Hey guys, as a heads up I most likely won’t be posting again until Sunday night. I’m heading back to school (back to my ciiiitttttttty) and will be in a car for most of the next day and a half or so.
Tag: personal
I’m going to get my first tattoo today. I’ve wanted the words “Moon Pride” for a while now so I’m going to. I’m very nervous and excited. My sister is going with me so that it’s a little less intimidating (she has a few, plus her husband has gotten most of his at the shop we’re going to).
WOW CRYSTAL WAY TO THROW UNCOMFORTABLE HIGHSCHOOL MEMORIES BACK IN MY FACE.
I mean wow, my situation was different than Ami’s, but I’m relating hard right now. I had impeccable grades in highschool and ended up valedictorian (college no so much) and people did talk like this all the time. (For me, it was more that my test scores and grades were pitted against other people’s, like I was somehow at fault for scoring higher than someone more popular.)
And it’s a strange sort of thing, because it’d be easy to think that being so well known would make it easy to make friends. But it really really doesn’t. People knowing who you are without knowing you means they’re watching and judging, which is hard to break through anyway, but then the above happens and people outright avoid you because you heard them. It’s isolating, and I’m so happy Ami has Usagi to break through that for her.
So yesterday I finally got together with my mom to show her the first Crystal ep, and watching with her was such a fun experience because she’s only seen three musicals, some dub stuff, and two of my favorite PGSM episodes. She has a little background, but not much.
And her reactions just renewed my feelings that the episode did a really good job on a lot of things. She’s already invested in Serenity/Endymion and Usagi/Mamoru (although La Reconquista did some of that for her. It’s hilarious to me how much she likes Tani’s Mamoru). And she thinks everything is so gorgeous. She wants to read the manga now (she borrowed it from me a while ago, but hasn’t gotten into it yet).
But more importantly, this episode really sold her on Usagi. It had her laughing when Usagi fell down the stairs and tripped over Luna and made every wish about not having to go to school. But it also made her feel Usagi’s fear and sympathize with her desires and care about what comes next for Usagi. And really, that’s the most important thing the first episode could do.
I have to go to bed not only to get up for Crystal but also because I have to go to work after Crystal (not until 11 but still).
Going to bed is not going to work very well. I’m so excited. I don’t remember the last time I was this excited. Maybe the midnight release of the last HP book? New installments of narratives I love are just wonderful like nothing else, you know? Things in real life are exciting too, of course, but usually that excitement is mixed with anxiety. And there’s none of that now. Just joy and anticipation and love.
I hope all of you who need to go to bed find ways to get to sleep tonight, and those of you who are staying up have a wonderful time.
Those of you who already woken up on the 5th because of your time zone, I hope you’re having a lovely day. Just about eight hours to go!
17yr:
i have one of those “could be 12, could be 18” faces
I started an internship at a literary agency today.
I really love it, but I kind of have to laugh at how much immediate power is given to interns. We’re the ones reading slush, so we’re the ones deciding if a manuscript will ever be read by the agency. And if we decide it will, we read it first.
(For the record, some queries are as ridiculous as the ones you hear about. One of my subject lines today was “The best children’s book ever.”)
I really dislike writing papers that can’t be feminist criticism.
SittingOverHereDreaming 