Drive-By Update

It is clearly the final month of school; I'm stressed, my to-do list needs two sticky notes to get everything on it, etc.

So if I haven't replied to your comment, it's probably because you wrote something that will take me more than two seconds to respond to; don't worry, I'll respond. Just... not right away.

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Secondly, the latest fandom_secrets post was so incredibly wank-tastic and troll worthy, that it deserves it's own WTF commentary. I'm not going to go into details, except that I have something brief to say about the Sasuke/Sakura/Hinata/Naruto (not in the fun orgy way) secret, since people on my flist are already talking about it:

1.) Sasuke/Sakura and Hinata/Naruto ARE NOT correlated variables: one can happen without the other.

2.) Stepping back from the details of the pairings themselves (since I think everyon already knows my opinion on that), wouldn't it be incredibly problematic if they both happened? Doesn't that send a horrible message to both girls and boys about how girls should just endlessly pursue the object of their desire? And boys should just go 'oh, okay' regardless of who THEY want to be with, because those girls spend so much energy on them? It takes (or it SHOULD) two to tango and neither Sasuke nor Naruto has shown that they are romantically interested in Sakura and Hinata, respectively. Which leads me to point three:

3.) Kishimoto is not writing a romantic adventure manga. Arguing about which pairing will be canon at this time is pointless because Kishimoto has not given us ANYTHING CLOSE to a clear canon signal about what relationships will end up being canon (one-sided crush does not equal 'will be canon'). This is not Avatar: we don't know how Team 7's romantic lives will work out and it's actually somewhat probable with Kishimoto's emphasis on nakama that we WILL NOT get a bunch of pairings in the epilogue (please god).

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Thirdly, I watched Star Trek on Sunday and it was the most awesome movie I have seen since Iron Man. Longer post to follow... sooner or later.

Okay, The Promised Rundown Of Wank...

From fandomsecrets  #857: 

103 - I honestly feel really, really sorry for her platonic friend. I'm not sure what she wanted in reaction to posting this - a pat on the back for not doing someone who she didn't want a relationship with? a cookie for having someone crushing on you? Regardless, fandomsecrets is SO not the right forum.

115 - ha, ha word.

I talked about 123 in my last post...

137 - oh my god this is the best idea ever! So if you start seeing secrets about how redbrunja's fics got someone through chemo or ruined them for real men.... I'll have had nothing to do with it.

143 - actually, I kinda agree. I had it when writers dig at the fandom like that. Honestly, it's one of the reasons I think the creators of a show and the fandom should be fairly separate. 

152 - TROLL.