Come on Jessica, come on Tory!

So this journal is kind of defunct these days, but I just realized that a fair amount of people who are friends with me here aren't Facebook friends, or don't check Facebook often, and I should probably put something here too just to, IDK, get it out there.

Early yesterday morning, there was a massive (accidental!) fire in my apartment here in Japan. I'm okay. I'm in the hospital for very minor burns and smoke inhalation, but the doctor's already told me that if I wanted to go home, I could have even done so yesterday... if I had a home to go to. (No, really, he actually said that. What a winner.) My apartment is completely destroyed, and 98% of my stuff is gone. I'm currently homeless in Japan, which is like a hipster's dream come true.

The good news: Again, I'm fine. I'm staying in the hospital for one more night, mostly for stress and exhaustion. When I get out, I have several options for temporary housing, and everyone here is being absolutely amazing to me. In less than two days I've already gotten several donations from friends and been promised clothes and even furniture when I find a new place to live. I have my wallet and my passport and my phone (and even a laptop and mobile internet!), and enough money to see me through in the short term, especially with the support I've been getting.

The bad news: I have no idea when, or even if, I'll have a new permanent place to live, plus I obviously have no address. Renting a new apartment here is super hard and expensive for foreigners as it is, and any new place is likely to make me pay a massive amount in key money and security, if they let me rent at all. I also don't know what the insurance situation was at my apartment and don't know if I'm going to have to pay, or how much. I have no clothes except what people have given me and... well, I basically have nothing except what I listed above. So that all just really sucks.

I'm really lucky in a lot of ways, and I'm really grateful for them. The fire started not only in my bedroom but in my bed (it was a blanket that caught fire), so it's absolutely a miracle that I'm alive and unhurt. It's amazing that I live in a country that takes care of its people as much as this one does. Even the hospital food is pretty good! I think we should all try to be grateful and relieved as much as possible, and be exceptionally thankful that no one else was hurt or even, hopefully, displaced for more than a couple of days.

Obviously, what little online activity I have is sort of going to screech to a halt for the time being. I had to default on Yuletide and hiatus on my RPs. (Oh, hey, I should probably freeze my WoW account...) But like I said, I do have internet, so you can message/email/IM me any time. ♥

OH MY GOD.

I THINK I STOPPED BREATHING ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THAT EPISODE.

THERE ARE TEARS IN MY EYES.

AND THERE'S STILL ONE MORE TO GO.

I don't even know if I'll be able to handle whatever's coming next.

...OH MAN I'M GOING TO BE ON VACATION THEN, TOO, I'LL HAVE TO WATCH IN AN INTERNET CAFE OR SOMETHING D: LOL SHAKING AND CRYING IN SEMI-PUBLIC.

So first I want to say that my issues with Breaking Bad are, as of season three, largely resolved: the main female characters start to develop agency and become interesting in their own right, and I am pleased with that.

But mostly, I just want to say that I'm almost done with season three and

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOLY SHIT.

LIKE. SERIOUSLY. HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS.

IF YOU WANT A SHOW THAT WILL MAKE YOU SAY "HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS" EVERY OTHER EPISODE, WATCH BREAKING BAD.

OMG also ALL THE EMMYS EVER FOR AARON PAUL. Sorry, supporting actors on every other show, none of you will ever be as good.

eta AND NOW I'M DONE WITH SEASON THREE AND TEARS FALLING AS I FALL IN A SLOW CIRCLE AND DIE.

(Pre-post disclaimer: I took way too much medication this morning and now I am super loopy. This post MAY NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE.)

Anyway.

Hey guys.

So like I said, I don't talk about my personal life much here, preferring vastly to stick to TV ramblings, but...

Well, without getting too far into it, I've been having some health problems for the past month or so (what else is new~) and it's looking like they may be starting to get more serious. Like, into the very slightly scary level of serious.

This, combined with living in a foreign country, combined with feeling humiliated every time someone laughs at me for having old lady problems (it's a slipped/herniated disc, okay, apparently this is hilarious to my coworkers), combined with my general sense of feeling immensely trapped and isolated here, is really getting me right the fuck down.

I don't really want to have in-depth conversations about how I feel about all this or whatever, because honestly, I have Feelings about my health and they would take up many many pages. I just need to get it out there that I feel absolutely terrible right now.

But actually, what I want is to ask for this to be the HAPPY-ASS AWESOME FUN TME COMMENT SECTION to my DEPRESSING, WHINY-ASS, EMBARRASSING post. So please: in the comments, post whatever has made you the most happy lately. Fic, pics, memes, inside jokes, videos/songs (although I can't access them at work, which is where I'm at, lingering while I wait to get to my doctor's appointment). WHATEVER. Help me out, friendslist.

I have an idea for a Sirens/Misfits crossover. I feel like there are maybe two people on the entire internet who would actually want to read this. Thoughts?

I may just break it in two. Ever since Robert Sheehan decided to be a little douche and leave Misfits, I've been wanting to write a "Nathan dies for real" fic. (I hear he's going to anyway, so why not?)

So I just finished A Dance with Dragons, to begin the long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long wait for the next part of the ASOIAF story.

( My (non-spoilery) reactions )

It was requested on ontd_asoiaf that I post spoilers for ADWD, since I'm apparently the first member to get their copy. So as not to clutter up the comm or accidentally ruin anything for anyone by accident, I'm putting it all here.

I guess this is also sort of doubling as my commentary.

SO DO NOT CLICK ON THE CUT UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING AND READY TO READ SPOILERS FOR A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, OKAY?

I will update this post as I read. Exciting!

( Beautiful, beautiful spoilers: )

Aaand I am stopping for now. I have to say, this book is like... a million times better than AFFC, so far. Not quite up there with ASOS, but there's a lot of action and the plot is generally moving forward and it's not too bogged down in "people I could not give less of a shit about." Points, GRRM, I was worried!

So I saw X-Men: First Class, and ultimately I wound up feeling, about it, the way I feel about the actual X-Men comics: I hated about half of it (the Shaw/war plot, the totally nonsensical 'age of the atom' crap, stupid deaths, clunky writing) and loved about half of it (virtually everything involving the kids, mutant politics, intra-team clashes, etc.).

Actually, that shakes out to almost exactly the things I love and hate about the comics, too, which I guess makes it a pretty great adaptation.

But I used to be hugely into X-Men, so it feels kind of cool to feel that little spark of interest in it again. If the movie had had Nightcrawler instead of his crappy dad (and I don't mean Mystique, ALTHOUGH I SHOULD) I would basically be unable to stop myself from being all the fuck over it right now. As it is, I am still pretty sure I will be happy to read all the fic ever.

I know there's a kinkmeme, but is there anything else? I have to admit, I don't love kinkmemes for fandoms I actually want to get involved with instead of just browsing around in.

I mean, I guess I could just get back into X-Men fandom, but since that involves A: reading comics from a hundred million thousand miles away and B: currently, a world without Kurt some of my favorite cha-- oh, let's face it, I'm talking about Kurt. Anyway, comics piss me off too much, so nah.

Also: has anyone written Sean/Hank yet? IDEK, but I saw it and I'd read it. Or even Charles/Hank, if Charles can stop mooning over Erik for two seconds. POSSIBLY EVEN CHARLES/HANK THAT INVOLVES COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT ERIK AND MYSTIQUE.

Aw, what up, X-Men. ♥

How are you so great?