Links; Saiyuki, RPS, Firefly, SV, WK

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sloooooowly answering comments and working through link folders again...

Fic Recs

(Saiyuki, 58) Very nice warm fuzzies. =)
Hushed by sherrymarie

(Saiyuki, 58 and 53, and 38?) Very poetic and lyrical and like watching skin rot underneath scabs.
And Sugar, We’re Going Down Swinging by hydr0phobia

(RPS, Viggo M./Brad P.) In which you hilariously see through Brad's eyes huge bits of Viggo's ::cough:: eccentricities.
In Which Viggo Imparts Ancient Wisdom and Brad Eats Big Macs by lalejandra

(Firefly) ::cough:: um. yeah. ::gigglefit::
Jayne Woke Up FAIRY by maryavatar

(SV, Clark/Lex) See, it's not every fandom that you can have a kid genetically of two dads and have it be canon...also, rageprufrock is an awesome writer and is writing lotsa sequels for this. Majorly good stuff, go see!
Conflicts of Interest by rageprufrock

(WK, Youji and...well.) Wherein Youji gets a stern talking to, by, erm, himself. Sorta. Little-Youji, let's say. ::gigglefit::

Ah, morning. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and all your blood is rushing to... ME!
Me and Him by cosmorific


Other Recs
- Fast and The Furious Fic Recs by movies_michelle
- Book Recs by viridian5
- Modern Fantasy List by rachelmanija
- elke_tanzer shares links. Actually she links to lotsa awesome stuff, good person to friend, if for nothing but her awesome, sorted, memories...

Thought Provoking
One more response to the Robin Hobb debate by crumblingwalls; from the pro-writer's negative response to fanfiction

metaphors for writing, again by truepenny; to which I extrapolate, vidding = blind-folded run-away-train-ride.

What makes Harry Potter the Perfect Storm of Fandom? by fabularasa; neat thoughts with reference to bards and storytelling.

Of 9/11 imagery and other such users of tragedy in art by cofax7; when does human devastation become pornographic?


Note Worthy
Face Analyzer - SO FREAKING COOL. It basically tagged mine and my roommates' racial profiles and pretty darn near the personality profiles too; it's interesting to notice that all the stars and most celebrities have very, very 'average' faces. Which makes a sort of sense, come to think of it. [edit] BEFORE YOU USE, you should notice this excerpt from their TOS, which mentions providing the information they might gather to 'third-parties'.

Fleshlight. o.0 huh, interesting adult toy. (NOT WORKSAFE.) (::blinks:: also, 'Mr. Limpy'? o.0;;; oh my flist...)

Comments

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I got rec'd! Thank you :)

(aka Moonloon)

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=D np! And that's so funny, I didn't even know you read my journal!

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

I backtracked from my site stats. I get a big ego boost hunting down links to my website ;)

[permetaform]

ahhh, I see! (heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that)

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::nods:: yeah, true that

[ladysorka]

That face analyzer said I was Japanese or Korean.

*looks at red hair, and Irish, German, and Swedish ancestry* ...okay then.

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o.0 buh?

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got some pretty wonky answers too. Try another pic and see what you get. :D

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

The face reader is pretty funny.

I tried a couple of pics and got: 100% Anglo-Saxon; 83% Middle Eastern + 17% Southern European; 20% East Indian + 28% Eastern European + 3% Southern European + 49% Anglo-Saxon; 15% Eastern European + 37% Anglo-Saxon + 48% Korean/Japanese.

I am very amused.

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heee! were they all different angles/contrasts or were they all roughly the same?

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Roughly the same: I tend to tilt my head to the right when I know someone's taking a picture. The real difference was if my hair was tied back or down around my face. Very, very odd.

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ahhh, if you have vaguely dark-colored hair, it probably affects the reading 'cause I think it does it by using contrasts...

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Blonde!

[permetaform]

o.0 am stumped then.

::high-fives you for the oddity:: =D

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

I am very amused. And very perplexed, because while people almost never guess where my family is from, the guesses are rarely this far off!

[niqaeli]

The first pic I tried it tagged me as 45% Middle Eastern, 6% Anglo-Saxon, 39% Korean/Japanese, and 9% Chinese. The second one tagged me as 100% Chinese.

I can actually sort of guess where some Middle Eastern might come from because while I am lily-ass white, my Dad is dark Scots and would get that from the dark Gaels that came from mixing Moors into the mash.

But, mostly, I think the glasses may be confusing the crap out of it. And I am so blind, so you'll never find a pic of me that doesn't have me in glasses, so.

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Ah, yeah, and I remember people mentioning that getting contacts apparently changed my face-shape or something, so I could see that

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

For someone who is regularly concerned about internet privacy I'm surprised you went ahead and used that faceanalyser site.

From the TOS:

"If you do not wish to have your picture or information about yourself viewed by or disclosed to others, do not use our Service. We reserve the right to transfer such information without your consent for any reason including and not limited to enabling us to prevent an emergency, to protect or enforce our rights, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party or in response to a court order or subpoena as otherwise required or permitted by law. In addition, we provide this personal information to third-party service providers who help us maintain our Service and deliver information and services to you and other users of our Service."

This site calculates biometrics and gives them to anyone who wants them - the kind that governments would like to track down terrorists but are proven to be really unreliable.

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::blinks:: huh.

d'oh. Need to read those things more carefully ::wry grin::