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[Nov. 2nd, 2009|09:37 pm] |
On last week's White Collar: the father from Little Mosque on the Prairie as an infamous Israeli forger!
Also, Kelly Kapowski. And I'm really enjoying her. |
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| I write stuff, I watch stuff, I link stuff. |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|10:38 pm] |
Happy Halloween, and good luck to everyone on my flist doing Nano!
Via ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) meganbmoore, awesome photos of kick-ass women serving their countries during World War II (Ally-centric but international).
Also, I watched the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie. It is every bit as bad as everyone has told you it is. Except for the Earth, Wind and Fire version of "Got to get you into my life" and Aerosmith covering "Come Together". Check it out. And then don't watch the movie. If you do watch the movie, do what I did and fast forward every time things get terrible; it's mostly pantomine so you can just follow the, er, plot along without the sound. (Believe me, for most of this movie, 'without the sound' is a very, very good idea.)
And last but not least, I keep forgetting to note that I wrote three drabbles for remixthedrabble, all 100 words each:
Prodigy (The Unexpected Consequences Remix), Buffy-verse
Shameless (The No Trouble in Paradise Remix), Saiyuki Gaiden
And then I decided that Shameless was too optimistic a take on the characters' situation so I wrote a counter-drabble (yes, I am this neurotic):
Discretion (The Trouble in Paradise Remix) |
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| My page was totes classier than that, yo. |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|09:33 pm] |
Oh, XKCD, never change.
Thanks to their timely reminder, I've harvested all I wanted to keep from my old GeoCrappies page. I do have a host, but I haven't been arsed to get things organized there yet, and better backed up than sorry. I keep toying with some fic with some of my old OCs; this guy is definitely coming over to the other side.
If you're curious about my old TMNT OCs, or you've known me that long and want soak up a little nostalgia, here's a little backstory fic with him I had up on the page. Bye, Geocities. It was fun while it lasted.
( Gary Stu? Maaaabye... ) |
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| MSNBC has an entire cult marathon on Sunday. MSNBC, you so strange. |
[Oct. 23rd, 2009|09:37 pm] |
You should basically just plow through remixthedrabble and look for goodies. The anime fics are here.
Written for me was the gloriously wicked Flimsy Excuses, Shigure/Hatori, and the dark and thoughtful Otherside, Crawford/Shuldig. Thank you, phantom writer!
I am still chewing over the $60 million dollar sale of the TMNT to Nickelodeon. I hope all ends well for everyone involved, especially the writers and artists I've been privileged to meet over the years. It's a good group of people. The one thing I can say with absolute certainty is that it's not remotely like "Conan Doyle selling his rights to 'Sherlock Holmes' to Stephenie Meyer." If you want to know more, Peter Laird talks about it at his blog here. He sounds so tired.
I had something else...guess I'll just have to spam more later. |
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| GODDAMNIT CLAMP |
[Oct. 17th, 2009|09:18 pm] |
xxxHolic is making me cry. Dammit.
Should I check out the manga? I have enjoyed the anime so far, but am suspicious of CLAMP's tendency toward chaos.
Also, LJ was a jerk and wouldn't let me list off 100 female characters I absolutely freakin' love, so it's over on DW. |
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| Supernatural's subtitles are gibberish. This is appropriate on so many levels. |
[Oct. 9th, 2009|09:17 pm] |
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Through, for once, no fault of work's, I had a really really crap day at work. Am trying to decided if I should even bother watching this week's Dollhouse, much less last week's.
Thus, I bring something happy-making via telophase:
How books changed one young man's life, and how some amazing people made the change happen.
Share your happy things. News! Pictures of kittens! Stupid jokes! IS YOUR KITTEN CUTER THAN MY ICON KITTEN (Icon kitten on LJ only, limited time offer). |
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| Yuletide and pimping~ |
[Sep. 21st, 2009|09:52 pm] |
If you have a Threadless account, or even if you don't, check out this shirt!
Also, people are talking about the fandoms they are planning on nominating for Yuletide. Here are my current thoughts:
Little Mosque on the Prarie. It's a CBC show about a Muslim family and their adventures in rural Canada. It passes the Bechdel Test and the 'people of color' collolary in pretty much every episode. It's funny, sweet, and can talks about race and culture and Big Issues in interesting ways. Also, it's funny.
RH Plus. Hot Japanese vampires fight crime! Here, watch it on YouTube.
Chintsubu. Cute Japanese boys switch penises in tragic accident. Also hilarious. I linked to this when I did the icon meme.
Twin Peaks. I'm just rewatching this show and remembering all the reasons I love it. Creepy atmosphere! Bad mojo! Agent Cooper! Audrey. Totally Netflixable!
Pushing Daisies. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, PUSHING DAISIES. If you don't know what this one is I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOU. (In fact, I do have things to say to you. Lots and lots of things, starting with GO WATCH IT NOW.)
Asterix the Gaul. As far as I can tell, this has never been nominated! This, as they say, is a crime. It is probably the best thing to ever come from France, including Voltaire and Catherine Deneuve. |
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| Disney can't fire everyone quickly enough. |
[Sep. 19th, 2009|08:21 pm] |
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Apparently Amazing Spider-Man is now a harem manga.
A racist, stereotyping harem manga. Awesome.
Disney has promised to keep editorial control pretty much as is. I wonder how long that'll last. But I certainly hope it's not long. |
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| Merlin fic! |
[Sep. 12th, 2009|01:13 am] |
Just a double drabble, following from 1x12, "To Kill the King." Still a bit rough but I'm sick of looking at it I'M SO AWESOME.
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"I was a fool."
"Are you certain you wish me to answer that?" asked Gaius.
Uther sighed, which was answer enough.
Gaius busied himself with the tea. It was easier than trying to come to terms with Merlin's words from the day before. The boy always meant well, but....
"She is something special, isn't she?" Uther asked.
"Morgana? Ah, yes," Gaius said, finding the cups.
Why not let Arthur be king? the boy had asked.
It had started so simply, hadn't it? Back then Gaius had been able to deny them, to deny him, nothing. How could he have known how bitter the cost of Arthur's birth would be, or how dark Uther's rage?
He cannot be king yet, Gaius thought, because we are still paying the price for our mistakes, and you will suffer enough from them when the time comes.
"Gaius," Uther said, and the physician came out of his reverie.
"Ah, Sire--"
"Sit down. Quit fussing with those things and talk to me."
"Yes," Gaius said, and obeyed.
Because I have followed Uther Pendragon to the doors of Hell, and our journey is still unfinished. |
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| "What's a luftballoon?" |
[Sep. 11th, 2009|10:22 pm] |
I might be in love with Glee. Oh. Em. Gee.
But the pregnant wife has got to go.
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| Want some shoujo? |
[Sep. 9th, 2009|10:33 pm] |
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Copypastaed from wintersweet:
Should Vertical look into licensing some classic shoujo manga they might have an opportunity to license? @Vertical_Ed on Twitter is looking for yeas or nays (NOT recommendations, mind you) and isn't getting many yeas. I think that's because the shoujo manga fanatics are mostly not on Twitter.
So either post here and I'll send him a link later or go follow Ed and @reply him with a YES on classic shoujo manga!
If you don't have a Twitter, hie to this entry! |
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