| Desert Bus for Hope has returned! Charitable Schadenfreude a-go-go! |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|10:46 pm] |
I hope all of you know about Desert Bus for Hope. If you don't, it's a group of sorry bastards who play the most tedious game ever made (it was specifically designed to be tedious) to raise money for Penny Arcade's "Child's Play" charity. The live feed of the guys is hilarious and the live feed of the bus is delightfully mellow, and you can make special requests with your donation! (E.g. have the crew sing a particular song or put on a silly hat). The bus is rolling again, and as of the moment they started they were committed to drive that bus for 97 hours. That's from money raised before they started, over $10,000! Roll on you crazy fuckers.
ETA: For those of you on Twitter, there is an effort to keep #desertbus up in the trending topics! Come on, let's beat out New Moon! |
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| the grandest XO of ALL |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|08:39 pm] |
X-posted from ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) sparklefield since this is pure multi-fandom awesomeness:
The Simpsons's 2010 Hallowe'en special will feature a segment in which Lisa falls madly in love with a vampire boy named Edmund. Cast as the voice of Edmund?
Daniel Radcliffe. ♥! |
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| the grandest XO of ALL |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|08:39 pm] |
The Simpsons's 2010 Hallowe'en special will feature a segment in which Lisa falls madly in love with a vampire boy named Edmund. Cast as the voice of Edmund?
Daniel Radcliffe. ♥! |
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| Pedophile priests should get ..... wait, WHAT?! |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|02:18 pm] |
( Cut for triggery WTFery )
That headline is ridiculous. The article is not much better.
*quiet rage*
ETA: Forgot the link, had to hunt through my browser history for it.
Also, I'm still trying to figure out that line about "alleged abuse victims" -- what, the priests are convicted as pedophiles, but that doesn't mean the victims are telling the truth? |
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| Fan tore her clothes off at an autograph signing... |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|02:59 pm] |
....because Robert Pattinson made an off-hand joke that she should.
Source.
Okay. You have done some Awesome things, but that was just Stupid. You'd think he'd know by now that his fans are batshit. |
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| Anti-Violence PSA Game Stirs Controversy |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|10:38 am] |
I was kind of surprised this hadn't hit Unfunnybusiness yet...
( Cut for triggers. ) |
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| Draco is not a bully! |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|06:59 pm] |
terri_testing made those comments 3 months ago, but they were never posted here, so I decided to share them.
( Read more ) |
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| More on Horcruxes |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|08:02 pm] |
The Harrycrux! (I'm totally imagining a little "Ta-DA!" sound after that. :P )
The part that brought massive lulz was ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) lilithisbitter being all "I know Latin better than JKR, and I will now show it off":
Maybe because it's an imperfect Horcrux versus the deliberate Horcruces (Rowling fails at latin, Horcruces is the proper way to render the plural versus Horcruxes that she wrote it as) that Voldemort put in other objects. It's badly put together and probably borderline falling apart with accidently leaks versus the seeming deliberate evil of the others.
LISTEN UP, LADY. The vast majority of people who read the books will never give a flying hoot about Latin conjugations or Latin pluralizations in the first friggin' place. Also, IMO, "Horcruxes" is a little more euphonious in the HBP and DH than "Horcruces". How do you even say that? "Hor-kroo-ses" and "Hor-kroo-kes" both sound... uh, not so great.
I mean, is there really no end to the number of idiotic little nits these people will pick to try and make themselves look good at the expense of the author who went to all the trouble of creating the fandom they insist on wanking in?
Uh, sorry. *mops up* Lil too much tl;dr there, folks. :)
ETA: OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALL DOING THE STUPID HORCRUCES THING NOW. This is at once headdesk-worthy and at the same time a rather revealing insight into just how bad the groupthink is over there. |
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| opinion piece on Twilight |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|08:56 am] |
This is the first negative opinion piece on the Twilight series I've seen on a mainstream newspaper (well at least one that's local), possibly I've been living under a rock, but it made me very happy.
You know how hard it is when your flist is going on and on about a series you can't stand? Well, OK, you can just scroll on by, but now it's society which is going on and on about it, the advertising is driving me a bit insane, I can't wait until people move onto the next big thing.
Warning, spoilers in article.
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When I was growing up, my literary heroine was Josephine March from Little Women. Jo was a lanky tomboy with no interest in frocks or gentlemen. While her sisters flirted and fretted about their noses, Jo scribbled in the attic, dreaming of becoming a writer. She chopped off her hair, threw snowballs and lived with gusto at a time when gusto was extremely unladylike.
( Bella has become a poster girl for the gender roles Jo and Anne rejected more than 100 years ago )
Source |
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| 10-year-old tased by Arkansas police |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|11:02 am] |
Mother calls the police to her home to help her control her 10-year-old... again. Mother repeatedly tells the cop he can tase her daughter. After a brief struggle, the cop does. According to the police chief, tasing the girl was preferable to picking her up because "They can slip from you and fall on the ground."
Link
( Text for the linkphobic. )
ETA: The officer's report on The Smoking Gun, link courtesy of heuradys. |
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| Terri_testing's insanity reached new level |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|08:53 pm] |
Horcrux Side Effects. Apparently, Harry as a Horcrux caused moral degradation of his friends and enemies. Comments are golden, too:
marionros
I don't think you'd have to be magical to be affected by the proximity of a horcrux. Think of the Dursleys. Their fear of Harry, their revulsion of Harry and their wish to try to live as if he wasn't there takes on new dimensions when you realise that Harry is a horcrux and as such draws out negative feelings and responses in people.
oryx_leucoryx
You do realize this makes it harder to figure out whether Hogwarts in general or Hogwarts under Albus causes moral degeneration among its students over time? We have to remove from our considerations all those who were emotionally close to Harry (whether the emotion was positive or negative) and those are the students we know most about. Maybe Luna and Neville retained their moral compasses because they weren't as close to Harry, not because they resisted Hogwarts' (or Albus') influence?
condviramurs/00sevvie
Oh d*mn. You did it again. How could we have missed that for so long? Look at the effect it had on Severus too.
lilithisbitter
Most schools nowadays aren't here to educate, they're here to brainwash. And it's not like they learned magic that was of any use. Pretty magic mostly or watered down, like Potions being an extremely light version of alchemy. And transfiguration, unless they're teaching me how to toss a feather in the air and when it drifts over my opponent, I transfigure it into an one ton weight that crushes him flat, I don't see how it really helps me. Then again, unlike Miss Granger, I'm an actual genius and like most geniuses (unlike how TV and books and movie portray them) I get bored easily and tend to do badly a result. The magic that actually had an impact is locked up or forbidden, meaning if you actually want to become a powerful wizard ala Snape, you generally have to be an autodidact. All of the spells that Harry learned that actually had an impact, he didn't learn in class.
There's something oddly funny about the dark lord wanting to put part of his soul in a bejeweled headband. He just wanted to be a pretty princess, that's all. He was just so much more interesting in the earlier books when he chose to be evil versus the he was doomed to be evil. Evil that has a reason is much more interesting than evil for evil's sake. |
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| The Simplest Riposte Possible To Snapefen Re Lily |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|04:56 pm] |
I just realized something so obvious it's amazing I missed it before.
The Snapefen over on Snapedom (you all will remember the teal deer that came from 00sevvie regarding this) insist that Snape really honestly meant to save Harry and James too.
It would be a lot more plausible if it wasn't for the clever structuring of what Snape says when JK Rowling wrote the book:
“Everything – everything I heard!” said Snape. “That is why – it is for that reason – he thinks it means Lily Evans!”
Either the Potters were not married by 1980, or Snape couldn't bring himself to let Lily go, by mentally refusing to refer to her married last name.
I vote the latter, and rest my case about who Snape really cared about keeping around at that time. Snapefen who attempt to claim Harry Potter is an illegitimate child will be met with massive lulz. |
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| Universal: It's the international movie-viewer who's racist, not us! |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|07:45 pm] |
I'm surprised this hasn't made it over here yet:
Universal's UK 'Couples Retreat' Poster Brings Cries of Racism by Removing Black Actors
The excuse?
In response to outrage over the move, a Universal spokesman said the altered poster aimed "to simplify the poster to actors who are most [recognizable] in international markets."
Universal "issued a statement regretting any offense it caused, and the studio has scrapped all plans to use the modified poster in other overseas markets" but this makes it sound like the problem is with the people who took offense. |
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| Raptor D Rapticon, Sr |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|04:25 pm] |
After some N.E.W.T. Orientation, they started transfiguring an apple to a mango which was hard since you must change the color of the red apple to a yellow one. Ron had so much difficulty he changed his apple to a red mango that made Harry sick. It looked like someone pour blood on it. Hermione had no difficulty, like always, she perfectly changed her apple to a yellow mango earning her ten points to Gryffindor.
“How did you do that?” said Ron as they went down to the Greenhouses for Herbology.
“I learn Ron, not ask” said Hermione as they stopped at the entrance of the greenhouse since it was occupied by second years.
How many times have I read Quaffles, Anyone? and why am I reading it again? |
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