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December 23rd, 2009
hiverious
 | 11:06 pm - Just because a movie is 16 years old doesn't mean you can rip sounds from it! AlsoSpoilers
Having said that, if you can't predict anything that happens in this movie, you are either not paying attention to the 'story' or are in some way challenged.
You may probably have guessed I am talking about Avatar. It is a horrible movie with amazing special effects (so it's kind of like every final fantasy game after FFVI in that respect. early reports from Japan say that, unsurprisingly, FFXIII is another shit game in a long line of shit games that everyone seems to go out and buy).
So paraplegic marine Jake Sully (aka Jakesully) takes up his brother's position in a company as part of the research team conducting anthropological studies on the native 12 foot tall blue cat people called the Na'vi. His brother was killed, and he has an identical genome, being identical twins, so he and only he can pilot his brother's avatar (which is a remote controlled body created out of native and human DNA and grown in tanks. This is understandably very expensive, which is why the company dragged Jake to Pandora. I actually kind of enjoyed this part of the movie. Characters were being introduced, Jake had an understandable motivation to go - the job pays very well and he will be able to pay to get his legs back - and there's a touching moment when he looks at his avatar in the tank and says it looks like his brother, and is then corrected and told that it looks like him and is now his Avatar. Well, it's about as touching as the movie gets.
The rest of the movie can be described by paralleling it to Princess Mononoke.
( spoilers for both this and Princess Mononoke... )
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Current Music: Worse Than Yesterday - Tweaker
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December 21st, 2009
hiverious
| 04:22 am
So I have an excuse to come out of hiding. By hiding I mean not knowing what to write but being too lazy to try to answer a writer's block.
Memes, they are like writers block, yet some sense of YOU COMMENTED ON MY JOURNAL WITH THE MAGICAL PHRASE SO YOU MUST DO IT sense of accountability always seems more compelling to me than: here is some stupid question for you to stupidly answer because your stupid life isn't compelling enough to write about. BTW, you're stupid.
If you must know what has been going on in my life, you'll be left wanting. I will not type up such stuff in this entry as it is past 4am and I should really sleep.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) maggiebloome has tasked me with this!!!!!!
Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
( It's dangerous to go alone, take this )
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Current Music: Crude Sunlight - Tweaker
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December 19th, 2009
silentauror
 | 01:48 am - Thoughts on fic exchange feedback
This is pretty much an annual discussion, but I'm curious all over again. Give me your opinions!
Without wanting to be a big wanker, I'm going to go ahead and say that this line of thought was prompted by a story I read on an exchange which I thought had an absolutely brilliant premise and was poorly executed. It disappointed me. I loved the plot idea and I loved some things about where the author went with it, but I was wholly disappointed by how it was actually done. The plot points worked better than the characters' motivations, too. The people and their decisions did not make sense to me. It was weak, and no matter how cool a setting is, if the people don't work for me, nothing does. So I wondered about leaving a comment, and if I did, what I should say.
On the one hand, the fic wasn't written for me (I have posted about how intensely I did love the one that was!!) and I almost figure my opinion is irrelevant. On the same hand, it's the holidays and regardless of how well it came off, someone spent a lot of time and hard work on a story for someone, and is it really my place to come raining all over their parade? One the other hand, it was still posted in public, not emailed directly to the recipient, and obviously getting comments from readers other than the recipient is also a big part of an exchange like this. So I ask you: what do you do? Comment as excessively as you wish!
Poll #1500914
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 201When you discover you've just read a fic in an exchange that you didn't particularly like, you: If you decide to leave concrit, you leave it on the following bases:
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December 15th, 2009
silentauror
| 12:51 pm
OMG YAY!
After a supremely shitty weekend, it was the nicest thing ever to wake up to a completely wonderful holiday gift fic written just for ME! :) And what a fic it is!! It's long and plotty and detailed and complex and epilogue compliant and there's relationship development that's completely believable and utterly wonderful, and cool magic and utterly evil villains and I love it so hard! :)
Go, children, read Sudden Wholeness!
Header partially reposted from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) hd_holidays, which I hope they don't mind!
Title: Sudden Wholeness
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco. Mentions of past Harry/Ginny and Draco/Astoria with a smattering of cameos from Dawlish, Hermione, Kingsley, and portrait!Snape.
Summary: A series of magical murders threatens the future of Wizarding Britain, and the Ministry puts its top two Aurors on the case. Harry’s less than thrilled at the discovery that his new partner is none other than Draco Malfoy, but when the alternative is sitting back and letting his country be destroyed, he doesn’t have much of a choice.
Rating: R/NC-17
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warning(s): violent magical crime, snark
Epilogue compliant? Yes – all events take place several years after the epilogue of DH, though it’s seldom directly referenced
Word Count: 16,045
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