Some people have dreams about sexy times with attractive fictional characters. I have dreams about Silent Hill monsters and teeth falling out. Thanks, brain!

Fun Thing to Do: Watch a Sekhmet episode of Ronin Warriors (the whole series is up on youtube, so this is easy) and interpret all references to venom/poison/etc as sexual.

It's just too damn easy. "At least you can say you felt my sting!" "What do you think of my poison's taste?"

...And then I got to the rescuing Kento episode and Cale's talk of thrusting. What kind of show is this?

Oh lord, CrazyCrazy is attempting to engage me again. This time she's picking a nit about gender-neutral names, and the fact that I expressed interest in having one in the midst of a facebook survey. This should be good.

EDIT: Here, let me add her comment, and my response.

The question, and my answer: 1. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? I dunno. I've never really felt like much of a Stephanie, but I don't have any alternatives lined up. I'd love a more gender-neutral name, though.

Her: Wow. Much indecision, and multiple answers. Why did you refuse to tag anyone? What is a gender-neutral name? Do you not want telemarketers to know if they should say Mr. or Ms. when they call you? That happens to my mom all the time. People address her over the phone as Mr. because her name is Shawn. Why would you want that? Ashley? Courtney? Those are male and female names, but most people associate them with females. Give me one name that is completely "neutral."

Me: Wow, yes, a survey on facebook is clearly so important that I should soul-search and narrow down my answers. I don't like tagging people because I know some people don't like doing surveys, and also so I don't accidentally tag someone who's already done it. And I'm too lazy to tag. A gender-neutral name, obviously, is a name that does not ... Read Moreimmediately register as male or female. Personally, I don't want telemarketers to call me at all. There are also a number of gender-neutral names, although many of them are skewed one way or another, at least for me personally. And, hmm, how about Alex? Or Avery? Or Jamie? Or Casey? Jesse? Jordan? Although I have no idea why I have to magically have a perfect, gender-neutral name for you, since I said in my answer that I didn't have any ideas in particular. Avery looks kind of nice, though...

EDIT 2: How surprising, she got even ruder.

Her: Yeah, I think those are all male, although I am increasingly meeting female Jordans. I know more girls Alexes than boy, though. Jamie is a girl name. I think anything with -ie is a female name. Jesses is a country name! The gender doesn't even matter! You don't HAVE to have a name, but since you said you wanted one, I assumed that they must exist, unless there are none, in which case, how could you have one? Jesus Christ, testy...calm down, it was supposed to be fun...damn....

Me: Gintrelle, you are the one who came in with a list of dimuborderline-rude questions and demands. I just didn't feel the need to sugarcoat my reply. Like I already said, most gender-neutral names tend to "feel" either male or female to me; those are just the ones I googled quickly. Jamie can also be a variation of James. I don't know why I'm ... Read Moresupposed to take your word for it that Jesse is "a country name," but whatever.

Basically, Gintrelle, you are the one stirring shit here, so please don't try to put it on me when I don't feel like taking your argumentative garbage for once. Not everythig has to be a debate. I idly expressed a desire, you attacked the hell our of it, I responded. I didn't even respond that rudely, to be honest. You started it, and now you're trying to escalate it. Why? Why is my possibly wanting a (more) gender-neutral name so offensive to you? Damn.

Also, fuck off Adam. You're not funny.

Ugh. Just ugh.

So, Emily and I had planned to hang out today. You know, get together, watch a movie or something, and eat some cake in honor of Singles Awareness Day (she has a boyfriend, but he's working today). Great, right? Well, no, not quite. See, in my excitement, I managed to forget that Emily is notorious for not following through on plans. Basically, if you go out of your way to make arrangements, she won't show up. Which would be less offensive if she would actually tell you she couldn't make it. But no. I had to call her, only to hear "whoops my grandmother wants to do something, sorry." But hey, Emily's family is batshit insane, so you can't really argue with them. So, not the worst thing ever.

But. Then I realized something. A large percentage of my friends do this to me. I can think of a small handful who haven't, and they probably just haven't had a chance to do so yet. I think I must be the backup plan friend or something. I mean, I don't have a problem with people being busy and having other things to do. That's called life. But when it's a pretty constant pattern, and you won't even tell me you can't make it, I can't really help feeling like I'm the only one placing any value on the friendship.

And if anybody actually reads this and is wondering if I'm talking about you, well. Have you repeatedly made plans with me and cancelled without warning or telling me? If you've had to cancel, but you did tell me, I'm not talking about you (I know this is for at least one person on here). If you actually hang out with me when you say you're going to, I'm not talking about you. If maybe you've done this once or twice, I'm not talking about you, but for god/dess/es/whatever's sake tell me when you have to cancel. I don't even care what the reason is, I just need to know if something's come up. I might be kinda sad if you have to cancel, but it's much better than not telling me and thinking I won't notice or whatever. Then if you keep doing that, I'm gonna end up thinking you're ditching me. And hey, if you don't wanna hang out with me? Don't fucking make plans to hang out with me. Just say you can't. I may not catch on that you don't want to hang out with me, but at least you won't be forced to spend time with me, right?

If you are, or think you are, one of the people I'm talking about, and would like to know how to "fix it" or whatever? All you have to do is tell me something's come up. Don't wait for me to come find you, put on your grown-up underwear and let me know. And if you've been doing this to someone else? Same fucking thing. It really isn't that hard to do, and leaving people in the lurch like that is not only extremely rude, but it makes the person you're doing it to feel like you don't actually like them or want to spend time with them.

It's pretty sad that the only person who wants to hang out with me today is my mom. (I love my mom, but I'm just saying.) Well, she and I are gonna get some Chinese food and eat a VDay cake! And I'm gonna play video games.

Happy motherfucking Valentine's Day.

EDIT: Fffffff, bahahahahahahaha. Okay, so apparently all I needed to do was complain about it. Emily just called and said she's coming over in a bit. Working the card section of Walmart on Valentine's Day gave her a headache (gee, how shocking), which she used to get out of the plans with her grandmother. So once she's gotten it to calm down/let the pain meds kick in, she's gonna come over and play video games or whatever. It seems Emily only shows up when you don't expect her, lawls.

It's a nice idea, I guess. In practice, though, I tend to loathe it pretty solidly. (I'm sure you're all surprised.) First of all, while having an official day to celebrate love/romance/gettin' you some/whatever is nice, but there's now this... assumption maybe? that Valentine's is the only day you need to do it. And that's, uh, not the case. And there's also this pressure that OMG YOU HAVE TO CELEBRATE VALENTINE'S DAY whether you actually want to or not. And well... some of us just don't/wouldn't care that much. And then there's this list of acceptable presents, which totally disregards what the individual who's going to get the present actually likes and is interested in. What if you don't actually want flowers or chocolate, you know? And then there's the whole Christianity stealing holidays thing going on, not that there's really any Christianity still left in Valentine's Day. Not even nominally, like Christmas.*

Argh. Valentine's Day is a big ol' ball of fucked up notions of gender/gender roles, romance, ridiculous expectations, commercialization... It's just a big, fucked up ball of bullshit at this point. I could rant all day, but I don't really want to spend my energy on that.

I will add, however, that I really, really don't like how VDay and its participants like to make single people feel shitty for being single. Not having a partner does not make you less of a person, thankyouverymuch.

So yeah. You can laugh at me and make disparaging remarks about my bitterness if you want, but I plan on celebratin Singles Awareness Day on the fourteenth, hopefully with delicious baked goods and/or chocolate. Hey, and I won't even be expected to put out for it, either!

*If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me. I just don't pay much attention to either of these things. :P

Ahahaha, I wouldn't have to for any of them! :P The fun of being pan. (Seriously though, is this question pretending bi/pan/etc people don't exist, or what...?)

Okay, I meant to type this up earlier, but I got distracted by the three Talismans coming together and Sailor Moon defeating evil. Also, homework.

So, guess who I saw this evening when I went to the Caf to get dinner. Why yes, it was indeed Creepy James. He tapped me on the shoulder as I was getting my to-go box. He was all, "Remember how I asked you out last semester? Is that still on?" And I was like uhhhhhhhhh. I said, "I dunno. This semester's kind of crazy. Um, I'm kind of in a hurry, so..." and scurried away.

Seriously, Creepy James, just wut. (Also, dude? You know like, nothing about me. Why do you want to date me? You probably don't actually want to date me. You are bizarrely old-fashioned, and I'm... a crazy person the opposite of that a variety of weirdo that probably doesn't mesh well with that. I'm just saying.)

Some protips, for whoever may need them. NOTE: These are not directed at any person or incident in particular (and even if they were, I wouldn't tell), but rather patterns.

PROTIP NUMBER ONE: Nerds, this is for you. It really isn't necessary for y'all to try and "out-nerd" each other all the time. I don't mean trading references, or tossing them out there to see if the other person is also a fan. That's fun. I'm talking about this need that seems to arise when someone (usually someone female, I might add) makes some favorable comment about a comic book/movie/cartoon series/etc and someone else (usually someone male, tbh) steps in and one-ups them. You know, something like

Unsuspecting fan: Yeah, I really like Batman the Animated Series...
Apparently insecure nerd: Yes, well, but did you know that Harley Quinn isn't originally from the comics? She was imported from BTAS after she became a fan favorite, blahblahPaul Diniblah...

See how annoying that is? Also note that the resulting tangent has absolutely nothing to do with the original statement. Seriously nerds, stop doing this. It makes other, sane nerds look bad.

PROTIP NUMBER TWO: This is for everybody, but goes with number one pretty well. Stop being condescending. Just stop. I don't care if you think someone is "less of a fan" or "not a real [insert group here]" or what-the-hell-ever else, that doesn't mean you should look down on them for it. I come across this personally in regards to fandom-type things, but it's applicable elsewhere. I am so fucking sick of shit like this

Me: Yeah, well *insert a fandom preference here*
Them: Actually, *other fandom preference*, silly.

Now, I have no idea how this is actually intended, but you wanna know how it comes across? When you say that, I hear "Oh, you. You don't get to have a real opinion, you silly nonperson, you. *shoos*" And guess what? That's insulting. So stop it. Other people get to have opinions, too.

(I do admit, however, that condescension in actual arguments is... well, not necessarily effective, but it's a different situation certainly. I'm not talking about that here.)

Hmm. This was fun and cathartic. I may do this again.