hackthis_archive | It's my right to be contrary!

I’ve been sick for four days.

Did I mention that I am the world’s crankiest sick person? I'm running around cursing just because. When

ethrosdemon asked what she could do to make it better I asked her to kill fictional characters for me. Or do something snarky. A fictional character being snarky about their own death would be better than chocolate - which I cannot have right now.

Other things I have decided in my 72 hours of cabin fever:

1. Jet, the 80’s band which sang ‘I’ve Got a Crush on You’ is vastly preferable to Jet, singers of ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’ even though I do like the latter. (Mad props to

serialkarma)

2. If I eat another bowl of chicken soup/chicken broth/chicken anything, I will lay an egg.

3. I don’t really like Messiah Complex Protagonists. I don’t like Superman. Or Clark Kent. Or Harry Potter. This does not stop me reading or writing about them, but it does stop me from empathizing with them. It stops me from appreciating them the way I do characters I can empathaize with, like say, Lex or Faith or Neville. I think you should save the world because you think it's worth saving and you want to, not because someone says you have to. I hate it when people pull that obligation shit. ETN: This is not some gauntlet I'm throwing down to player-hate on Superman. This is not some Smallville-esque ode to Clark's characterization either; I've never been into Superman. I've always preferred Batman to Supes and Plastic Man to both. I'm more Everyman than Ubermensch.

4. I like accidental heroes. Like Neville. And Plastic Man.

5. I don’t like the Justice League cartoon. This has no bearing on my massive collection of JLA comic books (issue #92 in stands now), because as I said in #3, I heart Plastic Man. But I highly doubt that the Cartoon Network is going to put the deadbeat father who’s, gasp, not model material, at their animated table. Their loss.

6. MS Words sucks ass.

7. If I don't get out the house soon there's going to be an accident.

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You might enjoy my latest manip if you haven't seen it.

http://www.meret.illuminatedtext.com/clarkbound.jpg

I hope you feel better. *hugs*

*runs to open front door*

What? You mean that's not waiting on my doorstep? Why did I get up this morning then? Nuts.

You crack me up. #2 just made me laugh for like, 2 minutes.

And word on #5 and 6.

*throws up devil horns*

Rock on, sister!

I had a Plastic Man action figure when I was a kid. But, once you pulled on his arms and/or legs TOO much, he wouldn't quite snap back to his original form. In the end, he looked like he'd been put into some strange torture device a la Braveheart and pulled like taffy... All the while, the bastard still had his painted on smile tacked to his face. Heh.

Sorry you got the sicks, yo. But, I bet you'll be feeling better when it's time to go a stalking The 'Mez.

That's okay. You should have heard the rant I went on yesterday to one of my co-workers who tried to tell me that Luke Duke was cooler/cuter than Bo Duke. I don't know what freaking show SHE was watching... But, Tom Wopatt ain't got NOTHING on Daddy Kent, yo.

Yeah, I'm not wanting to think real hard on Daddy Kent being hot *ever*, especially with my feelings about blonde men, but there was like no contest there at all.

"Well, Potter, when I said I wanted you to get squished like a small furry rodent, I have to admit, this is not exactly how I imagined it happening," Draco said, his neck craned at an uncomfortable angle as he watched as the sun was blotted out above his head.

"Well, Malfoy, I have to say, when I said I hoped you'd end up ground into little tiny pieces someday, I was kind of hoping I'd get a chance to do it myself. I didn't really mean this, though. Wish I knew what went wrong." Harry didn't bother looking up. He was busy closely inspecting his wand, as though if he looked hard enough a little flag would pop out of the end with a sign that read "Ha Ha! Fooled you!"

"You're an incompetent wizard, Potter you git, that's what went wrong. My only comfort is knowing that you've screwed yourself over as well as me. Also, I find it tremendously amusing that Voldemort will have won the war by forfeit, as it were." There was a great whooshing sound now and Draco's hair flew around his head as he spoke. He still hadn't bothered to actually look at Harry.

"Yeah," said Harry glumly. "Bit embarrassing, that, really. You know, Malfoy--"

But whatever Harry would have told him was cut off, forever, as the hawk swooped down over the tiny, shrunken figures in the grass, snatched them up, swallowed them both down and went on in search of more substantial prey. It was kind of hoping for a fat chipmunk. These little hairless creatures were too crunchy.

~~I love you~~

Thank you.

*adores*

Jet of Are you gonna be my girl are remarkably terrible. And stuck up, which makes them worse.

Ah, I know them not, I only know that the song has managed to infiltrate my screening processes, much like termites.

Bummer about being sick. Hope you feel better soon!

Personally, I'm wishing for about a month of snow days, but I don't think it's going to happen any time soon. *pouts*

A month of snow days? You'd go bonkers for being in the house that long, you know this.

I know. Especially without internet access!

But when I'm hating my job like I have been, snow days sure sound like fun!

I never post other than to comment on how great your fic is, but your reluxtant hero rant made me curious.

Do you not like Buffy? I got the impression from your work that you might be a fan, but she definitely fits in the 'save the world because you have to' category. That's part of the reason why I didn't love the finale, I didn't understand how spreading the power around let Buffy off of the moral obligation hook.

I loved Buffy, the television show, but whether or not I loved Buffy the character is another story altogether. I preferred Buffy, the character, of S1-S3 to the latter Buffy, who seemed very up on the cross and woe is me. I mean, yes, okay, woe is her, that was a pretty short end of the stick she drew: mom dies, she dies, man runs away, random sister, everybody going bonkers and abandoning her and then Spike? I won't even go there. Especially when I'm sick and not particularly rational. The characters I preferred on Buffy though were those who did what they could without being 'the choosen one' i.e. Xander, Oz, Cordy, Giles... I like 'the regular people.' At the heart of all this is simply my cynical disregard for all 'heroes.' I don't believe in them, per se. I think you (generic you) should believe in yourself. I think that believing in other people and sticking them on pedestals is dangerous and foolhardy and bound to end poorly.

I'm sorry it took me so long to respond. I'm not sure you'll see this, but I agree with you. I understood why Buffy resented the fact that she was the chosen one, but I always wanted her to see the other side of it. She gets to do great things for humanity in a definitive way. I think most well-intentioned people try to come to terms with what they give to the world around them, but spend most of their lives unsure if they've given enough, like Steinbeck's Great Ledger. Buffy had something to real to give, but too often seemed concerned with outside validation rather than personal fulfillment.

I do think there were moments, like in Helpless, when Buffy acknowledged that even if she didn't have the superpowers she would still be moved to do what she could, unfortunately there weren't many.

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Hmm. Death and snark. Kind of.

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