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Yesterday was pretty productive! I went to Book Lover's and traded in some books I had finished, eventually picking out 10 new ones for my reading pleasure. And I'm a little over halfway through The Last Legion. I've had that books for several years and hadn't read it, so I'm glad to finally be doing that.

Joe, Kira and I also saw Kick-Ass last night. I really enjoyed it! It was a fun flick, and I'll be sure to check out the sequel when it's released. I also watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog last night before bed. Neil Patrick Harris is so adorable.

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanItSounds ) and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.



1. A big (and powerful) sword enslaves and maddens its users (naturally). Fight against an opponent over Bottomless Pits to obtain, destroy, or help it. Maybe you’ll get a good twin to help. It’s hard to tell if anyone dies.

2. Two gorgeous brothers with major-league Daddy issues seek out monsters and kill them in various nasty ways, using things as diverse as salt-filled shotgun shells, barbed wire, and circular saws. Lots of sex is had along the way. A really great car and lots of eighties rock, apocalypses, and angst are also involved. The world really really sucks, but it's funny anyway. Alternate, less-detailed version: A sad couple drive around. rydiafantasy

3. Cops break into a house and kill everyone inside.

4. Teenage mercenaries use the Power Of Friendship to fight time-traveling sorceresses. hyper_amychao

5. A fight between an Emo Teen and his best friend gets a bit out of hand.

6. A group of heroes try to stop a supervillain from enacting his plan to save the world and fail. Or: A faceless detective, an overweight loser, a Smurf colored bald guy, a chick with mommy issues and a former Hitler Youth mourn the loss of a Robert Downey Jr. look alike and wonder if they'll get screwed because of it. rydiafantasy

7. Bounty hunters in space barely make enough money to eat properly. The soundtrack is popular. Or: Bounty hunters fight Chinese mafia, but not in space. hyper_amychao

8. Angsty teens fight each other in a tale of fantastic racism.

9. A neurotic ballet dancer takes singing lessons from a serial killer who lives behind her dressing-room mirror. rydiafantasy

10. A bald old man in a wheelchair who likes watching teenagers sweat founds a school for people with genetic abnormalities. They fly everywhere in a supersonic jet and fight giant robots, a fat guy with a big appetite and a magnetic Holocaust survivor. rydiafantasy

11. A college professor joins forces with a bartender to fight an entire army over a box that will kill you if you try to open it.

12. A slacker prince finds himself with a bizarre skin condition after getting his fortune told. To combat this situation, he teams up with a workaholic black chick, a reclusive jazz enthusiast, and a redneck who's in love with a star. rydiafantasy

13. Dead people fight other dead people, but almost never to the death. Or: wannabe fashion designer (and possible Chessmaster and troper) shows off. Title has little to do with the plot. hyper_amychao

14. Sleep-deprived tofu delivery boy in a 20-year old Toyota compact outdrives pro racers in much more expensive machines. Police are nowhere to be found. rydiafantasy

15. Stiff and dull student is abducted by Technicolor-haired aspiring fashion designers. Flamboyant jerkass dandy makes her his muse. The author loves Vivienne Westwood. rydiafantasy

16. Young woman is captured by violent fanged monster, and talks to furniture and crockery. Fortunately, she convinces her captor to not be such an ass, and everyone lives Happily Ever After. Except for a Bruce Campbell lookalike, who falls off a building. Or: Objectively insane romance novel enthusiast falls for a short-fused Petting Zoo Person, to the dismay of an egotist who had his sights on her. The object of her affection Murders The Hypotenuse, then crosses the Bishonen Line. rydiafantasy

17. Black Mammal is unleashed and decides to destroy the world. Then changes his mind, after the fat man’s dead grandfather gets close to achieve this. hyper_amychao

18. The Sixties happen to a group of young people who fall in love, take some drugs, have lots of sex, briefly hate each other, and then reunite as friends in the end. And they express these emotions by singing Beatles songs. One of the young people is a cute fella from Liverpool who does not have a visa, and thus does not legally exist in America; he tends to do the wrong thing with good intentions. Another young person gets drafted into the surrealist division of the US Army. Oh, and this is really a musical. rydiafantasy

19. White-haired young daughter of a deceased mafia boss inherits a 6+ foot tall undead bodyguard armed with big freaking guns who’s on a quest for revenge. rydiafantasy

20. A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton’s evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans. rydiafantasy