Between the good and bad, that's where you'll find me, Reaching for Heaven

I've been getting a LOT of weird spam lately (and I may have to activate the thing that would require people to respond to a CAPTCHA widget before posting a comment: sorry, people, I didn't disable non-friend commenting because I cross-post fics to various comms). Most of it has been the usual Trying To Sell Stuff postings, but then I get these two in response to some Yami no Matsuei fics I'd posted on comment_fic. It appears to be someone attempting to RP with me, but they appear to have been high or drunk, given the word salad quality. I've gotten some irritating comments from yaoi fangurlz who whined about pairings or my fade-to-blacks, but these are ridiculous. Here are the comments in their entirety, including subject lines:

New comment "Re: Yami no Matsuei, Muraki/Tsuzuki" on an entry in [info]comment_fic.
kanoto I love you tsuzuki you now putict you baby dont for get that talking to you and I wont let you for get bout me.


New comment "muraki " on an entry in [info]comment_fic.
want me its me karoto tsuzuki big brother to lil baby tsuzuki.


Also, went to the Salem, NH B&N: picked up a few new journals (I seem to go through about one every four to six months, depending on how much writing I'm doing: I've just about used up the one I was using to draft carpe_ho_ras posts/jot down ideas for future posts/etc, and one journal I was using for miscellaneous fanfics, mostly story_lottery and comment_fic), Vol. 4 of "Black Butler", and after Much Rummaging Around, Max Brooks's "World War Z". Also got some cafe writing in: I got most of my next love_bingo fic done, this one being an Inception fic written from shade!Mal's POV, if she were tailing Cobb and Ariadne somewhat obsessively during one of Ariadne's training sessions (and there's a teeny part of me that suspects Cobb may have been literally haunted by Mal: hauntings often happen when a person's spirit is unwilling or unable to let go of a place where they lived during life, and I suspect that could have happened to Mrs. Cobb after her death...). No, this is not a Cobb/Ariadne fic: I don't see anything more than a mentor/student relationship between them

Just been poking around on IMDB.com's page on the BBC miniseries version of "the bricks" (turns out there was an Australian miniseries in the 1980s, but it didn't do well and has been lost: from everything I've run across, it doesn't appear there are any copies of the tapes of it anywhere, though some soul with a BetaMax might have recorded it, for all we know...), because for chuckles, I wanted to know what was the date of the US airing of it (on PBS, starting with WGBH, here in the Boston, MA. area).


The UK. airing date was January 17, 2000, which means we're coming up on the tenth anniversary of it (I may re-view it then and do a bit more of the infamous headspace commentary of it). And the US airing date was.....

June 10th, 2000, yours truly's birthday. I can't help smiling at this, for some reason, and it's like finding out I got a birthday present without knowing about it.

One of the first things I started to snark at, at the tender age of twelve, were the people (usually of some kind of fundamentalist Christian bend) who would brand :: Insert fantastical critter/fantasy pop icon/fantasy media of choice:: as being "from the Devil", or in leet-speak "OMG TEH DEVOL!11111" It's been applied to Dungeons & Dragons, unicorns, Rainbow-Brite, the Smurfs, the Lord of the Rings, the Dark Crystal, even the Chronicles of Narnia (I kid you not, even though Jack Lewis himself has stated that Aslan = Jesus).

Now, per Snopes.com's latest update, they're aiming their sights on Hello Kitty. Now mind you, I'm the type who finds the Hello Kitty Hell website immensely funny, both for the author's wacky hyperbole and the sheer amount of bizarre Hello Kitty junk he digs up. I used to despise the little furball, but I've since gotten over that, and I love her to pieces. I credit my mom for this influence. I totally get the people who despise the wee kitty, but honestly... the devil? Puh-leeezee... Offering bogus "proof" doesn't help their case, either (ie. the word "kitty" supposedly meaning "demon" in Chinese, even though HK was created in Japan. Wrong country, and their knowledge of Chinese is worse than mine... the extent of which is -- yep -- cussing in Chinese [Thank you, Joss Whedon].)

I swear, you don't need to go to a comedy club to get a good laugh, you just have to observer human behavior long enough to find some real gut-busters.

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Clicks, pets and pats for all, and please give some boy-vibes to the stone hatchling.

Just for fun, I decided to check out some of my dragons' recent eggs, which I've sadly had to send to the abandoned page... and come to find, one of my winter dragons, Kozo Fuyutsuki's spring offspring has been named... LaurellKHamilton. *Facepalm* indeed. There's lots of things you can name a spring dragon, but the name of an urban fantasy writer whose work has devolved into badly-written preternatural pr0|\| is not one of that, but that's just me saying it.