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What's new and exciting today will be dull old news tomorrow. Who goes and buys a movie they already have just because it's - gasp! - on DVD?

*sigh*

I think I'm some sort of admin. (JulyFlame definitely is one, since she created the wiki.) I've had a very brief look at your site, and I do wonder if you could tell me how to fix the infoboxes so that, in instances where the category names are long and the line wraps (such as "Home Continuum:"), the data lines up with the colon. Basically, instead of looking like this:

Home         Middle-earth
Continuum:

It should look like this:

Home
Continuum: Middle-earth

And any other such tricks and tips. I'm interested in knowing how these things work myself, not just borrowing from others. So far I've taught myself how to do everything from formatting to making infoboxes to making disambig tags from scratch, and I don't plan to stop doing things that way. {= )

~Neshomeh

He seems really talented, in fact. I was responding to his remarks in the comments on the movie remake thing.

I also have no stake in whether anyone likes or dislikes "Avatar." What annoys me is that people rag on it because of its message, like the message itself is a bad thing, which makes no sense to me.

~Neshomeh, clarifying.

...I really like this guy's stuff, but I respect your opinion.

(Personally, I'm pretty neutral about Avatar. I don't love it or hate it, really.)

Seconding doctorlit, first of all. I like "Flight of the Navigator." If they could take the same story and present it with nice effects, that would be okay, but you know that isn't what they're planning. No. So it's going to stripped (of its charm), polished (a flaming urple), and then rammed down our throats with the rest of the tripe.

Second--and this is actually unrelated--I get the impression that ~jarredspekter has no soul. How does he get off deriding "Avatar" for having a cynical, bitter message and then turning around and claiming it has no story and no point? This does not compute. Especially not when he's doing this in comparison to "Terminator" (which actually has the SAME MESSAGE, if you ask me; at least in part).

Jerk.

~Neshomeh, who can't understand why the ideas of tolerance and responsibility for our world, in any packaging, are so offensive to some people.

I have three missions and an interlude that I need to request betas for. All of the missions are Sherlock Holmes. The thing I need the most help with is grammar, but any comments on content are also welcome. I put the HTML tags into the Google Docs, so those are in there. If anyone is willing to take any of these, please let me know. Thank you.

1. Is an Interlude where Kelok and Unger are transferred to the All-Purpose Department.
2nd Interlude

2. Is a Improbable AU, Transdimensional Snatching, Victorian-fast-biohazard!zombie, Holmes/Watson slash thing. *NSFW*
5th Mission

3. Is a domestic abuse equals love, seme-uke, thing with glodawful grammar and a plot of pure nonsense. Rated T. I'll mark it NSFW just to be safe. Shout out to FicPsych in the mission as the characters are declared to not quite be replacements.
6th Mission

4. Is an improbable AU that is most definitely NSFW/NSFB. In this I fic, Holmes is the Me-Priest, Watson is an evil seducer (read rapist) who wants the Priest.
*There is a new recruit in this mission that will be up for adoption.*
7th mission

Danny Phantom and Avatar:The Last Airbender were both pretty good. I especially liked the way that Avatar looked. Both of those tend toward more realism, well Danny Phantom at least has more realism than the shows I hate so much.

Sponge bob is fun and Kim Possible is not bad either. I'm sure I was being too broad in my statements earlier. I don't hate all the new stuff.

Oh, and I love Stitch! I had forgotten that they made a television program of Stitch, but I do remember that now.

Remaking...Flight of the Navigator?

They will pay. They will all pay.

*people start dying*

Manliness is overrated when hot chocolate is on the line.

Enjoy!

Lleu Llaw Gyffes

I enjoyed The Three Musketeers, though I've not read anything else by Dumas. And Pratchett is also a favourite of mine, though I've never visited the fandom. There are several others there I've read, though not for years. My pleasure-reading has suffered in recent years.

Beren+Luthien vs. Bella+Edward? No contest whatsoever. The Lay of Lethian is my favourite love story in all the literature I've ever read and I despise Twilight and all that it stands for, though, so I'm possibly a little biased.

Nice to meet you too! :)

But that could be just me. I was sad when Disney announced that Home on the Range would be their last 2-D movie ever, and was mildly elated when that didn't turn out to be the case. That said, I don't want to debate this.

...Danny Phantom, Fairly Odd Parents (mostly the earlier seasons), Meet the Robinsons (despite its Fride Logic), Bolt, and Avatar: The Last Airbender(which was produced in the west) into that paragraph. But like I said, I don't want to start a debate, especially when I can see what you're coming from.

Also, I have another complaint about the upcoming movie. Why the mix of live-action and CGI? Just full CGI would do. Why not have the Human characters be 3-D too, as well as something resembling their original cartoonish selves? I liked the original Ranger Smith better than the actor posing as him.

While I admit I was never a big fan of Yogi Bear (or much of the cartoons from the 60's/70's, I don't think I'd watch this.

And why are so many movies nowadays in 3D? It's probably just a fad that will eventually end, but for now, it's just annoying.

I think this sums it up: http://psychodemonfox.deviantart.com/favourites/#/d2p1qoi

(By the way, chech out the rest of this guy's stuff, it's quite interesting.)

I liked what cartoons from the 2000's I saw (2003 Ninja Turtles, Spongebob, Brandy and Mr Whiskers), while I found that what 90's cartoons I watched as a kid weren't as good as I tought upon rewatching (with exceptions). But I don't want to start a debate, I just want to state my views on things.

However, I do not like the Yogi Bear movie. I like CGI, but this looks like an example of doing it wrong. Dead wrong.

I couldn't possible hate someone who is going through such a horrible thing.

I propose a toast to you.

*swigs wine along with you*

Meh, I'm no admin

I find it tends to happen particularly if I've spent some time away from the fandom.

It's as though you go away, come back and suddenly somebody's post a truck load of rubbish all over your favourite fandom.
I've got a feeling though, that the truth is that Bleeprin has managed to erase most of the potentially insanity-inducing fanfic from the time before so I'm never quite ready for the shock when I return from my break.

I know that aff.net is a walking disaster zone but....

The Music in My Heart by Sorsha
Returned to Middle-earth by the Valar, Elrond battles a new claimant to the title of dark lord. With the aid of a beautiful seer, the daughter of his closest friend Erestor, he sets out on a mission of mercy long overdue. Elrond/OFC M/F, M/M, AU

http://lotr.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544183934

Does anyone know if the PPC has interred this darling Sue yet? I looked on PPC Wiki but couldn't find anything.
Thanks
Makayla

I hate almost all of the children's television programming from the last decade. The characters are stupid looking, just plain stupid or both. They are disgusting to look at, never mind what they are doing.

We don't have live TV (mostly the cost, but this is an added bonus). We buy old cartoons for the kids on DVD. They love GI Joe, the original Transformers, Inspector Gadget, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, 90's Spider Man, X-Men, and Batman. They even like really old stuff like Popeye and Tom & Jerry (which admittedly those two are just about as dumb as some of the stuff on now).

They're little friends who do have live TV will come to our house to watch these shows. Kids still like this old stuff.

I loved the 90's shows that had people drawn to look like people, and backgrounds drawn to look as realistic as possible. Most stuff now looks like a Kindergartner drew it.

I shall call her dog for the purpose of confusion.

I love the old 2D movies, even the cheesy Disney ones. No matter what anyone says, the original Disney stuff was good, along with the rest of its ilk. (Brave Little Toaster, anyone?)

Kids' stuff now is... almost creepy. I mean, yes, there's this, and it's teetering on the edge of the Uncanny Valley--but there's this one show called the Backyardigans. I think they're supposed to be farm animals? I can't tell if one's a bird or a fish. Or maybe it's a pig... No, I think it's a snail. Yes, it does look rather like a claymation blob given eyes.

It seems that people are forsaking quality and story for the sake of flashy 3D. Sometimes the 3D isn't even all that flashy--sometimes it's downright disturbing. I mean... Donkey Ollie. DONKEY FREAKING OLLIE. That thing gave my friend nightmares.... -gulps Bleeprin- Augh. Sorry. I think that thing scarred me permanently.

...I'm ranting, aren't I. I'll stop now.

...as I have been in the Oblivion of No Internet for a week. I wouldn't reply, but I didn't want you to hate me =(
*swigs Eleven wine*