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dark_puck, posting in fandom_lounge @ 03:12 pm: Help me, Fandom_Lounge!
You're my only hope!

All right, so I have a vague recollection of a wank about EarthBound (Mother 2) some years back.  Someone got real offended about the secret to beating Giygas and decided he had to let all of us know about it.

I've just spent the last few hours looking through Fandom Wank, Clairvoyant Wank, and I Wank, but I can't find it at all!  Anyone know where or when it was?

darth_buttocks, posting in fandom_wank @ 08:15 pm: Twicon Final Fail!
Awww, the Twihards had their first total failcon...

Not that it is that surprising, but Twicon has canceled both it's shows. With a big announcement on it's website:

In hind sight, it was pretty obvious things were going downhill for these guys. In February, they had to move their Toronto show to Ottawa due to the G20 Conference happening that weekend. This set off a flurry of cancellations and some grumblings on the message board about the Partners dragging their feet on refunds

The announcement is only a few hours old, and right now there is lots of confusion on the forum, especially about how they get refunds since the announcement didn't bother to mention how you go about this.

ETA: Becky Scoggins has posted a personal apology that specifically states it's not an official statement from Twicon. It's obvious she's distancing herself from the Twicon partners, trying to shift blame.

ETA 2: Noneya calls bullshit on Becky's apology pointing out the discrepancies in her statements At first, TwiCon 09 was premised on the idea of a charitable donation to Autism research but that apparently went to the wayside without any explanation to ticket holders either. Then you threw a TERRIBLE convention and had your spokesperson saying that "you did your best" and "I still think it went pretty well..." Lies. And it looks like the post has been deleted! Thankfully I have screencaps! (the offending post will be at the bottom :)

ETA 3.5: And the thread about refunds has now disappeared! You think the forum will last the week? But Becky is claiming the threads were deleted by the users!

ETA 4: Now we have other Twicon Partner Bailey Gauthier responding. And she's saying she doesn't know what's happened either!

Tags: can't escape the screencaps, cons, fandom: twilight, stop giving strangers money you idiots

rganymede, posting in random_lounge @ 11:17 pm: Youtube has changed its video pages
And now all my video-downloader FF extensions no longer work. Does anyone know of a FF extension that works with the new youtube video pages?

sarajayechan, posting in fandom_lounge @ 01:51 pm: Pokemon Party!
With Heart Gold and Soul Silver coming out tomorrow, Cartoon Network had a mini-marathon of Orange Island episodes ending in the second movie. So let's have a big ol' Pokemon discussion-fest! Which generation/side game/movie/episode/etc. is your favorite? Are you getting HG or SS? Any choice bits of fanfic or shipping nostalgia you wanna impart?

I'm getting Soul Silver because it has Vulpix, Meowth and Skarmory. :D And movie 2 is my favorite probably because deep down I'm still 16 years old when it comes to this fandom and I can't say no to Ash/Misty.

cedara @ 06:00 pm: Clandestine Meetings (White Collar/Criminal Minds Crosover)
Title: Clandestine Meetings
Author: Cedara
Rating: PG
Pairings: Hotchner/Reid (implied), Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey/Elizabeth Burke (implied)
Crossover: White Collar/Criminal Minds
Spoilers: White Collar -> post 'Out of the Box' (#114), Criminal Minds -> post 'Slave of Duty' (#510)
Notes: For the "A Fandom Walks into a Bar" challenge.
Beta: Thanks go to persiflage_1.

( A fandom walks into a bar... )

Tags: criminal_minds, white_collar

cedara @ 05:54 pm: For the White Collar Valentine's Exchange Feb.14
Title: Beginnings
Author: Cedara
Recipient: misura
Rating: G
Genre: gen-ish, pre-series
Pairing: Peter/Elizabeth
Spoilers: none
Warnings: none
Word Count: 829
Prompt: Pre-series fic about the first few days/weeks/months Peter was on Neal's case (#2 in your prompts list)
Summary: Seven years ago, Peter Burke started working on Neal's case.


( Beginnings )

Tags: white_collar

cedara @ 05:53 pm: Drabble meme (NCIS: Los Angeles, White Collar, NCIS, Doctor Who)
Drabble meme fanfics, originally posted here.


( NCIS: LA - Sam/G - shots (160 words) )


( White Collar: Peter/Neal/Elizabeth - The Poly Discussion (442 words) )


( NCIS: McGee - Why does this always happen to me? (144 words) )


( Doctor Who: Aliens steal the world's supply of toast - (214 words) )

Tags: doctor who, ncis, ncis.la, white_collar

cedara @ 05:51 pm: White Collar: The Painting (PG, Peter/Neal pre-slash, Peter/Elizabeth)
Title: The Painting
Author: Cedara
Pairing: Peter/Neal (pre-slash), Peter/Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Words: 5115
Spoilers: Threads, Flip of the Coin, The Portrait
Beta: ailurophile6 and seanlily
Note: Written for heidi (pinkfinity.livejournal.com) as a Yuletide 2009 present, who wished for "anything with Neal and Peter" and "[something involving] one of Elizabeth's events"
Posted first at: The Yuletide 2009 Collection at Archive of our own

( The Painting )

Tags: white_collar

cedara @ 05:50 pm: Castle: Kate Beckett's Christmas (gen)
Title: Kate Beckett's Christmas
Rating: G
Category: gen
Words: 977
Note: Written for CaitN for Yuletide Madness 2009
Posted first at: The Yuletide Madness 2009 Collection at Archive of our own

( Kate Beckett's Christmas )

Tags: castle

cedara @ 05:47 pm: White Collar: The Heist (gen-ish ficlet)
Title: The Heist
Author: Cedara
Category: gen, no pairing
Characters: Peter, Neal
Wordcount: 141 words
Notes: Not betaed

( ficlet )

Tags: white_collar

undomielregina, posting in fandom_lounge @ 09:53 am: Looking for Novel Recommendations
I have a paper to write about Dark Fantasy -- doing a thematic analysis across a period of time. I need to pick 6-8 works published in a range of dates spanning at least two decades.

So far, I'm looking at starting with Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat and ending with Twilight and teasing at the twin strands that spin off of Rice's novels of the hero who's tortured by his identity and the hero who revels in it (ie, Edward vs. Bella in Eclipse.)

So far, I'm really just looking at the two Vampire Chronicles novels, the Black Jewels Trilogy (so! much! reveling!) and Twilight. So I could use a hand coming up with more works of Dark Fantasy (needs to be books, or I'd be all over Buffy so fast you wouldn't believe it).

Thanks!

ETA:Further clarification on what I'm looking for: Since dark fanstay is still too broad a sub-genre to write about in full, I'm trying to look at novels where protagonists have the aesthetic that was, in classic horror, reserved for the villains.

sablemouse, posting in fluffybusiness @ 09:18 pm: Neither M nor F
I thought this was interesting in light of the transfail from last year. Norrie is the first person in NSW, Australia to officially be registered as sexless. Zie identifies as neuter, and now the government recognises that.

Sexless in the city: a gender revolution

( Cut for the article )

finchbird, posting in fandom_lounge @ 10:19 pm: Something I think many of you would be interested in.
There's a new community called coc_m_madness that is just like f_march_madness (game where people nominate and vote for which fictional characters get to compete and win in each round until someone wins) but is specifically for characters of color and those coded as CoCs.

Nominations are open until Sunday 12:00 PM EST. Remember, daylight saving time starts on Sunday morning at 2:00.

You can nominate characters here.

stellar_dust, posting in random_lounge @ 08:07 pm: streaming radio recs?
Hello random_lounge! I need some recs for good, eclectic streaming music stations that I can play for ambient sound at the used book store where I just started working.

The trouble, of course, is that we've got a mac, and it doesn't have WMP or RealPlayer or any of those windows things on it, so I need a site with its own flash-based player or ... something that's on a mac, idk.

Any suggestions?

platedlizard, posting in fluffybusiness @ 10:15 am: Aussie Miracle Elephant birth.
They thought the baby elephant died during the nine-day labor, but he was born alive and healthy!

Story

I do have to wonder about whoever it was that named the mom, though. Porntip is a very strange name.

misachan, posting in fandom_lounge @ 02:26 am: Because no one should have to squee alone.
Have you ever fallen fannishly in love with something and scoured the internet for fellow fans only to throw up your hands in dismay, shouting "Why am I the only one watching this show/reading this book/playing this game?" Then this is the meme for you:

SMALL FANDOMS FRIENDING MEME

There's a nice variety of manga and videogame fandoms there already, but there are so many fandoms that could be added. In fact, I'm going to add Royal Pains now, because I just can't believe there's only two of us on all of LJ shipping Boris/Hank.

quantumreality, posting in fandom_lounge @ 09:26 pm: Is it just me, or....
For those of you who have replies to your journal posts and/or comments CC:ed to your e-mail, have you noticed JournalFen "dropping" comments? I've already caught a few replies to my comments that never got CC:ed into my e-mail inbox.

thebratqueen, posting in fluffybusiness @ 12:04 pm: Twitter: Good for more than talking about sh*t your dad says
Conan O'Brien's Twitter stunt turns tear-jerker

The comedian follows a stranger on the social networking site, and for once, that sudden fame is used for good.

( Text for the link phobic )

Source

tetradecimal, posting in fandom_lounge @ 09:51 am: Rapunzel renamed by Disney 'because it doesn't appeal to boys'
Highlights:
"The studio's forthcoming version of the Brothers Grimm story will be renamed "Tangled" after market research showed that boys do not like films with girls' names in the title.

Disney bosses believe that is the reason for the disappointing box office performance of its recent offering, The Princess and the Frog."

"Disney has also shelved another film, The Snow Queen, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, fearing it will alienate boys."

Full article here.

ETA: Rebuttal at NPR.

platedlizard, posting in fandom_lounge @ 03:42 pm: No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style
So apparently Del Ray Spectra is doing something arcane with various fictional characters.

Steven Brust is puzzled.

And as for the actual matchup it self, uh, hard to say? But matching Dumbledore against a guy whose goto weapon is* called Spellbreaker is a bit much. Yes I'm biased, shut up



*or was called, until it got an upgrade