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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #255 on: October 23, 2015, 02:47:26 pm »
yes I just recommended Twilight fanfiction to someone, deal with it

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #256 on: October 23, 2015, 02:59:32 pm »
What pisses me off is that Bella COULD have been good, there was material there. Someone with self-esteem issues who wants to be special, comes into contact with the scary side of the supernatural, is terrified but has the strength to stay there ´because of her love for Edward (which is actual love with fights and serious conversations and baring souls and fighting and anger and making up, not just OH EDWARD YOUR ABS ARE SO GORGEOUS YOU'RE PERFECT AND I CAN FIND NO FLAW IN YOU).

Just... Twilight could've been good. And that makes me sad and angry.

Hell, not even that.  Had she not been such a blank slate, Bella Swan would've made an amazing villain.  This ultimately selfish, manipulative, Machiavellian young woman stringing men along for kicks and backing her choice man into a corner from which the only possible escape is to marry her into an unloving, controlling relationship.  If it wouldn't taint my name, I'd be tempted to make a fanfic where Bella is only barely reinterpreted to be the main antagonist of the Twilight series.
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #257 on: October 23, 2015, 11:28:48 pm »
I think I need to go to bed or a drink, came across a Paultard suggesting  unionzation of the workforce rather than minimum wage, who isn't aware how LOLibertations enjoy union busting as a past time
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #258 on: October 23, 2015, 11:35:20 pm »
I think I need to go to bed or a drink, came across a Paultard suggesting  unionzation of the workforce rather than minimum wage, who isn't aware how LOLibertations enjoy union busting as a past time

Really, a Ron Paul supporter promoting unionization? I don't get how that's even possible.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #259 on: October 25, 2015, 11:03:51 am »
The best poem I've heard this year:

"The truth is out there"

Somewhere beyond the cosmos.

But I will never see it.

I'm not going out there, because it's cold outside.

[Rough translation from the original Finnish poem. Can't find the original so I had to do it from memory.]
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #260 on: October 28, 2015, 09:58:04 am »
Do any Aussies refer to cotton candy as fairy floss?
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #261 on: October 28, 2015, 10:47:07 am »
Yeah, that's what it's called over here.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #262 on: November 03, 2015, 09:12:13 am »
I have a habit of thinking about alternate universes to works of fiction. Like, what would be different if thing X got changed, what are the implications of character A actually being in the circumstances of character B and vice-versa...

Recently, I've been thinking about a gender-reversed Revolutionary Girl Utena. Like, a young man who calls himself a "princess" and presents femininely ends up embroiled in a series of duels for the hand of a Rose Groom... how would the commentaries on gender and the concept of "princess" be different? How would the character motivations be different? It boggles the mind.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #263 on: November 03, 2015, 05:55:22 pm »
There's an interesting theory running around tumblr about how fictional characters actually become real when they die in their books.

Ironbite-which means Voldemort is running around here somewhere.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #264 on: November 03, 2015, 06:47:48 pm »
So theoretically, I could write a character who's a billionaire and irresistably compelled to give all of his money to me and only me, kill him off and wait for the billions to roll in, right?

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #265 on: November 03, 2015, 06:54:43 pm »
Yes.  But you'll be old and gray by the time he gets those billions.

Ironbite-cause he'll be a baby.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #266 on: November 03, 2015, 07:14:28 pm »
Eh, better than nothing.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #267 on: November 03, 2015, 07:34:07 pm »
There's an interesting theory running around tumblr about how fictional characters actually become real when they die in their books.

Ironbite-which means Voldemort is running around here somewhere.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #268 on: November 03, 2015, 08:06:15 pm »
There's an interesting theory running around tumblr about how fictional characters actually become real when they die in their books.

Ironbite-which means Voldemort is running around here somewhere.

Let me know if you bump into Aeris.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #269 on: November 03, 2015, 08:07:06 pm »
Hell, this gives me an idea.

Tim was rich. Rich beyond most people's wildest dreams. At the age of five years old, he inherited not only a vast fortune worth billions, possibly trillions, from his late parents, but through some clever legal manipulation on their part, was granted full control over this fortune, as though he was a legal adult. However, Tim possessed a strange quirk. He desired, nay, was compelled in the strongest possible way to give it all away to single man he'd never even met. He knew not why, only that if he didn't do it soon, he would lose all grip on his sanity. He didn't know his name, only that he was a regular poster of FQA under the username "Art Vandelay". Tim knew not why he felt this need, but he knew he had to do it, no matter the cost. His very life depended on it.

The very next day, the transfer was completed, and Tim, though now orphaned and destitute, was finally happy. Unfortunately, that afternoon, he was glassed by a deranged homeless man and left to bleed out in the gutter. He died in severe agony several hours later.

The end.

Right, now if Tumblr is correct, I will be a trillionaire in just five years. Now we play the waiting game.
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