I'm here! Been occupied with Ocarina of Time--holy COW it's taking me a long time to get through. I have to have a walkthrough almost all the time. Gyah, mentioned that on Bulbagarden and people were all "Seriously?" and "You're kidding, right?" Hey, not my fault that I can't see shit in that game. Not only is it almost pitch-dark in most of the dungeons, but the camera has a nasty tendency to swing around. Not to mention that they didn't update the text in the Wii version for the Classic Controller and still gives the N64 specs, so I was pounding the Z button like it told me only to discover that on the CC it's the L button instead.
Anyway, next week I'll be getting a reserve on either HG or SS, but I can't decide which one yet. And so I turn to you!
HG Pros and Cons
+Fewer people getting it
-Already played Gold
SS Pros and Cons
+LUGIA
-More people getting it
YOU DECIDE.
Oh yeah, speaking of "you decide", the Serebii board is having its yearly fanfic contest. In case any of you keep up with fics over there, the ones I've done that're elegible for it are Obsession, Creation, Location, and Red.
And speaking of fanfics, man, do you guys read
metafandom? All this stuff about politics of fics and fandoms and what it means when we have characters do x...sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who writes what the characters would do and not just what I want them to do or what I feel would be in the best political interest to have them do. Hell, whenever I try to write as me rather than as them, the fics don't get done. The characters don't *let* me. Metaphorically speaking of course, but you know what I mean.
But all this stuff about, say, the politics of slash and if it's inherently demeaning or exploitative or anything...what the hell. Doesn't that depend on the individual fic? You really can't deem a genre with such a debate.
Maybe this is because I see things as just that--a collection of individuals. I always have. I look at "the media"--what "media", there's invidual shows, individual movies made by individual writers and directors, so on--and I don't see the pressure people talk about. People go on about the pressure "the media" puts on girls to look a certain way or act a certain way...I never felt it. Not from what I watch, not from what I read, not from anything. I saw women act that way, but I always percieve it as "here is an individual woman" rather than "here is a representation of what you should be like".
It's like when people talk about when a sports star gets busted for something how these people are supposed to be role models--how? So you can do whatever your sport requires to a ball. How is that inherently a position of role model? Where does that come in? And moreover, HOW does that come in? Because to me, there's being good at something and there's being a good person, and it's entirely possible to emulate the one without the other.
The world is a very illogical place (as you may have gleaned from my previous entries). Are we all supposed to break away from groups? If so, what defines those groups and doesn't breaking away from them simply put us in new groups?
Anyway, next week I'll be getting a reserve on either HG or SS, but I can't decide which one yet. And so I turn to you!
HG Pros and Cons
+Fewer people getting it
-Already played Gold
SS Pros and Cons
+LUGIA
-More people getting it
YOU DECIDE.
Oh yeah, speaking of "you decide", the Serebii board is having its yearly fanfic contest. In case any of you keep up with fics over there, the ones I've done that're elegible for it are Obsession, Creation, Location, and Red.
And speaking of fanfics, man, do you guys read
metafandom? All this stuff about politics of fics and fandoms and what it means when we have characters do x...sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who writes what the characters would do and not just what I want them to do or what I feel would be in the best political interest to have them do. Hell, whenever I try to write as me rather than as them, the fics don't get done. The characters don't *let* me. Metaphorically speaking of course, but you know what I mean.But all this stuff about, say, the politics of slash and if it's inherently demeaning or exploitative or anything...what the hell. Doesn't that depend on the individual fic? You really can't deem a genre with such a debate.
Maybe this is because I see things as just that--a collection of individuals. I always have. I look at "the media"--what "media", there's invidual shows, individual movies made by individual writers and directors, so on--and I don't see the pressure people talk about. People go on about the pressure "the media" puts on girls to look a certain way or act a certain way...I never felt it. Not from what I watch, not from what I read, not from anything. I saw women act that way, but I always percieve it as "here is an individual woman" rather than "here is a representation of what you should be like".
It's like when people talk about when a sports star gets busted for something how these people are supposed to be role models--how? So you can do whatever your sport requires to a ball. How is that inherently a position of role model? Where does that come in? And moreover, HOW does that come in? Because to me, there's being good at something and there's being a good person, and it's entirely possible to emulate the one without the other.
The world is a very illogical place (as you may have gleaned from my previous entries). Are we all supposed to break away from groups? If so, what defines those groups and doesn't breaking away from them simply put us in new groups?