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"Fast and Furious 6" spoiler talk.
Moving this conversation from Tumblr to DW so people who want to avoid spoilers can.
This is the AICN post containing an unverified spoiler about Fast 6/Fast 7 and the death of a major character. I emphasise that this has not been confirmed (or denied, so far as I can tell) by the studio or anyone connected to the production.
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"Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter".
I was rewatching S2 of the Sarah Connor Chronicles on the weekend, which reminded me of just how much I love that show, and noticing some new things, particularly when it comes to Riley and Jesse.
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Information and entropy.
I was listening to Leonard Susskind's talk The World as a Hologram" on my iPhone while on the train a couple of weeks ago. Most of it went over my head, but one phrase that really caught my attention was the theoretical "indestructibility of information": information is never lost or destroyed, although it can be "lost" in the sense that we no ( Read more... ) -
Complex visibility of asexuality in fandom.
A addendum to yesterday's post about asexuality in fic ( Read more... ) -
Asexuality-in-fic recs.
Following this post where I complained about UST-centred fics in which "let's fuck" becomes the solution to all problems, I got into conversations in the comments with lab and
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White Collar recs?
Changbai Mountain was beautiful, to be sure, but the blasted hotel had no wireless internet, and mobile coverage was patchy so I haven't been keeping up with LJ/DW. All in all, I'm glad to be back in Shanghai.
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Zen warrior.
Last weekend I watched Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom, the sequel to Kung Fu Panda and starring the voice talents of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Yeoh, and others. Though it did not occur to me immediately, I realised a day or so later that its themes and plot bear some resemblances to another film from ( Read more... )
