So my computer's more or less bust, in that I can only use Safe Mode (I'm getting to fixing this) and I've been getting really antsy because it doesn't have any sound, and so it has been utterly silent in my room other than me for almost a week now and this has been SLOWLY DRIVING ME INSANE. I'm actually pretty quiet nowadays, or at least, I don't like loud noise (which I react sensibly to by making a lot of more loud noise, i.e. shouting), but I do like putting random stuff in the background while I'm doing things, and not having this has really gotten to me. My MP3 broke a few months back (<insert agonised screaming> ), and both of my CD players are bust because discs!? CDS!? How dare you. I tried to get my stereotypeobject to work, but despite the fact that both the radio and cassette parts are in fine working order, karma decided to knife me in the back while I wasn't looking because the CD part, which is the only part I want, isn't.

So I went to go turn on the television.

They were showing 28 Weeks Later.

I came in, appropriately, I guess, since I was looking for noise, at the part where the zombies are getting into the house at the beginning, and everyone is screaming and getting mauled.

Besides my normal reaction of utter and complete terror, and a facial expression that appropriately expressed this, I would like to say to all of you, that if we are ever in a zombie apocalypse together (DON'T LECTURE ME ABOUT HOW THE RAGE ZOMBIES AREN'T ACTUALLY ZOMBIES SHUT UP) and you stay behind while zombies are tearing down the walls, and you are not getting the hell out of there right now I would probably, most definitely, leave you behind, because you clearly have no sense of survival. I know there are sometimes things you don't want to leave behind, and it gets harder to do that when those things are actually people, but if people are being stupid and sticking around in a house that's being ripped apart by zombies, leave 'em. Why was Alice (the Alice in the movie, not me) so desperate to save this one child that wasn't even her own? The kid was small and she couldn't find him, so maybe he would have SURVIVED, if she hadn't pulled him out of the closet while the zombies were flooding in. Well, fine, I suppose their sense of smell would have sussed him, but still. She brought him to a much quicker death.

And there was a window! There was a window RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER and all she did was bang on it ineffectually while screaming. I don't know about you, but when faced with a bunch of brutal crazy zombies hellbent on ripping you to pieces, I would prefer to break the glass and risk a few lacerations than that. I know we were all supposed to feel like Don leaving her behind was a dick move, and I guess it was, but seriously? Seriously. Survival of the fittest doesn't exactly work when you're not even trying to survive.

Clearly everyone should keep their most sentimental items as small trinkets, so you don't linger behind in rooms to find a framed photo that no longer makes a difference since your LEG IS BEING RIPPED OFF.

What number is that in the Survival Guide to Zombie Apocalypses?

That said, even though I only watched ten minutes: That was possibly one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen in my life. I wasn't so much affected by the gore? But just the way the zombies kept rushing in and just tearing everyone to pieces. And especially how fast the virus worked, I mean jeez. *shudder*

Please stop comparing Meyer to Rowling, every-news-article-about-Twilight-that-wasn't-about RPattz-ever. There is no comparison, because Jo is a GOOD writer, and you need to stop comparing them before I lose my faith in humanity, which has already been strained since Twilight became a 'thing'. Rowling is not the greatest writer, perhaps, nor a writer that is the epitome of uniqueness and ingenuity in our generation, but she is a good writer, who takes her work with both seriousness and humour, and if you try to claim to me that Stephanie Meyer is any way near close to that, I might just have to come over to your house and smash your face in with a sledge hammer.

I might not agree with the 'ships that came to fruition in HP, but at least there's some development rather than "they saw each other, and they just wanted to fuck for hours", which is about as developed as Twilight gets. Not in those words, of course, but as long as you shove "beautiful" and "scintillating" in between every other FUCKING word, that IS basically the Twilight series.

I mean, are you serious? ARE YOU SERIOUS. My brain begins to hurt even TRYING to put those two women on the same scale; IT DOESN'T WORK. Unless Meyer is going to sit on her side with a bunch of Jane Austen novels that she tries apparently to incorporate, or claim as 'inspiration' when her books never show any ounce of such, this scale is not balanced.

And if you honestly think that Meyer and Rowling are in any way comparable, I might have no choice but just to murder you. I am not going to lie, I have a few friends who have liked Twilight, but at least they're not comparing it to Rowling. In fact, if any of them think that Twilight is better, I might have to pretend I don't know them.

AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT, MEYER ALSO DOES NOT BELONG IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS MICHELLE OBAMA, FEMALE FORCE. Fuck your terrible comics that have the thin veil of 'girl power' over the overwhelming load of BULLSHIT.

...... I'm okay now.

Anyway, in other news, I remembered how much Lily/James is hot.

My wireless mouse broke, and I thought I'd come to whine at you all about it, because I've just spent the past few hours navigating just about everything with only my keyboard.

The constant tabbing and waiting until it gets to the link I want is getting to frustrate me.

Also I never realised how annoying firefox was until now, because basically half the stuff is just ... 'not there', according to the tab. I can't pause Youtube vids, or go waste my time over at thatguywiththeglasses because I can't click play.

I hope this fixes itself by tomorrow or my brain will explode out my ears in headaches.

Thinking of going to Africa and devoting life to exterminating mosquitoes purely in vengeance.

Head hurts from smacking self too much to kill attacking mozzies.

Missed.

A lot.

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE ORIGINAL, DA?

WHY DO YOU KEEP SCREWING WITH WHAT ISN'T BROKEN?

It's like totally unsymmetrical now! The comments are small and cramped and EHRG. I liked them wide, it meant less word wrap and scrolling, and if the artist's comments icon is on the outside, why the hell aren't the ones for the comments? And for that matter, why does there NEED to be an icon next to the artist's comments? I DIDN'T FORGET WHO THE ARTIST WAS IN THE THREE SECONDS IT TOOK TO SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE.

And do you really need to tell us what the icons for the websites (reggit, twitter, etc.) are for? Why do you have both icons AND the name? Anyone who's used the internet for a decent amount of time knows what the icons stand for and hell, you could have made it into a hover box if you were THAT worried about people being piss stupid.

And nice one on the statistics. They're fucking HUGE now and just... not as put in as seamlessly into the page as it was. And the little bar asking you how you would like your comments arranged? Nice placement there, dA, it doesn't look TOTALLY OUT OF PLACE AT ALL.

I KNOW I BITCH ALL THE TIME ABOUT DA CHANGING THEIR SHIT. But for a website for ARTISTS, WHAT. THE HELL.