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Justin Bieber's movie just came out. I GUESS I'LL BE AVOIDING THE THEATER FOR A WHILE.

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The Little Prince of course. Short and simple, and it tells us to treasure the little things in life, especially when we get older and are too much in a rush to see past our cares and worries and discover how beautiful and bittersweet life really is. Alas, sometimes I can be guilty of that. Don't we all?

I like one person's answer: the Dictionary. That too! XD

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The Mask. I used to watch a bunch of Jim Carrey movies as a kid and now I'm too goddamn embarrassed to think I ever liked this movie so much. I'm too scared to watch it again because I'm afraid the memories would make me crawl in a corner in shame.

Looking back on Space Jam, it really sucked. :P It's only lasting appeal was its music, nom.

Thanks to the Nostalgia Critic, I've been taught it's okay to look back on movies I've loved as a kid, be aghast of them as an adult, and move on without losing my sense of childhood. :P

Edit: Oh my god, All Dogs Go To Heaven 2. Yes, the sequel. With George Hearn as the bad guy. To quote Tim Burton, I better keep the magic pure and never ever watch it again. :P

Edit 2: The Pagemaster. I want to smack Richard Tyler for being such a goddamn stereotypical idiot now. Seriously. Nobody talks like that as a kid. Especially putting all their blind faith into statistics and gdjskghdsjkgh AUUUUGH

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Sex education. No seriously. It's bad enough that a lot of teens are shooting themselves trying to figure out sexuality. Abstinence-only has done nothing to teach us about our bodies except to be ashamed of them and that the only way to take responsibility is to not have sex at all. Except after marriage to make babies, 'cause if you enjoy sex for any reason other than reproduction, you're a whore or a manipulative rapist. Infedility? What's that?

It really helps knowing how to have safe sex, including learning about the difference methods of birth control and the advantages/disadvantages of each. Hell, learning how to fit a condom correctly will make a TON of difference. What's an abusive relationship and what isn't? What do you do about pregnancy and STDs?

To quote the title of a Garbage song, Sex Is Not The Enemy. We can't keep blaming our problems on our genetalia and we need to take responsibility for our actions and decisions. It would've really helped me to be taught about some of the things the Internet had to educate me on, when I hated myself for having fantasies of some of my OTPs because supposedly sex was something horrible people did to manipulate and degrade others like in lame misogynistic pr0n0s.

No, your skin won't turn purple if you masturbate. If it does, see a doctor.

See? Whether you're sexually active or not, knowing this kind of stuff saves lives.

Alas, since we're still so entrenched in the stereotypes of men and women and the whole gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender debate, I don't expect this to go smoothly for a loooooooooooong time. :/

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Vladimir Nabokov. With tons of clever puzzles and setups, with Lolita alone you find something new. He revolutionized for me on how a book can be done, so that's... mind-blowing and I'd love to have what he's having. :p

Hell no to switching writing styles with anyone though. I like my writing style and I like being influenced by my favorite authors to make a delicious stew of my own. :o By stew, we mean Kirby's Cook Ability and Final Smash. Nomnomnomnomnom. :o

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Mike Myers in The Cat in the Hat.

I felt like everything about my life was raped. Childhood, reading Dr. Seuss books, how I ever felt about movies... if there is a media hell, it's in Cat in the Hat. Even thinking about it gives me the worst migraine possible. No amount of MSTing will ever save this piece of tripe. It's sheer torture. A perfect way to make yourself fire the biggest bullet in your cranium possible. That's how beastly this film is.

Anything by Eddie Murphy joins the cesspool. God put me out of my misery.

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wtf. This mouse has a button that AGAIN erased everything I typed up. *grumble* Let's start this over again.

It's a Wonderful Life, hands down. The problem is I'm not sure I can watch it every year, because it's one of the few movies that makes me bawl everytime. In a good way, but still. For bizarre and fun with good laughs, A Pee-Wee Christmas and A Colbert Christmas. Literature-wise, a special and original short story that Net Raptor links to every year that I forget the name of. I'll have to update with the name and link later specifically when I'm not typing from the library and the Internet works at home again grrrrr. As for Rankin & Bass claymation specials, Santa Claus is Coming to Town will always be my favorite. *-* Four words: Santa Claus = Robin Hood. A rebel who breaks the law by bringing children happiness and freedom from the tyranny of a sour dictator, with the help of a pet penguin, an ex-evil warlock and his adoptive elf family? FUCK YEAH. Not to mention Jessica/Mrs. Claus was all kinds of badass and I adore her. Plus Fred Astaire narrates. Fuck yeah.

When it comes to least favorites, I basically dislike any program that feels the need to jam the Meaning of Christmas down your throat 24/7 and what an eeeeeeeeeeevil Scrooge you are for not getting into the commercialized holiday spirit. Or you know, the stupid comedies and their sequels. :P The Grinch with Jim Carrey put a bad taste in my mouth. It was like Carrie in Christmastime but without the bloody and massive slaughter of Whos. :( I want to say I dislike Rudolph but I enjoy some bits and pieces of it like with the Island of Misfit Toys, but goddamn, I thought Santa and the reindeer that mocked Rudolph were more villaneous than poor Bumble ever was. :P Seriously, Santa was a dick in this special ("HAY DONNER YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF LOL"). I couldn't stand that Burle Ives Snowman, even as a kid! XD

I never saw A Christmas Story though I'd like to someday. Maybe I can ask my parents about it later. One day I mean to finish A Christmas Carol too, but I'm picky and will only read the edition that has the Quentin Blake illustrations in it. That has the most heart and sentimental value for me. *nod*

I read a funny children's Hannukah book called The Latke That Wouldn't Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket. I recommend it to everyone! ;D

Anyone else think of Clarice from Rudolph and be reminded of Silence of the Lambs? :o

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Best

Everybody knows how much I love Roald Dahl~ ♥

1. Lolita - Disgusting and beautiful. Any author that can make me put those words together is a genius, and that is what Vladimir Nabokov is~ ♥ He just reinvented the novel for me in so many ways, and now I can never look at writing the same way that I used to. It was all because of that man and this amazing book.
2. Animal Farm - We read to be affected. We read to realize that we have a heart. I had no idea what it would be like to live under totalitarian dictatorship, and this book made me realize just how frightening society could be through the guise that affects me most -- animals. I hear about invading armies and governments and I just think, "Oh my god. The pigs. The pigs. Huh? The ending of the book shaking me up? Of course not, why do you ask?
3. Misery - We who participate in fandom understand that the worst enemy is the #1 Fan. As a writer myself, it was like King took out a piece of my world and it all comes off as so real and eerie to me. Sure enough, Annie Wilkes started visiting my nightmares after I finished reading the book. Has a way of sneaking up on me. @.@;;;

Runner-Ups: A Little Prince, Fahrenheit 451, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Carrie, The Hobbit, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, Coraline, Good Omens, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, WE, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, anything by Mikhail Bulgakov

Worst

1. The Scarlet Letter - Oh dear god. It was boring as hell trod through what, 300+ pages of Puritan commentary, sin, Dimmesdale whipping himself in self-pity, sin, Hester being as amazingly dynamic as a rock, and more sin? Oh goodie. As long as I never have to read this damn book again. Besides, Puritanism does not sit with me, so even if I could slog through the prose, I'd still want to slam the book against the wall for the utter... UGH.
2. Searching For David's Heart - It had a promising plot: girl loses brother, brother is an organ donor, person receives heart transplant, girl looks for person with heart transplant so that she can feel close to her brother again. What I didn't count on was that the book had the whiniest protagonist known to humankind, her father is a bitter and pointlessly racist douchebag, the book feels the need to dish as much melodrama as gdjskghhgf I'm going to waste the entire entry talking about how stupid and infuriating this book is. Fuck it, there is no way I can tell everything I hate about this book unless I give it its own entry. UGH. *HEDGEHOG HISS*
3. Forever... - You know, that sex book by Judy Blume. I mainly flipped through it for the lulz to see just how CONTROVERSHUL the boinking sessions really were. The story is boring, obscenely outdated, I can't relate to anybody in the novel at all (especially the protagonist!), and who the hell names their dick Ralph? I did a review of that book highlighting all of the "best" parts, hahaha.

Runner-Ups: The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Blubber, Deenie, Wuthering Heights, Giovanni's Room, The Great Gatsby, Jazz by Toni Morrison, Sounder, The Wind in the Willows, anything involving Judy Blume's "Fudge".

[Error: unknown template qotd]Enjoy your nightmares tonight~ ♥

It's for fic inspiration, I swear. :o