Iconnnnns. Seriously though, I post these more for my own benefit and as a reference, and I know that none of you watch the show, so no big; feel free to skip, heh. Although number 11 is probably one of prettiest, if not the prettiest, icons I've ever made.

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10. 11. 12.

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Day 13 - Favorite childhood show(s).



Okay, I kinda cheated; I made this favorite childhood shows instead of just show. There was no way I could pick just one, though; it was hard enough cutting it down to a top five, and leaving out shows like Get Smart and Sightings. I tried to keep myself to the years five through eight or so, and I think that the above list really does explain a lot.

When I used to come home from kindergarten, the essential dilemma that always confronted me was: would I watch The Addams Family, or The Super Mario Brothers Show? They were on at the same time, and most of the week TAF won, but on Fridays, TSMBS would have Legend of Zelda cartoons, and I ALWAYS watched those. (I actually found the entire Legend of Zelda cartoon collection a couple years ago and bought it and ran out of the store because obviously it couldn't be real, right? They couldn't actually have put THE BEST CARTOON EVER on DVD, right?) Sadly, when I think about it, Thundercats is the only show up there in which I wasn't invested in some ship (and that might just be me not remembering, and not that there wasn't one). Gomez and Morticia, Tony and Angela, Scrooge McDuck and his Lady Love Whose Name I Have Forgotten*, and yes, Link and Zelda. OMG, I remember watching the episode when Link turns invisible and Zelda gets worried and they end up kissing at the end, crouched on the floor about eight inches in front of the TV, FREAKING OUT, and guys, if I had had the ability/knowledge to tape things at the age of five, and had been able to tape that, and had been able to rewatch it whenever? IDEK.

*I still have a Duck Tales sticker book that includes a story of Scrooge and his Lady Love and it was kind of a big deal when I ended up finding the important relationship stickers. I remember my dad driving me to a couple different grocery stores and being so excited to come home and put them in the book and being so scared that I would somehow lose them between the store and the house. I am sometimes legit sad when I look at that book and see that I was only a handful of stickers shy of filling it completely in. I was so close!

I've spent the last half-hour or so reading this, and it's been awhile since something reduced me to the kind of weak-kneed tears you have to just put your head down and weather: MetaFilter commenters in DC and New York club together to save a pair of visiting Russian students from falling into the hands of sex-traffickers. I can't imagine what it would have felt like to have followed this thread in real-time yesterday. (I was relating this story to Sarah and choked up again just talking about it.)

Also, this may not seem like it belongs in the same post, but it DOES, because this post is about JOY. Glee Cast - "Bad Romance"

I was going to update my blog today with my doings of the past few weeks, but instead I worked today and now I have to finish this book TONIGHT (Mindhunter, true crime, it has already inspired me to revise a scene in Fall River hell yeah), so I will leave you with what I plan to do tomorrow instead, since I haven't watched an episode in almost two months:



I LOVE YOU TWO SO MUCH I WISH I LIVED ON THE ENTERPRISE. (No, I'm totally serious. Do you guys ever have epic self-insertion Mary Sue daydreams? Because, um, I totally do sometimes. My life on the Enterprise is ~*~amazing~*~)

So, I had things to do today, but instead I've spent the afternoon reading this creepy post, including most of the linked videos and articles. Why do I freak myself out? At any point, I could have just stepped away, but now I've got a cat in my lap and the heater on and I'm afraid to sit at my own computer now, since I'm alone in the house and it's in the basement. :(

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ETA: These are the two creepiest things that were linked; both manufactured, obviously, but still. The Dionaea House and Marble Hornets.

Aaaaand...I'm developing a crush on Patrick Stewart.





Look at how cute!

I like how Caro has relaunched her blog to be all slick and erudite and interesting, and something she can use in a professional context, and mine has remained, "Sometimes I watch TV and there are men I find attractive! See!"