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    Saturday, November 7th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ darksumomo ]
         		10:56p
    RPatz goes all angsty about his character
    From the L.A. Times: Robert Pattinson's suicidal shirtless 'New Moon' scene was 'nerve-wracking'
    The Dish Rag by Elizabeth Snead

    Robert Pattinson describes how he felt when he stripped off his shirt and stepped into the light in "New Moon."

    "It was the closest moment I have really felt the emotional attachment to the character," he said at Friday afternoon's "Moon" junket, adding that there were so many emotionally involved extras in the Italian town square that day who had flown there to have roles in that scene.

    "Taking that one step into the light. ... That is the one moment since the first Comic-Con that I felt the whole weight of participation and responsibility as well. It was a good moment."

    He confesses that it was also "very nerve-wracking. I felt probably the most in-character I have felt in the whole series."

    The quote makes it seem like there are a bunch of Twi-hards as extras.

    Also, there is a video of RPatz angsting about the scene.

    Current Mood: apathetic
    sparklefield
    [ supersyncspaz7 ]
         		1:04a
    Oh Lawd, this will be fun.
    Stephenie Meyer to appear on Oprah November 13 to promote New Moon.

    Current Mood: Zany
    Friday, November 6th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ anonyrat ]
         		5:27p
    Wait, What?
    Not sure if this is on-topic necessarily, but I figured it probably deserved sharing.

    So, during NaNo, I usually lurk on the NaNo forums and occasionally post. This is because I have a huge soft spot for people struggling through their 'bad fantasy novel' stage. Hell, I remember when I was that way.

    In the Fantasy genre forums, there are like a million threads about vampires. Of course, right?

    Well, one poster decided to fill a thread with a 10k+ word epic post that basically amounts to "my vampires are different".

    The relevant segment of this post, though?

    My most often used reoccurring vamp (the sparkling silver skinned drag queen, seen only in my banned M-Rated adult books, The Twighlight Manor Series; and these books were written in the 1970s through 1980's btw, nearly 30 years before Twilight's sparkling vampires, which has caused some of my fans to point to Twilight and scream plagiarism, seeing how she used so many things out of my books, including the title) is a salamander mermen and thus has row after row after row of sharp piranha like teeth.

    Not sure if anything wanky will come from this out-of-the-blue accusation (mostly because I suspect nobody is going to read the entire post...hell, it's longer than my entire NaNo project is right now), and I'm half-convinced she's trolling, but.

    I dunno, man.
    Saturday, November 7th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ spawn_of_kong ]
         		12:47a
    Harvard Lampoon skewers "Twilight"
    Now available: Nightlight: A Parody, by the Harvard Lampoon.

    About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.

    And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight.

    Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events–Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!–Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?

    Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behavior, and a vampire prom, Nightlight is the uproarious tale of a vampire-obsessed girl, looking for love in all the wrong places.
    Thursday, November 5th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ pinkranger ]
         		1:06p
    Stephenie Meyer: The Motion Comic
    While most girls were driving flashy cars or showing off their new nose jobs, Stephenie didn't have a car until she was in her twenties.

    Good lord, this is just the trailer and I can barely get through it. And can someone finally explain to me why motion comics exist and who they serve?
    Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ sandglass ]
         		6:11p
    Just in time for Christmas, Blizzard has started selling World of Warcraft in-game items for real world money! That's right, you can get a Pandaren pet or mini version of the the terrible Kel'Thuzad. In addition to being adorable, they cost $10, and do absolutely nothing useful in game.

    $5 from the sale of the Pandaren goes to charity, at least.

    I know at least five people who have already bought them and I am ashamed for every one.
    fandom_lounge
    [ ilinana ]
         		10:32a
    Rifftrax
    The next live Rifftrax show will be December 16, with an encore on the 17th. This time the theme is Christmas shorts! Tickets are already on sale at some theaters, but I guess the 13th is when they will be widely available.

    ...I love shorts! Also, this reminds me that I need to find my copy of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which is required Christmas viewing at my house now.

    More here
    fandom_wank
    [ tetradecimal ]
         		7:52a
    Hideo Kojima to judge Twilight fanart contest
    Just a light wanky snack.

    Facts:
    (1) Hideo Kojima is the creator of the Metal Gear Solid series.
    (2) He is a fan of Twilight.
    (3) He will be in ur Pixiv, judging ur Twilight fanart. Also, winner gets an autographed copy of MGS4: Guns of the Patriots.

    ( Metal Gear fans: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO )

    ETA: ONTD post. Thanks to: [info]vitalitat.
    Monday, November 2nd, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ cinnamonical ]
         		5:52p
    Okay, I've seen a number of book rec posts here every now and again, so I was wondering - is there a community (either on LJ or JF - or both) that specializes in people asking for book recs (on fiction or non-fiction)? If there were something like that, it'd be great to see what people thought were good reads on any given topic.

    Thanks!
    Sunday, November 1st, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ darksumomo ]
         		6:29p
    SMeyer in Time Magazine (old but worth noting) and Twilight-"The Runaways" cast connections
    It's amazing what one can find if one keeps their eyes open while tripping over something. In this case, I found these old gems while searching for other things.

    First, this SMeyer video on Time.com, along with an accompanying article.

    10 Questions for Stephenie Meyer

    Author Stephenie Meyer has developed a devoted following weaving tales of romance and suspense in her young adult vampire novels



    Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling?
    By Lev Grossman Thursday, Apr. 24, 2008
    Five years ago, on the night of June 1, 2003, a Phoenix housewife named Stephenie Meyer had a dream: a young woman was talking to a beautiful, sparkling man in a sunlit meadow. The man was a vampire. They were in love, and he was telling the girl how hard it was for him to keep from killing her.

    Meyer had not written anything much before then. Her main creative outlets were scrapbooking and making elaborate Halloween costumes. But the dream was so vivid that she absolutely had to write it down. Then she kept on writing. She wrote the entire story of the young woman and the vampire from start to finish. That story became a young-adult novel called Twilight, and she followed it up with two sequels, New Moon and Eclipse. Together the three Twilight books have sold more than 5.3 million copies in the U.S., 4 million in the past 12 months alone. They've spent a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list; when Eclipse was released last August, it bumped the final Harry Potter book out of the top spot on some lists even though it came out only 2 1/2 weeks later. Her first nonvampire novel, The Host, will be published next month. A movie of Twilight will be in theaters this December.

    Meyer, 34, is a huge success at selling books, but she's becoming something more. People dress up like her characters. They write their own stories about them and post their tales on the Internet. When she appears at a bookstore, 3,000 people go to meet her. There are Twilight-themed rock bands. Meyer has, like one of her vampires, turned into something rare and more than merely human: a literary phenomenon. How?
    Yeah, they're both relatively old, but as far as I can determine, they haven't been discussed here on [info]sparklefield before. Forgive me if they were mentioned on [info]fandom_lounge prior to the formation of this community. I was lazy and only searched my memory, not the entire comm. :-P :-)

    I also stumbled over the following Twilight-related casting for the movie The Runaways about the groundbreaking all-girl band of the same name. Kristen Stewart is playing Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning is playing Cherie Currie. While the above is relatively old news, with the announcement of Stewart as Jett taking place back in December, it's another topic that managed to not make it into this comm.

    Mock and snark away!

    Current Mood: Freakish
    Saturday, October 31st, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ istaerlus ]
         		8:43p
    I refuse to return your stolen tablet until you buy me a better one
    Over on FurAffinity Kitara makes a journal about the theft of her tablet (the original journal is on the bottom half and the update is on the top half). She says she lent it to Recca_se_li and it was then either stolen by Razr or Recca lent it to Razr. Either way Razr refuses to answer any of Kitara's emails or text messages on the subject. Kitara then updates same journal (top half) when she manages to contact Razrs roomate/master/girlfriend/sockpuppet knowstobite. Knowstobite insists that the tablet was given to Razrs by Recca as a parting gift and that he will only return it once Kitara gives him another tablet of same or better quality.

    Recca says Razrs has also stolen from him and owes him money

    ICEman goes on Heidi patrol and internet lawyers

    Kitara posts another journal where she shares a conversation she had with Knowstobite The conversation is tl;dr but the gist of it is Knowstobite thinks Razr has done nothing wrong by willfully accepting and keeping property he knows is stolen and again insists Kitara sends a new tablet to Razrs before she receives the original back.

    Knowstobite shows up to share her two cents

    Knowstobite also posted a journal on the subject of the tablet
    The edited version
    Screen caps thanks to Nightfurson of the original version in which knowstobite tries to raise money to buy Razr a new tablet.

    Screen capt comments from Knowstobite's first journal where we find out Razr just made over $200 dollars on a commission and can easily buy himself a new tablet with that money.
    the furbuy auction (half a NSFW picture)

    At some point Recca also started taking donation money to buy Kitara a new tablet even though Kitara explicitly said she doesn't want a new one, she wants her old one back for sentimental value. Questions are raised as to what happens to the donation money after Kitara receives her old tablet back. Unfortunately I can't find the original post where Recca says this, just a comment referring to it.

    There is much internet lawyering throughout. 

    ETA: There appears to be a happy ending after all Kitara posts a new journal saying she got the tablet back.
    fandom_wank
    [ galateus ]
         		9:23a
    This wank based on true events. [now with baleetion]

    I read the strangest rant today. How strange you say? So strange no one can agree just whether it's even a rant at all!

    OP replies to requests to clarify, a few times, while a brave idealist attempts first contact, before realizing only a sucker would try to breach such impenetrable walls of WTF.

    A random potshot at someone's fic-writing skills prompts the best simile ever.

    The more persistent commenters dig through the layers of Bizarro-talk until they uncover the truth: OP is... 'anti-criticism'?

    PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE SMILEYS.

    And shattered idealism is shattered.

    ETA: aslongasitlasts has studied the people of FFR. He's like a magic 8-ball, in a way.

    And [info]wank_report has some too.

    ETA2: Modly intervention. But he wants to be banned. No, really.

    ETA s'more: Post got blanked and F-locked. Comm membership is open, though.

    The ETA Apocalypse Now: Comments are being baleeted at random, and the original post is replaced by the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's the final troll blowout, people.

    ETA Captain Obvious:: Oh, so that's what started it. Taunting the mod, and then deleting comments (A no-no in ffr^2). He's banned now, but you wouldn't know because the mod comment that said that is... deleted!

    ETA Cry For Justice: There are 409 Google caches of the wank still with pre-baleetion comments. Saving the ones I can before they update.

    Friday, October 30th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ darksumomo ]
         		11:26p
    A Revolutionary Girl Utena themed wedding from down under
    From Offbeat Bride via Kotaku and [info]solarbird</lj>.
    Anli & Laura's Lesbian Gamer Geek Wedding

    The offbeat bride: Anli, data analyst

    Her offbeat partner: Laura, public servant

    Location & date of wedding: The Old Stone House, NSW Australia — 5 September 2009

    What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted a ceremony that reflected our geeky, romantic, pink aesthetic, while at the same time being profound and meaningful. Our ceremony was themed around the video game Portal and the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena.

    We incorporated lots of geeky details, from the table names (Revolution, Sierra, Katara and GLaDOS) to the choice of music. We also kept several traditional elements such as bouquets, dresses and bridesmaids. However, we both walked down the aisle unaccompanied and skipped the garter/bouquet toss.

    ...

    And we walked down the aisle to an obscure piece of music from Utena.
    Here's the music the couple used for their processional: Hikaru sasa niwa.

    Go click on through to the Offbeat Bride story. There are lots of lovely photos, including a slide show.

    As for the Portal part, a commenter on Kotaku pointed out, "So the cake wasn’t a lie afterall…"

    Current Mood: Happy-Dance
    fandom_lounge
    [ researchgrrrl ]
         		7:21p
    Stay classy, Twilight merchandising. Stay classy.
    After some consideration, I've decided to x-post this from the [info]sparklefield because it's a very special kind of transcendent, as in...how is Twilight the first fandom to actually Go There with this sort of merchandising? Srsly.

    ***

    I think I'll let the product speak for itself since I cannot -- well and truly cannot -- find the words:

    You can now have RPattz's face buried in your crotch any time you wish. Think I'm kidding? Check out the completely classy detail painstakingly created for the panty lining.

    *just looks at y'all*

    Current Mood: In Denial
    sparklefield
    [ researchgrrrl ]
         		7:01p
    Stay classy, Twilight merchandising. Stay classy.
    I think I'll let the product speak for itself since I cannot -- well and truly cannot -- find the words:

    You can now have RPattz's face buried in your crotch any time you wish. Think I'm kidding? Check out the completely classy detail painstakingly created for the panty lining.

    *just looks at y'all*

    Current Mood: In Denial
    sparklefield
    [ lyrangalia ]
         		3:08p
    The Twilight Gravy Train Continues Rolling Rolling Rolling...
    Twilight-themed restaurant Volterra to open in Forks, WA
    Found via Epicurious.

    Seriously? When is the insanity going to end?!

    I hope the restaurant stays true to the spirit of Twilight and all the waitresses continually fall down (with their trays) because they're OMG!SOCLUMSY

    Any thoughts on the menu? Broiled cow uterus? Blood pudding with Outrageous Flavour and spiked with freesia?
    fandom_lounge
    [ cygnia ]
         		2:10p
    Because YOU demanded it (or not)!
    Anthony Bourdain gets his own cartoon. :-D
    Thursday, October 29th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ hypno_jango ]
         		9:10p
    Just Valve being awesome some more. This weekend, Team Fortress 2 is having a Halloween themed special with free hats to take from dead players. There is an egg* on the page which leads to TF2's backstory. Yes, this game now has a plot deeper than just two sides trying kill each other. As a bonus, the new page has another egg** that gives a nod to a popular TF2 character fanart.




    ~Egg spoilers~

    * Zepheniah Mann
    ** Barnabas Hale
    Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ jkefka ]
         		5:41p
    EA gets one over on Yatzhee
    It was really pretty goddamn clever.

    ( For those who dislike links )

    Also, this was an ideal excuse to bust out my brand-new ZP icon.
    fandom_lounge
    [ nopseud ]
         		3:48p
    Popslash SeSa
    Yep, popslash is still around, and it's still the best! And there's still a popslash SeSa -- not the original DWNOGA, but the authorised sequel, Make the Yuletide Gay.

    Even if you don't usually take part in challenges (like me), then SeSa is the one you shouldn't miss. There will be resources and mentors for all, and all the cheerleading you could want. Plus, at the end of it, you get your very own lovingly hand-crafted story to enjoy, something written especially for you.

    If you've drifted away from popslash, SeSa is the perfect time to get back in touch. Sign up and have a lovely couple of months of nostalgia. And then stay!

    Sign-ups for Make the Yuletide Gay are open until Oct 30th.
    Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ tehrin ]
         		2:02p
    On [info]spitting_image, we're going to have a special Halloween post called Night of the Bad Comic Artists. Submissions will be compiled and the post will be up on October 30th at 5 p.m. PST. Please submit images here!
    fandom_lounge
    [ lady7jane ]
         		4:34p
    Robots!
    Machinarium is kind of a cute adventure game. It's pure point and click with some fun puzzles thrown in. Not very hard or long, I'd say about ten hours of play time. It lagged a little on my machine, which doesn't quite meet the minimum requirements, but nothing too bad.

    You can try the demo on machinarium.net or buy it from several different sites. Costs somewhere between 15-20 euros.
    Monday, October 26th, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ anarchicq ]
         		1:15p
    This wanklet was brought to you by the letters T & A...
    Caution: There are some NSFW links in the forums.

    So!
    A while ago on the ToughPigs forum, there was discussion about American Apparel making Sesame Street shirts.

    Most of the comments were "...huh..."

    One such shirt was, as I call it, Big Metro Bird. Then most of the comments became "...ew." followed by a rousing chorus of "hipster douches!"

    One poster asks how this is any worse than this Miss Piggy center-fold. (Yes, you read that right.)

    So, ToughPigs bloggers look around while the forum talks about the merits of Sex Sells and how America just have to get over Naked Boobies. Finally ToughPigs comes across an ad featuring a girl with her snootchie hanging out, while wearing a Sesame Street T-shirt. They blog, with some scathing words to American Apparel.

    And then, it turns out Sesame Street, in fact, did NOT agree to do this team up with AA, even though the spokespeople for AA insisted that they did...

    Comments are generally amusing and shocked (Shocked!) and of the "My childhood!" variety.

    Current Mood: Righteous
    Sunday, October 25th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ mcity ]
         		2:08p
    In Today's Foxtrot:
    Jason chooses a Halloween costume. Specifically, a vampire.
    fandom_lounge
    [ beccastareyes ]     		1:51p
    Somethign to waste five minutes on a Sunday...
    A fan animated the XKCD Loves the Discovery Channel comic. (It's even catcher in audio.)

    Thought everyone would find this amusing.
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