But I keep up the good fight not to give in and register, because I. AM. STRONK.

This pushes self-insert right to its limit. (I love the plaintive little "Nobody believes me" at the end.) The responses to this secret are pretty hilarious, but my favorite has to be the one which starts off with "I am the batman" and spawns everyone coming out and claiming their true identities, from Suzaku to Hermione to "I AM GUNDAM". Which then led me to eagerly going through every single FS post after that in the hope that someone was going to wake up someday and realize that they were Giotto or Reborn in a past life. Or possibly the personification of England. Or America. Or Singapore. Or Sentosa.

On other matters:

I find this unbearably adorable yet just a little creepy at the same time. And I cannot get this song out of my head. "That what is really good and what really matters lies in the kisses/ And that's why I want kisses/ That they wake me up every morning/ That the afternoon arrives and there are still KISSES~"

Besos y'all.

It was only when I was browsing through fandomsecrets and I came across this secret when I realized just how important fandom has become to people. I know I know, there are at least a thousand other secrets on how fandom has helped this person or other overcome suicide attempts and made life brighter in general, but that was the only secret which hit the switch for some reason. It reminded me a lot of this dialogue from the Hogfather television adaptation:


Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

That last line of Death's says it all, really. When life becomes too much, when the big pile of shit that's been hanging over your head begins to topple, when your fingers finally slip from the edge that you've been desperately hanging on to for so long, you need a place to run away to for a while, even if it isn't real, even if it only exists inside your head. How else do you go on? It's like being too sober all the time. We all need that veil, that slight haze of not!life and not!reality to make things just that bit more bearable.

Speaking of the TV adaptation, I had no idea that there was an actor inside Death's costume. I honestly thought it was a giant puppet. XD; They hired this Dutch guy to play him, and there's a button inside which he hits with his chin everytime he opens his mouth and Death's dialogue comes from speakers somewhere AND IT'S ALL SO COOL-- *_* Although I thought Death's voice should be more booming and menacing.

And while we're on the subject of fandom secrets, this secret made me go AWWWWW while this one made me want to laugh and cry at the same time because it could have been me when I first started poly nine years ago. Wait, it's been NINE YEARS?! I'M OLD. T_T

Oh, and all of you should go watch Cloudy with a chance of meatballs if you get the chance. The main character's A-DORK-ABLE! ♥ He does his own narration and sound effects! His pet monkey is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris! And there's an over-zealous policeman IN SHORTS! :DD

Reading this week's issue of 8 Days ("The Annoying List"), I realized that I agreed with all 43 items listed. This made me feel very annoyed, and for no reason I was going to compile my own list of pet peeves when I thought, "Aiyah, no one needs to know how annoyed you are lah. Besides it will rampage into personal territory and history and YOU THINK PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT YOU MEH. You think you L*K*Y the Queen ah?" so I didn't.

Instead I went to dig up videos of cute fluffy animals so that we can all go AWWWW together instead.




I can practically hear the poor bunny's thoughts within the first minute of the video: "YOU. SNIFFING. MY BUTT. WHY." XD

On a completely random note, why I got so many funny funny useless bookmarks in my library ah? No wonder scroll that time like never-ending one... /grumbles

So, about Bruno...

That was the first time in my life I stepped out of a cinema with such an empty feeling. ._. The advanced warnings were accurate, both for the cringe-worthiness of the film and the appearance of a certain part of the male anatomy (which also happened to be the literal representation of this site.)

In short, I am now traumatized and may never quite recover again. ._.

* * *

APH drabbles! Most of which made sense at the time of writing but not so much now.

( People say that my cooking's bad, but it's done on purpose! )

( Italy sleeps over at Japan's house )

( In order of appearance: Poland, Lithuania, France, England. )

( Dating right back to the Middle Ages. )

( In my head canon )

( I have no explanation for this one. )

Food for thought:
- How to Fly
- How to draw an egg
- Five monkeys in a cage


Random things that horrified me:
- And that's why. Just looking at the photos made my arteries go CLANGCLANGCLANG EMERGENCY EMERGENCY.

- Princess Diana shoujo manga, it actually exists. *flees from Prince Charles' psycho!eyes*

- Latest KHR chapter spoilers: Prince Charming stereotype is now CANON WTF


My life and fandom, we shall never part!
- Network Analysis Qn: Which activities should the manager crash to reduce the overall project completion time?


Ans: やらないか? XD

- "England is drinking far too much, England has an alcohol problem." Yes, yes he does.

( So my Lambo gave me this. )

"Any chance of religious afflictions?"
"Nope. Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, we accept them all!"



Okuribito/Departures: such a beautiful, beautiful film. ♥ *sighs happily*

I have this tendency during long (>2 hours) films to suddenly think 'This movie is TOO LONG I AM DYING HELP' halfway though, but surprisingly enough I didn't for this one. The pacing is nicely done, the plot is simple, and it was a pleasure watching all the little sub-stories unfold within the main one. And the music is pretty as well. Pretty, pretty classical I could listen to all day long. ♥

The second half of the movie had everyone bringing out tissue packets and sniffing all the way to the end.

Photo dump now.
( Non-Hetalia fans can stop reading now )

You know, they never reported on how the police actually reacted. Oh, MacDonalds. Inspiring insanity in people again, I see.

And this is pretty. Dark!Miku, I think.

This song has somehow made its way into my head and REFUSES TO GET OUT. orz