mizufae

Hey there, sometimes I make friends locked posts, but most of the time I don't. Feel free to friend me, and if your journal is to my liking, I might friend you back. I tend to purge my flist fairly often, however. Do not be offended if I friend you and then unfriend you in the near future, it is almost never personal.

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ETA: I gots me TWO twitters. One, @mizufae is my nerdy fandomy twitter and the one I use most often. The other is @SPinansk, which is my "real life" stuff twitter. Feel free to follow either, but I only follow back very selectively. For @Spinansk, if I don't know you IRL, sorry. But I don't protect my updates so you can stalk me anyway! :)

i am in chicago. the cat peed on me twice today, all before even getting onto the plane.
the movers were... okay. i am tired.

Goodbye, my precious internet! ;;;T____T;;;
Oh, fuck my life.

Oh shit, IT'S GO-TIME

Yeah. I may have basically procrastinated enough to have MY ENTIRE HOUSE STILL NEEDING TO BE PACKED, oh... less than 24 hours before the Junk People come to pick things up, and one DAY before THE MOVERS COME TO TAKE OUR STUFF.

This is what happens when your nice little month-long moving SUDDENLY HAS TO HAPPEN IN THE COURSE OF TEN DAYS, OKAY?

Tonight I made this

CLICK FOR EMBIGGEN.
I remain... unskilled. But better than some! Anyway. I AM KEPTIN. >_>

time to pack more...
it's like *worry*worry*pack*pack* *eat something* *pack*worry* *brainfart with fannish bullshit* *worry*pack*pack* *eat something* REPEAT!

I wonder. What would happen if, FOR EXAMPLE, in fandom!secret, when there is wank and people being offended and blah blah blah, and the OP doesn't respond to any of it, if OTHER anonymous people showed up and responded, anonymously, as the OP, and sufficiently apologized and learned the lesson and were contrite and said what the offended people wanted to hear... would the world be a happier place? It would be full of lots and lots of lies, but would the OP mind? Would the wankers be any less happy? it's not like they would find out that they were being apologized to by the wrong anonymous person. Would the wankers move on from their anger and spread more happy across the internet and the world? Would the OPs still learn that their secret (or whatever anonymous bullshit that offended people in the first place) was a Bad Idea by reading all of the yelly comments?

What if people started doing this in anonymous meme type places? What, I wonder, would happen?

Great Scott! I left for what, 60 hours or something? And I've been home and online for a fucking hour already and I JUST finished clicking open all the posts I want to read on my flist. I haven't even begun to read them, or their five zillion comments.

Internet: stop being so effing busy. I won't be able to keep up with you when I'm away for a whole week or what have you! X(

Maine was interesting. Sadly, when I got there, I discovered that I didn't have a memory card in my camera, or you would all get about six zillion photos of the AWESOME SNAKES that live under the granite steps to my parents' neato farmhouse. My mom is totally phobic of them, so when I was a bitchy 11 year old I decided I would have a pet snake as soon as I moved out of the house. This has proven to be untrue, but I still think they are hecka interesting. And pretty, omg.

The whole day and a half or so that I was there was like some kind of boyscout naturewalk. Two flavors of snake, a bunch of crazy bugs, a tiny adorable red salamander gecko maybe sort of thing, all kinds of wildflowers that I'm not sure what they are, wild blueberries growing in the field, grapes and raspberries and old dilapidated fruit trees, a myriad of birds and bird calls and chipmunks and funky bug eggs and miniature donkeys and horses and cows... There's a whole lot of flora and fauna, is what I am saying.

Anyway, blah. LET THE INSANITY OF THE MOVE CONTINUE~

Off to Maine, land of no internet, until the 5th!

LEAVE ME COMMENTS AND LOVE AND STUPID STUFF WHILE I AM GONE.

If I miss out on any *awesome* I'll weep. WEEP I SAY.

Potential topic of discussion:

If Spock is a cheeseburger and Kirk is some fries, is Bones the pickle? I would like Sulu to be the milkshake and Scotty to be the ketchup (cuz he's got red on him.) Please extend and manipulate this ricockulous metaphor as you see fit.

edit:
Yes. That is the Seal of Rassilon inside of a Starfleet Delta. I just made it. Someone 3d render it in embossed nickel for me, NOW. (click for embiggening)
Yes, I made the BG orange, because Science is Blue, Operations is Red, Command is Gold, and Timelord is Orange. Obviously.

I am full of tacos. I have a lot of things I have to do tonight, not the least of which is pack for a super quick trip up to Maine, which will mostly involve me sitting in the rain. We shall see~

if anyone gives a damn, I made a fairly ridiculous doctor who star trek combo post over in ontd_startrek here: http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_startrek/437627.html
you should click on it just for the Doctor VS Doctor vogue-off.

Made another trek wallpaper, this time with NO TREK.



The original idea was An Ode To Peacoats, but then... plants happened. It's pretty and stuff! Oh, I don't know! TELL ME THAT YOU LIKE IT OKAY.

It stars, left to right, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, and Zachary Quinto, who thinks you're ugly and shall not deign to look at you.

I had my very first Serious Freak Out about the Move today. I got really really angry at the universe and took it out on Ian and Ian had to cancel a trip to california that he was really looking forward to, but god DAMN i'm glad he did because the timing was WAY off and if I hadn't gotten livid I'm not sure he would have realized it? Anyway it sucks all around. We went to home depot and bought like 40 boxes and bubble wrap and everything. The next week will hopefully be punctuated by a trip to Maine for a day, and basically be me packing and cleaning things round the clock with occasional breaks for cooking and being a mindless internet nerd, while Ian calls lots and lots of businesses and people and throws money at problems until they go away.

.........Anybody want my cat?

I made an okcupid profile today. My old one had dilapidated and I deleted it entirely sometime last year, but I dont know, that damn site sucked me back in.

Anyway, thus far it seems to be matching me up with men in their mid 30s. Despite my physical predilection for teenage boys, I freely admit to probably needing an old man to be happy, so I'm not really complaining. I probably won't use it, but I like answering questions about myself! It is very selfish.

If anybody gives a fuck, I'm zeehestia, a name I made up in literally 3 seconds and I wish I could change it so people wouldn't assume I'm greek or something. I've apparently gone from being The Priss back in college to the Window Shopper. Great.

\o/
somebody's finally drawn fanart of one of my fics!

sadly, it isn't icarly. It's star trek. The very first (and veeery silly) trek fic i've ever written. :D I will post about it (including the fanart hahahaha) when it's done.

I changed the way my LJ looks. it's very simple and calm now, which is a change.

I am freaking out about all sorts of stuff. Hooray, updated.

iCarly was actually good again. I just watched it this morning. And I can tell you why it was good. It starred Carly, Spencer, Sam, Freddie, Gibby, and NOBODY ELSE. There were appearances by a slightly absurd art teacher and Principal Franklin, aka stock characters (for iCarly). Guess what? Episodes that don't have to do with this core group and the ensemble dynamic? Boring as hell. Episodes that are pared down, silly, straightforward presentations of their kooky daily life? Gold.

Of course, my critical bitchy mind is overthinking it and nitpicking parts i didn't like or things i thought were missed opportunities (why was the title plot the B plot??), and my flaily 12 year old girl mind is thinking about all the Seddie, but in the end, iMust Have Locker 239 in, I *think*, combination with my self imposed icarly-fen sabbatical, is doing something to make me love the show again, if not the other people who love the show. And honestly, that's kind of what matters, when it comes to fandom.

irrelevant note, sam says http://nifflas.ni2.se/index.php?main=02Knytt_Stories&sub=02Pictures is awesome.

I spent my evening coloring this:


NEWS~

We officially have had our lease application accepted... or something... BASICALLY IT MEANS:
I will be moved to Seattle by JULY 15th. I'll be living in Freemont. So, REGAN, expect me to get REALLY ANNOYING very soon and ALSO can you come feed my cat around the 3rd-6th of July... exact dates will be coming soon.... I'm going to Maine and Ian will be in California and blah blah.

I have to do SO MUCH STUFF OH MY GAWD. @_@

regan, scone, other fans of avatar on my flist, you had BEST go read today's Penny Arcade asap.

You have no idea how much I want this. It would be the best.

So I scoured the (totally encrusted with gunk) stove and cleaned all the components and blah blah. I did a LOT of dishes by hand. I ran the dishwasher after tetrising as much stuff in as possible. I washed, dried, folded, and put away a plethora of towels. I soaked a white shirt in bleach and managed to inhale some fumes. I did a bunch of other little, stupid, chorey things. And it feels like i haven't made a DENT. sigh....

The people we have to go through to get the lease on our apartment sat on it until freaking thursday and stupid shit keeps happening and oh, I am going to go INSANE.

I forgot to call my Dad for his birthday. :(

meme stolen from theonlytwin. I started out doing this fast and then I decided to take my time and I even found PICTURES.
List 10 platonic male/female relationships in fiction that you enjoy.

Rules:

1. They interact in canon, preferably in a significant (apply your own interpretation of such) way.
2. They are not related. They can, however, view each other as surrogate family.
3. Neither has confessed or implied romantic love for the other in canon.
4. They have not dated, been married, had sex, or made out in canon, on purpose, and of their own free will.
5. A popular fanon ship is ok (though preferably not your ship) but a canon pairing you wish were just friends is out.
6. Try to avoid using the same character or series twice.

~*~preview~*~
click my cheesy awesome collage:

( platoooonic )
Omygawd, this meme took FOREVER. You'd best shower me with praise if this entertained or interested you, holy crap. Time to do chores.

told you there'd be a Karl Urban wallpaper soon.


The quote is taken from this totally awesome 11 year old interview that made me actually like and care about him as a person, as opposed to just oogling him for his manly new zealandish charms as I have been doing this many a year: http://www.whoosh.org/issue24/iurban1.html Back when he was still in the middle of being Cupid. Thus, the inky wings.

Do you like it? I like it. It's New Zealand flag colors! And also I didn't edit out his cigarette, although I was sorely tempted. Karl Urban, I now feel, deep down in my soul, that you should play Crowley in a film adaptation of Good Omens. Don't ask me why, I can only tell you that it is somehow related to the cigarette.

I kept trying to add textures or googaws or more *stuff* all over the place. I'd decided, upon having 24 hours' reflection, that instead of despising my Anton Yelchin wallpaper that really indeed I quite loved it, so I was thinking maybe I should go for something similar here, but every time I added something to make the background not white it just felt wrong! The inky things were totally a compromise, because I realize most people don't enjoy having their desktops a flat white in its majority, including myself, but really, I like it quite a lot with just the red and blue shadowshapes and the quote and that's that. The more wallpapers I make, the simpler they seem to be getting. I think it's probably a process of personal aesthetic refinement. Considering that the last bout of visual creative output I had was limited to icons 100x100 pixels, my compositional choices were pre-limited for me. In this case, it's a reversal of challenge. Instead of trying very hard to cram as much information as possible into a teeny tiny space, I'm trying very hard to get enough information in to fill a very large space indeed. It's striking that balance that is the hard part.

*waxes poetic about shit nobody cares about until she passes out*

Hey, new people who are LJ friends, I really, really, really like comments.

Edit: Hrm, apparently it took me a little over 2 hours to make this one. Seems like that's my average...

To bring all of the topics of the day together, in my geeky travels across the internet in search for certain things, I have discovered the documentary Reclaiming the Blade.
http://www.reclaimingtheblade.com

About 8 years ago I was pretty obsessed with swords. Hell, I still am. They are potent symbols, and my fascination has very little to do with the *reality* of swords, more the *meaning* of them. This sausage-fest of a documentary film is not only starring a whole bunch of nerdy sword fighting actors (most of whom likely spend a good deal of their lives in New Zealand) waxing poetic about swordplay, but is ALSO narrated by the Professor himself, John Rhys-Davies. I don't think it can get any more manly and geeky than this, can you? I very much would like to see this film. It taps into that 16 year old part of my brain, that still wants a Scottish hand and a half more than a boyfriend. Preferably, a boyfriend *with* a scottish hand and half, but, y'know.

So the reason I found out about this is because I was looking around for things Karl Urban has said. I'm making a wallpaper of him. He's very New Zealandtastic. He was Cupid in Hercules! Yeah, you know you'd hit it, dorky blonde hair and all. Turns out he's one of the stars of Reclaiming the Blade, along with Viggo (aragorn, le duh) and the badass old dude who was Darth Vader during the swordfights. In the preview, you get to see Karl say "Errol Flynn" who, fyi, is basically the most attractive man to ever have a mustache. Also, I am very very very VERY tangentially related to someone who taught Errol Flynn how to swordfight, no lies. (This means I'm FAMOUS.)

So, long story short, lol, swords are phallic symbols, and soon enough I'll have a wallpaper of Karl Urban.

Ian Urbina: it would appear that there is, in fact, a place to obtain texas bbq in seattle - it is called longhorn, and it is located in pioneer square, which is apparently MEAT CENTRAL between that and salumi
Sarah Pinansky: i... enjoy MEAT CENTRAL
Ian Urbina: as do I
Sarah Pinansky: lol gay lol
Ian Urbina: whatever
Sarah Pinansky: there needs to be a deli/restaurant called Sausage Party
Ian Urbina: we can start it up in my parents neighborhood. it'll go over great.
Sarah Pinansky: inorite
Sarah Pinansky: it could make and sell all sorts of artisinal whatsihoosits
Sarah Pinansky: it could only be staffed by hot gay men, though
Sarah Pinansky: that might be considered descriminatory hiring practices. :(
Ian Urbina: nah, you could have a couple bears in there
Ian Urbina: equal opportunity, etc
Sarah Pinansky: did i say that bears were not hot gay men?
Ian Urbina: hey man, there's an implication there
Sarah Pinansky: i'm not judging hotness on *my* rubrik. it's a deli caleld Sausage Party, after all.
Ian Urbina: fair enough
Sarah Pinansky: there could be a special that was two bratwursts in a bun, called the Swordfight.
Ian Urbina: oy
Ian Urbina: you know, on second thought, we could never do this in chicago
Ian Urbina: there's no way to compete with hot doug's
Sarah Pinansky: then we should do it in Seattle, obviously.
Ian Urbina: so it would seem
Sarah Pinansky: i bet all the denizens of Fremont secretly want a gay Sausage Party deli
Ian Urbina: snerk
Ian Urbina: sausages should be offered in three sizes: "oh honey, size doesn't matter" "standard" and "size queen"
Sarah Pinansky: "Two hot porks with special sauce for me, and some liverwurst for my friend here. Make it girthy."

My conscience has been forced to note that Ian is, in fact, not gay, and is so comfortable with his own masculinity and heterosexuality that he doesn't give a fuck about me calling him so. So, you know, all you ladies out there, he's a catch. *wink*