brain is dead

[meganbmoore]

 *6 hours on the no-internet computers, doing very dull stuff

*read a romance novel and a short mythology book, both were entertaining enough to keep me reading, but not much else(romance novel would have have much better had the author not relied on the reincarnation angle so much

*Things Have Happened today, but I officially do not know

*have fetched Qwan from the car and will use it and Neopets to reactivate my brain so I can post on Ayakashi

*Does Avatar really have flying bison and people who shoot fireballs from their feet?  If so, why was I not told of this before?  For that matter, why did I not know it had pirates until very recently?

*people need to post things to entertain me as I am too tired to properly entertain them

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

It has six-legged flying bison. And turtleducks. And crazy mixed animals that are charming and cool. And yes, people who shoot fireballs from their feet. There's also a blind girl who can manipulate metal and IS THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER.

Avatar is just so full of awesome that it is so hard to cover everything. Also, I've been watching it since it first premiered so I unfortunately take all these things for granted.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

We share a brain and you did not find it relevant to share ANY of this with me?

I feel so unloved...

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I take it all for granted! I'm not so enthralled by the setting anymore (but it is awesome) but by the character arc! But there are things like:

1. A retired general who was awesome and cool but lost his greatest and most important battle ever because his only son died and it broke his heart. And now he just loves his tea and tries to teach the emotastic Prince Zuko to be good. But the retired general is not stupid and senile like everyone thinks he is. You watch wuxia. You know the harmless old man is NEVER HARMLESS.

2. The fact that the previous Avatar and the emotastic Prince Zuko's grandfather were BEST FRIENDS BUT IT ENDED IN WOE.

3. There is also a duel between two guys in S2. With bladed weapons. With twin bladed weapons.

4. Prince Zuko's sister. His crazy, dominatrix of a sister!

5. And her two best friends. Together, I call the three of them the Charlie's Angels of the Fire Nation. I... I won't apologize.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

1. Emoangstmuffins can only be cured by True Love and A Hero To Follow. Good guidance is wasted on them. All father figures are pure awesome or evil in all things actiony.

2. MORE VITAL INFORMATION!

3. EXTREMELY VITAL INFORMATION!

4. MO...never mind.

5. DETAILS!

Re: #5

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

One is a happy go lucky acrobat who just hangs around because she likes to be special and have fun!

The other is the perfect daughter of a noble family. So perfect that she's bored and started playing with knives.

She's also had a massive crush on the emotastic Prince Zuko since they were kids. I expect this will come to a head later in S3 because the way things are, she now has to choose between the emo prince and his crazy sister.

Together the three of them go on missions, undercover or otherwise, for the glory of the Fire Nation, capturing cities and stuff for the Fire Lord.

Re: #5

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

Is #3 Mai?

Re: #5

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Re: #5

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

excellent

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

But the blind girl who walks around barefoot, kicking ass and taking names, is still the best. :D

...and it is a travesty that I don't have any icons of her!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

well...why don't you fix that?

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

That would make the most amount of sense, yes.

But I am notoriously lazy when it comes to making icons.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

it is why i exist.

provided i find caps.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

AvatarSpirit (http://www.avatarspiritmedia.net/apollo/screen_search.php) is your friend here if you're looking for screencaps -- searchable by character, setting, etc. ;)

Or if you just want to grab something premade, there's always avatar_icons.

Just beware of spoilers.

(Another one for the list -- yes, there really is an episode that plays out like an elemental martial-arts remake of Shane...)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Does Avatar Spirit have the caps broken down by season, by any chance?

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yep, they do! (http://www.avatarspiritmedia.net/dvdscreens.php)

(Also the searchable database linked earlier lets you restrict your searches by individual episode.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

most excellent.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Also the emotastic prince's facial scar was given to him by HIS OWN FATHER. IN RITUAL COMBAT.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

excellent.

possibly tops being a prince and having your father branding you a slave because you're supposed to be king someday.

maybe.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Well, as much as I love Avatar, I don't know if it tops that...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Said prince's papa has also subtly been trying to kill him ever since, esp. "giving" him a kingdom just a step up from hell, hoping one of the 50000 pieces of scum he let in would kill him.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

4. Prince Zuko's sister. His crazy, dominatrix of a sister!

You forgot to add "lightning-shooting martial arts prodigy", "megalomaniac", and "incestuously seductive" to #4! And don't forget her elderly identical-twin sifus, and treating beach volleyball as mere practice for WORLD DOMINATION! Or the way she conquers an enemy stronghold by subterfuge with only her two teenage buddies for backup, and then makes their elite secret police her personal man-harem!

(Well, OK, maybe the man-harem bit is just subtext...)

And then there's the army of teenage girls who do tessenjutsu in kabuki makeup! And when a boy asks to study with them, they make him crossdress!

And then there's the episode with the senryu slam! And the professional-wrestling parody! And the gorgeous female bounty hunter who out-drinks, out-gambles, and out-arm-wrestles the men! And the supernatural library!

Also, the turtleducks have been mentioned but bear repeating, because turtleducks are love. Much like all the rest of Avatar, really.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

i hope everyone following this post realizes that my avatar posts are probably going to end up "things people should tell me about" lists.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Avatar has platypus-bears. And adorable koala-seals. And people who shoot fireballs from their mouths. And the pirates do things like bite a piece of gold, then say "Hey, that's some tasty gold!"

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

shooting fireballs from your mouth is far more commonplace than from their feet.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Okay . . . fireballs from the feet, hands, mouth, and I think someone shot fire from their hair once . . .

Oh, and the waterbenders can trap you in a lattice of ice spikes.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The hair is VERY impressive...as long as the hair itself in unscorched.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was. And then you'll see scenes where a near-miss results in someone getting a very tidy haircut with a slice of water. Not ice, the water is that sharp.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

They can also cut wood with their sweat.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

ANOTHER THING I SHOULD BE TOLD!

Do people not realize that all pure crack should be related to me as incentive?

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

It also has hillbillies and hippies.

And it has an episode where someone gets high on cactus juice.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

hillbillies and hippies will only be incentive once scene. Unlike pirates and flying bison and people shooting fireballs out of their feet.

Getting high on cactus juice is another matter.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. Phone line went down completely, today, didn't even have a dial tone.

Wheeee.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

aww

am better now, though.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yes Avatar does. I just got addicted and have been going through the show like skittles and posting my thoughts in my lj as I go, so if you start watching and want someone the squee/ramble at, think of me. ^_^

As for entertainment...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071203/od_afp/swedenchristmaskyrgyzstansantaoffbeat_071203163428