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dragojustine) wrote2007-11-26 05:19 pm
dragojustine) wrote2007-11-26 05:19 pm
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I was laughing so hard that breathing was seriously becoming an issue, because I am dorky like that.
I just discovered ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
history_spork. This is the best thing ever. I have huge brain-crushes on all three of the girls involved now. Seriously, I've been reading their stuff and giggling for like, 3 hours now.
From 300:
Their sporking of the 300 includes accurate commentary on Spartan politics, culture, and geography, critiques of the racism and bizarre facism of this movie, head-desking on the arms, armor, and tactics, and references to La Marseillaise, the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Leni Riefenstahl. Biggest brain-crush EVER. I need to friend them and go fangirl at them now.
From Troy:
BWAH! Also, because mocking Orlando Bloom never gets old:
Oh Orlando, we love you. Don't ever change.
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I just watched 8 episodes straight of Dexter. Y'all, that's a REALLY good show. There are usually a lot of problems with having a voice-over narrator in TV, especially when the voice-over is done by a main character. There's a big risk of just getting burned out on having that same voice coming at you all the time. It has to be really well written and really well acted, and yeah, Dexter is both.
Also, how crazy are their opening credits? Seriously. The kinky fetishization of the morning routine- the blade sliding over his neck, the floss wrapped tight around fingers, knife slicing through meat, tshirt pressed tight over face... it's... freakishly oversexualized to the point where it's honestly uncomfortable to watch, without once being anything you could object to showing on TV. Good show, people, good show.
I have things I think I want to say about the morality of this show, and the way it positions itself in a long line of vigilante fiction in Western culture, the ways it is both far more objectionable and far more morally clear-headed than most... but I think I need to save that for awhile.
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fleshflutter's Mini-nano has me on the edge of my seat. I am TERRIFIED for both of the boys right now. This is the most gripping WIP I've ever read, and I just can't stop thinking about it. Is it tomorrow yet?
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Prisoners in Camp Kim in the American Conservative. First-hand accounts of North Korea utterly fascinate me. It's just... a truly, inconceivably bizarre situation, one of those things that it's almost impossible to conceive of as existing in the same world as yourself, you know?
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Don't forget to let me send you a card.
history_spork. This is the best thing ever. I have huge brain-crushes on all three of the girls involved now. Seriously, I've been reading their stuff and giggling for like, 3 hours now. From 300:
cutecoati: Okay, I've really had it with all the sepia tones now. I can't believe this movie gets heaped with praise for its aesthetics…
fourth_rose: Well, the tradition goes back to Leni Riefenstahl, and I bet she would have loved it.
cloudlessnights: But there really is such a thing as overdoing the digital six-packs.
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cutecoati: A phalanx is a closed formation at least four ranks deep, basically a wall of shields and spears, not just some random soldiers standing pretty close to each other!
fourth_rose: And rule no 1: Never step in front of your own phalanx!
cutecoati: However heroic it might be.
fourth_rose: To balance that, the Persians here have never even heard of shields.
Leonidas: No mercy!
fourth_rose: Yes, we kinda assumed that.
Leonidas: No prisoners!
cloudlessnights: Because we are too understaffed to have them guarded!
Their sporking of the 300 includes accurate commentary on Spartan politics, culture, and geography, critiques of the racism and bizarre facism of this movie, head-desking on the arms, armor, and tactics, and references to La Marseillaise, the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Leni Riefenstahl. Biggest brain-crush EVER. I need to friend them and go fangirl at them now.
From Troy:
Agamemnon: I'm the king of kings!
fourth_rose: Sorry, that's the king of Persia.
Agamemnon: History remembers king, not soldiers!
fourth_rose: Pity there's such an abundance of kings among the Greeks that it's difficult to tell them apart...
cutecoati: Isn't Achilles, technically, also a king? Prince? Or something?
fourth_rose: Well, that means basically he's a countryside mayor like the rest of them...
Agamemnon: Tonight I will let her give me a bath.
cutecoati: You will regret this obsession with baths when you get home, buddy.
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Achilles: This kid is my cousin, Patroclus.
fourth_rose: Wow, incest and paedophilia!
cutecoati: That attempt to get rid of The Ebil Gay kind of backfired, what?
BWAH! Also, because mocking Orlando Bloom never gets old:
fourth_rose: Notice the total lack of servants for the queen of Sparta!Plus, they link to this little take on the Two Towers:
cutecoati: More importantly, we notice the total absence of golden apples which are supposed to have started the whole mess!
cloudlessnights: I guess they found that it was impossible to make Orlando Bloom give away an apple with the inscription To the prettiest!
Can you just imagine the elven table at the wedding? Imagine Arwen's poor elven bridesmaids trying to get off with the best man.
LEGOLAS: The sky is... blue. The trees are... green.
BRIDESMAID: God, it's lucky that you're pretty.
LEGOLAS: Also... a prince.
BRIDESMAID: Seriously, what is up with those portentous pauses?
LEGOLAS: Obscure elven... speech impediment.
BRIDESMAID: You poor, retarded lad. Come here and let me lick you better all over.
Oh Orlando, we love you. Don't ever change.
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I just watched 8 episodes straight of Dexter. Y'all, that's a REALLY good show. There are usually a lot of problems with having a voice-over narrator in TV, especially when the voice-over is done by a main character. There's a big risk of just getting burned out on having that same voice coming at you all the time. It has to be really well written and really well acted, and yeah, Dexter is both.
Also, how crazy are their opening credits? Seriously. The kinky fetishization of the morning routine- the blade sliding over his neck, the floss wrapped tight around fingers, knife slicing through meat, tshirt pressed tight over face... it's... freakishly oversexualized to the point where it's honestly uncomfortable to watch, without once being anything you could object to showing on TV. Good show, people, good show.
I have things I think I want to say about the morality of this show, and the way it positions itself in a long line of vigilante fiction in Western culture, the ways it is both far more objectionable and far more morally clear-headed than most... but I think I need to save that for awhile.
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fleshflutter's Mini-nano has me on the edge of my seat. I am TERRIFIED for both of the boys right now. This is the most gripping WIP I've ever read, and I just can't stop thinking about it. Is it tomorrow yet?------------------------------------
Prisoners in Camp Kim in the American Conservative. First-hand accounts of North Korea utterly fascinate me. It's just... a truly, inconceivably bizarre situation, one of those things that it's almost impossible to conceive of as existing in the same world as yourself, you know?
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Don't forget to let me send you a card.