Hope Rides Alone

FRICK, I wish I had HBO! I really really REALLY want to be able to watch this show without going to youtube or other such places, as I inevitably shall if it's not out on Netflix by the time my work settles down somewhat and I have the time to be watching the show. 

It's just ... WOW. I watched the 15 minute promo and MY GOD! Really great tone and mood and setting! Broadswords! Freaky zombie-Reaver-I-don't-know-whats with amazingly blue eyes that made me want to hide under the bed! Broadswords! Two decapitations in ten minutes! With broadswords! A girl who hates sewing and kicks ass at archery! Boromir! With a broadsword! Gorgeous pseudo-Viking costumes! Accessorized with broadswords! Round shields! BROADSWORDS! BROADSWORDS! BROADSWORDS!

(Is it too obvious why I'm excited about this show? Probably. Shut up, occasionally I am easy to please.)

Also, as a female, apparently I'm not supposed to like Game of Thrones. According to Ginia Bellafante it's "boy fiction" and "too hard" to keep track of all the characters, the sex scenes were added to attract female viewers (which is a blatant lie, apparently they've toned things down from the books!) and I'd be better off watching "Sex in the City reruns."
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Why the HELL is this idiot on the New York Times' payroll? Why did they publish this laughable excuse for a "review?"
... DID SHE JUST INSULT THE HOBBIT!?!??!
LADY I AM CALLING YOU THE FUCK OUT, LET'S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE!!! ... Now, where'd I leave my wooden stakes? Drat, they're in my other satchel ... I WILL FIGHT YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS, FOR MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS! NAME YOU SECOND, MINE IS DAYNA FROM THE MADE OF FAIL PODCAST! (Not that I've asked her to be my second, but if I could choose a second for this hypothetical and incredibly silly duel I'm making up for the sole purposes of a lame internet joke, it'd be Dayna, because she is awesome and would probably be better in a fight than me.)

Thankfully, the blogosphere seems to be up in (completely justified) arms about this, as well they should be, and many people with far more time and far better eloquence than myself have written letters to the editor, so that patronizing moron with a job many of us would kill to have won't get away with this. 
(Fun fact, as I'm so out of the loop, I only found out about this today, because of today's Weregeek strip. Shows you where my priorities are: sleep, webcomic check-in, work interspersed with goofing-off, more work, sleep.)

 2011 isn't doing much to impress me thus far. I knew my workload was going to increase, I knew I wouldn't have as much free time for running around on the internet. I didn't know that the internet and the world would decide to start going crazy and stressing me out. 

1. JO is a homophobe person who thinks that being LGBT is unnatural, a choice, and a 'lifestyle.' Like people would willingly choose to be hated, discriminated, kicked out of their homes, and called 'unnatural' by otherwise reasonable individuals. 
No, JO, I won't attack you, as much as I'd love to lambast you to hell and back for having such a backwards opinion in this day and age. I thought you were an intelligent, kind, cool person. I was WRONG.
Edit: Oh, and that thing in Leviticus? Fun fact: women used to be property! The idea that a man would use another man like he used his wife was considered offensive at the time, because men were supposed to be equals, status-wise, and using your equal like you used your wife wasn't cool. THAT Is what the Leviticus passage means: don't demean your guy-friend by using him like you use your slave wife. It also says the follow things are unnatural: eating shrimp, shaving your beard, working on Saturday, having tattoos, poly-cotton blends, and crop rotation! So if you truly believe that you can't "pick and choose" with the Bible, you'd better take a good look at your wardrobe, your work schedule, and what kind of food you eat if you're going to take the stance on homosexuality too. 

2. Tvtropes! Tvtropes wanting to ax the Fetish Fuel pages! I suggest saving the pages as best you can, I saved the ones relevant to my interests, but I didn't get them all. I wish I'd thought to save the code, now the pages are locked. I'm angry. I'm tired. I can't properly articulate myself in those forums (which aren't set up very well, if I'm going to be completely honest with you.) and fight with people who think they have the right to judge people for expressing what turns them on. It's prudish, stupid, and an abuse of power. Personal bias shouldn't factor into this. Finding something "creepy" is not grounds for deletion. Finding something "illegal" (re: pedophilia) is, but that can be easily remedied by some gorram moderation on that site. Deletion of a whole page for a couple 'squicky' things just isn't right, no two ways around it. If you don't want to be squicked, don't click something clearly marked 'Fetish Fuel.' I have no time to properly deal with this. I wish I did, but it's stressing me out and I need to focus on ... 

3. .... my workload. There's so much. My internet life is getting in the way of accomplishing it. *headdesk*

Edit: 4. Egypt. I feel so ashamed about America's reaction to this: We should DO SOMETHING! ... Should we DO SOMETHING? We should DO SOMETHING! ... Should we DO SOMETHING?

 I had no idea how ridiculously difficult (re: FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE) it is to find an affordable corset top for the Ren Faire online. Or a peasant blouse. Or a shirt with drapey sleeves. Really. I just spent an hour combing the internet, amazon, discount sites, and Halloween costume sites looking for something that would fit me and wouldn't make me look like a skank and wasn't expensive. I FAILED.

Is it really so much to ask that I be able to buy a shirt/corset that didn't scream "I am a lady of negotiable affection who paid way too much for this knock-off designer top" when all I want to do is go to the Ren Faire NOT looking like it's Baby's First LARP? Really? I was having a good day, you know, universe, until you decided to screw with me like this. 

Fuck it, I'll just wear that one hippie blouse. The main reason I'm going is so I can BUY some decent bodices, after all. Better to support local venders than stupid online warehouses, right? Hopefully my badass cloak will distract from how lousy the rest of my costume will be.

Oh, right, the tie on my cloak still needs to be fixed ...

*wibbles*