Tasted the whole worm

khym_chanur @ 2008-11-04T17:16:00

2008-11-05T01:15:04Z

The cast of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (So Long, Mr. Despair)
celebrates Erection Day here.

Left-wing loony conspiracy theorizing

2008-11-02T00:19:14Z

Combine Dick Cheney's... interesting interpretations of the Constitution ("I'm not a member of the Executive branch, really!") with some left-wing loony conspiracy mongering ("The U.S. government blew up the Towers with explosives!") for some facetious prognostication: on December 15 Bush and/or Cheney has all of the members of the Electoral College murdered in a way to make it look like a coordinated terrorist attack. On December 16 the White House announces that since the constitution says (paraphrased):

Electors chosen on Election Day meet in their respective state capitals on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December

that December 15 is the only day that the Electoral College can vote on the new president, so now that that day has passed no one can be elected president this election cycle. Since a president can't serve more than two terms Bush will step down and Cheney will be the president for the next 4 years.

khym_chanur @ 2008-10-31T02:24:00

2008-10-31T09:21:07Z

TV Tropes is going up and down like a freaking yo-yo. *grumbles*

Best "McCain-sticking-out-tongue" photo-manip

2008-10-19T00:33:56Z

Hee!

khym_chanur @ 2008-08-02T02:24:00

2008-08-02T09:28:42Z

A Harry Potter fic rec: Dear Tom, by Bobmin. A great one-shot.

khym_chanur @ 2008-06-15T11:11:00

2008-06-15T18:14:11Z

I had a dream that Fox News read out one of Obama's speeches which had been passed through a jive translator, and then acted completely clueless as to why so many people were offended.

khym_chanur @ 2008-05-24T16:01:00

2008-05-24T23:02:32Z

So, if anyone wants a cat macro for future "mansplanation" events:

Good characters deserve good endings?

2008-04-18T07:45:53Z

In this essay by a Snape fan on being disappointed about Snape not getting a better ending. Maybe I'm just mis-reading things, but it seems that some of commenters hold that JKR owed Snape a better ending, which would make sense if they were otakukin "Snape is real" types, but they don't seem to be. It's like some weird ethical side of literary theory or something.

Faux cutesy Wapanese fanbrat

2008-04-08T06:09:17Z

In response to this Death Note fandom!secret is this:

You're so mean! TOT Mero-tan and Nia-tan are so clearly in love and have so many rabu-rabu scenes together (= w= ) (////) ♥

I know you must be jealous because Matt and Mero-tan don't have the same chemistry as Mero-tan and Nia-tan, it's too bad, ne (^^;;)a But if you learn to love MeroNia, you'll be happy like us! (^o^)/

And the replies are in-character, too. It's hilarious.

Why shipping debates get so heated

2008-04-04T11:34:53Z

From user Elektra on the FictionAlley forums:

The curious thing about ship debates is that both sides are not really arguing about the pairings; they're arguing about whose gut instinct is more valid. ...

... It becomes a problem, however, once we lose sight of the fact that it's just that: Subjective. Because when that happens, we're left wrangling over whose gut instinct is better justified, and when someone feels that their personal instinct is being belittled... Oy. It's not exactly a surprise that the debate is so messy, is it? [from here]

Probably not the first time it's ever been said, but I still thought it was pretty insightful.

khym_chanur @ 2008-02-18T22:40:00

2008-02-19T06:45:35Z

Cards of Chaos, Minds of Madness, a parody crossover between CCS and the Cthulhu Mythos. Unfortunately just a one shot.

For you Bleach fans, especially the CASPLOCKSERS...

2008-02-18T02:51:29Z

Look at secret 39 on today's Fandom!Secrets.

khym_chanur @ 2008-02-16T03:01:00

2008-02-16T11:07:01Z

From the founder of a publishing house dedicated to "male lit:

Female characters look like they will be given short shrift in Spitfire stories, as Mr Elliot believes JK Rowling was wrong to have made Harry Potter's friend Hermione his equal.

"It is typical of modern children's books in which there is a boy and a girl and the girl is as good as the boy," he said.

"Just William is a much better read for boys. Violet Elizabeth Bott was a whingeing, snivelling sneak who was always frightened. That is how I would like the girls to be."
[source]

He's (probably) just shit stirring in order to get publicity, but that still be me go O_O

khym_chanur @ 2008-02-14T22:30:00

2008-02-15T06:36:32Z

Some pundit on Fox compared Obama's speech making to Hitler's.

...

There's preaching to the coir, and then's there's phrasing what you say in a manner that ensures that no one but the coir will even listen to what you say. *sigh*

khym_chanur @ 2008-02-10T22:03:00

2008-02-11T06:08:40Z

But a few years ago, A&F [Abercrombie & Fitch] outraged parents by selling thongs for grade school girls which had the words “eye candy” printed inside a tiny heart. (source)

O_O

khym_chanur @ 2008-01-28T01:38:00

2008-01-28T09:43:32Z

This might have already been linked on fandom_lounge, but:

Astral Plane Divorce Court

Gah!

2008-01-24T02:30:04Z

Turns out that I unknowingly skipped over an email from the service that provides email forwarding for my vanity domain name: they're shutting down at the end of the month, but email forwarding stopped working for me around 3 AM PST today.

orz

"Lets be friends!"

2008-01-20T10:33:16Z

Heh.

About the whole Lexicon thing...

2007-11-06T07:17:22Z

If I were JKR, I'd:

1) Name my encyclopedia "Compiled Background Notes" or something.

2) Announce "To show my deep appreciation to all of the fans, the fans will write the HP encyclopedia!"

3) Set up a collaborative website with rules carefully set up so that nothing will ever get resolved, with some sort of clause that JKR can't intervene to make sure it really is by the fans. Done properly, it could be a wank generator that will last long after she dies!

4) Give Steve whats-his-name a figurehead position with no actual power.

khym_chanur @ 2007-11-02T05:27:00

2007-11-02T12:41:26Z

In Azumanga for instance, ... The girls behave in a manner that seems to reinforce stereotypes of what a girl should be, and those who deviate from it are punished accordingly. Kaori as an example, is perpetually infatuated with Sakaki; she is in turn harassed by Kimura before being eventually transferred to his class. Tomo and Kagura, as the tomboys of the group, are afflicted with bad grades for a huge portion of the series. [from here]

O_O

khym_chanur @ 2007-10-20T00:05:00

2007-10-20T07:14:23Z

For JKR's next trick, she should reveal that Sirius and Lupin were actually both women disguised as men. The wank would be glorious.

Bizarro Phoenix Wright

2007-10-15T08:55:14Z

Bizarro Phoenix Wright by *spacecoyote on deviant ART

Hee!

khym_chanur @ 2007-09-25T03:15:00

2007-09-25T10:23:28Z

It's creepy, but I can't stop staring at it.

Twist in SCO lawsuits: SCO declares bankruptcy

2007-09-15T04:58:37Z

For anyone who's been following the SCO vs IBM and SCO vs Novell lawsuits, SCO has declared chapter 11 bankruptcy. This is interesting for several reasons:

1) It automatically stays all other pending lawsuits, which is probably why SCO did it, given that the bankruptcy claim was filed on Friday and the trial was start the following Monday. The bankruptcy judge may decided to send it back to the Novell lawsuit to determine how much of SCO's assets belong to Novell before proceeding with the bankruptcy, but that still buys SCO some delay, and SCO always loves delay.

2) Novel is technically not one of SCO's creditors, even though SCO owes them more than all of their creditors combined. It's like if, say, Coca Cola had a vending machine in the building of a hotel that goes bankrupt, rather than being considered a creditor of the hotel, Coca Cola goes to the bankruptcy court and proves that they own the vending machine so that they get it back, rather than it being sold to pay of the hotel's debts. It's just that in this case the thing that SCO has which belongs to Novell is money. I have no clue if this makes things harder or easier on Novell than if they had been a creditor, but it sure is a weird situation.

3) SCO told the judge in the Novell case that they weren't contemplating bankruptcy, yet filing for Chapter 11 isn't something you can do on the spur of the moment. The judge is likely to Not Be Pleased.

Dark Horse Comics to reissue Gor novels

2007-09-14T00:24:30Z

Yep, Dark Horse Comics is going to reissue the Gor novels. Why you gotta make me choose between boycotting you and buying Oh My Goddess!? On the other hand, this gives me an idea for a crossover where an accident sends Urd to Gor and the men there try to enslave her...