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WHY DON'T YA JUST KISS HER
The past week has been good times, but I am on the verge of becoming THE THING THAT LIVES IN THE GUEST BEDROOM and I kind of have to get out of here while I still have brain cells.
Has anyone else seen that show on Spike called DEADLIEST WARRIOR, and it's like SAMURAI VS. VIKING and MAORI WARRIOR VS. SHAOLIN MONK and just all this cracked out ~*science*~ and in the end, there is a choreographed samurai vs. viking showdown. It is terrible and hilarious, and is essentially just a penis-measuring contest and everyone yelling, "Oh yeah?! OH YEAH?!" I CAN'T STOP WATCHING.
Oren Lavie popped up on aurgasm and the name sounds familiar. Turns out he sang A Dance Around the Memory Tree on the Prince Caspian soundtrack. Anyway, it's a lovely song, check it out then the rest of the blog, especially "Daylight" by Matt & Kim, which is a song that makes me want to dance and have adventures all the time.
Speaking of the music! I've been bulk-downloading bunches of it, sort of stocking up before school starts. I've recovered loads of The Cranberries and Oasis so hooray for that. Quick, which other music should I recover/check out?
I'm reading a Generation Kill fic called Sixteen Days in September. I don't even watch Generation Kill, but the fic's set during Timor Leste's struggle for independence in 1999. Another reviewer said you don't even need to know the characters to get absorbed in the story and, okay, I agree. The story kind of feels like a journalistic docudrama. The internal politics of the United Nations and the fraught camaraderie of people trying to run things within a country in turmoil are brought out vividly, and, gosh, I dunno. It's great. Timor Leste's story is rarely told, and it deserves to be heard. Summary: "When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever."
Hey, so,
GUYS.
GUYS, LET'S BE SERIOUS HERE.
OMG.
jdljkf
LET'S SEE THAT AGAIN.
HFKJSHFKDHSLKFHJDS STILL AWESOME. WHY CAN'T HE JUST ADMIT HIS FEELINGS FOR HER.
Okay wait wait. And.
Is it just me or does Lancelot look like Chuck Norris?
I had to doubleback because I was like, who the hell was this fucker. IT SURE LOOKS A LOT LIKE CHUCK NORRIS. WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME IF THAT COULD EVER, EVER BE TRUE. Chuck Norris would set foot on Camelot and Uther would just start crying. Possibly Gaius might explode. And I'm sure Lancelot would make a fine addition to Delta Force.
Augh, why is series 2 not here now, omg I am going to throw a fit.
Let's go back to this:
ETA: Now animated!
ETA: Meme gacked from a bunch of people -- Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
Has anyone else seen that show on Spike called DEADLIEST WARRIOR, and it's like SAMURAI VS. VIKING and MAORI WARRIOR VS. SHAOLIN MONK and just all this cracked out ~*science*~ and in the end, there is a choreographed samurai vs. viking showdown. It is terrible and hilarious, and is essentially just a penis-measuring contest and everyone yelling, "Oh yeah?! OH YEAH?!" I CAN'T STOP WATCHING.
Oren Lavie popped up on aurgasm and the name sounds familiar. Turns out he sang A Dance Around the Memory Tree on the Prince Caspian soundtrack. Anyway, it's a lovely song, check it out then the rest of the blog, especially "Daylight" by Matt & Kim, which is a song that makes me want to dance and have adventures all the time.
Speaking of the music! I've been bulk-downloading bunches of it, sort of stocking up before school starts. I've recovered loads of The Cranberries and Oasis so hooray for that. Quick, which other music should I recover/check out?
I'm reading a Generation Kill fic called Sixteen Days in September. I don't even watch Generation Kill, but the fic's set during Timor Leste's struggle for independence in 1999. Another reviewer said you don't even need to know the characters to get absorbed in the story and, okay, I agree. The story kind of feels like a journalistic docudrama. The internal politics of the United Nations and the fraught camaraderie of people trying to run things within a country in turmoil are brought out vividly, and, gosh, I dunno. It's great. Timor Leste's story is rarely told, and it deserves to be heard. Summary: "When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever."
Hey, so,
GUYS.
GUYS, LET'S BE SERIOUS HERE.
OMG.
jdljkf
LET'S SEE THAT AGAIN.
HFKJSHFKDHSLKFHJDS STILL AWESOME. WHY CAN'T HE JUST ADMIT HIS FEELINGS FOR HER.
Okay wait wait. And.
Is it just me or does Lancelot look like Chuck Norris?
I had to doubleback because I was like, who the hell was this fucker. IT SURE LOOKS A LOT LIKE CHUCK NORRIS. WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME IF THAT COULD EVER, EVER BE TRUE. Chuck Norris would set foot on Camelot and Uther would just start crying. Possibly Gaius might explode. And I'm sure Lancelot would make a fine addition to Delta Force.
Augh, why is series 2 not here now, omg I am going to throw a fit.
Let's go back to this:
ETA: Now animated!
ETA: Meme gacked from a bunch of people -- Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
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+ Pretty sure I'm the only Merlin fan on the intertubez who could care less about Gwen and Arthur kissing? IDK, she still bores me, and Arthur still has buckets of maturing to do before I'll buy him in any sort of ~TWU WUV~ relationship. I'm more excited about Merlin in jail... is someone going to find out this series? SOMEONE HAD BETTER FIND OUT BEFORE MY BRAIN IMPLODES. I watched the whole first series in a rush of, "Oh my God, Arthur needs to find out by the series finale, doesn't he?" But then he didn't and now I sort of think I'd prefer that Morgana figured it out first. (Excuse me while I ship the doomed pairing of magical doom.)
+ Before I actually do this meme,
+ Your fic i still believe there's time to live before we're dead (title shamelessly stolen from a Ferraby Lionheart song) is one of my favorite pieces written about Susan post-Last Battle. I love it when fics aren't afraid to really take on the heavy religious themes in Lewis's work, and dissect the sexism inherent in some of the choices Lewis made when he wrote Susan's character. But I think my favorite thing about your fic is the subtle implication that Susan was the one who Aslan really saved, by giving her the chance to live. Her journey to seeing the beauty of life in dreary old England was uplifting, but not in a preachy way.
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Haha! That is the kind of comment snowball that we all like to encourage \o/
Augh, awesome, I'm glad you mentioned that one because the entire time I was doing research, I was thinking, "WILL THEY ACCEPT THIS FIC IN A POST-RACEFAIL WORLD?" And am I justified in using my time cross-referencing prophets across the Judeo-Christian traditions? What is salvation, what is forgiveness, and are they the same thing? So yes, thank you loads! Susan Pevensie is not afraid of death, but neither is she ever nor will she ever be afraid of life!
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