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You are Toshiko

It's tough being a geek. People walked all over you in high school, and you're finding that adult life, sadly, isn't so different. But without you, our computers would crash, we couldn't program our DVD players, and our plasma screens would be on the fritz. Clearly, you're a necessary part of the operation, even if everyone else doesn't always realize it...
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The meaning of life is a million dollar question. Let’s make it easier to answer by narrowing it down, and figure out the meaning of your life. What will your epitaph be?

... Okay. So *that* sounds like fun. Great way to start a stressful year: Write own epitaph!

... anyone got any suggestions?

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Now I'm totally sidetracked. Tell a goth to go think up epitaphs? Hello to the research!
Wiki about Epitaphs has a few interesting ones.
But the Epitaph Browser looks to take up quite some time.


Johnny Yeast
Ruidoso, New Mexico

Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising

1. Grab the nearest book. Don't search for something cool. Grab what's actually closest to you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own journal along with these instructions.
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Buffy's generic hybridity and tonal variation make it all the more difficult to isolate 'violent incidents' in the show.
Brave New Buffy: Rethinking TV 'violence'
Lisa Parks
in Quality Popular Television
edited by Mark Jancovich and James Lyons
British Film Institute 2003
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My desk is set up for Cultural Studies reference at the moment. But since my desk is right in front of my major non-fic bookcase, next to the first fantasy bookcase and has as one support the reading it now bookcase 'nearest' is always going to be a bit contestable even if everything is tidied away. Nearest to reach without turning? Right in front of me, non-fic, starting with the outsize art reference. Nearest with turning? Couple inches to the left, fantasy ABC. Nearest to my feet? Reading in progress, random assortment. And of course all the ebooks on my computer are technically nearer than any of that, just not so much grabable.

Five unusual things I'd never have known about without writing fiction, fan or otherwise



Trying to find many details from 1975 is the latest. Am left looking up stuff like when the first prosecution involving security camera evidence was. And finding timelines for all kinds of music. And like a billion other details I'll mostly get wrong anyway.

Previously there was Highlander fandom, and therefore enough research to fake an in depth knowledge of swords, metallurgy, and martial arts of several countries in several eras. And also my still ongoing collection of news clippings on naked people with swords and decapitations. There are scarily many items in that file.
And also all the stuff about lightning strikes.

And of course the various bits of research aimed at figuring out precisely how illegal character A shagging character B in a particular time/place/way would be. Is amazing how much that has changed just in the last half century, let alone trying to figure attitudes from the last five thousand years.

For Sentinel and now BtVS there is knowledge of spirit animals, and also oddly knowledge on senses that overlapped with research on my own Asperger's syndrome.

And for Stargate, BtVS, and my own edification, I have learned much about many kinds of deities.



Okay, so is more than five. But I figure is interesting how each fandom has different but overlapping research needs.

Titles of first posts of each month in 2004:

Livejournal
my icon, my tattoo
Oz wolf
Dumbness
Superman
Lonely Hearts
Essay on Janus
My Watcher Tattoo
Comics Again
Drabbles never stay that way
yaaay today!

on the same site as the rather handy free online Tarot readings, theres a silly relationship compatibility thingy
http://www.llewellyn.com/free/mabel.php
so-

beccaelizabeth & Methos
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beccaelizabeth & Ethan Rayne
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Rupert Giles & Ethan Rayne

Vibration No 9:
You are a very peculiar couple. ( Read more... ) It is important that you take up some activity together, like dancing, or a sport.

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Or magic?
Okay, I was going to say this one makes me a believer, but then theres the 'both love order' part. Maybe Ethan would love an orderly home, nice cosy place to go back to. But I'm thinking it would be orderly in that 'I know where it is' way that makes sense to no outside observer.
Aside from that I think that one actually works.
cool :)

this is kinda fun. watch me sit here all day putting names through it...

edit to add- I put in Rupert Giles and Buffy Summers, and it says "You both have a tendency to sacrifice yourselves for the sake others".
okay, this so works.

Ethan

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You're a Giles/Ethan shipper.
They used to have orgies in their hell-raising
days, and there weren't enough girls to go
round. Who knows which came first, the magic or
the relationship?



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