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Amusing trivium [Nov. 28th, 2009|11:39 am]

girlgenius_lab
[sff_corgi]
[mood |frivolous]

There have been three chapters (so far) named identically, 'Agatha Wakes Up'.
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So early in the morning [Nov. 28th, 2009|07:46 am]

cleolinda
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[mood | sick]

The new Made of Fail podcast is up, and it's something like my fifth appearance on the show--and this time we also have Rinna from Poufwa, the first podcast I ever did! Also, my sexy, sexy phlegm ("Yeah... I'm reporting live from my death bed..."), brought in loud and clear courtesy of my new headset. Topic: half New Moon and half Crazy Fans, with a substantial segment on the Dollhouse cancellation up front (aw, hell, I just heard myself cough in the background).

("I am in bed with another woman right now...")

And now, I'm going back to bed.


ETA: OH BY THE WAY we totally discuss the Twilight porno that Dayna watched for us.

ETA: Who has the "fever of a hundred and werewolf" thermometer icon, and who made it? Because I totally need to start using that.



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Left Behind [Nov. 28th, 2009|02:43 pm]

canon_sues
[anglerfish07]
Does anyone think that Rayford Steele and Buck Williams from LaHaye and Jenkins' Left Behind series were Stus? And if so, has a Sue report been done on them here, yet?
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I've always wonderd what Der Kestle's voice sounds like [Nov. 28th, 2009|02:03 am]

girlgenius_lab
[gumbamasta]
and having recently played through Dragon Age: Origins, several times, I've been under the impression that a certain Golem would definatly be an appropriate model.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbppwR9wE8k
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I give thanks... [Nov. 26th, 2009|06:55 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[sff_corgi]
[mood |grateful]

...for the Sneaky Gate.

[biting tongue on further comments for now]
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Happy Turkeymas! [Nov. 26th, 2009|09:31 am]

cleolinda
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I think we have, like, three different kinds of pie. That is pretty much all you need to know.

Meanwhile, what are you thankful for? Even if you are not American or eating many awesome foods today, although if not, I do pity you a teensy bit. Of course, you also don't have to deal with the accompanying Family Holiday Drama most of the rest of us do, so... maybe we're even.

I, for one, am thankful for the Made of Fail crew, who sent me these:




(The gold and silver shimmer M&M phrases are a reference to Episode 10, which I was on--the one people seem to recommend most to newcomers. The others just have "15" printed on them, because the M is already on there, and...)

(Oh my God, how is it already Thursday and I have not finished the thing yet wtf.)


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Sigh [Nov. 25th, 2009|06:41 pm]

cleolinda
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[mood | working]

Ran a low fever today, because apparently we are still on this. I'm spinning my wheels on New Moon between cough syrup-induced comas and not getting anything done. Outstanding. And tomorrow being Happy Eating Day, I doubt I'll get much else done then, either. God, I want my life back.

Hm. Well, I think what we need is some cute. If you are in the Homewood/Birmingham (AL) area, there is a three-month-old puppy at our vet's who is in need of a home. They have dubbed him "Snoopy," but obviously he could be renamed:







Also, here is Sam home fresh from his bath this morning:




Now to decide if I want to pass out again or not.



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Tarvek Sturmvoraus -- Threat or Menace? (Nov. 25 Strip) [Nov. 25th, 2009|01:27 am]

girlgenius_lab
[sugeatarc]
So is Tarvek suddenly getting good at fighting an indication that he's picked up Gil's skills from the Si Vales Valeo link?

Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Another day, another problem [Nov. 24th, 2009|01:23 pm]

cleolinda
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[mood | still kind of weak and dizzy]

So it turns out that we're not out of the Compocalyptic woods yet, kids. (Don't panic! It's not that bad.) I've finally set Lizzie up at my desk--which I haven't worked at for nearly four months now, by the way--and it turns out that... she doesn't fit. See, it's a huge desk with an attached shelf overtop, and it's divided down the middle by a... well, a divider. And each half is only just big enough to fit the laptop--not really anything that attaches. You know, like the wireless unit for a keyboard and mouse, or headphones, or the iPhone jack, or ANYTHING AT ALL, really. The divider doesn't run all the way from the back to the front of the desk--if I pull the laptop out, I can fit attachments in... but that's all the way to the edge of the desk, so there's no room for a separate keyboard. I'm so disgusted, I can't even tell you.

(Also, I looked at the wireless mouse, and it is completely alien to me. Great.)

So what I'm facing here is the prospect of buying a second desk. I love this desk. I don't want it to go anywhere. Also, there isn't any real possibility of it going anywhere, because I'm not even sure how we heaved it upstairs in the first place. So I'm thinking it might be possible to find a light, cheap desk--a glorified table, really, if I can get one at the right sit-down height--and put it against the foot of my bed. I am really running out of room in my room, but this is the simplest solution I can think of.

So until then, I'm stuck with the flaky touchpad mouse and the keyboard I'm not quite used to, but, like I said: it's kind of on the level of complaining that my diamond shoes are too tight.

Been resting mostly--slept in this morning, since the dogs are off getting their baths to be all shiny-fresh for Happy Eating Day. Still trying to work on New Moon in Fifteen Minutes--I am this close to busting out the 5x8 notecards all hardcore "I are srs writer"-style, just because I get completely overwhelmed by my sea of notes. FYI: I have never had to use notecards for a Fifteen Minutes before. Don't ever say I don't love you.

Meanwhile, this breaks my heart: Chris Weitz finally admits that New Line screwed The Golden Compass over. 

Weitz claims that New Line didn't trust him to handle the content of the book, that the film was taken from him in editing. Heavy-handed hacking resulted in losing nearly 30 minutes of footage from the film, and neatly exercised the edgy thrust of Phillip Pullman's book. "It was an utter violation of my status as a director and the worst thing that has happened to me professionally ... I was treated badly, it was almost like they never read the books. They seemed frightened of offending the right." Out of loyalty to the cast and crew, Weitz said he "bit through my tongue" when Compass was released.

Also: 7 Threatened Fanboy Responses to New Moon. Which really piss me off, by the way. There's a line between "The Twilight movies are ridiculous and I disagree with their view of the world" and "OMG SOMETHING LIKED BY GIRRRRRRRRRRRRLS." I was glad it didn't outgross The Dark Knight because the latter is one of my favorite movies, not because such an event would shrivel my e-penis, BOYS.

(Also-also: apparently you can now talk to your kids about Edward Cullen and drugs at the same time.)


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I am so confused as to which day of the week it is [Nov. 23rd, 2009|07:33 pm]

cleolinda
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[mood | phlegmish, like the people of Phlagnders]

Saw New Moon again today, because Mom wanted to see it--and, once again, the movie broke down at a key scene. This time they actually gave us free passes afterwards (which I intend to use on Sherlock Holmes next month, kthnx), but the lesson I think we should all take away from this is: don't go see a Twilight movie with my mother. Or, at the very least, warn a theater manager beforehand. She liked it, although she says she got bored during the Jacob third of the movie. I come by it honestly, people.

Still working on New Moon in Fifteen Minutes (although apparently not fast enough, judging by a number of inquiries sent in). Mostly it's my head cold that's holding me up--we're progressing to an itchy dry cough and sinus-exacerbated migraines now. I took another nine (Jesus, nine?) pages of notes at this viewing, mostly because I wanted to nail the stuff that pisses me off, instead of just going BULLSHIT LOVE TRIANGLE WHAT IS THE POINT WHATEVER I DON'T CARE. (Although that would definitely shorten the word count, and you know how much I enjoy accomplishing that.) The problem, though, is that this isn't 2012, where "No one cares about these characters" is a legitimate, objective statement. Seriously, no one cares. BLOW STUFF UP. Whereas I find Jacob to be a character in need of a far better story, and the love triangle to be, as previously stated, a badly-conceived, pointless, bullshit waste of time, but that's not universally agreed upon. Particularly in the eyes of Team Jacob. Who I am pretty sure will eat my face. I mean, the pro-sparkilarity slant will probably piss them off anyway; let's not borrow trouble.

Oh, meanwhile: I mentioned talking to a reporter from the (I will now reveal) Hartford Courant. (Article here.) Turns out my part (and that of a Hartford professor as well) got edited out for space considerations, which is okay. I mean, I was expecting to be in all of two sentences anyway. However, I am the one who gave the writer a crash course in the hilarrible world of the "Twilight" "Saga," and you can see my influence in the first few paragraphs. Let me just say, if I say nothing else, that it's not so much that the books themselves are dangerous or horrible or bad influences or [insert feminist/sociological complaint here]; it's that we need to talk about those issues in hopes of neutralizing them. A lot of girls and women read these books, enjoy them, and walk away unscathed, because they're just books. Unfortunately, we've also seen a number who don't. I'm not saying that there's any one truth here, in terms of whether these books do or do not harm whoever in whichever way. I'm just saying, clearly they've eaten society's brain at this point, and it's the sheer number of people who read them that give them their power. It's the zeitgeist now, so we need to be having these discussions, and it's the discussions themselves--there are no "answers"--that will keep us on stable ground. So, I'll say it again: Parents, talk to your kids about Edward Cullen. And drugs, if you get around to that.






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Monday, November 23 [Nov. 22nd, 2009|10:14 pm]

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[quadibloc]
Not up early on LiveJournal, but up on schedule on the regular page, today's comic ( Read more... )
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Halp! [Nov. 22nd, 2009|06:43 pm]

cleolinda
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[mood | frustrated]
[music |NARRRRRRGHHHHH]

Okay, problem: I am trying to move music from my computer to the iPhone (and vice versa, now that I think about it), and I'm not finding a way to do so without just doing a blanket sync. The problem with this is that I have music on the phone that I don't want to get wiped and would, in fact, like to transfer to the computer, but I also have music on the computer that I'd like to move to the phone. (Moving recently purchased music was not a problem. We are talking about music that iTunes does not recognize as purchased because it wasn't purchased from them.)

The thing is, I have moved music both ways before on the other computer, so I'm confused because I'm not seeing similar options on my setup. The help section did mention something about only being able to do whatever on one computer--if that's the problem, is there a way to, I don't know, "revoke" the doingness from the other computer and tell iTunes that Lizzie is the one computer my phone needs to sync with?

(OMG WHY IS THIS SO HARD)


ETA: YAY! EphPod/CopyTrans turned out to be a snap.


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So that happened [Nov. 22nd, 2009|11:45 am]

cleolinda
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[mood | slightly less snerfy than yesterday]

Phew! New Moon Fails to Break Opening Weekend Record. So The Dark Knight is safe. However:

Instead, after clinching the Best Midnight Opening record and Best Opening Day record, New Moon will have to settle for third on the Best Opening Weekend list after walking away with a pretty astonishing $140 million when it was all said and done.

If that number holds up (and it should), the film will replace Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End for third place on the list of all-time best opening weekends (domestic), and will settle in behind only Spider-Man 3 (second) and The Dark Knight (first). Still, with $130 million, New Moon more than doubled Twilight's opening weekend ($69 million) -- in addition to taking in the largest domestic weekend gross of the year.

My final estimate of $140M did turn out to be correct, though. I feel irrationally smug about this, purely from a movie buff point of view.


Meanwhile, the new ep of Made of Fail is about to start recording, and it will actually not be an entire review episode of the movie. Not... entirely.


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Agatha... [Nov. 21st, 2009|02:37 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[sirfox]
Would it be fair to say that Agatha exhibits tremendous...

Ingénuety?
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Today we look at... [Nov. 21st, 2009|08:14 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[gumbamasta]
Tarvek's mind, the little world he has built for himself and the ill effects it has on the people unwillingly subjected it...like for example YOU!

http://gumbamasta.deviantart.com/art/Rise-of-the-Storm-King-144306955

Injoy.

And for those without DA accounts picture behind the cut.

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YOU CAN'T STOP THE SPARKLE [Nov. 21st, 2009|11:14 am]

cleolinda
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[mood | miserably congested]

'New Moon' Smashes 'Dark Knight's' Opening Day Record!

Which means it's already made a shade just under one hundred million ($100M), which was my original entire-weekend prediction. (ETA: Or wait, the midnight screenings are included? $72M is a bit better. Although that's still more in 24 hours than Twilight made its entire first weekend.) I'm officially revising my estimates up to $170M now. (Well, in that case, let's take it down to $140M.)

You know, I'm not surprised, exactly. It was tracking above TDK all week, and it's already the highest-grossing advance ticket seller and midnight opening. And it may be that the mainstream won't turn out the rest of the weekend. But the official @Twilight account on Twitter has been RTing messages from fans saying that, as of mid-afternoon yesterday, they had already seen the movie four and five times. Four and five times. I understand, sociologically, psychologically, emotionally, financially, why it's happening. I'm not surprised, precisely. But I'm kind of astounded.


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Trilobite Fez! [Nov. 20th, 2009|01:15 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[radegund_lj]
Everyone needs a trilobite fez! The creators even mention Girl Genius (and say Phil has given the fez his blessing.)

http://fez-o-rama.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=10_62
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Settling in [Nov. 20th, 2009|10:42 am]

cleolinda
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[mood | happy, if snerfy]

So I'm still getting used to the keyboard (you know how laptop keyboards are more compact) and the touchpad mouse, since I haven't installed my wireless ones yet (for some reason, I never seem to hit the M key on this one hard enough), but: LIFE IS AWESOME. Also, I get to stay logged into everything (I cannot even tell you how happy this makes me), and I have all my pet programs back, or at least the ones I've remembered to go download so far (INCLUDING SEMAGIC, HUZZAH). I'm currently set up in the den with the dogs, rather than holed up in my room the way I usually would be, and I kind of love it.

My cold is still pretty gnarly; it's at that point where you can tell you're going to have to get snarflier before you get better, you know, as it progresses through the Stages of Phlegm, but I'm holding up. My nose is itching off my face and kind of hurts, plus the chest congestion and all, but I've had it worse.

I'm trying to get back to work now--had a day off, as it were, to freak out over the new laptop--now that I've successfully delivered 2012 in Fifteen Minutes and survived the New Moon preview on Wednesday. I'm not even going to pretend that New Moon in Fifteen Minutes is something Of Which We Do Not Speak, because we've all known since they greenlighted the movie the very day after Twilight was released that I would be doing it. So I'm working on that--couldn't sleep last night due to congestion, so sat up and wrote about six pages on it by hand (this is not all that much, though), and handwrote a bit more this morning. It's really intimidating, not just because I've got the Twilight one (which turned out pretty well) to live up to, but I've also got the last one I did--2012, of course--to live up to as well, since that turned out unexpectedly well. (Probably because writing these for five years with a determined focus on getting better at it has... well, in fact, gotten me better at it.) So I guess you could say that the problem with working on growing as a writer is that you have to keep growing, and sometimes you end up rocking in the corner and twitching a bit because of it. But really, my performance anxiety isn't as bad as it was last year, probably because I've got more time to wrestle with it. Please, let me somehow find a way to see an early preview of Eclipse next summer, I've been ever so good.

Speaking of which, I don't know that I've seen this posted anywhere:



Oh, and we'll be recording the new Made of Fail on Sunday, BECAUSE I HAVE A COMPUTER AGAIN AND I CAN.

P.S. I'm a Master Sparkler Taunter!



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Friday, November 20 [Nov. 19th, 2009|10:06 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[quadibloc]
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HAY GUYS [Nov. 19th, 2009|03:53 pm]

cleolinda
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[mood | excited]



This is Lizzie




Say hi, Lizzie




Lizzie says hi


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A little teal deer for you this morning [Nov. 19th, 2009|10:34 am]

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So I have a full-blown sinus blarg now, all in my ears and throat and chest, which explains a lot about the dizzy spells. Fnarr.

So! First of all! The experience of the early preview itself, aside from the movie: ( I HAVE SEEN THE SPARKLE AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE )


( THE MOVIE ITSELF )


( Philosophical ramblings )


In conclusion

@cleolinda: ICE-COLD MARBLE-SKIN BURN from @ebertchicago: http://tinyurl.com/yfd28cp

@cleolinda: RT @queenanthai: Okay, fine. FINE! Very truncated review of the Twilight Parody Porno here: http://tinyurl.com/yeb5lm2 GOD JUST KILL IT.


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Crossed Genres needs Steampunk Submissions [Nov. 18th, 2009|10:55 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[ladyofthemasque]
We all love steampunk and gaslamp fantasy, right? We all get inspired by Girl Genius and go off into flights of cog-and-gear induced fantasy, right? Well, I'd like to tell you, my fellow mad scientists (and potential world domination rivals, oh well) about a fabulous opportunity:

Please consider visiting: http://www.CrossedGenres.com

It's a monthly emagazine of short stories that each month has a different "crossed genre". For instance, last February was "romance"...which was then combined with either science-fiction or fantasy.

Why post it to GirlGenius_Lab? Because COMING UP is the following genre which aspiring (or even published) writers can submit for:

"Steampunk (Submissions: January 2010 / Publication: March 2010)" (quoted from the website)

The emagazine is fun, fascinating, and affordable (should you find yourself poking around and admiring the writing quality to the point where you want a subscription). More to the point, if you poke around and have been bitten by a brass-toothed steam-driven plot-bunny, by all means consider submitting! (Please follow their submission guidelines and submit only in the month indicated, or the story will not be retained. They have far too many monstrous creations and only themselves and their pint-sized 3 year old minion to lurch around their laboratory.)

Remember that stories set in the GG universe are NOT submittable, as that universe is copyrighted to the Profs. Foglio...but you can submit your own inventions...er, I mean, story ideas, as set in your own steampunk-y, gaslampfantasy-y type universes.

Since I know it may take some of you to dredge up sufficient victims to experiment upon research materials before delving into your writing, I thought now would be an excellent time to suggest moseying over to Crossed Genres. Plenty of time to write, yes?


...Well? What are you waiting for? The world won't dominate itself, ya know!
~Lotm
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Wednesday, Nov 18 [Nov. 18th, 2009|03:13 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[kobold_8769]
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The Thing Of Which Now We Can Speak [Nov. 18th, 2009|12:46 pm]

cleolinda
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[mood | USA! USA!]

2012 in Fifteen Minutes.

I'll have to go back and check, but I am pretty sure I did not make up a single thing in there.


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2012 in Fifteen Minutes [Nov. 18th, 2009|12:30 pm]

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[cleolinda]
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1) O hai! I'm going to see the ~*Special Preview Omg*~ of New Moon tonight! I feel it's more fair to wait until after opening weekend, though, so if my performance anxiety lets up long enough for me to write anything, it will appear no sooner than Monday.

2) This one's quick and loose (as quick as TWO HOURS AND THIRTY-EIGHT MINUTES can be), hope you enjoy it.

3) STOP REPOSTING MY STUFF, SERIOUSLY


( MY HAREM'S ALREADY DOWN BY TWO! )


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TEN HOURS TILL SPARKLEMAS [Nov. 18th, 2009|09:05 am]

cleolinda
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[mood | working]

So I've been having these really annoying dizzy spells lately

@cleolinda I'm so dizzy. What's *wrong* with me? (First person to ask if I've been dazzled gets my foot up their sparkle.)

@Maudelynn @cleolinda: ok, are you glamoured, then ??? *runs away

@cleolinda @Maudelynn: Lord, deliver unto me a Real Vampire for some of that there.

and after going through a mental checklist of what the problem could be, I'm starting to think that it's a combination of 1) a stealth sinus infection (I have had a cough for a while, even though I haven't really felt congested), 2) not eating enough (sinus ick makes me feel queasy, as does emotional stress, 3) probably not staying hydrated enough, and 4) said emotional stress, which is coming at me from several angles and is kind of pissing me off. As it turns out, this week and the week after are turning out to be the two busiest work ("work") weeks in a long, long time if not the entire year itself, with two internet pieces and the second e-book needing to be written, plus the movie itself tonight and the podcast on Sunday (which I am so looking forward to, but it IS another thing on my calendar, you know? And the laptop hasn't come in yet, angst angst fnarr etc.), and I would really, REALLY like everyone to quit dumping their bullshit on me. I am not directing this at any one person, Friends or Family Member(s) Who Might Somehow Be Reading This. And yes, it is completely selfish of me to say that my needs require that I not deal with your problems right now. But seriously: they do. Two weeks. That's all I'm asking. Just THIS week, even. Stop dumping your shit on me and maybe I'll stop needing a fainting couch, who knows.

What I really want right now is someone around to spoil and pet and baby me. Like... someone of the opposite gender. Because you know how it is--whichever gender you're into, there's something different about having someone thereof to take care of you, someone who's actually into you. I hate saying "I want a man around to take care of me," because it's not like that--it's like, sometimes I want to ride in from the battlefield and be sheltered and patched up and refreshed every once in a while, and then go riding back out to finish fighting my own battles. And I would do the same for whoever I was with. And I want shelter right now. I guess that's the thing--I've said this before, but I don't think of love as a happy ending; I think of it as a beginning. And I wish I could begin.

Exposure to Twilight is probably a bad idea right now, isn't it?

On a twinklier note, security is apparently going to be tight at this preview tonight, and they are going to search people for phones and confiscate them (tag and bag them to return to you afterward), because God forbid someone should try to capture the dazzle on film. What I really wanted to do was use the Voice Memo function on the iBella to record the audience screaming during the Attempted Sparklecide (it's the one scene slo-mo enough for me to know exactly when to hit record), because, seriously: best LJ audio post ever. Just post that, no title, no entry text, just the roar of sparkle-inflamed estrogen. And they would DENY me this. I am INFINITELY CHAGRINED.

Oh well. I'm probably going to end up sitting through endless wolfing seeing it again with other people, most likely my mother and aunt, who want to see "Robert" it as well, so maybe I can grab some audio at a less ~*special*~ screening.


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Beyond the Seeds of Girl Genius [Nov. 18th, 2009|12:04 am]

girlgenius_lab
[beamjockey]
I've just posted followup remarks to my Windycon lecture including links to the only known nonfiction Heterodyne Boys book, the fabulous robot of Steven Savage which generates new HB adventures by the bushel, and a swell discourse on steampunk films.
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The return of Sparkette! [Nov. 17th, 2009|03:00 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[misterseth]
...or Sparkette's geneology...
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A Twi-spam like the Twi-spams of old [Nov. 17th, 2009|10:51 am]

cleolinda
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JESUS CHRIST Salon linked to my Twilight page GET IN THE CAR.

( Sparklemas approaches, to the chagrin of King Solomon )


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(no subject) [Nov. 17th, 2009|07:28 am]

canon_sues
[philstar22]
Has anyone done Kelly Kapowski from Saved by the Bell? I have been rewatching the show, and as much as I love the nostalgia, she is a total sue. If no one has done her, I'm claiming her.
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While I work... [Nov. 16th, 2009|11:15 am]

cleolinda
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... on THAT OF WHICH WE DO NOT SPEAK:

I went on another photo safari (this seems to be a new Saturday morning tradition), this time at Hobby Lobby, a terrifyingly huge artsy-craftsy emporium. (The reason the photo safaris happen on Twitter is because you can take a picture on your phone and email it straight to TwitPic from there, which then appears automatically on your Twitter feed.) I mean, I spent fifteen minutes in that thing and I am ready to craft THE SHIT out of something. You take TLE there, he'll think he's died (again) and gone to heaven. Note on photos: we did not even get into any of the vertical aisles at the store. This is simply the shallow end of the pool.( Read more... )

Back to work. Apparently the best part of the movie (minus John Cusack's best line) is online completely legally. Enjoy.



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(no subject) [Nov. 16th, 2009|01:42 am]

girlgenius_lab
[six_crazy_guys]
[mood |cheerful]

OMG OMG OMG

Forget Moloch/Violetta and Moloch/Wilhelm and Moloch/Snaug.

Castle/Moloch is obviously the way to go!
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WindyCon [Nov. 16th, 2009|12:19 am]

girlgenius_lab
[taffy1]
WC was about as much fun as you have with your socks on! I was thrilled to death to meet the good Professors. I asked them if they had a favorite character. Kaja said she really liked Klaus, but also liked Tarvek because he was so misunderstood. Phil answered succinctly "Agatha". I finally had to pull myself away because I was afraid they'd think I was some kind of crazed stalker. Crazed, maybe; stalker, hopefully not.
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You know it had to happen sooner or later... [Nov. 15th, 2009|09:24 pm]

girlgenius_lab
[wbwolf]
[mood |impressed]

Chip 'N Dale's Rescue Rangers + Girl Genius = Gadget Heterodyne?
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WE WERE WARNED [Nov. 15th, 2009|03:04 pm]

cleolinda
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Oh my sweet God, no movie as stupid as 2012 has any right to be TWO HOURS AND THIRTY-EIGHT MINUTES. I drank HALF a smuggled 12 oz bottle of Coke (Tiny Coke, if you will), and nearly DIED. My bladder is BRUISED.

My mom's the disaster movie junkie--she hasn't seen a movie in the theater in six months (I think she last one she saw was Up), so I went for her sake. Man, I hate disaster movies. I worry about this stuff enough, you know? I'm not really into watching implausibly connected characters run and weep and do noble shit and die horribly for two hours (AND THIRTY-EIGHT MINUTES). I'm okay with watching shit blow up; I just don't want to watch the cast meeble on about it. And let me tell you, internets, shit does not start blowing up until FIFTY-SEVEN (57) minutes into the movie. If you think I give a shit about John Cusack's ex-marital problems, you are WRONG, Roland Emmerich. And even the next hour and a half has way too much wibbling about humanity. BLOW SHIT UP. BLOW IT UP NOWWWWWWWWWW. Seriously: go buy a ticket to this thing, walk in fifty-seven minutes late, watch John Cusack and family outrun an earthquake in a limo (because this part is THE MOST AWESOME THING I HAVE EVER SEEN, at the very least the most awesome thing I have ever seen involving either an earthquake or a limo), and then after they get to Vegas, LEAVE. If you've seen Deep Impact and The Poseidon Adventure, you've pretty much seen everything else. In fact, you can probably just watch Dodge the Freeway in the trailer; I didn't watch it, but my mother says pretty much all the awesome stuff is in there, and the rest of the movie is just a game of Guess Who's Gonna Die (a winner is me!). I was also able to call not one but TWO ridiculous romances, because it was that kind of movie. Honestly, earthquake in a limo and Thandie Newton's French: best things in the movie. Everything else I laughed at until I was seized with urinary tract regret for the entire last hour.

(OMFG THE WOLFMAN TRAILER WAS SO AWESOME IT IS WHAT THE INSIDE OF MY HEAD LOOKS LIKE. I was seriously just sitting there all a-squee, clapping my fists [so it would be quiet!] chanting "WOLFMAN WOLFMAN WOLFMAN!!!!!!" and my mother was like, You are so weird.)

I also grabbed a few sheets of printer paper to fold up and stuff in my purse--turns out that you can just squeak by on six pages and the back of the first page if you take notes sparingly.

(THIS IS THE THING OF WHICH WE DO NOT SPEAK. WE DO NOT JINX IT. IT MAY STILL NOT HAPPEN.)



(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

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