How am I supposed to study when I'm not in the mood for it?

Number one, I set fire to my shoes.
~ Adam Savage, Mythbusters

So far in the closet he's eligible for a Narnian passport.
~ www.fstdt.com

Don't (fudge) this up!
~ White House aide Rahm Emanuel to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Clinton Administration

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Who: Me.
What: Homo sapien, Eurasian, East Asian, Korean.
Where: Born in Los Angeles, raised in Granada Hills, currently residing in La Jolla. (yeah, baby!)
When: May 10, 1989
Why: For all you kiddies who want to know where babies come from...
How: Jaundice. Freaked my parents to death. Imagine, a couple's very first child is born YELLOW.

Who: Shirozora, aka cybertron_log
What: A fan fiction writer, an amateur artist, a college student, a revived Transfan, a wannabe political junkie, and a self-important smart ass
Where: The Decagon @ Iacon, Cybertron.
When: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Why: Because I eat brains for breakfast, that's why! (Actually, I write to let others escape reality, including me)
How: One of my friends thinks I'm a freak because I can come up with plausible epic storylines like snap! I consider myself a miserable failure for being a much stronger fanfiction writer than an original fiction author. But wherever my heart, mind & soul goes, I follow. When they call, I answer. Writing and art are my passion; I live for it, I live only because of it. Without the creative freedoms they give me, I am nothing.

I write for me and for you.

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"Aim towards the Enemy."
~ Instruction printed on US M79 Rocket Launcher

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My particular What's: the Obama Administration, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Anderson Cooper 360, Transformers, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fullmetal Alchemist, Robot Chicken, Futurama, Family Guy, South Park, Mythbusters, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Teletraan-1: The Transformers Wikia, The Darwin Awards, Thoroughbred horse racing, Marvel, G.I. Joe, Kingdom Hearts and Digimon, Lord of the Rings, 300, Gettysburg, Christopher Titus, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Without a Trace, House M.D., Cold Case, , Anti-Shurtugal.com, deviantART, ConceptArt.org, FoxKids, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, Spongebob Squarepants, Nickelback, Lifehouse, OneRepublic, Linkin Park, Snow Patrol, Relient K, Boys Like Girls, Switchfoot, Bee Gees, Scissor Sisters, Matchbox 20, Electric President, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, tea, fish, dolphins, horses, fantasy, writing, art, movies, sleeping, and lulz.

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WangGuhnUSA (9:23:44 PM): "Similarly, English allows some compound statements to be compressed by using compound predicates."
oxoathkeeperxo (9:28:46 PM): wtf
oxoathkeeperxo (9:28:51 PM): i just lost several iq points
WangGuhnUSA (9:25:42 PM): HAHHAHHAA

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Who: I am Shirozora almost everywhere, but if you spot a username like "cybertron_log" that would probably be me
What: My Transformers fanon (G1, Unicron Trilogy, IDW, DW/DDP, 2K7), an Avatar: The Last Airbender postwar short (Zutara, Sukka, platonic Taang)
Where: www.shirozora.deviantart.com (artwork), Shirozora's LJ (www.shirozora.livejournal.com), Shirozora's IJ (www.shirozora.insanejournal.com), and Shirozora at The Padded Cell and ConceptArt.org. cybertron_log at Dog Eared Forums, and Cybertron Log @ AIM.
When: I am almost ALWAYS on at night.
Why: These are what I call my Intarweb facts.

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Sixshot is so powerful, he defies all laws of perspective.
~ Teletraan-1: The Transformers Wikia

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Because "How" is sooo important...
How: My OTPs are either nonexistent or cluttered with grammatically challenged fangirls. I don't like insulting anyone, but it's the damn truth. My OTPs are always stupidly written or just not there at all; I'm usually forced to write what I want to read, and it's torture. Ideally I wouldn't ship but whatever romance in my current life I live through my pairings. I'm not pathetic; it's my chosen outlet and it helps me push the limits of my mastery of English, literature, pathos, whatever. I have guilty ships. I have ships that are universally loathed. I have ships that are almost never acknowledged or buried under other ships and/or fangirlism. I have ships outside my comfort zone. But they're my ships.

CSI: Miami: Carwash = CalleighxRyan - it's my guilty ship. My eye candy. They look GOOD together; it's probably never happen (especially because Ryan's always in trouble or going through shit one way or another) but they're the sexiest TV show pairing in my book (besides CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's GrissomxSarah, but this isn't sexy but just plain awesome). Thank God the majority of the fangirls hog the Harry Potter series, but Jesus Christmas on the HarryxGinny vs. HarryxHermione! Never had to experience anything firsthand, but the stories are enough.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Zutara = KataraxZuko - everyone hates this ship, and I can't decide why. It has a huge fanbase full of fangirls, but it's the same situation with the other huge fanbase for Kataang (AangxKatara). I personally like this ship and not just because of the visuals; they are very strong, dynamic characters who, when written well and that's rare, are a serious force to reckon with. I also have issues with having Aang in a serious love relationship because he's too young and utterly immature - future fics, I can deal with because he'd be older and mature, but when we're dealing with any stories dealing with the first three seasons, it's best to just let him be so he can fulfill his goddamn destiny and grow up. The fangirls and fanboys of both pairings always fight, and most of the time the Kataang supporters come out on top, which makes me sad. But so be it.

Transformers 2007 Bayverse: BumblebeexArcee - right now I love these two characters, but they get almost no loving in the fandom. For one, it seems almost everyone hates how Arcee looks in the movieverse. I think she looks completely fine, given how realistic she and the other Transformers/Cybertronians are being portrayed. Also, given the lack of proper character development, they're both pretty empty canvases to paint on. How iresistable is that? And why them? The 2007 film was the first time I've seen Transformers since around 2001-2002, whenever Robots in Disguise was airing (and I like that series). Until then I had no idea what the Generation 1 cartoon and comics were about, until I saw the film and picked up the prequel and movie adaptation comic books an hour later. I became curious about the various characters being mentioned and portrayed and did some research online, aka Wikipedia. Then I began to read a little too closely into the prequel and, despite my attempts to resist getting sucked into the Transformers fandom (which is older than me by several years), I grew curious about the possibility of Bumblebee and Arcee. And then I discovered that this relationship did play out in the Dreamwave/Devil's Due Publishing crossover epic, and thus this OTP was born. I've spent nearly a full year now developing my fanon version of these characters, as well as everything else, and while the temptation is there, I will NOT fangirl myself out. Slow and steady, with dramatic developments that result in lasting repercussions, are what I love to read and write.

Besides, adventurous dramatic romantic tragic epics are my cup of tea and honey.

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Nipples. Many sizes, many shapes. Some on my back.
~ Joel, Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 425

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.
~ Bernard-Paul Heroux

Bumblebee, stop lubricating the man!
- Optimus Prime, Transformers (2007)

Yes we can!
~ Barack Obama

Yeah! Let's break some rules!
-Toph, Avatar: The Last Airbender

The shark just ate the balloon. Over.
~ Adam Savage, Mythbusters

"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
~ Infantry Journal

Tory: Frank, why are you standing so far away?
Frank: Because I want to live.
Tory: So then the next question is, why am I standing so close?
~ Mythbusters

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
~ US Air Force Manual

At ease, Lieutenant Loser.
~ Crow, Mystery Science Theater 3000

No pun intended on "beating the bushes", but...
~ Anderson Cooper

You see me fall down a flight of stairs, you run.
~ Dr. Wilson, House

Look, if spending your leave assembling a kilt out of fruit roll-ups in order to be the world’s first “Edible Scot” makes you weird…on second thought, that is kinda weird, so yeah, I guess that one stands.
~ former Specialist Schwarz, skippyslist.com

Are these not glass? Oh, they are.
~ Adam Savage, Mythbusters

She says she cares about other people? What a poser!
~ Dr. Wilson, House

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians.
~ Ghandi

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

If I want a promotion I want it to be based on merit, not because you're politically tone deaf.
~ Catherine Willows, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

23. Must never ask anyone who outranks me if they've been smoking crack.
~ Skippy's List

Frank, this is like the world's most dangerous cooking show.
~ Grant Imahara, Mythbusters

You hear that, Confucianists? How do you keep your noodles clean?
~ M. Crotty, MMW 2 Discussion, UCSD Winter 2008

No we do not pray together, Jeremy, no.
~ Tony Blair

Virgil: He went in at 10:44.
Turk: 10:46, get a watch that works.
Virgil: Dude, you make me sick. It's 10:44.
Turk: 10:46
~ Ocean's Eleven

We're all gonna die, aren't we?
~ Bumblebee, Transformers Animated

Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.
~ Carl Sagan

I'm not a grandma, but I cook like one.
~ Mario Batali

WE ROLLIN'!
~ Jazz, Transformers (2007)

oxoathkeeperxo (9:24:24 PM): to heaven or hell or wherever the hell you're going

You are only young once, but you can stay immature forever.
~ Ogden Nash

I think my ass froze together.
~ Mike Rowe, Dirty Jobs

Starve a cold, heal a fever, behead a zombie.
~ Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

So the shark bit Adam in the ass.
~ Jamie Hyneman, Mythbusters

We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

"I can kick his ass all the way to Pluto, and it's not even a planet!"

The older you get, the more interested you get in Britney Spears.
~ John McCain, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

OH WHAT NOW?
~ Mom, Bender's Game

We are the ones we have been waiting for.
~ Barack Obama

In closing, I wish you nothing but dick cancer.
~ Machinamania