More Venting

[turnonmyheels]

This time clothing related! Exciting, yes?

Problem #1: Small ass, narrow hips, no waist. Not exactly an apple shape rather more boy like. Women's jeans that fit are difficult to find because of my lack of narrow/small waist. I often have to sacrifice.

1) do I want to make my ass look amazing [because it is totally amazing]

or

2) do I want to wear a fitted shirt?

Because I can't wear pants that make my ass look amazing and a fitted shirt at the same time, because the pants that look great 'cause muffin top, and the shirts that look great can only be worn with pants that make it look like I have an absence of ass. The opposite of ass.

Problem #2 Demon Lycra

Remember the days, oh .. 10+ years ago when your blue jeans didn't have any Lycra in them? You put them on, they fit exactly right but they'd relax a teeny, tiny pinch, and get that worn-in feeling. You could wear them more than once -- unless you got them dirty -- So if you bought a pair of pants they would essentially be that size and would *always* be that size.

Fast forward to present day. You go into a store, you try on jeans. You say to yourself WOW these jeans fit really, REALLY well. So you buy them. You wear them. Halfway through the day -- due to all the Lycra in the fabric -- they have stretched out and the ass is baggy, the waistband won't stay where it belongs, and you spend most of your time heaving them back up where they belong. You have to wash and over-dry the fuckers to get them to fit again. Except half-way through the day they've stretched out AGAIN. And then they wear out in oh ... 6 months? Because of all the stretching, washing, drying, and because Lycra doesn't last as long as good old-fashioned denim.

So the next time you shop for jeans you HAVE TO BUY A SIZE TOO FUCKING SMALL. [hello arch-nemesis Muffin Top] And the first four hours of wearing those pants is misery. At the end of the day, they look amazing. You can wear them more than once because you bought them too small. They only stretch out so far, which is the size that actually, you know *fit*. They will still wear out too fast, because your body is over-stretching the material. You don't however over-wash them, because THE FIRST FOUR HOURS YOU WEAR THEM IS MISERY BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO FUCKING SMALL.

Hello. I'm having a day from hell, please see previous work rant it's gotten *worse*.

My pants are too tight, but they fit my ass, I have PMS, my throat feels like I'm getting a cold, and in general I declare this a wasted day. I don't want a do-over though, 'cause it could get worse.

Comments

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

\o/\o/ *awesome*

Yeah, Sarah and Casey suddenly needing *help* [coughintheformofMorganJeffLestercough] in any sort of situation at all pissed me the hell off. When Sarah put on the glasses to get the intersect because she and Casey couldn't get out of that? My blood boiled.

and boiled and boiled. Sarah Walker was the best spy in the world from the very beginning and for her to become incompetent in the last season to make the plot work better pissed me the hell off.

Don't get me started on the pussification of Casey.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I agree on Casey - he never had anything but his country and his gun for a really long time. Opening him up to friends and family means opening him up to a grey area he's avoided for a very long time. I think the whole "be who you used to be" part was shit, although it got a nice moment out of morgan.

I never understood the part where he and sarah were "trapped" and she had to use the glasses. they should've forced a much more dangerous situation. Watch Sarah go hella badass afterword made up for it, for me.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

It wasn't him getting friends and family, it was more like what they did with Sarah. He went from a bad-ass who could beat anyone hand to hand, not to mention was the greatest sniper in the world, to someone who had his ass handed to him All. The. Time.

I liked him being a dad. I loved all his scenes with Alex.

It's very similar to one of my MANY issues with Supernatural. They're supposed to be the best. If they're the best, why do they have to call Bobby for help to do everything up to and including wiping their own asses?

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Worf Complex. They create these characters to be the most badass of badassdom but the problem is, that's not really maintanable on a tv show that thrives on creating flaws and weaknesses, the way most modern shows do. So they have these formerly unbeatable characters and they make them beatable. It happens all the time. I hate it, because it's a cheap way out. You can make Casey be a dad without turning him into a pansy. You can even make him someone who works better with a team than on his own. That doesn't mean he has to lose fights, it means he has to win them better.

But that's hard to do, writing wise. And even though I truly loved the final two eps, both they and this whole season had a lot of "I want X character to make a great speech/save the day/do Y" and in order to do that, chess pieces had to be moved around. It's stupid, but it's not unusual at all, sadly.

I call it the Worf Complex because I first really noticed it on St: NG. Worf was supposed to be this awwesome badass fighter and yet he hardly ever won a fight. It annoyed the hell out of me.

As for Supernatural, I never actually thought they were supposed to be the best? Just one more pair among many. Who have... extra issues, comparatively. I think the dependency on Bobby came later because it was such a two man show that they *had* to get a third character in there, consistently. And instead of keeping awesome characters like Ellen and Jo (yes, I am STILL BITTER about that), they went for the easy way out. And I loved Bobby. He was a great addition and he played a really important role for both boys, beyond the shortcuts he offered. But he allowed too many short cuts.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Worf Syndrome is exactly it. And it is the province of lazy story telling. Chuck wasn't high-art tv, but it was fun, *funny*, and until it's last season kept everyone growing. Chuck's growth was obvious, he had to become a spy. Sarah and Casey had to grow to let people in. They went from getting it right most of the time, to getting it completely wrong. And it was like it didn't matter because it was ending.

As for SPN, they were pretty explicit in the early seasons that Winchesters were the end all/be all. And I know the show went on longer than they thought and they couldn't get JDM back and all that, but god show people, learn to look back on the canon that you've already established and work with in it. PLEASE.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I am still so reluctantly a SPN fan that I will take your word for it. Particularly as I had to wince my way through the first two seasons often with my hands over my eyes. I do not like scary shit. Horror is NOT my genre.

Which is why I like the later seasons. They aren't good by anyone's estimation, but they are entertaining to me. Especially the whole no, I won't let you go to Hell, no, I won't let you go to hell.

Plus, I like rubbing Sam into this tiny little wreck of shame a lot.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

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