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Jan. 8th, 2004 12:01 amDoes anyone know of any archives that boast a large source of LOTR fanfiction beyond FF.Net?
Jan. 8th, 2004
My movie is the BEST.
Jan. 8th, 2004 02:14 pmRashaka in Aftermath: Differentiation |
In this thrill-per-minute rollercoaster, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small} rashaka (Emma Thompson) is a Canadian prisoner with a desire for revenge. She promises to eliminate voleuse (Meg Ryan) before crime kingpin, _green_ (Gwyneth Paltrow), kidnaps her. Following a chain of very obvious clues, she brings down a hidden submarine with no thought to her own personal safety. Unfortunately, a cavalcade of elite male strippers stands in her way. |
Produced by  ianiceboy |
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Jan. 8th, 2004 02:23 pmSupposedly in 45 minutes my dad will return home and clean my room--- a misnomer, really, because he intends to put everything in crates and dump it outside until my room is empty, which is hardly what I'd call cleaning. Of course, he claims that my cleaning is merely rearranging. I said of course it is, that's all it's ever going to be when you're a reincarnated packrat. But don't worry, they can be in nice, organized piles. This didn't stand well with him, and so at 3:00pm the cleaning will come, despite my efforts to point out that I'm 19-almost-20-and-aren't-we-getting-a-little-carried-away-here-don't-you-DARE-touch-my-bookshelf.
I'm tempted to lock my bedroom door, put a note outside saying I'm feeling wrteched and disturbed and vaugely Van-Gogh-ish look at my ear so please leave me alone, then no matter what never answer the door and never come out again.
The only problem is that this would be so wildly out of character for me that my parents probably *would* think I was disturbed, and start thinking I wasn't getting enough lengthy talks with them or something.
I'm tempted to lock my bedroom door, put a note outside saying I'm feeling wrteched and disturbed and vaugely Van-Gogh-ish look at my ear so please leave me alone, then no matter what never answer the door and never come out again.
The only problem is that this would be so wildly out of character for me that my parents probably *would* think I was disturbed, and start thinking I wasn't getting enough lengthy talks with them or something.
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Jan. 8th, 2004 02:54 pmSo a week ago I was reading a Faye/Spike CB fic that was really very good, except for the little pointless author's notes that popped up every chapter in the middle of sentences, sometimes twice. I almsot stopped reading they were getting so annoying, but the rest was good so I dogged on forward. I left for reviews for that fic, mostly complaining about how annoying the author's notes were, interspersed wiht some very honest compliments about ehr style and dialogue and characterization.
I just read a new ficlet she did, and enjoyed it, and was writing my review when I noticed the author's notes at the bottom had my name in it, and asked if this was better because there was nothing in the middle to interrupt the story flow.
I was ambivalent-- torn between sheepishness that I might have sounded bitchy and bullyish, and smirking delight that I actually got someone to stop doing that annoying thing and now I can enjoy the fic properly.
I just read a new ficlet she did, and enjoyed it, and was writing my review when I noticed the author's notes at the bottom had my name in it, and asked if this was better because there was nothing in the middle to interrupt the story flow.
I was ambivalent-- torn between sheepishness that I might have sounded bitchy and bullyish, and smirking delight that I actually got someone to stop doing that annoying thing and now I can enjoy the fic properly.
MPREG... is that like .MPEG? or .MPGA?
Jan. 8th, 2004 07:16 pmI've been thinking about it, and I don't understand the point of male pregnancy fics. I only heard about these three years ago, and have read less than five, never finishing one. So I'm not well-versed in the fandom. But I ask the whole of my friends list this:
If the character is going to become pregnant (and I, not having read many of these fics, am perhaps naively assuming that it will be like that stupid Governor Schwartz movie that I never actually watched where he who must not be named walks around with a fake pregnant belly, and not like that stupid episode of Enterprise that I never actually finished where the Trick Trip Tiff whatever his name is character sticks his hands in pudding and gets his body taken over, but manages to avoid being shaped like a mellon), then isn't that just like, in a sense, making the male into a female? If men could be pregnant and have all the appropriate hormones and body changes and emotional stuff that entails... wouldn't we call them women? And if you want to do that, why not do the fun gender-switching fic thing and just turn the character into a female in the first place? I can understand those fics-- thrill and humor of experiencing life as the opposite gender. But if you're going to make a man be pregnant to achieve the same effect... that doesn't make him a man's brain in a woman's body, that makes him a woman. Because in humans the females are the ones with the female parts, and the males have male parts. That's how we tell the difference, most of the time. So if you change that, then what's the point of calling it male pregnancy? It's an oxymoron.
Why isn't it called "Pregnancy of a person who used to be male but now, based on the mere fact of said pregnancy, is obviously not a male at all, but in fact a pregnant woman with an extraneous bit of banana flesh hanging out beneath the belly and an appointment with for a future c-section." ?
I'm really very, honestly curious about this.
If what I think MPREG is about isn't what is about, and this whole line of logic complaint is void, then explain that too.
If the character is going to become pregnant (and I, not having read many of these fics, am perhaps naively assuming that it will be like that stupid Governor Schwartz movie that I never actually watched where he who must not be named walks around with a fake pregnant belly, and not like that stupid episode of Enterprise that I never actually finished where the Trick Trip Tiff whatever his name is character sticks his hands in pudding and gets his body taken over, but manages to avoid being shaped like a mellon), then isn't that just like, in a sense, making the male into a female? If men could be pregnant and have all the appropriate hormones and body changes and emotional stuff that entails... wouldn't we call them women? And if you want to do that, why not do the fun gender-switching fic thing and just turn the character into a female in the first place? I can understand those fics-- thrill and humor of experiencing life as the opposite gender. But if you're going to make a man be pregnant to achieve the same effect... that doesn't make him a man's brain in a woman's body, that makes him a woman. Because in humans the females are the ones with the female parts, and the males have male parts. That's how we tell the difference, most of the time. So if you change that, then what's the point of calling it male pregnancy? It's an oxymoron.
Why isn't it called "Pregnancy of a person who used to be male but now, based on the mere fact of said pregnancy, is obviously not a male at all, but in fact a pregnant woman with an extraneous bit of banana flesh hanging out beneath the belly and an appointment with for a future c-section." ?
I'm really very, honestly curious about this.
If what I think MPREG is about isn't what is about, and this whole line of logic complaint is void, then explain that too.
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Jan. 8th, 2004 08:36 pmHello dear Earthling,
I am a creature from a galaxy far away, visiting your planet.
I have transformed myself into this livejournal post. As you are reading it, I am having sex with your eyeballs. I know you like it because you are smiling.
Please pass me on. I'm really horny.
I am a creature from a galaxy far away, visiting your planet.
I have transformed myself into this livejournal post. As you are reading it, I am having sex with your eyeballs. I know you like it because you are smiling.
Please pass me on. I'm really horny.
Snatched this from isabellecs
The bolded/underlined ones I've seen in completion...
1 Godfather, The (1972)
2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3 Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
5 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
6 Schindler's List (1993) Liam Neeson
7 Casablanca (1942)
8 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 9 Shichinin no samurai (1954)
10 Star Wars (1977)
11 Citizen Kane (1941)
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
( Read more... )
I believe I counted 87/250. That doesn't seem like a lot, but it did when I was typing it.
isabellecsThe bolded/underlined ones I've seen in completion...
1 Godfather, The (1972)
2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3 Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
5 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
6 Schindler's List (1993) Liam Neeson
7 Casablanca (1942)
8 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 9 Shichinin no samurai (1954)
10 Star Wars (1977)
11 Citizen Kane (1941)
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
( Read more... )
I believe I counted 87/250. That doesn't seem like a lot, but it did when I was typing it.