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2009-05-29 10:18 - Boobs With Superpowers -
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awesome post indeed!!! Well if this discussion has done anything its completely changed my perspective on Eowyn (and the rest of the female characters) in lord of the rings - thanks so much - its my favourite book and its great to see so much of it in a ne...
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2009-05-25 21:00 - Boobs With Superpowers -
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I think the point that Tolkien tries to make is that for anyone to want to fight - emphasis on want - there has to be something wrong with them. Fighting isn't something that healthy people look forward to, it's either something broken people p...
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2009-05-25 19:04 - 23 boxes of tissues on the Jellicoe Road -
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And especially renaming it Jellicoe Road – that really irked me! I think what I really loved was the way that everything in it was there for a reason and also because the big points or important sentences and moments didn’t stick in m...
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2009-05-25 18:51 - Boobs With Superpowers -
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Genuinely fascinating debate… I think Arthur’s point about her and Faramir offering a new non warrior model for the Fourth Age is a really good one but, for me anyway, the fact that when we first meet her she wants to fight and is brok...
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2009-05-23 09:42 - 23 boxes of tissues on the Jellicoe Road -
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Kyra thanks SO much for writing this review. Just finished it (was anal enough to get my cousin in Australia to buy and post me a copy because I don't like UK edition) and would never of heard of it if you hadn't written this. Fucking LOVE this book. It's ...
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2009-05-05 17:53 - Boobs With Superpowers -
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"Sure, this little lady can slaughter her enemies like there's no tomorrow, but that doesn't change the fact that the actual character model (which Blizzard designed, and I chose) is a woman who looks like she's going to suck your cock, not kick your ass."...
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2009-03-26 17:30 - Man With Pickaxe: The Myth of Canon -
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Hmmm - great article... I think the idea about the Good Fans and the Bad Fans pretty much hits the nail on the head. Whats so irritating is the way Rowling definitely encourages it. I've read interviews where she praises questions which are basically fact ...
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2009-02-28 16:04 - Battlestar Galaticaarrggh -
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Hey, sorry I took so long to comment - just started a new job as a teaching assistant and been falling asleep stupidly early every night (Hmph, missing home and away is definitely the human cost of having to work for a living)... "The final 5 have...
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2009-02-20 13:22 - Shut. The. Fuck. Up. You. Smug. Bitch. -
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"Well, not unless you want to ship Albus Dumbledore / JK Rowling" Oh god. The mental place I just went to was not a good one...
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2009-02-19 14:37 - Battlestar Galaticaarrggh -
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Yea, the first season was undoubtedly the best... Haha, internal consistency was a definite casualty of later episodes. I agree with you about Starbuck-type female characters. I think my problem with her is that the show and actress play...
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2009-02-07 16:19 - Shut. The. Fuck. Up. You. Smug. Bitch. -
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I think Dumbledore has just moved into my top spot for Most Reviled Literary Character. President Roslin from Battlestar was creeping up there but think this book has secured Albus in top spot for a while... why cant he and That Woman please go aw...
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2009-01-31 15:38 - He's the Shat -
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You see his interview with Jonathan Ross Friday night? Effin hilarious!!!
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2009-01-26 18:41 - A Commercial For a Conman -
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Theres a really good interview between Richard Dawkins and Derren Brown (who i am liking more and more these days) on psychics/spiritualists etc - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xswt8B8-UTM (sorry don't know how to link it properly)...
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2009-01-02 17:13 - Rapetastic -
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Hmmm... I really can't decide whether or not to go and see it, I hated the book but kinda love Robert Pattinson - he's so pretty...
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2008-04-02 16:38 - Wet Powder -
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"any future Pirates endeavour is inevitably going to focus on Jack Sparrow, completing the appalling development of Sparrow from supporting character to main protagonist which has been slowing happening during the sequels. Listen up, people. Jack ...
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2008-03-27 18:47 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -
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"JKR manages to have the worst of all possible worlds: hugely powerful wizard we should all be scared of who has taken over *the entire ministry of magic* versus one short-sighted kid with an expelliarmus." - exactly, and i don't get how she spent most of ...
