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06:43pm 17/12/2009 |
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Just ordered some more books from the Chicago library. Three are Lovecraft anthologies, one is a collection of his letters, and the fifth one I'm really excited about, because I've been wanting to get my hands on it for a while now:  SUMMARY: After twenty-five years Pamela Voorhees is back and she's ready to join her son in a rampage of murder. Only Jason isn't at home anymore; he's the main attraction in a travelling sideshow. Pamela will stop at nothing to bring Jason back to Crystal Lake, but she'd better hurry, because someone at the sideshow is planning to sell Jason' on ZingBid. Who will win the auction? The Jason-obsessed rock star, Ross Feratu? The ruthless tycoon, Nathaniel Morgas? Or will the FBI step in and put Jason behind bars before the final bid? Buckle up and get ready to witness the first ever online sale of a serial killer.
I would have bought whatever Friday the 13th books I wanted online, but as it turns out, they're freaking expensive and I can't pay over twenty dollars plus tax for a used paperback. So I have to be on the lookout for them whenever I hit up a library. mood:  excited |
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| Scrapper in German |
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01:49pm 07/12/2009 |
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I get a kick out of this because Scrapper is pathetically high on the hierarchy of my "Favorite Decepticon" list. He doesn't sound quite as fanatically loyal to Megatron as he does in the English version, though. mood:  happy |
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| Bunny list 3 |
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12:03pm 05/12/2009 |
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1. Blaster dies. Soundwave annexes his cassettes. 2. What other Decepticons are on the team because of Robo-Smasher? For extra fun, let's say Starscream isn't one of them. 3. 2009 film AU. The Constructicons attempt to recruit Longarm. 4. Who is Agent X? Chip Chase. 5. Soundwave lures Jazz away with haunting alien music. 6. How about a fic where Motormaster is not a sexual sadist? 7. A dystopian...no wait, a utopian future: the Autobots rule all and the Decepticons are scattered, imprisoned, or just plain give up. cross-posted to tf_bunny_farmmood:  amused |
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| Cartoons: Now and Then |
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03:22pm 01/12/2009 |
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I'm happy that Cartoon Network is playing the old Looney Tunes stuff. I keep waiting for a Marvin the Martian-centric episode, but given the multitude of shorts that were produced, that could take a while. Which sucks, because I like Marvin best, but it's all top-notch American animation and really funny stuff. I never appreciated how great it was until one of my animation classes, where one of my teachers (who has done modern Looney Tunes work) would show us old episodes or documentaries to teach us how the masters did it while we animated our own projects. Sitting down to watch it now reminds me of those fun times.
Aside from the Looney Tunes, though, there's not much on CN these days besides Clone Wars now that Brave and the Bold has been put off for a while. Also, when did Ben 10 blow up so big? It's like on its third or fourth live-action movie now, and all I feel is contempt for the thousands of ten year old boys who decided this self-satisfied little douche is a hero. I hate the Ben kid so much and don't understand why Man of Action thought he was a good idea. It's a shame, because the aliens are neat. I do hate when I like the bad guys and not the good guys, though.
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| Reading List |
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11:06am 30/11/2009 |
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Finished:- Silverwing
- Words Fail Me
- The O'Reilly Factor: For Kids
- Supernatural Horror in Literature (Lovecraft essay, book format)
- Hook and Jill
- Weirdies
- His Majesty's Dragon
- Master of Shadows
- Machines That Think
Currently Reading/To Read:- Best Paranormal Romance
- Vampire Archives
- Blue Fingers
- Fantasy
- In Darkness, Death
- Ranger's Apprentice vol. 1
- Wizards!
- Fantasy
- Saffron and Brimstone
- The Search for God in Ancient Egypt
- Shadows Over Innsmouth
- Black Thorn, White Rose
- Ivanhoe
- Star Wars: Last of the Jedi #1
- Lovecraft: A Biography
- Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
- Best New Science Fiction of the Year: 2007
- Best New Fantasy
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| Discordia Strip 2 |
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10:37am 28/11/2009 |
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 My style's changed a lot since I started drawing this like six months ago. On the other hand, the prologue is going to be shorter than I'd originally drew, so my new style will be out fairly soon. I should have had this up weeks ago, but a combination of helping my aunt with her business, trying to get back into school, going off my meds while I waited for more samples, therapy, having no Internet, meant that it got put off. mood:  apathetic |
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| Star Wars fanfic dilemma |
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04:02pm 24/11/2009 |
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This is a concern that I've had for a couple years now: why can't I find any good General Grievous fanfic? He's up there with Darth Vader on my favorite Star Wars characters list* but one else seems to be going for this guy. I don't know if it's because he visibly doesn't have any junk or if he's ugly or his eyes or gunky or if it's one of his other huge detriments, but he was supposed to be the hottest thing five or six years ago. Boba Fett's been coasting on decades of stale hype, so I don't know where Grievous went wrong. What sickens me the most is that I am pretty sure Dorme has more ficcage than General Grievous does at this point. *I wonder if the fact that I was on a respirator for like 16 days after birth has anything to do with this. mood:  disappointed |
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| More TF bunnies posted at the Bunny Farm |
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10:14pm 20/11/2009 |
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1. Animated. The war ends differently/the Cons make another comeback. The Autobots lose, but Autobot femmes are kept alive--the Cons don't want to kill any femmes, because their own are pretty much gone. Arcee is a teacher, so she is forced to teach propaganda, false history, and Decepticon allegiance to the new bots. Shockwave is her "parole officer" of sorts*. 2. G1 toon. In "The Master Builder," the Constructicons really did mean everything they said to win over Grapple and Hoist. But when Megatron was ready to punish them, they had to think quickly and save themselves by pretending to trick the two Autobots. They'd only come back to Decepticon HQ until they could make a proper move away after the tower was built. (Inspired by the fact that my sappy self really DID believe they wanted to make friends.**) ---------------------------------------- ----------------------- * Not in that way. ** Yes, I suck. 8,(mood:  nauseated |
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| Tutenstein |
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07:39pm 19/11/2009 |
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I used to watch Tutenstein back before college, and I found a few DVDs at my local library so I've been watching t. This show kicks Disney's ass by portraying legends and old cultures with some modicum of respect. Or in the case of Tutenstein, a lot. Also, it has a British kitty in it that acts like one of David Hyde Pierce's characters. I think I rest my case. Basically a young dead pharaoh named Tut-anak-set-amun is revived in the new millenium and befriends young Egypt-fan Chloe and her cat Luxor. Set, the god of chaos, tries to take over the world with Tut's Was staff but first has to hatch scheme after scheme to steal it. Also lots of demons show up. ( Arrghhh! Frustration gnaws on my eternal soul! )mood:  complacent |
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| Ult. Spider-man and X2 (or, Bile and Anal) |
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01:50pm 18/11/2009 |
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Ult. Spider-man.I've started reading the new revamp of Ultimate Spider-man, and I'm digging it a lot. I like the art, and I even like the new Mysterio and Hood. Honestly, I'm glad someone is finally taking Mysterio seriously. He's sort got a Johann Krauss thing going, too, which is cool. But most of all, he's Mysterio AND YET HE IS BADASS, which I am sure almost never happens. X2.I was thinking about the second X-men movie this morning, specifically the scene where we learn that the X-gene is passed on by the father (irony?). mood:  sick |
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| A TF bunny that's been nagging at me |
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12:17pm 14/11/2009 |
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The G1 cartoon presented three contradicting origins for the Constructicons. 1. They were built on Earth by the Decepticons. 2. They were originally good, then reprogrammed during the war by Megatron's Robo-Smasher. 3. Eight Constructicons were built sometime before Megatron, and then built him themselves. Here's the bunny's explanation: Numbers Two and Three are true. The Constructicons built Megatron and had no idea what trouble he'd bring, including the trouble that led to two of their own being extinguished. Because of this, they left Megatron's service just like the Combaticons did. The remaining six were then later caught and re-programmed by Robo-Smasher. The reason the Constructicons claim the first origin story in the cartoon is because the Constructicons genuinely believe it--at the end of Season 1, they were brought to Earth on the spacebridge and memory-wiped after something terrible and mysterious happened to them on Cybertron. Cross-posted at tf_bunny_farm
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| Photobucket censors me again! |
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11:29am 14/11/2009 |
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Last time, it was because they didn't like the idea of me uploading a Watchmen pic, out of many Watchmen pics, where an actor in a Nazi costume was incidentally sporting an under-cover boner. I was a little peeved, but then, Nazi with a boner. Understandable. What if some poor WWII vet or Holocaust survivor was surfing Photobucket and that abomination popped up? This time, they didn't like the following: mood:  amused |
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