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out_thereWhen I wake up really cranky on a Friday morning, it shouldn't surprise me that it turns out to be that time of the month. *grrrr* When it comes to periods, I'm certainly not as cursed as some (sure, I always spend the first day on painkillers, but it's not like I'm immobilised by severe pain for a week), but the combination of cramps, backache, headache and tiredness today just makes me want to crawl into bed.
On the good side, the boss is out of the office until 2pm, so at least I don't have to deal with those demands for efficiency. Thank heavens.
Of course, having said that, the boss calls up to find out what I've done this morning and to hassle me to get my to do list done. And my reaction is to grumble back at him that I've been sorting through my desk (*grrrrr* *argh*). His reaction was to remind me that he wants stuff done when he returns this arvo, and that "he'll leave it in my capable hands". Heh. See, we have an understanding. I don't get put off by his bad moods, he doesn't bug me too much when I'm in a bad mood. It works well.
Oh, and because I'm big enough to admit when I'm wrong (sometimes), I was totally wrong about Jafar's voice in Aladdin. (I watched it last night and checked.) It's not Jeremy Irons, it's Jonathan Freeman. Scar and Jafar are still two of my favourite villians though. (Also, Jafar and Iago? Would be so slashy if they were both human. They're both such drama queens.)
Also, saw a preview for Bambi, and commented to Mum that I wasn't sure if I'd seen it. Everyone talks about Bambi's mother and how truamatic that was, and I can't even remember it. She said that I did see it as a kid, but I liked the rabbit. Considering I knew the rabbit's name (Thumper), I'm guessing Mum's right that I only paid atnetion to his scenes. She said the other kids came out of the cinema talking about the deer, I came out talking about Thumper. *g*
On the good side, the boss is out of the office until 2pm, so at least I don't have to deal with those demands for efficiency. Thank heavens.
Of course, having said that, the boss calls up to find out what I've done this morning and to hassle me to get my to do list done. And my reaction is to grumble back at him that I've been sorting through my desk (*grrrrr* *argh*). His reaction was to remind me that he wants stuff done when he returns this arvo, and that "he'll leave it in my capable hands". Heh. See, we have an understanding. I don't get put off by his bad moods, he doesn't bug me too much when I'm in a bad mood. It works well.
Oh, and because I'm big enough to admit when I'm wrong (sometimes), I was totally wrong about Jafar's voice in Aladdin. (I watched it last night and checked.) It's not Jeremy Irons, it's Jonathan Freeman. Scar and Jafar are still two of my favourite villians though. (Also, Jafar and Iago? Would be so slashy if they were both human. They're both such drama queens.)
Also, saw a preview for Bambi, and commented to Mum that I wasn't sure if I'd seen it. Everyone talks about Bambi's mother and how truamatic that was, and I can't even remember it. She said that I did see it as a kid, but I liked the rabbit. Considering I knew the rabbit's name (Thumper), I'm guessing Mum's right that I only paid atnetion to his scenes. She said the other kids came out of the cinema talking about the deer, I came out talking about Thumper. *g*
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Date: 2003-10-30 06:43 pm (UTC)They're both such drama queens.)
Thank you SO much for that mental image. Really, it's better than Shrek/Donkey slash, that is. :P
Everyone talks about Bambi's mother and how truamatic that was, and I can't even remember it.
Me neither. But apparently when I saw it at a special screening when I was two, I was the only kid who realised what had happened. So of course I screamed, "Bambi's mother's DEAD!!!" at the top of my lungs. To this day, it's my proudest achievement - getting a whole cinema-full of children crying. >;D
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Date: 2003-10-30 06:57 pm (UTC)Well, I'm not sure if I should apologise for it or not, you know. I mean, they ended up squabbling together in very tiny quarters at the end of the film. And, Jafar ended up being in a form that a) could change to whatever he wanted it to be or b) would allow him to change Iago to whatever he wanted him to be. I mean, the sad thing is that the slash isn't impossible. Not by a long stretch.
And now, I may need to go clean out my mind.
To this day, it's my proudest achievement - getting a whole cinema-full of children crying. >;D
*applauds* But the question is, how many times have you tried to beat that acheivemant? 'Cos if you haven't tried, how do you know you're not capable of bigger and better things? *g*
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:09 pm (UTC)Okay, that's it. My new goal is to make an entire room of small children to cry. Thank you for giving me a purpose in life. >:)
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:17 pm (UTC)Try it. When I last saw it, I was about 13 or 14, but hadn't hit the slash yet. When you watch, it's just highly... slashy. In that bickering way. Iago can bitch loudly like it's an Olympic sport, and Jafar just *looks* at him and very smoothly tells him to be calm. Jafar bitches in that highly sarcastic, dry manner, and you can tell by the expression on Iago's face that he's both amused and agrees.
My favourite moment of the two is when they're considering that Jasmine may have them banished when she rules.
Jafar: "Or she could have us..." *raises a hand around his throat* "Beheaded."
*Both Iago and Jafar shudder and gulp*
It's not slashy so much as cute and amusing. They're just so alike, so well-suited to each other.
And now, I need to stop talking a man and his pet parrot like that, don't I?
Okay, that's it. My new goal is to make an entire room of small children to cry. Thank you for giving me a purpose in life. >:)
*beams* Knew there was a reason I'm so fond of you!
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:26 pm (UTC)And now, I need to stop talking a man and his pet parrot like that, don't I?
You know, I'm scared to go to FF.N to see if this has been done (not to READ it, just see if it's been done), because the summaries alone might scar me forever. Just when you think you're unsquickable... :P
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:28 pm (UTC)Feathers! *covers eyes* I'm sure they'll be mention of feathers and moulting... I'm sure of it.
Go on, check. I double dare you!
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:38 pm (UTC)(*heads off to The Evil Place*)
Damn, it's not listed in the search engine. So I have to personally look for slash in the cartoon section. If we didn't all know about Spongebob and Squidward, this would be very strange. -_-;;;
(*ten seconds later*)
Okay, so I'm officially freaked out. I found two fics right away called The Lady and the Tiger and Monkey Without A Cause, and I nearly started screaming. (Come to think of it, Abu and Aladdin WERE living together for a long ti- NO!)
Wow, there are 'Aladdin' Mary Sues. That's very sad. I mean, even if you WANTED to self-insert into a Disney cartoon, there's the perfect Sue in canon. Smart, willful, tough, beautiful, and she's even named after a precious stone. What more do you want, people?
Who's Mozenrath? I don't remember him, and from the summaries he's got a Draco/Harry thing happening with Aladdin. This is so weird. But no Jafar/Iago sightings as yet, sadly (thank god). What a shame. :P
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Date: 2003-10-30 10:24 pm (UTC)Plus, she's highly likeable. As is Aladdin, himself. I forgot how much I liked the guy until I watched the film. Mind you, I also love the Genie, and Jafar, and Iago, and the Rug, so it's a highly likeable film.
Who's Mozenrath?
Can't remember. From the animated series, I'm pretty sure...
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Date: 2003-10-30 10:31 pm (UTC)Ahhhh! Ye olde animation spinoffe. Thanks! :)
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Date: 2003-10-30 10:36 pm (UTC)She rocked, too.
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Date: 2003-10-30 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 02:45 pm (UTC)I always remember the fact that her father had the power, the whole time, to give her what she wanted. Yet didn't, until she proved that was what she really wanted.
Ooh, another fave Disney heroine? Belle. She was bookish, and gutsy, and sweet. And, nicely sarcastic when it came to Gaston. *loves*
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Date: 2003-10-31 06:13 pm (UTC):D Belle was good - and bless Gaston. I haven't seen that since I was ten, but if he wasn't propositioning the local boys between scenes... >;)
All this talk about Disney maids makes me wish I'd seen 'Mulan'. Have you seen that? Apparently she's a great Disney gal. :P
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Date: 2003-10-31 06:48 pm (UTC)Well, I last saw Beauty and the Beast as a live musical when I was 15/16. Oh, the Gaston song rocks so much. *g* Heh, you're right though. I think Gaston needs to go join Jafar, Scar and Robin Hood in their "Club".
Mulan? Yeah, I saw that a couple years ago. Lots of fun, and the heroine was very spunky and practical. Plus, crossdressing! That's my kinda gal. *g* A good Disney film, and you get to see the hero slightly concerned that the newest addition to his troops seems to be making googly eyes at him. Yes, I am easily amused.
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Date: 2003-10-31 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 07:06 pm (UTC)Yes, that's a great idea! Mulan (crossdressing), Aladdin (Jafar), Lion King (Scar) and Road to El Dorado. I don't care if there's a canonical love interest, because those boys are so doing it. *g*
Man, makes me wish I'd organised something for Tuesday. Although, I guess most normal people actually do stuff on a long weekend, as opposed to me who just sits around in bed and is happy to turn off her alarm on a weekday. *g*
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Date: 2003-10-31 07:12 pm (UTC)See, it's fun when you can rationalise your procrastination. ;P
I just wish I lived closer to the rest of you - poor
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Date: 2003-10-31 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 07:20 pm (UTC)Think eastern suburbs. Think outer eastern suburbs. Then try not to think "the sticks!". -_-;;; ;P
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Date: 2003-10-31 07:25 pm (UTC)I'm trying to think of where she is... it's east of the city, about a $50 cabride.... Narre Warren.
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Date: 2003-10-31 07:33 pm (UTC)I can't wait until I can move closer to the city. :P
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Date: 2003-10-31 07:41 pm (UTC)*nods*
Yeah, we missed the last train back from Indy's station (due to the bloody taxi company but it's a long weekend, and I'm too relaxed to put any effort into griping) and between three of us it cost a total of about $70 to get back into the city. (Well, it was a bit more, but that's because we stopped by at two of their places on the way, since Genie and
But, for any get togethers at my place, you're perfectly welcome to crash overnight, and get public transport back home the next day, if it helps.
(Plus, I know nothing about pop except that Justin Timberlake is strange. :P)
I'm not a big popslasher, but watching popslashers is an amusing passtime in and of itself. Seriously, they're highly... enthusiastic. *g* Plus, I just can't watch pop without laughing. I mean, you don't expect me to seriously like this music, right? It's okay to dance to, but I'm not going to sit and listen to it...
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Date: 2003-10-31 07:47 pm (UTC)But, for any get togethers at my place, you're perfectly welcome to crash overnight, and get public transport back home the next day, if it helps.
:) I might take you up on that one day. It's hard to do the transport thing after most parties/gatherings because I'm usually the only one going that way, and catching the train alone in the middle of the night is not a wonderful idea. :P Thanks!
I mean, you don't expect me to seriously like this music, right? It's okay to dance to, but I'm not going to sit and listen to it...
But the lyrics are so original, so soulful! "I'll never break your heart", "Quit playing games with my heart", "Bye Bye Bye"... Those lyrics MEAN something, dammit!
(*cleanses self with Radiohead and triple j compilations. :P*)
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Date: 2003-10-31 08:00 pm (UTC)*nods* I agree. Not that I don't use public transport in the middle of the night myself, but I'm about 30 minutes out of the city on a train, and my area is dead quiet at night. Hence, it's pretty safe. If I was living back in Fistzroy, I don't think I'd be so keen. Ditto, actually, if I was living back in Clayton, because there used to be some rough types getting on the train to go to Dandenong and Springvale.
But the lyrics are so original, so soulful! "I'll never break your heart", "Quit playing games with my heart", "Bye Bye Bye"... Those lyrics MEAN something, dammit!
Bwahahaha! *loves
Yes, us alternative-musical-snob types need to stick together. *g*
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Date: 2003-10-31 08:08 pm (UTC)(*nods*) My station's unmanned, with only one platform that isn't visible by the road, down a street with no lights. Not the best way to encourage people to catch the train. :P
Yes, us alternative-musical-snob types need to stick together. *g*
Damn straight. Let us hear no more of this Timberlake fellow and his wish to "rock our bodies".
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Date: 2003-10-31 08:30 pm (UTC)My station's unmanned (I was about to say unarmed, but that's a totally different meaning *g*) too, but it is well lit, highly visible, and at the end of the shops.
Worst station I used to use was Corio (just before Geelong) which is unmanned, barely lit, across a dark feild from the main road, and a good way out of the way. That's kinda creepy at night, because if there's only a few people getting off, if something happens, there's a good chance nobody would be able to see. (Hence the reason I always got mum to pick me up when I came home late, or alternatively, got a train a few stops up and got the bus home.)
Damn straight. Let us hear no more of this Timberlake fellow and his wish to "rock our bodies".
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Date: 2003-11-01 04:32 am (UTC)Oh yes. And there's nothing worse than asking someone to give you a lift from a creepy, unmanned station at night and having them be late. I'm always paranoid I'll be murdered in the two minutes I'm waiting, mentally going through that list of Ways To Use Keys As Lethal Weapons. :P
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Date: 2003-11-01 04:53 am (UTC)Dude! What a jinx!
I mean, I'm not paranoid. I'm cautious, meaning I still take stupid risks, and I don't think everyone getting off at my station is a mass murderer, but I also do the "Getting the keys ready in case of an attack" thing. When I'm really nervous, that's when I'm clenching my keys in my pocket, with the big spare car key sticking out between my middle fingers (just waiting for a sensitive temple or eye...).
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Date: 2003-11-01 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-01 05:36 am (UTC)Of course, you could stab them in the eye, and follow it up with a quick knee to the groin, and really buy yourself some time.
There's also the other option of a temple, but I think that would freak me as much as them. I mean, sure, with a bit of force, you could push a key right into the vulnerable spot on the temple, but there's a chance that would actually kill them. I think that would stop me from pushing hard enough for it to be effective.
*blinks* You know, I'm really not a violent girl. Regardless of what you read here, I'm really not.
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Date: 2003-11-01 05:53 am (UTC)I took a self defence class once, and they taught us how to use our bodies - fingers, knuckles, palms, elbows, knees, feet, etc. - as weapons. Once, we spent twenty minutes learning how to gauge out someone's eyes. See, this is where my squeamish stereotypical girliness comes in. Women are nurturers by nature - inflicting violence is much harder for them than men, self-defence or no. There's a biological resistence to inflicting pain on another living thing. And even if there wasn't, it's EYE-GAUGING! (*shudder*) The groin is a much safer bet. :)
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Date: 2003-11-01 06:04 am (UTC)Well, you know, I don't think it would hurt... or, more correctly, it wouldn't hurt your case, but it would still hurt them.
And even if there wasn't, it's EYE-GAUGING! (*shudder*) The groin is a much safer bet. :)
*nods* I know. And, plus, ever since seeing Xander's eye thingy with Caleb (and scene that makes me cringe, that just had to be plyed in every previously from then on... like I'd forget he's only got one eye now, anyway?!), it's such an ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
The groin? If you do any damage, you can't see it. Plus, as a chick, you have no first hand experience of the pain you're inflicting. My brother once told me that being kneed/hit/whatever in the groin was equivelant pain level to breaking a minor bone. Since I've broken a bone in my foot, and still walked on it for the first few days, I wouldn't have too much guilt over doing that to someone else. Sure, it's going to make the swear non-stop for a few minutes, and walk around with a limp, but in that situation, that's a good thing for me. *g*
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Date: 2003-11-01 06:24 am (UTC)Yeah, and I'm not too fussed with the feelings of my imaginary, hypothetical murderer. ;P
I'd read the script (bless the Net) before I saw the Xander-eye episode, and I think that was worse. I knew it was coming, and all through the fight scene I was hugging a pillow to my chest, cringing like a dork and waiting for it to happen. (It was originally going to be a knife in his eye too, which I think is worse. But the squelching sound... Eugh.)
My brother once told me that being kneed/hit/whatever in the groin was equivelant pain level to breaking a minor bone.
Owww. I asked a guy once, and he said it's not just pain in that area. He said it's excruciating there, but there's also the feeling of being kicked in the gut as your stomach clenches and the pain shoots up. I know men have a lower pain threshold than women, but still. Ow.
Of course, a kick to that area for *anyone* isn't going to be a picnic...
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Date: 2003-10-30 10:39 pm (UTC)Oooh... just remembered why I don't read from FFN. Not only is one story titled "It Felt Real Newlyedited" (yes, that is the title), the summary is:
Jafar is back and with the help from young Estelle,come to claim Agrabah and distroy Al and friends hahaha (rating may go up!).
It's the laughter that frightens me.
Although this one concerns me too:
O Espírito do Deserto by Quilapayuna
Jadé lives a desert life traveling thru the Sahara. But things change when she finds Jafar's lamp. She begins to spark desires in him that he had never once felt. Will he fall for her wittyness and leave his crave for power and revenge a side?
Mary Suing yourself into a Jafar focused fic? *shakes head* That's just... pretty pointless, unless you're really a Marty Sue. *g*
But this is kinda scary too...
Alesfic: #4 - Storm in France by Ryoko reviews
A terrible storm comes and Es needs to take shelter. She goes into Al's hotel and the "first time" happens
The "first time" happens? I'm sure it's just me, but the quotation marks around "first time" just make me dubious that it is her first time. *g*
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Date: 2003-10-30 11:10 pm (UTC):D Just incase we didn't realise it was a self-insertion... :P
Mary Suing yourself into a Jafar focused fic?
It's more common than is sane - Aladdin's children are all stupid or evil, apparently. Poor Marty - too innocent to realise what he was getting into. ;P
My, how we "love" pointless "quotation marks". They make reading a "summary" an endless "romp" through the "fields" of punctuation. :P
I love this summary:
This one is great. Abo and Aladdin are in modern times, and Abo is crazy! Rated PG-13 for drinking and mild violence.
Well, if the AUTHOR says it's great...
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Date: 2003-10-31 02:39 pm (UTC)My, how we "love" pointless "quotation marks". They make reading a "summary" an endless "romp" through the "fields" of punctuation. :P
Hee! I wonder if it's just me that always mentally pronounces quotation marks with a great deal of sarcasm...
Well, if the AUTHOR says it's great...
*wonders why she hasn't read it*
Oh, yeah, I forgot. I'm not a masochist.
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Date: 2003-10-31 06:07 pm (UTC):D :D :D I was thinking that too! It always takes twice as long to read something written like that, because you have to pause on each word with quotes around it and pronounce it differently. :P
Oh, yeah, I forgot. I'm not a masochist.
So you were wandering around FF.N's Disney cartoon section in search of enlightenment, then? ;)
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:40 pm (UTC)ABU/IAGO SLASH!!! AAAAAH!!!
(*collapses, horrified and laughing her ass off*) Why? Why do people do things like this? (*sobs*)
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Date: 2003-10-30 10:11 pm (UTC)Because the cartoon version of them is really damn slashy? I mean, regardless of how much Iago may mention female birds, it's still pretty slashy.
...in that way where it works, until you think of their actual *species*.
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Date: 2003-10-30 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-30 10:41 pm (UTC)"Step away from the keyboard, Annie, and nobody gets hurt."
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Date: 2003-10-30 11:12 pm (UTC)