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Via wednesday_10_00: Remember the Name Avatar AMV

I don't know how to feel about the news that Lucasfilm has been bought by Disney, and three more movies are planned. I was very disappointed in prequel 1, kinda hated prequel 2, and didn't even watch prequel 3. I'm thinking Disney has to be able to do a better job than Lucas in the future films (though I'm not holding my breath).

There's an interesting article at The Atlantic about the fakes vs real photos of Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy with a truly awesome fake photo at the very end. Fake (but awesome), indeed.
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Saw the rest of Avatar )

Overall, enjoyed it quite a bit.

random...

Feb. 7th, 2011 08:37 pm
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Finished the first DVD box of Avatar (up to episode 20). For the most part enjoyed it quite a bit. Definitely liked the main characters more. Sometimes things were a bit too pat, but as I liked how good the kids were I didn't get too annoyed. more )

I stumbled on a post asking for young adult books for a 13 year old reader interested in reading romance at Smart Bitches Trashy Books, which resulted in a torrent of recs. I smiled at the ones I recognized and loved, and saw a bunch I hope to check out. Another post reviewed/rec'd a book in English set in Edo Japan called The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson. I'm tempted to read it even though I avoid books in English set in the past in Japan. In contrast, I laughed reading a hilarious skewering of a rather awful romance book. It reminds me a bit of the kind of thing I write when I've read some god-awful BL novel...

Fanfics:

Explicit by Resonant, Sherlock, S/J, John is clueless and aggravating. Of course Sherlock can't help it. XD;

Harry Watson Investigates by [livejournal.com profile] orange_crushed, Sherlock, gen AU, sequel to The dangerous book for boys.

Conquered, Fallen, and Deep by [livejournal.com profile] tetsubinatu, Merlin, dark slavefic AU where Merlin is a prince. The first two is vanilla slavefic, but I rather liked the third fic.

sleepy...

Feb. 5th, 2011 03:54 pm
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I bought a daily calender featuring cat cartoons. This one baffled me. Can anyone tell me what's going on?



I borrowed the first box set of Avatar: The Last Airbender from the library and watched the first disc (three or four episodes). Wow, I can truly see where the fan anger about the movie casting is coming from. It's one thing to see random screen captures, it's a whole 'nother thing to see the cultures in action and think that this has nothing to do with white people. In any case, it's fairly entertaining but not captivating so far. By far the best character at this point is Katara. It's nice to see a strong, nice, sympathetic female character. I found the boys far more annoying. Aang I could forgive because he's obviously really just a kid. Sokka in general is okay, he just needs to shut up with his sexist crap. Zuko is truly annoying. I'm know sooner or later we'll see what made him the way he is and all, but at this point I just want to see as little as possible of him. :P

I was highly amused reading [livejournal.com profile] seperis's post reacting to the article "Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die" by Patton Oswalt in Wired. I'd heard about this article and didn't think I needed to read it, and her reaction doubles that down.

I bought a new camera. It is very awesome. I've been taking waaaay too many pics of my cat with it. ♥

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