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Television Streaming Sites

1. http://www.Hulu.com - If you've never heard of Hulu, you a) didn't watch Doctor Horrible online last year, or b) haven't seen the laughable Alien Alec Baldwin commercial from the superbowl. Hulu is great, though you may be asked to watch the same car commercial six times in one episode. Unfortunately, it's difficult to predict what episodes or seasons will be available, and what won't. Note: only available in the U.S.

2. http://www.surfthechannel.com/ - SurfTheChannel doesn't host episodes; it lists shows and, by individual episode, links you to an array of different streaming websites. I watched the entire first three seasons of How I Met Your Mother on this website, linked to funky Japanese and Korean servers that sometimes had Chinese subs, but I was a happy cat.

Websites with Direct Download Resources/Archives

Anime

1. http://www.cyber12.com/ - [Anime Download Resource Archive] - TONS! mostly linked via MegaUpload and similar file sending websites, and you don't need to register for it. Mostly recent stuff and some old stuff.

2. http://www.narutoengdub.co.nr/ - [JustDubs] - download complete dubbed series!

3. http://www.anime-eden.com/ - [Anime Eden] - huge archive of many series, usually complete, download from servers two at a time, also music, free registration necessary. They have a lot of older series as well as new ones, and anime movies.

4. http://www.boontan.net/ - [Boontan] - several series, download from servers, free registration necessary, lots of recent obscure series.

6. http://mesmerisz.livejournal.com/3570.html - a livejournal masterpost list with a few hundred series linked through megaupload, well organized. Only recent stuff from the last two years.

[from hakeber]
7. http://www.anikat.com - Large archive, linked via MegaUpload and similar sites, no registration necessary.

8. http://www.lolipower.org/


Manga

1. http://www.onemanga.com/directory/ - [OneManga] - This is where I get my Naruto updates; there's a huge database, no sign-up necessary. I view online.

2. http://stoptazmo.com/ - [StopTazmo] - Another large database, direct downloading of zip files. This site was created as a hate-letter to another download site [NarutFan], apparently.


Here's the updated list. If it weren't for these websites, I'd probably have more friends. They will corrupt your fannish soul...

I was browsing this old Mega Rec List for Cowboy Bebop fanfiction and idly skimmed some old fics, and it reminded me of how much I miss certain fandoms that I'm not active in anymore. I miss CB fanfic in particular, which I was seriously into in my senior year of high school and first two years of college. I adored fayeandspike, which barely gets any activity now. Just like I used to be seriously into the Vash/Meryl segment of Trigun fandom.

Anyway, while browsing all this great old CB fic with its massive epic chapter fics and its insane resurrection storylines and the incredible talent base of Bebop fandom and the Spike/Faye faction in particular, I had a terrible, gasping moment of regretful nostalgia. And I know exactly what it is.

I miss being in an adult fandom.

It happens, just because things do, that the fandom I'm most active in right now is a youth-based fandom. It's not my first (I spent quite a lot of time in HP fandom, and various anime series), but it's the one I'm into now that I've been involved in for the past two years. It's been longer-lasting for me than even Doctor Who, which suffers because you only get 13 episodes a year.

It's not the fact that ATLA fans are young that's particularly the issue I'm brooding over tonight (many of them are my age or older)... it's that the characters are young. For the last two years I've been writing fic about teenagers, be it ATLA or Harry Potter or Naruto or FMA or Veronica Mars or even DW's Rose Tyler who is, for all her wisdom, only twenty at best.

Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Buffy... these were shows about adult characters and thus allowed for adult situations. I don't just mean sexualized stuff, I mean adult on all levels and in a variety of contexts. I haven't been "into" a fandom with a full adult cast in a long time, be it television or anime. Even in series like HP, Naruto, or Fruits Basket the adult characters are secondary and often less-developed supporting characters rather than a driving force in the story.

I need something new to get into, something that inspires me to fangirl it like crazy and also something that puts out mature, elegant, quality fanfic on a huge level. While there's good and bad fic in every fandom, the range *does* differ, and the styles or modes each fandom culture puts out differ as well. ATLA fandom, for all that I love it, doesn't have as much high-quality fic as I would like to read, or as I've found in other fandoms before it, even reading multiple pairings.

Also, I want to have a cool, fun series that makes me love it AND makes me fic it (I don't fic every show I love) that isn't about teenagers.

The only problem is that all the good and really popular anime I've come across in the last two years is about teenagers, and most of the live-action tv shows from America or the UK just don't inspire serious fangirlism in me. I may watch Robin Hood or BSG or Sarah Connor Chronicles but I'm not, if you care to notice, particularly fannish crazy for them. And I've zero desire to fic them.

Ah, woe is me! Whining about a lack of well-written serious fanfic is always a good way to end your day.... because tomorrow or next week you just MIGHT discover a previously unread epic drama that takes your breath away with its style, sophistication, and panache. It could happen!

Things to do this afternoon:

-shower (I think I smell!)
-lunch
-shop for groceries
-go to used bookstore
-go to library (damn I owe 15 dollars...)
-install computer and stop using my parent's laptop
-unpack everything else
-stop being a lazy bum
-do laundry
-make dinner
-send resume online
-exercise


And why am I now obsessed with the song "Take Your Momma Out" by the Scissor Sisters? I don't even LIKE the Scissor Sisters, really.

I think it's because I came back from AmeriCorps with one of my teammate's mixed CDs being left in my car, and that's the first song on the mix. Now it just reminds me of my teammates and of New Orleans and of AmeriCorps NCCC's insane party culture underneath all the do-gooding. Combine the idealistic children of hippies, the threat of random drug testing, no supervisors over 25, and living just outside New Orleans... and you get this nifty catchphrase: "AmeriCorps turns potheads into alcoholics." It also shows people the awesomeness of volunteer and nonprofit work, of course, and creates young leaders, blah blah blah, and all that shiny stuff. I had a great year.

I'm going to be in the Gulf region for my next project, starting in about 3 weeks. I don't yet know which city, but there's 3/5 probability it will be with a Habitat For Humanity project, though not Musician's Village again.

However, in two weeks I get my first vacation-- 9 days of bliss in Denver, where my car is, and my PC. HUZZAH!

Just so you know how much they crammed into my brain in 2 months, I can do:

floor systems
floor decking
walls
framing
trusses
roof decking
shingles
siding
drywall
doors
exterior trim
interior trim
bracing
blocking
dead wood
crowning
door knobs
calking
painting
sawing



...and other stuff.



It rained again today-- my teammate Alex and I had a picnic after work in front of the building, under the huge eaves. We ate cookies and played mancala and watched the rain. I love the rain in this place.

Incidentally, thanks to the generous folks at teh_music, I now have about 90 songs about rain on my Zen player.

I reread Another Wolf, which is so good but OMFGWRONG at the same time. Because really, teenagers with older men is usually a squick for me. On account of it being illegal and gross (which is why I still haven't read Lolita yet). But here I got sucked into the OMFGWRONG of it, and what do you know. Still as good a fanfic as it was when I read it a year ago. I blame it on really quality writing and expert use of tension in a scene. (FYI, this fic is only PG-13, and is pretty subtle, more about anticipation than event. )

I am painfully aware that most KakaSaku fic is probably not of such high quality, and most of it will probably make me want to roll my eyes or barf. But it hit a kink for me, today. And it is the first one I've read for this pairing-- the only other one I read had them both as adults. But it hit a nerve. So I browsed some of the reviews and picked out people who wrote intelligent responses, then I trolled their favorites lists. This is usually how I browse Fanfiction.net.

http://www.asherida.net/kakasaku/fiction.html
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2390706/1/


http://community.livejournal.com/kakasaku/242731.html

http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/authors.php?no=1296795102

http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544214293

http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600000025

http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544183789
http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600005535
http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600090219

http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544203065




Naruto/Sakura:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2393153/1/
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2790223/1/
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2805179/1/
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1880777/1/

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2348777/1/
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3069422/1/

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2182992/1/
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2252655/1/

Okay, so the other day I made a prompt list. It's a set of 64 prompts for multiple fandoms, and I'm going to make a community for it which I will then pimp out everywhere I can. The prompts tend toward more actiony or tangible things rather than a lot of the more abstract stuff I've seen in a lot of prompt lists-- and a few song lyrics, because I love them. Also, I thought maybe some of you guys would like a new list to work with. So here they are.

Now, I need your help with naming the list. I'm kind of fond of "64damn_prompts", if only because I'm damned tired of trying to think up a name. There was also the suggestion to have it indicate its multifandom applicability in the name, or the fact that 64 = 8 squared (I couldn't figure out a way to make that work well, but suggestions would be great.)

Please fill out the poll below, and choose your top 3 choices. Or less if you don't like 3.

[Poll #757726]

I've never really done this before, so if you have any suggestions or thoughts in general, shoot!

I've been meaning to make a large A:TLAB rec list for a while, and since donna_c_punk is getting into the show, I thought I'd go all the way and make a Fandom Guide. It's as extensive as I could think to make it with regards to links and communities, with some of my personal commentary on the fandom as a whole, and a fic rec list at the end.

*NOTE: If a listed link lacks commentary, it simply means I'm not familiar enough with it.

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A Crash Course In

Avatar:TLAB Fandom

+ Recs

Fandom Trends, Habits, and Pros & Cons ( Read more... )


Resource Sites ( Read more... )


Communities ( Read more... )


Ship Communities (alphabetically) ( Read more... )


Media ( Read more... )


Fanfiction

Places ( Read more... )

Some General Recs, no particular order ( Read more... )

EDIT: More fanfiction recs have been provided in the comments below! Enjoy. :)

from fadingembers and arafel


Bold what you've seen all the way through; italicize what you've seen part of; underline what you own; add three of your own.

(I added like 30 to the end instead)

( 197 and counting... )

...Dear god, I've seen a shitload of anime. And I've seen more that's not even on the list.

For the people on my flist newly converted to Princess Tutu fans, I've now got a little soundtrack building in my head for Princess Tutu.

This is it so far:

Mytho or Mytho/Ahiru - "Tender" by Blur (riddering's suggestion!)

Ahiru/Fakir, season 1 - "Human" by the Pretenders

Ahiru/Fakir, season 2 - "I'll Fly Tonight" by Echo & the Bunnymen

Rue - "Doctors of Deliverance" by Crooked Fingers

Fakir - "Let Go" by Frou Frou

All - Blue States - "Season Song"

All - "Existentialism On Prom Night" by Straylight Run



What do you think? Suggestions? I still need a Rue/Mytho song, and a Fakir/Mytho song. And an Ahiru theme song. And an Edel and/or Uzura theme song.

I'm also not certain about my choice for Fakir. I think it covers one aspect of him, but there's still more that needs a different kind of song to encapsulate.