If being starving hungry to the extent you'd quite like to eat your own leg and yet feeling profoundly guilty every time you put food into your body is a mark of a successful diet, then I'm doing well. If not, I probably need to see a shrink.

You may well wonder what else is new.

And now, a couple of memes. Because I can, y'know.

My friends list is an interesting place. I'll start with the simple one, simply because it has an image and thusly has been lj-cut to save friends pages. Enter laila's attempt to find out what gender her brain is and end up with more questions than she started with. This meme ganked from Meme King quentin_w, your number-one intarwebs source for all that is interesting in the world of the terror meme.

( Oh, to have my head... )

And then there's this, which I found on weiss_badfics's friends list and immediately saw the potential of...
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TEN UNPOPULAR FANDOM OPINIONS

1. I don't get what all the fuss is about Aya. I can understand why some people would like him, but I can't understand why so many people like him so insanely much just because he's pretty when he's such a self-centred bastard - and, going by the way they write about him, they don't much like the fact he's a self-centred bastard either. I have no idea why so many people think that being pretty automatically means he's GOT to be a misunderstood sweetheart underneath it all. Maybe my opinions don't count, though, because I've never found him particularly attractive either-- *is shot for heresy*

2. I don't get what all the fuss is about Schwarz either. They're cool, yes, but they're not that cool. They're guys with special powers, fandom, not all-knowing, all-powerful demi-gods.

3. Ran x Ken makes no goddamned sense and continues not to do so right up until Weiss Side B. Hello? They HATE each other. They certainly don't have the TEN THOUSAND TONS OF SLASHY SUBTEXT Youji and Ken have. Or Ken and Omi. Or Ken and just about every guy he's ever marked time with who isn't Aya!

4. General Norman Powell is actually pretty hot. Must not write Powell x Ken non-con.

5. Having special powers and boobies doesn't doesn't make Sally Schumars a Mary Sue. She's one of the more interesting female characters Weiss Kreuz canon has to offer - she's almost as warped as Farfarello, in her own way - and she doesn't deserve to be tagged with a label more suited to some shiny bint named Enigma Ayanami who randomly shows up in the Koneko with all her luggage and announces she's the newest member of Weiss.

6. WHERE IS ALL THE FEMMESLASH, DAMMIT? Manx x Birman needs to be written!

7. Ken is easily more innocent then Omi. No, really. I know Omi has huge blue eyes and looks adorable, but I kind of thought innocence had more to do with attitude than it does with how small, blonde and cute you are. Mentally, Omi has years on Ken.

8. Dramatic Precious was amazing on a headtrippy 'what-the-fuck-is-this' level, on a fangirlish-heartbreak level - it's sad when great characters get trashed or killed! - and also on a OMG-SO-ENJOYABLE level because it happens to be a damn cool bit of storytelling which I dearly wish had been animated. Partly because it would have been great, partly because then most of the rest of the Western fandom couldn't treat it like it was an optional extra instead of part of canon, and the part which makes the way the guys are acting come Gluhen actually make sense at that. Also I dare anyone to read the transcript for the end bit and not see where I'm coming from with my OTP.

9. Pushy and spoilt Ouka may have been, but she was a very sweet girl beneath it all. The wholesale character-bashing she comes in for from just about everyone actually makes me rather angry.

10. I don't think much of a certain BNF who shall remain unnamed's Weiss Kreuz fanart. In fact, I think it's pretty damn ugly - not to mention wooden and hideously lifeless. Another unnamed BNF out there really needs to stop it with the constant foreshadowing and the ten-page-long sex scenes. He's into both my OTP and my OT3, and it makes me sad because every time I go looking for Youji x Aya x Ken, he's the one who always gets recced. Ken would not call anyone 'love' when they had a perfectly decent name!
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Has anyone written Powell x Ken? If not, why not?

Oh God. And I've just been bunnied again. FOR POWELL X KEN, GOD DAMMIT.

If that's not a sign that my Weiss plot bunnies are getting out of control, I don't know what is. How in the FUCK could I have gotten a plotbunny for something bleak and twisted and determinedly AUish involving General Norman Powell and Ken Hidaka? More to the point - why, in a fandom that slashes everyone with everyone, have I NEVER SEEN Powell x Ken? We're imaginative enough with the recurring characters, but why don't the others get any love? Some of the lesser villains are really pretty hot. Evil, but hot. Why no slash about them? WHERE IS ALL THE KINUGAWA SLASH? Oh crack crackity crack crack. How I love you.

If people pair Treize Kushrenada up with Wufei Chang because Wufei kills Treize, why can't I do the same with Norman Powell and Ken Hidaka? I could make that work, I swear! (Or at least I could try to really really hard.) I could call it 'Behind the Fence'! It totally makes sense if you've seen Verbrechen/Strafe, shut up. It wouldn't even be that hard to set up... Hm, I think I need to bounce this off trucizna again.

God damn you, plot bunnies. GOD DAMN YOU.