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| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | ||
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lab |
12:43p | Meme stolen from ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} musesfool:Footnote: My memory of this year starts at around November, aka the TIME I STARTED TO LIVE AGAIN, so this list may seem a little end-of-the-year-focussed. Your main fandom of the year? Dexter. Your favourite film watched this year? Probably XXY, though I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Man. Your favourite book read this year? A difficult question this year, since I hardly remember any kind of fiction reading. On the non-fiction front, I have to say that I'm in love with Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, because, while not new, I only realised the scope and brilliance of his argument when confronted with the context. I got to appreciate Zygmunt Bauman (esp. Dialectic of Modernity and Wasted Lives) and Andrea Smith's Conquest. Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide broadened my horizon with the elegance of detailed historical feminist research and the bluntness of a sledge hammer. One publication that I awaited anxiously and that lived up to my expectations was Jan Philipp Reemtsma's Vertrauen und Gewalt. Versuch über eine besondere Konstellation der Moderne. [Violence and Trust. An Essay on an exceptional constellation of modern thought.] Your favourite album or song to listen to this year? José James: The Dreamer, Parov Stelar (& band): Shine, Gotan Project's new live album, Sisters: Gender Riots, Nneka: Heartbeat, and, last but definitely not least: Buraka som Sistema: Kalemba (Wegue Wegue). Your favourite TV show of the year? Pushing Daisies, though True Blood and SPN S4 were strong contenders this year, too. Your favourite LJ community of the year? Hm. Wasn't around much. Your best new fandom discovery of the year? The only new thing that makes me want to write fic at this point is True Blood - and I'm mainly interested in Pam & Eric as badly dressed Sapphire and Steel clones - (I'm too heartbroken about the Pushing Daisies cancellation) and maybe Lucifer; but I'd like to finish that one first. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? Pushing Daisies! Cancellation! What the heck! Also, House, and the whole anticlimactic something that was Dexter S3. (Of course, the whole trainwreck that's Heroes and Grey's, but these were anticipated) Your TV boyfriend of the year? Either Josh Lyman or one Sgt. Doakes, mentally added in all Dexter's S3. Your TV girlfriend of the year? Charlotte "Chuck" Charles. Your biggest squee moment of the year? Werecollie! Boston Legal's final episode! (I'm going to miss that show so much) The most missed of your old fandoms? The West Wing and Weiß Kreuz. I've got serious cravings for good stories in both of them. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I hear a lot about Entourage, Life and Merlin. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year? Dexter S4! True Blood S2! BSG comes back! Also, Massive Attack may just finally - finally finally finally - publish a new album (MA are one of the only bands I still feel genuinely fannish about) and there's a Blur reuinion up the alley. |
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ashenmote |
12:47a | ( Water. And bubbles on water. Fun. ) BTW when I asked what people would see in the ice picture I was curious if I was the only one who would see the bovine face. Turns out it maybe wasn't as obvious as I thought, but I wasn't the only! \o/  |
| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | ||
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aaron_agonistes |
3:49p | God damn. Putting all my porn over here is gonna take days and days. Fuck you, eljay. |
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ashenmote |
7:31p | This is pretty and elegant. And Chinese. Flowing. I wish the audience would save all that clapping for the end though. I mean, I can understand being excited, but still. Look at those kittens from the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee. I wanted to write more but I'm busy playing around with animated gifs, so maybe I'll attach an ETA or two later. ETA: In a complete reversal of the way the things are, it turns out that P!cat makes great icon-sized animations, while D!cat's turn out lousy. I guess stripes just don't do the resizing so well. :P ( 6 animated gifs ) |
| Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | ||
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puipui |
5:35a | Eleventh Doctor Dude, what's wrong with his chin? If you glued some plastic bolts to his temples, he'd look just like Frankenstein's monster. Except with emo hair. D: |
| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | ||
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pyratejenni |
9:48a | |
| Friday, January 2nd, 2009 | ||
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stellar_dust |
10:58p | 2008 in Fandom: Meme gacked from erinya.( the year in fandom ) Note mood. Bingley has been sticking SO CLOSE to my side since we got back from OH. She is adorable. (And whiny.) ♥. Current Mood: glommed by kitty Current Music: Sanctuary |
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stellar_dust |
6:10p | Yuletide! Let's start with the story I got: DEPARTMENT FANFIC!! Cretaceous Morning by ninamazing, wherein there is Lazlo/Wendy and Oscar/Victor and A VELOCIRAPTOR, and it is everything a Department fic ought to be, and, oh, go read it! Thank you, thank you, thank you, for my wonderfulamazing story! The story I wrote is Things Half In Shadow (Are Halfway In Light), in Stephen King's Dark Tower universe. For the second time in as many ficathons, I got to write for someone on my friendslist ( birene, who is on my JF flist)! And she seems to have loved it, which makes me very happy. :D( Blathering about Dark Tower and writing and yuletide and things ) Probably should write more, but Mom wants help with dinner, so that'll have to do. I have a ton of pictures from various Indian mounds of southwestern Ohio, plus the Williamsburg pictures; and I'll have more DT analysis when I post the fanmix. And of course Christmas was fun, so maybe I'll post about that later. Oh, and I really liked the DW Christmas special! I'm so not ready to go back to work on Monday. *sigh* (ETA: some stuff throughout that I remembered over dinner I wanted to talk about.) Current Mood:  grateful, but getting a headacheCurrent Music: Sting - The Book Of My Life |
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puipui |
1:37p | It's a tragedy and I shouldn't be so callous about it, I really shouldn't. What, no ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_lounge post about John Travolta's son yet? You're falling down on the job, here, you death-obsessed freaks. |
| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | ||
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snacky |
9:37p | Hey, sports fans! Sometimes sepiamagpie and I host an online game of the board game Balderdash, which is a game of filthy lies.The way the game plays: A question is picked from five categories (acronyms, names, words, laws, and movies) and you make up an answer to try and fool the other players into picking yours when they're all read outloud. The real answer is always slipped in during the final reading and points are determined by whether you voted for the right one and who voted for your answer. Example: WACKY WORDS: Bobbyalla And then the answers are read out of order, without the real writers revealed: player 2: An african animal player 1: The real term for the laughtrack you hear on sitcoms real answer: A stubby Tasmanian tree player 3: An ancient Wicca incantation. And then the voting and so on. If you're interested in playing, please leave a message here or drop by on aim. Talk to me: Snacky8 or sepiamagpie voodoohamster.The game will take place on: FRIDAY AT 7 PM CENTRAL |
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sisterelwood |
2:11a | Interesting This may actually be right. I have been called an 'enigma' in the past and people do tend to have notions of who I am and are upset when I defy these notions.
Multi-Faceted Soul
In a way, you are a truly balanced person. You have a good sense of self, but you have periods of worry and self doubt. You don't like to be alone a lot, but you don't like being constantly surrounded, either. You can be shy in some situations and bold in others. You can tell people how you feel, but you don't wear your heart on your sleeve. You aren't "TOO" anything: You aren't too shy, you aren't too aggressive, you aren't too extroverted, you aren't too introverted. However at any one time you can be any combination of these things. You tend to adapt yourself to match the situations in which you find yourself. You may be quiet and sensitive with some people, or joking and loud with others. These are all facets of your personality. People tend to perceive you as they want to perceive you. They may even tend to idealize you a bit. Then, when you do something that doesn't fit their concept of who you are (like have an outburst of anger, or a fit of shyness, or make an insensitive joke)they can be shocked and surprised. Does anyone know the real you? Your daemon would represent your multi-faceted and ever-changing personality, as well as people's tendency to idealize you. He or she would get angry when you did not, be calm and poised when you felt ruffled and anxious, and always be the voice of emotion and reason in your ear. Suggested forms:
Current Mood:  GoofyCurrent Music: "Everytime" by Glen Hansard & Colm Mac Con Iomaire |
| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | ||
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ashenmote |
8:54p | How would your life be like if gravity weren't a constant? Not as in shifts of gravity like they go in hand with travel, but as in having an everyday life with shifting gravity. No need to be too scientific. Or gross. Arguments such as "Under those circumstances life wouldn't exist" don't count. Let's assume gravity would billow around a set point close enough to what we know. Maybe like ebb and flow or maybe some more complex pattern, like, I don't know, cloudiness. Do you know any books or articles dealing with that topic? I mean, I'm sure there are at least two silver age Superman comics addressing the question* in some way, not counting the odd gravity-manipulating villain or hero squad member, but apart from that? Scientific books or Science Fiction or whatever? *Though, if you know the issues, plz to be linking me to them. :D  Poll #433 Ice Open to: All, results viewable to: All What do you see in this picture? ( three more ice pictures ) Books: I'm done reading the MacArthur biography. That was a good read, especially because my knowledge over the pacific side of Word War II was pretty much "First Pearl Harbour took place and then stuff happened and then Hiroshima was destroyed" and while that isn't chronologically wrong, I still feel better knowing more than that. I'm also done reading Tell Me No Lies by Elizabeth Lowell, and that book was bad. Even by the standard of shiny books with embossed Kanji letters or Eastern dragons on the front it was still bad. Because while it had all the ingredients to appeal to the inner 12yrs old, with badass special agents teaching the mystic East a lesson or two about honor or samurai codex and the likes? It's really about a love story and that love story combines the appeal of Anakin/Padme with the repetitiveness of Gor. I know some of you said Lowell isn't bad, so I assume it's one of her earliest books and she got much better since. It's from 1986. I'm also done reading Amusing Ourselves To Death and I expected it wouldn't tell me anything new, but I was wrong. Still, it was useful in the "this is the problem" department and hopelessly weak in the "what could we do about it" department. Also, I think it was more of a downer to read it knowing how the Internet has shifted away from text-based over time. I'm almost done reading The Complete Yes, Prime Minister and I like it even more than the complete yes, minister. Bernard has much more to do and a better idea what is going on now. :D Current Music: Paris - Yael Naïm |
| Monday, December 29th, 2008 | ||
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pyratejenni |
2:26p | Deep Thoughts... by PyrateJenni Any movie with George Clooney in it is a good movie. |
| Friday, December 26th, 2008 | ||
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alya1989262 |
1:13p | Ten days ago, I woke up with my right eye burning. I thought it was pink-eye, but it did not get better with eyedrops, and it got worse with sunlight. I got to my ophtamologist in the evening and he said I had keratitis again, and prescribed me drops and an ointment and told me not to use the computer for a few days. By the time my eye got better, internet went down in all of Egypt and the Middle East. Just as it started to go up again (still very slow, but I could at least chat and email people), my computer died while I was talking to Anna. I think it's the processor, but I haven't really diagnosed it because I am kind of starved for time because of finals approaching (and I'm oversleeping and constantly tired because I'm still taking anti-histamine). So anyway, I have a Luna/Neville fic to send out tomorrow for a fic exchange and I haven't written a word, on account of being unable to keep my eyes open for five minutes at a time last weekend, and now I have finals in 10 days. And no computer. D: And I'm wearing glasses, so I have migraines even more often than usual. So, um, how're you, guys? Current Mood: Bitch Slapped |
| Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | ||
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harrylovesron |
11:26p | (Crossposted from my LJ.) After much effort and hassle, I got my hands on a copy of the movie "Cheaters' Club" after seeing a clip from it in Chris Violette's demo reel, because yeah, he's totally tied to a bed in it. |D And of course, there are caps. His character had a total of 3 minutes or so of screentime, but OH DEAR GOD was it worth it. DEFINITELY NSFW SCREENCAPS BELOW. POST IS ALSO IMAGE-HEAVY. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY NOSEBLEEDS OR BRAIN BREAKAGES RESULTING EITHER. ( Rrrrawrf. ) MERRY CHRISTMAS INDEED. Gaarrroooo. Current Mood:  naughty |
| Friday, December 26th, 2008 | ||
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stromatolite |
3:44p | Merry Christmas, everyone! It is gorgeous outside. I woke up early enough to see the sunrise. Now I'm at |
