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Ugh. Too hot. There are a million things I should be doing, but instead I'm just going to lie here, because it is too. bloody. hot.

Fic Rec: Am prionnsa, an t-amadan agus na meirlich, by kazaera (Merlin fic).
Wonderful character voice, just generally wonderful characterisation, just enough plot to keep the story moving along, and to be perfectly blunt, nicely hitting all my narrative kinks (which, for those of you who don't know include both h/c and The Big Reveal). If you like Merlin, read this.


Also, a psychiatrist has knitted herself an exact replica of the human brain. How is this not awesome?

Yeah, I just updated, but this is so awesome it deserves its own post.


Atheists send their own message, on 800 buses. Seems a lot of Londoners have gotten fed up with religious advertising around their city, and have decided to take up their own ads. Awesome.

But US atheists are holding their own on the awesome stakes, with ads saying 'Why believe in a god?" over a picture of a man in a Santa suit. "Just be good for goodness' sake."' However, the Aussies are not doing too well - I like their slogan best of all (Atheism: Sleep in on Sunday mornings), but permission for the ads was refused. Not cool :(

But possibly winning, or at least tying, in the awesomneess stakes, is the response from at least one church. Not fire, brimstone, and threats of damnation, but welcoming the campaign as a way to get people to discuss God.

Public debate on religion, carried out on the side of a bus. I love it.

And all this is made even more awesome because I can't even hear the words 'bus ads' without thinking of Moonlight. Ah, fandom. Ever with the odd (and amusing) associations.

Prompted by fialleril's comment on this comic, I give you:

The Last (Sith) Supper





( Full image under the cut )

I love the Internet. There are photoshop tutorials for everything.

Micheal Palin for President

Ah, Pythons.

I was thinking about Star Wars AUs tonight, specifically those where Luke is raised by Vader. It occurred to me that, in this situation, I could see a lot of similarities in parenting style between Vader and John Winchester (apart from the Vader-being-evil thing, of course). No, hear me out.

Both are characters whose defining moment is the loss of their wife. This loss is the single most powerful driving force - no pun intended - in their lives. Both are devoted to destroying those who have hurt their family. Both have little tolerance of physical weakness. Neither encourage disagreement. Both appear isolated from 'normal' society. Both tend to be rather black-and-white in their views, especially of good & evil. John clearly impressed his moral universe - demons bad, humans good - on his children early. Vader tried to do the same, the first time he was face to face with Luke. Both want their children to carry on in their footsteps. And, arguably, both think they are acting for the greater good.

Before I get slaughtered by the John Winchester fen, let me be clear that I am not equating John with Vader, nor do I think he was an OMGEVOL!parent. I just think that, in this situation, parent!Vader could be a little like parent!John, amped up to the max.

OK, I'm extrapolating a bit here, and some of these points are debatable depending on your view of the characters, but still. Not a complete stretch?

And now I really, really need to go to bed. Stupid Olympics.

(deirdre_c, I think I need your Supernatural/Star Wars icon!)

Orson Scott Card is at it again.

Most of it is just the usual all-women-should-be-barefoot-and-pregnant-TEH-GAY-is-destroying-life-as-we-know-it-Jim bullshit, but there are a few gems that are just too batshit to ignore. ( Like the part where he encourages the married couples of America in a Holy Crusade against the government )

Um...

I'm really, really glad I never bought any of his books. I'd hate to think I financed this crazy in any way.

From ceresi

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.


1. Lightsabre. Double-bladed for preference. Although Buffy's rocket-launcher-in-a-mall trick is a close second.

2. Um... don't know about this one. What is the most suitable zombie-killing soundtrack? Killing in the name by Rage against the Machine, perhaps? Or maybe something by A Perfect Circle. Hmmm. Alternatively, some incredibly inappropriate classical stuff. Zombies falling like flies to the soft strains of Clare de Lune?

3. Wolverine. The poor, poor zombies won't know what hit them.

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For my own reference, the previous Journal comics on xkcd:

Journal 1
Journal 2
Journal 3
Journal 4
Journal 5

Ah, Hat guy. I love your alt text you so.

200 people freeze in Grand Central Station

Make sure you watch the video (it's also on youtube here, if the other link doesn't load). This is brilliant, and I can't be the only person flashing back to the second X-man movie.

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Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi flist ... Do Wookiees' have paws or hands? Neither the Star Wars databanks nor Wookieepedia will give me an answer.

Hmm. Neither really seems right to me, given their combination of manual dexterity and retractable claws.