Feygan's Drowning Pool

I am currently slogging my way through a truly torturous Inuyasha/Sesshoumaru mpreg slash fic. It's not like it's badly written or anything, though the emotional dithering is annoying, 'cause I'm just like, "You have the two of them being totally hot for each other, so if Inuyasha is able to look past the fact that Sesshoumaru was raped and impregnated by Naraku... why don't you just let them be together? Why do I have to wade through 20 chapters and 100,000 words just to get past the opening sequence????"

I kind of want to stop reading, but I feel like I've invested so much of my time and life force that to do anything less than continue would mean that everything that came before was meaningless. Like I just took an irreplaceable chunk of my life and threw it out of a moving car window. So onward I trudge through the neverending fic...

God, this is totally pathetic. That's all I gotta say.

Man, the best I can figure, the kids in the Harry Potter universe age really fast. I mean, if you watch the movies after not seeing them for a long time... well, the twins look like they're thirty years old! Maybe it's just 'cause they're British people or something ::snerk:: but they look supremely age-ed.

But that's the truth about nearly all movies and TV shows. 'Cause the kids are played by 20-somethings, they look way too mature for their parts. Or like in TV shows when they're in their late teens at the strart of a series... by the end of the series they're totally Xanderified (really being 30-something, and looking it. Middle-aged spread, anyone?)

I was flipping through channels and landed on one of the Harry Potter movies on ABC and got a terrible jolt of "What the hell?" The Weasley twins looked OLD!!!

And BTW, has anyone else noticed how HD is ruining the allure of TV and movies? I honestly would rather not be able to see every single flaw in someone's face and body. I guess I'm just a romantic... I want all that stuff to be hidden by the magic of the golden screen, and hi-def is taking that away from me. I mean, I'm sure there's someone out there that gets a happy out of being able to count every single one of Dustin Hoffman's nose hairs... but I would rather do without.

Anyways, just looking at the Harry Potter movies makes me feel old. They start out as little tiny babies... and by the Half-Blood Prince I'M the one that feels about a thousand years old.

I am a vocal proponent of digital video recording systems like ReplayTV and TiVO. But that wonderful technology that I wet dream about at night has completely ruined my life.

I am no longer able to sit through thirty seconds of commercial air without wincing and attempting to fast-forward past the pseudo-Viagra, diarrhea medication, lawn care, and annoying cellphone commercials, shaking and shuddering like a junkie mid-fix. I cannot sit and settle myself for even just a couple of minutes without wanting to QuickSkip to the next scene so I don't have to watch the boring parts, or if something interesting ever happens, I am fast to hit the Instant Replay or the rewind button just so I can watch and thrill in it yet again.

The other day I found myself wanting to fast forward through my everyday life. My thumb was twitching uncontrollably as I watched idiot people pass by the booth I was standing in, and more than anything, I wanted to be on to the next scene, dancing in jubilation at the opportunity to experience the next thrill. And instead I had to actually live my life and I was sadly disappointed.

Like Adam Sandler's character in Click, I find myself wanting to zip past the boring segments and get to the good stuff. But unlike him, the boring parts are really all I have, so if I just keep on fast forwarding, there won't be anything left. Because I live an entirely ordinary life and the only real thrill I get is vicarious, carefully siphoned through the filters of the lives of fictional people the normal world could never create. Because life is a bore from beginning to end, and the writing is always crappy.