So when I was backpacking and traveling via train through the UK with paranye and my good friend Amanda, I decided we should film out journey as though we were on the run from a zombie apocalypse.

And then I filmed a bunch of shit at home, and called for audio contributions from some of my international friends, and downloaded some stock footage. And set it to 'Tomorrow's Money' by MCR.

And, well. It's utterly stupid, but. Enjoy? :D?

So I forgot today was Mother's Day until someone reminded me. I forget things like that (holidays and birthdays kind of float past my mother and I) because every day should really be 'mother's day' if you give two shits. It should be a year-round thing, not a, you know, OMG I SUDDENLY REMEMBER MY MOM EXISTS THING. That said:

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOMS ON MY FLIST!

My mom is a badass fucking lady. She hates it when I swear, but this is a thing that must be emphasized. She's like Molly Weasley in a fight (NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU - ), spent a few years doing awesome things like walking barefoot and going to marching protests, got a black belt in iaido when living in Japan, and just generally a new age hippy-that-never-was. She kept her own last name when she got married, and passed it on to me. She spent years with an IMPEACH BUSH sign on our front lawn and still has a poster on the door that reads, 'The America I Believe in Does Not Torture People.' She drove me to skating for years on end, makes all of my performance costumes, watches Supernatural with me (covering her eyes AND MINE when it gets gory) and might be quietly plotting to take over the world, but I'm not sure.

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1) Much like atanih88 did to me, I have succeeded sucking acern into the black pit that is Teen Wolf. She did me the honor of liveblogging the entire experience to me on Facebook:

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I have known acern since we were both three years old, but only manage to see her about once per year and have as of yet never managed to have so much as a beer with her. This summer we are going to camp out, drink a ridiculous amount of jagerbombs, and then watch all of Teen Wolf, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and Avengers back to back.

2) Misha Collins has officially commented on the misogyny in Supernatural. Thank you. I love you.

3) I want to do sinful things to Dylan O'Brien's face. Like, it's super annoying, because my celebrity crushes have always been supremely beyond my grasp, or old, or gay, so I never gave three fucks - but his being around my age and on a ridiculous if popular MTV show makes him seem reachable. As if I could actually ask him to have a beer with me.

It pisses me off. Especially since he has a very pretty girlfriend. EVEN THE REACHABLE ONES HAVE VERY PRETTY GIRLFRIENDS. WHAT EVEN IS THAT ABOUT.

4) I had a lovely conversation with syrraki today about our old friend Phil, who we met on campus during our time abroad in Japan. Phil was the type of student who knew and ran everything about everything, and had secured a place in administration by the time we left.

syrraki: you know phil sometimes posts on fb about 'taking a break' and i'm like lol yeah take a break from running japan, you deserve it, dude.
rosalui: We predicted early on that Phil would conquer Japan and rule it with an iron yet beneficent fist. We were correct.
syrraki: you realise that means that the coup where we overthrow the government and take back imperial rule together… means we will have to overthrow Phil too?
rosalui: No, Phil is on our side. We are going to be routing the evil powers that surr
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WHAT COUP
syrraki: the coup… where we seize power and begin a golden age of melon pop and dressing gowns.

1) I'm paraphrasing above, but basically this is the most epic scene that has ever existed. I've downloaded the soundtrack and listened to it a million times. While crying internally.

I used to feel really awkward about Daenerys and the whole White Savior thing she had going on, along with the whole Going to Reclaim a Throne I've Never Seen and Rule Over People Who Don't Know I Exist thing. But her decisions - even, maybe especially, her well-intentioned ones - have massive consequences, and she keeps getting progressively more badass, so I like her now almost as much as Arya and Tyrion. And kind of want to worship at her feet.


I also am hating some of the others slightly less than before. Some. Slightly. My hate scale kind of goes Jaime > Cersei > Theon > Littlefinger > Ann Coulter > Joffrey Baratheon.

2) I got all my paperwork for the JET Program in on time, I think. Which means holy fucking shit, I will probably have an actual full-time job in Japan! o_o

3) Misha Collins has apparently met both Nathan Fillion (oh yeah, I finally watched and fell in love with Firefly) and John Barrowman. I expect either a plot to take over the world, or porn. Or both simultaneously. In space. Or Stonehenge. Or Stonehenge in space.

This distracts me from what's going on in Supernatural, which aside from specific episodes (Charlie! Awesome stable hand lady!) makes me want to strangle the entire production/writing team. And then make them hire Jane Espenson or something.

4) I hear Iron Man 3 is actually really good! This is a massive relief to me. I'm hoping to see it this weekend!

5) I'm maybe kind of into Teen Wolf. God damn you, atanih88.

6) The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary is coming up! And they're filming! And this is making me cry and scream! I've caught up on the new season, and I like it pretty well - absolutely loved the episode last week with the 'ghost.' Clara is... good, but nothing out of the ordinary to me. I like her, I do, but. She's sort of another young white Brit and we've had a million of those (at least Amy was redheaded and Scottish, which sounds dumb but it was... something newish) and I wish we could have an alien or a dude or a WoC or I DON'T KNOW?

7) I'm working on getting together all the videos and photos from my trek around Britain! :D Which was more amazing than my words can explain, and I feel blessed and honored by it far beyond what I feel I could ever have expected. ;_;

8) Until then, I'm editing together footage of our trip to make it look like there was a zombie apocalypse. >.>; If you have an English accent and feel like pretending to be a newscaster for me, please let me know. >.>;

9) HOW IS EVERYONE? :D

So I was going to post about being in England and meeting atanih88 and how emotional I was feeling after being at syrraki's wedding.

Except I made the mistake of checking my mail first and, well, My Chemical Romance has broken up. I have not got my feelings sorted out, so I will try to enumerate everything in 10 points.

1) When I was 14 years old and heard them on the radio for the first time (I'm Not Okay), I thought they were Coheed and Cambria.

2) When I saw them on Fuse not long after (Helena) I thought they were scary.

3) I kind of put them on a pedestal a lot. After they stopped scaring me.

4) I was a timid, awkward, unconfident, scared little girl. They were loud, angry, and fucking unapologetic, they protested, they raged, they ranted, they got shat on and fought back, they let the bad fuel their art and their determination and I learned that from them, all of that, from them.

5) When I was sixteen and family members were falling into comas and dying, and then getting cancer and dying, and then getting more cancer and dying and everyone was just fucking dead and the smell of hand sanitizer made me vomit because it meant hospitals and death and bed sores and chemo and everyone left alive was stabbing each other in the fucking back and I was so goddamn terrified of the world and everyone I thought I'd grown up loving and trusting (save my mom) was gone in one way or another... I had a new album in my hand. It was called The Black Parade, and it was about family, and death, and betrayal, and most of all, picking up the bits of your life and deciding to make something of yourself and never looking back and never stop running. So I did.

6) When Danger Days came out and they called for fan 'Videos from the Zones,' I stayed up all night with syrraki, walking for hours through Japanese rice fields, freezing and sweating our asses off in the 5 AM sunlight, wearing stupid roller derby costumes with ears on to get the perfect footage.

7) Gerard retweeted that shit.

8) I heard things, read things, that made me disenchanted with them at times. I grew up a lot. I started looking at life in perspective, and stopped putting people on those pedestals.

9) I made a fan video for Kids From Yesterday and it put me through my last semester of college. This enabled me to graduate. Which enabled me to apply for jobs only available to graduates. I owe my tuition, my diploma, and my future career to My Chemical Romance. Literally. Literally.

10) I am managing to be rather calm about this with my MCR friends. With my IRL friends, I plan to be getting drunk and sobbing like a stupid idiotic hysterical howler monkey.

PS: IT COULD STILL BE THE LOSTPROPHETS, GUYS.

PPS: Okay, so I kind of wish I'd gotten to see them play 'c'mon, c'mon, lick my battery' live.

So I'm leaving tomorrow for England.

I'm flying into London, spending the day with M and my friend Rose from HKU and then staying at atanih88's house. The next morning I'm taking the train to meet syrraki, because she is getting freaking married and I'm going to be at her wedding and kgbewkjgbwjk, and then staying with her friends in Birmingham for five days. The lovely x_dark_siren_x is taking the bus down and we will be tramping about the countryside like pagans for a bit, until I head back to London and stay with my friend Kev from HKU and Hina some more.

On April 1st, paranye - my companion and host in my various Irish adventures - and my friend Amanda from NY are ferrying/flying in, and we're taking an eight day BritRail trip through Wales, Bath, Salisbury, Dorset, and Cornwall. We're going to backpack until we camp, couchsurf, and take refuge in various youth hostels.

I'm kind of speechless. This is literally something I have been dreaming about for years, and I can't believe it's actually happening. I think about it and I start to cry. I don't understand how I've been this blessed and this lucky, but I'm not going to take a single second of it for granted.

So thanks, mommy, for telling me to do this while I have the chance and raising me to live on a shoestring; thanks to all the great people I'm going to meet along the way; and thanks a bazillion times over to my friends, without whom this would not be possible.



PS: My goal is to find Merlin.

So in December, Julie gave me an assortment of lovely Christmas presents and asked for nothing in return. I told her I would draw her fanarts, and she asked for Clint Barton in various Captain America uniforms. I then proceeded to be very unproductive, until being informed that her birthday was coming up and would in fact be this Wednesday (today).

So happy birthday, Julie. <3


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