Bullying

I've seen a lot of this image being circulated on Facebook and can I say that it really bugs me that kids have to resort to social media because bullies/parents/teachers/schools/whatever just don't want to listen or step in?

I mean, this is 2014. We really should have evolved beyond bulling, sexism, racism, homophobia... all these hateful things. Then I think, this is the generation that is going to be so technologically integrated that they won't know what to do with a pencil and here they are growing up in a world where trolls seemingly have so much power.

Going back to my days at primary school - I got teased. I'd just moved here from England and admittedly, I had a pretty squeaky voice that was hard to understand with my thick accent. So I learnt to be quiet unless spoken to.

Literally, I can't... Literally you shouldn't!

I thought I'd check the news today and one headline jumped out at me...

"The women just went crazy!"

Of course I clicked on it! Then, the page couldn't be found which only deepened my suspicions. What the hell happened today?! I googled that headline and found a couple of hits.
Turns out it was just Red Foo and a bunch of idiots being Red Foo and a bunch of idiots.

Basically, they'd released a song and were subsequently butt hurt because they felt that they were unjustly attacked by those wicked, wicked feminists, female bloggers, well, basically females in general. Why do these women have so many agendas? Why are they out to hurt poor Red Foo?
Let's have a look..

Sandy Scrush

Today I am going to complain about Candy Crush. It's the game everyone loves to hate!

So what am I so cranky about?

The way it slyly pushes you towards a certain kind of switch hoping you'll overlook a better one?
The way it suggests a booster to help you with a level, only that booster wouldn't help at all?
(Seriously, I've had the chocolate eating teeth suggested to me for a level that had no chocolate.)
The way the app gave me a gold bonus that immediately vanished when I tried to use it?
The way the game glitches like when a candy doesn't fall into a slot leaving it blank and redundant?
The way it's always trying to get you to spend money in order to progress?
The way I get annoying ads every ten seconds for another of their stupid games?
The way the level tells you three times that you didn't win. (three!)
The characters and their stupid issues!

Half of this rage is definitely because I've started playing Doctor Who: Legacy - a brilliant game that rewards fans and has excellent game play. Kind of like how I went from Tetris Attack! on the SNES back to regular Tetris and was like... why can't I move things at will!? Where are my divine powers?!
But seriously, Candy Crush is a money grubbing jerk and I'm surprised that I came back to it after a loooong hiatus.

For the Greater Good

So the other night my partner and I went to bed fairly early for us, which of course meant that I had severely misjudged my fluid intake and subsequently had to get up to use the amenities around 1am.
I know, I know, this isn't the blog you signed up to read but bear with me!

Now, I'm a nice enough person that I tip-toe around the bed to my side, and try to sneak into the bed without waking my partner up. This usually involves some sort of vertical ninja slide into the blankets while balancing carefully on my bedside table. Hey, plenty of people have their own way of life and I'm not judging you! I thought you had my back, man!

I am also a lucky person that has several little rituals before sleepy time like lip balming, eye dropping, moisturiser or hand lotion depending on the weather and making sure my hair ties/hair itself isn't going to murder me in my sleep. I also methodically bury any treasure that I find during my adventures, but I'm sure you don't want to hear those luxurious details.

In other news, Katy Perry does something else stupid...

It's no secret that I have no love for Katy Perry. Her willingness to sue someone because they used their real name (her stage name), the sickening sugar pop that keeps spewing out over the airwaves, her overused expressions and stupid outfits..

Another thing. Her lyrics. She is insanely popular, but her songs could be written by fourth graders. The raps by her guest artists are surprisingly worse. I mean, raps! You expect hardcore content and you get Snoopy the Lion or whatever he is now rambling incoherently about marshmallows or something. Maybe Katy had them or something similar shooting out from her boob-cannons again.

My main complaint today is from her new album Prism. Roar is catchy enough, but I can't get it out of my head that someone was listening to the Rocky soundtrack and got mysteriously inspired.. maybe by Robin Thicke's selective hearing muse? Unconditionally is so boring and lame.. it's like she realised that while she's hit every demographic from stereotypical California girls to vibrating aliens, cheating heterosexual lesbian lovers to temperature challenged folks.. she's never yet hit the wedding demographic.

Dark Horse.... I LOVE THE MUSIC. I CAN'T STAND ANYTHING ELSE.

The price of one person and miscarriage of justice

So I was doing my usual scan of the news when this came up - One woman's worth (Rose Warne - ABC)

It's about why the media goes insane over one specific person's death and seems to make sure that no one cares about anyone else who may have died in a similar circumstance. In this case, it's Jill Meagher (Wikipedia) versus Tracy Connelly. (Claire Jansen - Lipmag)

It's a common theme around great tragedies - baying for blood when a white young female is kidnapped/assaulted/murdered but remaining silent when a young woman of colour/different sexuality/nationality suffers the same. Many men are outraged that no one seems to care as much either when a bloke is killed in awful circumstances.

Hard truth is - there are way too many murders for everyone to share the spotlight equally. No, it's not right but it would be impossible to do no matter how good your intentions are. You'd spend more time speaking about death than being able to do anything about it.

So back to the article - it asks us why Jill had so much media exposure while Tracy did not. It asks why Tracy was labelled with 'prostitute' and 'sex worker' before mentioning afterwards what happened. The headline tells us all we could ever want to know about her. She's not a full fleshed out person, she's a warning for other girls to stay off the streets, a sordid mark on Melbourne's streets.

Lucky Tiger vs Halloween art

So, while I am getting better at the stuff... I am no social butterfly. I'm more like the anti social moth who waits in the shadows before stealing the butterfly's pretty little wings.

Flying away with them somehow, presumably cackling maniacally and heading towards some sort of flame. I am nothing if not predictable.

My point is, while I cherish certain people around me I still find it hard to actually tell them so without utilising a sketch of them.

To others it probably does look like I'm showing off for attention but I'm not, although the attention is way flattering I always come out with a snooty comment or else hover in the background nervously giggling.

This time I drew my Co workers as Halloween characters in a graveyard which eerily resembles our workplace. It went down really well, except some people just can't recognise themselves in cartoon form.

I know I should be nicer about it, it's probably not as obvious to everyone else as it is to me. And they haven't spent a week nose to sketchbook. But same as my Easter themed sketch, I put everyone in their separate sections and tried to add as much personal characteristics as possible.

The hardest part for these folks is finding who I am apparently. Not sure if that's a testimony to my fantastic moth-assassin-in-shadows bit or if everyone just forgets me at times.

It's probably a bit of both. When I first hung it on the door, I was asked if I was every other girl character on the page before my actual character. I was like - how did this happen?! Do I look like a blonde devil? Does my hair transform into a red perm when I'm not looking?

Haha. Oh, one day they will learn. I shall bombard them with themed and un themed sketches until they can't stands it no more!

It's all good though. I designed the concept in about five minutes, decided who the characters would be in about one, and then took about five sketches before realising that this team isn't going to fit on an A4 anymore.

Next time I will use my computers to make them pretty, I just got lazy hehe. I've really missed drawing. :)

Ame-comi Harley Quinn v2

When the Ame-comi series first came out, I missed my chance to pay a few hundred and grab the Harley Quinn one. Now you can't find them for less. Unless of course, you buy the mini version (which I did) for about $20AU.

Crazy things come in small packages!

This time around, I did the smart thing and pre-ordered v2 off of the almighty eBay machine.
So basically I paid less, got it fast and don't have to hunt for bargains that seem wonderful until you find that the jerks only ship inside America or only to Mars or some other jerk thing to do. Jerks.

Lucky Tiger vs Suicide Squad 12

To be honest, I’m not really sure why I’m bothering to review this one. The stories are going seriously downhill and I’m not sure why these writers think I should care who the mole on the team is exactly. So I’ve missed a few issues in this series, and I’m not going to go back for them. Deal with it.

                                                    THE TRAITOR UNMASKED –
                                               YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHO IT IS!

Yes, well, we’ll see. Imitation Waller looks surprised, but that’s probably because a) her cleavage isn’t showing and b) she’s just seen how much screen time she’s getting this issue.

If you bothered to read the last issue you would know that the Suicide Squad landed in a poorly written episode of Scooby Doo and now cannibals are going to eat them for some reason.

Honestly, they wouldn’t be my first choice. I’m sure pickings are slim in ancient-Mexico comic world but I would like to credit these guys some brains. Would you eat a shark man, a pasty wannabe clown, a dude who likens himself to a spider (eww) or the other guy who’s like, on fire half of the time? Then again, shark is a delicacy and they can save on the costs because the other guy’s a BBQ, mate!

Lucky Tiger vs the bogans

This week has been a little rough, we’ve been short one person and the other one had this last weekend off so I was all by myself. That’s fine, it’s just that there’s no one else that can pinch hit for me so no lunch or tea breaks for me those days. We were also fairly busy so I didn’t want to sneak out when it got quiet in case it flared up in those split seconds I was gone.
As it happened, they were great days with exception of one customer on each of those days.

So I was a bit stressed, a bit starved, a bit sleepless and dealing with the public at large. Naturally, I have come down with a cold. My workplace has a strict cold/flu policy, which I think is great. It also means I couldn’t work today. So I moseyed down to the quacks for some tissues and other supplies.

It’s a lovely day today, and because of the hours I work, I don’t get to see the sunlight as much as I’d like so I figured, why not walk? It’s only going to be a ten minute walk at most and let’s face it, the fresh air will probably do me some good.

Lucky Tiger Vs the King Hit

I have had trouble understanding the term ‘King-hit’. I know what it means, that some jerk has punched you in the back of the head and knocked you to the ground. It’s just the name is hard to get around, similar to the so called ‘honour killings’.

Violently murdering or otherwise abusing a female family member for living her life, being raped, not wanting to marry the jerk you’re trying to force her to marry or even saying ‘hi’ to a male grocery store clerk is definitely an honour killing. Only, it’s not bringing you ‘back’ any honour, you’re just squeezing the life out of any honour your family may have held at one stage.

So in a way, it’s like a twisted play on words. With ‘king hit’ I’ve always found it distasteful to even consider punching someone in a fairly cowardly way ‘king like’. This morning in the shower, I had a ponder and now I think that this is another wicked word play.

After all, most kings are jerks, right? All with the being rich while the nation starves, chopping and changing of wives, dungeons, creating your own religion because you can, etc etc. It would be just like one of those douchebag kings to have their many lackeys hold someone back so Mr Royalty could ‘win’ the fight.

Lucky Tiger vs The Fatality of Injustice

Another DC game, another Harley Quinn outfit.. Yes, it's INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US

The working title was Injustice: Battle of the Backsides

Anyway, it's pretty much DC vs Mortal Kombat again but apparently more bad ass. I read somewhere that that's why all the character's outfits were skewiffy again, so it's not the 'official' Batman kicking the shit out of 'official' Superman or something like that.

I don't think 'official' Batman would mind. It would only add to his street cred and he does so love kicking the shit out of things.

Suicide Squad Seven - The Alliterating Issue

Yes, it’s that time of the month again, so dig out your hot pants, get ready to storm Gotham PD and grab that skinned off Joker face because it’s the SUICIDE SQUAD #7 REVIEW!

Assuming I read like a normal person, let’s start with the cover. When I first saw this cover, I didn’t like it. Now I can see it full size it’s kind of growing on me, like Joker flesh on Deadshot’s face.(Tee hee) The new Harley Quinn logo surprised me, as last time they just stole her old one. You know, the one from the ‘original’ DC universe pre-reboot, post-pre-infinite... ehh... you know what I mean. The one that doesn’t exist anymore, or kind of does in some ways, but only in ways DC can make money off it.. Ehhh, you know what I mean.

When we last left off in Suicide Squad, Harley was being taken in by the police force in Gotham after surrendering in the street – the idea being that it would be easier to get to her target that way. This totally cock blocked the rest of the squad from getting to her, and boy, were they pissed. So, when page one opened on some random plan about distracting the cops with some holographic imprint on King Shark I was kinda like... What?

I mean, this is GOTHAM. Batman Gotham. Something attacks them, and before you know it, good old commish is on the horn to every damn bat in the city. To be honest, there are a lot of bats in Gotham city. How could they be sure that this wouldn’t attract Batman?

Lucky Tiger VS the Giant Spider

Alright, so I'm not one for bugs. I hate the way they just invade your territory, getting their dirty little bug feet all over your stuff. trying to eat your delicious food, attempting to get all up in your face or eyeballs and sometimes they even mooch off your cable and hot water.

The hell?! In real life, we call these guys squatters.. and we get them the hell out.

So last week, I arose plenty early as I always do. Not as early as my partner (bugger that, hey!) but still about two hours or more before I have to even prepare to go to work. This is pretty funny because work is now less than ten minutes away from my den. Anyway, I felt the need to hunt down some breakfast, so I ventured out from the bedroom... and then I felt it.

Lucky Tiger is went to corporate!

So, bit of a personal announcement to make..
Lucky Tiger has a new job! Yay!
Of course, as much as I liked the old one I could probably chew your ears off about the things wrong with it. I do mean that there was so much wrong with it, but also in a more literal manner because I don't do things half assed like *some* people. Nom nom.

But anyway, that comes with any job I suppose. I'm fairly patient and understanding for a psychopath, but man I wish I could stab some of those problems out of that workplace.
This new one has so many perks and I have to say I really like my coworkers. For so long I thought I could only belong in an exaggerated cartoonish mental asylum like that one but now I see that my fears about going back to a 'real' job behind counters and things were unfounded.

Suicide Squad - The Search for the Quinn

I have to say that volume five of the Suicide Squad was sorely lacking in Harley Quinn. That's fine, I know they got their plot lines going and what not.. wait. Do they? Many of the compliments about the series that I've read have been about the time frames - how it jumps back and forth, keeps things fresh yadda yadda. Whatever. It sucks when you open issue six and you think you've missed a couple of issues because it COMPLETELY jumps things.

Keeping in mind that this is not a steady group, it's whatever unlucky chump has to work off their debt to imitation-Waller, but still? No word about what happened to El Diablo? Black Spider?
I mean, I'm personally glad that they skipped the boring road trip to Gotham but first page, they're right on Harley's tail with three 'newbies', a pair of which I had to google because I had no bleedin' idea who they were at all.

Spelling-bound

Another topic dear to my heart is spelling. I've always been more of a book person than a math person, so I can understand how other people might be the other way around. Maybe they never had the education I did, maybe they had a better one.

We are going far beyond the realms of 'their', 'there' or 'they're'.

Aformations are for the week come at me society
worst f**king headace and saw legs from walkin home.

your being a grammmer nazi.
they say are there friends and best friends at that if they ate your friends they will take you as you are

Ho-ho-holiday!

How was your Christmas, she asks fist deep into January.
Mine was good. As usual, I stockpile like a zombie obsessed paranoid freak does during the year. I wish I was just saying that as a comparison and not the truth.. but hey, better safe than missing brains. 'S what Gran always says.

This year, one of my co-workers invited me to their Kiwi Brunch, which was heaps fun and despite the zombie thoughts, didn't involve eating any New Zealanders. I'm not really a fan of Kiwi fruit anyway.
After that, we went to my parent's for a meet and greet, complete with giftage. After that, an extended family reunion at my grandparent's place.

Ended up playing soccer for a good three hours, in my cute clothes and skirt. Well, like that's ever stopped me doing anything, anyway. I've always been good at kicking stuff, but my sister and her partner who play the sport constantly said good things about my involvement. They even said that if I could ever play by the rules I could probably pinch hit for them on their team.

Damn the rules! Always keepin' the woman down!!

Songs that make you go hmmmm....

There are some songs out in the Top 40 right now that.. well, I don't know if I like them or hate them. Some, I know I love and others I want to like but little quirks make me think twice. Then I remember that they're just songs, so who the heck cares right? Well, me and several others. But sharing is totally caring, and if they get on my nerves.. well, I hope they get on yours too.


HANGOVER - Taio Cruz (Feat Some Jerkoff)

I do like this one. Never had a hangover, so while others may groan, clutch their heads and writhe feebly on the ground.. I'm probably singing along. It really is a damn catchy one. My only problem is the little bits in between. Let's have a look at the lyrics.

so I can go until I blow up, eh
and I can drink until I throw up, eh
and I don’t ever ever want to grow up, eh
I want to keep it going, keep keep it going

Eh? Eh?! Eh.
What's with the ehs? If you stretch your imagination a little bit you could make them into 'heys' which are slightly more understandable. Those little 'ehs' don't seem like much but they remind me of another song..

DC New 52 - The Awkward Panels

While I've been catching up on the new DC 52... I found some interesting panels to offer up. Let me know what you think about these little eye catchers.

From Batgirl #3: 

Drag your eyes away from the epic sight of Batgirl hitching a ride on Gotham's notorious rail service and what do you see? What's that? 'For a good time, call the Red Hood?' Oh myyyyy.