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May 26th, 2009
05:29 am - Star Trek XI
Everyone's playing in the new-happy-shiny fandom now, and I can only grin like a gibbering idiot at the wonderfulness that it is producing. :glee: I spent 2 hours watching this vid alone, and it's to a freakin' Lady Gaga song. But it's amazing and I love it more every time I watch it. I also rediscovered  killabeez's wonderful TOS K/S ship manifesto and am reveling in the epicness of their love and the awesomeness of a fandom that's 20 years older than I am. Maybe during this summer hiatus fandom can distract itself with the shiny instead of wanking all the time. I can dream, right?
Current Location: in the floor
Current Mood:  cheerful
Current Music: stupid birds that are awake at 5:30 am
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May 2nd, 2009
11:31 am - Art rec
Sam and Dean versus the sandwich spirit, or, The Best SPN Comic Ever (link) from moosekleenex
Current Location: apartment living room, Atlanta, Ga
Current Mood:  hungry
Current Music: How Clean Is Your House? in the background
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April 12th, 2009
08:41 pm - #amazonfail
So Amazon.com has been removing GLBTQ books from their sales ranking lists and even search results. These removals began as early as February, but hundreds of books were been removed from the rankings this weekend, including romance novels, self-help books, biographies, history books, books on gender & queer theory and feminism, GLBT dating guides, sex education books, and even a book on the military ban on gays. These books are supposedly banned from the rankings due to "adult" content, but books with similarly "adult" content, such as straight sex or violence, remain ranked.
 meta_writer has several threads of collected info links here (link), here (link), and here (link).
Amazon Rank (link) definition for to help the Google bomb started by the lovely ladies at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (link).
Current Location: loft, Gville
Current Mood:  annoyed
Current Music: Master and Commander downstairs
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February 19th, 2009
02:32 pm - Supernatural & Masculinity
It's hiatus, so how about some thinky thoughts to keep us occupied? Lately I've been working on some meta about ways that masculinity is presented in SPN, and I started wondering what fandom at large thinks.
On one hand, Sam and Dean may represent a very traditional idea of American masculinity, saving people and hunting things in a muscle car, hooking up with women before leaving them when the job's done. But what about the boys' occasional forays into teary chick-flick moments and questions from outsiders like "King or two queens?", questions that seem to indicate that even within the canon universe, there's something not-so-traditional about their relationship and their respective presentations of masculinity?
How do you interpret it when you're watching an episode and the boys do something stereotypically masculine or something "gender transgressive"? You can take this in any direction you like, but here's a few things that I've been thinking about:
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Current Location: Library North 2
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
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December 27th, 2008
06:59 pm - SPN Fic - Grace Coming Out Of The Void
Happy late Christmas, everybody!
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Current Location: Katherine's house
Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: TJ jamming in the background
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November 30th, 2008
04:12 pm - Through A Kaleidoscope - Pic Meme
Stolen from kyokomurasaki:
Rules:
01. Answer each of the questions below the cut using the Flickr search engine.
02. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. Copy the URL of your favorite photos here. (Click "Save" and upload it to an image hosting site when you're done).
04. Then share with the world.
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Current Location: living room, Atlanta, Ga
Current Mood:  chipper
Current Music: Avatar in the background
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November 13th, 2008
05:04 pm - Push-button finger is a disease for the modern age
Current Location: living room, Atlanta, Ga
Current Mood:  geeky
Current Music: the clocks on the wall
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November 11th, 2008
02:00 pm - RL? What's that?
Figured an update a month's good, right?
New icons! *shiny* Sorry that most of the creators aren't credited. I just never remember to save them with the creator's name. >_< Wasn't there some talk a while back about more icon space? I never have any idea what's happening on LJ unless it shows up on fandomwank.
So, 21st birthday came and went. Got driver's license finally, got car that I don't have to pay for, which is sweet. Party Friday that Caroline might just come too (shocking). Let's not get quite so drunk this time, eh Kat-chan? XD
Taking a page from TJ and me, Lauren's been talking to menfolk on OkCupid. One of them bought her soup. Will keep you informed of any future developments. I don't know, the only guy I met online that I still talk has a none-too-good reputation around the apartment, but that's a story that for various reasons is neither here nor there.
So excited for SPN Thursday! I really need to get working on the meta that I was going to write for angstybromance but writing too many "real" papers has me momentarily disillusioned with all things academic. I'm sure it'll come back to me by next week or so, probably after my Shakespeare paper is written.
Current Location: 4th floor, Library North
Current Mood:  eh
Current Music: Carbon Leaf - Raise The Roof
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September 10th, 2008
04:41 am - OMG you guys...
Lance Bass is gonna be on the next season of Dancing With The Stars. Excuse me while I fangirl nostalgically in the corner. It seems like every other season they put people on that make me watch their crappy show!
Current Location: the living room after a long night of awesome conversation
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: the 5 AM news in the background
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September 4th, 2008
02:01 pm - Classic TV For Free
So, while I was emailing my professor trying to convince him to have us read Henry Jenkins' Star Trek essay, I found out that CBS has episodes of the Classic Trek and The Twilight Zone online for free. Super cool.
CBS video page. Click the TV Classics link on the left side for a drop down menu to select a show (link)
Current Location: Aderhold computer lab
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Fuel - A Million Miles
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