That was a mango? Oh god, Sirius, why is it now a flamingo? Why?

I’m always on the lookout for good Sirius/Remus fics, especially since Shoebox_Project is so rarely updated these days. Which reminds me, I’m going to have to do a really long and involved post dedicated to Shoebox one of these days, but not today. Anyway, it’s hard to find good S/R, because there are lots of squealy fangirls (like, um, me) that aren’t actually very good authors but submit their terrible stories all over the place anyway.

But! 

I just found this today, which is very very good. I’m fairly sure that the author has read Shoebox, as the style is very similar and several of the scenes are almost identical – but it’s different enough to stand very well as it’s own story, while at the same time still has the same quirky “voice” that Shoebox has. There’s lots of sweet, fluffy bits, and it’s not ridiculously smutty like most fanfiction. I don’t think it’s been updated for a few months, though, which is kind of depressing, but it’s still definitely worth a read.

NO ONE UNDERSTANDS MEEE HE WOULD SEETHE AS HE PRESSED HIS WILDFLOWERS.

I’m supposed to be working on my assignment, so of course I just found this and now I can’t stop laughing. It’s really, really stupid but it’s brilliant. It’s just basically two people on msn or something making fun of the fact that poor Edward has all the time in the world and absolutely nothing to fill it up with while the rest of the family are off in their happy couples. He is reduced to knitting and scrapbooking and building a boat in a bottle. Ahahahahahahahaha. Oh, God. I really should be doing my assignment. Bugger.

oxymoronassoc: jasper is like trying not to giggle
oxymoronassoc: JASPER I KNOW YOU ARE LAUGHING.
saint_renegade: I CAN READ. YOUR. MIND.
saint_renegade: DOES EVERYONE FORGET THIS?
saint_renegade: OR DO YOU ALL JUST NOT CARE?
saint_renegade: DOES NO ONE CARE?
oxymoronassoc: I AM GOING TO MY ROOM!!!

Padfoot / Moony FTW.

It’s 3:22am and I’m still awake obsessively reading Sirius/Remus fanfiction. Shut up, it’s perfectly normal. 

Anyway, I just had to say this one thing; all the MWPP era characters have their own nicknames already. Sirius is Padfoot, Remus is Moony, and so on and so forth. So why in god’s name to people always have them calling each other “Siri” and “Remmy”? They don’t even do it with any of the other characters, like Peter for example, where calling him “Pete” would actually be okay, it’s always “Siri” and “Remmy”, which are just nauseating. And it makes no sense! They have perfectly good nicknames, why not use them? It ruins a good story. 

Yup. That’s all.

Wall-E is Adorable.

Wall-E is, without a doubt, the cutest movie I have ever seen. I have no idea how the creators managed to pack so much adorableness and personality into one little robot who can’t even talk properly, but there you have it. I think it’s the eyes. Just look at them! Nawww.

On a side note, wow, that poster says it was released in July, and it only hit cinemas here last week! Never mind, it was definitely worth the wait.

Selfless Bella?

I was reading Midnight Sun again, and something occurred to me. 

The first time I read it I could make no sense whatsoever of Edward’s decision that Bella is completely selfless – yes, she moved to Forks so that her mother could be happy, but I actually think most people would do the same under those circumstances. I think the difference is that, being a mind reader, Edward hears a lot of people just thinking about themselves. However, he cannot ‘hear’ Bella, and he rarely hears her talk about herself – just as he says, she doesn’t say everything that she thinks, she edits. So, of course, she edits out the things that she thinks that could be deemed selfish, and he never hears them, wheras he does hear these thoughts from everybody else. 

An interesting thought.

Boring Mobile Phones.

Dear Mobile Phone Designers,

It has come to my attention that, while the mobile phones of today have some truly awesome features and are getting better by the day, most of them are just plain ugly. An obvious example of this is the famed Nokia N95 – some of the best features on any phone out there, but it’s one of the ugliest handsets I have ever seen. It’s massive, it’s clunky, there’s a big gap between the screen and the keys that has nothing to do with anything, the camera on the front is kind of smushed randomly in the top, the keypad still manages to be too small and fiddly.. it’s just not good. 

But you know what? It’s okay! Because I have the perfect solution for you. 

First, a question, though. Why is it that phones in Japan and Korea are just so much cooler than phones anywhere else? Seriously. They have all kinds of insane flippy/slidey/twisty phones in hundreds of colours. I’m talking

  vs.  

There’s just no competition! I mean, I understand that the N95 (God, here I go picking on it again) is a business phone, while the Sharp phone pictured on the left is clearly not. I can see why a business man wouldn’t want to walk around with a hot pink phone that twists horizontally. But why not make phones like the pink one as well? How come, all of a sudden, all phones are trying to look so serious and commercial?

The child/teenage/young adult market for mobile phones is huge. It’s got to the point where kids are getting their first mobile phone by the time they start primary school – and upgrading every other year. Why not make funky looking phones to appeal to that market? You wouldn’t even need to pack them full of fancy features, just a half decent camera and they’re set. It’s the perfect solution to all the boring looking phones of today. 

Kind regards, Lettuth.

Australian Olympians Suck.

This makes me angry.

According to a radio report, only 30 of the 400+ Aussie athletes that participated in the Beijing games actually showed up for their homecoming parade in Adelaide. It was estimated that approximately seventeen million dollars of taxpayer’s money was spent on every gold medal won at these games – and yet most of the so called “heroes” can’t even be bothered to show up for a parade thrown in their honor.

I mean, I understand that Adelaide is a fairly small city, and that the parade wouldn’t have been anything compared to those in Sydney and Melbourne. But if the public is forking out an insane amount of money for you to do some trick (e.g. kick a ball around, jump over something, dive off a board) then the least you can do is be appreciative. Or at least pretend to be appreciative.

Midnight Sun.

For my first official post, I’d love to write about some higher form of literature or something, but that’s just not going to happen, so meh. Instead I’m going to rant about Midnight Sun, which is Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight written from the POV of Edward Cullen. 

First, to get it off my chest, I really dislike Bella’s character. I’ve seen her described as the ultimate Mary-Sue, and that’s completely true. She doesn’t really have any outstanding personality traits at all, except lame things like trying to be hardcore and anti-mainstream by refusing to like prom/presents/pretty clothes. She’s just a character that’s been put in place for Edward to fall in love with – beyond him, she has no depth at all. A perfect example of this is her life before moving to Forks. The only information we get is a sort of half assed “I didn’t really fit in back home”, and then the entire first 16 years of her life are ignored. She has no past whatsoever beyond her parents, and even that is only included because they are characters in the main story. I’ve read plenty of books in which a character moves to a new place, the Mediator series by Meg Cabot springing to mind, but they always have some sort of tie to the life they used to live, just to make it realistic. Bella has nothing. 

So, yes. She whines too much and has no depth. This makes the whole tone of the books kind of irritating, because you’re reading it thinking “God, you’re so stupid” half the time. It’s amazing what changing the point of view can do for the story – everything is exactly the same, and yet it all seems much more developed and interesting. 

I have two theories on why this is, the first being the obvious: by the time Stephanie Meyer wrote this book, she already knew the world she had created inside out and back to front. As opposed to when she wrote Twilight, when the whole thing was still new. So, I suppose it’s kind of obvious that Midnight Sun would have more depth.

However, it’s more likely that Edward himself makes this story more interesting. Utter hotness notwithstanding, I think he’s just got alot more depth. He has a past, which is a plus, and also a present that involves more elements than just Bella, such as family issues with Jasper and Rosalie, or even Tanya’s crush on him. Bella’s world seems to revolve entirely around him, but his life existance is much more realistic. The reader even begins to understand why he fell for Bella in the first place, which is quite an achievement considering how irritating she really is. 

The other thing that’s interesting about this book is the fact that it’s not being released – it was leaked on the internet and now Stephanie Meyer has decided not to continue writing it. I can’t help but think that this is some kind of marketing ploy. All the hype around the thing will draw alot more people in if she ever does decide to release it – people who had never heard of it before definitely have now. Also, the idea of a novel identical to Twilight, only from a different POV, may not have been something people would have been interested in paying money for. Releasing the first few chapters, however, helps to demonstrate how the book can stand on it’s own, and may induce more people to buy it. Again, if it gets released, lol.

First Post.

I have an extremely obsessive personality. 

This blog will be used to express these obsessions in a constructive manner – whether they be a book, a computer program, a celebrity, a model of mobile phone.. anything, really.

So.. yep.