Acceptance Makes the World Go 'Round

This post is not exactly from a prompt; I mixed a couple of them together. I have a few things I need to say, all of which surround a single topic... acceptance.

Acceptance is the reason I love anime. The sad truth of the world today is that being accepted as who you are is often a rare thing in a person's life. Everyone wears a mask (sometimes several). When I enter an anime convention, I feel my mask fade away. Anime geeks are such accepting people. I can walk up to 95% of the people and ask for a hug, and they will just open their arms for me. It's a wonderful feeling.

Acceptance is what I want most. Back in fourth grade while skipping out onto the playground and holding hands with my best friend of five years (over half my life at that point), a fifth grade boy walked up and started laughing and pointing at us. He called us gay. Being nine, I had no idea what that meant. My friend was not so sheltered. She threw my hand away as if it had burned her, ran off, and did not speak to me for years.

Then in freshman year at high school, I befriended this girl named Brittney. She was even slower than me at running the mile in gym class. We would jog together and talk about everything. A couple months into school, I mentioned that I had never been baptized. Brittney froze like a statue and stared at me as if I had just blown up into confetti bits. "You... were never baptized?" "No..." "I can't talk to you anymore..." That was that; she turned and spirited in the opposite direction, leaving me in complete shock.

Acceptance is why I am the way I am. It does not matter your past, your looks, your beliefs, your sexuality, your race, your anything. I don't care about any of that. I have seen and felt rejection, and I will accept anyone.

This is my promise to myself.

Keep the Emmys Coming People!!!

Prompt: Choose a well-known public figure and post a blog using this person's persona to log a typical day in their life.

This is going to be fun.

WARNING: This will involve a bit of swearing due to my choose... and sexual references.

Hello all my wonderful ladies and gays! So today I was craving some more of that wonderful publicity you all know I enjoy so very fucking much. I had another meeting with Racheal True, and she told me that now that I have a facebook, I need a blog to get even more in with the young hollywood crowd.

Luckily, I learned my lesson with "faceplace", I'm not letting my mother anywhere near this page! I can see her now: "Daughter! I clicked another annoying button-thing, Jesus Christ! Mary and Joseph! Bring me a case more of wine!!!"

Yeah... no... not going happen! So, I've gotta go cause I have to smoke a couple pounds of Oxycocoine before the photoshoot for the poster of my next show. *cough, cough* Already sold out people!!!

Then, I have to teabag Snoop Dog. Go find some more "huge" clothes with Paris, which tend to be quite the opposite of huge, you know kinda really tight and showing off our young hot bodies. Oh God... I wonder if Barbara Walters has a blog on here. *smirk*

Of An Annoying Bullhorn and Mochi Torment

Prompt: If you could have anyone locked in a room so that you could torment them for a day, whom would you choose, and how would you torment them?

Tormenting someone… sounds… fun! MAW HA HA HA HA!!! I mean, I am a normal kindhearted human being. Okay, so if I have to pick someone to torment, my first thoughts involve people like Adolf Hitler, but he is already dead. Plus, I have no idea what I could do to torment him while still feeling like the better person. If I can torture Hitler, how horrible must I be?

When I think about it more realistically, I would quite enjoy tormenting that “Christian” bozo who led the protest at Fanime 2008 and 2009 (An anime convention in California). I personally am not Christian, but I have friends who are, and he just gives them a bad rap as close minded, mean, judgmental people. Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvdljss2WWU Seriously, does this guy have nothing better to do with his life? I like Japanese cartoon characters with huge eyes, so I’m going to burn in hell forever? That makes perfect sense. *rolls eyes*

Above: Protest at Fanime

Above: Girl Cosplaying for a Convention

Point is… I would love to tie him up in a room, tape open his eyes, duct tape his mouth shut and make him wear furry ears and a ninja mask. Then, I would make him watch Yaoi (boy loves boy). Cute Yaoi. No Hentai (Porn, for lack of better explanation); that’s going a little too far in my opinion. I would send in a line of cosplayers (People who dress up as Anime characters) at least five hundred people long to hug him, and I’d yell at him through his bullhorn for a few minutes. Finally, pouring melted wax in his bullhorn, hug him for at least ten minutes, feed him Mochi (Yummy Japanese Sugar, Creamy, Delicious) and then leave him alone for many hours to think about what he’s experienced.

Above: Mochi for Torment

A lot of people (like my roommate) would want to cause him horrible scaring pain. In my opinion, that kind of shows his point of anime cosplayers being awful people. I’d just want him to see that unlike what he says we have love! Also, to destroy that annoying bullhorn would make me very happy. *smirk*

When snow melts, what does it become?

"When snow melts, what does it become? It becomes... spring!" (Tohru; Fruits Basket)

For my first official post (I do not count Testing), I've decided to entertain anyone who may read this with the thing that has pretty much consumed my life recently, ANIME! I find it hard to believe that a few years ago I did not know what it was, and now it's not only what I spend at least half of my free time thinking about, but it invades every aspect of my life. Every subject somehow finds a path to an anime or manga. Whether it be Honors College Class about China's rise in power leading to Hetalia, or potato-chips being served at lunch leading to Death Note. ("I'll take a potato-chip... AND EAT IT!!!!") There is a way to connect everything to anime!

Note (in case you have no idea what I am talking about): Anime is Japanese animation cartoons. Manga is Japanese comics traditionally drawn from right to left. Both are considered great art forms. Some of the most well known in America are Sailor Moon, Pokemon, and Spirited Away.


Anyway, I decided to go through the horribly painful task of picking my five favorite anime/manga and explaining why... why I am torturing myself to pick only five?! I must be crazy. There are SO many excellent ones to pick from. *sob*


1.) Axis Powers Hetalia - Where can you go wrong with countries as characters? I honestly could not have cared any less about history until I came upon APH. Now, I just cannot help but laugh at myself; since when can I say, "I am in love with China, Russia, and Korea!!!" and be completely serious?

2.) Ouran High School Host Club - Why can't Oakland University have a Host Club?! Wait... maybe I should rethink this plan... with all the drama that unfolds in this manga/anime... I'm not sure I'd want to actually live in that world. Still OHSHC is my love!

3.) 24 Colors - No one really seems to know this manga. It is a very short (one volume) story about this male and female artist that fall in love through their love of art. I think it's adorable! The fact that I am an art student who looks similar to the leading lady helps a bit too.

4.) Bleach - It's just epic in a way Naruto cannot be. *shields self from Naruto fans* It's my favorite fight manga versus cute manga (shoujo). The storyline draws me in, and I watch it with my brother. Family Bonding Time: Let's watch anime people beat the crap out of each other!

5.) Lucky Star/ Fruits Basket/ The Melanchonly of Haruhi Suzumiya (Three-way Tie) - Lucky Star makes me laugh so hard since the group of eighteen years olds spend three full episodes figuring out the proper way to eat a chocolate cornet. It's just like my friends! / Fruits Basket is cute. I love Yuki and Machi as a couple. She's a little unwell mentally, but... well... so is Yuki! / Haruhi is just an amazing anime/manga. That girl is crazy to a degree that I do not even wish to think about, and she controls the fate of the world... we are so screwed!

Testing.... 1, 2, 3... testing

Hello anyone who ever even bothers to look at this. I was going to wait until their was another class or two before I posted, but the blank wall with no posts was just too empty for my tastes. So... VOILA!!!