COMICS, LIFE, COMICS?
1. (SEMI) IMPORTANT QUESTION: So Leslie informed me the other day that I am, in fact, "exceptionally witty" and good at, y'know, having opinions on stuff. Also, she wants to go to the Tokyo Game Show someday, so wants me to start writing critical dissertations on a regular basis this summer (trust me, in the grand scheme of things this is an important part of the TGS plan). Dawn and I attempted to do something similar last year with 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' reviews, but it was mostly for fanfiction reviews and we, uh, never really got around to it. :P
I was thinking of something a little more formal. Real reviews, critical analysis and mini-essays on pop culture. Mostly comics and video games, although I'd try to write something on the few movies I do see and maybe do a weekly thing for the manga I read and the (two) television shows I watch.
MY QUESTION IS: if I did this, how many of you would read it?By the way, attention is my only motivation for doing anything, ha ha ha.
2. On the same topic, I *finally* figured out what I'm writing my first article for Sequential Tart on: Star Sapphire and gender disassociation. Or something like that. I've been reading Green Lantern comics from the early 80's recently and was pleasantly surprised at the way Carol's gender disatisfaction was played out during her transformation into a Super Villain. I mean, even the WTF part where she split herself into two entities (one of which was male :P). Although it'll probably degenerate into rage because of what Geoff Johns has been doing with Sapphie in recent issues of GL.
Seriously, Geoff: Star Sapphire only wanted Hal because she was Carol and Carol didn't just *want* Hal, she wanted Hal to be her doe-eyed, simpering, man-toy. She wanted to top him like an angular seme in a bad yaoi manga. Which, okay, is a little bit of an exaggeration. But really:
This is not is. Not at all. This is actually kind of misogynistic. For all the previous incarnation of Star Sapphire was about Carol feeling inferior because she was a woman in a man's world, it was an honest experience. She states that sexism from her father made her that way. On the other hand, this new Star Sapphire is the most cliched kind of female-explotation around. For all that Geoff Johns is a canon-nazi everywhere else, he's got a convenient blind spot when it comes to the history of his favorite character. WHERE IS HELEN JORDAN, GEOFF. D:
And I'm aware this means nothing to anyone on my flist because maybe 0.0002% of you know anything about Green Lantern canon. Ha ha ha. *FAILURE*
3. I got my Lithium perscription refilled today and it turns out my thyroid may be clogging up. Or not working right. Or whatever. I've been unsually cold lately. Like, cranking up the heat and sleeping with two blankets and wanting to cry because it's too cold out. I've never been great at dealing with dramatic tempature shifts, but I've always been a lot better at dealing with cold than I am at handling warmth. I mean- I complain, but I still wear miniskirts in -20+windchill weather. I sulked in my room most of Monday because it was "too cold" to be outside and I don't even think it was below zero. o__O
Long story sort of short, this is a symptom of hypo-thyroid which is totally fun. Next week is blood test week! :D I like making pointless entires about my health problems, feel free to disregard this.
4. Friday is job hunting day. I think I WILL apply at Chinatown. I keep waffling because I KNOW the new management sucks, but it just seems like easy money, y'know. Also, Laing House won't stop e-mailing me so I'm heading down to see if they still want me to speak to High School students about Mental Illness. I'm a lot more okay with that now that I've got a shiny official diagnosis and, y'know, some experience with medication. Still: I'm not sure I have anything useful or positive to say.Besides that this will look REALLY REALLY good on my resume when I try to get into the BED program.
5.
Thank you, someone, for making that joke.
I was thinking of something a little more formal. Real reviews, critical analysis and mini-essays on pop culture. Mostly comics and video games, although I'd try to write something on the few movies I do see and maybe do a weekly thing for the manga I read and the (two) television shows I watch.
MY QUESTION IS: if I did this, how many of you would read it?
2. On the same topic, I *finally* figured out what I'm writing my first article for Sequential Tart on: Star Sapphire and gender disassociation. Or something like that. I've been reading Green Lantern comics from the early 80's recently and was pleasantly surprised at the way Carol's gender disatisfaction was played out during her transformation into a Super Villain. I mean, even the WTF part where she split herself into two entities (one of which was male :P). Although it'll probably degenerate into rage because of what Geoff Johns has been doing with Sapphie in recent issues of GL.
Seriously, Geoff: Star Sapphire only wanted Hal because she was Carol and Carol didn't just *want* Hal, she wanted Hal to be her doe-eyed, simpering, man-toy. She wanted to top him like an angular seme in a bad yaoi manga. Which, okay, is a little bit of an exaggeration. But really:
This is not is. Not at all. This is actually kind of misogynistic. For all the previous incarnation of Star Sapphire was about Carol feeling inferior because she was a woman in a man's world, it was an honest experience. She states that sexism from her father made her that way. On the other hand, this new Star Sapphire is the most cliched kind of female-explotation around. For all that Geoff Johns is a canon-nazi everywhere else, he's got a convenient blind spot when it comes to the history of his favorite character. WHERE IS HELEN JORDAN, GEOFF. D:
3. I got my Lithium perscription refilled today and it turns out my thyroid may be clogging up. Or not working right. Or whatever. I've been unsually cold lately. Like, cranking up the heat and sleeping with two blankets and wanting to cry because it's too cold out. I've never been great at dealing with dramatic tempature shifts, but I've always been a lot better at dealing with cold than I am at handling warmth. I mean- I complain, but I still wear miniskirts in -20+windchill weather. I sulked in my room most of Monday because it was "too cold" to be outside and I don't even think it was below zero. o__O
Long story sort of short, this is a symptom of hypo-thyroid which is totally fun. Next week is blood test week! :D I like making pointless entires about my health problems, feel free to disregard this.
4. Friday is job hunting day. I think I WILL apply at Chinatown. I keep waffling because I KNOW the new management sucks, but it just seems like easy money, y'know. Also, Laing House won't stop e-mailing me so I'm heading down to see if they still want me to speak to High School students about Mental Illness. I'm a lot more okay with that now that I've got a shiny official diagnosis and, y'know, some experience with medication. Still: I'm not sure I have anything useful or positive to say.
5.
Thank you, someone, for making that joke.