LotR rec(aka. Gondor has no clothes. Gondor NEEDS no clothes.)
::pokes
ponderosa121:: M'dear?
Wanna see Faramir's ass?? Or as
broknangel87 so wonderfully states:
A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.::leer::
Love the dimples. I really do.
Needless to say, this is not worksafe...
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Eminem rec(aka. The dark moody w00bie)
This drawing of Eminem pointed out by
inkbug is so incredibly incredibly neat. It's one of those things that I can't stop staring at.
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Good Omens / Dogma rec(aka. Their Love is so angelic!)
One Big Happy Pantheon a crossover by K.A. Rose
Good Omens and Dogma and all the insanity and hilarity of both, one of the best crossovers I've read and I LOVE it's brand of humor:
Aziraphale crouched down beside Ellen, and the toddler looked up at him. He cooed. "It's not every day you meet a Christ child, is it?"
"It's not all it's cracked up to be," Bethany said wearily.
"No?" said Aziraphale, letting little Ellen grasp one of his extended fingers and shake it excitedly.
"It's a complete nightmare, trying to wash her," the woman explained. "She keeps crawling on top of the water. Or turning it into grape juice."
(much love to
girlwithjournal for finding the link for me!)
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Pic rec(aka. The OMGWTF)
::pokes the
soft-serve gay ice cream crew::
Look at the second picture
here. I swear to god, Orlando Bloom looks like the bastard lovechild of Antonio Banderas.
(The first pic is of Sean Bean looking ruggedly outdoorsy)
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PotC rec
fabu has made
Will appreciation icons!
This is, shall we say, a little more than long overdue...ah, poor Will, it's either he's ElizabethInPants or the BornAgainPirate or the YoungJack, and really? He's
not.
His logic can be *just* as opaque and impenetrable as Jack's, only it's from a different angle. And, even MORE difficult, he's the character that changes the most in course of the movie, which means that Will is freqently inconsistent in his consistency. Will is in That State of Change, which I think most fanfics picked up on, but is therefore fiendishly difficult to keep the character consistent within
himself and
still accomplish all of a slasher's objectives.
Heck, I think it's almost as bad as the difference between fanon!Draco and canon!Draco...
And thus, the
Will Turner Defense League was dubbed...
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Random Pondering(aka. What's in a Name?)
Nowhere is it so apparent as in HP fandom:
DM: Potter!
HP: Malfoy!!
DM: Potter.
HP: Malfoy...
DM: Harry?HP: Draco!Both: ::SNOG!::
MiscCharacter: I'm going to call you Severus.
SS: You're touched. Really.
MiscCharacter: I'm still alive! You
love me!
...and, heh, I've done it myself. Partly it's the implications and history behind the names, which is obvious, but
that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet; Would it, really? Certainly the inherent
identity of the rose doesn't change upon it's naming, but the
perception of the object so identified does.
Example: some roses don't have scent, and others
don't look like the sterotypical rose. If given a flower that smells like nothing, looks like nothing you know, would it have the same emotional impact as a rose?
Another example: would Draco have looked at all redeemable if that very first someone or other hadn't declared him to be?
Which, in itself, is an interesting statement: Draco was not redeemable until someone
saw him as redeemable.
so it has been said,
so it shall be doneA name as identification and identifier, a true name, a false name, a non-name?
What's the order with Aragorn's multiple names? The nameless, kingdomless king that drifts in the woods.
That greasy kid the Half-Elven's daughter fell in love with. (Snape=Aragorn?, ::sporfle:: Harry=Frodo, Ron=Sam, Draco=Legolas, Hermione=Gimli, Sirius=Boromir?? XD)
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection
between naming and power.And what's up with our dear Agent
Sands? He wears his father's name like a fanny pack, or at least avoided exposing the soft-underbelly of his personal names until two rather important balls of flesh had been torn away from him.
(Yes, that was intentional.)
And our dear
El Mariachi, named despite himself? for himself? did he shed his old name like an unused shell? does he not trust to give his name again? does he not care what his old name is? Does he not care who he is?
Does he *realize* what people have named him as?
I think he does. And the near arrogance of it and the confidence of it is most lovely to see.
The man with no name? Or the man the
people named?
Name a thing,
and you'll have power over it.And what of the man who names himself?
Captain Jack Sparrow, despite his shiplessness.
Jack
Sparrow. except when...
"Jaaaaaack." Barbossa says to him, in dulcet tones of familiarity.
"We named the monkey, Jack."
...is a Captain, by any other name, just as swish
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...mehp, enough for now, back to being ass-raped by my assignments. (as for yesterday's thing, I ended up begging help like the desperate needy thing I am. =P)