Sandy's Musings of the Moment

I took over maintainership of anime_manga, which was abandoned in 2004. Time to get it running again, right?

This is a community dedicated to all things anime/manga. Fanart, fanfiction, doujinshi, graphics, cosplay photos, general discussion, news, questions or live reports - it's all welcome here. We are multi-fandom here, not restricted to one or a few specific series/shows.

Find rules and guidelines here.

Bored? Got some time to yourself and nothing to do? Feel inspired by something you saw on television, at the movies, in the paper, from a book, on your computer, read in your ebook etc?

Then how about trying Fanfiction? Yes, the wonderfully creative world of fanfiction!

At alikelyscenario we give you 21 challenges/scenarios on which to base your fic upon. Each scenario comes with 5 prompts associated with it to inspire your writing. Come sign up and try your hand at fic writing.

Already have something written? We have a few fandom specific journals that are waiting for you.

heroes_fiction - The Heroes fandom burst on the scene four seasons ago. Since then there has been a lot of good fic. Come and share yours here.

sanctuaryforall - For the Webseries turned television series Sanctuary. Here you can post not only fanfic, but fanart, icons, challenges, news about the show, and anything else related to the fandom.

startrek_redux - Beam yourself up to this asylum for the new movie. Like the asylum above, anything related to the new movie is accepted.

Got something not associated with any asylum listed above, multi_fiction welcomes any and all fandoms. No matter what genre, we want it.

Finally sending out my Holiday Cards! If you don't get one it's because you didn't give me your address, or your address has changed since last year, and your card is lost at the post office. (Or blessing some stranger's mail box!)

It isn't too late for me to send you one! If you would like one, head on over to my Holiday Card post right here! and leave me your address!

yesmeansyes - Anti-rape/sexual violence blog
blackandmissing - Blog that focuses on highlighting the Black missing & murdered ignored by mainstream media

Thing the first: everyone should watch this short movie, because it is the most awesomest thing ever:

Giant robots invade Montevideo. A 5 minute short movie directed and animated by Fede Alvarez.

[No, you don't need to speak Spanish to watch it, trust me.]

( Ataque de Pánico! )

And if you get the Eisenstein reference, you're almost as awesome as this movie.

/film geek

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Thing the second: I know I posted a truckload of music yesterday, but then this leaked today and really, I was actually supposed to post it three hours ago, but I got distracted by Joel Gretsch being pretty.

Anyway!

MIDLAKE LEAKED, IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!



Bonus:
. Peter Broderick - Roscoe [Midlake cover]
. Adrien Sala - Hudson [this has nothing to do with anything, it's just pretty. *g*]

File is on my server, so right/control-click-save-as, comment if you download, eeeeeee new Midlake!

:)

Being on vacation = spamming LJ like whoa!

:)

So. I keep listening to this freak-folk-y sometimes almost medieval girly music that is so pretty and lovely, I figure I might as well share with the rest of the class:

( weird girly music for the masses! )

All files on my server, so if you please: right/control-click-save-as, comment if you download, tell me about the weird girly music you're listening to!

Previously uploaded girly music still available here and here, if you missed it.

( Avatar. )

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In other news, I have ten $10 coupons to give out to people with basic/plus accounts. According to this news post, "recipients can upgrade for $9.95 (instead of $19.95) for one year by enrolling in our automatic payment plan or make a manual payment of $15 (instead of $25)".

So, you know -- comment if you want one.

It took me like, trying seventeen different ways to grab this. Apple 16 X 1 Tissa.

But I win in the end. Mwahahahaha.

Ladies and gents, here's the Iron Man 2 trailer:




Now go make me hi-res screencaps because I hate screencapping more than anything else in my entire life, and apparently, you guys don't?

*g*

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Plus: I've been collecting all of the "officially released" IM2 images, as hi-def as I can find them. So far there's about 30 of them, between stills and behind the scenes stuff. I uploaded them to a gallery:

IRON MAN 2 IMAGE GALLERY

If anyone has images I don't have, or better versions of any of the uploaded images, feel free to send them to me [dtissagirl at gmail.com]. PLEASE. :)

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Is it May yet?

So LJ is now backpedaling from the binary gender issue. I'll link you guys to wtfbrain's post on the matter, because I received the same replies as she did. And I feel the exact same way -- diverting the issue to "you've been misinformed" is a shitty tactic. Still. Glad this won't come to light but -- MEGA FAIL, LJ.

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In other news, ( Golden Globes Nominations are out. )

Discuss amongst yourselves!

As abbylee explains much better in this post, Livejournal has decided to change their gender options from female/male/unspecified [which was kinda shitty to begin with] to female/male only. A good way to make that NOT HAPPEN is change the site's statistics -- if everyone change their gender to "unspecified", that will get their attention. So go edit you profile, people!

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Teevee:

- I'm really happy Sanctuary was renewed for a third season -- of 20 episodes, no less! NICE GOING, AMANDA AND DAMIEN AND MARTIN. *loves* ( Going into spoilery territory a bit. )

- Dear Whatever From High Atop the Thing. Please please please please PLEASE renew Being Erica for a third season. I'm extremely grateful for the awesomeness that that S2, and I would be a-okay with that last scene being the end, but I NEEDS MORE OMFG PLEASE. Please?

- So. It turns out my current favorite thing in the world ever is Bones. WHO WOULDA THUNK? ( Spoilery talk. )

- ( Legend of the Seeker. )

- Everyone's gonna laugh pretty hard at me now, but you know what I miss tons? Crusoe. There, I said it. [#prontofalei is so much better in these cases. My language >>> your language.]

- Finally, I'm sure most people have seen this already, but it bears re-linking: Sheldon/Penny picspam of awesomeness [dial-uppers, beware the massive amount of images!].

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In other news, I'm on vacation [er, sorta. Website duties only], I'm done with my Christmas shopping, and I can has Avatar tickets for Thursday evening [eight ball points to HATE, but who knows?], but other than that I still have to figure out a) when I'm going home for Christmas, b) how long I'm gonna stay there, and c) what the hell I'm gonna do for New Years. Responsibility, DO NOT WANT.