The more I think about it, the more I really, really wish Bianca from 2x06 had stuck around. I mean, think about it: she'd have a hell of a lot of characterization and story-telling meat to offer the framework and the familiar faces. A ( cut for spoilers )
Instead we get fucking Ryan? Who brings nothing fresh or multi-faceted to the table, just sleaze and recycled storylines?
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| 2012-01-25 20:16 |
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On the other hand, if Ryan's plot means that Bo is going to return to earlier or increasing comfort with her sexuality and start enjoying herself as a succubus who doesn't necessarily desire a monogamous relationship, I'd forgive his existence.
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It took me a while to get into The Hedgewitch Queen - not the best of Lilith Saintcrow's work, which is not flawless at its best, and her hero (she notoriously hates her male protagonists, and she's been vocal about her loathing of him and entertained regrets of writing in his point of view during writing the second book) is standard domineering, somewhat creepy pedestal-placing fare. Saintcrow is always aware that it's creepy behaviour, but that only cuts the impact so far; it also helps, in The Hedgewitch Queen, that she's his liege. I have no objections to the frightened, uncertain, desperately-fighting-for-surival Vianne, but Saintcrow's prose can be hit-or-miss when it comes to period pieces. I didn't mind so much when I got into it, but at first it kind of felt like reaching a little hard for the archaic tone.
But once the book - or rather, Vianne - gets her feet under her, she is fucking magnificent. Even trying to be a traumatized pacifist in the impractical middle of a budding war.
ETA: And just when I was anticipating the coming explosionconfrontation with cackling, hand-rubbing glee, the book ends. Also, I'm pretty sure this is the hero she said she dreamcast when she saw Ben Barnes in Prince Caspian?
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| 2012-01-25 11:24 |
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Google’s Broken Promise: The End of "Don’t Be Evil"
( to read more about Google's actual policy change and some reassuring bits )
Not that Google doesn't have a some history of disreputable behaviour, but all the facts should be presented.
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I'm beginning to wonder if maybe the gross new stuff on Lost Girl - decreasng sex-positivity, the male characters being increasingly reprehensible, etc - is executive mandate in light of the second season and the money-making. It would be the first time that the Moneyed Assholes That Be dictated Caucasian dudes who treat women like shit be inserted in a script of TV because that's 'sexy' or 'popular' and 'what [they] want!' "They" ostensibly being the audience but really meaning the executives, probably mostly Caucasian dudes who treat women like shit. One thing you can't accuse the showrunners of in season one is picking uninteresting actors.
I mean seriously, between Supernatural and this, is there some new fad for 'Loki' being an incompetent sexist asshole? Not only is it an egregiously ill-written and unintelligent misuse of mythology - but now is not the time to tell you how terrified I was of Loki as a kid - it's gross and unnecessary and after you spend the entire episode establishing him as a slimy piece of shit who's none too bright, doesn't do his job, and then blames it on the woman whom he sexually harassed into leaving before he was done, you pick him as the man that's gonna build up Bo's self-esteem? Really? That's the most ridiculous misogynistic 'oh, scumbags aren't scumbags if you're the right kind of victim' I've ever seen.
It is classic of most TV I've seen lately, with men treating women like shit and then being 'redeemed' not by regretting their vile behaviours, or recanting on them, or getting repercussions for them, but eventually being relatively nice to one woman or at least claiming they are. Because if they aren't a cartoon villain, dudes don't get consequences for their actions. Are you kidding?
I was held over through season one by promises of Lauren's increasing prominence in season two. But I'm getting really pissed off now at how Bo's only being allowed to do dudes. Oh that's right, because gay people are obscene. What about that cute blonde at the bar when she came in? Or what about Sherry coming to visit? That was ripe for exploration. There's so much about Bo's conflicts that Sherry would understand.
I mean, Lost Girl did surprisingly all right for decent male characters in season 1; they were largely good people, and the people who were disgusting were either acknowledged as such by the pertinent parties or, uh, died. Now every new character is sleazy and unkind and rewarded for it.
The racefail isn't new, though. (It is brought to spectacular heights in the last couple of episodes.) That one is aaaaaall the show's.
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| 2012-01-24 17:37 |
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Aaaaand 2x14 up and quits on me halfway through.
D: D: D: D:
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Oh US of A. Always so classy.
This whole thing that's been going down is creepy as fuck.
Copied from ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) havocthecat's post.
If you're from the UK and you believe in freedom of speech and an uncensored interenet, you really need to sign this petition. There are others floating about, but that particular one is the best way to ensure that your voice gets heard. It's hosted on the directgov website and addresses parliament directly. If it gets more than 100,000 signatures, it becomes eligible for discussion in the House of Commons.
Everyone's been getting so worked up over SOPA -- and rightly so -- that ACTA seems to have slipped under the radar. This is hugely problematic, because ACTA is a similar bill, but it has the potential to be far more damaging than SOPA ever could be.
Some people seem to have this misconception that ACTA is the 'European SOPA', but that simply isn't true. It's a global treaty, and it's already been signed by eight countries, including the US, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore. Europe votes on Thursday. If they vote 'no', the bill will have to be taken back to the drawing board and reformulated, which should buy us some time at the very least.
If you think this doesn't affect you, you're wrong. If ACTA passes, it could well signal the end of the internet as we know it, and that isn't an exaggeration. It's not just about watching movies and television online. If ACTA passes, sites like YouTube, Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and even Google and Wikipedia could become impossible to maintain. ACTA would allow ISPs to monitor your net activity and cut off internet access for your entire household if one person is suspected of breaching copyright. Think Big Brother is Watching. I don't think I need to emphasise just how damaging it can be to be without internet access in this day and age, when we rely so heavily on technology.
It's not only bloggers and fandom that would be affected, either. Small businesses, independent film-makers and unsigned musicians who have previously found their niche online would also suffer hugely, and would be at risk of being bullied into submission by Hollywood and multinational corporations under accusations of copyright infringement. All those artists who found fame by uploading covers of songs to YouTube would never have had the opportunity to do so under ACTA, as those cover versions would be prohibited.
I know the internet has its problems, but to my mind it's the single greatest invention to come out of modern times, and it would be an absolute travesty if we were to lose that now. From a personal point of view, I can't even put into words how important this is to me. I've met some of my closest friends through the internet and online fandom, people whom I would likely never have met without it, and it's given me this amazing social support system. I don't want that to end here, and I want to preserve it for future generations so that they can have the same experience and opportunities I've been given through my online interactions.
I know that opinions on the seriousness of copyright infringement and online piracy vary wildly, but that isn't really the point. Internet giants such as Google are opposed to this bill, and it's pretty safe to say that they're not in favour of copyright infringment, as anyone who's ever had a fanvid taken down from YouTube will be painfully aware. Whatever your stance on copyright, this isn't the way to go about dealing with it. This is dangerous legislation that impeaches on some of our most basic human rights, such as the right to privacy and freedom of speech.
So if you're from the UK, please, please sign the petition. If you hail from elsewhere in the world, there may well be similar movements in your own country, but I think the most effective thing anybody can do right now is to keep talking about this. Talk about it on Livejournal, on Twitter, on Tumblr, on Facebook, and anywhere else you can think of. Make sure this issue is never far from people's minds. The internet is an amazingly powerful tool: let's utilise it while we still have the chance.
Please repost and spread the word :)
SAY NO TO ACTA!
And how about this?
“I ordered some video-editing software from Hitfilm in the UK which also comes with some instructional videos. So a few days later I get a call from FedEx saying that the DVDs were being held at U.S. Customs until I filled out a Video Declaration Form, which she said was now standard practice. Now, I’d never heard of this before, so I called back to ensure that this was indeed FedEx and not someone phishing for information. Had them email me the form.
This is what the form said: “I/we declare the the films/videos contain no obscene or immoral matter, nor any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, nor any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States.”
Now, the first clause I can kinda see, though “immoral” is weird and there’s no standard definition of obscenity in the US, but let that go…what made my eyebrows go up my forehead and down the other side was clause two. So I called back the nice lady at FedEx — who was only following instructions given to her by Customs — and asked what this was all about.
Apparently — and this is only her understanding of the situation — this is a new thing being done by Customs and Homeland Security with FedEx, UPS, and other carriers to make sure that films and videos with ideas or stories that were at odds with the United States Government didn’t get into the country, as it was a form of terrorism (as further elaborated upon in the third and final clause.) She added that some DVDs showing Occupy events in London and elsewhere had gotten bounced because of the concern that these were being used to coordinate activities here (as if with the internet people actually need physical DVDs for that sort of thing but that’s neither here nor there).
Under this new stipulation, if V for Vendetta had, for instance, been produced in the UK (instead of just filmed there), importing it into the US would be considered subject matter “advocating or urging treason or insurrection.” And if you lied about it on the form, you could be held liable for this.
So there are now very literally guardians at the gate ensuring that the wrong sorts of ideas, movies or DVDs are not allowed into the country without investigation and/or prosecution. And most pernicious of all, they don’t actually define what they mean by advocating treason or insurrection, any more than they define what “immoral” means, it’s whatever they decide it means, so you could be breaking the law without knowing you’re doing it, until they decide you’re doing it.
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It's not even like this is a season one vs season two thing - just a couple of episodes Bo was talking about multiple murders in her past. I guess I'm assuming Hale and Kenzi were reacting to the particulars of how Bo's vagabond lifestyle began.
Also, forget Bo's criminal history, is it just me or is Lost Girl forgetting their own rules when it comes to Fae heritage? They stated that only Fae with two Fae parents inherit anything, but I believe Ciara stated she had one human parent and Bo asked Sherry's mother whether Sherry had been born to a human father knowing she had powers.
Good lord, though, Ferraro's ring voice made my sore throat hurt just in sympathy.
Does anyone else kind of wish Kenzi and Bo had bolted instead of doing an emotional reboot? It would have been so interesting, and it would have so drastically changed the show's feel but it could have been fascinating and introduced a boatload of new dynamics. It wouldn't have to last forever! And the emotional repercussions would have given both actresses, especially Anna Silk, more meat - so to speak - to sink their acting chops into, and I'm beginning to really think that Anna Silk can rise to the occasion.
Plus, let's just be honest: imagine Canadian Supernatural with Bo and Kenzi.
(God, I miss the old Ash.)
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| 2012-01-22 18:49 |
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Wow, we have really steamrollered on into 'die in a fire Dyson.' This seems drastically out of character for him. He was always pretty respectful and level-headed, not a raging bigot with a decidedly sleazy slant to his self-absorption.
Like, I can see this asshole roughing up Kenzi when they first Siren'd them and kidnapped Bo instead of leaving a witness in peace, and I sure as hell don't see him working to help Bo in the brusque but compassionate and encouraging way he did in the first episode. What happened to the dude that showed up last time Kenzi was pissed at him for hurting Bo? Given the increased gravity of the situation he should be more serious, not develop a raging personality transplant to 'skeeze.'
There are ways to show two characters at emotional odds - or even show one being inconsiderate enough to fuel the fire of the others' friends - without making one into a gross caricature completely unworthy of screentime.
ETA: All right, I'm handwaving it as a side effect of Baba Yaga's curse - the way the women who hated Dyson adopted exaggerated mannerisms and similar speech patterns. The indifference can just be normal asshat Dyson level. Because I really don't want to loathe him that much.
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My throat is so sore I can't sleep, and I could have sworn I heard the cat vomiting, but when I trudged upstairs from the basement to clean it up I couldn't find it.
...it's making me nervous, and I'm down to two cough drops.
A woman on the edge.
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While I shipped Bo and Dyson in the latter half of season one, I actually liked them best in the earliest stages of their relationship. I liked that it seemed really natural - that it was such a low-keyed aspect of their budding friendship and partnership, that they felt comfortable around each other and trusted each other, even while they were kind of crushing and finding each other new and exciting and well yes hot.
The best example is in 1.3, near the end of the episode before Bo heads off to root out the monster; they're working together, sifting through papers and tossing thoughts between them, working together with an easy underlying layer of trust and shared goals and determination. And then she gets up to go - to go out and kick ass and investigate shit while he willingly and casually plays Research Geek for her, digs through dusty books and just asks her to come home safe. And the flirty scene ensuing is an extension of their conversation that just happens to include two people sexually attracted to and having fun with it with each other.
They just like each other so much. I feel like later on in the season when the romance plot becomes more accentuated - and more focused on - it got a little more, 'Romance, with two people' rather than 'two people on the road to falling in love.'
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| 2012-01-19 23:41 |
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So....is it ever addressed ever that in the last two episodes of Lost Girl season one, ( Read more... )
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Alright, Norrington has grown on me. Not enough to be likable, but I don't resent his presence onscreen anymore. He's quite useful.
Being in the same room as people watching the last two Pirates of the Caribbean movies is...interesting. Sometimes I wish I was a little less good at absorbing information in the back of my mind whilst accomplishing something else. A while back I got peevish and decided to just count the first movie as canon; the fourth is right out, and I'm not all that fond of the second and third. But nonetheless, I'm remembering that despite not being able to recall watching them all the way through (I know I never have the third one, but I could swear I went to see the second one in the theaters) I do have quite a bit of emotional investment remaining wrapped up in these stories.
Like Tia Dalma. ILU, Tia Dalma.
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I honestly don't see how anyone can, after the first movie, like Norrington at all. What a manipulative, self-righteous Nice Guy(tm) slimebag. 'Took' his beloved indeed.
She's not a shoe.
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I've been behind in posting this, even though I've been meaning to for some time! Basically: discussion of male vs female images allowed in the media, specifically on the covers of books - chiefly urban fantasy - i.e. the prioritization of making sure the female character is perceived as sexually available/convenient to any men who happen to be looking before she's acknowledged as a person.
Beginning with Jim C. Hines kindly risking serious back injury to a former ballerina grappling with ridiculous contortions to a literal contortionist giving it a try.
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In the light of the FBI shutting down Megaupload - and today was the day that ended all e-piracy 4eva! - I have to agree that a) that's not going to do anything but piss a whole lot of people off and b) it's a hot-topic scapegoat to publicly focus on so they can avoid doing anything whatsoever constructive, and I'm sick and tired of it. I'm not sure they're even intelligent enough to know that's what they're doing, but they take a look at the spectacular violence, hate, oppression, devastation and destruction running beneath and above the surface in this country and decide to...get all heated up over not buying fifty-dollar DVD sets on amazon. Because we all know the most important issue is whether or not already rich and powerful people are getting every last cent that they can!
It's also worth noting, as usual, that most of the movies and TV shows I've purchased over the years - sometimes spending up to fifty dollars on one season - I would not have known about, nor would I even remotely have purchased, without the internet's free-flowing exchange and discussion of content.
(And, in fact, they know that - with numbers and everything! - and in fact know that apparently and amusingly pirates are some of their best customers, but I guess facts are nothing in the face of some good convenient outrage?)
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I think part of why Bo is so tightly married to the freedom, and her unwillingness to live her life by their rules and to die by small degrees - which is clearly how she sees standing back and letting people suffer, or sacrificing others for the good of many - is because for so many years she was living a half life, in recycled emotional wreckage from both external and internal factors; having to abandon everyone she'd ever loved and cared about, constantly on the run, never able to find a home or settle down (and if we've seen one thing about Bo this season, it's that she's domestic: she's rather like Thor from the 2011 movie, honestly, only less of an asshole initially, all straight-forward brashness/impetuosity and goodwill and honesty and desire for happiness) and, of course, murdering everyone she becomes attached to in a ten-year killing spree.
She has ten years of experience living that fucked up life, having to settle for a shell and the guilt and death that follow her, and now she wants to make up for that in every way, to herself and to others. (She's selfish to a healthy degree and I love her for that, too. MY BB GIRL OMGGG)
Who can blame her for fighting twice as hard against the Fae groups with that life already under her belt - and now she has the power and the confidence to help people and they're trying to stop her?
Also my heart hurt when she found out why Lauren was with her. For both of them. That little moment when she's still in the same position but she's suddenly holding herself carefully and emotionally recoiled, and the shocked, vulnerable wet shine of her eyes. (I thought Zoie Palmer did a really good job in that scene.)
Also, please, who the heck is Lochlyn? And has he entered by 1.08? Because his name on IMDB sounds really familiar but I cannot for the life of me remember who he is.
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Buried Queens
Chapter Nine
Susan Pevensie has been living alone in London since her siblings died, alone with her grief and determination. She's long since abandoned childish fantasies, but her recent dreams of a great lion give her comfort where nothing else does. And then she is catapulted into Narnia again; but a very, very different Narnia indeed.
Author's Note: I had a chapter written out and then I lost it, so my inspiration rather sagged. BUT. Hopefully this will be the mark of new productivity because OTP. I'm following old notes for plot, so hopefully this will make some sense, though I'm not sure how much faith I have in mini!me's ability to create a coherent, logical storyline.
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Honestly, I am still not over being angry at Cast in Silence, and I don't know if I'll ever be. Cast in Ruin only compounded that anger.
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who knew, still pissed off
relieved
worried
crappy
sore
suspicious
nostalgic
unreceptive to your face
bitchy
cranky
contemplative
SO FULL OF FEELS
miserable