This = possibly the best thing ever done with an anime opening song. Worth it even if you don't know the series in question, as testified to by the fact that I lol'd. The only thing that could have possibly made this better is if the same clips had been set to the Haruhi Dance.

It's improved even further once you realise how crackish the lyrics ( Read more... )

I feel like I saw (and linked to) a test/storyboard version of this back when it was in beta, but the finished version is a-freakin'-mazing. You know all you FF6 fans would have sold your souls for this as chibis.

Also, transforming Esper Terra animation omgyessqueeeee. Also, my version of Celes. May actually have to try and icon some of this.

I went into the supermarket today and saw Doctor Who branded yogurt pots for kids. They were "sonic strawberry" flavour.

Sonic strawberry.

I thought a few of you on the friendslist might need to know this be amused by the sheer lengths that marketing departments will go to to tie in a product and a theme. Lengths that go so far that the ( Read more... )

The best Talk Like A Pirate Day post ever, mostly because it doesn't actually involve talking like a pirate. Not that talking like a pirate is bad, or anything, but it's not usually worth linking to. This, however, is a wonderful deconstruction of viral holidays, pirate values, and the professed reality, or lack thereof, of the internet ( Read more... )

I've been slowly coming to realise something about fandoms and how they operate. I haven't quite pinned it down yet, but this is as far as I've got so far; let me know if you have further thoughts.

( Elaborate speculations ahoy! )

But then, I strongly feel that when it comes to it, Otherkin don't really have that much room to talk about fic'kin, and furries don't really have that much room to talk about Otherkin. When it comes down to it, it's all variations on "I see something of myself/something that clicks with me/something that feels right to me in X, and that helps me ( Read more... )

Well, guys. It's been forever. Ten weeks is a small eternity in Internet Time, yes? Somehow I... just fell out of the habit, I dunno. Long stories, longer trails of thought and consequence stemming off from those. But eventually I felt I needed to fight past the waves of guilt-over-not-posting I felt every time I logged into LJ (yes, I've been ( Read more... )

So a petition went up recently on the 10 Downing Street website, associated with a site called Stop The Nightmares. (You can Google those things if you're looking for it: I was going to post the link, but now that I've thought about it more, I don't want to encourage people to impulse-click.) I feel very strongly about what it's petitioning against ( Read more... )

So, a friend of mine just came up with a really interesting and, I think, quite lovely way of interpreting the whole concept of furry (and perhaps, to some extent, Otherkin, for those who see the idea more as a metaphorical expression of self than a literal reality). Xe isn't furry-identified per se, but does have some non-human characters/personas ( Read more... )

...it is really past 9pm over here? The sky is still blue. Not even sunset-coloured, really ( Read more... )