I am having real serious issues concentrating recently. Real real serious can't keep it together to write this post or figure out anything I'm supposed to be doing concentration issues.  Kate called it Friday Afternoon syndrome, but I don't think it's that - it's impossible (read: really really difficult and I haven't managed it) to focus for any length of time at all. I can zone out in fact I'm tending towards activities that encourage out-zoning, but I just. Can't. Do. I can't sit still long, I can't have long conversations without wandering off. Oh and also? The inability to focus is making me anxious and self-hating. And I'm not sleeping well, and I'm over emotional: accidentally rude to people and a defriending email just made me cry. Which turned out to be a false alarm anyway. And I want to blame the fact that I have no headphones so can't have music while working. I'm going to buy myself some new ones, I think. In the meantime, a meme, because I want to. Comment with a fandom and I'll tell you my:
One True Pairing Ship:
Canon Ship:
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
"You are one sick bastard" Ship:
"I dabble a little" Ship:
"It's like a car crash" Ship:
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:
"When all is said and done" Ship: As Weaves says; Shatter, Milliways and Rabbithole all count as fandoms. | |
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Del.icio.us Glue borked again - maybe it doesn't like it when I post to my LJ on the same day? I'm getting no 'backdated' error messages the way I did when I first set it up. So I'll just have to linkspam the old fashioned way. First up: A video made by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) charmax for the International Day of Femslash: I'm Your Man: ( Embedded under the cut! )Secondly, another video I can't embed: A Real™ Dinosaur wandering around the LA MNH. I'm sure you all know what I want at my next birthday party. Get to it. Lesbians lose court battle against lesbians. Via Andrew Hickey: The Sun, as we all know, is a tabloid hack rag, but it never hurts to remind ourselves of it, like the way they photoshop out black peopleAndrew also has something of his own to say about the Watchmen movie, and why he doesn't hold out much hope for it: There are roughly two approaches you can take. Let’s call them the babelfish and the Christopher Nolan.
The babelfish approach is - you take what’s on the page, and you put it on the screen. If you have to make cuts to fit it into three hours, cut the boring bits, but basically just put the source material on the screen. From the interviews I’ve read, from the photos I’ve seen, that’s what Zak Snyder trying to do with Watchmen. The director acts like a translating machine.
Christopher Nolan, on the other hand, is an extremely intelligent filmmaker, and he understands that the process of adaptation is one that must change the source material in fundamental ways. A film is not a novel or a comic, and The Prestige is not the same as the novel it’s based on, and Batman Begins has only a passing resemblance to Batman Year One. And now I'm off to put together a job application -does my PhD count as my 'current' job, or one of my volunteering positions? | |
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No one told me Eureka was a high maintenance attention-span programme!
Something happened in the pilot but there were a lot of characters and I'm not quite sure what. Next time I will be watching it with the laptop firmly off.
Lady cop was hot, though. | |
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The internet is full of Marmite. It gets stuck in the tubes and causes slowness, and that's why the latest US episode of your favourite TV series took so long to download and crapped out in the middle. No, really. OK, actually, what I mean is the internet is full of things that everyone seems to either love with the power of all-caps, or hate with all the force of LOLcats. There's no middle ground here. Of course, the reason for that is because if you're a little bit 'meh' about something, or you think it's OK but nothing to blog about - then you don't blog about it. So the only opinions that get expressed in the big old wide blogosphere are OMGAWESOME or RILLYANGRYSMASH posts. And sometimes, everyone liking something is enough to get the people who didn't have much of an opinion, start to get annoyed at the people who do and feel the need to post about how awful something was, and dichotomies form. And no one is more prone to forming these love/hate divides than Joss Whedon. ( Spoilers for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog )There's a lot of good reading in the links included in this post, and I kind of feel I've written a lot without actually saying much, but I think that reader interpretation is what's important here, not authorial intent. It seems most likely that Joss, Neil, Nathan and Felicity were just having a laugh with a high budget, and didn't construct any deliberate meaning. I was certainly willing to let the whole thing slide by as something that was fun to watch, but the way in which messages and ideas can be read into it is just one of the things that makes Fandom so great. ♥ Don't ever change, you guys. [Further reading: Feminste | A Nerd at Peace | An interview with Joss Whedon]
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Oh, the Sun. \"Makers Mattel say Black Canary Barbie, out in September, is based on a DC comic superhero of the same name.\" Indeed. A shame you lack the journalistic skills to show that it's accurate.
HOLY CRAP Final Fantasy girls take on the Dead or Alive girls. This animation is absolutely AMAZING.
The sequel to the last video. This just keeps getting better.
With anticipation for The Dark Knight reaching a fever pitch, Iron Man wonders how Batman can handle the pressure of such high expectations.
I LOVE COMIC BOOK MOVIES. *fangasms*
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♠ There's nothing like watching all three Jurassic Park movies in one sitting, for demonstrating just how fantastic the first one is and exactly how awful the second and third are. The descent from science fiction to monster moive is one of the main reason why the transition movie (2) sucks worse than 1 and 3, but there's also a very obvious slip in terms of gender and race issues, as Lorna Derne and Samuel L Jackson go through Julianne Moore and Vanessa Lee Chester to become Tia Leone and - some black guy who gets eaten really early? I forget. Tia Leone, it was decided, was a rubbish character, but she'd be really hot in drag. Or as a principal boy. ♠ Closet fannish people are funny. You know the kind: the ones who recognise Ethan Rayne in Jurassic Park 2 before I do, who want to talk about (and mock, 'cause they're closet) slashfic, but can't bring themselves to admit what it is. I like to secretly mock them in my head while watching them flail. ♠ Yesterday was Thursday. That means COMICS. Spike: After the Fall Eeeeeh *hand wiggles* makes about as much sense as any of the A:ATF titles? Which - not a lot. Spike's voice is inconsistent and Illyria's associated mythology is equally and badly so. I'm hoping it'll all make sense a few issues in, like Angel's beginning to, but my hopes aren't that high. Batgirl I bought this because I loved the last Batgirl title, and I loved Cassandra Cain. But I have read nothing with her in from between OYL and now, and I have no idea really what happened, though Tim's little Giles trick worked and I sort of get it? What I don't get is why Dick's acting so appallingly OOC. Can we claim Skrull in DC? No? Birds of Prey Oh no! New artist! Just when they brought Dinah back (temporarily). Nicola Scott's art was so incredibly pretty, and O'Hare's - eeesch. Dinah's very painful looking wedgie is back and it's distracting. Also - while it's always fulfilling to see my Canary kicking ass, I would really appreciate if someone in the DCU actually gave her plot. Go on. Something beyond being hot in fishnets and crying when people die? Please? Though, A+++ for mentioning Sin. And for giving a reason for Babs and Dinah hardly talking to each other since the wedding which so far hadn't been explained. And here's hoping, maybe Sin will come back? We can but hope. ( Here, have some scans ) | |
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I haven't decided if there's a mild physical bug living in me at the moment, if it's the heat, or if I really am getting too old to drink anything ever, but I've had some unusually bad and weird-feeling hangovers recently. And my stomach's been playing up when sober as well. Not in a horrible gross way, but a persistently uncomfortable way, certainly. Eeeeeeeh I still have nothing to say. Thesis is coming, parties are fun, my friends rock.My supervisors bought me curry and they rock too. Tickets to Novembrat are booked. Oh, and the InnerDad sent me pictures of a Sparrowhawk killing a pigeon in the back garden. ( Cut in case you're weird and dont' want to see bloody pigeon death. ) | |
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I won't be volunteering at the NHM this weekend, and instead will be helping out Izzy at the London Film and Comic Con. The guest list is huge and star studded, but at £10 a pop bollocks am I going to go queue to meet any of them. I bought a pole (cheap at 50p!) from the costume shop yesterday and have fixed the not!Scythe, so that's a Mel costume all ready to go, and if the leotard Daniel was generous enough to buy me arrives on time, I'll have a Dinah costume as well.
The reason I'm vaguely relieved at the lack of volunteering- despite the fact that I love it with an unholy passion greater than anything - is that I have twin mouth ulcers on my tongue and cheek, so as both areas are swollen, my molars are happily scraping away at both. This, as you can imagine, is making talking for any length of time a considerable challenge.
Ow.
I have been treating it with TCP and mouthwash and all that, but tonight, because it's such miserable weather, I shall be out on the lawns of the museum for the staff party, treating my sore mouth with booze and even more talking.
I love this museum.
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snapesbabe makes a very good post about William Sanders of Helix magazine and his blatent racism and consequential arseholish behaviour. Go read it, I have noting better to say on the subject. Near the end of the post, though, Jennie says this: So if you see me saying something racist? Or for that matter sexist or hetero-normative, or anything else which displays privilege and prejudice? Call me out on it. I can't promise I won't defend myself, I can't promise that I'll always unequivocally accept criticism, but I can promise I will listen, and not dismiss your comments out of hand or threaten you with legal action. And I'd leave the following in a comment, but it applies to everyone, so here it goes in a public post: If I couldn't call you out when you talk shit, I wouldn't have you on my friends list.It's probably the most important thing about me reading your blog, or you commenting on my journal. Every. Single. One of you. I have had people on my friendslist who have shown themselves openly hostile to self-awareness and challenges, and those people have been removed. (I could name at least two. I'm not going to.) If you're posting something on the internet where I can see it, and it's bollocks or I disagree, I reserve the right to call you out on it. So here's the thing, not phrased particularly subtly because I'm in a tetchy mood: If you have a problem with me calling you out on stuff, tell me and I will remove you from my reading list. Everyone else, I respect you enough to tell you when I think you're wrong. And I like to think you can return that respect. | |
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Self, If you've had to take certain feeds off your list because of their tendency to give you anxiety attacks, going looking for those anxiety attacks is not going to help your mental health any. So, in order to stave off Those Feelings, and my crippling headache, a reminder of why Huntress Year One rocks: ( Six Full Page Scans here )HOW AWESOME IS THAT? I love Year Ones so very much. Green Arrow/Black Canary, however, is still really really bad. But because it's relevant to today's Daily Entertainment, and because not even Judd Winick can make Dinah not awesome: ( Three, smaller panels. )Also, I love both my jobs very much and would could consider myself complete if I could get paid for either one. | |
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Wow. Just wow, there are some seriously messed up people on the internet. ginasketch linked to a blog entry, which linked to a blog entry, both of which, and the comments absolutely and completely baffle me. ( Men compare rape to stealing food. I'm not even exaggerating here )However, I leave you with an excerpt from my favourite comment on Aaronson's blog, because sadly, it's kind of ture: Not only with rape but with all things we find morally reprehensible, we’re really only disgusted when it happens to “people.” The reason rape (for example) has become less and less acceptable is that our definition of a person has become more and more liberal. | |
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