The Dragon's Lair

Because of this.

It's not so much the poking fun as it is the mondo-sized misinformation going on. This is the kind of crap people tend to latch onto as fact without doing any research behind it. There is the LDS church (Mormons) and the FLDS church (Fundamentalist LDS: who are so totally not Mormons it is to laugh that we are even compared. Their beliefs are pretty much an insult to our beliefs). What is being implied in that picture is not Mormonism. Not even close.

Ignorance is not bliss, it just makes you look like an idiot.

I really, really, really wish TV shows would just stay the heck away from religion. A show deals with religion and the vast majority of the time religious people are either fanatics, idiots or jerks. It ticks me off like nothing else.

But, then, really, when does the media not tick me off? *head desk*

So a little while back I posed the question of what, to you, constituted out-of-characterness. Because if you think about it - take into consideration that we all see a character in different ways - There's never really saying for sure if a character is out of character.

( Some more thoughts on the Matter )

Ga, I hate, hate, hate cheap, quick resolves. Hate them! A punch in the face, a smack to the back of the head, yelling, yelling, yelling and all is well. It's not that I think having one character tell another to get a hold of him/herself doesn't ever work or has no place in a story. And it's not that I think a good talking to doesn't have merit. But when a show/story layers on the angst and trauma only to end it all with a bunch of insults and reprimands, it's about as satisfying as the end of Irresponsible :P All that build up, and this is the resolve we get? I get that sometimes the plot needs to move on, that a story needs to just end, but there has got to be a better way of going about it.

And I despise "naivety is no excuse" (because of course we're all mind readers and are supposed to know everything:P:P:P). Gaaaaaah! And why must characters suck at defending themselves when it's not their friggin fault!

Yeah, feel better now :P And, no, this isn't because of a story. It's actually because of a show I was watching. Apologies for it, but it really irked me.

Curses to my limited art skills! Curses I say!

I have a very, very, very, uber psychotic vivid imagination. I collect a ton of very bright, shiny images in my head that I can't do much with unless they're part of a story. And still can't do anything with until I write that story. And I'm still not happy with when I do write because my brain is in the habit of either running out of words or completely shutting down on me when I try to write.

That leaves transferring the images onto drawing paper. But art skills, limited. Very limited and it drives me crazy. I'm still chipping away at lessening those limits but it's going to be a while before most of those limits are, well, chipped away.

Which is why I wish I knew someone with mad art skills. I'm tempted to go to those artists I have a very thin and passing acquaintance with, say "here's an image *describes image* have at it" because the majority of those images stem from a story I plan on one day publishing. But, dang it, I would love to see those images exist somewhere other than my head :P

*Le sigh* Gripe gripe, complain complain. Back to drawing!

One thing I would like to one day do, when/if I have the money, is take some classes in graphic art. *Dreams.* I hope to one day look into that when I finally have a job to pay for it :P

I hate the weather in Kansas, I really do. Wednesday we were supposed to get snow, so of course I can't help getting all excited about it because we probably get snow maybe once or twice a year, if lucky (yes, lucky). Now I'm hearing that it's going to be in either the forties or fifties (Farenheit) with thunderstorms! In December! Now I know you're all probably wondering why I'm complaining, because no snow means no ice, no bitter cold, no slipping, etc. But, like I said, we probably only get snow maybe once or twice a year. For us, getting snow when we're supposed to get snow is like getting fresh baked cookies.

But when do we usually end up finally getting snow? In April, usually after a week when the temperatures were in the sixties and seventies and the trees were starting to bloom. Then here comes Mother Nature crying out "suckers!" and dumps the biggest snow storm we've ever seen on us.

Plus, dang it, selfish, picky person that I am, I would really like to get snow in December. Preferably before Christmas.

Yeah, I know in some places they don't even get snow. For me, though, it isn't so much about the snow as about how weird the weather is, how up north it's blizzards yet around here you'd think we were heading into spring. Screwy weather also has a way of screwing with you emotionally, and getting one's hopes up about possible snow so close to Christmas doesn't help.

*Shakes fist at sky* Snow, darn you, snow!