Dream

Marie has created and posted on DeviantART over a year ago a cute little sushi design. The design has won a contest. But…oops! The contestant was not Marie.

In other words, someone stole Marie’s artwork and used it to win the contest. To top it off, it is not just any average contest where you can win something like an avatar. It’s a contest where the winner can get real money, a scholarship of a few thousands of dollars.

You can visit the site to warn them of this fraud, or add Marie’s news on DeviantART to your favorites.

I abhor that day. Beside a few jokes, like some Google ones, I just hate it. I’m an anxious person. I keep having obsessions / thoughts that the whole world is not really like I see it, that X and Y are lying to me, etc. So today is the perfect day for me to wish to hide in my bedroom (or to play Final Fantasy V, after I convince my brain that the game will not fool me) and not go outdoors.

I hate reading everything with an actually justified suspicion. OK, which part of this is real? Which part is a lie? Is this website pulling a prank or are they serious?

Thanks for the comments on the previous post. I wasn’t expecting *that* to be my most-comment-attracting post in weeks.

I had an appointment today with the girl who will help me find a job. We were mostly discussing my therapy and my job/school background, in order to give her a general idea of what type of job might interest me.

She told me of an organism that could possibly be interested in a person like me (i.e. a computer geek). They basically produce a newspaper to help homeless people. They have a website and they need someone to keep it updated. I checked the site and it has no trace of PHP anywhere, so I can imagine it being complicated when you are clueless to HTML. I don’t mean that PHP makes things magically updating themselves, but just that you can’t have an HTML-only admin panel to allow quick updates and the like.

That said, I’m not entirely guaranteed to get the job. She needs to verify to things before. First, she needs to check if she can get a subvention. Since I’m a crazy girl and have very little working experience (she doesn’t know I have a lot of personal experience with websites, but that is still different from actually working), and since the organism is specialized in helping people in therapy finding jobs, they can get subventions to compensate employers for potential problems (i.e. me going nuts in the middle of a work day). For the record, I have never actually gone nuts while at work, in any of my previous jobs.

Second, she needs to actually verify that they are still looking for someone. Get all the subventions you want, when there’s no job to do, there’s no job to do. The subvention part shouldn’t be much of a problem, mostly because I am diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, so they’ll be all happy to send me working. “We provide employment for high-functioning autistic people! We are the bestzors!11!!one!”

There are five unpublished drafts in my WordPress admin panel. Two or three are posts I started here and never finished, while the others are from my Funpic website, and probably went boom because I had a hard time making WordPress function properly. Stupid thing. One of these drafts must eventually get published, it’s a…text on some aspects of my writing.

Want to build a fanlisting? Well, if you choose one from the list below, you are guaranteed to have at least one member (that would be me). I’ll surely be adding more as time goes by. They are sorted by TFL.org category.

Adult

G-Spot

Albums

Celine Dion: Let’s Talk About Love, S’il suffisait d’aimer
David Bowie: Heathen
Loreena McKennit: Book of Secrets
Soundtrack: MirrorMask

Animals

Platypus

Animation

Astérix et Cléopâtre (movie)
Astérix chez les Bretons (movie)
Les douzes travaux d’Astérix (movie)
Family Guy: PTV (episode)

Arts and Design

Baroque Architecture
German Expressionism
Any painting by Renoir

Authors/Writers

Emile Nelligan

Characters: Book and Movie

Beetle Juice: Beetle Juice
Gangs of New York: Bill the Butcher
The Princess Bride: many characters
Sense and Sensibility: Elinor Dashwood
The Talisman / Black House: Jack Sawyer
Various characters from Tolkien’s non-LOTR books

Characters: TV

Babylon 5: Sinclair
Doctor Who: Romana
The Muppets: Animal

Comics

Astérix et Cléopâtre (the comic book issue)
Various characters from Fables

Companies

Le Château (retail store)

Computers Miscellany and Internet

Domains: .ie
Foxit (PDF file reader)
Torrents

Episodes

Doctor Who: 1.06 Dalek
Doctor Who: 1.08 Father’s Day
Doctor Who: 1.12 Bad Wolf
Doctor Who: 1.13 The Parting of the Ways
Doctor Who: 2.05 Rise of the Cybermen
Doctor Who: 2.06 The Age of Steel
Doctor Who: 2.09 The Satan Pit

Fan Works

More Titanic / Rose DeWitt Bukater related

Games

Dynomite
Final Fantasy: Black Mages (class)
Final Fantasy IX: Chocobo Hot & Cold (mini-game)
Hidden Objects Games
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
Mystery Case Files series
Portal Ending Theme
Role-Playing Games (RPG)

Hobbies and Recreation

Collecting/Collections (general)

Miscellaneous

Cleanliness
Courage
Health
Intelligence

Movies

German Expressionism

Music Miscellany

Composers

Musicians: Bands

Alice DeeJay
The Tea Party

Musicians: Female

Fitzgerald, Ella

Objects

Statues

Songs: Bands

AFI: This Time Imperfect
Air Supply: All Out of Love
Alice Cooper: Poison
Alice DeeJay: Better Off Alone
Bad Religion: A Streetkid Named Desire
Bananarama: Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)
Daft Punk: Robot Rock, Technologic, Steam Machine…
Flogging Molly: Devil’s Dance Floor
Goldfrapp: any!
Madison Avenue: Don’t Call Me Baby
Nightwish: they all deserve one
Papa Roach: Obsession, Getting Away With Murder, and more
Pearl Jam: Last Kiss

Songs: Female Solo

Avril Lavigne: Losing Grip, Mobile, Unwanted, Anything But Ordinary, Nobody’s Fool, I Don’t Give, Together, He Wasn’t, My Happy Ending, Forgotten, Who Knows, Fall To Pieces
Carla Bruni: Quelqu’un m’a dit, Le toi de moi
Celine Dion: The Power of Love, Pour que tu m’aimes encore, Destin, Les derniers seront les premiers, J’irai où tu iras, J’attendais, To Love You More, Falling Into You, It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, The Reason, Immortality, Miles To Go Before I Sleep, En attendant ses pas, S’il suffisait d’aimer, I’m Alive, Ten Days, A New Days Has Come, I Surrender

Songs: Male Solo

Ricky Martin: She’s All I Ever Had

Songs: Various

Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand: Tell Him
Theme Song of Doctor Who

Toys and Collectibles

Paper Dolls
Paper Dolls: Disney

TV Shows

Bougon, Les
Catherine
Dans une galaxie près de chez vous

It is almost 2008 here, but do you really believe I will spend several paragraphs telling you (again) how bad 2007 was? No way! I just took part in a very pleasant activity (most people call it “sex”), and am therefore in the mood to write an article (sort of) that I’ve delayed for a long time. If you are studying sociology, you can even use it as a subject for an essay. Enjoy.

If you’ve been stalking me over the past few years, you surely have realized that I don’t take a very active part in e-drama. I watch a lot, read many funny entries and stupid comments, but I’ve never been implicated in an actual story. Even Krystole never bothered with me.

As I said, however, I’ve seen a lot of e-drama, some lamer than others. Some of the sentences you hear the most (from the person being pwnd) are along the lines of “You have no life” and “You really spent time looking up that info?” This makes me wonder: what is the problem here? Do pwn-kings and pwn-queens really have no life? Are they spending so much time digging up information on the pwnee? In my absolutely not humble opinion, no.

Let us look at a few of those people. Let’s take Jem (she’ll love being mentioned and linked to :P). She often mentions having a job, she lives with a man named Karl who is obviously her boyfriend (or whatever term she uses), she has a family, she’s studying, etc. She made two rather long entries in the past two days, both pertaining to the same topic (oh, look! drama!), but else the month of December mostly contains entries separated by three or four days. I don’t see how that is excessive.

She does post relatively often, but she quite obviously has other things on her hands. Then, the information she provides on BarbiLee in her two latest entries is not something she spent weeks gathering, doing nothing else. They are things that were posted on forums, emailed to her, posted on blogs, etc., over the course of several weeks.

Similar in the case of Vera. She never spent hours a day looking up “BarbiLee” wherever she could.

And I could continue on and on, but I prefer to go straight to the second part of the message, addressed to all those who feel they are the victims of naughty girls like the two mentioned above, and also to the rest of society.

Why is it bad to have some free time to devote to that sort of thing? Is it necessary to be busy all the time? You’ll tell me that people who are not busy all the time are lazy asses who need to get a job, go to school, make lots of kids and attend church every Sunday. For a historian, discovering ruins of a sports area means discovering the ruins of an advanced civilization. Why? Because only people with advanced means of seeing to their needs can have time to play sports. When did we return to this need for being always “busy”? Why has leisure become a bad thing? Who corrupted my free time and turned it into a lost resource?

Besides, drama doesn’t take that much time. You can write a rant in fifteen minutes or less, you can post a comment or a thread on a message board in even less time. If you reply, it doesn’t mean that you’re refreshing the page every ten seconds in the hope of seeing a new reply. You can be doing something else, like a school assignment, and sometimes interrupt your work to check out if there’s anything new.

Finally, it’s just fun. Can’t we enjoy ourselves? If you’re making a fool of yourself, harassing someone or stealing, you can’t expect to earn respect in return. You might indeed get attention and lots of hits, but in the end, it’s your loss. You’re getting your place in the Hall of Fame of Idiots, Fucktards and Other People We Laugh At. That’s not a good thing for you, plz to be leaving the web nao.