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| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ sistercoyote ] |
3:26p | LJ, redux Is LJ being exceptionally robust, or is it just me? Vandalism by pissed-off ex-employees? It's probably just me. But I can't get to LJstatus to find out for sure, so I thought I'd post here. Sorry to bother everyone (okay, I'm not. Not really.) Edited to add: Okay, not just me, then. On the one hand, Phew. On the other hand...I bet this has the potential to become epic. Even when it turns out to be just a hiccup. Edited again to add: Now when LJ comes up it shows the following message: LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem. Thank you for your patience. |
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fandom_lounge [ sushi ] |
5:15p | RIP, GJ. And GreatestJournal is dead. http://www.greatestjournal.com A week in the new year, and two journaling services are already dead? That's harsh. Check out the 403 error. |
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fandom_lounge [ hypno_jango ] |
11:31a | While gamer sites are doing the "Best/Worst of 2008" awards, Zero Punctuation decides to do one too... but a little bit differently. |
| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ anarchicq ] |
6:54p | Portollies.com poll Doubtless you saw this in Metafandom, but I thought I'd post it here too. Portfollies.com poll "Portfollies will be a social networking website where people can upload their portfolios (text, image, video and audio files), both original and fan works. The website will also offer communities/forums, and a variety of tools to help with creation and communication." |
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fandom_lounge [ arionhunter ] |
11:16a | Your Daily Dose of Adorable 2.1-Meter-Tall Pine-Cone Totoro Unveiled in Japan. If only that had been in the Rose Bowl Parade, I might have watched. |
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fandom_lounge [ ilya ] |
9:57p | LJ going under? The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told. The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone. Source Can you imagine the amazing bitchfest wankery that would go on if anything happened to LJ??? The internet would implode... |
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fandom_rant [ jrandomlurker ] |
12:25a | Astro Boy's Caucasian Makeover Note: This rant and the linked article refer to the upcoming Astro Boy CGI movie. If you are at all familiar with the source material, you will probably be offended by this article. Also, I hope none of you out there are big on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, as Imagi promises that since "it is not as well known as Astro Boy, the project, about five super-powered teens fighting monsters, is open to interpretation. 'We’re kind of making up our own version based on the original 1970s cartoon.' " http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.a At the risk of pushing this into i_wank territory, WHAT THE FUCK. I mean, seriously. WHAT THE FUCK are you people thinking? You did not just seriously say that you want to make Astro 'less feminine' because he has large eyes and, oh no, EYELASHES? He's a FREAKING 6-year-old-analogue ROBOT. What, are you worried about robo-pedophiles or something? It's not like he has tiny little robot-boy nipples to put pasties over, or a tiny little robot e-peen to cover up. You did not just seriously argue with the goddamn Tezuka estate about the size of his ASS. You did not just seriously say that you didn't MEAN to make a legendary Japanese iconic character look "American" but that it just kinda happened. Just plain fucking NO. A huge bag of no. (edit to fix URL) |
| Monday, January 5th, 2009 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ shark ] |
8:32p | A Request for Recs This one is for my mom - she just finished reading Phantom of the Opera (book, obviously) and wants to know where the fandom is - or at least where the fanfiction is: if anyone could rec me some good bookverse fic* I would be very, very much obliged. Good mimickry of Gaston Leroux's style (in the puffin classics translation) is a gigantic bonus. Also one from/for myself - now that I've exhausted Yuletide's offerings and am already in the middle of the Dragonchoice duology (it's good!) - is there any other good Dragonriders of Pern fic on the net? I'll read most anything, although I really like metay fic. * (gen or het, ideally; I think she would freak if I linked her slash. Also, non-porny, since I would freak at sending links to porn to my mom) |
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fandom_rant [ aeka ] |
1:57a | Bad placement of subtitles Dear Fansubbers, I appreciate all the hard work that you put into subbing anime and other international titles not available in the English language. But for the love of god! Please use common sense when you decide to get creative and place text on random spots of the fucking screen. While I don't have a problem with a line of text appearing occasionally on top to translate signs or to briefly explain certain phrases unique to that language, I don't however want a whole freaken paragraph that covers up half of the characters' faces, while at the same time translating their dialogue at the bottom of the screen. If you must write a full explanation for a particular idiom, or a particular event in the story, please DO so at the beginning of the episode before the actual opening credits start. Do you have ANY idea how it annoying it is to see a paragraph of text over a character's face JUST to be able explain a reference that you noticed early on? It's not only distracting, but if I'm reading a paragraph of text on the screen, I'm not seeing the action that's taking place, nor reading the dialogue that's being said. I can notice events for myself without you having to point them out to me, and if I missed a reference to something, it's very unlikely that I'll give a damn. I just want to watch the damned show. Another thing bothers me: please, please, PLEASE! Keep the subtitles at the bottom of the screen? I don't think it's asking too much to not want my eyes to have to follow a trail of text appearing on different sides of the screen at random times. That's also really annoying and really distracting. I'd like to be able to focus as much on the action as possible rather than the actual text thank you. Sincerely, A Lover of Foreign Entertainment |
| Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ negativecosine ] |
6:25p | Disney Buys Fanlib Written up here by ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stewardess. (May shortly be wanky, but not provocative enough for ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} clairvoyantwank just yet, I thought.) |
| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ staroverthebay ] |
8:31p | Pratchett recs? Okay, I think this is the place to post this, but if it's not, let me know and I'll delete it. It seems to pertain to "fandom" as a general rule. Anyway, the news about Terry Pratchett being knighted has inspired me to pick up the books I've had sitting around waiting to read. I've finished "Mort" and I'm most of the way through "Wyrd Sisters" and while I can say that I love Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the character I'm really in love with is Death himself. (God that sounds weird!) Being that I'm pretty much broke right now (car payments, credit card payments, car repairs and now I'm going back to school... I has no money to spare on things like novels!) I have to reserve them at the library through their transfer system, and the transfer system is not very good at giving decent book descriptions beyond author, title, year published and format (hardcover vs softbound). So what I'd like to know is this: which books focus most on Death and his household? Because I seriously love his laid-back everything-in-due-time attitude, and I'd love to read more of his escapades. I'm sure I'll enjoy any Pratchett book I pick up, but I'm really eager to read the books about Death. (Why do I get this weird feeling that I sound like an emo-gothic-wannabe when I say that?) |
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fandom_lounge [ freezer ] |
7:22p | Got an account on JournalSpace? Not anymore, you don't. Journalspace is no more. For all the bitching we do about LJ and (occasionally) JF, at least their backups actually back things up. |
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fandom_lounge [ vitalitat ] |
10:05a | New Doctor actor is youngest ever  Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role. ( Text of article ) ETA! MORE IMAGES? Is this the right guy now? ( Fixed the cut, sorry ) Yeah, that's him... The Viggo thing kind of went out the window just now. ETA 3: Hasn't Tyra taught us anything at all? ANGLES. It's all about the angles. ETA 4: And now a video interview. |
| Friday, January 2nd, 2009 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ photosinensis ] |
7:43p | Naruto Shippuden on Hulu? Sign me up! Remember that post about Crunchyroll going legit? One of the first things they're picking up is Naruto Shippuden, which will run on Crunchyroll with subtitles an hour after the show runs in Japan for the paid members there. Joost.com, Hulu.com, and Naruto.com will run the episodes for free a week later. This will start with the next episode, running on January 8. In addition, subtitled episodes will be uploaded to all above websites at 8/week until the entire catalog is available. In related news, Dattebayo has dropped Naruto Shippuden from its subtitling rounds. I'd like to start a betting pool on when the wank will begin. |
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fandom_lounge [ tree ] |
8:43p | Did you know... ... that TV Tropes was on twitter? I didn't. I almost wish I still didn't. |
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fandom_lounge [ seto_fangirl ] |
12:42p | 11th Doctor Who to be announced tomorrow..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainmen Countdown to wanksplosion somewhere in the fandom tomorrow.... |
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rp_wtf [ kagutaba ] |
5:42a | Looking for RPG Hey, I was looking for some journal based RPGs that are for original characters, but I'm not opposed to fandom characters being in the mix if a game like that exists. I'm looking for one that fits any of these themes: Post-apocalypse (without fairies and vampies, no offense), band/Jrock/Jpop/music, suvival horror, and mafia/yakuza. Oddly enough, I've been having trouble finding these. Everything is panfandom, dead or vampires. If I can't find something that fits my wants, you might see me pimping out my own game here very shortly. :) Thanks for any and all help! Current Mood: anxious |
| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ aeka ] |
12:27p | Regrettable Trends of 2008 With 2008 coming to a close today and Hello! 2009, MSN has published their annual "Regrettable Trends of 2008" to wrap up the year. Among their list of regrettable trends this year include: - Celebrity Pornstaches - Sing-Along Movies (aka Musicals) - Name Hybrids - Boobs of Youtube - Twilight... You get the picture. xD |
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fandom_lounge [ anon_a_mouse ] |
8:08a | Sir Terry Pratchett. Oook? To lighten up the mood, just in time for New Years. Terry Pratchett Knighted. |
| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_discuss [ gelasius ] |
9:45p | fandom surveys Grad Student Studies Fandom with FAN MEDIA AND CREATIVITY survey. Yeehaw! The grad student in question is more gamer than fen, but I think the survey is pretty aware of the fandom experience anyway. The questions towards the end are thought-provoking in... unusual (okay, kinda weird) ways, but there's a nice little space to ramble on about them. The fact that the survey-creator is a friend of mine should in no way detract from my totally rational opinion that contributing lots of (anonymousey) data to a research study that's actually trying to understand fandom culture can only be a Good Thing. Right? Right. So, you know, spread the link far and wide for the next few weeks while she collects the responses. :) I'm posting this here instead of fandom-lounge in part because I'm curious: what are YOUR thoughts on academic-type surveys of fandom behavior? a) Hell yeah! I fight crime with data! b) BORING and/or elitist. I'd rather read fic. c) Usually they suck c1) This one sucks c2) This one actually doesn't suck d) I'm skeptical of fandom surveys for reasons I may or may not explain in the comments. e) I want a "I fight crime with data" t-shirt.* f) I have an actual answer to this question that cannot be contained by multiple choice. *Me too. Someone get on this. ***ahem***. |
| Monday, December 29th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ seto_fangirl ] |
7:44p | Is it just me or is LJ acting very weird again tonight? |
| Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ hangingfire ] |
2:46p | Joan Winston in the NY Times In the annual "The Lives They Lived" issue of the NY Times Magazine, Rob Walker contributes a lovely appreciation of Joan Winston. Arguably not precisely deathwatch-related, even if it is an obituary of sorts, because alongside Walker offers some interesting observations about media fandom, the role that the internet has played in fandom in recent years, and changes in perception of media fandom since Winston organized the first Trek convention. An excellent short read—check it out. Non-fandom-related and also worth reading: Well, pretty much the entire issue, but I call particular attention to the essays about Mildred Loving (really touching), Levi Stubbs and Dee Dee Warwick, Bobby Fischer, John List (disturbing and fascinating), Steve Fossett, and Eula Mae Doré (which, along with the Loving essay, almost made me start crying over brunch at the local coffeeshop). Current Mood: thoughtful |
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fandom_lounge [ spawn_of_kong ] |
2:29p | Primeval fans, anyone? If this is inappropriate, let me know ASAP and I'll delete. Just wondering if there's anyone out there on JF who, like me, is a fan of ITV's Primeval. If so, how much are you looking forward to the third season airing in January, and what sorts of things do you expect/think will/might happen? Current Mood: curious |
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fandom_lounge [ stinksap ] |
12:14p | Thundercats Ho! Amazing fanvid for a fictional live action Thundercats movie. http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/22/vot |
| Saturday, December 27th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ brennalarose ] |
9:10p | This is driving me nuts... I've recently gotten into a new fandom, which seems to be super-small. There are two episodes/scenes I'm trying to locate from the show. Are there any Rome fans on here who can tell me what episode Octavia imitates Atia having an orgasm in or knows where I can find the scene in English? I found it in German, but my German skills suck. The other is the episode/scene where Livia and Atia argue over who gets to march first in some procession. Preferably, I want to know the episode name/number for both. I've seen both scenes and I want to know the circumstances behind each, because the dvds are out of my price range just now. Thanks in advance! |