At school again, and I'm feeling utterly useless at just about everything. Can't seem to get any farther in Skinning without tutorials (which are not up yet), finished off something in Lighting and have no real desire to do more, and can't go film my animation because, MYSTERIOUSLY, the Flipbook program has disappeared off the computer with the video camera. Greeeeat. I don't know why I can't motivate myself on either artwork or schoolwork lately, but it's really really sucking.

So instead, I'm going to do answers to that rant meme from a few weeks back or so. Be prepared for sarcasm, nasty language, and opinions which may or may not be entirely founded in actual fact.


1) daisy_the_mage1 asked for a rant on a shitty hotel I once went to.

Being part of a family that loves to travel (and actually has the opportunity to do so), I've been to many different hotels and hostels since I was little. Understand, my standards for hotels are not ridiculously high. As long as it's not dirty, smells like an ashtray, has comfy beds and a working bathroom and TV I'm cool to go. I don't usually order room service, I don't care about the cable, and I'm a heavy sleeper so noise is no issue for me.

That said, the absolute shittiest hotel I've ever been in was, in fact, the first hotel I ever stayed in overseas, at the age of ten. This hotel (actually more like a bed and breakfast, minus the breakfast part, and really minus the bed, too) was located in the boonies outside of Prague. Aside from being the shittiest hotel ever, it was a learning experience for my parents, who had never been to Prague before. The lesson learned from this is that, when you get off the train in Prague and hotel-hawkers come up to you asking you to room with their service, DO NOT GO WITH THE FIRST ONE WHO APPROACHES YOU.

Keep in mind that, while I was ten, my two younger brothers were eight and three years old, respectively. This hotel was close to the docks of some dirty lake or whatever, at the end of this creepy stretch of road where NOTHING WAS. Inside, the floor was absolutely filthy, and bugs were crawling around at the corners. There was something green and black in splotches on the ceiling. Our parents ordered us to keep on our shoes at all times in the hotel, except when we were in bed. Our beds were more like a bunch of padded blankets on a loft that was about three feet from the ceiling. The bathroom was covered in scum, and had no toilet paper, towels, washcloths, OR SHOWER CURTAIN. It's not like there was a bathtub, either, it was just a square of tile and a showerhead. I guess you were just expected to let the water splash over every frecking inch of that bathroom in hopes you'd clean off the scum while you cleaned yourself. My parents had to go out and buy a cheap plastic shower curtain and some cheap towels just so we could spend a weekend in Prague and not smell like unwashed American ass.

This hotel was so sketchy and filthy that my parents tried to avoid having us be there as much as possible. So at night, we went and saw two movies in Czech: one was 'Thumbelina', and one was 'White Fang 2'. It's not like they were even good movies, they were just preferable to, I don't know, WALLOWING IN CZECH-FLAVORED FILTH.

So yes. Shittiest hotel ever, at the tender age of ten. That hotel alone colored my entire Prague experience, and I have never desired to go back there since. Absolutely miserable weekend is absolutely miserable.



2) ayn504 asked for a rant on coffee-flavored pudding.

I will admit that I've never had coffee-flavored pudding before. It just sounds utterly bizarre. Isn't the whole point of coffee that you don't care how it tastes, it's just supposed to wake you up? You put stuff like chocolate and milk and sugar into the coffee so that it tastes less crappy. So why the hell would you put something that tastes bad into something that ALREADY TASTES GOOD? It's like putting little chunks of celery into a jar of peanut butter. It doesn't make the peanut butter more awesome, it just makes it full of little flecks of green fibery stuff that you didn't really want to eat in the first place. Pudding already has chocolate and sugar in it, and dammit, that's the way it should be. KEEP YOUR STUPID COFFEE IN YOUR OVERPRICED LITTLE STARBUCKS CUPS WHERE IT BELONGS, AND OUT OF MY PUDDING!



3) okroginator asked for a rant on PEOPLE WHO SWEAR GRATUITOUSLY.

People who swear gratuitously annoy the living spit out of me. The whole point of swearing is that you only do it when something is REALLY REALLY BAD and deserves an exclamation that is above and beyond the norm in terms of conversation. And if things are so REALLY REALLY BAD in your life so often that you have to swear at every stupid little thing that dares muck up your existence, you need to get outside and talk a brisk walk around the block so you can soak up some Vitamin D and endorphins or something. There are only a few things that swearing gratuitously tells me about a person, and they are:
A) That they have the vocabulary of a third grader since they can't think of anything more creative to say than FUCK YOUR FUCKING FUCKITTY SHITTY FUCKER. Oh wow, a whole three words scrambled into various nouns, verbs and adjectives, HOW ORIGINAL.
B) That they have no regard for the people around them. I'm not even talking about big prudes that blush when you say "Oh Gosh," I'm talking about everyone. Because IT REALLY DOES ANNOY EVERYONE.
C) That they fail at showing basic respect. The whole point of swearing is your demonstrating a lack of respect towards something or someone, and that's why it's A HUGE DEAL. So if you just swear at everything and everyone, it means you don't respect anything, and that likely includes yourself. Who wants to hang out with someone with no respect for themselves? NO ONE.



4) sbcpanuru asked for a rant on "People who are like omg Martha sucks bcuz Roes is teh ONLY Dr's companion why doesnt David slap her in the face evry time she talks bcuz shes so ANNOYING unlike me i wud be a much betr companion than martha lololol"

Wow, can we say huge entitlement whores? I haven't even SEEN any of the older Doctor series and even I know that the Doctor goes through companions faster than he does regenerations. Rose is not teh special, she's not the Doctor's love muffin, and a season or two from now Martha will be gone and some new girl's gonna take her place, ad infinitum. Get the hell over it and just chuckle at the Doctor's dialogue, since that's really the only reason you started watching in the first place.

Also, learn to spell, you idiots. No wonder older Who fans want you out of their fandom.



5) tafkae asked for a rant about a fandom besides Kingdom Hearts.

You would expect me to talk about the Harry Potter fandom! But no. I am going to rant on the DEATH NOTE FANDOM.
Death Note fandom, I would just like to say that, as a KH fan who's endured Snakes on a Sora and Kooshball and crappy yaoi being shoved down my throat, YOU SCARE THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ME. I mean holy crap, what is WRONG with a lot of you?! I can't even begin to count how many times I've seen FS-secrets going I WISH LIGHT HAD WON/I WOULD DO IT BETTER LOLOLOL. It's like you missed the point of the series so hard you're in another part of the galaxy. LIGHT WAS A PSYCHOPATHIC MURDERER. He killed off something like a bajillion people because he had a magic notebook and thought he was the shit. He betrayed his own family and friends and cohorts because, again, he thought he was the shit. His huge plan to make the world a happy shiny place was basically mass genocide. MASS GENOCIDE IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA. GEEZ, HOW IS THIS CONCEPT HARD. So stay the hell away from me, crazy Light-sympathizers, and I hope you never get jobs in law enforcement, or legal practices, or really anything except maybe that one creepy shelver at the back of every Michael's store in the country.

Also, what the flying hell is with the Matt/Mello shippers in absolute droves? I was expecting Light/L shippers, 'cause I mean, who wouldn't expect them. What is with the I WANT TO BE THE MATT TO YOUR MELLO TWU WUV blatherings? Who the hell IS MATT TO BEGIN WITH? I read the entire series and I can't even remember seeing him! I remember those creepy businessmen better than I do him. As far as I know, he's Random Kid With Striped Shirt and Goggles Who Explodes Or Something. I think he's just an easy out for yaoi artists that can't draw because they just make him look exactly like Mello anyway, just CHANGE THE HAIR COLOR LOLOLOL. In some drawings I can't even tell Mello and Matt apart because they look EXACTLY THE SAME. It's like a huge advertisement for the artist to go I CAN ONLY DRAW ONE KIND OF FACE TEEHEE. I swear, it's even worse than it is for Organization members that only show up for one battle and babble off whatever in some accent *coughXigbarcough*.

What's with the Mello obsessions, for that matter? He's even less likable than Light, and Light is a psycho mass murderer. About the only thing Mello is good at is eating chocolate and being a little bitch. If you're going to obsess over anyone, obsess over Matsuda; at least he rocks. Or Ryuk, because he also rocks.



6) ecojak wanted to hear a rant about fanbrats.

Wow. Where to begin? There's so many different flavors of fanbrats, from Mary-Sue-ing, to yaoi fanbrats to het fanbrats to character-bashers. And they pretty much all piss me off. I would say it's something that everyone has to go through before they stop being dumb, but I've seen smart younger fans and older fans that are complete morons, so I'll just go with they're dumb regardless of how old they are.

The problem with fanbrats is that they take a surface assumption and then regard it as ABSOLUTE FACT. Zexion has long hair that hangs in his face, SO HE MUST BE EMO. Sora and Riku are good friends that are important to each other, THEREFORE THEY MUST BE SEXING EACH OTHER SENSELESS. Sora is slightly shorter and less serious than Riku, therefore HE IS A WIBBLING CODDLY LITTLE UKE WHO CAN DO NOTHING FOR HIMSELF AND NEEDS MR. SILVER HAIR BISHIE TO PROTECT HIM. Holy crap, people, can we take the extra two minutes to maybe THINK THROUGH our bad first impressions and see what the characters actually are? To like, I don't know, actually listen to their dialogue and see what they do instead of basing everything off of The Internet Told Me So? Then maybe all of their crummy fanfics would suck less and their VERY FUNNY ORIGINAL COMICS would actually being something resembling either original or funny.

And no, not everyone shares your VERY VERY SPECIAL OTP. Some people may think your OTP is total garbage. I know people have said so about my OTPs, and guess what? I DEAL WITH IT. The het fans are not oppressing you with their icky girl parts. The slash fans are not ruining fandom with their unheard of amount of poorly-drawn porn featuring boys mysteriously missing all of their pubic hair. (By the way, how is THAT attractive? Uuugh.) So please to be shutting up about it, thanks?!

Also, every time you bash a character for no reason other than THEY'RE UGLY/THEY RUIN MY OTP, someone punches a puppy. Next time, it may be YOUR PUPPY. Do you want your puppy punched in its cute little puppy-eyed face? No? THEN DON'T CHARACTER-BASH. 8)



7) ghettopeach wanted a rant on Young People Nowadays.

First off, they need to GET OFF MY LAWN.

Partially inspired by other rants on my flist, Young People Nowadays need to stop being academically dishonest, and STOP BEING LAZY. I can't even count how many times I've heard of kids and high schoolers plagiarizing their essays and schoolworks, and somehow thinking THE TEACHER WON'T NOTICE LOLOLOL. Are you honestly so naive as to believe that teachers don't know how to frecking GOOGLE? Even dead people can Google. The English teacher can TELL WHEN WRITING IS NOT YOUR OWN. They have EYES. Also, seriously, are you young people nowadays so damned lazy that you can't even take the 20 minutes needed to write your one-page essay, instead spending 15 minutes scouring the internet until you find an essay that vaguely covers your topic and that you don't actually have to pay for? Show some frecking PRIDE in your work, for the love of Baby Bulky Vendors. No one gives a rat's ass if you get an A in English one-oh-billion or not, but they DO care if you're a lying liar that lies. You get kicked out of most colleges for plagiarizing. Schools are too soft on kids that plagiarize and cheat nowadays. You know what one of my teachers in high school did when he found out that our class had cheated ON A RELIGION TEST, IN ETHICS CLASS? He yelled his face off at the class until they were scared shitless. And they all deserved it. So whatever grade you young people may be in, DO YOUR OWN DAMN WORK. And while you're at it, holy crap, LEARN HOW TO SPELL. It's not that frecking hard. If there's one thing your computer can do for you, IT'S SPELLCHECK. YOUR. WORK. And the next person who screws up the spelling for "its" and "it's," or "your" and "you're," gets a punch in the face courtesy of me.

Another thing about young people: WHAT ARE YOU ALL WEARING. I go to the Promenade on a Friday night and see all these middle-schoolers dressing like they're in the red light district. Aside from the fact that it's really creepy, YOU LOOK LIKE ASS IN THOSE CLOTHES. Dressing like a skank does not make you cool, or edgey, or individual. It just makes you look like you're pretending it's Halloween every day of the year. You've got your whole frecking lives to be sexed around, you can afford to spend the first fifteen of them BEING A KID. Really, it's okay. By the way, this clothing thing goes for boys, too. PULL YOUR DAMN PANTS UP. The world does not care what kind of underwear you've got on, really. It doesn't want to see your pasty white suburban ass.

Also, all of your cartoons suck. (Except probably Avatar and a few others). I know this is not your fault, rather it is the fault of whoever's making this trash for you to watch, but TURN OFF THE "DISNEY" CHANNEL AND WATCH SOME WORTHWHILE CARTOONS. None of this Hannah Montanna bullcrap, either.


Uhhhh...I think I ran out of funny towards the end, there. :/ For that matter, I think I ran out of funny towards the beginning. Gah! The school frustration is even sapping the humor out of me! Nuuuuuuuuu... T_T

Drawing: Finished another LG page.

Writing: Nothing...