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'That, well Futata might have a better answer to that than I do, and there were more references to properties or how it might work than actual names. Though it is generally referred to as some type of salt, even though that doesn't ever seem to be an element of the powder.'

Moments later Seto finally found a spot in which the limo would fit. After a particularly deft parallel park, considering he rarely drove himself, he turned off the engine and quickly exited the vehicle.

((I am more emotionally invested when I love something definitely but still intellectually offended by lazy with anything. Thus far I haven't personally seen a remake that did anything for me though as there are a few remakes of Western material that I like I allow it could work. I definitely can understand remakes and/or modern retellingsn of very old films and those I do tend to like and see motivation gfor more often, though sometimes it is clearly not a passion project and it just fails. However, some films I think have a conceptually sound idea but didn't have the tech and/or budget to really do it justice, so seeing those kinds of reimaginings I do enjoy even if it falls flat on occasion.))

Shizuka returned the hug affectionately, 'I'm fine, no need to worry about me.'

'We should get inside,' Kaiba told them, helping Anzu out of the other side of the vehicle.

((It doesn't bother me as much and probably doesn't really ruin the experience it just has me more likely to watch something unless there is a social reason for it. I mean I only saw the American Ring (and the Grudge) because they were part of outings with friends. I don't have as many horror fans these days (I never had tons but when you are in HS all your friends are concentrated, you also go to the movies more often as your social options are more restricted when you are underage and under parental control) so it always comes down to me choosing things I want to watch on my own or that I'm trying to convince a non-horror fan to give a chance. So while I still inevitably watch a lot of crap I tend to choose things that I have hope for. I can't really believe that a remake of a foreign film (whereas the changes are generally just making it not foreign rather than any sort of creative insight) would be better than the original, so I generally just err on the side of wait until I'm in the mood for subtitles. Unfortunately that often ends up being that I see neither and/or I can't find subtitles because the horror gods must hate me. xd

There are definitely still thousands of other lazy Hollywood movies, which is why horror remakes aren't just shunned alone. I shun a lot of movies these days particularly as cinema experiences (and consequently I probably don't bother to look for things after the fact). I think if I didn't live abroad I wouldn't have seen almost any recent movies as I've watched most of them on a plane. I watched Captain America on a plane. Liking that plus having begun a relationship with Tom whose a big TV/film Marvel fan (but never got into comics as he doesn't know where to begin/it can be a costly start up depending) kicked off how I got into that whole franchise. Without planes I might never have been able to hold Marvel film conversations. In the past few years the only non-Marvel films I've seen in theatres have been Hobbit films, Star Trek Into Darkness (a social outing with a group), Divergent (a social outing with a friend I only see once every other year give or take) and the Dark Knight Rises. I also only got into Nolan's Batman trilogy because of a social outing that took me to see the Dark Knight back in 2008 (I after the fact went back and watched Begins). So yea, the upside is I'm actually more often pleasantly surprised because I expect to never really find things I love in the recent film industry. I think Avatar was kind of a big shift in my view of movies, when films went from plot/character development to how great they look being of highest importance. I mean that stuff on a great film is great (sometimes, I'm still not the best sell on the visual), but that being expected to BE the great component of a film is disappointing.

All that said, I watched the Incredible Hulk a few days ago. I can see elements of what could have been a working movie (if not a great movie) in there. And a lot of times I felt the problem was the film cut away from parts I'd actually want to see. Something would happen and then lets cut to a few hours/days later and all I can think is, so a pretty interesting conversation must have happened between characters A and B in that gap, or man, the transition to get to this scenario seems curious. So not sure if it was a problem of actually not having an answer/know how to fit a proper progression in or if those things were overlooked. It felt jarring and while it wasn't terrible it definitely felt like it had potential to at least be good (if not great) and the focus was just off. Also, I think I can easily say Betty is probably last place girlfriend for me now. I also felt Betty/Bruce were pretty wooden (though Betty/Hulk were okay). Anyhow I'd be interested in seeing them do something beyond the origin story, particularly with Ruffalo. While there is still no word on whether Marvel will roll the dice and go for Hulk 2, Ruffalo does apparently have a six film contract so they've definitely left space for it in terms of casting at any rate. Guess we'll see, I'd probably give it a shot at this point though as always I will be going in with a fairly low bar of expectations. rofl ))

Seto was a bit unnerved to see that his brother, Yuugi and Honda had not arrived yet but they did have a slightly longer trip. It wasn't the right time to panic yet.

'Yes it did,' he responded, focusing on the discussion at hand, 'well, it did what I wanted it to do at any rate.'

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Honda became impatient as he watched Jounouchi and his group rush into the shrine, Mokuba seemed similarly irritated as they waited for the light to change. Honda almost flew out of the car when they were finally in front of the shrine, Mokuba practically on top of him. The two of them raced on without a second glance back toward the driver, leaving it to Yuugi to be polite and follow after.

((Most of my good friends are a bit scattered now, dinner/drink functions tend to be the more common academic social setting, usually forums more suitable for discussions. I do have to add Monsters University to my list of things I've seen in cinemas fairly recently (though almost a year ago now I suppose, but I think my list started generally around 2011), which was a social function with PhD friends. I am however tagging along with Tom's friends tomorrow and they are seeing Godzilla. Guess they are mine too, and friends I've actually known a bit longer than I've known Tom. One is probably better friends with me than Tom, but the other is much better friends with Tom and he's the one who organised the endeavor. Rambling story short, I tend to not see even most of what I think I'd be interested in, but I don't usually see much of the stuff I have no interest in either. The few exceptions toward the latter I've found to be things I end up enjoying.

Definitely true, and apparently Whedon tossed about a discussion considering Planet Hulk around when Avengers came out, so maybe even that would be a possibility. Guess we'll see. They'll probably watch to see how Age of Ultron and Guardians of the Galaxy play out. I don't know if I'm overly interested in Guardians but Tom's interested so I suppose I'll be giving it a shot at least. I can't believe that Fantastic 4 (and Fantastic 4 sequel) are being remade though, and the casting seems quite unusual. Though perhaps that will really work in its favour. I only realised this when looking up the cast of Divergent, I showed Tom the guy who will be playing Mr Fantastic and he said 'he looks like a tool.' I responded with 'he plays a tool in Divergent' and Tom was indignant, 'Mr Fantastic is not a tool.' So it's at least prompted amusing convos already. I can't stop giggling though trying to imagine Billy Eliot as The Thing.))

Seto nodded slightly as his brother ran up to him, slightly unsteady when Mokuba threw himself around his waist unexpectedly.

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'Jounouchi,' Honda shouted as Mokuba ran out of his brother, 'Anzu what are you doing here? What happened? Is everyone okay?'

((Heh, Yuugi didn't have to pay the driver it was a Kaiba Corp car I believe, just generally implying that the party was too anxious to actually wait and give the drivers orders - such as you are dismissed for the day, or wait here - before rushing off. xd

Monsters Inc is one of the only Pixar movies I like but Monsters University didn't look like it would be at all anything I'd be interested in. Plus my favourite character was Boo and she couldn't be in a prequel. I was however pleasantly surprised, but it was a very different kind of movie which is probably why it worked for me. Generally Pixar is extra cute and usually its dark bits are buried in cute and boring. It's too aimed at children. However, Monsters U had a bit more of a crass humour that I enjoyed. Should be seeing Godzilla in about 4-6 hours but I still haven't been given a time, hooray! xd At least I'm being picked up so that's okay. I just have to remain dressed.

Yea Guardians enabling Planet Hulk was a discussion I had with Tom b/c he said it couldn't work (even if he'd want to see it) as it's a one way trip and he'd be out of Avengers and my rebuttal was Guardians kind of nixes that concern. I'm not a big comedy fan which is the big reason why I'm not sure it'll be my thing but I'll give it a shot. I think enough people are on the Marvel train now that it's chances are pretty good - but the same could be said for a Hulk sequel. Hulk might have also done better if it hadn't been one of the first movies to come out when people weren't still considering whether a Marvel film franchise could work. See, I know nothing about Fantastic 4, I wasn't into superheros (other than X-men) when the last batch of films came out and they were so thoroughly reamed by critic and friend alike that I've never bothered to give them a shot. I nonetheless couldn't imagine someone who went by the title 'Mr Fantastic' could possibly be anything less than a tool. So I will definitely pass the word on to Tom. smile

My feelings on it is I don't really feel most superhero characters have strong ethnic ties, so unless 'white' is his culture and integral to he is I just don't see it mattering particularly. I mean there is more argument for why period films (e.g. Shakespeare films, Medieval tales, etc) don't make sense to have racially blind casting, because being a certain race 100+ years ago absolutely defines who you are. So it does change the nature of the character (especially an existing character, such as a Shakespearean one) to change their race. A lot of comic characters are older than a time in which women were considered equal people (as they still are fighting for that) and race is a division (which also it still is). However, they are not inherently defined by their race or gender and so while I can see people getting up in arms, I have a feeling it's probably for the same subliminal racist feelings that persist today, that people like a familiar face. I mean the reason (admittedly so by most of the film industry) why so many actors/actresses were white is that the general (primarily white) American audiences were more comfortable and related better to white characters. The majority of America is still white, and its only recently that the non-white population is starting to have a problem with it. So yes, I agree they are taking a developed and popular character, but does his whiteness have anything to do with his development or popularity? Well, the latter probably, but again that's still probably for the psychological deep-rooted prejudices that still persist today. A character whose development is absolutely linked in to his racial background is more often from a developing nation, an oppressed/war torn nation, or being a minority, etc etc. Most 'good development' honestly does not stem from being white though, because when you are using the majority race you don't need to actually develop their race, their race is rarely a source of conflict when they aren't the minority so its rarely a huge aspect of who they are. There is very little about a middle class white American that doesn't potentially apply to a middle class black or Hispanic or Asian American unless the setting is somewhere where minorities are treated poorly for being a minority. Because of this though, I think it'd be a bigger challenge to make an ethnic character white than the other way around when dealing with a modern setting. I mean if this Fantastic 4 is even being set 50+ years ago then that is a different discussion. If it's being set today though I don't see why this is a character where his colour matters. I mean if they decide to imbue him with 'gangster' or some other stereotypical ethnic background then yes, that's changing the character. But if he's just 'a guy' whose skin happens to be some colour then it doesn't really seem a big change other than the fact that audiences are making it a big change. So in short, I think the only problem I see with it is that it has to be a deliberate action and/or an action that needs to be analysed, that people feel the need to debate, discuss and have feelings toward. The problem is that whiteness or blackness or whatever is a root part of who people are, and while I think culture is great I also think arguments like that are what keep racism alive and well. I mean they are remaking Fantastic 4 which I've said is a series I'm not familiar with, but I assume it's always been these four characters. So I'm not sure how it would be less offensive to bring in a tag-along character who isn't part of the Fantastic 4 to have some colour in the background. I feel that would be way more just pushing toward a diversity quota than just changing the race of a character who might not be all that tied to their race.

What is more interesting is the fact that they are having a white and black sibling, and I'm wondering if that's something they are going to explain. Whether they are going for half siblings, adopted or they'll just let it be. I mean if you have interracial parents then in theory they could be entirely full siblings as genetics is fun that way. So I'm more interested in seeing how that's going to be handled/addressed (and preferably, for me, I'd rather it not be something to make a point of and just let it be because that is the more progressive approach in my opinion). So yea, that's my thoughts. Why are most superheros tied to their race so much that it matters to change them? And I guess honestly, do I believe that the answer is really anything other than a sort of racism that yes we are all guilty of, because we still haven't quite gotten past seeing race. I think we can have culture and race as two separate things to view, and its not denying culture to not hammer on about race.))

'Is that code for I'm going to have to wait for an explanation? Can we at least answer what we are all doing here at least?' Honda acquiesced begrudgingly.

((Saw Godzilla! There were too many people in it! Heh, but just in case you didn't see it I won't say anything else until you've confirmed you have. Although, I will say that I saw it in 3D because the group was going to a 3D showing, and at least it's come along enough over the years that it doesn't make me ill anymore. However, it also had 0 scenes to justify the 3D, zero! I kept kind of taking the glasses off to see if we were actually in a 3D showing. That was ridiculously annoying just because they charge more for that crap.

Yea I definitely don't think Incredible Hulk was the travesty it was made out to be. Also with all the 'control' talk in Avengers I assumed it was the rampaging monster film but honestly he was pretty good at control and not attacking people who didn't get in his face (and not going back for the vengeance kill even if someone did get in his face). The design of Abomination seemed a bit disappointing, but there was nothing that was such a major flaw that in it's own right I couldn't see them not wanting to give a sequel a shot. Particularly after the success of the character in the Avengers. It definitely is another issue of perception and preconceived bias colouring people from actually judging a film on its own merits.

I will say, in terms of not including other races, African-American so long as it isn't a stereotypical 'poverty/ghetto' culture is very 'white-washed' in a way that Asian, Hispanic and Arabic more often seem to try to retain culture. However, you still get plenty of 'white-wash' and thus 'less defined by cultural background' in those races as well and you can definitely have a cultural neutral casting so I agree. Though atm I think there is also a larger pool of black actors in America than other races thus far (just b/c black has had more success). I do want to see a lot more racially blind casting though, so with Fantastic 4 I'm just more wondering if the movie will make a big deal of it. I definitely think converting ethnic characters to white is a problem, particularly because a lot of the time ethnic characters are defined by particular cultural traits in the ways white characters are not (unless its some sort of Eastern European or Jewish motif). That was definitely the most disappointing part of the Air Bender live action film, I think a lot of flaws in the movie I could have 'let go' if it hadn't been for that. One other thing I thought which connects to the previous remake/using source material discussion, is that Hollywood as an industry is further supporting discrimination within the film industry by almost continually avoiding original content like the plague. Because original content easily does not have assigned race labels, but the audience is still probably the bigger problem. More, that the film industry is catering to audiences rather than taking some risks in this area (casting), the one area that I really think they need to take more risks. The one thing I always keep thinking of is an animated film, the Princess and the Frog. The Prince was originally white and test audiences absolutely threw a fit at the interracial relationship in twenty first century America. They didn't quite make him 'black' but they did make him ethnic to accommodate this. I wish Disney had had the balls to go through with it. I think in the end the movie would have won more acclaim for pushing the barriers, but mostly I'm just furious with the absolute racism of that test audience. And furious at the film industry for catering to it.

It's not even necessarily genetically unlikely, a lot of bad day time TV shows like Maury have taught me that put a white and African American parent together and sometimes you'll get a blend like me and my brother. Still other times you'll get red headed, blue eyed very white offspring or very dark offspring. And in some cases, you will get a mix of both. It happens in other mixes too (I knew a half Japanese girl with blond hair and blue eyes and only found it later that she was actually mixed, I have another friend who is a quarter Japanese and has a few more prominent features like her torso, but generally also looks white). It's just generally pretty common with African Americans specifically as given the atrocities of slave culture (i.e. rape) most of those who have likely descended from slave culture have a lot of genetic mix somewhere in them already. So ideally I'd absolutely love if they give them a white mother and just not talk about it. Because I think the first step toward not having to see people as a race or a gender is to not 'explain' it just for the sake of explaining it. I mean if there is context for why it comes up that's one thing, but so often it comes up for the audience rather than the plot of the movie. I'm kind of tired of movies catering to racism (and other isms).))

'Well I think we've regrouped, unless we are waiting for someone else you haven't mentioned. So when do we start coming up with this better plan?' Honda asked, slightly annoyed by the circular logic and evasion of practical action.

((Yea the theatre was pretty much empty when I saw it, though they had tons of showings of the film and it actually came out Thursday here rather than Friday. Not sure what kind of draw it's having in the UK in general but yea the theatre was probably only about 1/6th full if that. Not that I mind, the one thing that really turns me off about cinema experiences these days are obnoxious crowds. Even with it barely crowded some people came in late and sat behind us and kept chatting at points in the movie which was irritating (and one of them had killer BO which I didn't appreciate either). I'm not sure what I was expecting but I did enjoy it. I definitely felt the human characters, particularly Ford and his wife, were absolutely terrible. I also found it annoying that they've gone the route of what looked like smart kid grew up and started a family at what 20, 22 at the oldest? Given it was 15 years later and the kid was 5. I dunno, I kind of don't love that films feel we can only root for young nuclear families, but my main problem is they were just terrible characters. To be fair, I hadn't thought much about Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver. I mean my entire knowledge of Elisabeth is she's an Olsen sister and she doesn't have much of a filmography. The only thing I know about him is his role in Kickass and while I did really like that I'm now starting to worry about his potential for a heavier role, he didn't really live up to it. At the same time my brain just can't really add more Avengers into the mix right now so I'm not too bothered, but I also am not sure I can see the second film being better than the first now. But yea, I though it was very enjoyable despite the characters being pretty flat. Cranston's character actually wasn't too bad, which I wasn't expecting, but of course didn't impact very long.

Tom explained the Leader thing to me, though I liked Stern so was kind of sad when he told me he was a villain, ah well. I do rather like a lot of villains so perhaps that's no bad thing. I would probably take a Hulk move over either Black Widow or Hawkeye having solo films. I mean personally I just don't care about Hawkeye at all right now, he's done nothing in the film franchise to really warm me to wanting to follow his own solo endeavour and I think it'd take greater effort for me to want to head out and see that than it would have to go see the Hulk had I gotten into the franchise back in 2008. I do really like Black Widow but I think a lot of what I like about her would probably be taken away for me in a film where she's the protagonist, she was quite the heavy in Winter Soldier and that was actually great. Still, I feel like it'd be too much tell rather than show for me with her as the main focus, but hey maybe it'd end up being like Winter Soldier and they don't leave her solo. Guess there is also the query about where her line goes from Winter Soldier, because at the very least I'm going to hate if they do some sort of earlier timeline for the character. I just feel like the more I know about her the less I'll like her, she's one of those characters who just kind of rocks for me because of all the mystery. Dropping tidbits is fun, here's the whole story in one go not so much. Those two are also the least 'superhero' like of the bunch and I feel it'd be more heavily the traditional action movie which doesn't always appeal to me.

There's actually quite a large black refugee culture, back east primarily, as a product of a lot of war torn nations, but they also tend to stay more hidden from mainstream society than other immigrants, stick to their own communities, though that's probably heavily a fear thing and I wouldn't blame them, but yes, it's definitely easier to have African Americans at the very least as just American characters. With Airbender it was a mix of both, not just making the good guys white but making the 'bad' guys ethnic. If they had made everyone white that might have been less obviously offensive if still terrible. Making the bad guys white and the good guys ethnic would have been interesting and less offensive, but I still wish they'd taken advantage of having source material that is entirely ethnic characters and sticking with that. I mean if people weren't going to get all heated about making ethnic characters white I don't have much interest in hearing them b***h about making white characters ethnic. Particularly as Airbender's white actors were all pretty much awful. There's tons of literature on the fact that with Hollywood interracial relationships it's always the women whose ethnic (though it was too much for Princess and Frog) so yes, I've not only noticed I've read about it in detail. As for Princess and Frog, I mean they had the 'rich' girl in the film as white so they still had a shoved in white person, and she did want the prince so I guess it hinted at a possible interracial tie as he was 'ethnic', but she didn't get him. Also, they went with New Orleans culture and still make the rich elite white (b/c that ethnic prince was poor), there was just so many things there that were just disappointing. That film for me became a big blur of stereotypes. I mean Disney has plenty of ethnic characters, what they still have yet to push is letting those ethnic characters mix with each other (exempting Pocahontas which still has representational problems). Progress is so slow, it's quite disappointing.

I don't know how black I look though I definitely don't look white. Usually I've been guessed as Mexican and at times various Asian races because while I have a brown skin colour I have zero black features and most people just don't guess mixed. I had a friend back in school who I had thought was Indian for years until I actually met his black mother and white father. His sister looked black, but he not even close. Even the shade of brown he was didn't look African American it looked Indian Asian. So how common I couldn't statistically say, but it definitely happens and enough that the film doesn't have to make a big deal of it. The black father who couldn't believe he had a red headed blue eyed son, well that is quite the anomaly considering those are all recessive traits but even that managed to happen (and has happened at least a few other times that I'm aware of). There are plenty of 'white' or 'non-racial' dominant traits though (e.g. brown hair and eyes, certain facial structures) so while I think more often skin colour might be a blend it can go either way down the spectrum. I think in studying slavery one of the more interesting things were cases of 'mixed' races and really how you lived came down to your skin colour rather than parentage a lot of the time. Prejudice a lot of the time really is more about how you look more than what you, which is really depressing.

I have TONS of marking to get through over the next few days as well as a conference to attend so might poof for a bit. Shall def be back by Tuesday though, as that's when the marking must be handed back. razz ))

Seto watched Jounouchi hesitate and suggested, 'Honda is probably right, I don't think we can come up with a plan until everybody is on the same page. Jounouchi I'm going to check on the translation, I left the laptop in the car. How about you fill everybody in on everything we know thus far while I deal with that?'

((I know right! Olsen didn't have much of a role, and she's slightly less creepy looking than her older sisters (though I don't know if creepy would be so bad for Wanda), but what she did do felt so stale and forced. She is very expressive though, so maybe if they give her more to do and less to say (which would be a good twist for a female Hollywood character anyhow) she'd be okay. I do think guy Kick-a** (nope he doesn't get a real name) has clearly shown potential (such as I thought he did fairly well with Kick-a** though Moretz was always one better) and it did feel a lot like he was thrust into scenes he just didn't belong in. The plot was just very bad about justifying why he'd be in it and it's hard not to seem crappy fighting that. That kid reunion thing, which I didn't respond to last time, yea that could have been so much more. It was a good moment for character development but they decided no. A Godzilla sequel has been announced as well as the fact that it will have the same 'restraint' as the first, aka it will again be human not monster focused. I agreed with comments on the blog post that they should have just called Godzilla M.U.T.O because as far as monster development went they got more of it. I don't have a problem with restrained if they put in a bit more effort to make more interesting human characters this time (or put more focus on the characters that might potentially be interesting).

I don't dislike Hawkeye but yes, he is kind of a non-entity for me at the moment so I definitely can't see wanting a solo Hawkeye film before they flesh him out more. That said, those feelings are probably what delayed my getting into the franchise in the first place anyhow. I had no interest in Iron Man or Captain America prior to actually just giving them a chance (and okay yes Iron Man still fails to do it for me but actually loved Captain America way more than I could ever have imagined based on what little information I had going in) so maybe I just need to roll with what they give me and hope for the best. The first thing that made me think hmm, I'm curious about this Marvel franchise now prior to dating Tom and merging interests was Thor. I've had a long mythology interest so I was curious about a superhero take on a mythological character. However, since Age of Ultron will come out before a new single man will probably be announced I'm hoping it'll give me a bit more to go into a stand alone with. I do think Black Widow is a great character, and while I always 'want to know' but only if knowing doesn't ruin everything, I think part of me also wants a good female movie but doesn't want it just for the sake of wanting a female movie. Which is why I shy against it because I never want to want something for the sake of quotas, because those never end well. I can't imagine anything being as bad as Electra which I only watched last summer while visiting a friend who was watching it. I do think I'd be more in favour of a Black Widow/Hawkeye movie rather than one or the other. I mean Captain America certainly benefited from it even if a share wasn't exactly acknowledged.

They did b***h, I know they did, and there were memes galore highlighting the racist good guy/bad guy colour casting. That didn't change anything though, unlike with the Disney movie where it did. The white girl is a side character but other than the bad guy she's probably the biggest character besides the main pair, there aren't a lot of characters in that. You take out the main side characters in many Disney movies you are really only left with 2 (or you have other characters who are fairly interchangeable), definitely true with the older ones. I hadn't had any interest in the movie and hadn't cared at all about casting (as Disney always puts ethnic with ethnic and white with white and so on) until I found it was actually supposed to be the first interracial push (again other than Pocahontas, which still kind of puts the romance is a second plot in both films, something I like about it even if I'm not a big fan of the sequel), then I was annoyed and depressed. Ah well, it wasn't a very good film.

I've never personally known just known of, although I guess I could personally know and not know that I do. Like my friend who was half Japanese it never occurred to me to ask her what she was because she just looked white so that came up years later. I do know white people who have tanned longer than me but because they look 'odd' they are clearly white people fake and baking whereas I look to natural to be white, even if that leaves people at a loss for what I am. I got my mom's hair as well, although it does annoyingly act like my dads in that it is resistant to products (annoying) and dries in about 30 seconds (useful as I prefer to shower at night). Plus then you get into quarters, like if Tom and I ever go the kid route I'm hoping for brown skin but coloured eyes. We'll have so much white mixed in (and he's blue eyed so he is only rocking the recessive, my mom is green eyed so I'm probably carrying it somewhere) that my odds are probably pretty good on some coloured eyes...although they are also pretty good that it might just end up white with only a quarter (less since my dad already knows he's got a few other things mixed back there) black. You so rarely get brown skin and coloured eyes though, so pretty! My biggest dislike about my features is I'm all one colour, brown brown brown! xd

Left conference early both days because ill, figure might as well have a quick update if I'm going to just sit in bed and stare at the wall. Not a good time for illness!! stressed ))