#writerwasted

[marshmallowmama]

writerwasted replied to your post “Finally got Skyrim on Saturday! I love it so far!”

You will be lost in the realm for a long while. It's absorbing. Believe me, I just got it myself. I didn't think I'd ever get out. Then I got the new Smash Bros game and it was better. :)

So far I've played about 15+ hours......in only 3 days.

[explolalola]

writerwasted replied to your post “So at church Sunday, we had a visit from this super squeaky clean...”

Never have I read about a family that was squeakier than Ned Flanders'. Too Stepford for me. *shudder*

Meanwhile...We couldn't find the hairbrush that morning so me and my daughter had messy ponytails, she barely brushed her teeth, Hubs was in jeans, I was in flip flops and without makeup, and both my kids were WILD and couldn't sit still. xD

[explolalola]

writerwasted replied to your post “All I heard growing up was how SEX IS BAD DON’T HAVE SEX. I mean, I...”

I understand where your coming from. Sex is whispered around me too. It was weird when I first got on Tumblr and saw how free people were with their sexuality. I still am sexually withdrawn, and it'll probably be that way for a while or forever.

The only time people talk about it is either "NO SEX IS BAD" or "Oh hoho, how was your honeymoon? -wink wink-" Like you can't think that a lifetime of NO DON'T HAVE SEX IT'S BAD can be reversed instantly through a single ceremony and an exchanging of rings.

I've been in a relationship for nearly 8 years now and I'm still fairly reserved in that area. 

[explolalola]

writerwasted replied to your post “so the wedding was a thing that happened. - i got fussed at for...”

That sounds like a comedy of errors at its worst. Sorry it was so horribly stressful. :(

luckily most stress was directed away from me - unfortunately, that meant Hubs dealt with a lot. (he did deal with it really well though, he keeps his cool)

[explolalola]

writerwasted replied to your post “on one hand, i’m super excited to finally have our guest bed set up ...”

Too late. I took vacation time off from work like the 3rd week in June. I'm on my way and you can't stop me. XP

you can stay if you do dishes.

[whydontyoucomeintomyhead]

Dear voice inside my head,

Shut up. 

[tasseomancer]

I could not imagine what it would have been liked raised in a DC household. I was always raised with Marvel for the most part. I knew Superman and Batman from their animated series and films, but that was all from DC. I watched Spider-Man's, Iron Man's, and the X-Men's animated series and was hooked instantly to the fandom. I'm expanding my DC knowledge now, but my Marvel is far more extensive.

It’s just a different culture, you know? My dad was giving me Green Lantern books and telling me behind-the-scenes Bob Kane stories for as long as I can remember. We argue about the value of Superman onscreen (we both hate pretty much all the movies but both enjoy Smallville) and have the same opinion on Martian Manhunter (it’s that he’s awesome, by the way). That’s just what my dad grew up on, and I was the only one of his kids interested. I love DC comics (well, most of them) but pretty much hate all the DC films. They’re all just continual disappointments. But I LOVED Batman: TAS and Batman Beyond and Justice League and all of those. Because of her latter creation I was the one to tell my father about Harley Quinn.

I didn’t even know much about Marvel beyond its basic existence until the X-Men movies started coming out. I was…..12 or 13 at the time? Old enough to get the Holocaust references with Magneto and understand Hugh Jackman’s sexiness, but I never got really curious about the universe until Robert Downey Jr.’s cameo in The Incredible Hulk. It was then that it really hit me that the MCU (not that they were calling it that back then) could be something huge.

It’s not even really Marvel that’s got me so hooked, although I’m not saying it isn’t awesome on its own! No, what fascinates me is this continuous endeavor, the product of will and luck and MONEY to create something that is massive and cohesive and heartbreaking and beautiful. It’s hard to find television shows with that kind of continuity, to get film franchises to live up to their own original mission statements. But the MCU is something different. There has literally been nothing else like it in the history of visual media. To have a half dozen (and growing!) number of protagonists, each with their own (mostly) personal stories told, and then they are collected and woven together. Even when they’re NOT together, they talk about each other. It literally is starting to feel like an actual, living, breathing alternate reality in which we get to see so much, like we have temporary portals into this other world. Yes, there have been other film franchises which have done something similar, but not at this scale and not with this momentum.

Is it perfect? Absolutely not. As often as I want to hug Kevin Feige I want to punch him in his face. There are issues of sexism and racism (but lately DC’s been worse with those things anyway), as well as outside Hollywood politics infecting the projects (like Natalie Portman’s continual association with the Thor films when it’s obvious she doesn’t want to be there). But it’s the effort and the enthusiasm of the creators, of Whedon and Favreau and so many, many others that just make me want to revel at the amazing things humans can come up with just through their imaginations.

Also, the Peggy Carter CGI was amazing and I cannot believe no one is talking about it. Holy shit we have now literally used computers to make a 60-year old man look 35 and a 32-year old woman look 95 and if people don’t think that’s the coolest shit than I just don’t know what to do.

[explolalola]

writerwasted mentioned you in a photoset “iamsomethingoffensive: fuckyeahdinoart: Dinosaur pattern rolling...”

…found your perfect utensil authenticsouthern

one of the best feelings in the world is when someone knows you well enough to know what you like... like a dinosaur rolling pin. because seriously i need it.