A Cartoonish Life

Since I'm still new-ish to DreamWidth (but everyone who follows me on LiveJournal knows about this), here's where I explain that I'm in the process of writing a book! I've been working in the customer service/retail sector for the better part of my life post high school, but I've been employed for the last 4 1/2 years at a grocery store as a cashier. And it royally sucks. I've had to deal with so many mean, rude, terrible customers (and had some clashes with management), and I can't tell you how many people hear my stories of cashier abuse that they sometimes don't believe it, but it's all true. For the last couple of years, I've been keeping both a written journal and a work-related blog (15 Items Or Less) about my work experiences and just to generally vent.

Well, for a good chunk of last year, I was trying to outline this book project and to better organize how I want this project to go. I'm thinking I may turn it into a book/graphic novel. But yesterday, I was going through my work-related posts on my LJ account and running off those pages so I have something to look at and do my editing/organizing when I'm not at my computer. Holy crap, I've got about half of the LJ entries ran off so far and I've already realized it's a lot of material. I haven't even gotten to "15 Items Or Less" yet or my pen-and-paper journal.

What bothers me the most is that after reading these past entries, I just now realized how much of my life I've spent at this job. At least 1/6th of my life. And I don't even like the job. And it just feels like it's getting worse. So yeah. The book has to be written.

Mainly for fanfic purposes, but an interesting insight on Minx. (I'll put this behind a cut as well.)

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This is concerning the influx of Britney Spears- and Lindsay Lohan-related posts on OhNoTheyDidnt. This isn't anything against the Britney/Lindsay posts. By all means, they're celebrities, and if there's anything remotely exciting posted about either one of them, we're going to read about it. But I will point out rule #1 on ONTD's community info page:

--Going all-out on celebrities is why we exist. Personal attacks against other members are why the ban_set command exists. If you can't tell the difference, don't comment.

If someone is going to have a negative comment to say, they are going to say it. And yes, 10% of ONTD's community--believe it or not--don't really care for Britney. Or Lindsay Lohan. Are they not allowed to voice their opinion as well as Britney's/Lindsay's fans?

The problem is, a lot of the hardcore Britney/Lindsay fans take it to heart and get their panties in a bunch if so much as a negative thing is practically whispered about either one of them. They then get very aggressive to the non-fans to the point where it becomes a flat-out flaming war.

I, for one, refuse to fall victim to being flamed for saying what I think about Britney Spears OR Lindsay Lohan. My opinion is not always nice, but it's not always mean, either. If the fans want to worship Britney/Lindsay and have mean things to say about the quote-unquote "haters," they can take it to an actual Britney/Lindsay fan community. I don't actively walk into a lions' den wanting to be attacked. If I feel, for example, that Britney doing a redone version of "Baby One More Time" is her copying what Christina Aguilera did to "Genie in a Bottle," for example, then I'm going to say it. If I feel that I don't buy Lindsay is REALLY a lesbian and just wants attention since she's not getting the plum movie parts she's used to getting, I'm going to say it. I'm not afraid to voice my opinion. Do I expect to get flamed? Maybe. Am I going to participate in a flame war and get the hardcore fans riled up about it? No, I'm just going to let their comments roll off my back. I'm above that stuff. So why can't they just let it go as well?

There just seems to be more of this going on at ONTD than usual. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the fans just need to learn to not take it so personally. If they're allowed to be rabid Britney/Lindsay fans and be all, "OMG BRITNEY! OMG LINDSAY!," then they need to understand there's always going to be someone who doesn't like either one of them who's also allowed to voice their opinion, and they need to just ignore it if it really bothers them. There's no need to get super defensive and start an immature, juvenile flame war over it. (This applies to all fandoms, really, but it seems to really rear its ugly head whenever Britney or Lindsay are concerned.)

And I feel this addendum should be added to the community rules. I'm tired of seeing flame wars erupting over Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

*tangent* I'm sitting here eating one of the caramel apples I brought home from the Taste of St. John. And really, Micki outdid herself with these babies. However, I'm picking the caramel and M&Ms off of the one I'm eating now and just consuming the apple. How sad is this? But dude...I already made a total pig of myself today. Before I got to the Taste of St. John, I had some chili because I didn't know what we'd be serving and I didn't want to spend too much money. I treated myself to one of the special hot chocolates from Starbucks on the way there. Then I learned we could have what we wanted from our booth for free (YAY FOR FREE FOOD!), so I had a chicken and dumpling bread bowl soup, a tiny slice of pumpkin pie, some apple cider, and some more (free) hot chocolate that we later started offering (since both Dunkin' Donuts AND Starbucks dropped the ball on their booths). I brought home some slices of apple pie for Hunter, another bread bowl with some soup for Mom (that I ended up sharing with her), and a couple of the aforementioned caramel apples.

It was cold today, but it wasn't too bad. Tony at least brought her kerosene heater for us to use. Like I said, at least I wasn't behind a register today wearing uncomfortable shoes and going home with sore feet.

*tangent* I worked some more on one of my Jem-fics, especially after doing that freewriting a couple of days ago. It's sad that a lot of fans aren't fond of Rio because they feel he's "macking on two chicks at the same time" who just happen to both be his girlfriend. But I still stand by my belief that Jerrica brings a lot of this on herself by not telling him the truth, and it's not entirely Rio's fault. There needs to be more Rio POV in fanfics. Just wait till I'm done.

*tangent* PICTURE TIME!!

Here's the jack-o-lantern for this year:



And here's the craptacular pic Mom took of me in my costume last night (I swear, she doesn't know how to work the camera; she pressed the button way too quickly):



Like I said, I'll have better pics up next week. I'll get Kevin to take the pictures instead. Or Hunter.

...and I need to get it down.


"Just go and marry your fiancee, the one big 'special' love of your life. I'll go back to screwing a bunch of whores, and I'll stay out of your life forever like I was before all of this shit happened. I just want you to be happy, for chrissakes. It's not like you really loved me anyway."


(I gotta remember that for future reference.)

(WARNING! "Jem" fanwanking going on! This is just me, getting involved with RP-ing and thinking outloud here on my el-jay.)

I got done having an online chat with Jeed and Carmen today regarding some plot development for Starbright Continued. Since Stormer's supposed to be getting married somewhere down the line...well, let's put it this way.

--Roxy got kicked out of the Misfits in our story for getting her mitts on a guy from a rival band that Pizzazz had the hots for.
--Stormer still wants Roxy in her wedding party.
--Stormer still wants Pizzazz and Jetta in the wedding party because they're her friends/bandmates.
--Let's not forget that Roxy and Jetta still hate each other's guts. (A holdover from the cartoon. This never went away.)
--Roxy's been getting involved with this very well-off British businessman named Rick who has a four- or five-year-old kid named Lizzie that has dark black hair and grey eyes like Jetta has. Guess who her real mom is? ( Read more... )
--Stormer still wants Kimber in her wedding party since they're BFFs. (Remember...Kimber defected to the Misfits.)
--Stormer's not sure if she wants Clash in ther wedding party (since she doesn't really regard Clash as a Misfit).
--Stormer's considering asking Aja (a HOLOGRAM) to be in her wedding party...despite what happened at Rio's memorial service.

Conflicts left and right. But Jeed and Carmen just want to make sure Stormer's wedding is something big and spectacular...and full of scandal. ( Read more... )

The Stingers will more than likely crash the party. Why? Because they're the Stingers and they can. Because it's a big event and they weren't invited. Because Rapture and Riot want to stir things up. Because Minx wants some fun before she has her baby.

Oh, and Minx still doesn't know who the father of her baby is yet. ( Read more... )

Later on tonight, I talked to Faith a bit about where the storyline was headed. Basically, I was giving her a heads-up that Roxy is still included in wedding plans (since she plays Roxy). I also told her that despite all the fighting and bickering between Pizzazz/Roxy and Roxy/Jetta, I want there to be a point where right before Stormer goes down the aisle to just have a total Bridezilla moment:( Read more... )

This went off on a tangent (as it always does when I talk to Faith about this stuff *lol*...what we discussed about Eric Raymond a couple of months ago was hilarious and a bit disgusting, too), about the "Minx's baby's daddy" poll, and Faith voted for Riot. ( Read more... )

This led to us saying Jem needs to stay the hell away from Riot, or else he'd just be spreading his seed all over. Because let's face it. Even back in the days of the cartoon, Riot has had a hot nut for Jem since he laid eyes on her.

Like I said. He's got "pick-up artist" written all over him.

Even though we have Jeed playing Rick, we think it'd be interesting if Rick just couldn't bring himself to tell Roxy the truth about him and Jetta until the most inconvenient moment.( Read more... )

And this is why it's been so hard for me to pull off the "Ace" thing with Rio. Essentially, "Ace" is to him as "Jem" is to Jerrica. It may sound like a shitty thing to do to Jerrica, because she really doesn't deserve it. Nobody deserves to be deceived like that, really. ( Read more... )

And let's put it this way. When Emmett Benton died, Jerrica had to resort to some pretty drastic and...oh, outrageous things just to get the family business back. Like creating an alter ego. Sometimes when things look their worst, you do what you have to do to keep things afloat.

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