| Ganguro catching on in Britain? |
[04 Jul 2009|08:21pm] |
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BBC: Japan's fashion rebellion goes West
By Nina Robinson
BBC World Service, London An underground youth culture in Japan which makes a rebellious fashion statement against traditional rules on eastern beauty, is taking hold on Britain's youth.
Manba involves devotees wearing dark tans, white make-up around their eyes and hair that is often a combination of neon colours.
British teenagers like 18-year-olds Eilish and Declan got caught up in manba after an interest in Japanese culture led them to start researching on the internet, where they came across the style. Seriously, this is one Japanese fashion trend that I didn't think would take off elsewhere. Last I checked, it wasn't even that common among cosplayers in the U.S., unlike Gothic Lolita, which has a small but dedicated following. Or maybe I'm wrong. Her social networks are important as she has friends in Japan and the US who are also into the style.
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"There are also some in America. I'm quite good friends with some of the girls who do it in America." Looks like I am wrong.
In any event, it seems that the ganguro gals (and at least one guy--Declan) in the UK appreciate the irony inherent in their fashion choice."We're Western girls trying to be Japanese girls, trying to be Western - it seems like a funny circle to go around." I can't top that.
There are also two videos that go with the report.
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| Former Quarterback Steve McNair Killed |
[04 Jul 2009|05:08pm] |
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4306275&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair has been killed, a source has confirmed to ESPN.com.
McNair, police said, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head in downtown Nashville. A female victim was also found dead, police spokesperson Don Aaron said. Aaron said the woman has not been identified, pending notification of next of kin.
The incident happened near 2nd South & Lea Ave in Nashville.
McNair played 13 seasons in the NFL, 11 were with the Tennessee Titans. He played his final two years with the Baltimore Ravens, retiring after the 2007 season.
McNair was picked third overall in the 1995 draft out of Alcorn State by the then Houston Oilers.
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| Help me random_lounge |
[04 Jul 2009|03:46am] |
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Does anyone have the web address for the wacky Victoria cards? It's like "Uncle" something. They had oddball Christmas cards, Thanksgiving cards, Halloween cards, 4th of July cards, etc.. It's all freakin' hilarious but I don't have the link any more. Help???
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| Oluchi Onweagba |
[04 Jul 2009|12:43am] |
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| Friday, July 3, 2009 |
[03 Jul 2009|10:47pm] |
- executrix: Meta: Femslash ToTTBoTB? - So my question is, is there a lot of discourse about Who Tops in femslash? -
- penknife: Apparently, my ability to handwave only goes so far. - My own thoughts on why AUs without homophobia usually don't work for me: -
- eumelia: Gay People are Real, Slash is Meta - As a queer woman who reads fiction that is more often than not written by other women (queer and not) about men who are sexual with each other... in a society that tells me that that is not so legitimate, I feel stronger. -
- fiercelydreamed: [in queerlygen] Soon, this place is gonna be a party, and you're all invited. - Drawing a line in the sand between "slash" and "gen" erases the fact that many of us live our daily lives aware of our identities and experiences as queer or genderqueer people. It's not something we only think about when we're falling in love, getting our hearts broken, or getting off. -
- thingswithwings: slash/gen: I would like to ship it - het/gen, the slashing of het and gen, het and gen making out with each other, is a system that reinscribes heterosexuality as the norm and as normal, a system that excludes queer sexualities from representation, from general interest. -
- morgandawn: PSA: Submitting vids to vidorama & Mediawest and other conventions - As a bit of historical context*, Mediawest (a media based fan run convention) has - for decades - segregated slash vids from the main vid show, offering to show them in a separate show 'after hours." They have explained that the reason they do this is because they are a 'family friendly' convention. -
- sockkpuppett: Vidorama, a personal opinion - I don't know the moderator(s) of vidorama, but I believe that there is a better way to seek out specifically-themed vids than creating a homophobic fannish community. That's like inviting the swim team out and then closing the pool. -
- cryptoxin: Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a copyright lawyer! Except for the doctor part. - In this light, fannishness counts against you: in rejecting the parody defense, the judge reasons that "60 Years' plain purpose is not to expose Holden Caulfield's disconnectedness, absurdity, and ridiculousness, but rather to satisfy Holden's fans' passion for Holden Caulfield's disconnectedness, absurdity, and ridiculousness..." -
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| Author feud! |
[03 Jul 2009|09:10pm] |
There seems to be a writer's feud on Twitter.
Now, this isn't a for-reals feud, but rather a bunch of writers who have decided to call each other names on Twitter for the amusement of others.
It starts when John Green decides he wants to have a writer's feud. People suggest writers, ranging the gamut of quality from Neil Gaiman to Cassie Cla(i)re (who makes an amusingly ironic comment here. Ultimately, however, Maureen Johnson (no connection to the character from Rent) fires the first shot, despite John's stated wish earlier not to "feud" with her again.
Follower counts are compared. Awards are whipped out and dismissed (though I will admit that Johnson's American covers do have unfortunate implications). There's even a comment about making John cry, as well as a commentary on John's hair.
Justine Larbalestier decides to get in on the feuding action, bringing ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) fandom_wank star Cassie Cla(i)re in with her. "Real" names are revealed. Jellyfish are ordered (for Johnson's bathtub).
Jennifer Lynn Barnes takes sides with Johnson. Johnson attempts to drag Neil Gaiman in on it, but he declines, letting off what is perhaps the best insult in the whole thing.
As of now, Green, who one could say started this fight (and managed to put in a good flamewar on a BlogTV show earlier today), seems to have forgotten about the whole thing.
And they say Twitter is useless. Well, it probably is, and these people would be writing (or perhaps making YouTube videos in Green's case or plagiarizing in Cla(i)re's) were it not for this tremendous waste of time.
ETA: Another postworthy burn.
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| Let's Play |
[03 Jul 2009|07:00pm] |
I'm not sure how many people are familiar with the concept of Let's Plays but I've become addicted to them. Pretty much its someone playing a game and offering commentary on it. Blind runs are popular as well especially on horror survival games like Silent Hill.
Those of you that are familiar with them do you have any favorites? Or a let's play you'd recommend to someone who'd just discovered the concept?
On a minor note I've started doing LP's myself. I just finished King's Quest 3 VGA remake, and plan to start on KotR I. But I'd like to line up some games to play after that or if I run into issues with KotR, so do you guys have any suggestion? Please keep it to PC games, or games with emulators. And if any of you have tips or comments about my first attempt please let me know. :)
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| You are hereby banished from the Kingdom of Squee |
[03 Jul 2009|10:49am] |
Over the course of the recent warnings controversy, I kept seeing phrases like: "As an exiled BNF myself..." "I was forced to leave fandom years ago..." "...she was kicked out of fandom..."
...and this isn't the first time I've heard it.
I've been active in various fandoms for about 15 years now and I still don't understand the concept of being "kicked out"; nor have I seen such a thing occur.
What does it even mean? You get a court order to stop cosplaying or writing fanfic? The postal service intercepts your zine submissions? Ninjas come in the night and steal all your DVDs? I'm utterly bewildered. It seems awfully vague, not to mention unenforceable.
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[03 Jul 2009|08:08am] |
I remember those good old days. I was twelve years old, and I thought everyone's internet opinion was serious business. I got my panties in a tight wad whenever someone dissed that one character I obsessed over. Then, I would proceed to declare internet war and make big essays about why no one should say mean things about my favorite character ever.
Really though, why do people care so much? It's a fictional character. That character is a figment of some creative author's imagination. It's not anyone's mom or something. Sure, people's reasoning behind things can be dumb, but let's face it: they'll get lives in a couple of years. Wankers usually do. Okay, not all of them, but still! I love Cassie Ainsworth from Skins. I have this girl crush on her, but I'm not gonna get all pissed the hell of if someone on the internet called her a stupid bitchy whore. Really? I'm too busy keeping chicks off my real life man to care about some fictional character's e-reputation.
/cleans the splooge up
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| Vintage Friday: David Bowie |
[03 Jul 2009|12:05am] |
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| July 2, 2009 |
[02 Jul 2009|09:48pm] |
- rm: Oh Noes! There's Gay People In My Fandom! - Real, live queer people exist out there in the world and real, live queer people exist in fandom. And I am sick and tired of us being either something merely fetishized or relegated to a genre either appealing or not. -
- beatrice_otter: Meta: Fandom as a Safe Space - I mean, sure, the shows/movies/books are awesome, and we all love the characters and the actors who play them (or at least love to hate them), but that's not what keeps us in fandom over the long haul, keeps us moving to new corners of fandom as old ones slow down from cancellation or whatever. -
- cofax7: bad news - a United States District Court has ruled that an unauthorized sequel doesn't qualify as transformative if it's not a critical parody. -
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) merricatk: If only there were some way to take authors out of the equation . . . . - In the zine days, I would have been happy to have traded my writing for something to read. But in the internet days, I'm trading my writing for rules and regulations that I have no say in. -
- ficangel: On being nice. - However. The "it takes five seconds to not trigger someone"--fraught with its own problems as it is--has been taken over in way too many fucking spaces with, "It takes five minutes to add this warning in exactly the way that I want you to, what's fucking wrong with you, don't you want to be nice? // Arguments towards social utility are no longer necessary; "nice" and the fact that it honestly wouldn't take much to comply are rhetorical tools with which to bludgeon dissent into quiet without the necessity of having to have any kind of argument at all, because who doesn't want to be nice? Only assholes, obviously. -
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| You're standing on my neck. |
[02 Jul 2009|06:47pm] |
TV Shows on DVD reports that an upcoming DVD release has an ad for Daria DVDs in 2010! I'm so excited! I still have a bunch of videos from when The N would air edited episodes.
Also (might as well consolidate my posts y/y?), does anyone have an idea as to where I can find people to fill up my San Diego Comic-Con hotel room? (I already tried the unofficial LJ comm and Facebook.) Or, hell, need a place to stay during CC? I have a killer room!
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| mtv.com streaming The Maxx! |
[02 Jul 2009|10:51am] |
Looking for a new fandom?
Want a new mind screw?
Missed The Maxx during the hay-day of YTV or MTV?
Just want to re-live The Maxx in it's Pez eating, toast wanting, Meeping glory?
You're in luck!
MTV.COM IS STREAMING 6 EPS OF THE MAXX FOR FREE!!
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| Two Shot: Cindy Crawford & kd lang |
[02 Jul 2009|01:16am] |
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| July Picspam! |
[01 Jul 2009|11:36pm] |
IT IS POLL TIME AGAIN! YAY!
Poll #474 July Picspam!
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllWHOSE HOT SHALL REIGN SUPREME?
PS: I feel the need to explain the "Picspam A-Z" option, here, because I couldn't really come up with a particularly self-explanatory title for it, sorry. Going off of a suggestion from melandry at our Suggestion Post, this would basically involve finding one or more hot-type people for each letter of the alphabet and then posting them in order, which isn't really a theme so much as a creative exercise, I suppose, but I can assure you that it would be interesting, at the very least. I can already think of at least two people to post for 'X'! Oooooh! :D
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| Gale Storm, 87, singer and star of 1950s sitcoms. |
[02 Jul 2009|12:41am] |
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From the L.A. Times: Gale Storm dies at 87; star of 1950s sitcoms
The actress came to Hollywood as a finalist in a national talent contest, then appeared in numerous movies before starring on TV in the popular 'My Little Margie' and 'The Gale Storm Show.'
By Dennis McLellan
June 29, 2009
Gale Storm, who shot to the top on television as the vivacious star of two popular 1950s situation comedies, "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna," has died. She was 87.
Storm, who also had a successful recording career during her TV heyday, died Saturday of natural causes at a convalescent hospital in the Northern California community of Danville, according to her son Peter Bonnell. What a week it's been!
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| Wednesday, July 1, 2009 |
[01 Jul 2009|11:36pm] |
- xtricks: This Week in Bigotry: Good and Bad - I've gotten tired of just sitting there going ... well, it's their contest, they can have whatever rules they want. Why, yes they can, but I don't have to sit there in silence and let them imagine there are no consequences. -
- mresundance: Blacklisted. - Because homophobia in fandom is fun, kids. -
- squi_nunc: Warnings and labels - People who object to labels IN THEIR OWN JOURNALS might have a variety of equally valid reasons. No, we are not obligated to share those with you. My journal is my space. -
- ranalore: Labels, Directories, and Communities - Suppose there was a community co-moderated by at least three, but preferrably six or seven, people who held different views in the current warnings debate. Suppose the purpose of this community was to create a directory of the individual labeling policies of fanworks creators, . . .. As proposed, would such a community be useful to you? As proposed, would such a community be hurtful or offensive to you? -
- gracecourage: On Strength. And Warnings. - I'm posting because I am furious at the number of (people I thought were) decent, caring folks who are referring to survivors of abuse and assault as "fragile, delicate, mentally ill." -
- gabriellebelle: Your LJ is not your living room. Really. - If I choose not to label and/or warn in my own space because of some notion that my space exists in an impenetrable bubble, this stranger will likely be missing important meta-info to frame my fic. -
- puella_nerdii: On Warnings; or, Getting Readers Who Actually Like Your Stuff - Warning is a damned good precaution against getting readers who will suffer actual harm from what I've written. I don't want to harm my readers. I want to challenge them sometimes, I want to get them to think about things -- and, well, sometimes I just want to get 'em horny. But I don't write fic to prove how edgy I am, or to push people out of their comfort zones. -
- ranalore: You can't actually have it both ways. - Either you are concerned about making fandom a safer space for people with triggers, or you are interested in making fandom a more comfortable and navigable space for you. Now if you take that second approach, that's fine, that's the way a lot of fandom works now. But if that's the way you roll, stop kidding yourself, and stop trying to kid other people, that you're taking the first approach. If you want to take the first approach, then you need to not dismiss other people when they tell you something you're doing is a trigger for them, no matter how inconvenient it may be to stop or reconfigure what you're doing. -
- veradee: On Labelling Fanfics; or On What and How I Read and Write - I don't mean to prohibit labels, but I also don't find them particularly helpful. For example, I have seen enough posts on the internet where some readers complained that a fic was labelled romance but didn't contain enough of the relevant elements to actually be called a romance. But if the labels are so narrowly defined there's always the danger that fics that closely stick to these labels end up being cookie-cutter fics. -
- sparky77: ... - From my perspective, it doesn't matter what started the discussion, it was the fact that the discussion was causing pain for trauma survivors that mattered. So many of the things that have been said are pretty much the exact reasons that survivors are often reluctant to open up to people about their experience -
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