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{Take the 100 Things challenge!}

I'm late to the party but I've decided to do this, because procrastination. My topic is...

Disney mini-essays
Yes, 100 posts of me blabbering at length about various Disney topics. So far, things I'll be posting include analysis of Disney villains and sidekicks, thoughts on songs and movies I particularly adore, and several posts regarding feminist criticism of Disney movies (both actual criticism of my own and criticism of criticism...). I definitely do not have enough topics to make 100, though, so if you have anything Disney-related you'd like to share my thoughts on in excruciating detail, please let me know. :)

Just as a note, all the posts related to this challenge (including this one) will be public (unlocked), so just wanted to give people fair warning.

Sorry about the pimp (real entries will come when my art scale is done) but I'm running this silly little activity and I think you should check it out:



Nominate your favorite Disney villains!

We have about 50 nominations so far. Nominate villains and support your favorites! ANY Disney villain is okay -- animated movies, live-action, TV series, Pixar, as long as they're Disney. :]

Top 25 Disney Characters
A list of my 25 favorite Disney characters of all time, for disney_uberland.

I spent an insane amount of time on this, mostly because I talk way too much and because I'm way too perfectionistic.

Note: This list is highly subjective and contains my favorite characters, not necessarily the ones I think are the best. And there is a difference -- I can have the utmost respect for certain characters, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily my favorite. When it comes to determining my favorites, I tend to take into account things like how personal of a choice this character is for me, how popular that character is, did I own this movie when I was a kid? Really subjective things like that. If a character is really popular, they actually have a lower chance of making it to the top, probably because I feel weird putting that possessive there -- they're not really my favorite character so much as everyone's favorite character.

And yes, the order of this list directly contradicts my Top 10 Villains list. I'm inconsistent like that.

( #21 through #25 )
( #16 through #20 )
( #11 through #15 )
( #6 through #10 )
( #1 through #5 )

Sometimes I can't believe how silly I am. I went grocery shopping on Monday and so I was walking to my door with a bunch of grocery bags as well as the satchel I use to carry my lunch to work. The bags were cutting into my hands though, so I readjusted and then I thought I heard the sound of a plastic container (i.e. the tupperware I use to bring fruits to work) hitting the ground. It was dark, so I just quickly grabbed my satchel to make sure I could still feel the tupperware in there, and kept walking.

So then I went home and had dinner, including half a can of soup. This will be important later on.

Anyway, the next day, as I was packing my lunch I realized the tupperware was nowhere to be found in my house. It wasn't in the sink. It wasn't in the dishwasher. It wasn't on the floor. It wasn't in my satchel!

Luckily I had another container, pretty much identical, but a smaller size, so I could use that for the same purpose. But everyday this week, I searched the area where I thought I might have dropped it, but I couldn't find it. I even considered going to the leasing office and asking if they had a lost and found but I thought that, even if they did, the chance of someone bringing in a small tupperware container was pretty small -- they'd probably just throw it out.

This saddened me. In fact it made me realize I have an emotional connection to the darn thing. My mom would always pack fruits in it for me for work everyday, and now I'm packing fruits in it for myself for work. I dunno, it has memories and traditions attached to it or something. I felt like I missed it a lot more than what is normal.

So imagine my surprise when I was washing dishes tonight and I found, sitting in the sink, the tupperware! It was definitely the big tupperware, not its smaller sister that I've been using this week as a replacement. But I couldn't figure out why it was there!

Then I looked around and saw its lid next to the microwave and I realized -- I used it today to microwave soup! When I had half the soup can on Monday, I put the leftovers in the bigger tupperware (to be safe -- I didn't want it to flow over) and put that container in the fridge -- and then promptly forgot I had done it, and never once this week connected my missing tupperware with the leftover soup in the fridge.

I am so silly.


Anyway, unrelated but I have to do one last post about the Final Fantasy landcomm. For anyone on my flist that was interested in the Final Fantasy landcomm:


Join ff_land

Applications are open now! Apply @ ff_classchange

OMG. GUYS. THIS IS IT. THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN WISHING FOR FOR FOUR YEARS.*

Thanks to koretetsu for linking me this:



LOOK AT 1:40. YEAH THAT'S RIGHT: HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME WORLD. ILU Square Enix. ♥


* I'm not kidding.

If you like Disney, please join...

disney_uberland | Application Page

The way it works is that you get put in one of three teams, and you then earn points for your team by entering various challenges (fic, graphics, and puzzles). Whichever team ends the game with the highest number of points wins.

The three teams are Team Ariel (for princesses, heroines, fairy tales, and traditional animation), Team Sharpay (for live-action, Disney Channel shows, and villainous characters), and Team WALL-E (for CG animation, both Pixar and Disney, and heroic characters).

But you should join Team Sharpay (even if you hate HSM with a burning passion) because we have:
- Tron / Tron: Legacy
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- All Disney villains

Heck yes. I'm currently helping out as a co-mod for disney_uberland and the new game is beginning January 2nd (Sunday), so do join if you're interested. :)

A picspam done for disney_uberland.



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Ugh, I've caught a cold. Trying to read today just resulted in a headache/sinus pains. Drinking orange juice and then going to sleep.

Oh and also I ordered a grilled steak sandwich for lunch today and that was the Worst Decision Ever. There was just way too much steak and it was all one slab so I don't even know how it was supposed to be a sandwich. I spent more time cutting it up than I did eating, and the beefy aftertaste stayed in my mouth for like 4 hours. I guess this is why people talk of cleansing your palate or whatnot.

OMG TODAY IS 10/10/10.

That is all.

My mom sent me this link today: http://www.webguild.org/20101002/murder-by-facebook-how-dharun-ravi-molly-wei-killed-tyler-clementi

Two college students set up a live stream of their male roommate having sex with another man and posted on Twitter and Facebook inviting people to watch it. The roommate later committed suicide.

This is just so messed up. I have no words. I was going to post unrelated ramblings in here too, but I just feel wrong putting anything light in an entry as heavy as this.

OKAY SO, I may have spoken too soon. Epic Mickey does look pretty epic.



I'm becoming a Disney parks nut, so yeah, this looks awesome! On the other hand the graphics aren't anywhere near the level of prettiness that Kingdom Hearts is, so that makes me sad.

AND SPEAKING OF KINGDOM HEARTS EVIDENTLY BIRTH BY SLEEP CAME OUT SHORTLY BEFORE I LEFT FOR JAPAN OR SOMETHING. This means I have to buy it! .......Oh, and a PSP too. .......That would help. ......Goodbye, money.


Moving update: 50% moved out. Still at my mom's house. I'm moving the rest of my belongings and getting my furniture tomorrow.

Until then, I'll be here working on my art exchange pieces. (‾∇ ‾ )

Ummm so I went to my Applications folder today, and iTunes' logo has changed?? Whenever things like that happen I freak out because I think my computer is infected or someone has been meddling with it, but no. Apple really changed it from this beauty:



To this monstrosity:



See article.

ARGHHH I JUST SPENT 40 MINUTES EDITING A FAQ POST (which, you know, requires very precise wording and stuff) AND LIVEJOURNAL FARTED AND LOST ALL OF MY CHANGES. SO MAD RIGHT NOW.

Also... is it just me or is LiveJournal like... more inactive than it used to be? Like on the weekends, it's like a graveyard around here. :/ And like... all of my friends seem to be using tumblr/twitter/plurk instead.

Edit: Nevermind, it was my Internet connection that farted. Sorry for blaming you, LiveJournal. u_u ALSO, luckily I still had the preview window open from an older draft of my changes so I was able to recover about three-quarters of my work. YAY.

singingllama is running this Disney character battle to determine the BEST Disney princess, prince, sidekick, villain, villainess, etc. And it's the final round! (I maaayyybe should have linked this earlier so that I could tell people to save such-and-such character. BUT TOO LATE. Now the match-ups are such that I don't really mind either character winning. Except maybe Beast vs. Aladdin? Vote for Beast? And Cinderella's Fairy Godmother too!)



Also, in other news, my team (Team Scar) won the first round at disney_uberland! YAY!

HEY GUYS I'm back from Disneyland!

I've got a lot of stuff to say but I'm dead tired and still need to post a reminder for wd_lims so I will write up a summary later! But it was awesome! And I've had Disneyland songs stuck in my head all day long!

More disney_uberland things. This time it's an essay explaining my love for the Belle/Beast couple. Except I don't do a very good job explaining!

Pairing: Belle/Beast
Word Count: Roughly 3200



It’s a Tale as Old as Time
A mini ship manifesto exploring Belle and Beast's relationship using tropes

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This is just something I need to post somewhere for disney_uberland. So you can ignore this unless you're interested in reading fic about Aurora from Sleeping Beauty.

Title: Maybe When You're a Little Older
Words: 759
Rating: G
Summary: An exploration in what life was like when Aurora/Briar Rose was 10 years old. Might have been better as an essay, since it's kind of awkward as a fic.

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One that's been annoying me recently is "create value". I hate that phrase because it's so generic that it's basically useless. "We create value for our clients through quality-oriented products and services."

I mean, it just sounds so business-speaky. I guess vagueness is good for mission statements for companies that don't want to be too specific in case they end up expanding, but come on, that says nothing about what the business is currently about.