Random stuff I'm offering at help_japan:

Snape's wand

Postcard from Austria for a V-Gift
Not exactly my idea, it's all the rage and you can get postcards from basically everywhere, the coolest is offering Middle Earth. :) Though mine will of course also be v. cool!!

Speaking of fandom Auctions, I received another Inception fic for the Queensland auction ( Read more... )

Has anyone seen this: Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons'

...snip ( Read more... )

Argh, WB hates me, whatever have I done to them? First they deprive me of TDK long enough that I go from being super hyped to feeling that it's a chore to watch that lame old movie (some time after the fucking 22nd of August) that I probably have to do to because of Heath Ledger (I need to form an opinion on that performance after all! Plus I've ( Read more... )

For the love of god, there is no often repeated folk wisdom I detest more than "Marriage was not about love before the 20th century" "Marriage for love is a relatively new concept." Yeah, the concept is brand new and original. Romeo and Juliet, for example, were trying to build a reasonable life and business partnership! Shakespeare would be all ( Read more... )

So I stumbled about these fanfic discussions on my flist and have the urge to chime in. It seems to be a pride issue for parts of fandom. People like to point out that fanfic isn't automatically beneath other works of fiction. Well, it is. It is automatically and by definition beneath original fiction, that's just nothing be ashamed of ( Read more... )

Just listening to an interview with Matthew Herbert. The interviewer and he have a good time being indignant about Bono Vox selling records by talking about poverty.
Huh? Couldn't it possibly be the other way round ( Read more... )