#I AM REWATCHING INVADER ZIM AND FEELING SO NORMAL

[sporesgalaxy]

I know its already really obvious that invader zim is satire of american culture but . but isnt it neat the way that its satire of modern american culture using a reversal of the cold-war era "alien menace" story, drawing attention to how little about the core of american culture has changed since then. WHILE making fun of the absurd cruelty of fascism and imperialism and capitalism. if you even care

[xsilversugar]

I also wasn't allowed to watch Ren and Stimpy. I got away with Rocco's Modern Life but I think a lot of the time my mom couldn't tell the difference because I know she didn't care for it either.

I mean I saw enough of Ren and Stimpy anyway too but at least with that show I quickly understood why she didn't want me watching it...and I agreed. But I still watched what I could even when it bothered me because my (13 years the elder) brother liked it and I couldn't stand being told not to watch something but I was not as invested and only caught a handful of episodes before deciding I would rather watch something else and not risk getting harped at. I loved bits of it like Powdered Toast Man and the horse fellow. I quote bits to this day but I also still remember being horrified by more than enough haha.

Rocco though. Absolutely one of my favorite shows ever and as a child I never missed a single one. Worth it and it never felt harmful at all. It was such a well done show and any of the adult humor slipped right on over my head. Made rewatching it later a blast!

Had my mother been paying more attention later she also would have banned me from watching Invader Zim as well, probably, but it wouldn't be that long after that she'd have shown me The Breakfast Club anyway so maybe she would have been cool with it. Doubtful but still.

I genuinely think that if parents are smart instead of banning a show, they can explain the reasons why they don't want a kid to engage with something and if they "sneak watch" it anyway and get "caught" they should get a reminder but for the most part I think it's healthy and normal to test boundaries like that and get a feel for one's morality through media and stuff. Especially if you teach your kids to set their own boundaries and learn when to turn off something that bothers them (or to stop reading, until they're ready, whatever.) Like, kids are good about realizing when something crosses a boundary but only if we let them explore that.

Not saying this about everything; just cartoons or whatever else within their relative age range or a smidge above that contain stuff one could reasonably object to. Obviously a firmer talk about subjects are important and vetting stuff beforehand is great but to ban something outright is generally only gonna make them wanna sneak behind their guardian's back (or make it so they never seek to try new things--I'm weirdly both, don't ask me how, I can't explain it either.)

Anyway...I got way off topic. Forbidden cartoons though. Absolutely wild.

Oh!! I also remembered the Beetlejuice cartoon was a thing. I ended up stopping that one on my own due to associating it with my brother catching his room on fire like an idiot, but that's another show I know my parents would have banned. I didn't know the film it was based on was R-Rated until I was an adult and was squicked the fuck out by it. Like, I am fascinated with how they managed to turn it into a children's cartoon. Utterly. It wasn't that bad either if you set aside...implications.

Okay now I'm done haha.

reblog with the tv show ur parents wouldn’t let u watch when u were younger in the tags i’ll start mine was married…with children

[addytheheartbreaker]

My opinion to all the characters of the Masked Singer (season 1 to 2)

I'll list down my favorite characters at the final bottom with my greatest confession.

Season 1 characters:

•Hippo- he has swagger and reminds me of my oc Ishmael who is into hiphop and loves hiphop aesthetic.

•Pineapple- don't have an opinion of him but he is funny though.

•Deer- his design is so cool. Loved the steampunk and general aesthetic there, he is also one of my inspirations on making Dog (Nicol) since I am a fan of general uniforms.

•Poodle- she is the reason I first got interested on watching the Masked Singer in the first place! I loved this characters because of the pink (my favorite color), the sassy attitude and just ugh so fashionable! I loved it, she even sings "Heartbreaker" that I deeply loving her performance. Great job Margaret Cho, it very funny to trick Ken of not knowing his own sister.

•Unicorn- she is so pretty. I've been seeing unicorns everywhere in my life today and now. She is so pretty and white, I have a soft spot of her singing "Oops I did it again" and "Fight" song because of her sweet voice.

•Raven- she reminds me of my oc Ishiru. Dark, sympathetic, gothic and mourning of someone's death especially her beloved. I feel you girl.

•Alien- Alien is cool, I can see why everyone is complaining/reminded of Zim from Zim invaders (I also remember watching it in my childhood). I can't stop dancing and modelling myself while listening to "Ex's and Ohs". I didn't know Michael Jackson had a sister, I didn't know much to his family since I was so young before his death. Great knowing you La Toya Jackson.

•Lion- I am not a fan of gold though but dang she sings so strong and the tone is just over the top. I loved listening to "A little party never kill nobody" and "California Dreamin". Nice knowing you Rumor Willis.

•Peacock- this man is a living fabulous, prideful, eccentric bird I ever seen. I loved his performance, he is also funny and his voice is like an old famous singer I ever heard of. Loved the characters that Donny did and the signature moves though. Congrats to Donny for beings second place.

•Bee- I am not much of a Bee fan but I am in loved with her performance "Wrecking Ball". I can't stop listening to that song because of the high notes, strong voice and my own heart and soul suddenly clutching for this empress. Oh hail to Gladys Knight!

•Monster- aww Monster my second favorite character! I really loved you and I almost loved all of his performance (the one song I don't like is "I love Rock and Roll"). I am so glad T-Pain won the game to avenge my Rabbit since he is my second favorite. All hail to the Monster, T-Pain. (P.S: I didn't know he are the one who sing the song from my past, I guess I did know you on my childhood T-Pain).

•Rabbit- the last one is the Rabbit. My favorite character and the only favorite celebrity for the first time of my entire life! I loved so much about the Rabbit, I fell in love with madness, his edgy and lovable character, his neck twitch to show of his craziness, his design and straightjacket, his voice and performance, EVERYTHING! I am so glad to watch him performed but it broke my heart when he is eliminated on 4th place, I was devastated so much I would never ever rewatch his elimination ever. The Rabbit leading me to my forgotten childhood favorite boyband NSYNC. Joey Fatone, you are my first ever celebrity in my heart and will forever be the Rabbit I dearly cherish for my life. Stan for the Rabbit!

My top 3 favorite characters is: the Rabbit, the Monster and the Poodle.

Season 2 Characters:

•Panda- I don't have any opinions of her though.

•Skeleton- Skeleton is just so very elegant and funny. Loved his design, it gives me the vibes of Itward from the game Fran Bow. His performance is good yet I did not expect him to get eliminated in episode 4.

•Flamingo- Flamingo is pretty in pink. Welp, the idea of Peacock's sister idea is dead now. But she is fabulous in anyway.

•Ladybug- she is pretty too, she is also emotional and I am touch.

•Eagle- I don't know much of Eagle and when I get to know his he got the swag and stuff. (I ship you and Penguin so much)

•Tree- she looks weird though. A Christmas tree? It so early here on Philippines though (only started preparing Christmas on September before reaching December). When I heard her voice, I know that voice before somewhere and that person is also wearing a Christmas costume I swear!

•Rottweiler- huh another dog for this season like Poodle. I don't have an opinion of him though, I'm not really interested.

•Flower- she looks wow to look at. She is a big gal here. Like her performance and I have a feeling this is Bee's (or Glady's) friend somewhere since the voice is like a goddess. Also, I ship Flower with Nick because they both holding hands. I was like X.X oof I'm dead by love, I ship them so hard.

•Butterfly- Butterfly is just cool and alright to me, I am blown away with her performance of "Bang bang". That's all I could thought of.

•Fox- dude... I have mixed feelings to his gentleman here. The Fox has the sexy cool voice, the swag and the steampunk theme like Deer had but I don't think so. I'm not really interested on him unless he changed my mind by getting to know him every episode so I could concluded my theory. (His dancer and his performance reminds me of me with Nicol on stage. Me as a dancer to Dog's performance, what the fudge O_O)

•Black Widow- dang the twirking and the voice is just give me the face like this O.O . she looks edgy and cool, I don't know whether she will survived through episodes.

•Penguin- aww a cute Penguin~ pretty small though and goofy as well. I also want her and the Eagle together like seriously! OwO who is with me to the ship train of Eagle x Penguin?

•Leopard- oof!!! Right in the dokoro and I went doki doki to this spontaneous leopard ❤! I I can't stop listening to his performance "Somebody to love" and when I first listened, I am in the middle of confusion and shock then went to fell in loved to this character. All hail the queen (or king?), I have a soft spot to who ever he is.

•Thingamajig- Oof! I've been hit! My man is a living angel from heaven. I loved him so much omg. His voice, his character and I sympathies his clue about his darkest moment when he went to rehab. Protect this baby! I couldn't help but thought of Thingamajig is the cousin of Monster. Who ever he is, I'm going to do a headcanon for both Monster and Thingamajig's relationship as cousins from heaven.

•Egg- I never get tired of this flamboyant, sassy and fabulous egg. I loved him so much omg I can't with his sassy and flamboyant attitude. I have a soft spot of guys with flamboyant glamour and stylish taste of fashion. Johnny Weir, you are my god to worship of your egg boi. Too bad he is no longer on the Masked Singer :(

•Ice Cream- he is such a lovable and adorable dude! I loved sweet, I'm a sweet tooth of course. But my man, he is just so sweet and friendly to watch him. Loved the performance "Old town road" you aren't well trainer enough, but I was blown away to reveal Ninja in this. I didn't know youtubers can be also be called celebrities. I just thought youtubers are just people who wanted to expressed themselves for entertainment normally but I wanna thank my friend to explained me that youtubers can be celebrities too. Nice work Ninja!

My top 3... No top 4 favorite characters for season 2 is: the Egg, the Ice Cream, Thingamajig and Leopard.

[hecallsmehischild]

Current Events

I think “Current Events” works as a running title when I’m churning over stuff that’s going on right now. Kind of like “Recent Media Consumed.” I might develop a few different strings of these.

I love how many people on Facebook and Tumblr have (separately) informed me about the Invader Zim movie dropping this summer. Like YES I AM SHRIEKING. YES MY FULL GEEK IS ON DISPLAY. YES I FREAKING NEED TO REWATCH EVERYTHING BEFOREHAND.

This has been a really fun time. I’ve never been a bridesmaid and I’ve never been part of a bachelorette party. I have consumed way more sugar and bread than I’m used to. Not feeling particularly great about that right now, but I’ll get back to normal eating habits once back with Sergey. We are much better accountability when together. Apart, we both blow it bigtime. Still, for now it’s so much fun to kick back and play games and get to know these other ladies (one of whom I have connected with on Tumblr, w00t!!!!)

Of course, that’s when I’m not hiding in the introvert corner. Most of us are introverts too, so everyone’s chill about it, but I definitely have a lot of “Don’t know how to further interact so I’m gonna curl up and watch DuckTales or try to write fanfiction” periods. Also I am really, really understanding how much not being of practical help or not accomplishing something on a daily basis undercuts my self esteem. I mean, it’s in deadly combo with being-apart-from-husband and over-indulging-in-food and sleep-schedule-is-royally-screwed, but today I got to help some with wedding prep. I ripped tags off 118 cloth napkins and ironed them all. Then I went around and did light tidying (bride is a close friend, I was reasonably sure she wouldn’t mind as long as I didn’t do deep reorganization) and ran a dishwasher load. And I felt a LOT better. The melancholy isn’t digging its claws in tonight.

Similar stuff when I was home for a day, before I got here. I spent about four hours cleaning, partly because I couldn’t sleep but partly because I hadn’t done anything that felt useful in a long time. I know various people I interacted with in that time would tell me otherwise, but TO ME, I felt I hadn’t been useful until I did that major clean. Four hours sweeping, mopping, doing laundry, running dishwasher loads, wiping countertops. It felt so good to effect that much change. Same here, with the napkins, laundry, dishwasher, and light tidying. I don’t know if it’s good or not. It could be construed as bad that I have self worth tied to “being useful” in my own definition when there are other ways people define “useful”. However, it could be construed as good that I have a solid leadline OUT of a depressive state. Maybe it’s not good or bad? Maybe it just IS and I’m overanalyzing again?

Anyway. Coming up on the wedding soon. Tomorrow, though, my Godfather is going in for surgery. He’s already made it through several that he shouldn’t have. Some of those were we’re-naming-this-after-you-because-it-hasn’t-been-done-before type surgeries. This is going to be his hardest and most painful one yet. Nobody in his area (Los Angeles) wanted to do it, so they sent him to Houston to have the surgery. If he makes it through, I’ll be checking up on him in my leapfrog back across the country. But...

I didn’t call today. I think I made the right choice. I visited him earlier this month. He and I just took a nice long walk through the neighborhood, talking about everything normal. I heard explicitly from his wife and implicitly from him (in what he did not talk about) that he doesn’t like talking about the surgery and what might happen and goodbyes and all that. So. I walked with him and we talked about all the normal things and exclaimed over beautiful rosebushes and climbing flowers that some of the houses cultivated. I didn’t call today, and I think that was the right thing to do, because I don’t think he wants to think about tomorrow, and there’s nothing to say today that I didn’t already say. God, please bring about what is really best, here, for both of them.

So tomorrow is the surgery and the bridal decoration team kicks into gear for two days before the big day. Saturday is the marriage. Sunday I get up ungodly early to drive to the airport and fly back to Houston. I spend two days in Houston, hopefully visiting my Godfather and his wife. Then I fly back to LA to hug my husband, and we road-trip home to Houston.

Gearing up for the final stretch. Ready... set... go...