Things I keep meaning to link
(And oh boy tangential thoughts: so many of them.)
The Shousetsu Bang Bang (livejournal zine for original BL stories) theme for August is my secret weakness! That is, basing writing off pieces of art. It's unlikely I'll manage, but I really want to try.
Emo cutter (Discworld) Death over at fanficrants. All there is to say: XD
springfluff - a place to make art/fic/icon/vid requests that may or may not be granted, but hope is a wonderful thing.
A dolphin, apparently as designed by Barbie. I mean that thing is real pink.
(King) Arthur/Barack Obama, for posterity. Now that I think about it, this was entirely inevitable - they are currently two of the internets' favourite things.
The ultimate in not-safe-for-work, profoundly. stupidly. awfully (in all senses of the word) purple prose. Fragrance of a whaaaaat
Let me google that for you - The ultimate in internets passive-aggression! I could answer a good number of work e-mails this way. Of course I don't, because that would be bad, wrong, and ludicrously bitchy ... but I could.
But ROBOFISH are cool! Made to detect pollution in the ocean, which is also cool. Also: I am holding out for bugbots. I don't know what they'd be for (spying gadgets! tiny vacuum cleaners! accessories! just movie special effects!), but I refuse to die until technology becomes awesome enough to permit this. :(
The review for the Dragonball Z live-action movie is entirely negative - cruel, practically, but is it still cruelty if it's deserved? I'm awed by how bad it makes the movie sound: too bad even to watch for unintentional hilarity. Hollywood has been amazingly obtuse for a couple of years now about kids' movies. They keep taking a story with a solid following and then sucking most everything notable out of it - see Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Dark is Rising, and from what I've seen there's a strong case that Avatar's on the list. The last time this worked was when Disney moe-fied* Winnie the Pooh, and at least they kept the suicidal donkey.** (Although when I see the random girl introduced on Winnie the Pooh merchandise these days I catch a mild conniption fit. Who what huh why?? I guess they're trying to give little girls someone to identify with, but. but!)
Get a clue, Hollywood. Respect the story. Don't give in to the blinding capitalistic urges, not least because they don't work. THE STORYYYYYYYY.
--But speaking of Disney, last time I was on Disney channel I spent about ten minutes gaping at a 'Famous Five' next generation cartoon in shock. There was not a single reference to a crossdressing heavily repressed pubescent lesbian anywhere! TRAVESTY. Stop ruining my childhood! (I'm sort of joking. But sort of serious. Enid Blyton wrote some real educational kidlit, even if she didn't mean to.)
* For lack of a better word coming to mind, although there probably is one. Manga fandom, what have I let you do to me!
** Eeyore in the cartoon scared me when I was little. I just knew one day he'd jump off that little hill he lived on and remove himself forever from this life of relentless misery.
The Shousetsu Bang Bang (livejournal zine for original BL stories) theme for August is my secret weakness! That is, basing writing off pieces of art. It's unlikely I'll manage, but I really want to try.
Emo cutter (Discworld) Death over at fanficrants. All there is to say: XD
springfluff - a place to make art/fic/icon/vid requests that may or may not be granted, but hope is a wonderful thing.
A dolphin, apparently as designed by Barbie. I mean that thing is real pink.
(King) Arthur/Barack Obama, for posterity. Now that I think about it, this was entirely inevitable - they are currently two of the internets' favourite things.
The ultimate in not-safe-for-work, profoundly. stupidly. awfully (in all senses of the word) purple prose. Fragrance of a whaaaaat
Let me google that for you - The ultimate in internets passive-aggression! I could answer a good number of work e-mails this way. Of course I don't, because that would be bad, wrong, and ludicrously bitchy ... but I could.
But ROBOFISH are cool! Made to detect pollution in the ocean, which is also cool. Also: I am holding out for bugbots. I don't know what they'd be for (spying gadgets! tiny vacuum cleaners! accessories! just movie special effects!), but I refuse to die until technology becomes awesome enough to permit this. :(
The review for the Dragonball Z live-action movie is entirely negative - cruel, practically, but is it still cruelty if it's deserved? I'm awed by how bad it makes the movie sound: too bad even to watch for unintentional hilarity. Hollywood has been amazingly obtuse for a couple of years now about kids' movies. They keep taking a story with a solid following and then sucking most everything notable out of it - see Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Dark is Rising, and from what I've seen there's a strong case that Avatar's on the list. The last time this worked was when Disney moe-fied* Winnie the Pooh, and at least they kept the suicidal donkey.** (Although when I see the random girl introduced on Winnie the Pooh merchandise these days I catch a mild conniption fit. Who what huh why?? I guess they're trying to give little girls someone to identify with, but. but!)
Get a clue, Hollywood. Respect the story. Don't give in to the blinding capitalistic urges, not least because they don't work. THE STORYYYYYYYY.
--But speaking of Disney, last time I was on Disney channel I spent about ten minutes gaping at a 'Famous Five' next generation cartoon in shock. There was not a single reference to a crossdressing heavily repressed pubescent lesbian anywhere! TRAVESTY. Stop ruining my childhood! (I'm sort of joking. But sort of serious. Enid Blyton wrote some real educational kidlit, even if she didn't mean to.)
* For lack of a better word coming to mind, although there probably is one. Manga fandom, what have I let you do to me!
** Eeyore in the cartoon scared me when I was little. I just knew one day he'd jump off that little hill he lived on and remove himself forever from this life of relentless misery.