Fandom Lounge's Journal

(cimorene111)

1:31AM - Harry Potter Girls' Kink Meme

Someone's just posted trying to get a HP girlsmut (het and fem) kink meme off the ground: here. (It definitely isn't off the ground yet at all, but I guess it was just created?)

(iwanttobeasleep)

2:38PM - I know I just posted, but. . .

Blizzard's sense of humor remains intact; PETA is making an appearance in the World of Warcraft!

In WoW, Nesingwary (who is a rather cute reference to Hemingway) gives players quests to kill lots and lots and lots of animals (often without any purpose, as opposed to the quests that have you kill for meat or skins). In the upcoming expansion, DEHTA, short for Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals, has formed to combat him and his hunters. DEHTA gives players quests to kill the hunters and bring back their ears. And if you kill an animal and go to them, they smell the animal blood on you and attack.

I ♥ Blizzard.

(julesnoctambule)

11:32AM - BBC: Unlicensed Knitting and Doctor Who NOT OTP!

The BBC has sent a legal threat to a knitting fan of its popular show 'Doctor Who', demanding the crafty individual remove free knitting patterns they created based on the characters from the internet.

You may know the Adipose pattern already.

Apparently, their knitted Ood might just be cooler than the BBC's.

The story at BoingBoing, which produces my favourite quote:

'Looks like Cthulhu enjoying a juice box, albiet with a very long, bendy straw. Presumably it would be 'people & apple' flavour, or some equally evil concoction, so long as it had 'no bits', he's a finicky little fella.'

(iwanttobeasleep)

1:13AM

Gore Verbinski is making a BioShock movie. John Logan is adapting it. I'm not entirely sure how to feel, but I'm curious to see how they deal with the little sisters on the silver screen.

He's also got his eyes on Portal, which worries me.

(southerngaelic)

12:13AM

Wii Pole Dancing coming our way soon?

(Other link here)

Best comment from the first link:

Holy crap… This could ruin the strip-club, industry.

Stripper: Check me out!

Console Junky: B*tch, I did that move on Hell difficulty and scored $40,000 in tips. You SUCK.

Thoughts?/Discuss?

(wtf)

10:56AM - Anime Central anyone?

SO! Who's going to ACen? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

(reeve)

6:23PM

Via Cartoon Brew: the revival of a site called The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations

Some of the topics covered include Sexual Ambiguity in The Brave Little Toaster, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors as a Star Wars Knock-off, and My Little Pony is a lesbian-feminist separatist colony.

(hypno_jango)

2:00PM

Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation received a lot of hatemail (well, more than usual) after his Smash Bros Brawl review. (He didn't like it. *shock*) So this week instead of reviewing another game, he decided to make fun of respond to some of the hate.

(sepiamagpie)

6:34PM

So my sister's taken up writing City of Heroes fanfic and is trying to work on a way to really flesh out her heroes. I agreed to make character sheets for her to fill out, but then I had a better idea.

Tell me what you think are important questions you should ask yourself about your characters!

(demonbean)

2:46PM - OSC + SVA = OTP?

I did not see this anywhere, and I don't think there is specific wank attached to it, so here it is, in all of its glory:

Orson Scott Card weighs in on the SVA/JKR drama

Enjoy ... ?

(Courtesy of a mousie who IMd me the link!)


Edit: As cleolinda pointed out, she mentioned this craziness here, when waltraute supplied the link.  Sorry!

(j_crew_guy)

1:14PM - Gyakuten Kenji trailers (complete with translation)

Two trailers for Gyakuten Kenji (the Edgeworth game) are now online.

Text from the first trailer is translated here.

And a poor-quality fansub of the first trailer (the subber's term, not mine) can be seen here.

(iwanttobeasleep)

11:10AM

Earthbound might be coming to the Wii! It was rated for the Wii by the ESRB, so hopefully this means Nintendo will be releasing it soon. Sounds like they've gotten other games rated that went nowhere, but considering the demand for a VC release of the game, the Internet is hopeful.

(come_love_sleep)

11:10AM - "And she wound up on top of me again, and she says, 'hit me.' And I say, 'oh, shit.' "

I didn't know Dante Basco did slam poetry.  And all I can hear is Zuko...

(queencallipygos)

9:25AM - Reaffirming Your Faith In Just About Everything

*ahem*

If you have not yet seen this new ad for the Discovery Channel, you totally should.

It's got everything -- astronauts, singing Egyptologists, Mike Rowe, Bear Grylls serenading a tarantula, giant squid, Adam Savage with a flame thrower, and Stephen Hawking singing -- and wraps it all up with an old campfire song and tops it with the best slogan ever: "The World Is Just Awesome."

(If you have seen a version of this on the network, you may have seen the shorter, Hawkings-less one -- this is still worth a gander.)

I have watched this about 58 times already. :-) If this thing doesn't win a Clio award I'm going to kick someone.

Edit: This just in! Apparently there was some Yay-Discovery event, at which some stars appeared with a chorus of kids and did a live version of this! No Mythbusters, but you get Mike Rowe, Bear Grylls, the guy from Cash Cab, and -- yes -- some of the crew from DEADLIEST CATCH! Singing live!

(ravenscanary)

12:45AM - alias fandom.

So, Alias. I've watched it all with friends over the past few months and I am intrigued by the crack of it all. Where's the fandom at? Is it still active? Where's the interesting fic? Where's the good porn? (Any and all pairings, I'm not picky, just curious.) I've been Googling a bit, but not turning up much, sadly. Is this one of those shows that doesn't have much of a fandom?

(cleolinda)

5:19PM - Fresh blood in the wankosphere!

Twilight Moms: Already neglecting their kids and freaking the film production out, by their own admission. I, for one, look forward to future antics.

(coffee_mug)

12:04AM - Queer As Folk ending ... is it really that bad?

I was composing a list of my favourite m/m couples in canon and remembered Michael/Ben from the US version of QaF. Then I realized I actually stopped watching the show mid-season 4 and never went back to it. I remember reading the fandom wank caused by the season 5 finale, though.. I kind of want to jump back in, and see how the whole thing ends, but I'm skeptical. So many shows just go down the shitter during final season/episodes and I've been under the impression QaF is one of them.

So is the ending of the show worth watching?

( Further blah blah )

(negativecosine)

3:13PM - tattooery?

I'm doing some research on post-tattoo care for a fic and while I'm finding lots of recommendations for lotions and soaps and whatnot, it's kind of hard to find an actual account of what it's like afterwards-- what hurts, how long it hurts, what it feels like, what it looks like when it's very fresh, all that good stuff. Anyone have some experience they could share?

Also, thoughts on wizarding tattoos? (HPverse, that is.)

(j_crew_guy)

12:55PM - The creators of Gyakuten Kenji (the Edgeworth game) speak.

They talk about how the game came about, when it's set in the game timeline, Edgeworth running (seriously, they worked hard on that), which characters will appear (they're vague, but we already know Gumshoe is in it) and more.

And be sure to check out this gallery of gameplay screenshots and artwork.

(seiberwing)

10:48AM - Slightly old, but still miles of WTF.

Jack Thompson has an interesting idea of how to celebrate Mother's Day: by sending a letter directed towards a video game company's CEO's mom.

Hasn't this guy been disbarred already?