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Still watching the Olympics, still enjoying the hell out of BBC coverage, and still pretty much delighted at seeing awesome athletes be awesome, no matter the nationality or sport. Although Gabby Douglas is made of magic and seeing Zou Kai win gold on floor this morning made my heart clutchy with happiness. :D (At no point did I rewatch 2008 gymnastics just because I needed to see China win things and also Nastia Liukin. Nope. But JFC 2008 was made of amazing.)

A fun game to play with the Olympics called "Olympics or gay porn?"

Here's to Murray beating Federer for gold. Go Team GB! I have faith he can do it. :D

In non-Olympics news, I keep meaning to make a Teen Wolf rec list, but I figure most of you in the fandom have already read them. I may do so at a later date anyway?

For all you DCU fans, here is an adorable comic about the DCU heroes as elementary school kids: Little League. It's ongoing and kind of painfully adorable. Ignores, of course, a lot of canon timelines and whatnot.

For any remaining SasuNaru fans out there, here is an adorable futurefic I read the other day where Sasuke and Naruto have their own genin teams and accidentally date: Baby Animals, Weddings, And Other Things Not Normally Associated With Uchiha Sasuke. It's super cute. I miss my manga fandoms.

It's August! That's killing me a little bit inside. But August means almost September, which means pre-season (please please please happen, Hawks @ Flyers) and then October, which means, finally, hockey season again.

This past week was rough but I get to eat Indian food today. \o/ And wonder if SJM will ever come back. Mimi, I miss you and your stupid boys doing stupid things. I also miss having an excuse to use and improve my Chinese.

This post is all over the place and yet still painfully pointless. My life is pretty boring. Do I win a medal in this?
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Well, gosh, nothing gives me identity crises like the Olympics.

Inevitable gravitation to wanting China to do well; remember in many ways I am not Chinese (both for better and worse); struggle with gratitude and love for having grown up in the U.S. (but not fully American?), while at the same time being endlessly annoyed at the U.S.-centrism of the NBC broadcasts and the anti-China sentiments of pro-USA fans. Good times.

The one thing I can say with confidence, however, is that dammit, NBC, your coverage fucking sucks. Can you please broadcast something besides swimming and basketball and beach volleyball? What about diving? Badminton? Fencing? Broadcast something beyond the only events America is likely to medal in, goddammit. Even if I wanted the USA to win everything, I STILL CARE ABOUT OTHER SPORTS.

Can't wait for 2014 though: winter Olympics in Russia and World Cup in Brazil? It's like the perfect match-up for the biggest parties ever. OVIE FOR THE TRIPLE GOLD CLUB. ...can't decide who I want to win the World Cup though. Germany? I have two years to decide, unless the world ends this year, in which case - what can you do?

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