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X-3 was amazing.

Alright, so apparently, objectively it sucked. It was only an hour and a half long, it plays hell with the comic series, it lacks in character development, and auxilliary mutants are just thrown at you with no explanation.

Still, I didn't know it was that short when I was watching it and I can only go by what my dad's told me and what I've seen of the animated series in terms of faithfulness to the literature. The characters are all a little shallow, and there are an abundance of unnamed back-up mutants that clearly have a source in the comics but show up with no explanation and sometimes die with no explanation.

But besides all that, it kicks ass. Although, I may have been distracted by the abundance of hot women in this movie. You've got Rogue, Mystique, Jean Grey, Arclight, Psylocke, Callisto, even Shadowcat.

Rogue I think has longer hair in this movie. Anna Paquin's lips, as always, hot, although she doesn't use them as much in this movie as in the others, which was disappointing. I suppose she got her spotlight in the first one, but... I like to see pretty girls, but I'd rather they'd talk instead of just standing around.

Speaking of just standing around, Jean Grey is hot but that's kind of all she does in this movie. But is she ever hot. Her hair is also longer. I guess it's hard to get a haircut when you're at the bottom of a lake. She has kind of cool but essentially pointless outfits.

As for Mystique, I don't know why you would need a new name if your parents named you Raven Darkholme. I mean, come on. Skylar maintains she's hotter without the blue stuff, but I disagree. Mystique, essentially naked and blue, with those weird eyes, kicking ass: awesome.

Psylocke and Callisto are nice to look at. Psylocke doesn't talk much, but Callisto has a nice voice. Purple hair on Psylocke and the tattoos on Callisto work great.

Storm, meh. She looks better with the shorter hair, but she also has too much Catwoman in her in this movie. It's partly the hair, partly her movements.

Kitty Pryde looks like she's twelve, but she's actually only a month younger than me. Kitty...Kitty is cute, she's adorable...but she looks like she's twelve.

And Arclight? Androgyny FTW. Wow. Click here for some photos of Omahrya Mota to see what I mean. (These are not safe for work. Or parents. Etc. Lol.)

As for the guys...meh. You know me. :P Angel's pretty cute and I'm trying to remember where I recognize him from. Actually, I think the only thing I've seen him in is Big Trouble but I don't really remember it...but he looks a damn lot like the Flint from Liz's show in his IMDb photo. Wolverine's character falls pretty flat in this movie, I like him a lot better in the first two. Iceman, Colossus, Pyro, not that cute. Leech looks a lot better with hair. Juggernaut is just funny. ("Here at Illyria, we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, bitch!") Is it weird that I like Magneto and Xavier the best?

So character development-wise, the movie is a little weak and has some weird continuity errors that have you going WTF at the worst possible moments. But it's still damn cool. And I think if the only thing the five of us nerds are discussing on the way back is the physics of everyone's powers (Shadowcat should be able to fly, Storm can fly so she should be able to explode people's heads, etc), it was a pretty good movie.

There are other things but I can't discuss them because of spoilers. I mean, there's really not a whole lot you can say about such a short, packed movie that isn't a spoiler, so I'll talk about how hot the actresses are.

I do have one question: Where was Jubilee? She's credited in the second one too, but I didn't see no fireworks. Even Shadowcat is clearly in the early ones, and you'd think fireworks would be a little obvious. And Nightcrawler just disappears. And Gambit is not in it, again. Also, stay for all of the credits.

Well, I guess I have to go be useful now. I should've probably done all this later, because now my dad is all mad at me. I'll write more about that and everything else later.

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Forgive me. Faced with
your tears, faced with your triumph,
I offer silence.

I think I need to get over myself and just stop being weird.

X-men was fun. There wasn't cuddling, but there was tea. It was: Dan, me, Stephen, Kristin, Skylar, Miles, Mike, another Dan and his friend, and two other guys who came with Miles and Mike. So we saved eleven seats in the fourth row. There was a guy a couple of rows down who could've been Miles' heavier twin. It was freaky. I swear Dan knew everyone in that theater and the other one that was playing it. Then after the movie Dan, me, Stephen, Kristin, and Skylar went back to chill in Stephen's basement for a bit at like two in the morning.

It was a good time. Dan cut his hair, so now it's really short instead of really huge. Stephen's is long these days, it was always short freshman year; he looks a little like Derrick except his hair is browner. I always forget how attractive Steve really is until I see him again. Like whoa. I definitely had a crush on him freshman year. But then again, I also had crushes on Dan, CJ, Garance, Carly, Miles, Laura, and Casey. And I only just figured out that I'm polyamorous? :P

I think I figured out why I was looking up polyamory. I'd been reading Queen of Wands, and one of the characters is polyamorous. So I think I looked it up. I think there's something a little off in my chronology though.

In other news, I fucking hate this house. I just spent basically the last two hours horribly angry for no good reason. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this house, but something is very wrong. John feels it too. I get angry for no reason, I stay angry for no reason, I snap at the dog, I yell at my parents, I refuse to do simple things that I wouldn't mind doing at all if I were anywhere else but here. And it's worse when my parents are angry at each other, which they usually are. I just hope whoever moves in here when we leave doesn't regret it.

And it smells like salmon upstairs, but it's actually just the paint fumes pervading every cc of the air. It's making me sick.

I had one of the most surreal dreams I've ever had last night. I wanted to write about it or paint it or something, but I'm losing it by now.

Today I decided: I need a fucking haircut or I'm fucking cutting it myself. I'm getting a little bit sick of this girl phase.

I don't know what my parents' problem is. They're always down on me for something. I've been home three days and already they're yelling at me. They're stressed about all the stuff to get the house ready, I get that, but do they have to take it out on me? I haven't spent all my time on the computer, I got up at 8:30 yesterday and Wednesday even on five and seven hours of sleep, I have juice with breakfast without having to be reminded, I eat breakfast before getting on the computer, I play with the dogs, I've made plans to spend time with people. And they're still acting like I'm not doing all those things. And they don't see me at school so they don't realize that this house turns me into a totally different person.

And it's been cloudy all day so it's dark like it's later than it is.

What the fuck is wrong with me? I'm crying, and I know there's no good reason for it and I can't stop. Jesus Christ.

Part of my problem is that I miss them...but I don't really think that's allowed anymore. I mean...in one sense I really am okay with this, but in another sense it's a little like, what else could I really be? And I think that's part of why it's hard to let go.

Well...whatever. I don't know how I'm going to simultaneously get back into the Gaia guilds I've neglected and spend less time on the computer, but I'm going to try. I've got books to read, poems and songs to write, and art to create (but no scanner...damn it).

Anyway. Love to all. Sorry for all the bitchy over-contemplativeness.

Meh.

I feel better now.

I still wish our scanner was working. Or that our piano was in tune.

I opened a window. (Yeah, that's kind of a metaphor and kind of not.)

Things to do:
1. Finish Crimson's commission. I don't know how I'll do that with the ink PSD file being on my computer, and the scanner being broken so I can't rescan the pencils.
2. Start on the rest of my commissions because I'm horribly, horribly late on them.
3. Get a haircut.
4. Find a belt.
5. Get things I need out of the boxes from school (like my iPod charger, some of my notebooks and books, other things I can't remember right now).
6. Hang out with my brother.
7. Go over laptop scenarios with my parents.
8. Finish The Well of Loneliness
9. Figure out whether it's possible for me to go to AnthroCon and whether I even want to.
10. Anything else I've forgotten.

Going to dinner with my parents...fun fun.

Argh.

Why does my family always have to bitch? Why do I always have to bitch about my family?

I don't like the person I am at home. I don't like not liking myself.

Argh.

And I can't stand it that the things my mother gets angry with me about most are the things I do that remind her of my dad.

I hate that dinner out with my family is my brother out with his friends, me reading a book and listening to music, my mom making pointed conversation with my dad about me just in case I can hear her, and my dad failing to choose his words carefully enough to keep my mom from blowing up at him.

And it is so terribly apt that if you look back through this entire LJ, there is not a single entry where I really, truly complain about my parents, and suddenly in the three days I've been back there are how many?

Bleh. Maybe we'll all feel better in the morning.