TheLastIronMan

I'm more than a little obsessed with tsundere characters, more so the tsun- than the -dere.  For those of you who have no idea what the frak I'm talking about, linkity: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tsundere I don't really understand why, there's just something about sour-sweet girls -- there are male types out there, granted, but alas, I am straight.  I guess that I'm drawn to independent, strong willed women who strive to do everything well while have a converse habit with being awkward as far as relationships -- especially romantically -- or is tomboyish, which she of course sees as "weakness", but instead of whining about it

My Shih Tzu Duke died this morning, some time before 11am Central Time.  He was about 14.  Just thought you guys would like to know.

Two weeks ago I watched Makoto Shinkai's 2007 masterpiece out of simple curiosity after seeing an AMV of Quietdrive's cover for "Time After Time", originally by Cindy Lauper.  Two weeks ago I watched the most beautiful, heart-wrenching films in my brief two-decades alive -- a film about the connection and budding love of Takaki Tohno and Akari Shinogawa being torn apart by the neigh-endless blitz of reality, how it affects them, and how their lives carry on. Emotionally I was devastated.  In a good way.  I like to keep up the machismo exterior but I do have a very tender heart and 5cm/s stabbed at it mercilessly, if only because the scenario