KILL JOYS, MAKE SOME NOISE!

[surrealistdreamer]

TODAY WAS AWESOME!

I drove down to Burlingame to get Shelby and her friends Austin and Angel. I got to drive the Red Shoe (Gramma's car) which is fun to drive and easy to manuver. Austin is too tall to fit in it comfortably, but he didn't mind.

We traveled to Topeka and had hilarious adventures getting my coat off in the car. We went to the mall to get Chik Fil A and I got a Peace Tea at another place. It was crowded, but we trolled the mall and made out with fat loot. I got a little tummy achey because of my period, but it was nothing some laughs couldn't fix.

Then it was off to Good Will which turned out to be a Suck Will so I dragged everyone to Target. I got green aviator sunglasses. YEAH BOI.

Salvation Army was out final stop in Topeka where Angel got a blanket and I got a box. I love containers.

We went to Shelby's house to eat leftover Thanksgiving stuff. After more April Foolin' around I kissed Shelby goodbye, looked at the big sketchbook, and said my goodbyes to Angel and Austin.

I drove up in the dark with only Josh Groban for company.

Comments

[gryphonsegg]

Yay for your awesome day! <3

[surrealistdreamer]

It rocked hard! Now I can't quit listening to this one MCR song because Shelbo got their new CD. I got these two epic keychains too. You'll like the purple dragon, it's totally adorable.

[gryphonsegg]

^_^ It sounds lovely.

I broke my anti-movie rule to see Deathly Hallow Pt. 1. I am planning to sleep on the question of whether or not to post wank bait about it. Because, yes, I liked it overall, and the reasons why not only run smack into the things some people didn't like about it but also run smack into the the reasons why some other people like it. (Obviously, they're getting things wrong, right? LOL!)

[surrealistdreamer]

Eh, I haven't seen it yet, but I don't care about spoilers. I heard about the Harry/Harmoine (I hope I'm spelling that right) kiss scene and I can only think that inspired ship wank. XD

[gryphonsegg]

Oh, yes, it inspired wank! Hell, it inspired wank in the book, and then the wank came back for the movie because the Harmonians decided that it's even more wonderful in the movie. But you know what? *grins with wanky, sadistic glee* I'm just going to drop every last pretense of trying not to be wanky myself here . . .

In both the book and the movie, Harry and Hermione never actually kiss. It's just an illusion created by a villain and shown to Ron to mess with Ron's mind. Ron has a thing for Hermione, but he feels insecure because Harry gets so much attention and Ron's always been in the shadows of his older brothers anyway, and the Bad Thing was trying to make him feel sad, jealous, and unworthy and so created this illusion to upset him. And that is the kiss that got the Harmonians all excited. VOLDEMORT SHIPS IT! The movie cut out the part from the book where Harry tells Ron that Ron has nothing to worry about because Harry loves Hermione like a sister, not a girlfriend. But the visuals, oh man . . . The fake!Harry&Hermione were these creepy CGI things right out of the Uncanny Valley! It was obviously not really them and kind of disturbing to look at even for (at least some of) those who are not Ron. That scene was anything but a win for Team Harmony. And yet there have been pro-movie!H/H posts popping up about how THEY KISSED YAY! And I'm just like "LOL, you're kidding, right?"

[surrealistdreamer]

PFFFT, lol whut? I will never understand the minds of rabid shippers and their need for proof/validation.

[gryphonsegg]

I kind of understand it a little bit. What I don't understand is being so desperate for canon validation as to make up "canon validation" out of nothing, like the shipper who was squeeing over Harry and Hermione standing beside each other in this one scene because "They look like a married couple"-- okay, I guess any two people standing side by side look like a married couple now-- or the ATLA ones who were all "Yay, Zuko and Katara didn't actually hold hands but they looked like they could have held hands!" What I REALLY don't understand and yet also find entertaining to an unseemly degree is being so desperate as to claim "canon validation" based on something that is, to everyone who does not ship that pairing obsessively, the exact opposite of canon validation. The positive Harmonian response to the creepy illusion people is even more bizarre and logic-defying than the creepy illusion people themselves!

[surrealistdreamer]

It's like the misaimed fandom where something/someone is really creepy, but people latch onto it and woobify it. It's like "How did you even make this leap in logic?!"

[gryphonsegg]

They leaped on Opposite Day.

[surrealistdreamer]

I guess so! XD