thoughts, vidding, saiyuki, Linkyness (Spiderman/XMen)

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So I was reading all these articles on metafandom (specifically bouncing off a comment on this one) on ability/disability and race and class and well. Yes, yes they do need to be addressed, but I'm just plain sometimes wondering *how* to even balance trying to display ability and race and class decently out in a diegetic world (ie. canon) that is most likely inherently flawed in that manner anyhoo.

Like, for example, I'd attempted at one point writing in Smallville, which means writing science in Smallville, and I'd eventually gave up because Smallville science goes against the grain of huge chunks of alot of what I've learned. When I write in SV's pseudo-science it hurts and when I attempt to write in actual science it makes no sense in SV's context. o.0 Perhaps it's not so surprising that I've tended to write in fandom's where there's a mystical element; 'cause I know next to nothing of magic.

Meanwhile, have been turning over in my head that long belated post-modern cyber-punk Saiyuki AU (because everything either goes back to Saiyuki or vidding lately); because
I've always thought that Sanzo was always in this wierd half-space of Nouveau Riche, 'cause everyone at his temple probably still remembers him as a 'river rat' (or at least that's how it'll appear in his head) except simultaneously he knows and he IS all blue-blood upper-class. Now factor in Gojyo, which...yeah. And what probably bothers him a lot of the time is how similar they are occasionally; I forgot what fic it was that mentioned that Sanzo had a little Gojyo-voice in his head that he tamps down firmly (I think it might have been hane's) but MAN, when I read that I KEELED OVER.

I don't know where I was going with this and I've got to post this and run, _{paper this thurday WAH!}, but yeah, discuss??


Vidding

Is anyone familiar with how to set up a Wiki? Or is willing to help set it up?

More Info Here.

(much apologies for the very belated pimping tzikeh!)


Saiyuki



See the thing is? Notice the border from the first page to the second.

See the one bed?

See Hakkai in the One Bed?

See Hakkai waiting up for Gojyo...in that One Bed?



See Gojyo stripping? (HEE! PIMP COAT!)

SEE THE FADE TO BLACK?? XD


::cough:: Mornings after are still awkward m'boys? ;D



Look! They're having a Moment! Over Gojyo's everything-but-canonical-ex-boyfriend!!! ::DED::

Fic Rec

(U. Spiderman/ U. X-Men, Peter/Logan) Sex pollen, non-con story; and usually non-con doesn't do anything for me, but liviapenn sells it so *well*.

"Peter tries not to use words like 'bitch.' Even in his head. Even when he's being Spider-Man. *Especially* when he's being Spider-Man. First because he really doesn't need worse press than the bad press he's already got, and second because someday Aunt May is going to find out that he's Spider-Man, and then she'll go back and look at all the news reports and everything, and Peter's really trying as best he can to minimize the impact of that eventual, inevitable smack to the back of the head."
Some Kept Safe by liviapenn


Various things of interest

- When wealth and poverty began: entrenched social inequality BEFORE civilization came along
- Scientists record eerie sounds of Saturn: Saturn is a haunted house! Almost like Black Holes singing to each other! XD (link awol, but will be found)
- Be careful putting human brain cells in animals, panel tells scientists: eGAD. o.0 ::shivers::
- Bacteria use your immune system to kill each other: it's like molecular politics! XD
- via xsmoonshine: Perfect Pitch in Tone Language Speakers Carries Over to Music, it's a study that shows it's easier for students with a tonal language background to get perfect pitch...

Comments

[coprime]

Oh, wow. That Saturn link has made my *week*. Now I'm off to force everyone I know to listen because it is *that* awesome. Thanks. :)

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::grins and bows:: np! =D

[chalk-of-doom.livejournal.com]

...One Bed to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them? Exact meaning of 'bind' completely open to interpretation, of course. Hehehe.

::is smacked for the (extremely) bad pun::

Yes, Saturn link is awesome. Love and cookies for posting. X3

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58 is mandated by the goddess Minekura herself methinks:

Read the intro then, check out the middle picture of this site karose found...

http://www.madkukkii.com/saiyuuki/sback/sback.html

[chalk-of-doom.livejournal.com]

::scampers away to look::

Oh man. Oh man. OH MAN. Just... the hands... and the clutching... AAAAAAGH. ::joygasm::

Minekura loves us, yes she does. ::happy squee::

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::nodnodnod!:: so much! it! just! there's like very little way to see it as anything else. XD ::wallows in the shippery joy::

[karose.livejournal.com]

Hakkai-Gojyo IS canon. As in, we-must-accept-this-as-word-of-god canon. Did you see those scans I posted earlier?

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ohh! I mean the almost-canonical-ex-boyfriend that is Banri!

And the Hakkai-Gojyo. 0.0 or 58KYUU

[karose.livejournal.com]

...Years from now, "58KYUU" will be a rallying cry at anime conventions around the world.

And sorry for misreading the first time. XD; SO out of it right now, dead on feet. But I still wanted to share that with you!


And Banri so was, at that. The subtext's there. Minekura knows we speak the language.

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is all good, and I'm SO glad you did!

_{Banri, ah Banri...if your eyebrows weren't already lost, Hakkai would've possibly shaved them off FOR you...}

[karose.livejournal.com]

One morning he'd wake up to find himself completely shaved (EVERYWHERE) on his left side, a humiliating tattoo on his flank, and a goatee scribbled on his face in permanent marker, right?

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_{in pink! ^.~}

Wiki info

[lapillus]

I haven't tried anything with Wiki other than using them as a resource but when browsing free scripts that my web host, lunarpages.com, has links to this one http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ showed up. Also this package claims to include Wiki capacity http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/.

The basic stuff they both seem to need are access to a SQL or MySQL database and to the correct build or higher of PHP.

Re: Wiki info

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ooo! thank you for this info!

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

*how* to even balance trying to display ability and race and class decently out in a diegetic world (ie. canon) that is most likely inherently flawed in that manner anyhoo.

I so hear you. Like 'Mexico'? Dude. Click off the physics knowledge. And anime fandoms, where characters apparently heal overnight according to the ep timelines.

Hell, Fantastic Four. I was kinda thinking of writing this one parody-fic for it, but I got side-tracked over whether Mr. Fantastic (the stretchy one) would have semi-rubberized blood, and how that'd affect expansion coefficients and strain on the arterial walls if somebody was freezing him with liquid nitrogen. And when you have disabled characters, they're almost always exceptional disabled characters, like Daredevil with his super-hearing. You only get introduced to them after they've learned to compensate and have reintegrated themselves into the world on their own terms.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true; the world is a mess, and so our analyses and workings within it are going to be a mess, too (and not just the source material world; the other world we live in too). But I always find the absences more interesting than the presences. So the fact that most sources don't bother to work out the rules of a universe so that other people can understand and follow them is awkward to me. This gets into things like the distinction between hard and soft SF, where some people care more that the science is accurate than that the story is good.

It's complicated, and I'll accept that sometimes it's easier to ignore things. I'm just curious why some things get ignored, and not other things.

[lyntek.livejournal.com]

OMG GOJYO SQUEE! XD (explodes ecstatically!) Thanks so much for posting this!!!

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=D who am I to refuse pimptastic!Gojyo???

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Man, Banri is so totally Gojyo's ex-boyfriend.

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::gigglefit:: so so is. Though Hakkai and him had a Moment that Gojyo totally misinterpreted methinks and oh! The tangled webs they weave! XD

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Gojyo and Hakkai, theirloveissocanon.

I'd attempted at one point writing in Smallville, which means writing science in Smallville, and I'd eventually gave up because Smallville science goes against the grain of huge chunks of alot of what I've learned. When I write in SV's pseudo-science it hurts and when I attempt to write in actual science it makes no sense in SV's context.

*nods* I feel your pain. Marvel science has moments when it's almost as screwed up as DC science (these are, after all, the writers who stuck an entire system of underground tunnels beneath New Orleans, the city where the water table is so high they have to bury people above ground). My personal pet peeve in the "I learned it X way and y'all keep doing it wrong" catagory is the theology (mainly the soul/no soul thing) in Buffy. I rant at Marti Noxon. I quote St. Augustine and St. Paul at the television screen. I fight down the urge to beat myself over the head with one of my vast collection of medieval theology books. And still, it contradicts half the stuff I learned in sunday school and college, and the pain, she does not go away.

sorry for the much belated reply...

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Their love IS so canon! And reincarnated canon too! ::glee::


My personal pet peeve in the "I learned it X way and y'all keep doing it wrong" catagory is the theology (mainly the soul/no soul thing) in Buffy. I rant at Marti Noxon. I quote St. Augustine and St. Paul at the television screen. I fight down the urge to beat myself over the head with one of my vast collection of medieval theology books. And still, it contradicts half the stuff I learned in sunday school and college, and the pain, she does not go away.

::giggles:: ohhh boy. Is it wrong of me that I can imagine this so very clearly??

::HUGS YOU::