Hi everyone!!

The other day I decided to change photographis into a community !!
Don't worry, you will all still be able to view the entries =)

So, as I changed to a community, I had to delete all of my old entries, I'm going to get you a link to my photobucket where they are all stored though, so don't worry!

Here are a bunch of old banners I made a long time ago which I thought you might like to see.
Hope everyone is well, let me know what you're up to, I like to know =)

Xx


( very large post!! )

It's official: Ryan Reynolds is The Green Lantern. (THR)

Matt Singer's introduction to Bollywood reinventions of Hollywood films. (IFC)

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, now filming, adds Danny Huston to its cast. He'll play King Richard, the Lionheart. (THR)

Mary Louise Parker bakes a pie and reads a bedtime story in Esquire.

iFMagazine is running a series of Leverage articles ahead of the season 2 premiere, including "The Anatomy of a 'Leverage' Character" and interview with the creators of the show.

Clips from the unaired season one episode of Dollhouse, "Epitaph One".

Football/Volleyball today?

Last week I woke up one day and decided: I'm moving to Illinois. There were many evenings spent tabulating pros and cons; an abacus certainly would have come in handy. Eventually, I realized that the pros outweigh the cons. While I'm loathe to leave my family and handful of close friends, staying here will not make me the person I want to be. I want to see Joy Harjo read "Fear Poem." I want to be able to ride my bike in a bike lane, not worrying about the caprice of drivers on the road. I want to step into a restaurant whose vegan options extend beyond bagged salad and processed fruit. I want to live in a community that aches and strains with art and life. None of these things are wholly possible in my current location.

My only regret is that I didn't come to this conclusion earlier, so there would be more time to spend with my parents and acreofbones. I feel so scattered, struggling to catalog all the things that need to be packed, people that need to be seen. Don't stow those tacks with the cosmetics. See Nicole. Donate those cans of Thai coconut soup... There's a passage in Dave Eggers's You Shall Know Our Velocity where the character's headspace is described as "a condemned church full of bats." I can relate.

While I won't miss this apartment, with its groaning toilet and flickering lights, I will miss this town. It sounds incredibly hokey, but this place has left a mark. Some part of me wants nothing more than to come back to Potsdam in twenty years. Buy a small house. Start a garden & grow spinach and tomatoes aplenty. Read Ulysses. Adopt a cadre of shelter animals... I could see it. I could grow old here.

But not yet.

A quiet Saturday. Supposed to be helping my father fix the garage door, but it was raining and, like a particularly house-bound cat, I'm loathe to go outside and get my paws dirty. Instead, I've been reading old reviews and commentary of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and in the process, came across this long essay titled "Making Women Warriors: a transnational reading of Asian female action heroes". In it, I found this passage:

Heroism is culturally specific. Where U.S. action films uphold rugged individualism, often extolling the “gumption” of renegade cops, those on the fringe of society, and proverbial (and literal) cowboys, heroes in Asian films are considered heroic because they place loyalty to another person, clan, or community above all else. Their heroism comes from the ability to do for others, not for the self; victory comes from sacrifice for the group, not from self-aggrandizement. ... In Asian film, heroism usually means sacrifice, often to the death, and particularly for the lead character. At the end of U.S. action films, the hero almost always lives, victorious. (Sidekicks and supporting players may die, but rarely does the leading man.) The Asian hero proves her/his worth, her/his heroism, by living up to a filial pledge to a larger order, and heroic action is practiced for a higher ideal.

It occurred to me that this idea of heroism as "loyalty [and] sacrifice" is central to how I view the character of Mazikeen in Mike Carey's Lucifer. In terms of the conventions set out in this essay, Lucifer can be seen as the archetypal Western hero, determined to be free, while Mazikeen is his Eastern counterpart, yin to his yang. ( Spoilers for Mike Carey's Lucifer )

THREE THINGS

All who'd live by
   risk and resistance
manage three things:

high-sea commerce,
   excellent enemies,
and the company of kings.


SHMU'EL HANAGID (993-1056 A.D.)

Translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole

International trailer for Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces. [imdb]

Let us spare a moment to consider the awesome potential of British actor Michael Fassbender (you may know him as blood-thirsty Stelios in 300, or that really skinny dude in Hunger, and he also has a lead role in Inglorious Basterds) playing a SUPERHERO. No, he's not a frontrunner, but Fassbender was apprently among those being considered for the Green Lantern role in WB's adaptation of the DC comic. Currently, the favourites for the role are Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, and Justin Timberlake, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Now, I'll readily admit that I don't know anything about the comic, but come on! Fassbender! Superhero! (THR) [imdb]

Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In) has signed on to helm Working Title's adaptation of John le Carré's classic espionage novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Set in the aftermath of the cold war, the thriller tells the tale of a spy-hunt within the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) will write the adapted screenplay. Jeffrey Wells wonders if this adaptation is necessary; I would like to know if they're going to give it the Bourne treatment and update the cold war setting. The last great Le Carré adaptation was 2005's The Constant Gardener. (THR)

Trailer for the adaptation of Clive Barker's The Book of Blood, starring Robin Hood's Jonas Armstrong. [imdb]

Terry Kinney (Oz) joins CBS' procedural The Mentalist playing Lisbon's former boss, Agent Sam Bosco. (THR)

I am never looking at Soul Eater raws again. My mind is in a gutter. ( slight spoilers )

MIDNIGHT

A thousand feet up, along sheer silk
Windows, I pace West Tower. Falling stars
Flare on the river. A setting moon's
Clarity wavers on sand. Solitary

Birds are known by the woods they choose,
Great fish by their hermit deeps. Here,
Heaven and earth full of those I love,
Shield and sword make even a letter rare.


TU FU (712-770 A.D.)

Translated from the Chinese by David Hinton

A Xena blooper starring Karl Urban as Julius Caesar.

oops! i did it again;
i played with your heart,
got lost in the game.
oh baby, baby...
oops! you think i'm in love,
that i'm sent from above...
i'm not that innocent.

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides' novel about a hermaphrodite coming into terms with her family history and sexual identity, to be made into an HBO onseries! Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, will adapt the novel for television, and Rita Wilson (The Chumscrubber) will act as executive director.

The imdb boards are a scary, scary place. But reading the Daybreakers boards today, started me on a different reading of the film's "vampire resource-crisis apocalypse" premise than the one that had occupied me since I first heard about the movie (directed by Australia brothers, Michael and Peter Spierig and starring Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan and Willem Dafoe).

The synopsis:

"Edward Dalton is a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race (Daybreakers)."

So, the parallel to natural resources is pretty up-front and obvious, but in the middle of writing a response to a poster who complained that vampires had become too "scientific", I realised this: ( getting back into pol-ec mode )

New poster for the second "season."

( somewhat large image under the cut )

I may have teared up at the sight of it. It's that beautiful.

Taking drabble requests, since my plans to go for a drive have been temporarily crushed by the fact that the garage door is broken.

Comment with fandom, character(s)/pairing, and a prompt - can be a quotation, a song, a picture, a word, etc. - and I'll reply with fic. Crossover prompts are accepted.

As some of you may know, I've been very sick lately, with a high fever, but I'm getting better! and I'm now at the 'I'm bored of being sick and not being allowed to go out because it's cold and I might infect other people' stage.

I woke up this morning and no-one was up/here. I think my sister is still in bed. My mother is somewhere and I miss her ;__; I get very emotional when sick. That's why I'm putting off getting my results. BUT I WILL GET THEM NOW! Are you ready? I'm going to post them whatever *holds breath*

a little later: can't find them, shall keep looking. Maybe they're not up yet?
a little more later: THEY'RE UP TOMORROW ZOMG *very nervous*

brb, must call to cancel tutoring :)

A little meme:
We're all so close and yet sometimes we don't know the most important things! Ask me anything that you think you should know!
like... my ENTER (high school score - go on ask, it's amazing ;) )
Whether I have any pets, my opinion on religion, the world, politics, kittens, etc

Because I've been craving the ridiculous amounts of shopping that I usually do on the holidays, I've been looking around etsy!

( here is what I'm considering )

stolen from fahye:

What can I say? Both my parents love fashion (and shopping), and my father used to be in the garment industry. Looking good is important to me.

( style, shopping, and fashion )

MOON BATHING

The whiteness of fog
approaches a river.

"What does it want?"
asks the grass.

"What's it looking for?"
marvels the sand.

"Why doesn't it clear?"
wonder the stars.

But the fog waits
for the moon to emerge from the stream,
shaking the water off.


VERA CHIZHEVSKAYA

Translated from the Russian by Daniel Weissbort