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the myth of a "western media fandom"
I wasn't really around-or rather, wasn't paying much attention at the time-to the backlash around Us, Lim's "representative" fanvid that left a lot of people feeling unrepresented. But I knew about it, registered it, have felt vaguely weird about it ever since ( Read more... ) -
Steampunk!
So, for months I have been wandering around thinking, self, you should really read more steampunk. I don't actually really know what steampunk is, or if I have in fact ever read it before. I was, like, halfway through Havemercy before I suddenly went, "oh, wait, hey, this is a mechanical dragon, this is steampunk, omg i'm reading steampunk!" so ( Read more... ) -
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- oh my god i am in utter fandom withdrawal. i've gone without internet access plenty of times, but i think this is the longest i've ever gone without accessing the internet - aka, without finding a place somewhere and fandoming away. This updating LJ on the sly from work is not cutting it. It's like I'm sending my fandomy thoughts out into a ( Read more... )
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they should call it YAYkuza!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DRACO MALFOY. *__*
( Things!!! rl things, fandom things, ranty things, obnoxious things, delightful things! ) -
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THINGS:
- ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS SO HOT. I've always loved this guy I mean really really loved, ever since he totally swished his way through Only You and into my heart, and I was so D: about the whole drug thing and so :D :D :D :D when he came through it and now, the result, HOLY SHIT THE RESULT.
- ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS SO HOT.
- Iron Man blew me away. Iron ( Read more... )
- ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS SO HOT. I've always loved this guy I mean really really loved, ever since he totally swished his way through Only You and into my heart, and I was so D: about the whole drug thing and so :D :D :D :D when he came through it and now, the result, HOLY SHIT THE RESULT.
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my modus operandi is amalgam.
Today I bought this shirt. This is either totally lame or totally awesome. It's probably a bit of both, just like me ( Read more... ) -
like my soul has fallen into the pit of Mordor...fication.
me: i hate sci fi. i really really really hate sci fi ( Read more... ) -
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So, in this ep, Metamorphosis, they've been stranded on a desert planet with only a 150-year-old space explorer dude for company, having been lured there by a giant ball of electricity.
at this point they've figured out that Giant Electric Ball has been keeping Space Explorer Dude as her lover all these years. SED's all like, huh?
( So Spock has to tell Mr. Spaceman what Love is. ) -
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zach: wait, is this the one where Spock sings?
me: what.
i think it's my fate to be constantly amazed by my own capacity to like shamefully embarrassing things that i would never in a million years willingly confess to liking, except then i not only like them but start shrieking it to the skies oh my god what is wrong with me, is there some sort ( Read more... )