Meet the atlantean's wrath

I'm feel dead,oppressed and incredibly grumpy lately, know why?
Exams!!!!!!

I just KNOW that I will surely fail this session, and honestly that's not really puzzling, seeing how I completely neglected uni this semester. I feel so demotivated that even now, as the dreaded torture grow near, I can barely find the courage to study.
How come I'm so pathetic?

What's even more frustrating is that, as soon that college ISN'T involved I'm as curious and enthiousastic as ever. The latest example of this assertion regards the AMAZING find that has recently been made in the Sakhalin area (eastern Russia):





This unknown creature has been find by the seashore and displays some skin with hair or fur. The russian army obviously took it away as soon as they heard of it...but much more important, I can't reasonably be the only one to find a disturbing ressemblance between this and the Mystics, also known as urRus (from the movie "The Dark Crystal", 1982)!!?!



And some urRu art to bring additional proof:



This thing really cannot cease to fascinate me, and manages to bring some happiness in my desperate self-loathing mood (and damn, it just made me want to watch the movie again, God only knows I've no time for it).

So well I'm (maybe) going back to study like every poor student of the planet. #le sigh#

Jen: "Wings? I don't have wings!
Kira: Of course not. You're a boy."

Now I'm convinced, I'm going to learn how to cook.
Not really because I'm beginning to worry on how I'll be able to survive with nothing to eat, once I'll live away from my parents' house. No, what decided me is my incredible, extraordinary super-laziness (my one and only super power!); because I don't want when I'm living with roommates (for example when I'm working in Canada during the summer) to EVER again be known as the-girl-who-always-does-the-dishes.
I'm honestly fairly certain that participating in the cooking will be A LOT less demanding that having to wash the dishes for eight persons every two meals.

All I ask is for a small dose of motivation, puh-leeze help and give me some, I'll do anything for you (honest).

The Spirit: "A murdering thug who writes nursery rhymes and mind his mother!..Wow!"

I know that my last posts weren't very cheerful so today, let's have some CUTEH !!!!! for a change (and all without an LJ-cut because I am THAT nasty :P). Let me present to you parade-of-cutesy-animals!
Ready?
Go!!!

Lil' panda fights crime in his black-and-white suit during the day (and sleeps during the night), but today he decided to open the march:



"Help! I can't swim!!!", cried bebeh mouse during the flood. "Don't worry, answered Mister Toad, today's transportation is free":



Young Porcupine is in LOOOOOOVE, but he knows that you must be ready prepared for a first date, so here goes some training:



"Oh gosh, I know she can't help it, but mama's breath smells fishy":



Baby seal is really friendly, "Gimme five dude!" is a little like his motto:



"Shh!!! Go away, or he'll know I'm here":



Little miss tiger would like you to know that her mother's got her back:



Tiny squirrel owns your soul (and is also eating all your nuts when you don't look):



And finally,last but not least,
"Look! Look what I just did!!!", would proudly say momma otter to anyone coming near:



Hope you enjoyed the show!!!

Superman: "I have a strange favor to ask you.
Batman: No, Clark. You can't borrow my pirate ship."

It have never denied the fact that I'm ardently opposed to almost anything from the chinese government because their politics are some of the most oblivious of basic human rights (and let's not even get started on their environmental stances). I've actively fought for the freedom and independence of Tibet since I was fifteen or such and it's no big secret that I'm fiercely opposed to the celebration of the Olympics in China.
Thus said, it doesn't mean in ANY way that I target the chinese people and today's news really really crushed me.
In case you haven't learned yet, an enormous earthquake of 7.9 magnitude struck Xinjiang in central China today, due to the confrontation in this place of the Eurasian and South-Asia landmasses. As of now the body count is of almost 9 000, and it's sure to rise up in the days to come. The quake also affected animals (as we usually tend to forget), especially since it hit Wolong Nature Reserve and the panda breeding center in Wenchuan county, which still remains out of contact.
So after Burma, Asia is once again targeted by forces of nature, and I hope that this time the rest of the world will act and help the population a lot faster. In a natural disaster like this one, every minute counts, let's never forget it.
I'll certainly give money to various charities like MSF or Handicap International, and cross fingers...
What else can I do?

Penguin: "Don't you have a president to assassinate or something..."

OH.MY.GOD!!!
I was innocently prowling Youtube searching for animated goodness of the eighties when I stumbled upon THIS.
This my dears is an absolutely marvelous and freakingly disturbing video in claymotion featuring Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher along with the "angel" Satan; yeah, you read it right. I held my breath during the more-than-five minutes it lasted and just KNEW I had to post it here.
So, enjoy "The Mysterious Stranger", by Will Vinton :


Fucking great, isn't it?

For the record, this is part a claymotion movie of 1985 called "The adventures of Mark Twain" which apparently describes the author's search to find the Haley comet (did you know by the way that Mark Twain was born a year of passage of the comet and rightly predicted himself that he would die during its next visit in 1910?). Apparently it was censored from several television stations at the time. Now, I honestly don't know if the rest of the movie is as good, but I just NEED to have it...seems like Amazon is going to receive a little visit from me this evening. ;)

Donna Troy: "Well...this went from zero to weird in a hurry..."

Well, today is May 8th, the official celebration of the end of WWII...and it makes me think of my Grampa.

Thanks to people like you Papy, to people who fought to the very end and never lost hope, even when all seemed lost, I am now able to live in a free world. You were only 20, but when war was declared you became a pilot, not because of the thrill, but because you knew you were fighting for freedom. And when you were defeated and your country occupied you didn’t let go, you didn’t flee or hide under common excuses, but you chose the hard path. You were a clandestined radio operator but also participated in several actions, you destroyed things, arsoned, probably killed (I never dared ask you), and were captured. I know you went to a concentration camp, a low security one, and that you were crazy enough to try to escape. Lucky and gifted enough to succeed. But even there, even after having seen and endured the worst horrors you didn’t stop, you knew it was more important than ever to hope and act upon your beliefs. You continued to fight until all seemed to go better, until the end of the war seemed to grow near, and I supposed that you became careless, or that they were better than previous times since they caught you again, recognized you and sent you to Birkenau. I’ve seen many photographs of the place in history books and thinking that you nearly lost your life here made me (and still makes me) quiver, not so much because I would never have existed, but because I can’t even picture what you must have endured. I saw the mark they left on you and I know you suffered like I will probably never experience, but life was decidingly loving you since the Russians soldiers freed you on their march to Germany. Weak, sick and dying you still chose to take arms and joined their ranks. It was now or never, and France would not see you again until everybody could be free.
Always reserved about what you went through, you taught us the ravages of hate and the virtues of bravery and tolerance. For all that and for having been my deeply loved grand-père, I thank you.

I miss you Papy.

"Celui qui croyait au ciel
Celui qui n'y croyait pas."

While searching for some information on several of the many OCD-related problems I have to live through I found this:



"Obsessive Compulsive Action Figure
This 5-1/4" (13.3 cm) tall, hard vinyl Obsessive Compulsive Action Figure is worried about whether or not you washed your hands after you used the bathroom. Just in case, he’s sure you won’t mind if he wears his gloves and surgical mask when he shakes your hand. Or even better, maybe you could just bump elbows with him. Now, as soon as he finishes counting those ceiling tiles, he can get started on alphabetizing the canned foods. Mini surgical mask included. Packaged with a sanitary, hypo-allergenic towelette to clean off the figure before you touch it. Illustrated blistercard."(from the website).



On a other page of the website you can find: "The “Obsessive Compulsive Action Figure” was conceived and created by a group of people who have obsessive compulsive traits."
Which is of course COMPLETELY different than being diagnosed and actually SUFFERING from the situation (by the way, obsessively fangirling over an actor or classing your CDs alphabetically DOES NOT mean you have obsessive compulsive disorder!!!).

"We do not believe we have any reason to be ashamed just because we have such traits.In a humorous way our action figure expresses that our attention to organization, order and cleanliness, is a part of our lives, which we choose to see in a positive light.Having and celebrating OC traits is our clear purpose in making this figure. Like the film, As Good As It Gets, with Jack Nicholson, we are what we are and we choose to present ourselves and our product in a humanizing and humorous way.In a diverse and free society, it is only to be expected that some people may fail to see the humor and positive side to our product. We respect that choice.Because we know that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), in contrast to someone who has obsessive compulsive traits, is a serious condition..."
Thanks for at least admitting it

"... that requires professional help, we refer people to the website of the OC Foundation (www.ocfoundation.org) for more information."


Honestly, I DON'T FIND THIS FUNNY!!!!
Okay, maybe I'm just an over-sensitive stupid whining bitch, but seeing how my OCD is completely fucking my life up, I reserve to myself the right to bash these "toy" monstrosities. Really, OCD is a mental disease who can make those who have it suffering a LOT (trust me I'm talking from personal experience). YES, I wash my hands all the time, YES I always feel the need to make completely crazy rituals about things as simple for normal people as taking a shower or watching a movie (you know you're really crazy when you've got, like me, movie-watching rituals), YES I'm stressed ALL THE FUCKING TIME about things you couldn't even imagine as stressfull, and finally YES I follow therapy, am fully aware that I'm deranged and extremely ashamed of it in the same time (except my close family, my shrink and people I anonymously talk to on the internet, nobody knows I have OCD).
Making fun of it is as insensitive and cunt-like than making fun of brain damaged or paralyzed persons. I'm wondering what their next step will be, creating little dolls of comatose people complete with the respiratory machines or quadriplegics on in their little wheelchair? And after that what, jews in concentration camp, african people dying of hunger??!!!!

There are really things you CAN'T make fun of if you have a minimum of dignity and empathy. I wish that OCD was one of these...(and naively thought so).



By the way I totally love the series "Monk", which I don't find offensive at all.

Unnamed clerk of the hotel: "No luggages? No surnames? This is quite irregular...!
Iron: Why "irregular"? Robots don't wear clothes! Why should we carry luggage?
Tin: Sh-h-h! Y-you make us s-sound like n-nudists!
Gold: This isn't funny, Tin. We're victims of discrimination."

Whoa, I am so incredibly tired, even something as simple as batting my eyelids is painful right now. Honestly, I must have slept a total of eight hours in two nights. I initially wanted to spend the evening watching DVDs or "Apocalypto" that I recorded last Saturday, but it can wait and right now I can't think of anything more appealing than a bed (especially my own since it presents the characteristic of being full of plushes :p).
So why am I here, still typing on the internet you could ask? I have no idea.
One of the stupid childish habits that I can't seem to be able to dump is the incapability to go to bed unless I'm literally falling asleep. And even if I really DO enjoy sleeping and just simply resting in a bed, I have the strong feeling that I've not fully benefited of the present day if I go to bed early.
Stupid, eh?

Bizarro No.1: "The secret son?...I'll tell you! It's sheer, colossal...super-stupidity!!"

Publicly, I often bash the norwegian government, most notably because (despite every reasonable environmental considerations), it's still one of the very few countries to authorize whaling. Furthermore, I'm also rather alarmed by the strong nationalist feelings (in the very bad meaning of these terms) that plague a lot of the population.
But honestly, I can't help but love Norwegians, if my fascination for nordic countries and mythologies is not proof enough, the fact that I'm actually learning swedish (knowing that speakers of the swedish language are normally able to understand norwegian and vice-versa) is really a strong giveaway.
And look at this photographic treasure: an indubitable evidence that Norway is indeed awesome:



Yes, you saw it, a (non-photoshopped, non-tricked) picture of a road sign warning for trolls. This is so utterly fabulous that it should be listed as one of the new world-wonders.

Seriously, the day I'll have my-own-house-for-me-and-me-alone, I will be needing one of these for my front yard.

Joker: "Well in that case...
...the left side of the menu looks good. I'll have two of those!"

Well, obviously today was a really lazy day, I spent some time on the internet, but instead of reading or writing interesting stuff, I went all "SQUEEEEEEE!!!!", over several cutsie photographs of baby animals (a selection will probably be posted here during the week ;)).
After the designing of my personal hell in the previous post, I also answered a lot of these stupid, childish, but really funny memes and tests that plague the net for our greatest pleasure.
My results are hidden under the cut (actually my very first one!).

( Oh my goodness! I just lost my LJ-cut virginity!!! )

Yes, so apparently today wasn't meant to be very productive, but who cares? I still enjoyed it!

Thanatos: "Haven't you been paying attention to anything I say?
Duke: Actually I tune out whenever you open your mouth.
Thanatos: What about when I yawn?
Duke: Sorry, what?"

Oh look, I created my very special little hell!!!
Isn't it cute?


And yes, hunters who consider killing as a hobby(we're not talking about those who have this as one of their only means to obtain food) rank pretty high on my hate scale.
Sorry! ;)

By the way, I know this entry is pretty stupid but, what the fuck? This journal was never really meant to be serious.

Red Robin: "Have fun being absorbed!"

I've always been obsessively fascinated by the myth of Atlantis (as the tittle of my LJ very well suggests ;)), and just today I found this.
This my dears is golden, a marvelous example of what poetry truly is, so read and enjoy the beauty:

Being set on the idea
Of getting to Atlantis,
You have discovered of course
Only the Ship of Fools is
Making the voyage this year,
As gales of abnormal force
Are predicted, and that you
Must therefore be ready to
Behave absurdly enough
To pass for one of The Boys,
At least appearing to love
Hard liquor, horseplay and noise.

Should storms, as may well happen,
Drive you to anchor a week
In some old harbour-city
Of Ionia, then speak
With her witty scholars, men
Who have proved there cannot be
Such a place as Atlantis:
Learn their logic, but notice
How its subtlety betrays
Their enormous simple grief;
Thus they shall teach you the ways
To doubt that you may believe.

If, later, you run aground
Among the headlands of Thrace,
Where with torches all night long
A naked barbaric race
Leaps frenziedly to the sound
Of conch and dissonant gong:
On that stony savage shore
Strip off your clothes and dance, for
Unless you are capable
Of forgetting completely
About Atlantis, you will
Never finish your journey.

Again, should you come to gay
Carthage or Corinth, take part
In their endless gaiety;
And if in some bar a tart,
As she strokes your hair, should say
“This is Atlantis, dearie,”
Listen with attentiveness
To her life-story: unless
You become acquainted now
With each refuge that tries to
Counterfeit Atlantis, how
Will you recognize the true?

Assuming you beach at last
Near Atlantis, and begin
That terrible trek inland
Through squalid woods and frozen
Thundras where all are soon lost;
If, forsaken then, you stand,
Dismissal everywhere,
Stone and now, silence and air,
O remember the great dead
And honour the fate you are,
Travelling and tormented,
Dialectic and bizarre.

Stagger onward rejoicing;
And even then if, perhaps
Having actually got
To the last col, you collapse
With all Atlantis shining
Below you yet you cannot
Descend, you should still be proud
Even to have been allowed
Just to peep at Atlantis
In a poetic vision:
Give thanks and lie down in peace,
Having seen your salvation.

All the little household gods
Have started crying, but say
Good-bye now, and put to sea.
Farewell, my dear, farewell: may
Hermes, master of the roads,
And the four dwarf Kabiri,
Protect and serve you always;
And may the Ancient of Days
Provide for all you must do
His invisible guidance,
Lifting up, dear, upon you
The light of His countenance.

by Wystan Hugh Auden

Duke: "Small things like midgets and children are always the most powerful!"

I'm currently addicted to several webcomics, and xkcd (nope, that's not a typo) is one of them. Honestly it's hilarious and you should check this quickly (warning requires high nerding abilities and a very strong tolerance to scientific geekiness).
And here I came across this gem:



I really think this is the best definition of machism I ever laid my eyes upon.
Priceless!!!

Alfred Pennyworth:"I'd win the bloody Nobel for it if it wouldn't compromise some of your most sensitive secrets."

Strange fact about me nobody cares about 1#: I do NOT wish to possess a cell-phone. Ever.
(they are evil!!!)

Sophie: "I should have done this years ago...kick ass, get drunk, and blow people away!"

Okay, it's time to make an useful post so, today, I will link to a ton of "click to do a good action for free websites".
The principle is extremely simple, every time someone click on the buttons on these websites, adds are automatically generated and send a little everywhere on the web. The brands/charities/whatever who profit from the publicity thus given pay then for the various projects sponsored by the websites such as fighting deforestation, hunger, or any other bad thing that can happen on this big merciless world (depending on the site you click on).
It's free, doesn't take more than five minutes and does good for the planet so I think that everybody can shamelessly go clickety-click-click (if I do it everyday, it really means that it isn't that hard).

So, here we go:
-these are already linked in my profile, but it doesn't hurt to bring them here again:Save The World - One Click At A Time!





-this one has lots of lil' buttons on the page to click on, but honestly, it's not that difficult:



-the website linked here belongs a project devoted to save swedish forests:



-here's a very good website I discovered only recently which propose two lil' buttons to click on (and other nice services):



-best of all Care2 (one of the best website ever made, filled with petitions, and ethical or environmental news and advices) sponsors a lot of these websites:




Now, there are probably bazillions of other websites of this kind but the thing is that I don't know them. So, clicking on these will suffice for the moment. ;)
(my page looks messy now)

Robin: "...or maybe a chinchilla with bat-wings will fly out of my butt.
You are so not listening to me right now."

I'm currently totally addicted to Neil Gaiman's work. The man is a friggin' God!!!
Until now I had only encountered his writing through the Sandman series of graphic novels which did make me want to read more from the author. And then I took up "Smoke and mirrors", his collection of short stories...and I'm now hooked.
Help doctor, I can't stop reading him!!!

Superman: "Look...they named a cereal after me!"

And a second quote because on my last post I couldn't be bothered to share one:
Animal man: "I'm sorry if I seem insensitive, but it's galaxy-saving time."

I came across this on alan_moore and I know I HAVE to have it. This Rorschach figure is just purely made of awesome.



What disturbs me is that I know DC direct who's commercializing this new serie of "Watchmen" toys (yes, because even if we grown ups don't want to admit it, they're still toys) is doing so only because of the upcoming movie, movie whose release I'm fiercely opposed to.
Come on, I don't give a shit if Zack Snyder's supposed to be good at what he's doing, what I know is that one of the basic rules of life is: do NOT attempt to adapt "Watchmen" in any media whatsoever. This is pure blasphemy, right on the list of sacrileges just before burning a church or any other place of cult.
Some people say that it will introduce a whole new audience to the works of Alan-the Master-Moore, I reply: "Bullshit!!!" Everybody said that when the movie of "V for Vendetta" was released...but most of my friends still don't know that it was adapted from one of the best graphic novel ever written, and even among the very few who were informed, not even one tried to read Moore's masterpiece, even those who "shudders" liked "shudders" the movie.
What's important is that when an author, an artist, a creator states publicly that he really doesn't want any of his work to be transported in an other media, it really pains me to see that no one even listen to his opinion. Who cares if he owns the copyrights or not, it's his work, his world and I can't understand that people don't want to give the man a little respect, and I'm not even talking of the respect he rightfully deserves as a freaking genius.
Anyway, aside my point of view on how this is just a big mistake, the movie WILL be crap because if there ever was a totally inadaptable story to the 7# art, "Watchmen" is this one.

I certainly won't see the movie, I think that's pretty obvious, but still squeed when I saw the Rorschach figure and will surely buy it (as soon as I have some money).

At least they're not making a Watchmen videogame ("crossing fingers, crossing fingers,don't make this happen").



Oh, and by the way I don't care if I seem as an angry stupid fan bitch (because when it comes to Alan Moore that's exactly who I am ;)).

Okay, for the life of me, I really can’t remember where I snagged this meme from, but I still decided to do it.(and it’s my very first meme people, this is an important event!!!)
So the principle was as follow: first a list had to be done of twelve character WITHOUT looking at the questions and then, the questions were answered in all sincerity.

My list of characters (if you intend to do this meme, DO NOT look at the questions before doing your own list):
1): Hal Jordan
2): Morgan le Fey
3): Rorschach
4): Merlin
5): Batman
6): The little mermaid
7): Gabriel van Helsing
8): Gerda (from the snow queen tale)
9): Matilda
10): King Arthur (the one from the movie with Clive Owen)
11): Aquaman
12): Peter Rabbit

Aaaand the questions (and answers) are:
1. One and Seven are married when a de-aged Three comes to live with them. How do they cope? Can they handle it or does Three drive them insane?
He most definitely drives them insane, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT RORSCHACH GODDAMMIT!!! (also Hal Jordan and Gabriel Van Helsing would make an incredibly cute married couple).

2. Ten and Four are both in love with Six. Who does Six pick?
I really don't know how to answer that one since Merlin/The little mermaid and King Arthur/The little mermaid sound both as good, so I will say that they all go together in a strange but entirely functional love triangle, marry and live happily ever after.

3. Two finds nude pictures of Five. What does he/she do with the pictures?
Morgan use the pictures to web a complex magic sortilege and makes Batman fall irresistibly in love with her.

4. Eleven finds out he/she is pregnant. Eight is the father. How does Eight react?
Gerda calls the baby Kay, gives up her obsession of finding her missing friend, endures expensive surgery that enables her to breathe underwater and goes to live with Aquaman and raise their child in Atlantis.
Everybody then live happily ever after, Gerda and her little family as well as Kay and the Snow Queen.

5. Six is transported to an alternate universe where he/she is married to Nine. Is this good news or bad?
Good news of course as long as there are plenty of books for them both to devour, once Matilda has taught the Little Mermaid to read. (I also don’t know how, until now, I failed to see how obvious their couple was)

6. Twelve and One have sex under the influence of sex pollen, but afterwards, find out they have a mental link that can't be broken. Do they make the most of it? How do they react?
HAL JORDAN HAS SEX WITH PETER RABBIT ?!!! Sorry, I can’t answer the rest of the question,my brain has exploded…

7. Two and Eleven are involved in a body switch. How do they react? Is it an experience that brings them closer?
Whoa, an incredibly strong willed sorceress involved in a body switch with the king of Atlantis, I can't possibly imagine what could come out of it, but I can say that it would be utterly and undeniably made of awesome! Actually my sick and twisted brain is imagining that they would fall in love and have sex together.

8. Seven and Eight are in a relationship when Three makes it clear he/she wants a threesome. Do Seven and Eight give Three what they want?
No, but Van Helsing and Gerda still take Rorschach home and raise him as their long desired child.


9. Nine and Six get lost in the woods for a night. Do they fight or have sex?
Matilda and the Little Mermaid fall irremediably in love but don’t have sex and spend the night making up stories and talking of everything that goes out in the world instead.

10. Four is a hooker. Twelve is the pimp. Four wants to runaway with Seven. What does twelve do?
Peter Rabbit calls farmer Mc Gregor to intimidate Merlin and Van Helsing, but his (incredibly stupid) ruse turns against him when Mc Gregor makes a pie of him and goes to eat it with the happy couple.

Jason Todd: I love it when bad guys make their dramatic battle pauses. Makes it easier to kick their dumb butts!

This is one of my favorite song and music video by one of my favorite bands: Within Temptation.
I thought I could share the love with you so, take some time, a comfortable position, and click on the little "Play" button. I know you want to...
Enjoy:

Brother Eye: "If eye cannot command your friendship, perhaps eye can earn it."

Whoa, I haven't updated this thing in ages and even seemed to have completely disappeared from the surface of the virtual world that is internet. What's more surprising is that I didn't stop consulting LJ, my various communities and friends'entries, I just morphed into some sort of stalker.
And that's gonna change.
Come on girl, you've got a way of expressing yourself and you don't even use it?
One of the main reasons I created this journal was because I wanted to be able to get out of my shell a little, to start sharing things with real people instead of just being afraid of them.
I want to stop hiding and start living, even if only through my computer.

The Joker: "The rest of the world is just background noise!"