come after thesis defense in March. Anybody want to contribute to that? It's about the real science behind science fiction and fantasy. Articles are at a laypublic (easy) reading level.

Also, I stand by my facebook status: "We Are the Champions" isn't about sports, the same way "Bicycle Race" isn't about bicycles and "Fat Bottomed Girls" isn't about girls. Which is why I get a huge, sadistic kick out of seeing homophobic jocks sing along with it. This was mostly in Texas at football games.

I still think Bohemian Rhapsody is about AIDS. I don't care if the time period doesn't match up. Queen can go back in time with the power of fabulous.

What the fuck, Dexter? This is the second ad you've done that's shown up on the feminist radar. Both for Dodge. What is this. I'm so disappointed. Not as disappointed as I am in Johnny Depp. I think my heart's been broken.

Ground control to Major Tom?.

Yeah, homework.

Comments

[omegadonut.livejournal.com]

This development breaks my heart, too. :(

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

I feel strange watching that commercial. It's hard to listen to. Especially since it's read in the same deadpan Hall uses for Dexter's inner monologues. This has to be a conscious decision on the advertisers' part. He's an actor. I seriously doubt he has the same lack of vocal range I do. And I'm sure the advertisers want to distance as much as possible the association of the role he played in Six Feet Under, which was that of a deeply closeted homosexual man, and, dude, a bunch of guys enjoying the game don't want to be invited to empathize with a faggot. Dexter is empowered, heterosexual, and relatively unfettered to society's rules--he keeps up appearances to keep out of prison. He acts on his urges. I think that combination of power and freedom is the association this commercial is trying to make. Guys keep up appearances to avoid, instead of prison, sleeping on the couch or something like that. To continue to get access to sex in exchange for their complacency. I really don't know. But clearly they need an outlet for all that manly aggression. Instead of killing people, it's a car. A fucking car. Clearly buying this car will give you that sense of freedom you crave.

Society has plenty of arbitrary rules and injustices to rage against. This context was unnecessary. But I'm a ball-busting, shrill, feminist bitch, so I clearly don't get it.