I'm completely in awe right now.

This guy I know just bought me a premium membership for me for NO reason, COMPLETELY without me even asking for it.

Wow.

Don't know what to say.

MARY SUE (pronounced: MARY SUE). The term strikes fear into the heart of every (talented) serious writer and literary fan alive. Need I say more? Well, I will, or else this entry would not be entertaining.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR CHARACTER IS A MARY SUE

[-] Their name is or includes any combination of the names "Bella", "Swann", "Edward", "Cullen", "Harry" or "Potter".

[+] Character is a long-lost sibling, cousin, friend, or child of a well-known canon character (i.e. Jack Skellington's sexy twin sister, Jill Skillingtown).

[-] Username of the fanart, fanfiction, or created character includes the name, surname, or nickname as the character they're fangirl-ing over.

[+] Is extremely physical attractive; so beautiful, in fact, that all members of the opposite sex want them and all members of the same sex are jealous of them.

[-] Eyes that are an unusual color, change color, or are multicolored, and hair that takes more than six words to describe. ("THICK LUSCIOUS WAVY HONEYDEW SHINY TENDRILS THAT CASCADED DOWN HER BACK GRACEFULLY").

[+] Character possesses SPESHUL MAGIK POWARZ that no other character in the story's world controls (even if the canon world has no magical powers to begin with).

[-] Has gigantic angel/demon/vampire/dragon wings.

[+] Is half angel, half demon, half vampire, half elf, half lycan, half succubus, and half neko. Oh, and secretly half prince/princess (without knowing it, of course, because either they know nothing of their past or their entire family/village was killed before their eyes at the age of three, and they were the sole survivor).

[-] Ability to master any skill, particularly those of fighting and weapon combat, with extreme ease (because they're super-special and excel at everything, except in one area where they are extremely disabled. This is usually being klutzy in females and being perverted in males).

[+] Afflicted with tremendous EMOTIONAL PAIN and CLINICAL DEPRESSIONZ because nobody can possibly understand their inner suffering.

[-] Have a common name was an unusual spelling; i.e. Ravyn, Faery, Jennifyr, etc. (Or Swann.)

[+] Names that are stereotypically overused in animes/fanfictions and meant to describe physical appearance or an object connected with the character - i.e. Raven, Ebony, Luna, Skye, Anya, Kat, Felina, etc.

[-] Has a cute baby version of a mythological creature for a pet - i.e. unicorn, dragon, griffon.

[+] An anime picture of said character bears an extreme resemblance to a character that already exists (i.e. Snape's magical and beautiful son, Saveris, who is like him in every way except for being physically attractive).


YOU'RE WELCOME. Now you can go forth into the world of lulzy fanfiction and poorly-written teen popular literature and laugh at atrocities such a Twilight and most animes just like me! Maybe I should have called this "how to be a cynical bitch".

LIKING/BEING/DOING THE FOLLOWING THINGS DO NOT MAKE YOU COOL (which doesn't mean that liking them automatically makes you uncool):

[-] Twilight. Edward. FUCKING. Cullen. Liking Twilight automatically makes you retarded. NO EXCEPTIONS.
[-] V for Vendetta
[-] A girl who plays popular "man" games like Halo and WoW.
[-] Marilyn Manson
[-] My Chemical Romance
[-] Phantom of the Opera
[-] Nightmare Before Christmas
[-] Sex without foreplay
[-] Anne Rice
[-] Harry Potter
[-] Pokemon
[-] Edgar Allen Poe
[-] Anime
[-] Simple Plan/Good Charlotte (pretty much the same thing)
[-] Weed
[-] Playing with your cell phone in public because you want to seem like you're sooo busy and you have lyk soooo many friends!!!11111
[-] Digital photography of "contemporary" and "edgy" things like cigarettes, your Converse shoes, pills, and yourself from an above angle.
[-] Smoking cigarettes
[-] Having a favorite band that's so obscure that no one has ever heard of them
[-] Robots, dinosaurs, guns and little girl bows
[-] Having hair that's blonde on top and dark underneath. Actually, just dying your hair any abnormal color at all.
[-] HIM
[-] Tribal and Chinese symbol tattoos. DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL PLZ.
[-] Being a ravetard
[-] Plucking your eyebrows really thin
[-] Reading philosophical books
[-] Going on the internet adn tlakjin about hwo yourr like osoooooo drunk rite now lololo
[-] ALWAYS having a girlfriend/boyfriend
[-] Writing stories/poetry

I never know what I like or want. I only know what I don't like or want. I could rail off a thousand traits that I absolutely despise, name a thousand stereotypes and list people in every walk of life whose conducts and philosophies I hate. I find myself repulsed by almost everyone I know at least once daily. It's driving me insane. Why do I have such a fucking hard time finding good in anything? I could tell anyone every bad trait that I've noticed about them and not feel guilty at all, but I'd be hard-pressed to give my best friend one single reason why I love him. Well, maybe Ryan, but Ryan's always been different. He's the one person I don't have to put a mask on for, the only person I can be straight up with, the only human being alive that I don't have to edit my conversation for. God, I miss that boy. Maybe I should call him. I miss not having to pretend to be something else.

On another note, there are like zero females anywhere outside of movie theaters today because of Twilight coming out. The only people who like Twilight are retarded 13-year-old squealing fangirls with their tired "ZOMG EDWARD CULLEN IS LYK SOOO HOT!!!!11!!11!1!!!1" mantra, and then the slightly older but no less retarded people who read it because it's a popular social phenomenon and they want to be seen as down and contemporary. It's sort of the same reason why people smoke cigarettes. They cost a ton of money, they taste like shit, they kill you, and they don't even get you high. The only benefit to smoking cigarettes is the subsequent social image that someone who smokes projects. So old. But it's still my favorite kind of stereotype, the people who try to be edgy and original, the girls who think they're being daring and badass by calling you a cunt, the ones who think that the more obscure your favorite band is, the cooler you are. Sorry, but nowadays, everyone has side-swept bangs and thick black glasses; everyone is an artist and a poet and a lover and a philosopher. It's not modern or off-the-wall. It's old and tired and boring. Someone be fucking original for a change. GOD.

I miss Ryan. He was the only person I've ever met who admitted that he was just like everyone else. As much as he pretended like he was unique and did things to please himself, at the end of the day, he didn't spend thousands of dollars on upscale clothing and a nose job because he wanted to look in the mirror and be pleased. The most dangerous type of person is the kind who does everything according to how they want to be perceived but can't admit it to even themselves. Even if they know that you know that they know.

Anyway, it felt good to finally write that rant down somewhere other than the inside of my eyelids. The drugs are making me sick, so I'm going to bed. GOODNIGHT, INTERWEBZ.

Alright, guys. There's a little something I've been noticing about DeviantArt in the past few days that's really got me annoyed, and I'd just like to point it out to some people because I think it's utter fucking nonsense.
Lately I've been noticing this little craze that's been occurring mostly within DeviantArt's 'elite' artists, namely the ones with the most page views; artists such as Snapesnogger and DivineAngel are known particularly for this. On both of their pages, I've taken time out of my day to leave a long, complex and well thought-out comment that both commends their artistic endeavors as well as includes a couple of pointers for how they could improve their art, better known as CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. And both times I have either had my comment completely ignored, responded to rudely or simply deleted. Do they even comprehend how EXTREMELY rude, ungrateful and narcissistic it is for them to treat a person who was willing to take time out of their day to leave a comment that they believed would help a complete stranger to become a better artist in that way? They're more or less conveying the message that not only is their time so much more important than anyone else's that they won't even bother to read through and respond to a persons' comment, but that their art is perfect enough that it has absolutely no room for improvement. It just disgusts and appalls me that two of DeviantArt's top "artists" could become so well-known even though they're so ungrateful towards those who helped put them in their positions of popularity. I mean, these people, these COMPLETE strangers, have taken their own PERSONAL time to go through your art and comment on the positives and negatives of it for the SOLE purpose of attempting to help you become a better artist, and you completely ignore them, telling them that their efforts were wasted on you because you're too important to read their lowly comments and your art is too perfect to be improved.
Anyway, that's just MY opinion, and if you think I'm just flaming, then go try it: leave a long, intelligent comment, and as long as it has even just a hint of constructive criticism, then you, too, will find your comments ill-received, ignored or even deleted.

[x] Holly [x]