we all are made of stars

SIGNAL BOOST: Get her to the con on time!

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:03:20 GMT

So my friend Katrina is in the running for the Wizard World Saint Louis Cosplay Photo Contest. Basically, the person with the most votes gets to go to the convention for free! Her amazing Tenth Doctor cosplay is a total winner and I hope all of y'all will vote for her, pretty please!

You can find her page here, where you can vote once a day (please do!): http://bit.ly/VSK3HH

Seriously, y'all, if you've seen Katrina/slythgeek at a convention in her Ten costume, you know how dedicated she is to her craft as well as portraying the Tenth Doctor. She really has his mannerisms and speech pattern down perfectly. So please help send her to Wizard World this year!

for my own reference

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:32:45 GMT

Today I have to:

+ Talk to one of my professors about next semester
+ Photocopy/print out important pages of research for my Comp II final paper (due Wednesday)
+ Study my Biology notes/lectures/book for Friday's final
+ Figure out how to pull my recorded lectures off my sound recorder (I sense Beej is gonna have to help me with this one)
+ Do some gelt hunting at the local stores, because goodness knows Beej needs more sweets from me oh dear
+ Update class blog for the last time before I have to present it to my Convergent Media class on Tuesday

repost from LJ/DW

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:16:36 GMT

If you have a Tumblr and can reblog this post:

http://lannistersroar.tumblr.com/post/35284816649/signal-boost-please

That would be terrific. Like, absolutely terrific. This is my bro right here. My nakama. My Beej. I want to help him any way I can. You feel me?

Thanks bunches, y'all!

Bishiecon roll call!

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:44:58 GMT

So - Bishiecon Cabaret 2011! December 17-18 at the Crowne Plaza Clayton in Saint Louis, Missouri! The best darn boys' love/yaoi convention in the Midwest!

Who's going?

W-what? Y'all don't know why you should come?

First of all, we are awesome. Everyone on staff is amazing and we always put 150% of our hearts and bodies into every convention we run - Bishiecon especially cause we just love it that much!

We are a niche local convention. We are the -only- yaoi convention in the Midwest! The only other yaoi con in the United States I can think of is the king of BL cons, YaoiCon, which is in California. What better way to support your local fannish efforts than to come to Bishiecon and be a badge-carrying con-goer for two gloriously naughty days?

We're 18+ this year! All day, every day! Everything is 18+ only! DICK CANDLES ON THE TABLES, Y'ALL. Note: I have yet to see these fabled dick candles, but I'm sure they will be glorious.

We have guests, glorious guests! Like Emirain, creators of the yaoi webcomic Teahouse! Warky T. Chocobo, musician and yaoi comedian (he performed at last year's Bishiecon and he was hilarious)! Our special performer, Gorgeous Phineas: Strip Magician! And maybe more to come!

We have lots of awesome events! Including a Yaoi AMV contest and a Saturday night dance with a kickass light show! And karaoke, natch - can't have Bishiecon without karaoke.

So, seriously, if you aren't busy during then, come on and have fun at Bishiecon! Tell all your yaoi-loving friends too. Heck, tell the ones that don't love yaoi as much; even non-fujoshi can have fun at Bishiecon! Pre-registration price is sitting pretty at 20 bucks - 35 if you want to have Sunday morning brunch with our lovely guests. And I would advise to GET DAT BRUNCH PASS NOW, because the Plaza has amazing food - and the brunch pass won't be available at the door!

Love, peace, and bishonen. And register for Bishiecon 2011 already :3

Fri, 20 May 2011 19:52:39 GMT

I will never be on anyone's Follow Friday list on Tumblr and I am perfectly okay with that. Because my Tumblr is not quality by any stretch of the imagination.

FML.

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:30:01 GMT

That awkward moment when you kick yourself off Twitter because apparently your Super Bowl tweets are upsetting a friend of yours.

reading schedule for Return of the King

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:30:42 GMT

1.06.11: The Muster of Rohan
1.07.11: The Pyre of Denethor
1.08.11: The Black Gate Opens
1.09.11: Mount Doom
1.10.11: Many Partings
1.11.11: The Grey Havens (finish book)
1.12.11: Watch film for The Return Of The King

Tumblr, you suck.

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:26:49 GMT

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:46:24 GMT

For anyone who has read The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist, I am hosting a discussion post here on my book blog. All topic questions are rather spoiler-y in nature, thus the River Song SPOILERS banner on the top of the post.

And if you haven't read The Unit, you really should. It's fantastic.

torrent = srs bisness

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:45:29 GMT

a lot of my torrents are seeding like mad tonight, which means great news for my ratio :DDD

IT IS THE WORK OF HOPE~ >:3

GUYS

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:48:38 GMT

GUYS

GUYS

PRESIDENT OBAMA

rabble rabble rabble

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:10:54 GMT

BOY, THE LJ SERVERS SURE ARE ROBUST TODAY, Y/Y?

Come on, guys. Come on

I'm in for it now...

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:48:42 GMT

I just signed up for NaNoWriMo. Never mind that I've already signed up for the November round of Naruto flash fics @ LJ. Apparently I'm into psychological S&M.

LET THE TORTURE BEGIN, BABY~

ALSO, posting here 'cos LJ is teh borked. Which is good, since now I can finish reading Lament of the Lamb instead of checking Fanficrants for the umpteenth time xD

Can I haz blog nao?

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:19:26 GMT

Oh, but I can! :D

http://dangerouslycoldtea.blogspot.com/

I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:22:14 GMT

BOOM DE YADA

BOOM DE YADA

BOOM DE YADA

BOOM DE YADA

FUCK D:

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:38:08 GMT

From the Wikipedia homepage: Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulls out of the June 27 run-off presidential election as election-related violence escalates.

Fuck you, Robert Mugabe. Fuck you.

Avatar Fanfic Weekly Contest Banzai

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:55:59 GMT

If you have an LJ and write Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction, or are interested in starting, please come over to avatar_contest and enter in the latest weekly contest. The mods can't decide whether to drop the current theme or extend; I commented asking for an extension. I'm gonna enter too. ^__^

DO EEEET. :3

^_____^

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:41:55 GMT

Just finished marathoning through eight episodes of Claymore . . . I'll try to finish the series by tomorrow night, I promise, Katie-sister! :o

Sleep. Sleeeep. Need sleep now. Before I go cross-eyed. o.o

These last couple of weeks have seemed so stressful, but I wouldn't give up this life for any other in the world. It may piss me off from time to time or leave me sad and lonely, but I love it. I really do. And I'm ready to move forward, to wherever this life is willing to take me, to wherever I'm willing to stand on my own two legs.

I want to become a better, stronger person. I want to go to Purdue and become more educated. I want to work, to become less of a burden on my family. I want to become someone I can look back on many years later and be proud of. I want my high school diploma to be followed by a college degree, a published work of fiction, something I can hold up and say, "This is the closest you'll get to a symbol of me."

But right now, I'm just gonna climb into bed and sleeeeep. :)

Earth to fen

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:42:29 GMT

IMHO: What actors and producers say =/= what's on screen, in terms of canon. Honestly.

If they wanted it to be so 'obvious', they should have had him say "I love you" back. We could have put this beast to bed. Shit.

news today

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:17:07 GMT

NBC’s Tim Russert dead at 58

Heavy rains cause flooding, evacuations in Indiana

A letter for Fox News

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:20:08 GMT

I wrote an e-mail to FNC concerning my utter disgust at their coverage of the general election and Obama's campaign. And, of course, I post it in my journal in case some Fox News employees come and read it. Have at it, boys.

SUBJECT: RE: Current news cycle on the general election

Dear Fox News,

For several years, I was a loyal viewer of your news network. I watched your coverage of current events from early morning to early evening, and enjoyed every minute of it. It was fresh, interesting, and always up to date. To me, you were the voice of modern Republicans in the country, and I embraced you for it. After all, you had the important talking heads I looked forward to watching: O'Reilly, Hannity, et cetera.

But that was when I was 14, and 15, and 16 years old. I'm eighteen now, and eligible to vote in the general election that's coming up this November. And I'm not voting Republican. No, it's not because of you - I've always been a liberal Republican, and I've felt the party's become rather a lame duck since, well, 2003-2004.

No, it's your coverage of the general election so far that has cemented my beliefs that you are no longer the news station I once revered and respected as the gospel. In fact, your latest dissection of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is flat-out disgusting. Cry all's fair in love and war if you want to, but that doesn't include racism and misogyny.

You've called Michelle Obama 'Baracks' baby's mama'. Are you honestly ignorant of the meaning behind those words, and how racist they are? You've just insinuated that a candidate for First Lady of the White House is just the mother of Barack Obama's children, nothing more - and that's putting it lightly.

I won't even get into the 'terrorist fist jab' you guys called Michelle and Barack's victory bump earlier this month. Is it because he's black? Or that his middle name is 'Hussein'? Or have you just stopped caring about your slogan - that you are 'fair and balanced'? I see no fairness in your coverage of this election. You've given John McCain all the good PR while leaving Barack in the dust. Shame. And then you slander him over his race. Again, shame.

Fox News, you are not fair and you are not balanced. You are a just a tool for the White House and elitist Republicans who use you to get their message out in the disguise of 'news coverage'. Quite frankly, it's disgusting. Just end the charade already - admit your bias to the Republican Party and your disdain for anything that hints at favoring the Democrats.

I really can't think of anything else to say. Your recent news cycle and the ignorance it portrays is so rage-inducing, I can't write any more for fear of breaking into a curse-filled capslock rant of rage against you and your parent company.

Regard this as our break-up letter, if you will. In the words of Martha Jones, "This is me, getting out."

Kindest regards,
Sarah Hayes
Ex-viewer of Fox News

OMGWTFSQUEEE

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:49:50 GMT

CITY OF EMBER TRAILER

CITY OF EMBER TRAILER ♥

In The Highways [Doctor Who]

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:47:27 GMT

TITLE: In The Highways
SERIES: Doctor Who
RATING: PG
CHAPTERS/ONE SHOT: One-Shot
PAIRINGS: Implied Jenny/Martha, Jenny/Donna, Jenny/Jack
GENRE: Crack
SUMMARY: Jenny's very curious for someone only a few weeks old. God forbid her and the information highway ever meet in person. Spoilers for very end of 'Forest of the Dead' and 'The Doctor's Daughter'.

Jenny is very new to this thing called technology. Even more so with the Internet. A combination of the Doctor's know-how and Jenny's natural curiosity (the curiosity of a child, only a few weeks old) doesn't bode well for the rest of the universe. When Jenny's ramshackle little spaceship passes by a galaxy, said galaxy breathes a collective sigh of relief (then says thank you when she shows up and saves them all).

Anyhow, the Internet. She's not allowed to use it anymore. By orders of the boys back at home, who are very busy planting crops and building new cities to actually visit Jenny but they do send holo-mails now and then to check up on the Time Lady (in training, of course, it's a slowly earned title, now it has no academy for her to graduate from properly).

See, the thing about Jenny - sweet Jenny, energetic Jenny, the one with the gun but never kills, that Jenny - is that her fingers are like minature sonic screwdrivers. Touch something and it opens up completely to her, reveals their innermost machinations. Jenny knows it; she takes advantage of it freely. A gift to the heir apparent, she thinks. She likes it. So do the boys back home. (And Martha. And Donna. And Captain Jack - especially Captain Jack).

So imagine those fingers working on the Internet, touching that massive system of connections that span across the world. She's liable to come across something, right? Maybe files on her genetic father? Torchwood security seems to be lax these days, as with UNIT. Jenny plans to meet this 'Lethbridge-Stewart' man one day, ask him questions, listen to his stories of working with the Doctor. But not now; she's too busy running and touching everything in sight.

Then there's all the people, all using the Internet. Jenny wants to talk to them all, listen to them, help them somehow. It's what her father would want, after all - for her to save people. Only her Internet just doesn't reach Earth, oh no. In her little space pod, she's got a map of the universe in her modem, all laid out in zeros and ones. And one way or another, they all know the Doctor. They're perfectly harmless, living their lives in peace and normalcy. Some deal with aliens now, others do private detective work. One lad even has a rock band. Jenny doesn't think much of their 'music', but they've got heart, she'll give them that. It's when Jenny starts talking to these people that things get out of hand and the boys from home end up finally leaving their lush new world to clean up one of Jenny's messes.

Yes, Jenny isn't allowed to use the Internet. Last time she did, she ended up playing several rounds of intergalactic Hearts with River Song and her two children.

a little early, but whatevs

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:14:08 GMT

HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, COLIN BAKER. YOU TOTES ROCK!

:D

*declares the weekend of June 7th and 8th the Unofficial Days of Six And Everything Else Super Cool*

RE: Nostalgia Critic's review of 'Pokemon: The First Movie'

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:32:32 GMT

Watch the Nostalgia Critic take on Pokemon: The First Movie before reading this post. It'll help ;D

1. This movie is not for people getting into the franchise. This is for Pokemon fans. It was catered to Pokemon fans only. Thus, there's no way you would know what a Pokemon is or who Giovanni is (that's the head of Team Rocket, and only James is gay ;D). Also, the American distributors added 'The First Movie' to the title. There were already several Pokemon movies out by the time the series became mega-popular in America and they knew they'd all be released State-side sooner or later - so they did that.

2. Seriously, Pocket Monsters? Of course they're not gonna call them that. It's a franchise for little kids, they don't want to be saying 'Pocket Monsters' every time they talk about their favorite tv show. I know I sure as hell don't.

3. The world is Kanto. Just so you know. Later sequels have them crossing the ocean and into Johto.

4. You know that's not their original names for Jesse and James, right? Like Ash's real name is Satoshi? You can blame our lame American bretheren for that one. Lord.

5. There was an entire episode you obviously missed where it explained Meowth's back story and how he learned English. That's why.

6. CUT THAT OUT! Ash was raised in a world where Pokemon fighting one another is perfectly normal and is encouraged by the government and every one else. Up to this point in canon, he's never witnessed such a battle before. OF COURSE HE'S FREAKING OUT. Oh, but once again, you didn't watch it. My bad.

7. It's boring and confusing because you never watched Pokemon. DUH.

8. Your shows sucked. They show them on Boomerang and they blow. Except for TMNT, that's the shit.

You want a good Japanese animated film? Watch Satoshi Kon's Paprika; Mamoru Oshii's Ghost In The Shell; Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle In The Sky. The Pokemon stuff is not for you.

Also, I assume you do not like Mudkips.