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Thank you, Mr PresidentSome people complain about Obama because he hasn't fixed the economy.
Some people complain about him because he hasn't kept every single one of his election pledges.
People dislike the man for a variety of reasons.
I think he's amazing.
Why?
Because he is pro-Equal Rights.
This journal is for nothing more than to say how happy I am that, finally, a president of the United States has boldly stepped forward and declared his support for same-sex marriages. He could have easily avoided this issue until after the election race was over, but he made the decision to be up-front and honest in advance. I respect that in a politician so very, very much.
So thank you, Obama. I sincerely hope people listen to you, and learn what it truly means to treat your fellow man as "equal".

Kony 2012 - Full StoryThere are two sides to every story, after all.
Here is the original Kony 2012 video. http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
If you haven't watched it yet, PLEASE do. Please take the time to really watch it, and try and empathise with these young people. Imagine if it were you, a sibling, a friend.... This man must be stopped.
Now, there have been criticisms not of the need to stop Kony, but of the Invisible Children organisation who have led this campaign. These criticisms primarily regard the organisations finances and military support. You can read these concerns here:
http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/post/18890947431/we-got-trouble
In the interests of fair representation, I today saw a response from the Invisible Children organisation, linked in a BBC article.
You can read their response to the criticisms here:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html
The Guardian, a news c

Kony 2012 (update)((please scroll down for the update))
A few people messaged me regarding this. Tonight, I finally got around to watching the video, and I felt I had a moral obligation to spread the word myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc Everyone should watch this, and everyone should share this.
Until now, I'd never heard of this man. For over 20 years, he has been snatching African children from their homes, turning the boys into soldiers and the girls into sex slaves. He forces them to kill their own parents, and turns them into his own personal army.
To this day, he hasn't been captured. Most of the world don't even know his name. Until tonight, I was one of them.
Please spend 30 minutes of your time to watch this, and spread the word. If we could only remove a single evil individual from the world in our lifetime, this guy would likely be top of my list.
The internet is one of the single most powerful tools that mankind has ever had, as an international community.
It costs

Four Years AgoFour years ago, something happened that completely changed the course of my life in a very real, very noticeable way.
On the 19th of January 2008, I hadn't really intended to do anything to make my life change so drastically. There was no plan, no preconception, nothing. Things just happened the way they happened, and I wouldn't change it for the world.
On the night of the 19th of January 2008, `tealpirate and I started going out.
From that day on, my life was changed. I'd gone from a previously unhappy relationship to one I now was full of hope, excitement and expectation. My previous relationship had me feeling worn out, disillusioned and unhappy by three years or so into the relationship, yet with Jenn, I'm four years in, and still as crazily in love as the day I met her.
So, here's to you, Jenn, and the four fabulous years of life you have already gifted me with. I hope to continue them for as long as I live, and can only hope to bring you the same measure of happiness that you

Marauder RevelationSo, this may be common knowledge, I don't know... but I just realised this today and figured I'd share.
MARAUDER
- Remove the A's and re-organise the letters
MURDER
Every Marauder was murdered:
James = Voldemort
Sirius = Bellatrix
Peter = Voldemort's silver hand
Remus= Dolovov
I'VE NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE. HOW HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THIS?!
I wonder if this was intentional on J.K.'s part....

TealPirates Tutorial on Filming for YoutubePART ONE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViNhiT8M5AQ
PART TWO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnQyu5Ohgw
PART THREE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTp34PN8fKs
Warning! 18+ for naughty language!

P.s I have only realised what little sense I make and how GAY my hand gestures are!
Filmed by ~Aacura

On The Subject of LabelsOne of the recurring comments given in my previous journal was "Why do we need to label ourselves at all?", or words to that effect. There are many of you who believe NO-ONE needs a label.
I both agree and disagree.
I agree, because I think you're right that we don't need to define to ourselves what we are by putting a label on it. I shouldn't say to myself "I'm gay. Therefore, I only am attracted to women." I think that if, in your head, you have a defined, labelled view of what you are, you start conforming yourself around that label. I'm sure many of you have heard stories of men and women who came out, then later admitted to feeling pressured into staying gay because they'd defined themselves as such to so many people. Conforming yourself around a social definition like that cannot be healthy.
But at the same time, I disagree against the idea that we don't need labels in this world at all. We do need them... we just don't need to place extensive mean

Riveting fable, comradeA few things to update y'all on.
JOB - I finally got one. I sell books now. Ideal. Thumbs up!
Moving on!
MASTERS DEGREE - Passed. Huzzah!
COSPLAY - Zevran is almost finished and we had a very lol-filled cosplay making weekend a little while back. I got a little giddy on wine.
Also, here is a little sneak peek at my Merlin cosplay progress.
What else? Errmmmmmm. If you didn't know I have three new baby mice. They're called Loki, Puck and Hermes. Ten points if you can see the connection in the names.
We're not official guests for Metrocon 2012, and so we shall be back next year with some awesome new panels! So far I'm going to be bringing; Young Remus Lupin and Vincent Valentine.
Now questions for you guys.
Are any of you taking part in NaNoWriMo this year?

Read The Books!I just found this on Tumblr, and HAD to share it with y'all.
If you've never read the Harry Potter books, but watched the movies, you don't know what you're missing:
If you didn't read the books:
You wouldn't know who Peeves was.
You wouldn't know how the Weasley Twins made WWW coming from a poor family.
You wouldn't know about Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
You wouldn't know much about the Marauders.
You wouldn't know about Voldemort's past.
You wouldn't know the TRUE meaning of "Always."
You wouldn't know much about Neville's past.
You wouldn't know much about Remus and Nymphadora.
You wouldn't know about Teddy.
You wouldn't know or understand the struggle of Draco Malfoy.
You wouldn't know what really went on at the Quidditch World Cup.
You wouldn't know much about Snape's past.
You wouldn't know or understand the true depth of Harry's relation with Sirius.
You wouldn't know about Winky.
You wouldn't know about Dobby and his sacrifices.
You wouldn't know much about Horcrux's.
You would

Halfway to 100I don't want to be one of those people who jumps up every month like "WE'VE BEEN DATING FOR 13/26/39 MONTHS!", but...
Jenn and I have been together for 50 months as of today. I think that's a number worthy of mentioning.
To celebrate (and to make reading this worth your while), have a picture of Keith and Ellis (Jenn and I) pestering Nick (Becki):

Video Plans for 2012Hey guys!
Long time; no talk. How are you all doing?
Since this year is the year of the apocalypse you can expect more Left 4 Dead 2 videos. I'm definitely thinking about making some Keith and Ellis derp videos. The current winning idea is 'How to with Keith.'
Oh, yes. Chaos shall follow.
I'm ALMOST done with a second Blame it on the Cosplay video; THE REVENGE. Seriously, this is so so so so much better than the first one. I really can't wait. The only reason I haven't uploaded it yet is because the contacts for Lestat haven't arrived yet. Once his part is filmed then it shall be up for your pleasure!
You can definitely expect more Marauders. These guys will have plenty more episodes and silly shorts to come.
What else is worth mentioning?
We -might- be filming a final special Sora Show video. This is only a possible at the moment. So don't get your hopes up too much. It might happen. It might not, however it is being talked about.
I will get the Demyx Time 15 bloopers to you. I'm half

Sexuality Polls?WARNING FOR THE RAMBLINGS OF A TIRED, ILL PERSON!
So, you may wonder why I made the polls about sexuality.
From the age of 12 to 16, I was straight. I was always straight, and always going to be straight. I only dated guys, and that was the way it was stuck in my head.
Then at 16, things started changing. I was in a relationship, but I also found myself attracted to girls. In appearance, especially, I found females more appealing than males.
At around 18 or 19, my attraction to men started fading entirely, replaced purely by an interest in women.
At 20, I ended my straight relationship to be with Jenn. By this point, I only found women attractive.
Now I'm 24, and once again, I'm on the fence. I find both men and women attractive visually, but I'm not SEXUALLY attracted to any of them. The only person I honestly find sexually attractive is Jenn. She's female, so I suppose that labels me as a lesbian, as I am quite literally only attracted to females.
But what if, in another world, Jenn

The Power of MagicIt's past 3am, and I can't sleep.
-------The Power of Magic-------
When I was a kid, one of the greatest things possible to witness was magic. To me, my dad was a magician, no doubt about it. He could make coins appear from pockets and behind ears. He could guess what card you or your friend chose. He could blow cigarette smoke from his ears.
Actually, that last one was due to having punctured ear drums, so wasn't really magic... but you get what I mean.
Of course, now that I'm older, I know all these tricks myself. They're the easiest ones in the book. I've learned them myself, and occasionally blow the minds of kids who are now at the age I once was when I was being amazed by this apparent 'magic'.
That experience, of seeing something you believe to be utterly impossible become possible, is amazing. It's the reason I love illusionists and magicians, and the reason I've spent most of this insomniatic evening watching videos of Dynamo the magician.
Eventually with shows of magic

Generosity and AppreciationSo for once I'm gonna talk about a somewhat serious topic... not really serious, but important at least.
Some people are so generous. And others are so unappreciative. What makes me say this? Well there are a couple of things. Since I'm better and more to the point with lists, here we go:

So I'm (was) watching this Korean variety show, Family Outing 2 (for the TaecYoon xD), right? There was this one episode that really got me inspired to write this journal. Actually more than one. In one the "family" performs for a (thousand?) bunch of soldiers. then at the end, they reunited one of the soldiers and his pregnant wife/girlfriend. They helped a village win some competition against this other village. And helped a (wrestling school? I think?) promote itself and something to do with these four girls...
Anyway, my point is: What do our (American) celebrities/idols/we do? I am in no way trying to be biased against American celebrities or anything, but it seems to me all I hear a

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Journal Entry: Wed Feb 29, 2012, 2:20 AM

Ramblings...

Today, I wrote out a post of about 1,000 words or so about why people get offended by British humour, but shouldn't. I then deleted it. Why?

Because I realised that in talking about the nature of British humour, and why we're able to happily joke about things like celebrity deaths, racism, sexism, tragedies like 9/11, wars etc. ... I'd end up having people getting upset because I've offended them.

I've saved myself the hassle of this by deleting the post.

All I will say is that, if you can't handle Shock Humour, then you should always be wary of watching any form of British comedy. It's part of our comedic culture.

Otherwise, just accept that you might be offended, and when you are....stop reading, close the video, or change the channel. It's that easy.

"Being offended is part of being in the real world."
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~DrillSergentDev Mar 1, 2012

Being from the U.S. I personally don't find 9/11 jokes offensive, in fact I've found quite a few of these jokes to be really funny. I also find some racist jokes to be really funny too and I'm asian. I find it really funny that the U.S. prides itself on being a free country when a majority of it's citizens will get angry with someone for simply exercising their right to free speech.

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~PhantomisErik Mar 1, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

i'm so full of dark and dry humor, it's funny (HAHA A JOKE) anyway, people are always offended by something. Family guy has an episode where three girls are taking a picture together, and their faces are smooshed together, and then the become one big "fat" girl. I'm fat and i thought it was really funny, but on comments people are saying "i'm a girl and i'm offended". You're right, if people don't like it they should simply move along. People take things WAY to seriously.

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~Yokaste Mar 1, 2012

well, I'm german and I love british humor! but I'm often called rude because of my sense of humor and it's also true that most germans don't have any sense of humor at all, so I think it's okay^^

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~this-is-an-outrage Mar 1, 2012 Student General Artist

I just don't think people always understand the acute sense of pessimism and disdain that many Brits have for... well, everything, but how we can also laugh at it and take the piss out of it. Same with the surreal elements that are in IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf (well, the list goes on, really...)
Then again one really God-awful Brit-com is Pete VS Life. I can't stand that blokey blokey football commentary shite.

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~Sugar7685 Mar 1, 2012

dude, British humour is the best. I love Monty Python, Red Dwarf, all those types of things. I think it's similar to the type of humour Australians have. We have a very, as you said, "Shock Humour" style of comedy and I can see how it can go too far, but some people get offended by it too easily. People need to relax

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~Tada-no-Yume Feb 29, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

I really love British humor.
Even did a Monty python skit for my grad concert.
It's so in your face that it's funny!

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~CuriousStraydog Feb 29, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

That is so true...if you don't like something, why bother to keep watching it or reading it, etc...? I know in DT you and Jenn said that the whole "fork handles and headlight fluids" thing was from a British comedy show you both enjoyed and that does sound hilarious. But that's just it...some things are funny, others aren't. People need to learn to deal with them, whether they be funny or not.

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~NinLuvs-SHM Feb 29, 2012 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

I actually enjoy British humor over plain American humor. >>

It's straight forward with a bit of a..laid back sense, I guess.

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~9TailedUKE Feb 29, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Odd.. I like British humour.. Though I can see why it may be offensive to some people.

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~RainbowxAnimexloverx Feb 29, 2012

That's strange, I find British humour the least offensive haha xD. Personally American humour is much more offensive to me. British humour is the best :3

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