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1. I got my third Graze box in the mail today! Which reminds me, I posted these reviews on instagram and tumblr but completely forgot to post them over here, so have some snack reviews:

( Three snacks under the cut! )

2. I remembered to start my new book club book! I posted about this round's book over on tumblr and will probably talk more about it here in my Wednesday Reading post.

3. I started watching Shingeki no Kyojin and am really enjoying it so far (though not as much as Hataraku Maou-sama, which is the awesomest). I will probably read the manga, too, at some point.

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After a weekend of Extreme Animes at ACEN, I had no choice but to bring this one up! Can you tell that I like Soundtracks yet?

Puella Magi Madoka Magica is one of my favorite shows, period. It’s an anyone-can-die deconstruction (and reconstruction?) of the magical girl genre, and it hits so many notes that are just… perfect.

It didn’t hurt that the score was composed by Yuki Kajiura, who’s tied with Yoko Kanno for my favorite soundtrack composer. If you watch a lot of anime, you might know her work from .hack//sign or Noir.
Her compositions bring so much emotion to each scene! From the beautifully sad Decretum, to the triumphant Credens Justitiam, to the just plain awesome Pugna Cum Magna. I don’t think the show would have been quite the same without her involvement. If I think of any of the big moments from the show, chances are I can remember what song was playing; The two are so perfectly tied together.

Oh, and of course the Ending theme was awesome too. I loved that they hold out on playing it until the third episode, just in case you didn’t know what kind of show it was already.

I guess this post doubles as an Anime Recommendation, which is fine by me >:3

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snarp

Nepeta, Karkat, Tavros, and Mindfang all use the word "love" in a romantic sense, which is an interesting combination. None of the kids use it until after meeting the humans, though, so I guess one could call it a loanword, if so inclined. Karkat appears to have given up on his hate/pity model at some point in between the beginning of Hivebent and witnessing Eridan's murder spree; the first time he uses it he's shouting at Eridan, and the second he's explaining Troll Nalini Singh to Dave.

Jake is the word's heaviest user, followed by John and Jane. Jake and John use it mainly in dialog, and Jane in her internal monologue, as is fitting.

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Am I right in thinking none of the post-scratch trolls ever use the word "love" in their dialog, even in terms of remarks along the lines of "I LOV3 L1CK1NG TH1NGS 1 PROB4BLY SHOULDN'T B3 L1CK1NG?" And that none of the humans or pre-scratch trolls have used it while talking to them?

I thought none of them ever used it at all, but when I applied Google to the question, I found Equius's introduction telling us that he loves being strong. Well, how could I ever have doubted that?

Aside from, I guess, downloading the entire archive over the course of a whole day, is there any more thorough way to find every instance of the word in all of Homestuck?

Thoroughly investigating questions such as this is an appropriate use of my time.

kate_nepveu

The Pip has been sleeping poorly, which means Farscape in the wee hours.

( S01E04, 'Throne for a Loss' )

( S01E05, 'Back And Back And Back To The Future' )

Spoil me and have your food ration eaten by a puppet.

*goes looking for Moya icon*

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101 Female F&SF authors you could try:
( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363928.html

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The Ex-Urbanites

A doleful morality tale about the fate that waits for those who make the fatal move out of New York and into the countryside. Although an endless struggle, mounting debt and alienation from their families are almost inevitable, the ex-ubanites are to respected for the example they set for lesser Americans.

I don't recall the last time I read or heard something quite as aghast as this is at the idea of leaving the City.

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363738.html

james_davis_nicoll

The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes

This is a "story-ballad". A seemingly lucky win at cards leaves a chancer in possession of a magnificent silver horn and his ambition to learn to play it sends him straight on the path to hell.

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363496.html

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Is there another Discworld book that starts out this bleakly?

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If you saw my earlier post, you know that Rob Paulsen and I were scheduled to do a live show at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Theatre this Friday and next.

Well, it turns out we’re going to have to reschedule both shows. The Lovitz has a completely new staff and they’re also under new management, so there are scheduling conflicts and other problems to work through. The good news is, none of us have to leave our homes, and THAT’S ALL I EVER WANTED

We’ll try to reschedule this bastard as soon as possible. In the meantime, your tickets to the May 24th and 31st shows will be refunded.

Sorry for any inconvenience, and let’s never speak of this again.

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zarla

Here have a pic of an Utwig.

( I just got the urge to color it for some reason )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: 27943. Trentemøller - Miss You
Crossposts: http://zarla.livejournal.com/545076.html

kate_nepveu

For those of you Trek fans looking for a bitter cathartic laugh: Star Trek Into Darkness: The Spoiler FAQ from io9.

oyceter

I really didn't want to go back to my apartment and have to deal with the now-empty rat cage and assorted paraphernalia, so to put it off, CB and I crashed his friend's place and did a 7-episode Game of Thrones marathon.

( Spoilers for both the show AND all books )

I'm good with any and all spoilers, so 'ware spoilers in the comments as well!

Crossposts: http://oyceter.livejournal.com/1015448.html

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<3 While obsessing over our KickStarter, I noticed that our friends at Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre are also running one. In honor of this occasion, I have pulled out some art to share with you all. Please visit their KS and help them out!--Kaja <3

http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/229720.html

james_davis_nicoll

I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they eat their young if not raised properly; and how, at the end of their lives, they hurl themselves – lemming-like- over cliffs to drown in the surging sea. They are, at heart, sea creatures, birthed from the sea, married to it like the fishing people who make their livelihood there.

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363008.html

the_rck

( Adventures of Tintin )

( John Carter )

( Legendary Warrior 5-13 )

( Lost Girl season 1 DVD 4-5 )

( Voyage of the Dawn Treader )

( Wild, Wild West season 1 DVD 5-7 )

( Wreck It Ralph )

the_rck

I'm making progress on my Not Prime Time story. I've hit the minimum word count, and I've worked in all the required characters. I just have to find an answer to the story's central question and figure out how that answer changes the characters. Scott's no help with this at all because, while he has consumed the canon, it's been so long that he remembers almost nothing.

I've got my Weiss Kreuz Reverse Fest assignment. Neither of the prompts I have to work with plays to my strengths as a writer. One of them is flat out impossible because I lack the knowledge to write it even remotely believably (It's not the sort of thing I can learn from Google and Wikipedia, either). I can't blame the prompter. I didn't say in my profile that I couldn't write those things. I should have, but they didn't occur to me when I was filling the thing out. I'm worried that I'm going to produce a bad story. The prompt I can, in theory, write hits most of my weak points as a writer and has nothing of the sort of thing I'm good at.

I have put out a call for help to a friend who writes and who knows Weiss Kreuz. The stuff I have trouble with is an area she's strong at writing. I'm hoping she can help me through it.

the_rck

Cordelia's birthday party was yesterday. We had seven girls attending, and they all seemed to have fun. Cordelia didn't want a theme for the party, and she didn't want to plan much in the way of activities. The girls played Apples to Apples Disney for about forty minutes. Then we did cake and ice cream followed by presents. After that, the girls took turns playing Mario Kart on the Wii. We have four Wii remotes, so they played in two groups.

Cordelia had a yellow cake with blue 'cotton candy' frosting. (Scott has found a brand of frosting that comes uncolored and unflavored but that has a line of flavor packets that one can buy to mix in. I think they're vile, but Scott and Cordelia like them.) She helped me make the cake, Saturday evening. I let it cool over night and then frosted it Sunday morning.

Scott's sister and

cherydactyl stayed for the party. There wasn't a lot to do, but it was nice to have other adults to talk to. Scott tended to hover over the girls while we three other adults stayed in the living room.

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So you are a little kid with anxiety. Social anxiety. Other people are frightening to you.

But you have a bit of brain magic, a little bit of pixie dust in your pocket — you have the power to change people’s perceptual experience of the world. Just by feeding them words in a certain way. Just by talking. You are powerful. People start to like you. People start to follow you around.

You use this power to explain your life to yourself. This power is an essential part of my life. I am this. You meet other people with this power. You start to look at how they do it. You start to listen to the story they tell about this power. You get better at it.

When someone tries to tell you something about this power, you get suspicious. But if you pull back, you can see that this power is working on you too. Other people have this power and they use it to create the sort of world they feel comfortable in. The people you use this power on teach you how to use it. When you hear them loving you, I want you to hear them saying “I like this world! I like this world! I like this world!”

The ones who REALLY like the world you’ve created will tell you about it. They’ll tell you over and over and over again. I like this world! I like this world! I like this world!

Calm down.

It’s just a fucking joke.

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In 1969, a young dancer named Morganna Roberts jumped onto the field at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, ran up to Reds star Pete Rose, and kissed him. She was making good on a friend's "dirty double dare," she said later, but it started one of the more unusual forms of fame America has ever known. She kissed more than 50 professional athletes throughout the next 30 years, including Chipper Jones and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and she became something of a mascot in the major leagues, where she was widely known as the "Kissing Bandit."

Adam Kurland released Always Leave Them Wanting More (language and some visuals NSFW), a documentary short about Morganna's life, over on Roopstigo this month, and it's worth a watch—though it doesn't mention my favorite detail about her run. From a July 1988 Milwaukee Journal story [sic'd]:

She got into a lot of trouble after she ran onto the field at the Astrodome on April 9, 1985, and kissed Nolan Ryan and Dickie Thon of Houston. She was arrested on charges that could have gotten her a year in jail.
"We won the case on the gravity defense," she said. "I just leaned over the fence and gravity took its toll and took me into the arms of Nolan Ryan and Dickie Thon. Whose gonna argue with Isaac Newton?"

We now mostly regard fans on the field as either nuisances or threats or both, and they rarely get the camera's attention anymore. Morganna's run was unique. "The main reason I'm doing this is because it's fun," she said in an interview late in her career. "If it's not fun, don't do it."

She disappeared after 2000, and she hasn't agreed to an interview since. "I just got sick of talking about myself and always being the center of attention," she told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer after turning down an interview in 2001. (She also turned down Kurland's request to speak with a nice note on some spectacular customized stationary.) It's a shame, since she might get treated with more nuance in stories today than she did at the peak of her fame, when she was never speaking but "cooing" and when her measurements were treated like honoraries.

Morganna reportedly now lives in Columbus, Ohio, and her Wikipedia page has an entire section devoted to her "baseball career," which seems appropriately reverent.

[Roopstigo]

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Monday Music: Madoka Magica

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Theory blown.

Important Homestuck question.

Farscape S01E04-05, "Throne for a Loss" and "Back And Back And Back To The Future"

The Nina Allen 101 Women to Read Meme

CBS Radio Workshop: The Ex-Urbanites

CBS Radio Workshop: The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes

about 20% through Monstrous Regiment

OH FOR GOD’S SAKE

~It grieves us all!

some of you need this

Game of Thrones 3x01-3x07

Batton Lash Girl Genius Art and Wolff & Byrd KickStarter!

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley

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