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Jul. 10th, 2009
10:57 am - Comic ramblings, part II
Jul. 9th, 2009
10:19 am - What the Forge?
http://comicbookresources.com/?page=pre
I'm so glad Marvel's not making all of it's geniuses insane except for Hank "His Cock Tastes Like Chocolate" Pym.
EDIT: GIP!
Jul. 8th, 2009
02:38 pm - Ganked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
candid...
I think people know my position on people in wheelchairs. I just don't like'em all that much. This article kind of pins down why.
In this case, I really have to side with the restaurant owner. I can see the technical argument for Block's argument, but functionally this is like me going into a place that billed itself as an Authentic Chinese Market and crying discrimination because the labels were all in Mandarin. No ethical person in their right mind goes to a place called The Squeeze Inn and gets upset because their wheelchair is too big.
As a fellow cripple, I'm calling shenanigans on Block. In my opinion, this is a frivolous lawsuit, something that not only hurts a business (and the people it employs) but also hurts legitimate cases where ADA laws apply.
Other links: Famous Sac Burger Joint Threatened By Lawsuit, Suit alleges ADA violations at Squeeze Inn burger joint, Squeeze Inn Owner Says Lawsuit Could Sink Him
EDIT: Upon reading that last article, and seeing the claim about "uneven gravel surfaces outside," I would like to know what other kind of gravel surfaces exist.
01:16 am - Fanart: Extortion
Title/Description: Extortion
Creator: lyanth!
Claim: Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle III @ ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
dcu_freeforall
Characters/Pairing: Jaime Reyes/Time Drake
Rating: NC-17 for naked boys
Prompt: Where are my pants?
Disclaimer: Don't own, DC does
Author's Notes/Warnings: Comments/critiques encouraged! I was really working hard with this one on proportions and muscle mass (and tim's bruises! xD). Also, as much as i lean on the less-hairy side of the fence, I feel like they'd have some hair on their chests (at their age, for superheroes, they should). Finally, I think tim's butt dimple steals the scene &hearts
( Fake Cut to Journal )
x-posted to all_dc_related dcu_freeforall escarabajo_azul titans_together sorry for the spam!
Jul. 7th, 2009
05:01 pm - Romantagony
Let me get this out of the way: I've never understood the appeal of Archie Comics. For me, it falls into the same category as Saved By The Bell and The Sims, media that simulates a boring life for people who enjoy boring lives. They're recursive nightmares about day dreaming about be able to day dream about being able to day dream...etc. So, perhaps it's out of sheer ignorance that I fail to see what's exactly creepy and/or funny about Betty Cooper's crush on Archie Andrews.
I think there's an potential genre for this kind of story. Coyote/Road Runner, Betty/Archie, Lex Luthor/Superman, Dr. Doofensmirtz/Perry the Platypus, etc., they're all the same kind of adversarial/co-dependent pairings that aren't quite hate and they aren't quite love. They mashup the old saying, to paraphrase: "It's not the catch, it's the chase." They all embody a dualistic approach to life where each partner represents an unobtainable goal for the other.
To quote from Joe Kelly's Enginehead: "Perfection is rust." Love is motion. To love someone isn't a static thing, it's not an inert state of rest. Love is a process. Real love endures changes and evolution. Hate is the other side of that coin. Hate is a continual grinding movement as you chew on new aspects of the object of your loathing, finding new facets to loathe.
The difference is Ross & Rachel and the Road Runner & Coyote is that with the former, you never knew how it would end, with the latter you knew it would never end. I think that's the true key to unlocking the wholly new paradigm of...what I'm calling...Romantagony. Romantagony is designed with the exacting precision that balances the earth and moon, it's not a coupling and it's not a breaking up. It's an engine of perpetual story telling with two individual characters as the key forces of continuance.
So, no, I don't see why people think Betty Cooper is crazy. I think she's just ahead of her time.
02:32 pm - ;_;
Why will Adobe AIR's debug system not load an Adobe Flash object?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094
08:03 am - Oblivious, PG, Tim/Kon
Title: Oblivious
Rating: PG
Characters: Tim Drake, Kon-El, Gar Logan, mentions of Vic Stone
Pairings: Tim/Kon, background-established Vic/Gar
Summary: Gar gets fed up with Tim and Kon's pathetic attempts to hide how crazy about each other they are.
Notes: More sequelmeme! for the wonderful shiny_glor_chan. I am such a sketchy stalker. This time it's a sequel to View From The Couch, which can be found here: http://shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.c
This contains my first attempt at Gar-voice, so please feel free to point out any flaws. Con-crit welcome as always, and enjoy.
http://scraplove.livejournal.com/10
Jul. 6th, 2009
09:37 pm - Request
I remember a certain fanfic I read a long time ago, an AU in which Kaworu and Shinji were in the same class and were partners for an art project. It was one of my all-time favorite fanfics, but in my foolish youth I never saved it to my computer and now it's been taken down from ffnet (I think that's where it was posted... it's been so long). Does anybody recognize the fic I'm talking about? If so, do you know if it's still posted somewhere or if I could get a copy of it somehow?
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nostalgic06:19 pm - I call it Secondlifing
Ganked from: Professor Ganks Players, Wonders Why They Hate Him.
For the real lulz, you have to read his full paper. I'm about halfway through.
05:05 pm - Bleeding Cool, for later
http://www.bleedingcool.com/feed/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BleedingCoo
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-cont
Jul. 5th, 2009
04:42 pm - Note to self...
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_
One day I'm going to have to sit down and write an excerpt from Deedee's guide to marriage, because the joke seems to have some traction.
03:43 pm - Bond, PG, Tim/Kon
Title: Bond
Rating: PG
Pairing: Tim/Kon
Characters: Tim Drake, Kon-El, Clark Kent, Cassie Sandsmark
Summary: As Kon's Kryptonian powers begin manifesting, he gains one that is more complicated than heat vision. Clark never mentioned anything like this, so why can he suddenly communicate mentally with his best friend?
Notes: I haven't found anything to suggest that Kryptonians can communicate telepathically with their soul mates, which makes this AU. I'm not sure where the idea came from originally, but then I got into Star Trek and now have a serious thing for telepathy. This starts near the beginning of the Teen Titans, sometime shortly after Kon finds out about his other genetic donor before deviating from canon. First in a series. Con-crit welcome as always, and enjoy!
http://scraplove.livejournal.com/9736.h
01:58 pm - I swear...
I would wish something horribly lethal happen to Sarah Palin so she'd wiped from the Earth and I'd never have to hear of her again, except then she'd be a dead celebrity and THAT'D BE THE ONLY FUCKING THING I'd see on LiveJournal for a week.
01:21 am - Batmobile web site
01:01 am - Fic: All-New Batman, All-New Batdickery. Dick/Roy. PG-13.
Title: All-New Batman, All-New Batdickery
Author: shananagin
Claim: Dick Grayson
Characters/Pairing: Dick/Roy
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1000
Prompt: 8. Surprise
Summary: There's a new Batman in Gotham. Roy comes to visit.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Author's Notes: Thank you to the fantastic julius12 for beta-ing! I wrote this because most of the Bat!Dick fic I've read has involved Dick losing his inherent Dick-ness when he becomes Batman. That is interesting, I suppose, but entirely missing what Morrison and co are trying to do with Dick right now. So I wrote this! Enjoy!
12:55 am - Superboy's Superharem: Knockout. Superboy/Knockout. NC-17.
Title: Knockout
Series: Superboy's Superharem
Fandom: Superboy
Characters: Superboy/Knockout
Word Count: 1003
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Superboy and Knockout on the run, in a cave.
Author's Notes: I really enjoyed writing this. Knockout is kind of badass and writing Kon as an honest-to-Rao virgin is not something I'm used to. So! It was fun! Thanks to julius12 for the betaing. Part of my Superboy's Superharem series. The first part is here, but you don't need to read it to understand this one. Next up, Sterling Roquette!
Jul. 4th, 2009
04:03 pm - Atlantis Rambling
I've been watching my fifth season DVD's of Atlantis this week, and I had a slight epiphany today. I think I sort of see why the writers thought McKay and Keller were a good match. It's not intuitive, and despite girlish giggling about "Jennifer McKay," I've never really understood the dynamic between the two character from the romantic angle. However, watching The Shrine it hit me that Keller's actions in that episode are almost parallel to McKay's actions way back in the season two episode, Trinity.
Trinity of course is the infamous episode where Rodney blows up most of a solar system because he stubbornly believes he understands Ancient science better than anyone, including the Ancients. In The Shrine, we see a Jennifer who thinks she has a better grasp of Pegasus diseases and treatments better than people from the Pegasus Galaxy. The difference between Trinity and The Shrine isn't that either character was right, the ending was defined by people either empowering their actions (Trinity) or subverting them (The Shrine).
For further proof, go back to season four's opener, Adrift. Keller comes up with the idea save Weir by reactivating the Replicator nanites as a means to heal her. If she'd gone to anyone but Rodney, she'd have been shut down. However, she did go to Rodney, and he did reactivate the nanites. This is case where her certainty of medicine lines up perfectly with his certainty of his abilities.
This strikes me as kind of surprising, because the Keller character comes across as being kind of a nice person, and while as a good guy she is a nice person, but her underlying character is someone who is as convinced that her way is the right way. I think this is why the McKay/Keller relationship feels off sometimes, why the two of them feel a bit stuffy together, it's due to their relationship being something of a mutual admiration society. Between the two of them, each one thinks the other is equal to the smartest person in the room.
There's a quote in the commentary where one of the writers says something similar to this, but I'll have to remember which episode it is. (Strangely, it's not during Martin Gero's Brain Storm commentary.)
01:52 am - Drabbles
I did a bunch of drabbles last year for the comm batfic100 , and I figured I'd post them to my journal as well. These are all the Titans-related ones (they somehow ended up being all Tim, lol). They're all 100 words and are all set in some nebulous time before BftC.
Title: Perform
Fandom: Batman
Challenge: Theater
Character/Pairing: Tim Drake, onesided Tim/Dick
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Author's Notes: Tim is a creepy, creepy creep. I'm not a fan of Dick/Tim, but I like to think that Tim had a crush on him when he first started Robin-ing, and then over time started viewing him more as a brother.
( Perform )
Title: Scores
Fandom: Batman
Challenge: College
Character/Pairing: Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth
Rating: G
Warnings: Nein.
Author's Notes: I used think there should be an entire Robin run featuring Tim trying to balance school and vigilante-ing while visiting colleges, filling out applications, and all the other junk kids have to go through. Every other 17/18-year-old has to do it, why not him? Of course, now he's off gallivanting in Europe, so I guess that's out . . .
( Scores )
Title: On Patrol
Fandom: Batman
Challenge: Halloween
Character/Pairing: Tim Drake
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Author's Notes: This is more of a YJ-era Tim than anything.
( On Patrol )
Jul. 3rd, 2009
04:42 pm - The Birmingham Batman
http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Batman
http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/storie
http://www.southernist.com/2009/04/scen
http://louanders.blogspot.com/2006/02/b
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