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[26 Nov 2009|02:26pm] |
This has become my Thanksgiving tradition in recent years. If you want to end war and stuff, you've got to learn to sing loud all the time. So people can hear you!
Happy Turkey Day, flist. I am thankful for great e-pals. :]
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| fandom ramble; |
[26 Nov 2009|04:30am] |
So I caught wind of this post/essay/meta on Lily tonight.
What struck me most was not the content itself (though it makes me happy, because I love Lily and it's annoying to see people tear her apart rather than embrace both her humanity and flaws alongside her strengths), but that fact that 1) it's necessary for fans to defend against such a wide range of misogynistic bashing of female characters (I can remember Anti-Narcissa essays back in the day that made me SEETHE) and 2) I can only recall a handful of essays that cover a somewhat sane positions on canon/interpretation, but I can think of comms full of the Lily-bashing/female-character/any-character bashing. I'm sure the reality is not so uneven, but in my mind it very much is.
Ultimately, it always comes back to this - why do some fans, fanfic writers, roleplayers, etc feel the need to tear down everyone around a character just to make their own more sympathetic? We may not always agree with the creator, but we were still provided with toys to play with that have depths we can explore simply by logically assessing the canon. Is is that people are insecure about their ability to rewrite characters as they are in canon, is it just laziness, or is it speaking to a need to make their character one hundred percent right?
For me, something that has always put me off a fic or a character bio is the moment they make someone the convenient villain to get what they want, without any thought for how it demeans their own character to do so. Be it tortured!Sirius or ignored!Andromeda or beaten-by-Ron!Hermione or delicate-flower!Draco or whatever, in the end it always feels like it's taken away from or trivialized that character (Sirius escaped to save his life, rather than it be because he was not being treated as a person with opinions and feelings of his own, Andromeda ran away because her family didn't love her and Ted was the only one who did, instead of it being she changed her purist mind for one man and retained other prejudices, etc) rather than make them sympathetic and layered.
Ugh, and I should so be sleeping, family things to do in a few hours!
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| [DREAD] attn! |
[26 Nov 2009|02:56am] |
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For anyone apping a fighter pilot (or soon to be fighter pilot), please direct yourselves to this post! It's not flocked, so anyone can comment. :D
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| 446. current squadrons. |
[26 Nov 2009|02:25am] |
For Dread pilots! These are the squadrons currently, and through the initial plot. The NPCs that your characters will have been working with are in here. Have a look! And feel free to tag re: history with any of them, Zo and I would love to work things out! Leaders are on the far left. I've left this post unlocked for the time being so that people not friended to this journal but apping the game can see.
( scheduled to launch with the dreadnaught )
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| oh my god what are you people doing; |
[26 Nov 2009|03:01am] |
[ as of 3 a.m. EST. ]
FIRST COMMENTER TO OWEN'S JOURNAL: MALE.
EVERY OTHER COMMENTER TO OWEN'S JOURNAL: FEMALE.
We need some testosterone up in here, plz. *DYING*
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| STILL UNTITLED LIT GAME. |
[26 Nov 2009|01:52am] |
So this narrative of sorts (the first part, rest assured I WILL BE CONTINUING THIS) is introducing you to a character that all of the played characters will know and interact with: Lucy Michaelson, Librarian of San Francisco. It is largely introduction, so I apologize if this isn't thrilling.
( Meet Lucy: nursing graduate student and, unknown to her, the next Librarian. )
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[26 Nov 2009|02:40am] |
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Attention Insanejournal: I am gay for this man.
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| Apps apps apps |
[26 Nov 2009|01:00am] |
My applications, in order of priority (based on time hold was made, amount finished, and due date): ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) exchanging, raiderof, [journal-less military dyke for fleets]. Why do I do this to myself.
Also:
Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favourites and why I love them. Then repost this in your own journal.
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| HAHAHAHA |
[26 Nov 2009|01:20am] |
Louis Hilario: Bride Wars
Louis Hilario: i got dragged to it
Mike: did you get laid afterwards at least
Mike: oh wait
Louis Hilario: that is disgusting
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[25 Nov 2009|07:58pm] |
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Like everyone else, I also have 16 google wave invites to hand out. Hit me up if you still need one!
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| ATTN: fleetsers etc. written as i think of stuff. |
[25 Nov 2009|06:13pm] |
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN JACK/BORROW/GET SOME SAM WORTHINGTON ICONS? I don't seem to remember anyone actually HAVING any sam worthington icons. but anyway.
( ~fleets ideas/treatise on a viper pilot/etc )
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[25 Nov 2009|06:16pm] |
Anyone want a Google Wave invite? I have eight.
I haven't messed it with yet and still really have no idea WTF to do.
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[25 Nov 2009|10:31pm] |
It's been a good news, bad news sort of day today.
Bad News: I woke up in a pool of blood.
Good News: Despite waking up on my back, I didn't drown in said blood.
And hey, if you don't like me? You can just swap the words 'good' and 'bad' around, and the post still works! :D
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| [DREAD] what is wrong with me :( |
[25 Nov 2009|12:10pm] |
Hello please, have some more character spam. These aren't held yet since I'm already at my limit of 4 holds (I WILL NEVER STOP), but just so I can get the ideas ~out~. Also so I can feebly hope no one uses them/the PBs. Allow me this hope.
( And they're all dudes! WHAT MADNESS IS THIS. )
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| I'm waiting for my iPod to finish synching so you get an update |
[25 Nov 2009|10:09am] |
This hypothetical thing I may or may not be crazy to work on right before finals?
It has LISTS now. d00dz and laydeez.
I have a lot of work left to do and probably won't keep all of the people, since it's 52 of each and that's kind of crazy, but yeah. That's my project whenever I'm not working on my half-finished American dream Drama term paper or trying to find modern day depictions of Odin in literature for my Myth & Folklore paper.
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| I would love nothing more than to PB a nerd quartet with these guys! :) |
[25 Nov 2009|12:37pm] |
In other news, sry for spam but suck it Tonya idgaf.
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| fleet also clearly the angels should also get called "fleet foxes" |
[25 Nov 2009|11:46am] |
I need a journal for Lisa. Blarg. OH SHIT I have flyer I guess I could use that. I also have combats. But she's civ to military, and not a very combative person on her own, so I wanted something a little more all-encompassing.
Ok I need to stop playing military people because I actually know dick about the military. I need like 100 kinds of help and shit- If anyone has info, other than like, wiki, let me know, particularly about the Marines.
The diner Lisa worked at is now going to be called Groucho's Eats. I absolutely demand someone make Groucho, or other Groucho employees. I also envision Groucho's as being a place friggin' everyone knows. And I am the boss sooooo everyone should go there.
I would actually totally love for Lisa's dad to be played, and I guess her mother as well! I like the PBs but I could be open to them changing, particularly her mother. John Travolta all beefy and tough looking is too hilarious to not have.
My tummy hurts D:<
I have 3 papers and a scene to memorize for over break.
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| an update on the computer situation (C&Ped directly from my lj) |
[25 Nov 2009|09:25am] |
I love my daddy and his computer knowledge. :)
He came up and looked at my computer and named the silver cylinders: capacitors. (I told y'all I don't know the fancy terminology!) He said probably a power surge or something (which shouldn't have happened, since all my computer-related stuff is plugged into a surge protector) blew out the capacitors.
He took the video card out and plugged the monitor into the motherboard, and lo and behold, Neptune started up just fine! :D
We're still going to need to get me a new video card, which means facing the scary scary Black Friday crowds, but at least I can turn the computer on and use it again in the interim, which I wasn't sure I'd be able to do.
So, I'm already in a much better mood than I was last night. :)
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