Housekeeping [ Posted on December 24, 2009 @ 9:37 am ] mystickeeper [ mood | productive ] There is this business of Dreamwidth. This post is not about my own posting habits (I have yet to utilize my DW account for regular posting), but rather about the way in which I follow you people. Because I have friended many people both here and on Dreamwidth, I frequently become annoyed when I go to DW, as many posts there are ones I've already read here, and it is irritating to sort through them to find the ones I haven't read yet. I hope to solve this problem with a poll. You are of course welcome to leave comments to this post, advising me where best to read you. Whether I follow you on DW or LJ, you will not lose "access" to my private posts in any way. However, I wish to only follow *your* posts in one place: LiveJournal or Dreamwidth. And for the record, my public posts are still cross-posted to my blog, which is where this business began in the first place, almost a decade ago. ETA: I have answered the poll myself for anyone wishing to confirm my own habits! Poll #1503067 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23 Do you have a Dreamwidth account? View Answers Yes 19 (82.6%) No 4 (17.4%) If so, are we friends on DW, or do I need to seek you out? View Answers Yes, we're friends 11 (64.7%) No, so I'll comment on this post with my DW handle 6 (35.3%) No, and I wish to only friend you on LJ 0 (0.0%) Are the posts that appear on DW identical to the posts that appear on LJ? View Answers Yes 6 (35.3%) No, there are posts on LJ that aren't on DW 7 (41.2%) No, there are posts on DW that aren't on LJ 3 (17.6%) I have posts unique to both platforms, just piss you off 1 (5.9%) In what location does most of the comment conversation take place? View Answers Dreamwidth 6 (30.0%) LiveJournal 11 (55.0%) It's about evenly split, so follow me in either place 3 (15.0%) laugh along (23) have a smile?

Avatar [ Posted on December 19, 2009 @ 4:29 pm ] mystickeeper [ mood | discontent ] I think I can explain what I didn't like about Avatar enough without spoiling anything. I liked the protagonist (mostly) and I liked the graphics. But I feel like this is James Cameron's "I just watched an anime and now I'm going to make a movie!" I cringed with apprehension in the first 5 minutes, and the loosened up over the next 30. By the end I was shuddering repeatedly with James Cameron's self-righteousness. This movie could also be titled, OMG GEORGE BUSH IS SO EVIL! I WILL SPEND $300,000,000 TO EXPLAIN WHY!! There could be a lot of interesting discussion on bodies in this movie, and obviously race. I look forward to the response of fandom. I recommend the write-up by nihilistic_kid, although it spoils everything if you're concerned about things like that. Overall: It was not as squicky as I thought it would be, but I was underwhelmed/annoyed by the heavy-handedness and refusal to go a lot deeper. laugh along (9) have a smile?

Media [ Posted on December 13, 2009 @ 9:37 am ] mystickeeper I thought that I was in a book-bouncing phase....I read Hammered by Elizabeth Bear but then had no desire to read Scardown or Worldwired. [I am only now to the point where I think I can try to read her books objectively.] I tried reading Nancy Farmer's The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm for beer_marmalade and for some reason, I just can't keep going - I really dislike it and I don't know why. But on Wednesday I breezed through Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and now I am 100 pages into Kushiel's Dart which I like a lot, but is quickly becoming a "don't read on the bus" book. I watched the movie "Heathers" last night and I don't have much to say about it except that I loved it a lot. I think Winona Ryder is one of my favorite actresses. Lastly, I went to request some Buffy DVDs from the public library and was pleasantly surprised to see how many people currently have discs checked out or requested. Buffy lives! laugh along (2) have a smile?

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