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The Avengers (2012)
Apr. 26th, 2012 08:34 pmYou have spent several seconds reading this post when you could be watching The Avengers.
Pinkie Holmes
Apr. 9th, 2012 01:12 pm
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I REGRET NOTHING.
Drawn after “Mmmystery on the Friendship Express”.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6501955/6/Project_Gethinator
No.
Just...no.
For the record, Mass Effect: Interregnum, covering what Garrus did while Shep was dead in ME2, does shout outs so much better. I generally prefer to put mine in where the story happens to have room for them, like when Alex needed an alias in inPrototype and I chose "Sly Cooper". Broadly speaking, if you can't remove or replace the reference without the story ceasing to make sense, it's too vital. If you need to know what the shout-out is in order to make sense of what its doing in the story, it's too vital.
In ME:I, there's a scene where Garrus and co get their hands on weapons reminiscent of those from Team Fortress 2, even discussing how much it costs to fire the weapon. This helps to underline the amount of money their employer has. Thing is, it's not a one-off. Garrus keeps thinking of how expensive the mini is during the following action sequence. It's integrated into the story, and can be understood even if one doesn't catch the reference. It's not just some joke shoved in without consideration for whether it fits the tone or not.
Project Gethinator is a light-hearted story, but it at least supposedly has a serious core. Think some of the latter Discworld books. Once you stop portraying the Reapers as an ancient and incomprehensibly powerful force--think space robot Cthulhu--and reduce them to the level of a script kiddie from 4Chan, you might as well be writing a crackfic.
Imagine, say, Inception, or the Dark Knight. Now imagine the dudes from the Hangover suddenly show up. It's not going to work very well.
"These are no longer Protheans," EDI replied. "There are signs of extensive genetic rewrite: Reduced heterochromatin structure, deletion of superfluous 'junk' genes, and the phrase 'U GOT REAPED LOL' encoded into their genome."
No.
Just...no.
For the record, Mass Effect: Interregnum, covering what Garrus did while Shep was dead in ME2, does shout outs so much better. I generally prefer to put mine in where the story happens to have room for them, like when Alex needed an alias in inPrototype and I chose "Sly Cooper". Broadly speaking, if you can't remove or replace the reference without the story ceasing to make sense, it's too vital. If you need to know what the shout-out is in order to make sense of what its doing in the story, it's too vital.
In ME:I, there's a scene where Garrus and co get their hands on weapons reminiscent of those from Team Fortress 2, even discussing how much it costs to fire the weapon. This helps to underline the amount of money their employer has. Thing is, it's not a one-off. Garrus keeps thinking of how expensive the mini is during the following action sequence. It's integrated into the story, and can be understood even if one doesn't catch the reference. It's not just some joke shoved in without consideration for whether it fits the tone or not.
Project Gethinator is a light-hearted story, but it at least supposedly has a serious core. Think some of the latter Discworld books. Once you stop portraying the Reapers as an ancient and incomprehensibly powerful force--think space robot Cthulhu--and reduce them to the level of a script kiddie from 4Chan, you might as well be writing a crackfic.
Imagine, say, Inception, or the Dark Knight. Now imagine the dudes from the Hangover suddenly show up. It's not going to work very well.
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Note that they specifically acknowledge that they knew Korra would never be gay.
It's also very sad that one's only interest in the show was that one thought it might have a lesbian in it. Or at least an asexual you can pretend is really lesbian. This is just as shallow as someone choosing not to watch a show because it has gay people in it. Heck, I'm a conservative Christian, and my default reaction to gay characters is "ehh", unless it reaches fanfic levels of the new guy being the morally ambiguous bisexual former lover/professional partner of the main character who finds his estranged (also evil) brother and wears a ridiculous coat with no shirt.
And that's why I don't watch Torchwood.
It's also very sad that one's only interest in the show was that one thought it might have a lesbian in it. Or at least an asexual you can pretend is really lesbian. This is just as shallow as someone choosing not to watch a show because it has gay people in it. Heck, I'm a conservative Christian, and my default reaction to gay characters is "ehh", unless it reaches fanfic levels of the new guy being the morally ambiguous bisexual former lover/professional partner of the main character who finds his estranged (also evil) brother and wears a ridiculous coat with no shirt.
And that's why I don't watch Torchwood.
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Mar. 31st, 2012 12:22 pm>searching for a preview of a Community episode on YT
>keep getting bits of the entire episode
WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON
>keep getting bits of the entire episode
WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/19/showbiz/movies/bay-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-ew/index.html
This is just another example of people saying Hollywood is original, then complaining when they change something in a way they don't like. And then there's the possibility that Bay meant "alien race" as in "strange and weird race".
"When you see this movie, kids are going to believe one day these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie," said Michael Bay as he took the stage to discuss his new vision for the reptilian reboot. "These turtles are from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable."The funny thing is that the franchise always had a load of aliens and sci-fi, and the goo that turned the turtles into mutants in the comic turned out to be from a research institute run by aliens. There was a whole arc about it. Yet fanboys are absolutely flipping their wigs. They are buying wigs in order to flip them. I am schadenfreuding so hard.
This is just another example of people saying Hollywood is original, then complaining when they change something in a way they don't like. And then there's the possibility that Bay meant "alien race" as in "strange and weird race".
That deathless Weber prose
Mar. 8th, 2012 07:03 pm
“Brooding about Her Majesty’s stubbornness again, are we?” Harper inquired genially, and Judson scowled at him.
“It’s a sorry turn of events when a man’s own ‘cat rats him out to such an unworthy superior as yourself,” he observed.
“Genghis never signed a word,” Harper pointed out mildly, and Judson snorted.
“He didn’t have to,” he growled. “The two of you have been so mutually corrupting that I think you’re developing your own ‘mind voice’!”
[a few paragraphs later]
“Well,” Harper said after several seconds, still smiling with the echoes of his mental vision of a squalling, kicking [spoiler] tossed across Lara’s shoulder and hauled off to safety somewhere, “I’m afraid that rather than giving our lives in the defense of our beloved—if stubborn—queen, our day is going to be one of those less scintillating moments of our life experience.”
“I always get worried when you start trotting out extra vocabulary,” Judson observed.
“That’s because you’re a naturally suspicious and un-trusting soul, without one scintilla of philosophical discernment or sensitivity to guide you through the perceptual and ontological shallows of your day to day existence.”
“No, it’s because when you get full of yourself this way it usually means we’re going to be doing something incredibly boring, like counting noses on a new transport or something.”
-Torch of Freedom, David Weber and Eric Flint
I love that the “extra vocabulary” is basically indistinguishable from the way he talks the rest of the time, just with “scintillating” used instead of a coy “…interesting” or suchlike. Whatever would’ve been there, it would not have been less than three syllables.
I don't really care.
No, wait, I do care, if only idle curiousity about whether the fangirls are going to be sad that he's unavailable to them forever, or if they're going to start writing Bomer/Tim DeKay/Willie Garmin fanfic.
YOU IMAGINED IT, YOU CAN'T UNIMAGINE IT.
No, wait, I do care, if only idle curiousity about whether the fangirls are going to be sad that he's unavailable to them forever, or if they're going to start writing Bomer/Tim DeKay/Willie Garmin fanfic.
YOU IMAGINED IT, YOU CAN'T UNIMAGINE IT.
"Overdue Protection" by PadyandMoony
Jan. 27th, 2012 08:15 pm
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7434492/1/Overdue_Protection
After the dueling club incident in Year Two where he is discovered to be a Parselmouth, Harry Potter is subject to abuse from the students, culminating in him running away. The Ministry needs to track down Harry, and for that they need the permission of his legal guardian. Since Sirius is still his legal guardian instead of Petunia, because he never had a trial, they hustle him out of Azkaban and convene a kangaroo trial--in a matter of hours--then pour truth serum down his throat. Upon discovering his innocence, they proclaim him innocent, give him a ton of money and some new clothes, and politely request he come to the Minister for Magic's office, where they basically ask him not to sue them and help them find Harry. He calls them out on it, and leaves to find Harry on his own.
Alright. ( Take it as it comes. )
In "The Last Roundup", we finally get to hear "Derpy Hooves". She's klutzy and has a "idiot" voice. More specifically, she has the same type of voice as Ed from "Ed, Edd, and Eddy". She is wildly popular in fandom because of an animation mistake in her eyes, and then fans liked her, giving her the name. This episode had the name confirmed.
Now, of course, some people are saying her portrayal is ableist.
More specifically, the eyes, combined with her "stupid" voice, general klutziness, and now canon-confirmed name resemble a stereotype.
( look, torches and pitchforks )
Now, of course, some people are saying her portrayal is ableist.
More specifically, the eyes, combined with her "stupid" voice, general klutziness, and now canon-confirmed name resemble a stereotype.
( look, torches and pitchforks )
"it makes such an almighty sound"
Jan. 7th, 2012 06:44 pmRussell T Davies: Here's a new character for Doctor Who. He's Captain Jack Harkness, whose most prominent characteristic is that he's pansexual and will hit on anyone.
Fandom: Yay!
Steven Moffat: Here's a new character for Sherlock. She's Irene Adler, whose whose most prominent characteristic is that she's pansexual and will hit on anyone.
Fandom: Why does everyone think bisexuals are only about sex? This is just more of Moffat's problem with writing strong, competent women.
Me:
Fandom: Yay!
Steven Moffat: Here's a new character for Sherlock. She's Irene Adler, whose whose most prominent characteristic is that she's pansexual and will hit on anyone.
Fandom: Why does everyone think bisexuals are only about sex? This is just more of Moffat's problem with writing strong, competent women.
Me:
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I'm a madman with a text input box
Jan. 4th, 2012 10:19 pm
http://thedaysthatnevercame.tumblr.com/post/10854494352
I don't normally reblog Tumblr images (PNG? Seriously?) but when I do, I prefer vaguely impressionist fan-graphics.
Seriously, there's some nice stuff here.
Derailing for Dummies, courtesy teh-no
Dec. 26th, 2011 01:41 pmhttp://teh-no.livejournal.com/667057.html
"Rose Tyler was objectively the best companion!"
"If it's wrong to erase bisexuality and homosexuality, then isn't it wrong to ignore canonical heterosexuality for the purposes of fanfic?"
"Shouldn't you be more considerate of the feelings of people you disagree with?"
Ah, this is fun.
"Comedy uses familiar stereotypes to get laughs!""Arkham City isn't misogynist, just heavy-handed in portraying misogyny!"
"How do you feel about the fact that audiences see comdies by creators like Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, and James Franco as more genuine and authentic than female-centric rom-coms?"
"Having Chinese slang in Firefly shows the influence of Eastern culture a lot better than actually having any Asians on the show."
"I think it's antifeminist to say real gay men should have any say in slash."
"Rose Tyler was objectively the best companion!"
"If it's wrong to erase bisexuality and homosexuality, then isn't it wrong to ignore canonical heterosexuality for the purposes of fanfic?"
"Shouldn't you be more considerate of the feelings of people you disagree with?"
Ah, this is fun.
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>almost all of them are shipping fics, even the ones not in the shipping section
>almost all of them are slashfics
So, Christopher Nolan created a deep and thought-provoking universe that's just ripe for RPGs and AUs and (according to him) video games, and the Internet uses it mostly to write smut.
>almost all of them are slashfics
So, Christopher Nolan created a deep and thought-provoking universe that's just ripe for RPGs and AUs and (according to him) video games, and the Internet uses it mostly to write smut.
>arguing on the Internet
Dec. 2nd, 2011 07:23 pmIn a debate about sexism and objectification by gender, a guy said that a man being promised he will shortly become a prisoner's "bitch" is not misandrist at all, but actually solely misogynist, because it uses a comparison to a woman as a pejorative.
I clarified the term.
He insisted the actual rape part was irrelevant next to being compared to a woman.
I am now so angry the muscles in my neck feel like high-tension wires.
Wow, this must be how scans_daily feels all the time.
I clarified the term.
He insisted the actual rape part was irrelevant next to being compared to a woman.
I am now so angry the muscles in my neck feel like high-tension wires.
Wow, this must be how scans_daily feels all the time.
How on Earth is it even possible for Trucy to be cuter than Pearl Fey? Is it the hat? And isn't that banned by the Geneva conventions, under the provisions for Weapons of Mass Moe?
-Jonathan
-Jonathan
