Rjoyadet

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  1. I sometimes wish that sailor moon played the planets when the sailor scouts fought.

     I always loved Jupiter, from back when I watched a documentary on the planets narrated by Patrick Stewart (long before I realized that he was Captain Picard). The fact that Sailor Jupiter is my favorite Sailor Scout is just a nice coincidence. 

     

  2. I cannot begin to describe how happy hearing this episode made me. I never heard Wendee's interpretation but now have a better understanding of the short story. When I was introduced to this story I was told that it was a slavery metaphor. 

  3.      Hello everyone. Let me begin by saying that in the past everyone on this forum has been very kind and supportive of me in my endeavors. For this reason I would like to share a project that my girlfriend is working on. It is a fantasy series involving a mystical land where peoples knitted creation comes to life. Spirits of nature give you a gift of needles and spindles based off your talent and passions which are reflected in the color of your needles. For example, a gardener would have green a fisherman would have blue. This may sound wonderful but a government entity known simply as "The Ministry" has made the use of any needles (other than ministry black) as taboo of an act as say witchcraft among the Puritans. 

         Is it better to crush your passions (both figuratively and literally) in order to live a life accepted by the majority? Or is it better to be seen as a criminal to follow your heart? These are just one of the many questions that Talia faces as her parents sneak her out of Spindle to seemingly abandon her in the forest with only some bread, her needles and Chatter, A creature made from knit yarn. What will she encounter in the forest? who will she come across and what is their connection? Only the unseen that binds them all, truly knows. 

     

    You can read the first two chapters for free in the facebook link.

  4. I liked the way both old and contemporary English was used in the print version. Legend has it tha Tolkien would begin his philology class by recite the first 50 lines of Beowulf in old English in the holes that he would have a small class.

    When it comes to retelling the story I found the CGI fantasy movie made me feel cynical and depressed. While Michael Chrictons attempt to make it all scientific, made me dream about heros fighting larger than life villains.

    I thought it would be the other way around

  5. If anyone's interested, the award ceremony is being streamed live this Saturday night at 8PM PT at www.ustream.tv/hugo-awards. The pre- and post-game show (seriously, that's a thing) is being hosted by Steven and Warren from the Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro podcast.

    There's also going to be a live text-stream via CoverItLive, available at www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2015-hugo-awards-live-coverage/ if bandwidth is an issue.

    No word yet on if they're going to announce any unawarded categories ahead of time, so that people don't have to turn up and sit through the experience of finding out that no one got a Hugo.

    Watching it right now, enjoying David Gerrold's rainbow suspenders.

  6. Subject aside, there are many reasons you will never hear us review an Adam Sandler movie, my sanity being the first.

    He is easily my most hated actor of all time.

    I once was invited to an Art Crawl. The person promoting it was like

    "Yeah, there is going to be big name people like Kanye West and Adam Sandler."

    Right then about a dozen mental red lights went off complete with the Klaxon sound effect. If anyone wants to hear people rip Adam Sandler a new one I would recommend Red Letter Media's review of "Jack and Jill."