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You know, I realized the other day my love of Glee (and musical numbers in TV shows and movies in general) could prolly be traced to watching Kidsongs growing up. isabel79, 7500centfish and sparkboy know what I'm talking about!

On tumblr yesterday, I saw people discussing the first couple they ever shipped, and thinking about it, I actually want to say it was Rick Hunter/Lisa Hayes and Rook Bartley/Rand on Robotech. (In the back of mind, I want to say I was also actually intrigued by the idea of Lotor and Allura together on Voltron, but that seems kinda crazy) But yeah, after that, I want to say the next couple I was that into was Pacey and Joey on DC. (Maybe Ross and Rachel)

I was complaining about being sorted into Hufflepuff on Pottermore, but thinking about it, it actually makes total sense. Because on most quizzes like that (not just limited to HP), answering the questions honsetly, the two qualities that will flag most for me are loyalty and perseverance. I never get the bad guys because I'm not actually an evil a-hole. A huge pervert? Yes. And I like fighting and violence related things like guns and martial arts and all that jazz, but on such quizzes if I'm answering honestly, if they ask me how I'd deal with someone who wronged me, I'm not going to pick the option that's all, "I beat the ever-loving crap out of him!" Because 1) only a crazy person would pick that, and 2) I'm not directly confrontational. Nor am I vengeful, so nor would I play nice only to do something behind their back to totally screw them over. Plus, I don't actually have the desire to dominate the world, so I'd never answer questions with the option that involves lording things over people or getting them under my thumb. So I wouldn't get Slytherin.

And while I do think using discretion and thinking before acting is wise, I'm not really the intellectual type, so I wouldn't flag as Ravenclaw. Also, while I like to think I'm a nice, good guy at heart, I also don't see things in black and white. If I see someone doing something wrong, I'm not going to immediately turn them in. One, I'd like to know more, and don't want to force them down a certain path when maybe things can be worked out without involving the authorities or punishment. And secondly, I don't want to be seen as a narc, I don't want to be pigeon holed into being seen as a goody goody or bad seed, because I don't want either to not associate with me, because I couldn't stand being cut off from that source of information!

But if there is something I will answer consistently, its not quitting, and being loyal to those I think of friends and family, so overall, my answers would put me in Hufflepuff. Still, they are kinda the boring loser house, so I'm still miffed.

Oh, I forgot, things I was scandalized by in church yesterday- the priest talking about Doubt being such a great movie that everyone should see, given the plot of the movie. I mean, not that I have a problem the movie (though I myself haven't seen it), just incredibly surprising to hear a priest recommending it to his parishioners. Of course, things were already awkward when he made a statement about the Hispanic mass that could be taken as an insult- that the Hispanic mass is full of crying babies, but that's fine because they're used to it, that's how they roll at that mass, but at the non-Hispanic mass, some people may not like the sound of crying babies during the church service. Well, that and he also did a vaguely racist imitation of a Japanese person- he was talking about when Jesus will tell the people, "When I was hungry, you fed me, visited me in jail, clothed me, etc etc" and they'd be all, "When did we do these things?" And then he starts speaking this weird gibberish followed by him playing the part of the person asking Jesus when they did those things and saying, "Oh, that was you, I didn't know you could speak Japanese!" I was like, did he just say that?!

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So, there's a rumor going around about one of the upcoming eps of Glee, where the actors/actresses play different characters than they usually do. Perhaps as a weird Glee club assignment, or the show is just going out there and having a Freaky Friday thing going on. There are some filming pics already out there where Puck is dressed as Blaine (complete with sweater vest, bow tie, and shoes sans socks) and Tina with the head bands a la Rachel, and supposedly Finn dressed as Kurt. Anyways supposedly these is a list of who's playing who. Of course, the Faberry fans are freaking the geek out over the fact that Rachel is playing Santana and Quinn is playing Brittany. They're like hoping against hope that its true, because we'll have Rachel and Quinn being all flirty/lovey-dovey, kinda of like getting Faberry without actually getting Faberry because they're technically Brittana at the time.

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Legend of Korra- So I finally checked out the new Avatar series. Its pretty cool and interesting so far. Given this is I think 70 years in the future, the world has moved from kinda Ancient China (albeit with steam-power ships, tanks, and zeppelins) to kinda a early 20th century look and feel. Indeed, Republic City looks like a modern city, the streets filled with 1920s looking cars, and zeppelins floating in the sky. Metal bending has also become much more common, and indeed, the city is policed by metal benders, led by Toph's daughter, Lin.

Speaking of, we actually see Katara, she's an old maid now, though Aang has passed, and aKtara mentions Sokka is gone too. We don't hear about the others though. Heh, she's had a couple of kids with Aang, and I'll admit, when I saw this I was like "Ew!", as it the whole her being with Aang isntead of Zuko still stings me. But her son Tenzin is to be Korra's air bending teacher, as air bending is the last element she has to master.

In the first ep, he goes to see her, only to say he has no time to teach her as there's pressing matters in Republic City that prevent him from staying at the South Pole to teach her. Heh, its during this visit that we meet Tenzin's kids, who are all cute- there's the studious Jinora, his eldest daughter. His middle child is another daughter, the talkative Ikki, and his youngest son is Meelo, who is creepily the spitting image of Aang. I mean, it makes sense, since Aang is his grandfather, but I guess they purposely made him look just like a like 5-7 year old version of Aang.

Anyways, to no surprise, when Tenzin goes back, Korra (with Katara's blessing) secretly follows him to the city, where she makes a mess of things. She learns there's a brewing anti-bender movement. Which isn't too surprising, because I figured there'd be a lot of mundanes dissatisfied by this other set of people who have cool powers and are in positions of power. Triads are also rampant, which is how Korra first butts heads with Lin, when the metal benders go to arrest her after she beats up a few gangers trying to collect protection money.

Lin doesn't like Korra's vigilante justice (though its not like she went looking for trouble, she just stumbled into things), and Tenzin at first promises to send her back to the South pole, but has a changed of heart and takes her in, introducing her to the city as the new Avatar.

In the second ep, her airbending doesn't seem to be going well. The calm ways of airbending don't seem to mesh with her impulsive hot-headedness. Indeed, she wants to check out pro-bending, another new development in the Avatar world, a sport where teams of benders (one each of fire, earth, and water) try to knock each other off a platform. While sneaking off to see a match, she meets Bolin, the earth bender of the up and coming team, the fire ferrets, and his brother Mako, a fire bender. Weird, can a family have different bender kids? I mean, I guess that's possible if different benders got together and had kids. Though I'm trying to think if we saw any examples of that in Last Airbender.

Bolin does flirt with Korra a bit, but its obvious they're going to have her and Mako be screwing around in no time. Anyways, circumstances occur that have her join the team, and when its exposed she's the Avatar, that's fine. Even though that seems like allowing Jesus to play on some football or baseball team. I mean, yeah, she's only limited to doing water bending, but it always seemed like the Avatar not only could bend all 4 elements, but had the potential to bend each to a powerful degree.

Of course, her hot headedness leads her to get her ass kicked initially, but then Tenzin visits her, intending to bring her back to the temple. They argue, and when she's back in the match, the opposing team holds Mako and Bolin down while they focus all their attacks on Korra. Now, I don't like how they did this, since it seemed all so sudden, but somehow, that argument with Tenzin caused her to finally "get it", even though it didn't seem like there was anything in their conversation to make her realize the follies of her ways. She's able to do the smooth flowing dodges of the airbenders, and since the opposing team blew their wad trying to take her out and simultaneously pin the brothers down, they're easy pickings for the fresh Bolin and Mako, and the Fire Ferrets get the win.

In the end, Tenzin realizes despite his initial disdain for it, pro-bending seems to be a good thing in regards to her training. Which is good, since she joined the Fire Ferrets permanently and will be competing with them (which still seems like people would be up in arms over that to me!)

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You know, even though I have so much TV to watch tonight, I find myself unable to fast forward past the Nike "Run To You" commercial whenever it comes on, as I said, its totes cute, and so is the redhead in it.

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Gossip Girl- Heh, I love Dan and Blair together and all, but man are they hilariously pretentious at times. It was interesting to see that "Brangelina of the Five Boroughs" couple they met apparently have some fancy club of sorts in Astoria? Well, its still weird that GG has random NY celebs show up on this show. Mainly I'm surprised that NY society folks would be interested in going on a CW show to play a fictional version of themselves. But yeah, the idea of some fancy talked about club being in Astoria weirds me out because to me Astoria is Astoria. Then again, its not like I really ever went out when I was a kid, so I have no idea what Astoria/Long Island City night life is like. In any case, despite the missteps with their attempts to come out to the world, I'm glad to see things are still good between them. If the season can end with the two of them still together and happy, I'll take it.

But man, Serena was such a huge bitch this episode! And did she really try to justify her treatment of Lola by basically being all, "Oh, I was just doing the GG thing because my life currently sucks and it makes me feel good! Besides, being eviscerated on something as public as GG is good for you!" Like mother like daughter though, because Lily was a big bitch this ep too.

And it was finally confirmed Diana is Chuck's mom. Apparently Bart was having an affair with her, which ended when she got knocked up. She was a mess, and Elizabeth couldn't have a baby, so they figured Diana would give Bart and Elizabeth the child and solve both their problems. So they've retconned Elizabeth leaving because she couldn't handle raising some other lady's kid. But according to real GG, that's not the only secret Diana has been keeping!

Make It Or Break It- Ha, so when Lauren sees an outside doctor under a fake name, the doctor accidentally thinks she and Payson are a lesbian couple. Though isn't saying "Oh, no judgements here" kinda a judgement? Like why does she feel the need to clarify that, "oh, that's fine!" What does it matter? In any case, so Lo's problem is "an irregular heartbeat" that could be a sign of something really serious? And heh, Payson was talking about the added stress on Lauren during the family event thing, but neither Summer nor Steve were there! (Did the show not want to bring in Candace Cameron and/or whoever plays Lauren's dad back?)

Weird, I didn't actually realize Payson and Kaylie were fighting because Kaylie didn't tell her about Lauren being the one leaked the video. Its like geez, she really only just found out about it mere hours before! But ha, how awkward was it then that her parents were moving back to Minnesota (they got Payson's dad, but couldn't they get Roz?!), but its okay, because they got the okay for her to stay with Kaylie. Of course, I was thinking it was really an issue, she could ask to stay with Lauren, because she's also rich with a big house, and I'm sure Lauren could easily convince her dad to let Payson stay. But I didn't think she would actually do that! I guess things actually are bad between Kaylie and Payson. Though I guess part of Pay's reason to go with Lauren instead was because she wanted to look out for her since she knows of Lauren's true medical condition. And its weird that it seemed way back when they were setting up a storyline where Becca was on her way to getting to elite status, but apparently they dropped that?

And finally, wow KP's mom is still a huge bitch. Which sucks, because I like the nice, new Kelly Parker of recent times- she's so cute and sweet now that she's no longer her monster of a mother's thumb. Hopefully her mom doesn't eff things up for her.