| Mini-sized BSG wank |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|10:02 am] |
Once upon a time, there was a BSG fan named ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) starpollo who ran a Kara/Lee themed icon contest, karalee_ic. At some point she got burnt out on running the contest and announced that there would be no more rounds.
Then some time between then and now, starpollo decided to go and delete the comm, a fact which was discovered by anastashial. Alarmed by the loss of all those K/L icons, anastashial sent a message to starpollo urging her to undelete the comm.
However she also felt the need to announce this to the entire battlestar_blog community in a post that included a copypasta of her message to starpollo, a message I might add that smacks a little of fannish entitlement and self-importance.
This goes over about as well as you'd expect.
Small for the moment, but hopefully will grow.
Edit: Good grief, the OP also posted the same post, complete with copypasta, to the sasa_hq comm. Somebody's awfully determined.
Edit 2: And on beyond_insane as well. And that last link is likely to get especially wanky since starpollo herself has gotten involved. |
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| Caprica series greenlit |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|12:37 am] |
Will start airing in 2010. Link
Also, break open your wallets. The catalog for the BSG auction is up. |
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[Dec. 2nd, 2008|08:23 pm] |
My mom did the cutest thing the other day. She came over to me, phone held out in front of her like an alien thing and shoved the screen in my face. On it was a text.
"What," she said, "does your brother mean besides less than three?"
She looked very charmed once she flipped it over as I told her to.
Meet Jane DaVinci aka Eco Echo. She's learned that ecoterrorism doesn't pay. She's fishing for Coralax, an underwater villain that sucks monkeybutt. Also, they are good eating.
( More Eco Echo )
You may recall Star Pupil from my former post. Well, he has a bio now. And, thanks to my beloved barankhy, a boyfriend.
( Meet Fiery Mathematician and see Star Pupil's civilian outfit. ALSO INTRODUCING: Sara Blade and her dad, Addershot ) |
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| Sigh |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|05:17 pm] |
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My soul feels so damned tired right now.... |
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| I am a lemming |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|01:26 pm] |
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( I am lemming, hear me roar )
ETA: I don't send holiday cards (I used to try, but then it was February...). So please don't feel you should send me anything. Let's just make some time for each other, soon. Even if you've been lurking, I'm curious about who you are and what you like. |
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| Charitable Schadenfreude |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|03:36 pm] |
So, many of you have probably heard of this or saw last year's, but I thought I'd share it all the same.
Desert Bus for Hope is a charity event for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. It goes like this: They play the most monotonous video game ever, the legendary Desert Bus for a certain number of hours, with the number of hours based on the donations they get. The donations continue while they play, adding more time. Each hour costs more. They have live streams of the bus, the drivers, and a chat where you can talk to them. Every thousand dollars there's a bit of macrospam on the site in celebration.
As of when I'm posting this, they've been playing for almost 22 hours, out of 101 currently paid for with over $13,000 in donations, and have one point, working on 2. Last year they got $22,800 and six points, the world record. They're looking to break both.
It's good fun for us, torturous for them, and hey, if you're going to contribute to the suffering of others, might as well do it charitably.
ETA: Well, they broke the important record. They just broke $25,000 and counting, committed to 110 hours, of which they've played about 64. They haven't gotten more than 6 points though. They keep crashing.
ETA2: So Gabe and Tycho decided to match the next $10,000 that came in after about $25,500. Current count since the announcement? $5000 has already been donated, bringing them up to 30K and something like 113 hours. There will be at least $5000 coming from PA, probably more as more donations come in. The boys almost cried when Tycho called and told them about it.
ETA3: PA's Operation: Infinite Bus has come and gone. The current total is over $51,000 and they're less than $200 away from 121 hours. Their suffering tastes like candy. Delicious, charitable candy. |
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[Nov. 29th, 2008|04:18 pm] |
So, in light of this (don't read if you don't want to know about stupid batman spoilers) I decided to give you a post on why Grant Morrison is stupid. I'm not sure where my dislike started. It was probably Animal Man, though. Goddamn fucking Animal Man. Whether he was comparing the seal hunt to ripping out dolphin fetuses and using them for toys, turning entire storylines into nonsense about Animal Man being a comic character until I was so bored I just didn't give a fuck about the plot anymore, or dedicating an issue to talking about his dead cat when they finally fire him, Morrison didn't exactly please me on that title.
Admittedly, he's still above Garth Ennis because it'd be damn hard to suck worse than Thor: Vikings(of which I swear I wrote a review for, but it seems to have disappeared? Goddamnit. I'll write a new one), which is -1000 points in writer rankings.
Anyway, in-between making bestiality jokes about Morrison because I'm classy, it descended into references to one of my very first contributions to scans_daily.
It was Animal Man.
This thread is lovely and notable as well as a good example of why I don't like Grant Morrison through the eyes of his fans.
John: do not let your eagle daughter hang out with him
Ann: D: D: D:
John: although that's more a warning for colbert and his eaglechild
Ann: Stephen jr is a boy.
John: would that stop morrison?
Ann: D:
John: he'd probably make it wear a little eagle dress
Ann: Shut up.
John: then he'll write a comic about it. And the eagle will realize it is a comic character and not stop talking about it.
John: people will praise it as a work of genius.
John: while mating with another eagle, the dialogue will say 'we fell like fighting superheroes' |
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| WHEEEEE!!! |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|04:14 pm] |
They did it!!! The house is saved!!!
They've taken down the PayPal button since the goal was never to make a profit, but hopefully folks who wanted to contribute but were too late will donate to a good charity.
Wheee! Happy 2nd Day After Thanksgiving, y'all. :D |
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| Does anyone here watch The IT Crowd? |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|02:12 am] |
It's a very, very funny show that's on British TV and is currently in its third season. The second episode aired tonight and I laughed so hard, I nearly broke something.
Here's the link of the new episode.
This has been an incredibly funny series. That there episode? Pushed it into "legendary" status for me. Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way. Just wondering if any of my favourite wankas share this special love? |
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| "So long, suckers!" |
[Nov. 28th, 2008|05:49 pm] |
Zac, aka Anime News Network's Answerman, has announced his retirement in the form of an epic flounce.
As a crusty old douchenozzle myself, I gotta say - I LOL'd. |
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| Here goes |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|08:19 pm] |
Via wordweaverlynn, help a family keep their home.
I figure it's probably not a scam or they wouldn't also be asking people who can't donate to email two local television stations in support of getting a human interest story done on the family in question.
(Yep, I donated. Also, there's an update here.) |
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[Nov. 27th, 2008|06:10 pm] |
So there's a new Issue (expansions, kind of?) city of heroes coming out and with them comes special free stuff for each character on your account.
As a result, I'm in a push to create new characters so they'll have the free stuff saved up for when they're higher levels. I've only got one left that I'm considering right now, so \o/.
My latest are:
( Reflective Peace )
( Star Pupil (THANK YOU, PUI) ) |
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| in case you missed it... |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|11:42 am] |
The entire country was Rickrolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. |
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| ERROR ERROR |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|01:51 am] |
i was poking at the links in the furry wank
Alya: i'm taking five kinds of medecine
John: my god
you're going to explode
wait
no
don't want to use that term
not after the furries
oh god
there was this one
in the comments
Alya: i rather think i'm going to get better real fast
DON'T THINK ABOUT IT
John: with a fox thing or whatever with a ballgag
Alya: NO NO NO NO
John: and she was talking about what she was imagining they were filled with to make them so big
and oh god
oh god
oh god
Alya: RAINBOWS AND... oh god i can't even say kittens or unicorns
DDD:
John: oh god
Alya: PRETTY PRETTY FLOWERS |
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[Nov. 26th, 2008|09:46 pm] |
A little Thanksgiving-themed wank for those celebrating the holiday! And heck, I guess those who don't can enjoy it too. I'd like to think of myself as a fair gal.
So Furaffinity, a website for furry-themed art, changed its top banner for the holiday. Rather than the usual theme for these sorts of things like some character chasing a turkey/a bunch of people sitting down to a meal/a disappointed dude watching the Lions lose game number 5 million, they decide to instead go a different route.
Namely by having their two mascot characters laying on a couch looking morbidly obese. On the original artist's upload there are both positive and negative comments along with much proclaiming that their fetish is NOT OK.
Within minutes there are many journals on the subject. Some displaying total disgust about the subject manner while others tell everyone to (pun intended) lighten up.
In one journal the head of the site, Dragoneer, mocks the people who are complaining about the banner: "Thousands of angry furries who can not take a joke are lining up!" He also edits the news post announcing the banner change to have what is supposed to be a link to a forum post discussing the subject, but is instead our old friend the Rickroll. There IS an actual discussion thread in the forums however, with the title "New Banner is tastless and disgusting". The poster of this thread, Rilvor, wants to start a petition to have the banner removed.
Rilvor: "I would like to start a petition to have it removed. That banner makes me physically ill every time I see it. I do not appreciate having such content in this fandom, which I make a point to avoid, thrust into my face."
The thread so far contains five pages of arguing over whether the banner is disgusting or not and people reminding others that it's only going to be up for 24 hours.
ETA: Thanksgiving is over, and as expected, the banner is gone. However journals about it continue to appear!
"All this pissing and moaning about the banner. I like the banner. I don't like the banner. Journals and forums and fucking petitions.
You know what? People in DR Congo and Somalia are being attacked by rape gangs and war lords, their families are being murdered. People in North Korea are starving to death on the street. Massive terrorist attack in India. Etc." |
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