rambly update, butter w/ dill, and links

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So after submission of vids and insane Tuesday 9:30am to 9:30pm classes (granted with a 2.5 hr break) and essay due on Wed, rewarded self for finishing auction vid by (guess what?) starting a new vid.

Mind o' mine, why is you so one-track'ed?

Meanwhile, adrienne2? Bless you for introducing butter with dill to me, fried up some onions today, and CANNOT STOP EATING THEM OMG. Granted, I'm still at a bit of a loss over how best to use it in other dishes but OMG.

I gotta dig up my recipes catagory once memories are available again; I remember saving lots but never getting a chance to try them...especially hot buttered rum. mmmm.

See, it's all part of my plan to teach myself how to cook outside of my box (Vegan Chocolate Cake!); much aided by the fact that my favorite produce place sells these huge 99cent bags of produce. (me = student = cheap. is why I'm nearly vegetarian at home.) Not only are they hella cheap veggies, but no fear whatsoever of making a mistake and wasting food.

Speaking of which, despite how problematic Disney movies are sometimes, I'm really glad they went ahead and messed with the old fairytales. 'Cause yes, they are sappy happy, unrealistic, and often problematic endings, but you know what?

The girl lives. Not only that, but she won.

I mean, you have Bluebeard where the woman gets killed (or nearly killed, depending on your version of the story) 'cause of her curiousity. The Little Mermaid not only loses her voice, but is killed for being so ambitious as to follow her dream. Sleeping Beauty gets pricked by the spindle for a combination of curiousity and her parent's sins, and wakes up to the suckling of the child that she was knocked up with 'cause she was raped in her sleep.

I mean, not that it isn't good to have the darker and more morbid versions at hand; but just...I'm really glad that I heard the Disney versions first. 'Cause even if it does usually end with the dubious priviledge of being married to a vague Prince Charming, at least she won, yanno?

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Meanwhile, need very very desperately to start cleaning out my link folders:

Fic
- Save Me by daegaer (WK, omi/nagi) Drabbles of crossover DOOM! Also, Omi is looking for a wife...
- Nice Boys by harukami (Saiyuki, 58) Town gossip ;D
- Transpose by aliaswestgate (Saiyuki, implied pairings) mellow and lyrical and bittersweet.

Fannish
- (Saiyuki) Homo Sausage, it DOES exist! ::boggles::
- (HP) On the HP citystate by aubrem
- (SV) meret points out Lex's Teddy Bear
- (general) Communication Styles in Fanfic by pinkdormouse - is neat (for writers)

Funny
- iharthdarth - never fails to be amusing =D
- funny links via yxonomei
- Upton Tea via emungere - which allows you to personalize your tea's. So, question of the day: what tea would Darth Vader get? o.o

Note-Worthy
- Discover the hidden meaning in your name, good for a lark, though I find kabalarians more interesting/complex, probably 'cause it gives the potential negatives of your name as well.
- trensaddiction's thinky thoughts on Deathnote, Crime, Punishment, and Utopias
- yasmin links to many things.
- fadingembers' Very Comprehensive Vibrator Essay (of DOOM)
- via idlerat):

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Comments

[satora-chan.livejournal.com]

Woah. What version of "Sleeping Beauty" is this? (o__O)

*sighs* I wish Disney made cartoon-musicals still... Lilo and Stitch was cute, but still.

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I don't know by what other name it's called, but it's pretty much the version of Sleeping Beauty everyone knows, except instead of being awakened by Prince Charming's kiss she wakes up because her newborn somehow made it's way up to suckle at her breast.

...reminds me a bit of kangaroos, come to think of it.

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

*snickering*

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OMG BTW:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ignited/310819.html?style=mine#cutid2

o.o

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

*sputterflail*

O_____O

And here, i thought the beautiful original promo shot for Charlie (head down, brim of the hat covering mid-nose and above) was as close as we'd get to femme!johnny.

Dude. please GOD let it be true. please. GOD.

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heee, wouldn't be surprised man, though he's made that kind of insinuation (that he wouldn't mind playing a female) before in one of his interviews

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

*wibbles, tugs your sleeves* Oooh, ooh, I get to see Charlie this weekend or next or something--but we're *GONNA* see it. in theaters. and i like, NEVER, see movies in theaters.

nightengale is teh pumped. ^_^

additionally--yay for you people who know his interviews and can tell me that. 'cause i'm such a casual fan it's not even funny.

they had Pirates playing in suncoast; i thought of you. XD

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd call "having to be rescued" a win, personally. They are strong willed but always end the stories having to stand at the sidelines waiting for the dashing prince to save them because they are weak and have gotten themseleves into a mess. Despite their original desires and ambitions all the females in pre-mulan Disney are consitently proven to be worthy of marriage and nothing more.

[permetaform]

Well, yeah...Disney is problematic like that. But I what I meant was that not only that she didn't die, but she got what she wanted; granted what she wants and how she gets there is non-progressive, but at least she got it (and lived ::wry grin::). Baby steps, yanno?

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

Dill? As in the spice?

Steamed baby carrots lightly buttered & sprinkled with it.
Or a little on fish - whitefish or cod tastes a lot richer with it.
Instead of chives on a baked potato with sour cream

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ooo! fish! ::mental bookmarks:: was introduced to dill via carrots which was eye-poppingly amazing considering that I usually don't like carrots all that much...and I must keep that in mind for potatoes too, tho I don't eat them so often at home.

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ooooo, is GOOD with potato!

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

hee. glad to hear it. ^_^ *snuggles you* Dude, your comments, even the little ones like this, make me GIGGLE.

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::grins and bows:: =D

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I would just like to point out that most of the first versions of fairy tales that are known featured the heroine rescuing herself, and often those in her care. You can't just go back one generation and think those are the originals, since they are often the versions that resulted from male storytellers (Perrault, Brothers Grimm) getting their hands on the stories and deciding they were a good way to teach future generations of women proper "feminine" behavior. Contrast that to the versions often put forward by female storytellers (d'Aulnoy, L'Heritier), which were criticisms of the status quo and societal expectations of womanhood.

Which is not to say you didn't occasionally have male storytellers who "got it" and female storytellers who didn't, but Disney was only continuing the male storytelling tradition of reinforcing "proper" female behavior; his heroines win because they are passive, sweet, and obedient. It's only when you get to the Disney version of "The Little Mermaid" that this starts to change, and I think it's significant that a) Walt had no direct hand in that one and b) popular societal expectations had changed. Ariel could be more active and less obedient. She still had to be mostly sweet, though, and it was still her main goal to win a man and get married.

Also, the fairy tales chosen by Disney for his movies were all those that already had happy endings in at least one existing version, and those from which most of the truly macabre elements could be easily cut. There's a reason Bluebeard was not, and is not likely to ever be, made into a Disney movie.

Have I told you about my other, non-fannish LJ? If fairy tales and their history interest you, you might like some of the things I have to say over there.

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Oh huh! This is interesting, never knew of this...some of the back-forth you mention regarding the storytales kinda remind me of some of our class discussions regarding racial tales and the back-forth reinvention of stories. (like how the strongest parts of Griffith's Birth of A Nation were an outgrowth and reinvention of parts of Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) I don't know of your LJ, did I just blank and is it in your profile?

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Fairy tales are a passion of mine, so I have done and am doing a lot of study and reading of the subject. *G*

The other LJ is as disconnected from this one as I can make it. I'll email you.