i'm still alive

I'm glad my exam period finished with Japanese. When I looked at the paper, for a while I thought it would take me nearly to the two hours (because the reading section looked...thick).


Argh, I hate the holidays because my parents automatically assume I have nothing to do!!! Argh!!!!

I want to use these 4 weeks to get a move on my writing, and there are at least two translation projects that I've inadvertently promised to do. I have to tidy up my room and notes because right now I can't even see the rug. And I need to revise the stuff from immunology last year not because I like studying in the holidays, hell no, but if I don't revise it I'll be hating the subject every minute of its length.

And I want to read!!!!!!!!!! Damn it!!! I hate how science is overtaking my vocabulary!!! I go back and read the stuff I wrote in 2003/2004 and I'm impressed, impressed damn it, by my range of vocabulary then. Sure I can shoot off impressive words like "encephalopathy" and "adenocarcinoma" now, but in high school I knew how to say the word "demonstrate" in 20 different ways (thanks, HSC english).

Edit: The answers to the questions in the last post >_>;
1) It was the second last one that was drawn in 2001. Personally, I think my style evolved into rounder and shorter(?) chins.
2) 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 1. I think.

amused or angry?

Hypothetical situation:

You have written something.

Someone else copied it, word for word, and posted on their website, deleting both your name/nickname/credits.

And at the very end, they added ©[their own name]


*Sigh*


(It hasn't happened to me, yet... at least not that I know of)

 

yaoi vs yuri?

I doubt anyone actually reads stuff on ANN (Anime News Network) except to find out who's starring in your current favourite anime >__>;;

On the new Answerman column, a reader has sent in a rant - a thinly veiled wailing complaint - about the lack of yuri content on the internet, compared to yaoi.

My response? GET OUT THERE AND CREATE SOME, YOU MORONIC LOBSTER.

The overwhelming majority of yaoi is fan-created - that includes Japan-released doujinshi. Quality aside, the sheer volume exists simply because fans 1) exist and 2) they support the growth by contributing to it.

It's ridiculous complaining about the quality and quantity of yaoi in one breath. The fact that the quality appears bad is because of the overwhelming quantity written by screaming fangirls under the age of 15.

Furthermore, both yaoi and yuri have the same principle; they are two sides of the same coin. However, a coin is supposed to land on both sides an equal number of times when flipped. Guess what, it's not.

...That is the most ridiculous comparison I've come across. Coin is supposed to land on both sides an equal number of times?!?!! The HELL?!?! Coins are a game of chance with only two outcomes. The path taken by a person who likes yaoi or yuri, to producing some of their own, to publishing it, online or via some other route, is dependent on hundreds of factors and can arrive at hundreds of different outcomes.

I don't know why this article pisses me off so much. Maybe it's the pretentious essay form, each paragraph with a separate, distinctive idea, except the ideas neither correlate nor synergistically contribute to the argument. And the attempt to finish with grandiose (the quote above) comes across as laughably inept.


I know this is late to say it but.

Recently I've realised.

I. Hate. Stupidity.

Such as above.