| Diane Kruger |
[09 Feb 2010|04:45am] |
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[08 Feb 2010|09:37am] |
Friends, Romans Canadians... I need your help. I'm translating a movie (sort of - I'm supposed to be proofreading the dub script but the translation is so incredibly bad that I'm basically re-translating it). The story takes place in Canada, and there's a scene in which the Speaker in the House of Commons calls representatives of (I suppose) various constituencies to vote. The problem is, I can't make out much of what he's saying except for "the honourable member from..." and I'm not terribly sure about what I do understand, it's not in the script, and since it's going to be subtitled as well, I'd rather not just hit Wikipedia and use random constituencies I find, so... could someone please help me out by listening to this excerpt and telling me what the Speaker is saying?
Pretty pretty please?
ETA: Thank you very much!
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| I still suck. :( |
[07 Feb 2010|10:27pm] |
It's been a bad weekend in general, sorry, but at least I have a slightly (very slightly) better preview this time.
( STILL NOT ENOUGH MUPPETS! )
More coming soon, I swear! Please don't riot or anything. ;_;
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| About that one Doctor Who rumor... |
[07 Feb 2010|06:05pm] |
So, there's been a rumor running rife around the Doctor Who fandom since Moffat took over. And that rumor has been that Neil Gaiman will be writing an upcoming episode for the franchise. Gaiman, however, hasn't really said anything about it. Until now.
Neil Gaiman confirms Doctor Who episode
( Text for the link-phobic )
Are you excited? I know I am! (Uses the only Doctor Who icon she has uploaded over here.)
Oh. And he also won the SFX Best Comic award for Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?. Which is mentioned in the article, but still. It deserves its own mention.
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[07 Feb 2010|02:13am] |
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Dear fandom in general,
Will you ever get over your hypocrisy about sex? You know, the one where if it's your OTP it's ZOMG HOTT SEXYTIEMS UNF!!!! every five minutes and they're So Doing It and anyone who's not into your porn is just a big prude, but if it's The Enemy Ship anything remotely sexual between those characters is EW EW GET IT AWAY YOU PERVS ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS THE SEX and whichever half of the ship that's "in the way" of your OTP is a big whore or a rapist or what have you.
It'd be really nice if you did.
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| (Still Not Quite) MUPPETS! |
[06 Feb 2010|11:05am] |
Tomorrow! I am having internet problems today, so tomorrow! Thank you for your patience!
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| LJ Glitch |
[06 Feb 2010|12:49pm] |
Anyone else getting over a dozen repeat responses to comments on LJ? Or is it just me?
ETA: Thanks everybody!
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| Help me, random_lounge! You're my only hope... |
[05 Feb 2010|11:06pm] |
So, I'm Muslim and can therefore only eat Halal meat, but my fiancee doesn't live near a Halal butcher and therefore can't always cook me dishes with meat in them, so he's asked me to compile a list of tasty vegetarian dishes (or dishes containing seafood but no meat) so that he can cook me dinner. So my question is: what are your favourite vegetarian/fish dishes? Bonus points for pasta and rice dishes, as I love both of those, and extra bonus points if they're relatively easy to make, but feel free to suggest any of your favourites - salads, stir fry, anything at all. Thanks in advance for your help! :)
ETA: You guys are the greatest! I am getting super-excited about trying some of these out. Oh, and Andy says thanks to y'all too. ♥
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| Vintage Friday: Dorothy Dandridge |
[05 Feb 2010|12:15am] |
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| "Attention, duelists! My hair has not appeared for over 20 episodes!" |
[04 Feb 2010|07:45pm] |
So, I already plugged this a while ago, but now Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series is up to 46 episodes, multiple filk anime music videos, three Councils of Evil, and miscellaneous funniness. You don't need to know the first thing about Yu-Gi-Oh for it to be hilarious.
(You can also watch it at YouTube, which doesn't have the complete collection, but also doesn't have ads embedded in the videos)
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[04 Feb 2010|08:42pm] |
Been a bit quiet around these parts, so here's some fresh wank (thanks to a mousie in wank report).
Over on LJ, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) plumtreeblossom posts a local news report to davis_square, a community for residents of Somerville, MA. Apparently, neighborhood creeper JonMon was arrested for throwing a loud party at which he served alcohol to hordes of teenage girls. Community members point and laugh.
turil is horrified and outraged and accuses everyone of "modern day witch hunting." When it is pointed out that the "witch" in question has been plying underage girls with alcohol for questionable purposes, turil begins defending statutory rape and opens up a big ol' can of HELL NO.
Highlights beneath the cut.
( It's like trying to reason with Jell-O )
Apparently turil has her own tag on the davis_snark community, as well as her own philosophy counseling business: She has taught young children about life, police officers about bicycling, and angry people about breathing. She has studied Positive Psychology, Buddhism, Integral Spirituality, Spiral Dynamics, Multiple Intelligences, Epistimology, Entomology, Socratic Inquiry, Urban Planning, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and all manner of artistic media. She has no fancy capital letters after her name, and does not offer professional psychotherapy or medical advice in any way shape or form.
I must confess, I am somewhat in awe.
ETA: Apologies for not posting this in UFB--I did hesitate before putting it here, but then I found a section for rape wanks in the memories so I figured it'd be kosher. So yeah, wasn't sure. Nevertheless, not meaning to offend anyone and I won't make that mistake again.
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[04 Feb 2010|05:14pm] |
This news is a bit outdated, but still exciting. There was a previous post about MTV (FINALLY) putting out Daria on DVD, but new details are slowly emerging.
Teaser trailer from MTV.
DVDaria has some more details from MTV. They seem to want to put out a product that fans want to buy. In sum:
1. It will be out sometime this year, maybe even as early as spring. They'll be putting the whole series out at once, not season-by season, including the two movies, and it will be "reasonably priced".
2. The episodes will be from the original masters, NOT the censored/edited ones that aired on Noggin. WOOOO
3. Most of the music will be replaced, as expected (getting the rights to the original music was cost-prohibitive), but it will be replaced with covers or similar songs rather than total silence, like the original DVD releases of the movies.
YYYYAAAAAYYYYYYY
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| Civility is so _Hard_ |
[04 Feb 2010|01:18pm] |
Meet dj_rocca, the girl who Avatar: the Last Airbender fandom is driving out of the fandom with their horrid ways of talking to her. Well, according to her, they are. She has been here since forever, you guys, and it makes her so sad that people do this.
Unfortunately, I don't have caps of the post where I first noticed her. It was someone's attempt at doing an AtLA-fandomsecrets post, and it got gloriously wanky.
However. Just today, the mod of avatar_fans made a post asking for civility between people over differing opinions about the live-action movie and its casting/design decisions. Most people, including dj_rocca, agreed that this was a good thing. (It's a locked post, but it's a free-membership comm.)
dj_rocca then turned around and posted this to the comm. New trailer? Cool! Calling racebending 'damn bull'? Uh, didn't you say you wanted things to be civil?
My final comment on there did go through, but she deleted the post and it was gone when I refreshed it. So I had to go back and cap my posting.
This was then followed by this post, where she was a lot more whiny about how fandom was treating her and disagreeing with her before the mod told her she didn't need to be the civility police because that was the mod's job.
I am not sure if I am pleased or displeased to be labeled as "verbally beating" her for pointing out that she wasn't being civil. >_
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| Smart Bitches/Dear Author Ebook Survey |
[04 Feb 2010|10:53am] |
Sarah from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, Jane from Dear Author, and Angela James from Carina Press will be giving a presentation at the upcoming Tools of Change conference. They want to come with some statistics they can do "sexy mathematical things" with. If you fill out their survey, you will be entered to win $250 for books or towards an ereader of your choice.
Takes a little less than 10 minutes. It asks about ebooks, DRM, pricing, whether you illegally download, etc. It's confidential.
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| Corneille |
[04 Feb 2010|06:54am] |
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| Yulieana, the one-woman wanking machine from the Bleach fandom! |
[04 Feb 2010|09:18am] |
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Thank you, kind mousey from wank_report!
Crystaldawn doesn't think that IchiHime shippers are so bad. So she writes an essay about it, debunking some of the "myths" about them... (Thanks for the exact link, mariem_1)
Yulieana (from these wanks) finds out. And she is not happy AT ALL.
Feminism is not about celebrating and encouraging women! Bullies must only be dealt with through hitting them back! A True Woman should NEVER EVER become a teacher! And samurais do not belong in Bleach. That's what Yulieana says, after all.
And as a bonus, Fandom Secrets seems to have some things to say about her...
ETA: Aaaand she saw us. Now WE are the stalkers, the bad "feminists" and the wankers, according to her and Co.. =D
ETA 2: "I wrote an eleven page essay in reply to yours!" "And I think you're such a BITCH for not fucking replying to her on it! Not from Yulie herself, but still damn wanky.
ETA 3: Why ship wars are awesome! IDK MY NOT BFF YULIE? Thanks, lady_ganesh!
ETA 4: And the whining bout CD's essay FINALLY reaches Bleachness
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| Tennis! So decorous! |
[03 Feb 2010|07:09pm] |
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All in a locked comm, going away now. My apologies.
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