Before the last time I went home, my sister told me to buy one of our cousins a tablet. I mentioned it here, and y'all were appropriately snarky. Once she got specific, she got really specific. It had to be the iPad 3, she insisted. When I gave it to her I asked if she was excited by the prospect of the retina display.

The what?

Uh, how informed was that extra $50 if you don't know the simplest thing that you're getting for that money? And her "You can get the internet on this, right? You sure?" and I just had to smile and run screaming.

When I bought this phone it was the only one I could find on the market that satisfied my connectivity (unlocked, T Mobile) and platform (I'd have taken anything highly customisable with a large app market, but there were also no nos--I don't like iOS or Blackberry, and I'd never seen a Windows phone that didn't annoy)--voila! Samsung Nexus was really the only option by then.

Did marketing make me stick with T Mobile or dislike iOS? It's impossible to rule that out. I'd say it's more likely to be poor marketing. I didn't find reviews of other phones that met my criteria, so I was just waiting for a bargain on this one.

I am not gonna lie, although I'm grateful there seems to be a growing diversity in the Teen Wolf fan art (they're branching out to include the lead now), I do wonder if my perception or my hardware is off. Because when I look at them, I don't see this disparity--is this part and parcel of me not being able to colour?

I mentioned it here, and y'all were appropriately snarky. Once she got specific, she got really specific. It had to be the iPad 3, she insisted.

We're kinda bitchy. Sorry.

But we see the ads too. Being judgmental and thus belonging to a select group in a herd sense is the point of big ad campaigns. Getting the iPad is buying into the Apple mythos in a sense. It helps that Apple stuff is really forgiving of a clumsy user and can be really useful for a skilled user. Plus it seems cool.

Did marketing make me stick with T Mobile or dislike iOS? It's impossible to rule that out.

I think, in our world, it is impossible to say. But marketing got you to chose a phone and that phone won your loyalty. It might be the absolute best phone on the market for you. Maybe the best phone possible (and, no, I don't believe that is ever really built for consumer technology) for you. But it's still a battle for market resources.

Advertising is fraught when you look at the overall picture. But it's huge business so it's going nowhere.

If it is, I can't see color either. That makes no sense.

(they're branching out to include the lead now)

To be fair, I kinda feel massive eh about the lead. If, in the show, nothing else intrigued me, I'd just wander off from him (and the show) never to care again.

I LOVE SCOTT.

Sorry--he's my Galahad for the 21st century. He's not bright bright--Stiles has the lock on 4.0 GPAs while being delinquent and reconstructing werewolf lore from the ground up in a month. But Scott is a hero because doing good and helping people is right and he won't let anything stop him. He's not the brains, but he's more than the brawn. And he's so sweet and nice without a hint of Nice. He's got backbone and heart and...fuck, he has all the parts of the body. I like that kid so much. And I love his friendship with Stiles and relationship with Alison (at any point) so much.

I have a lot of room for Teen Wolf feels, but he's bundled up right there in the massive 2nd place with the Sheriff, Alison, and Danny. Derek was born into this life, and Scott never didn't think he couldn't go toe to toe with him--and not in a pissing on the trees ways. Just in a "I will not be cowed by your emotionally abusive self that likes to prey on kids with low self esteem" war. Him and Abed--mad esteem, except he's more neurotypical (and everything else is totes atypical).

But me makes a teen supernatural show not just bearable for me (a la Secret Circle--it was ai'ight) into something ... I fell away from Vampire Diaries when I realised there are no heroes on the show. That the end point seems to be colonising a former human settlement into a farm and a playground for the undead and supernatural to work out their lack of closure with being stood up for prom HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. Even Rebekah is running around twirling her moustache of bwah ha ha, except she's even dumber at "been doing this all my life" than Derek is, and literally let the prom--not even getting to the prom, but DRESSING for the prom put her in jeopardy.

I think the "monsters" of Beacon Hills would drop all their internecine conflicts and raze Mystic Falls to the ground (Chris is on point, and picking off the potential escapees, Stiles is in the Parkeresque role of thinking outside the box and getting into places he shouldn't, and Alison is Katniss Everdeen channelling Athene Pallas and fucking shit up (Hawkeye who?? Can you do that in pumps? Like I was saying--these are this season's hot shoe),, and the Beacon monsters would be red of eye and tooth. Dr. Deacon and the [redacted wotsername from school]are feeding information, and of course, Lydia & Stiles planned the whole thing.

TVD has a moral vacuum. Scott has a heart the size of a planet. He feels, and his instincts are good, and he's probably going to get underestimated into season 3 all over again. I like my motlew crews of kids suddenly thrust into a world of magic and otherness who take an active interesting in finding out more about this, and what effect it might have on their friends and families, although they mess up a bit on the way--THEY TRY.

I'd love to see TVD try a yellow crayon-or have they, and I dozed or laughed my way through it? Sad that I think it's possible.

tl/dr; Scott rules--you eliminate (or conveniently lose) him out over my dead fictional body

And I feel sad that shipdom is doing all this fluffy Sterek feels (there was just a blow up on tumblr--don't remember what about. Probably ship->show related, and I don't think it was the same old "Have them kiss and we'll donate enough money to fix the Jersey Shore" apogee of sensitivity that it's their turn to guac-plant into. But ignores some opportunity for "You think I'm not feral, Derek? You also think I'm not on a break? No, and NO." Boom! Knotting! Let's get those knobs inflated into anuses designed for a watertight seal. Stiles seems a bit exploratory, and he's cute. Danny needs to rebound--he could do worse. And if it's not Danny, he's got a slew of drag queen numbers on tap, so they could, for lack of a better metaphor, get him all ready for the ball. And there's also gen! Alison and Scott are so sweet, and complicated. Let's do that lets go emotional tied to each other, and complicated.

No, the like this [link] WHAT ARE YOU (continued...)

( continues...) WATCHING???

(And seriously as someone who drew a shitload of (v. manly) cuddling, COME ON MAN CARD.

eta: Multipost TW feels? WHO AM I?
eta2: Though if you want to hear all my SPN reaction for the past two reasons, you might want to have prepared your bandwidth.

tl/dr; Scott rules--you eliminate (or conveniently lose) him out over my dead fictional body

Scott exists in the show for me because he's a heart of the show, but no donation makes me root for him.

I just … don't like him. I don't need him to disappear but I don't crave his PoV. Ever.

Skipping oh-way-too-much because, according to Sean K "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Nov 30, 2004 2:00:17 pm PST today is Emeline's birthday.

Happy birthday, you big beautiful girl! With lots of wishes for both your parents and all your family!

Also, apologies to Daisy Jane, whose birthday I missed posting about four days ago (on the 26th), and lots of belated wishes for her, as well.

And, of course, short nice Fridays and great weekends all around!

Thanks, Nilly!!

I can't believe she is EIGHT. It seems totally unpossible.

I think it's crazy both that she is eight and that we were posting about her birth here. Time flies, man.