If I'm watching Takarazuka (= all female theatre) and start happily slashing two of the male impersonators, does that fall under yuri (girl/girl) or yaoi (boy/boy)?

Found this in docbrite's log and like a good little quiz-addict I couldn't resist:

Should you be MALE or FEMALE?* created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Neither You think neither like a man nor like a woman. What you are you may decide for yourself. Most people will consider you strange, alien, weird or funny. You are probably quite interesting. Neither 57% Either 43% Female 36% Male 36%

Zuko is *so* back on my cool list!! ;P

The sun is shining, little birdies are swarming my balcony in search of I haven't a clue and the radio is playing something I don't really have to listen to while I'm reading the last few chapters of Neil Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors". Unfortunately, the station feels the need to read a translated version of some Kenny Rogers song out loud just before playing the song, and just like that I feel a familiar anger bubbling up.
Story summary? Some bloke is considered a coward by the whole frickin' county, since he would shun fights because of a promise to his departed daddy dearest. That is, until his woman is triple raped and he can finally show them all that he isn't really a coward by taking down the three rapists - for his girl.

Allow me to steal an appropriate line from Gann: I do believe that is bile rising in my throat. Stand back.

Am I really so alone in my opinion that a story-line like this is offensive as hell?
To make this perfectly clear, I have no problem with the concept of a person avenging transgressions against their loved ones, it is an understandable, even pretty basic emotion. I don't have - from a purely emotional standpoint - any problems with this revenge taking a physically violent form. Okay, so I may have preferred to take a sledgehammer to the rapists knees and then slow-roasting their collective balls over a gas-flame over the course of a slow and painful week, but that's just me being vindictive.

What does piss me off to no end is the utter triviality the violation of the woman is . This isn't about revenge for her. This isn't about her at all, no matter what the "hero" claims. Her humiliation and psychological trauma are merely there to give a convenient excuse to her boyfriend/husband to finally shed the stigma of being considered a coward and prove to the world that in reality he is da MAN.

And that, to me, is just adding insult to injury.

It puts me in mind of the awful 1980s Kung Fu movies where the baddie rapes the girlfriend/sister/prospective love interest of the hero to get him to agree to finally step into the ring for a round of testosterone-filled thrashing about. And I sit in front of the tv and keep thinking that said baddie could just forget about ever seeing a ring ever again on accounts of having been shot in the back while taking a piss before the involvement of the heroic boyfriend ever became an issue.

Seriously, am I supposed to feel romantic about that shit? Am I supposed to swoon at the heroic male buffing his ego by firmly victimising the woman a second time?

Excuse me while I'm quietly vomiting in the corner.

As a typical Saturday went, this one was quite successful. Washed some clothes, vacuumed the floor. baked pizza and oh, finally vanquished the First. The Ultimate Evil. The Big Worst. The Snail of all Snails.

And I only had to run around a lot and beat up lots and lots of helpless little vampire mages with my big shiny "dagger" ( I truly do not wish to know how tall the original owner of that lovely piece of weaponry was for it to be called a dagger ) So yes, I managed to finish the Buffy-Chaos Bleeds game after a whooping three weeks with the title "expert" tagged onto my slayerette. Which may or may not be Nintendo speak for "what are you so proud of, you big ninny, it's just the politest way we had of telling you you suck!"

But now my tummy rumbling, my pizza's calling and I'm kind of planning on using that "scattered over all dimensions and realities"-fate...

..or not, since I finally finished Final Fantasy 8 ( hey, alliteration ;P)

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Link: The Heroes Personality Test written by freedomdegrees on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

And what the hell is a "maverick intellectual" anyway?

What is it with good family entertainment and CLIFFHANGER????

Is it too much asked to have a non-gutwrenching ending? What is the sense in ending with a bang, when the human body just isn't designed to hold on to the tension for at least half a year, until it's hopefully resolved?

Christmas so far has been...strangely comfortable. Okay, so my grandmother is still about as sensitive as a bull on speed, and there were several smaller injuries, some blood, none of it either spilled or caused by me, by the way. But all in all, the drama that was in the making with all the food-diskussion fell completely through, everyone was rather civilised to each other (even my aunt wasn't sighing - I'm starting to worry about pod-people.

And now we are on our way to my uncle for an evening of games and fun - no shit, I'm REALLY thinking Stepford here.

Christmas is fast approaching, the family drama plot thickens (what will we eat, who will provide the food and who will refuse to talk to whom because of those choices?), but I could care less.

Me, I just came back from a very successful baking session with a dear friend, managed to not ruin a single recipe and watched an interview with John Barrowman that neatly catapulted that gorgeous specimen of the human race into his rightfully deserving seat in my personal pantheon. It's perfectly lovely how the man can on one hand let his inner 13-year-old out for a walk, charm your pants off with nothing more but crude language and a smile so charming it should be outlawed and on the other hand turn you into a bleeding heart simperer when he explains about his walking impaired cocker spaniel (a breed I usually barely recognise as belonging to the race of dogs) in a pram and his 15-year-old relationship.
And he's scottish (which, admittedly, is totally beside the point, but still gathers brownie points for being able to speak with a lovely accent...I'm shallow that way.)
And he makes air quotation marks when he describes America as "free".
(And I really really want to hear him use the words "fairies like us" in an interview in that so called free land....)

I think I might be in crush. ;)