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Dun dun DUUUUN

Here's my fortress of doom:


And I finally saw some zombie pigmen

I hadn't seen them before because I usually put it on Peaceful to visit The Nether - I'm scared of the ghasts. I actually killed one today. It took about 30 arrows and it didn't drop any gunpowder >:( I think I'll stick to getting my gunpowder from creepers. I need TNT because I'm hollowing out a big chamber to be a monster arena. It has a balcony around the top of the wall and it's open in the middle and dark so monsters can spawn there. It's not done yet but I already got a skeleton and a spider.

I just saw Rango. That CGI one where Johnny Depp is a chameleon in the desert. GOOD MOVIE. Like really freaking good. My two friends who saw it with me liked it but they didn't seem as impressed as I was. Anyway, I recommend it.

jubilantia, I will definitely go with you to see it some time.

DOG FORT

It's dogs. In a pillow fort. They are at war with the cats. One of the dogs has a lobster costume. It's glorious.

Someone posted yet another anti-Uhura post on kirkspock. Then someone else commented that they don't like "Nazi-feminism." I'm done. It's not like there's even good fic on there, 99% of it is crap. I'm still following Secret Vulcan Mating Rituals and Leave No Soul Behind but I'll just have to check them periodically for updates myself.

On a tangent, nobody used the word "uppity" on this post (they did call her "overbearing") but I've seen people unironically use that word to describe Uhura in other K/S anti-Uhura posts. Do they have no idea how fucking offensive that is?

I want some black wedge shoes and I just found the exact thing I want but they don't have it in my size.

I got some brown wedges in about December at Target and they're great. They didn't have them in black and I've been looking for something similar in black ever since but they're all open toe or too pointed or the wrong heel height and so on.

I thought of trying Target.com again to see if they had them in black now. They do have them in black!. Except I need size 10. They have 8.5 and 11 and nothing in between. And I usually wear 9.5, I couldn't go up to 11. I tried calling to see if they had other sizes on backorder or something but they said I'd just have to keep checking the web site.

Curses!

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Sadly, there is no actual recipe for those.

I have to stop making a big mug of coffee. I have a big mug (with monkeys on it!) that holds 16oz and I put about 4oz milk and then the rest is moderately strong coffee. I'm OK if I sip it slowly but if I'm distracted reading things on the internet and drink it quickly, I fell all jittery and not-good.

I also had two pancakes and a 16oz Orange Dream Machine because Housemate was going to Jamba Juice and I'm not going to pass that up! And after I finished the coffee, I filled the mug with water and drank that. Still a little jittery, though. Urgh.

Yet another Uhura bashing post by a woman-hating slash fan!

This one does something I haven't seen before: reading things into the characters' facial expressions that were never there! For example, here's Uhura at Kirk's academic misconduct hearing:

God, what a bitch!

Wait, what? She's sitting there with a neutral expression just like everyone else. But no! According to the author, that is a smug expression. And therefore Uhura is a huge hypocrite for liking Spock but not liking Kirk, because being aloof is the same as hitting on you even after you say you're not interested and grabbing your boobs.

Or something.



Also did you know that including a female character who plays an important role in the plot and has a boyfriend is INSULTING to women? Because having a female character in a sci-fi movie is just pandering to the chick flick crowd; if the writers respected their female audience, they'd know we only want to see male characters. That we can slash.

...or something.

This is in contrast to the great respect the author has for women when she says Uhura is only with Spock to further her career and is therefore basically a whore. See, I thought she talked to Spock about having been unfairly assigned to the Farragut because it was Spock who made the assignment and he was the only one who had the authority to change it. But no! She actually did it because...she's a whore? And she planned this whole thing when she first started dating Spock? I guess? The fact that she works harder than most cadets is also presented as evidence of her moral failings. As is the fact that the author misheard "aural sensitivity" as "oral sensitivity." I did too! Except I just thought "wow, writers, that's a bit much!" I never thought Uhura was deliberately making a double-entendre, it was just a little jokey wink by the writers. But no, it's more evidence that she's trapped Spock into this horrible relationship that's keeping him from his beloved Kirk who he doesn't yet know at this point, because all women are evil prostitutes and they should probably kill her off in the next movie because fuck female characters.

Yeah, I give up.

ETA: I just thought of this, what's especially laughable about this idea that Uhura is just using poor Spock: HE CAN READ HER MIND. If she's just pretending to care about him but is really only with him because of his status (which...how does that even work? What century does this take place in?) there's no way she'd be able to fool Spock. If she's using him, he knows and is apparently OK with it.

So what the fuck ever.

Argh. At least I still own the domain name, and the hosing company has put up one of those dummy sites with other links for now. I e-mailed them so it should be back within a day or two.