This is going to be a "promote Sam propaganda" and also, at the end of my list here, I have a question for you guys. I'm thinking about writing a short story with a certain theme and setting, but I want to find more works of literature in this genre (topic, dunno what to call it) because my creative writing skills aren't up to speed with oh... I dunno... the guy six months younger than me writing Rioki ???? Yeah, I'm trying to find books, novels, real-life stories, bad fanfics, ANYTHING in this setting, but first, the list:

Hello folks. As some of you have forgotten, I did a rant way back bashing Mary-sue Danny Phantom OCs because they're delusional super-versions of the creators who lust after a cartoon character, not to mention all the Sam-bashing that tends to happen in their godawful fanfictions. Anyway, today I thought I'd type in an entry saying why I love Sam:
1. She's Jewish.
2. She's filthy rich, but at the same times, she doesn't use her wealth to get popular. Not really something you see a lot of in teen shows. Instead, she prefers to have a couple of good, trustworthy close friends rather than groups of peons who follow who kiss up to you but don't really love or care about you at all in the long run.
4. Her crush on Danny is all but flat out cute. There's something adorable about the fact that she has a crush on Danny, he's clueless, but at the same time, she's not all roMANTICly in love and swooning over him. It makes her seem... more intelligent if you will.
5. Her parents. I dunno why, but I LOVE her parents. They're so cheery and sunshine-y that they just make you want to laugh so hard.
6. Her "disdain for anything popular" Yes. I speak from experience when I say it IS possible to be prejudiced (cautious) against anything that's popular.
7. Anyone who doodles when they're supposed to be taking notes is wonderful in my eyes. She's an alright artist too.
8. Being a Goth helps, but for some reason, people who are romantic internally are appealing to me. She's dark, spooky, and the dark and gothic kind of romantic mindset is cool.
9. Can anyone please say ONLINE GAMER any clearer and louder? ... cyberwise? hehe.

...yep. NOW, I need your help for something:
I'm thinking about writing a short story. Not really a romance story, but a... semi subtle romance story I guess if you will. Anyway, I want it to be about this girl (let's call her Jo for now) with a (boyfriend? ) friend-that's-a-guy (Lazarus) , whatever, who has a crazy ex who still has a possessive crush on the guy (I'm thinking Trisha) , and is so desperate to get him back, that she disregards his feelings, and wants to get Jo outta the picture.

Now, I want to know if any of you know of any other stories, be them fictional or not, along the lines of this plot setting. I don't want to plagarize 1) I want ideas on how to put stuff together, since I'm bad at that 2) I'm just curious. It seems like an interesting plot and I want to read what anyone else has to say about it.

Now, I HAVE found some sources where I got the idea from:
-a small bit of personal experience, always helpful, but not good enough for literary purposes
- Sense and Sensibility where Lucy (the jealous witch) was secretly engaged to Edward (the guy who's friends with not-sane witch) and she tries everything in her power to make Elinor (the main character who likes Edward) jealous, miserable, hopeless, whatever. Jane Austen did a WONDERFUL job of making Lucy a character that makes you WANT to hate her... so much...
- Faeries' Landing where Yuri is a COMPLETE psyco and almost kills her ex by stabbing him because he wouldn't go back to her, oh, and she's jealous that he's good friends with Fanta.

um... yeah... got anything else? Anyone? Anyone? Huh huh HUH????

I'm trying to find stories on Google, but I can't find ANYTHING!

Feminists. Feminists tick me off. Not all of them, mind you, just the bitchy ones.

Now, before you give me the whole, "you're so anti-woman" or "why are you so intolerant?" bullcrap, first, read the last sentence again, and second... THINK ABOUT IT!

Kay, I dunno about you, but I am so sick and tired of hearing teachers (especially friends' college teachers) saying "oh women were always helpless, oppressed, feeble flowers before the 60s. KAY! lemme give you a list of women here in no particular order:
1. Joan of Arc, a woman, who freaking fought in the military IN THE MIDDLE AGES
2. Queen Victoria
3. Catherine of Sienna
4. Harriet Tubman
5. Sojourner Truth
6. Just about every ancient Spartan woman in ancient Greece
7. Pocahontas
8. The Amazons
9. St. Agnes
10. Mary (as in Jesus' mother, Mary)

yep. Anywhoos. What really irks me is that feminism in this culture has no longer become about empowering women. It's pretty much all about criticizing men and women who choose to be mothers before their forties. Teaching young women that women meant nothing to anybody and were always oppressed by men before the 60s either giving women the feeling that they are victims somehow rather than the strong minded woman they may be. What also IRKS me is how whenever one of the few endangered species of GENTLEMEN out there say... hold a door open for a woman? If they're the wrong woman, they get up all in the man's face about how he must think she is somehow feeble and inferior, when really he's just... being... nice! You know what I think I'll probably do when I'm getting something at 7/11 with one of my guy friends, and they hold a door open for a woman (not me) and she gives them that kind treatment? I'd tell him to give ME the door, and, if it's a really bad day, I'd slam that door right in her face.

Another thing, why is it that these kind of women always get up in the male population's faces about how they don't see them as anything other than sex objects, and turn around and seduce men until they turn 70 and dress like total sluts? And they always say "well, women have a right to do whatever they want with their body" NO WONDER MEN DON'T SEE YOU ANYTHING OTHER THAN A SEX OBJECT, because that's the message you're giving him! ALSO, this kind of thing shows that these kind of women have NO self control over their bodies, and they give every hint of evidence that what's really going is that they're letting THEIR bodies control THEM. NOT the other way around.

And here's another thing, you know those gentlemen out there? Have you EVER considered WHY they're being gentlemanly? I mean, other than that they're cruel oppressors? Maybe they think you're VALUABLE and they want to HELP you. It's not that they don't THINK you can't hold that door open yourself, they just want to SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE. Same thing with buying you dinner or carrying stuff for you. I mean COME ON! Stop telling us that men and mothers are the enemy and START telling us we matter, because, just because we're women, and are REALLY annoying when we don't get our way, doesn't make us less human! Stop blaming men for your problems and empower yourself, not victimize yourself as an excuse to be a BITCH.

Ello everyone.
In all the chaos that's been happening, I forgot to update my "art blog." So, last week, we did human figure drawing. Nothing too dense, unless you were one of the rich people with mummy's money to spend on figure drawing art classes, but yeah. I drew another Rioki pic. (the author sent me a new chapter yesterday night, 'twas pretty dark). anywhoos, This week we're doing this "extended ideas" unit, which I found out doing the homework is fancy words for "abstract art."

Abstract art: fun to do, not fun to see (for the most part, especially the drugged-up stuff from the 60s and 70s).

However, there IS abstract art I like. I like surrealism. I like things that look like places and objects from a different dimension, that actually look like the artist did more than dump a bunch of good acrylic paint on a canvas. If anyone's seen Neil Geiman's Mirror Mask, the artwork done in that movie is the kind of stuff I like. So yeah, I'm not exactly sure what I want to do yet, but I want to something related to dreams. I've been having a LOT of weird dreams lately. This is a conversation with a friend who has the WORST, messed-up nightmares possible:

Me: (randomly) I've been having a lot of weird dreams lately
Friend: Yeah? What about.
Me: (pause)
Friend: ... try me.
Me: (shakes head)
Friend: Okay... I'm scared now.

So, yeah, that's how messed up they were.

So, I haven't been able to work on my landscape stuff this week for two reasons: 1) I lost my textbook and didn't find it until last night (it was right next to my bed. Silly me) 2) I've been sick and dying since Wednesday. Yep. Aaaaand I've been feeling well enough today to at least sit in front of my compy and research my landscape artists (except my printer is being dumb and says it's outta paper when it has plenty >.< So I'm gonna print my stuff before school tomorrow... if I'm well enough to go out), type notes, and type in my journal. I sent my potential boss my desired salary (apparently, I was supposed to do that before she sent me the stuff) so... here goes.

Anyway, before my illness, I haven't really been dreaming anything to remember, but during my sick week... ooooh boy. I had a dream a couple nights ago that it was the middle ages and during the Black Plague. I had a dream that I was married to a friend of mine, and there was some nonesense over some shmuck being accused of stealing. I was also dreaming that I was in this bed that was made of twigs and sheets and there were either priests or angles surrounding me and praying over me. Sick as I was earlier in that period, I had a hard time waking up and because of the darkness and eariness of it all, it was not very pleasant.

I had another dream last night that actually took place ten years in the future. I was either a freshman in highschool or college (everyone kept calling me a freshman, so I guess that's who I was, for the record, I'm a senior in highschool). I was attending school in a city like Hollywood (or some city that was a big movie-making setting) and the future me (I'm calling her Future Ashley) is a famous actress and is starring in a movie with Daniel Radcliff. Now, here's my opinion of Daniel of Radcliff: I don't like him.... at all. I also found out recently that he's also one of those celebrities that uses their fame to sell their political views. I would tell you more on this matter, but that's your homework for today.

Anyway, so, Future Ashley is a little taller than I am, but a lot thinner and also had some plastic surgery done to her face to make her jaw a little more dainty-looking and also to make her look nineteen or twenty instead of twenty-seven. She's also not a snob or uses her fame to sell her political views, and even though whatever character she's playing is madly romantically involved with Daniel Radcliff's character, she hates him with a (forgive me, Bridget) purple passion. However, despite the fact that she isn't a total mean rich snob stereotype, she is a big time screw-up. She uses men to get what she wants, and she's also very manipulative. Another thing I noticed was that she was also very sad. She didn't find it weird that I was from the past, in fact, she was very open to answering questions. One question I asked her was "So are you still seeing Damian?" (for those of you who are new, he's a good friend of mine, not romantically though) and she suddenly got really looking like she had sad look on her face and said she didn't want to talk about it. So, we dunno what happened there, so it wasn't good. He was there in the beginning though, before I met Future Ashley, which was weird, so he didn't die I guess.

So, I was going to school, and I saw Ariana's mother (Ariana's a younger best friend of mine) and all her kids (who apparently, haven't aged). I was really excited to see her, until I saw Ariana. I dunno what happened to her, but she was balled and she was severely mentally disturbed. So, seeing my tragic future, I walked downtown crying hoping that it wouldn't end up like this. It was very lonely. I'm glad it was a just a dream though.

I know this seems like it has nothing to do with art, but these were crazy dreams that have a potential for art inspiration. mentality I think is a necessary art thing. And if crazy things like this should happen, then by golly, record them!