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I got through quite a lot of anime last month that's for sure.

Anime

Sengoku Basara  - action, comedy - 9/10
Prince Of Tennis: Another Story ~Message From Past And Future - sport, comedy - 7/10
Prince Of Tennis: Another Story Special - sports, comedy - 6/10
Card Captor Sakura specials -comedy -  7/10
Tenpou Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi - supernatural, historical - 7/10
Casshern Sins - si-fi - 9/10
Tenpou Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi Inferno OVA - supernatural, historical - 8/10
Chi's Sweet Home - comedy - 10/10
Hitohira - drama, shool life - 6/10
Ga Rei Zero - supernatural - 8/10
Viper's Creed - si-fi - 9/10
Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou 00 - comedy - 6/10
Mahromatic Tadaima Okaeri - comedy, si-fi - 5/10

Video Games

Dragon Age:Orgins - RPG

Books

52. A Is For Alibi by Sue Grafton - crime - 3/4
53. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies by Jane Austin and Seth Graham-Smith - comedy, romance - 2.5/4
54. Contagious by Scott Sigler - si-fi - 3.5/4
55. The Little Book Of Twitter by Tim Collins - non-fiction
56. The Art of War by Sun Tzu - non-fiction
57. Just After Sunset by Stephen King - horror - 3/4
55. Greywalker  by Kat Richardson  - supernatural, vampires - 3/4

The novels for this game arrived yesterday along with the collector's edition of the guide book and what a nice book it is indeed. Mainly for all the history of the world stuff that is in the back, I love world building and seeing how much effot went into creating the game world fills me with joy espically as a lot of the stuff in here wasn't used in the game at all.Like what the different noble title mean and how they come about as well as a history timeline. Anyone planing to write fanfic for this game whould really love the amount of background info on the world in genral.

The book itself is hardback and has really good quality paper, the game guide is well written and the concept art in the back is beautiful. Really looking forward to using it in my next playthrough.

On a sidenote I finished playing through Sherlock Holmes and in the end I have to say I really enjoyed it. The banter between Holmes and Watson really made this game as well as the fan in jokes like Holmes complaing that everyone seems to think he wears a deerstalker all the time.

I always lose this website: http://www.imagechef.com

And I always spent at least an hour scrolling through old entries to find where I hid the darn website so I can share it when someone wants it. *pings brain* Remember to search, here brain. I will tag this.

A while back I was looking through a collection of brochures for different programs at my school and caught myself thinking "wow, there're a lot of women on these brochures!" Then I thought "I wonder how many there are, exactly," and counted. End result: 13 women, 17 men, and a few I couldn't positively identify. Hm.

I think part of the reason I thought it looked good was that they had women on the brochures for "male" fields (CS, engineering) and men on the "female" fields' ones (nursing, I believe also culinary arts) so I was expecting good numbers too. But there's also the male default here. I noticed the women. The men were to be expected. I remember reading about a study where men and women were shown videos of conversations and asked who had dominated them, and they thought women were dominating conversations when the time taken by men and women was equal, and saw balance when the men talked more.

Another case of that crops up in the apparent "crisis" in American Judaism. That most religions are and have historically been run by men isn't an issue, but as soon as one appears to be dominated by women, it's a problem. Note that the only man quoted in that article as saying that gender imbalance isn't a problem is speaking from a place where men are the majority -- that kind of imbalance is fine, people!

Have I mentioned lately that I'm tired of misogyny?

After looking through the list of movies due out next year I've realized theres more movies that I want to see then I thought.
They would be:
Daybreakers
The Book Of Eli
The Wolfman
Shutter Island
Black Death
Clash Of The Titans
Iron Man 2
Robin Hood
Prince Of Persia
Priest
Hereafter
The Death And Life Of Charlie St Cloud
Paul

Here are some pics of the toys I brought yesterday as well as the christmas tree we got this morning.
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NAME A FANDOM AND I'LL TELL YOU MY:

• One True Pairing Ship
• Canon Ship
• "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship
• "You are one sick bastard" Ship
• "I dabble a little" Ship
• "It's like a car crash" Ship
• "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship
• "Makes no canon sense but why the hell not" Ship
• "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship

I broke my glasses last night. In the morning, when I sheepishly reported to Mum what had happened, she told me I should find a backup pair (don't have one; it's been years and my prescription changed) and call the optometrist. Now, I am a logical person, but do not ask me to make a phone call if there is any alternative. I will panic, shut down, and become defensive. The only kind of phone calls I can handle are when someone calls me, when I call home, when I call somewhere I know a robot will answer, and when I have absolutely no choice. It's hard enough talking to strangers in person, or emailing them; not knowing who'll be at the other end of the phone is impossible. And it's not just that I need to make more calls, goddammit. I feel ill when I'm pushed. And nobody understands. *single tear*

Claudia Christian mentioned in a blog post the other day that a B5 director ("who had clearly never watched the show") had told her to play her scenes with Sheridan more "sexy and coquettish" and I had such a strong "EWNOGROSS" reaction that I had to step back and analyze why. I can handle all kinds of fic/pairings, even if I prefer to avoid them. But Sheridan/Ivanova disgusts me, and thinking about it I've come to the conclusion that it's because they're too much like siblings.

It's kind of funny, I suppose. I can handle all kinds of screwed-up pairings if I understand the kink, even if I don't share it. I can deal with non-con, power imbalance including parent/child incest, aliens... lots of stuff. And I'm on IJ substantially because I used to have a good friend who wrote and read Weasleycest, and while I wasn't into it I didn't like the idea of her ability to do so being restricted. But despite this, sibling incest remains one of my biggest squicks.

Maybe it's because I have siblings I'm close to, and the idea of people perverting that kind of relationship feels too close to home. But I have parents I'm close to, too, and I can handle parent/child type stuff. I suppose in the Sheridan/Ivanova case, there's the added factor that they're not related by blood or by legal definition, and I've got those siblings too and know how upsetting I'd find it if people ignored that and assumed that we were sexually involved. Ties in to the whole "a man and a woman can't be just friends ever" cultural assumption, which I hate because I used to be the girl who had all guy friends and wasn't into any of them, no, really, stop teasing me, Mum! *coughs* Tangent there. Anyway, I think there's another factor.

Actors are often treated as people whose job is to convey emotions, deliver lines, and embody personalities. They are, of course. But another job they do is play relationships, and they're often not as good at that. We've all seen a big romantic storyline completely fizzle because the main romance lacked chemistry. Then, too, parent-child dynamics on screen and stage often fall flat. But the most commonly disappointing relationships I'm used to seeing are sibling ones. Screen siblings, whether bickering or affectionate, tend to fail to convince. And so I guess when I see a sibling relationship I like, I really don't like seeing it taken through the "a man and a woman can't be just friends ever" cliché. So Sheridan and Ivanova, whose sibling vibe seems so clear to me, I can't bear to think of in a sexual situation.

(Claudia Christian, I may have mentioned, is brilliant at playing relationships. Yet another reason I love B5.)

Finally finished up the last of the Xmas shopping though still need to pick up a couple of small bits for the husband.
Also got a few things for myself including the first season of True Blood, a load of books and some stuffed toys. These being a Mammoth, a Sabre-toothed Tiger and a Vampire Bat. Very cool indeed.
Am dead tried now though as I'm really not used to walking round the city, we used to go there every month now we hardly go at all. *sigh*

Finished my second playthrough of Dragon Age and I think this one went a lot better then the first one as I got a lot more of the side quests done then I did the first time around. I also liked the ending a bit more it seemed a little bit happier then the first one. Next time round I'm gonna make all the worse choices possable to unlock some more of the achivments just to see how things play out that way.

But first I'm gonna try out Sherlock Holmes Vs Jack The Ripper. It seems like a pretty good game so far apart from the fact that the voice acting is some of the worst I've heard in a long time. The other thing that's a little off putting is that all the townfolk seem to have escaped from Innsmouth in the Call Of Cthulhu on the first Xbox. It's really creepy. That said it's a pretty addictive game as you want to see what happens next.

Nicly they have used the actual reports etc that were made at the time of the Jack The Ripper murders and I can't help but wonder who they are gonna paint as the murderer in this version.

Name your 15 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms.

1. Jessie/James (Pokemon)
2. Roy/Edward (FMA)
3. Kaworu/Shinji (Eva)
4. Hikaru/Akira (Hikaru No Go)
5. Harry/Draco (Harry Potter books)
6. Rock Lee/Gaara (Naruto)
7. Ichigo/Ishida (Bleach)
8. Leon/Count D (Pet Shop Of Horrors)
9. Touya/Yuki (Card Captor Sakura)
10. Ryo/Dee (Fake)
11. Ryoji/Main Character (Persona 3)
12. Dean/Castiel (Supernatural)
13. Wolfram/Yuuri (Kyou Kara Maou)
14. Ryou/Bakura (Yugioh)
15. Quatre/Trowa (Gundam Wing)

Inexplicable 10-hour power outage last night. The weather's not even bad at all.

I appear to have lost my computer permanently -- I set up Age of Empires II and now everybody wants to play. Matisse took an 8-hour turn yesterday, and when Mum starts....

Just found out they are planning to reboot The Howling movies. Not sure wether or not to be terrified. Maybe they will stick to the books this time and make some decent movies instead of the mess they made last time round.

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Just found out there are two Dragon Age novels available which is awesome as I love back story. The first is called The Calling and is about The Grey Wardens and the second is called The Stolen Crown and is about the previous Kings fight to gain back the country's freedom and is a direct prequel to the actual game. Both are written by David Gaider.

I'll be picking up both of them once I get paid next week along with the second Mass Effect novel that I hadn't realized existed.

Phoenix's Universal Laws of Computing:

1) Your computer is stupid, but completely obedient. It will do exactly what you tell it to do, whether or not that's what you actually want or, indeed, what you thought you were doing.

2) Your computer is out to get you. It hates your guts and wants you dead. You cannot let down your guard even for a moment. Save early, save often, and back up everything regularly.

3) Your computer can tell if you're afraid. It will do everything in its power to keep you that way. You have to show it who's boss, and that had better be you.

So I finished my first playthrough and got a fairly decent ending with Zavren as my lover and have decided to play through again. This time I'm playing as a human female mage and am well on my way to dating Alistar. I have to say he really is my fav character in the game as he's such a goofball.
I'm most likly gonna playthrough it from all the 6 starting points to see just how much things change.