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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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10:34 pm
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| Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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7:07 pm
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My original comment was: "I'm honestly surprised that you didn't know how to make whipped cream, kind of like I'm surprised that there are people who don't know hamburger comes from cows. Except you can form coherent sentences, and I'm sure they probably can't.'
I'm glad I didn't post that one.
Too many logarithms make me bitchy.
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| Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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3:23 pm
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His previous work has included a story where a teenaged girl had a missile fired into her vagina and was turned on by it.
WTF.
Did teh_no really write a story like that? That's what this anonymouse says on little_details. (scroll down) I'm not in comics fandom or willing to sort through his fanfic to find it, but I'm morbidly curious now.
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| Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
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7:21 pm
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1:08 am
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My God, who do I have to blow to get some good Eroica porn?
Put your hand down, you pervert. It was a rhetorical question.
It seems like all of the porn -- even the recommended porn -- has the same problem: As soon as Dorian and Klaus tumble into bed, they turn into completely different people. I have to wonder, who is this sensitive, tolerant person named Klaus who's calling Dorian things like "my love"?
Now, this may seem like a naive complaint; don't all fandoms have this problem?
Well, yes, but either I have bad luck or Eroica is especially bad. And it's weird because of how swift the turn-around is. It's as though Klaus's prostrate is an on-button for touchy-feelyness. Press once, he stops calling you a faggot! Press twice, he'll say he loves you! Press three times, and you're married!
Ugh.
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| Sunday, October 7th, 2007
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10:17 pm - The recs journal
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Here is the page:
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) bettugi
I also have a mirror on LJ (same username), but I won't be reposting all of the recs there. I'm kind of attached to my many LJ accounts and don't want to be suspended for boyporn.
Yes, it's under a pseudonym. I HAVE MY REASONS.
There are no recs up yet, because I spent my time polishing up my IRC tutorial instead.
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1:32 pm - How do I create account?
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Well, damn!
I decided that since LJ seems to have certain issues with high school boys getting boned by their teachers, JF is probably the best home for my new BL recs page.
Now, I know that free account creation is turned off, so I planned to buy the account when I got home today. (It's about time I start supporting JF anyway.) Except the Paid Accounts link is MIA, and I'm not a paid user so I don't know where the sekrit priority support area is.
Someone tell me what to do.
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| Saturday, October 6th, 2007
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8:26 pm
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Someday, I'll change my default icon. I'm tired of Wufei, if that's even possible, but I can't go around confusing people forever.
Anyway, I'm wondering:
What sort of demand is there for recs/reviews of boys' love* manga? Would anyone here be interested?
I started a recs page about a year ago, but never polished it up enough to post because, quite frankly, I'm a lazy whore. Also, far fewer groups were offering direct downloads then, meaning that my audience would have been people who were involved enough in BL scanlations to know how to work IRC. Those people tend to already have an idea of what they want.
But now direct downloads are everywhere and with school and work I'm too fried to do anything creative, so a project like this would be a great time-waster.
* I hate the term "boys' love", but it's so much more concise than "graphic manga about homosexual romance that may or may not have homosexual characters, may or may not have romance, and may or may not be graphic."
Edit: These are the things I think will be important in the reviews. If there's something that you'd like to see that isn't listed, let me know.
title
mangaka
scanlation group
how to download
length
status (ongoing, complete, etc)
kinks/warnings
short summary
genre (fantasy, school, comedy, etc)
sample pages
translation quality (grammar and spelling, but also things like the quality of the scan and editing)
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| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
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7:14 pm
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I notice that the create journal page is up, but is it working? I don't want to just test it out. That would be stupid, because I don't need another account.
Anyway, I can't log in. I either get an "incorrect password" error--though I know for a fact that the password is right--or a bit of text at the upper left of the screen that says "sorry, there was an error." I guess I'll find out in a moment if I can still post using Semagic.
I don't know if I should just be patient and hope they're aware of this issue and working on it, or if I should report it. And if I should report it, where?
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| Friday, August 17th, 2007
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12:26 am
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Dammit, I come here all stressed out from bureaucracy, hoping to find something to laugh at--and somehow msscribe shows up and it's not funny? What's wrong with this place, lately? The funniest it ever gets is when someone is smacking a n00b.
I want the Diet Pepsi Max moodtheme over here.
current mood: BORED
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| Sunday, August 12th, 2007
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11:57 pm
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I don't think I'm going to continue crossposting my LiveJournal posts here. Biggest reason: I don't like any of the available layouts. That's ridiculous, I know! But I want my words to be PRETTY even if they are STUPID.
That and I've been using this as a sort of Fandom Wank commentary journal, and I see no reason why my friends who are also on LiveJournal should be subjected to crossposting just to get My Thoughts On Wank.
P.S. I can't be the only one who's having fun watching the n00b wars, right? Right now I'm cracking up at purplefeen.
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8:38 pm - Mononoke, Jigoku Shoujo, Saiunkoku Monogatari
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One of the things that baffles me about my customers is that many of them will stand in line for five minutes and say, "I want a pastry that you don't carry." It doesn't annoy me, but the assumption that we carry whatever they usually get at some other shop does make me wonder. At least they're not the people who stare at the menu for five minutes and then try to order a cheeseburger.
Anyway, I've been watching some anime. I'm going to try  limyaael's thing and limit myself to three paragraphs each.
( Behind a cut because I'm using the lazy man's thumbnailing technique. And also because it's long. )
Edit: Man, I have no idea why the images are showing up warped here. Have I forgotten basic HTML? They show up fine elsewhere.
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| Saturday, August 11th, 2007
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10:54 pm - Ladeedoodly.
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The thing I miss most about my paid account is the icons. I never used them all, but having only six requires a drastic rethink. This post screams for a flashing "NERD POST" icon, just so no one accidentally continues reading it. And yet I don't have room for one.
Below the cut is a brief phonological sketch of a language I'm working on. I'm pretty happy with it. It's unusual enough from an Indo-European perspective, and yet can still be easily represented by the English alphabet without resorting to ugly methods, and it has a tonal system which is, in my own purely subjective aesthetic opinion, rather elegant.
I was inspired a lot by the pleasing symmetry of the Australian Aboriginal languages*, but I'm not sure much of that carries through.
( Kharegi )
* Did you know that despite Australian Aboriginal languages belonging to several different language families, their phonologies are strikingly similar? It's a perfect example of a Sprachbund.
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5:46 pm - I'm a failure as a book nerd.
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Last Wednesday Mom came up to the kiosk on her way to an appointment, and asked, "So you're finally reading The Good Earth after all these years?"
I said, "What? All what years?"
"All these years you've been alive."
Well, I don't know what to say to that besides: I'm glad I waited. If I had read it earlier--in middle or high school, say, I think I would have missed a lot. It would have been like reading half a book. The Good Earth went fast but it's going to stay with me for a while.
For heaven's sake, next time she's going to ask me why I haven't read One Hundred Years of Solitude yet. ;_; What will I say? "I'm too busy reading Hellsing. Does your book have Nazi werewolves, ordained Catholic assassins, or vampires trying to kill each other with playing cards? I don't think so."
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| Friday, August 10th, 2007
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9:59 pm - The peace talks with MU:
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I went to talk to admissions today and threw around words like "ridiculous" and "impossible" and the end result is that I'm admitted, but on academic probation until I take the two classes that I'm missing: Math 1100 and English 1000. I have to take them within 12 credit hours, and score a 2.5 GPA.
Considering my 3.8 GPA includes a failed class--that was the one I took an incomplete for, and then threw up my hands and went "ARGH" over when the professor left the institution--well, I'm not sure I'm going to have a problem with the latter part. I'm more concerned about getting into those two classes. Math 1100 still has plenty of seats, but English 1000 never has enough sections, which means that unless you're eligible for early registration (new students who don't attend summer welcome aren't), you usually can't get in.
I'm probably going to have to push for an override.
I wasn't able to get them to realize how stupid it was to expect students who only have credits through Easy Access to have taken courses like these, but I figured I shouldn't make more of an ass of myself than necessary.
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| Thursday, August 9th, 2007
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8:06 pm - ARGH
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I’m beginning to think that beauracracy has it out for me. This time I’m pissed off.
A couple of weeks ago I finally applied to be admitted to MU. I'm twenty-four years old, I know what I want to do with my life--it's past time for me to start doing it. I've been waiting for this for a long time.
( this is emo post )
I'm going to talk to them tomorrow and ask just what the hell they were thinking, taking my $45 application fee. The admissions counselor I talked to knew I had credits from Easy Access, and even looked at my transcript to help me find the date of a specific course. She also knew that I didn't get any credits from Columbia College. She never mentioned this as a potential problem!
And after talking to them I’m probably going to kick something. Maybe that stupid brass tiger statue that they paid to much for and that looks like a piece of shit.
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| Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
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2:37 pm
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| Monday, August 6th, 2007
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8:51 am - STILL NOT LEAVING LJ (crossposted)
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I feel left out. Everyone else is riding the oppression rollercoaster, so why can't I? Am I too short?
LiveJournal's behavior has been assy--and I am disappointed that its values as a company are moving farther away from mine, but... it's just a journaling service. However, this has made me realize a few things:
# Discussions about where fandom should move to are missing the point. We would just move the problem, which is being dependent on the whims of a single hosting company, to a new service. What fans who are concerned should be discussing is how to decentralize while still keeping our social networks alive (and growing). Fandom will never settle on a single alternative anyway.
This post has instructions for how to use an RSS reader to keep track of journals on separate services, including friends-locked entries.
This post has instructions for how to easily crosspost your entries using Semagic.
# I put a lot of time into writing these entries, even if they are mostly nonense. I would be sad if I woke up one day and they were all gone. As unlikely as that is, it makes sense to start backing them up. I’d also like my journal to be available to people who do move to other services. So I’ve begun to crosspost here:
http://kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com
http://kutsuwamushi.greatestjournal.com
http://kutsuwamushi.insanejournal.com
And of course on JF.
LiveJournal will still be my “home” until something really weird happens. As of right now I’m not even checking the friends lists of anyplace other than JF, because well, I don’t have any friends.
current mood: awake
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| Sunday, July 15th, 2007
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11:00 pm
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Holy shit, weepingcock has almost 900 members. And I have no idea where most of them are coming from! A lot of the recent members don't seem to be involved in fandom, and we haven't advertised anywhere...
The pulsating testicles must be sending out a specific pervert-attracting frequency, or something.
current music: Peto - Keep It Real (Benny Beats Remix)
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| Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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11:47 am
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