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And a hearty welcome home

Well, I am utterly tired and exhausted in a way that I before would only associate with finals period at home and/or a really great cast party.

I just took my Textanalyse final, and while there were indeed moments that were just sucky, I clearly demonstrated that, yes! I do know things about poetry, and the measurements thereof! I can tell you something about the struktur of the Rückwendung in this Ausschnitt, and jetzt mache ich das! Seid ihr nicht zufrieden? Ruhe! Ich habe genug von eure Dummheit!

O, mein Gott, ich kann nicht heute Englisch sprechen. Es ist mir so müde heute, ich habe einfach nicht genung geschlafen, mein Wecker ist um 5 Uhr bereit und ich bin davor aufgewacht. Es tut mir Leid, alle, aber ich muss mal schlafen. Vielleicht mehr darüber später aber nicht bis heute Abend am frühstens.

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Egads, I was reading this post, and halfway through, I think I suffered a stroke because I can't read the words anymore! It's a miracle I'm even able to type this! Call somebody, for the love of god!

I... I dunno, I just ran out of English. I had to do a final in Text Analysis very early today, so I was powerloading on German so that I would be able to write the essay well in the time allowed. So, I came out of it tired and befuddled by German poetry. (I think I did well, tho, so I think it was worth scaring you. However, I now cannot correctly spell Sonett in *any* language. Sonnett? Sonnet? GERMAN!)

Translation: "I just took my Text Analysis final, and while there were indeed moments that were just sucky, I clearly demonstrated, that yes!, I do know things about poetry, and the measurements thereof! I can tell you something about the structure of the (technical term for moments in literature that talk about a time in the past, relative to the present narrative. I actually have no idea what the word is in English) in this excerpt, and I'm doing it now! Aren't you guys satisfied? Silence! I have had enough of your stupidity.

Oh my god, I can't speak English today. I'm so tired today, I have just not slept enough, my alarm clock was set for 5 am and I woke up before it. I'm sorry, everyone, but I just have to sleep. Maybe more about this later but not until this evening at the earliest."

Of course, if you still can't read this, you have indeed had a stroke. I suggest you go looking for an amorphous black alien to strap to your ass, because I clearly missed the "Golden Hour" and your brain is now mush. Creepy alien healing powers are your only hope for salvation. The bonding is a bitch, but you get an instant excuse to eat as much chocolate as you want. Or brains.

(Crap, my brain is still in German mode. I keep writing 'ist' and spelling America with a k. Which I've only recently discovered was meant in some English texts to be insulting- honestly, it just makes more sense to me.)

Hehehe, are you a native English speaker or German? Better version of same question, from whereabouts do ye hail?

Okay, I'm shamefully missing the reference, what aliens are these?

I'm from Massachusetts. Or, Well, not from, but been there longest of any place so far-all within the continental US (mostly New England). *hangs head* There's no excuse for it, really, but once I start speaking German it's just easier to go on in that language than to switch back and forth. I'm kind of in Austria at the moment, so that begins to explain it... If you spoke German, I would sound slightly off- I'm not *quite* fluent. And I made some grammatical errors....

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Shameful DC reader! You use a post of Toby Maguire wailing his precious little lungs out, and cannot recognize a Venom reference? Perhaps the chocolate/ brains option threw you off: canon briefly had it (and has since forgotten, perhaps to the betterment of us all) that in order to maintain the cohesion of its bond with Eddie Brock, symbiote would need to suck a certain chemical out of his brain. To replenish this, Brock could either eat other people's brains, or large amounts of chocolate. No, really.

I've got Venom on the brain recently- he finally made an appearance in the new Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon and I've been pondering various characterizations. It's fun! And gooey.

Sorry for the delay, hope you still get this.

Ahaaaa, well there, you see, you have exposed the truth: I am not a Marvel boy. Oh, I love Marvel deeply, but I am a DC boy at heart. But to make matters worse, I dislike Venom. Simply put, he's just so indicative of what must truly be my least favorite era of comics. But with that comes a shameful ignorance of things I really should know more about. At heart, I'm an Otto Octavius boy first and foremost, with Norman Osborn as a healthy but not close second. There was a time around age ten or eleven where my love of Otto surpassed Harvey.

That said, I always say "There are no bad characters, just bad writers," and with that in mind, I do look forward to checking out SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN one of these days. Haven't watched it at all yet, but I love me some GARGOYLES, so it's a must.

As bad a time as the 90's were for comics, that's when I started reading comics (hell, that's when I started reading, period!) so I can't help but have a little nostalgia. My introduction to Venom was one of the last issues of the much disputed "Lethal Protector" mini, wherein the blood-sucking, spider-smooshing baddie becomes a quote-unquote "anti-hero". Looking back, the art was trashy and the hairstyles ludicrous, but... there it was, ya know? My childhood. So ist das Leben, nicht wahr?

Venom really did suffer from a whole lot of the 90's Syndrome and much of those endless mini series were awful, but there were some enjoyable points. I *just* finished reading the mini "Venom: the Hunger", and it completely cements my view of Brock and symbiote as one of those odd old married couples who, though horribly toxic for each other, end up sharing some weird and highly creepy form of legitimate affection. With brain-eating and occasional gifts of chocolate.

Spectacular Spider-man is *adorable*. The timeline is roughly the same as the 90's cartoon but condensed, so all the crooks and everyone else all seem to know each other. (Eddie Brock working for Curt Conner? Feels like some possible fun there.)

Aye, I cannot fault childhood loves. And really, the way you describe the relationship between Eddie and symbiote does sound delightful indeed.

Hey, as long as it's better than the 90's SPIDER-MAN (spider blood, spider blood, radioactive spider blood...) TV show. Which wouldn't be much of a stretch. God, it burned even back then, and watching reruns now, more than ever I just want B:TAS to somehow transcend television physics to kick its ass and burn the negatives.

Spectacular Spider-Man is far far better. It's as though the 90's version were the rough draft and this the finished copy. (Though in either case I miss the new comics interpretation of Aunt May as a badass. She translates to a rather frail old woman on screen.)

Augh. Yeah, 90's Spider-animation just kind of burned. Thing is, even the mediocre animation and the dull voice work could have made for a decent show if only the massive censorship hammer had not come down on the show so mightily. The laser guns for beat cops and the vampires that hungered for "plasma" (wink wink nudge nudge) through perforated palms just beat any long-term redeeming qualities out of the show.

B:TAS can be watched at any stage in life, even years later. It's possibly the best way to introduce kiddles to Batman; 90's Spider-Man never dreamed so high and stooped much lower.

God, you read my mind, right down to the lasers and "plasma." What the hell, censors? What the hell? I think around that time there was also an X-MEN episode set in a small Latveria-type European village where even the villagers had laser cannons.

Honestly, I worry sometimes that there will be kids who hold on to THE BATMAN with as much passion mixed with nostalgia as we do with B:TAS. I sure as hell hope not. If I ever have kids, you can bet I will start them off early on with B:TAS and only the original STAR WARS trilogy.

We hold onto B:TAS because there's inherent value. Perhaps the motivation to start rewatching something is nostalgia, but if the show sucks, you won't make it through the first episode. B:TAS bears rewatching well into one's adulthood because it rocks.

Well, make sure they see episodes iv-Vi at home, and then just lie to them for the next thirty years about the new trilogy's existence. "No, no, episode one is just a myth that people made up scare little nerdlings." This will deprive them of Darth Maul, but ultimately lead to a better life for everyone.

Damn straight! B:TAS holds up beautifully. Well, many/most of them. There always are some dubious episodes in any TV series. But really, the majority of those characters' voices... those ARE the voices I hear when I read Batman comics. I actively dream about getting Richard Moll to perform sections of the Harvey Dent novel (and maybe getting Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill to provide cameos).

Word to SW. You know the worst part? I've heard tell of little kids watching both trilogies and vastly preferring the new one. Which makes horrible, horrible sense, the kind of sense you wish weren't true. All the more reason to shelter them, for their own good.

Word. Mark Hamill is the Joker. Screw Nicholson (er, not literally), HAMILL is the joker.

This is the reason we don't let children make decisions for themselves: they make the wrong ones. (Tho New!Yoda kicks some serious full-sized ass.)

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And a hearty welcome home

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