Monday Roundup, 7/23 July 23, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in Art, But I'm A Cat Person, Fake News, Fic, Madoka Magica.Tags: Kristen/Olivia, Liberalverse, The Newsroom
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But I’m A Cat Person
Sunshine and Moonlight (art | Bianca, Miranda | worksafe)
Fake News
Pride Wear (art | liberal!”Stephen”/Jon | worksafe)
What Do You Wear To A Geek Wedding, Anyway? (fic | Olivia(/Kristen), Aasif | PG)
Ten Roads Converged (fic | variations on Jon/”Stephen” | PG)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
But The Din In My Head, It’s Too Much, And It’s No Good (fic | Homura, others | R)
The Newsroom
Review & reaction post for episode 3
Review & reaction post for episode 4
General/Miscellaneous
The Zombies Are Coming (commissioned artwork: cosplay zombie hunters)
Bikini Cutie (commissioned art: bikini girl)
Sun and Moon (tile background)
This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
Poe and Patrick attempt to have a non-violent conversation, and Sparrow’s mother makes her appearance.
Science!: fake smiles July 22, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in Personal.Tags: psychology, quizzes
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Spot the fake smile: twenty clips of people smiling, and you have to judge whether they’re real or fake.
I got 11 of 20 right. Ouch. I’m sure context would make a difference in a real-world situation, but still.
Multifandom Recs (weekly) July 22, 2012
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Harry Potter | Dean, Jusin, Hermione, Colin, OCs | G | Muggle Studies fic
In 1990, prominent Muggleborn research wizard Cromwell Albertson embarked on an ambitious project. Inspired by Muggle Michael Apted’s “Seven Up!” documentary series, he chose six students from controversial headmaster Albus Dumbledore’s list of Muggle-borns to be admitted to Hogwarts in 1991 and 1992 and went to their homes to interview them – before and after their life-changing discovery of their wizarding talent.
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The Nicest Place on the Internet
Hugs!
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But, in reality female breasts come in all kinds of sizes and shapes. These breast pictures are here to let you see normal breasts.
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Fake News | Jon/”Stephen” | G | Like America
Stephen slapped his mug down on the kitchen table after a long refreshing gulp and smacked his lips together in approval. This morning tasted like America. And he was ready to dig in.
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Doctor Who | OC POV | G | The God of the Blue Box
As the origins of mythological stories are lost in time, the stories themselves tend to get a bit fuzzy around the edges.
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Fake News | Jon/”Stephen” | PG | Extra Winnings (Drabble Set)
The titles are the themes chosen by :iconcolbertnsfw: for the drabbles; the pairing is Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert.
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Doctor Who | One through Ten, companions | G | Matryoshka
Being out of time and space isn’t just upsetting – it’s also very, very boring. Especially when the Doctor has to live it time and again, and the only person to help him out of the mess is himself. And himself. And himself, himself, himself, himself and himself. Oh, and himself and himself.
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Doctor Who | Ten, Donna, OCs | G | All the King’s Horses
A star empire is menaced by deadly creatures from the time of Rassilon. Will one lone Time Lord and a human companion be enough to defeat them?
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Doctor Who | Nine & Jack | G | Choices
Jack gets a clearer insight into his relationship with the Doctor when they run afoul of some Time Agents. Sequel to “Clues”.
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Doctor Who | Nine, Jack, Rose | G | Clues
Captain Jack Harkness never met a puzzle that he didn’t want to solve, and the Doctor is the most intriguing puzzle he’s ever encountered. Missing scene(s) following The Doctor Dances.
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Doctor Who | Amy/Rory, girl!Twelve/River | PG | This is (Probably) Perfectly Normal
The Doctor regenerates as a woman, River ruins some of the local geography, and Rory may or may not be wearing Amy’s underwear.
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Jeeves & Wooster | Jeeves, Bertie | G | Mistaken identity
“Might I inquire why you are in that tree, sir?”
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Lord of the Rings | OC, Aragorn, Bilbo, various | A | Magda’s Tale (WIP, abandoned)
What does the barmaid at the Prancing Pony do to earn a little extra coin? Read on, and find out. Features Breelanders, Rangers, Dunedain, Barliman Butterbur, Bill Ferny, Nob, Bob, and the various humans, dwarves and hobbits and other creatures who inhabit or pass through Bree.
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Stargate | Sheppard, McKay, O’neill, OCs | PG-15 | Four People Who Got the Job (and One Who Didn’t)
Further SGC/SGA new-hire interviews.
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Justice League Unlimited | team | PG-13 | I, Janitor
Okay, so maybe he isn’t saving the world. Still, it’s the best job he’s ever had.
Anderson Cooper, Jigglypuff, serious stuff about copyright and sexism, and Red Dwarf July 21, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in Fandom, News Roundup.Tags: copyright, feminism, history, Pokémon, Red Dwarf, The Newsroom
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Or, “miscellaneous fannish links of neatness.”
Buzzfeed compiles fanart of Anderson Cooper. Oh, hey, some of those are awfully familiar. (#15 is one of mine.)
“A Whole New World” as sung by Jigglypuff and Professor Oak. Or at least, fans doing solid impressions of them. The Internet: it’s a thing of beauty.
Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet about copyright and transformative works. A good overview of the subject.
“….during the teens, 1920s, and early 1930s, almost one quarter of the screenwriters in Hollywood were women. Half of all the films copyrighted between 1911 and 1925 were written by women.” Our forgotten film history.
Media monopolies: why “Mrs. Robinson” has been played enough times to air for 32 years back-to-back nonstop.
The high-tech digital makeup used to get one (originally buff) actor playing both pre- and post-superserum Captain America.
And the most awesome thing to break in the past few days: the new Red Dwarf trailer is out! A shot-by-shot breakdown, for anyone who wants to get as much mileage out of the tiny clips as possible. (*cough* Such as myself.)
Link roundup, on books and other things for reading July 16, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in News Roundup.Tags: books, Comics, copyright, libraries, words
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“When I asked him about it, he confirmed that, no, the museum didn’t print them. Because it couldn’t afford to. The Cartoon Art Museum is on such a tight budget that it can’t afford the cost of mounting a half-dozen extra labels on foamcore down at the copy shop.“
Fifty Shades of Grey and a history of publishing, including fandom’s interactions therewith. Read all the links for extra detail. There’s commentary on FFA as well. (And, wait — from not too long ago — “the trilogy has captured twenty-five percent of the adult fiction market in recent weeks“? What? Just…what?)
“The Nook edition of Tolstoy’s War and Peace (in its English translation) has been de-Kindled, quite literally.“
Century-old mummified frozen lobotomized corpses: the setup for a confusing question of copyright law, obviously.
Cache of five hundred preserved but previously unknown fairy tales discovered in a German archive. Archivists are awesome.
“In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files.” With associated video. If you want Internet in your steampunk setting, this would be the thing to base it on.
Multifandom Recs (weekly) July 15, 2012
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Doctor Who | One | G | First Love
I was prompted to write about the Doctor’s first love. Naturally, I can never do exactly what I’m asked to.
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Doctor Who | Four, Romana | G | Echoes of Gallifrey
The Doctor, Romana, lunch and an echo of things to come.
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Doctor Who | Doctor/Master | PG | Passing Notes
Were they passing notes like schoolboys now? Well, two could play at that game!
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Doctor Who | Doctor, Master | G | Paleolinguistics (The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Remix)
The Master dreams in Gallifreyan now.
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Beauty & The Beast | Gaston, Belle | G | A Dream Come True
Gaston is the epitome of masculinity, but he uses that and his aggressive nature to cover up his struggle with his own sexuality. The day he goes over to Belle’s to ask her to marry him, he breaks down and confesses that he thinks he is gay, but knows that the consequences of this getting out to the people of the town are dire and could ruin him for life.
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Book of Genesis(/Doctor Who) | Cain, Abel | PG | Omphalos theory fan fiction
That would mean that as Adam and Eve and the still-legged serpent walked in Eden, somewhere in antediluvian Mesopotamia, there already existed paintings — human paintings — in Australia and France. And those already-existing paintings already appeared to be many thousands of years old.
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Lilo & Stitch | Lilo, Cobra | G | Uncle Bubbles
When Lilo told the class she’d be bringing “her Uncle Bubbles” to class for show and tell, they braced themselves, figuring “Uncle Bubbles” was another of Lilo’s crazy pets.
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Labyrinth | Jareth/Sarah | G | Blind Date
Ten years after the Labyrinth, Sarah’s friend sets her up on a date with the new guy from the office.
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Sherlock | John/Sherlock, kid | T | Reignite
John and Mary have a son, Hamish, then Mary gets ill and dies. John, who wasn’t previously on speaking terms with Sherlock, moves back to Baker Street with Hamish in tow because he can’t afford anywhere else on his own.
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Stargate Atlantis | John/Rodney/Teyla, kid | G | And I miss you still
They live near the ocean now.
Children, loans, & health care July 13, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in News Roundup.Tags: Comics, omg sex, Politics, psychology, religion, women's health
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A new round of “the Talk” is becoming a standard: how to react when your kid discovers porn online. Must include “explaining what ‘acting’ is.”
“For the past 10 years, Waschbusch has been studying “callous-unemotional” children — those who exhibit a distinctive lack of affect, remorse or empathy — and who are considered at risk of becoming psychopaths as adults.” Creepy, heartbreaking reading about one family’s struggle with their 9-year-old.
“”As a father, you’ll do anything for your child,’ Reynoso, an American citizen originally from Mexico, said through a translator. Now, he’s suffering a Kafkaesque ordeal in which he’s hounded to repay loans that funded an education his son will never get to use — loans that he has little hope of ever paying off.”
Another borrower spends $23,449.65 to pay off less than $1200 of her student loan debt, and concludes that this whole thing is a scam.
“Yes, apparently when you shove through legislation that allows religious organizations to receive state funding, Christians aren’t the only ones who want it — an Islamic school was one of 38 institutions approved for the voucher program, which is a huge problem for people who believe religion helps children so long as it is the religion of the swamp people they are representing.”
“What exactly is Obamacare and what does it change?” via Reddit’s board with a most excellent title, Explain It Like I’m Five.
Jen Sorensen, the cartoonist behind Slowpoke, breaks down the dilemma of self-employed people and health insurance.
A chart of who gets quoted about abortion, birth control, planned parenthood, and women’s rights, broken up by gender.
Actual biblical views on abortion. Mostly in the vein of “this pregnant woman committed a crime whose penalty is death, so she will be put to death,” where the notion of “the unborn fetus is an independent life” never even comes up.
Monday Roundup, 7/9 July 9, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in Art, But I'm A Cat Person, Fake News, Fic, Madoka Magica, Misc Work, Miscellaneous.Tags: "Stephen"/Jon, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Erin Watches, Homura/Madoka, Mina and the Count, Star Wars, The Newsroom
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But I’m A Cat Person
Kara Lynn Attacks (final) (art | Kara Lynn | worksafe)
Fake News (/Star Wars, /Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Gauzy and Golden (sketch | Jon/”Stephen” | borderline NSFW)
Princesses Leia (art | Olivia, “Stephen” | borderline NSFW)
Republic City’s Best Fake News Team (art | Jon, “Stephen”, Wyatt, Sam, Jason, Aasif, Kristen, John Oliver, Larry, Jessica, Olivia | worksafe)
Not Sure If Breakthrough + Snowflake + Pulpit (ficlets | Jon/”Stephen”; “Stephen” and family | through PG-13)
Homecoming Queens (FINALLY FINISHED FIC | Jon/liberal!Stephen and family | soft R)
Mina And The Count
There’s Always Room For Jell-O (art meme | Mina/Count, Lucy, Nick, others | worksafe)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (+ Hellsing)
Homura + Integra (sketches | Homura, Madoka, Integra | worksafe)
…and she glows (sketch | Madokami, Anthony | worksafe)
Erin Watches Madoka Magica…With Friends! (The Sequel) (rewatch, with spoilers)
The Newsroom
Review & reaction post for episode 1
Review & reaction post for episode 2
General/Miscellaneous
Monkey King (art | Son Goku | worksafe)
Running and Jumping (art | Olympic chibis | worksafe)
This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
Following a long night of work, Kara Lynn wakes up with Jany. Cuddling and secrets to follow…
TSUKI NI KAWATTE OSHIOKI YO, and other stories July 6, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in Doctor Who, News Roundup, Sailor Moon.Tags: flail and squee
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New Sailor Moon anime to be released summer 2013! Simultaneous worldwide streaming! Plot to be more directly manga-based!
Photos of politicians and news-type figures as they were in high school. Some of them are downright eerie. You look at teenage Dick Cheney or Joe Liberman’s face and go “whoa there, you seem weirdly old for your age, because I’m used to seeing those exact features with jowls.”
This may or may not be the new SM series’ theme song. (Not with that music video, obviously.) The OP and ED will be sung by that group, at any rate.
Vastra and Jenny spotted on the set of Doctor Who for season 7. Mmm, reptilian lesbian Victorians.
But seriously folks. Sailor Moon in modern-day animation quality. Sailor Moon with CG-enabled action sequences. Dare we hope they’ll have the budget to do attacks in visual context instead of as stock footage? Will we finally get Sailor Saturn’s transformation sequence? How about anime versions of Artemis and Diana’s human forms? At the top of my personal wishlist is ALL OF SHADOW GALACTICA. ALL OF THEM. Also, some kind of Uranus/Neptune kiss. Also but honestly whatever they deliver will make me dissolve into a pile of sparkles and glee.
Have some bonus flail from FFA.
Aaaaagh you guys this is magic. MAGIC.
Happy Independence/Felicia Day! July 4, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in Miscellaneous.Tags: Felicia Day, fourth of July, The Guild, The Newsroom, video
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Reaction post to episode 2 of The Newsroom is up!
I’d been wracking my brain all week trying to remember where I knew Allison Pill (the actress who plays Maggie) from. Then I hopped over to YouTube to finish out season 5 of The Guild, and lo and behold, she’s playing one of the con organizers! Mystery solved.
The Guild, I must reiterate for anyone not following it already, is amazing. It’s a web series about an unlikely group of geeks from across the breadth of nerddom, who become friends while playing together in an MMORPG. In the latest season, our heroes go to a con together, and by this point the series has gotten big and well-established enough to fill the fictional con with actual celebrity guests, including Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee, and Nathan Fillion. (Though in that last case, entertainingly, it seems they weren’t able to get the rights to actually say his name, so the dialogue runs like “Oh my gosh! Aren’t you–?” “Yep.”)
In related news, some idiot on Twitter recently tried to blast Felicia Day for being a “glorified booth babe” and not “contributing anything useful” to gaming and geekdom. There’s a more comprehensive smackdown at the link, so I will just remind everyone here that Felicia Day is the writer and star of The Guild. Yyyyyyyeah.
And on a topical note, have a ridiculous patriotism-slathered violin rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner:
Because Felicia Day is also a concert-level violinist, that’s why.
