Since some of you might be interested, here's an update: my Sherlock series 1 and 2 boxed set on Blu Ray and YES, they worked in my Blu Ray player.  FYI my player is a Samsung.

Yay!  Glad that wasn't a wasted $37.  Another yay, I received in the mail today my pre-ordered copy of the first Avatar follow-up graphic novel.

Random Hiking Photo: this is ( Read more... )

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Just reposting this because I can and I'm still squeeing over it.

So it's come to my attention that certain family members of mine wondered if I'd died a horrible unreported death due to my lack of updates, until I turned up at Christmas. Short answer: no ( Read more... )

OOOOOH it sure is Fan Memorial Weekend. It's Comic-Con this weekend and even for those of us who can sadly not attend, we get lots of news ( Read more... )

OMG YOU GUYZ.

There is going to be more "Avatar: The Last Airbender."

Not an animated series. But sometime in 2012 Nick is going to release a whole new series of graphic novels that continue the ATLA story, picking up where the finale left off.

EXCITE.

If anybody's curious about why Avatar is awesome and you should watch it, check out this video. It's the whole series in five minutes and gives a really good overall feel for the show.

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I am Spammity Spammenstein today.

1. Meant to link to this and forgot. For the Avatar fans on the flist, here is an essay I wrote about the episode "The Southern Raiders," which is often touted as a big Zutara episode, but which I assert is actually hugely important episode for Kataang. In case anybody's interested ( Read more... )

Bullet point post of evening updateyness.

• So I was mildly bored by last night's True Blood, even though tons of important stuff was happening, and then suddenly came the last five minutes when Russell Edgington abruptly became the awesomest thing in the history of television and totally pwned everything that has ever existed.
  
• I have got Dayna ( Read more... )

Beneath the cut is a rather tl;dr essay I wrote about how "The Southern Raiders," far from being the Zutarafest it might seem to be, is in fact one of the biggest turning points for Aang and Katara's relationship.

( Southern Raiders meta-analysis )

Okay, so I don't often post fangirly stuff on the blog these days, but I saw this fanart on a comm and I thought it was cool so yeah, I'm posting fangirly stuff.

It's a Team Avatar banner. LOVE.


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