girlofprey

Hello. I have been planning and trying to make a post for a few days now. But usually by the time I am finished with my computer games every day, and then my flist and email and trying to make my way through my Tumblr dashboard I am exhausted or it is the middle of the night. I need get rid of some Tumblrs from my dashboard I think.

But I am making it now, largely because of the film The Grey that's out at the moment, and all the bad things I keep hearing about it. Essentially, apart from it being based around a negative and apparently unrealistic portrayal of wolves - a pet peeve of mine - there's also apparently evidence of animal cruelty on the set. And now, from metaquotes, it seems like one of the actors is kind of a dick: "I’ve made a lot of movies that had both men and women in them, a lot of movies that were dominated by the woman’s storyline. And in this case it was a very different experience making the movie and enjoying the movie, when it was completed, because of the fact that there are no women in it… It was like thank God, I get to do a movie with just guys.”. Dermot Mulroney's view of film-making, that is. And for some reason I have decided to blame Liam Neeson for all of this as well. Just because his face is on all the posters. FUCK YOU LIAM NEESON.

Also, I mostly wanted to post about the most beautiful response to the 'No Homo' phrase I've probably ever seen. I think 'No Hobo' is probably my favourite. I apologise for any ads you may see before that video. I can't really believe Youtube nowadays.

And also, in a sort of similar note to what Dermot Mulroney said - but completely the opposite - I've not been going to see many films lately, but there are a few I am or was sort of looking forward to. One of them was Chronicle, which is apparently about a bunch of teenagers getting superpowers, and then it all getting a bit thrillery. Except that I then looked it up, and it turns out it's about three teenagers, all of whom are male. I don't, it was just the sort of film I felt like I'd want to see a female character in, and it sounded like - with a group of teenagers - and in this day and age - one of the people getting superpowers might be female. But apparently not. And then, I went through it again yesterday, when I randomly saw a billboard poster for a show called The Almighty Johnsons with the tagline 'Meet the gods next door' - only to later pass it again and see that it's all about 'Axl', who just become a god, 'just like all his brothers'. Again, it was a show it seemed like there might be a female character in. And I assume that if they are a family, they probably have a mother (maybe?). But it doesn't seem like female presence is going to be a huge part or point of the show. In a way I kind of understand the film one more, because it sounds like it's going to be about a fairly close, small group of friends getting superpowers and then tearing each other apart, and I think it's fair to say that generally people tend to have friends, especially as teenagers, that are the same sex as they are. It's still annoying, but you know. But the TV show one I understand a lot less, surely it's pretty straightforward to just have a woman in a family? Maybe it's just weird advertising. And I don't know, maybe both these things will have amazing secondary female characters in them, AMAZING secondary female characters, the kind that blow people's minds. Maybe most of the male characters get killed off by the middle part of the story, and it's up to the secondary female characters to step up and save the day. They're not allowing those women to be in the promo shots or trailers though. It's just annoying really, because those types of story are exactly the type of thing I would be interested in. And I am still am kind of interested in them. Just slightly less excited now. And you know, it's not actually bad to have women in your films and shows. Just saying.

Anyway. Most of my links on this page are off Tumblr. Please do not judge me.

Also, I still love Skyrim. Also, it turns out the character I am playing in Saints Row 2 is an actual psychopath. But she has a lieutenant who is attention-seeking. Which is quite lovely. The psychopath thing is a bit disturbing though.

Hello. I've been meaning to post for the past, um, few weeks. But I've been keeping myself on a pretty steady diet of Skyrim, Saints Row 2, rewatching about half of Season 2 of Oz for Peter Schibetta reasons (who I love MORE THAN EVER), and watching American Dad, for humour and intergenerational het incest reasons. THE BEST REASONS THERE ARE. Also, I managed to get onto the jewellery making course in Leeds for a second term, and I've been going to see my employment coach again. Christmas is truly over. Even if all the sales aren't. So I haven't really had a lot of time to do other things.

Some nice things that have happened to me lately:

• My new nephew came home from the hospital on Monday, yay!



• On Saturday in the post I got both a slightly gloomy, but lovely, card from jekesta containing beautiful stickers (thank you jekesta), AND a letter saying I'd won a premium bond, for the amount of £25, including a cheque for it. It was a good day for post.



• I got back on my jewellery making course. I was lucky to do so, really, in a slightly sad way, because I was only on the waiting list, and they didn't call me the morning of the first lesson like they did last term. But I called them and they said yeah, come in, so I went in and enrolled and went to the class. And then the tutor took the register and realised one person - who had also been on the course last term - wasn't on the register, and there were 13 people in the class when the maximum was usually 12. The woman who wasn't on the register said she hadn't signed any forms or spoken to the people running things upstairs, she'd just come back to the class. She and the tutor went upstairs to talk to the people in the office, and then the tutor came back down and said the woman had had to go home, because there wasn't a place for her. So assuming she wasn't on the waiting list like me, I probably ended up with her place. Which I did feel slightly bad about. But not entirely, because assuming I don't win my appeal - which I don't think I will - by the time the next term comes round, I might well have less money to spend on courses, and no concessions, so it would cost £50 instead of £5. So mostly I'm just relieved about it.



• My Oglaf book came in the post today, hurrah!

Some bad things that have happened to me lately:

• Yesterday at my jewellery course, I managed to cut my thumb with tin snips, which if you know anything about tin snips is pretty hard to do, but I managed it. I also burnt my fingers quite a lot while trying to polish things, scraped my elbow on part of my desk, and get hit by a tiny drop of boiling water while someone was quenching another piece. It really was not my day yesterday.



• I got a call from the Tribunals service today (and yesterday). It turned out it wasn't about anything much, though, but still. A reminder that it is coming :(

Hmm. In other news, Skyrim's wicked. The only problem I'm having with it is that there are so many quests, SO MANY quests, and you don't have to take them all, but I always worry that turning them down WILL mean you don't get to still do them, or that I'll forget that people are offering them and miss out on them. But now I have probably about fifty 'to do', and it's sort of stretching my own suspension of belief that people would not be upset that I took a few months to basically take something to another town for them. So I'm trying to work my way through them at the moment. And basically running into and getting more along the way. But still. It's pretty good.

Further adventures in gender included a quest where I had the choice between taking the side of a woman in hiding or the side of the men hunting her for supposed crimes, and taking her side led to the men accusing me of being fooled by a 'pretty face'. However, ( Minor spoilers for Skyrim, maybe ). So maybe Skyrim/Tamriel really IS meant to be a world where it's perfectly okay and accepted to be gay. In which case, well done, I guess, Bethesda.

Adventures with gender in Saints Row 2 have been slightly more confusing. By and large it's fairly straightforward or not mentioned. But there's an activity you can do in the game called "ho-ing". Which, as far as I can tell, is where you gain respect by going to strip clubs and "pleasing" - strippers, I guess - after which your sexual prowess is known throughout the land, or whatever. I went and did it as part of another job though, and you don't actually get to see any of the act, but you hear voices, and my character was definitely in there with a man. So. I don't really know whether I earned or spent money after that activity. Was it a male ho? Was it just some random guy and we were using a strip club as basically a motel, without paying any of the actual people who worked there? Which is kind of insulting if you think about it. Apparently you can earn money as a pimp by ho-ing, but I don't know how or if I did. But it sounded like a good time was had by all, at any rate. So fine.

Saints Row 2 is getting a bit tricky at the moment in that it's got to that sort of middling part of games, where you're quite good at it, but not super-good at it, so I'm feeling a bit cocky perhaps but the challenges are getting slightly harder and I can't just breeze through them like I could the earlier stuff. Which is a little bit aggravating. But I'm still really enjoying it. Especially now that I've figured out I can steal helicopters if I want to. Even if I can't quite fly them yet. Still.

I haven't really been watching any TV or anything lately. Although I did have dream the other night about hanging out with my awesome nana, before realising, in the dream, that she was actually Rita from Coronation Street. Which led to a weird dream about an alternative Coronation Street, where David Platt had a cat he walked on a leash, and Karen was still hanging around. Good times. Anyway, other than that, nothing really. Other than Oz and American Dad. YOU ARE FREE TO TALK TO ME ABOUT PETER SCHIBETTA OR HAYLEY SMITH IF YOU WISH. I love you guys. x