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More international-release movies should be set in South Africa cos the accent is really cool.

( More, but you should see the movie first - no really, I mean it, you should see the movie )

I have written fanfiction. *poses* It's RPF and off for rewrites now. It's so nice to have a rewriter/cohwriter, you don't have to obsess so much over exact phrasing and the motivation to draft is much higher. I never drafted before either, it was always first take up on the internet and then minor revisions ex post facto. I can see why real authors do it this way.

Back from Europe and moved into the apartment! Suppose I'll just repost from twitter again, to save time:

( The best thing about this trip was planning the trains and planes and busses )

I realize that some of these tweets are kind of... mysterious... but there are some things I'd rather not write down where my parents might read about them, XD. But some other highlights were:

( more )

Hmmm, I suppose that's everything. My brother has pictures up to Belfast on his facebook - same last name, and first name is Alex, for those of you who know me over there.

I'd never been to a music festival before, wasn't sure what to expect, but Bamboozle was totally worth the price! Saw:

( These bands )

Korean BBQ in NYC tonight, followed by karaoke late into the night. absenceofmind is ♥

I have one. Thank you, Tari~

No invites to hand out, but drop a line if you're interested. The site opens to the public April 30th, but those without invite codes will have to pay. (Same as early days on LJ, though I wasn't around for that.) The moderators are also randomly giving out invite codes to people who sign up with OpenID, I'm told, so that is another thing to try.

Dreamwidth is a non-profit social networking site based on LJ code and fronted by synecdochic (denise on DW). She and a few other people have been working on the code since Strikethrough 07, trying to give LJers a viable place to move to in case our corporate overlords (once SixApart, now SUP) become too unbearable.

The appeal of DW is that you can leave without really leaving, since DW allows crossposting and - in theory - the use of authenticated feeds. (Meaning the ability to read your LJ friendslist remotely. Though I'll believe that when I see it.) I'm a little bit torn, actually, since I know from experience that I am BAD at juggling multiple site identities. Will have to choose one or the other and don't have it in me to leave behind certain people and places here. Currently adopting a "wait and see" approach. I do think that LJ will shut down eventually, but that day may not come tomorrow, or even in the next few years.

Here's some other Why Dreamwidth stuff. As much as I don't really want to leave LJ, I am psyched to try DW out, partly because I hate seeing ads on my LJ (and don't want to pay SUP to make them go away), partly because I've never been in on the ground floor of a "new" networking scene before and am looking forward to having input into the design/coding/policy-making process, partly because it's new and exciting, and partly because I'm suffering from (a real or imagined sense of) overshare on this journal and on some level wouldn't mind starting over.

Though as we learn from this metafilter thread, YOU REMAIN YOU NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE. XD; So I am trying not to make "new start!" my primary motivation.

Definitely not going to make any moves in one direction or the other for a while, at any rate. For one thing, I will be in on vacation in France! My flight leaves tomorrow. :)

Via summertea:

Amazon.com removes sales rankings from print books tagged GLBT. Also books with BDSM themes and (explicit) heterosexual erotica.

This matters not just because it distorts figures to make already marginalized groups look even smaller, but because unranked books won't show up on front-page search results.

List of affected books.

Affected works of classic literature include: Tipping the Velvet, Maurice, The Well of Loneliness, The Charioteer.

Affected works of nonfiction include: The Dictionary of Homophobia, Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America.

Affected self-help books include: My Husband is Gay, The Way Out, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws.

Though really it shouldn't matter whether a book is classic or not, nonfiction or not, explicit or not, A SUICIDE PREVENTION MANUAL or not. Suppression is suppression; manipulating sales data for political reasons is manipulating sales data for political reasons.

( three scenarios )

EDIT: ALTERNATE THEORY: trolls are responsible.

EDIT2: Statement from Amazon.