Sunday, May 26, 2013

Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Monday
5 AM* - Mark Reads First Test - Chapter 9
8 AM - Mark Watches Dead Like Me - 2x12 Forget Me Not
10 AM - Mark Watches Commissions of the Week:
                Stargate SG-1 - 7x21 Lost City Part I
               Stargate SG-1 - 7x22 Lost City Part II
               Stargate Atlantis - 1x01 Rising Part I
               Stargate Atlantis - 1x02 Rising Part II
1 PM - Mark Watches Friday Night Lights - 2x01 Last Days of Summer

Tuesday
5 AM - Mark Reads Blackout - Chapter 38
8 AM - Mark Watches Dead Like Me - 2x13 Last Call
1 PM - Mark Watches The West Wing - 2x02 In the Shadow of Two Gunmen Part II

Wednesday
5 AM - Mark Reads First Test - Chapter 10
8 AM - Mark Watches Dead Like Me - 2x14 Always
1 PM - Mark Watches Friday Night Lights - 2x02 Bad Ideas

Thursday
5 AM - Mark Reads Blackout - Chapter 39
8 AM - Mark Watches Dead Like Me - 2x15 Haunted
1 PM - Mark Watches The West Wing - 2x03 The Midterms

Friday
5 AM - Mark Reads First Test - Chapter 11
8 AM - MW Dead Like Me - Life After Death
1 PM - Mark Watches Friday Night Lights - 2x03 Are You Ready For Friday Night?

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Spoils Writes Discussion thread

I'll write up a thing about my ideas when I get a moment (and explaining to everyone not on tumblr exactly what we are doing.)
92 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Forever_Brite has Fandom Sims
With the new season of Arrested Development today, I thought this would be a good time to show off my Arrested Development Sims.

For this post (more to come in the reply), I thought I'd just show them as they were when created:



I thought it was awfully prescient of the game to create a family screen where Oscar was holding Baby Buster, even though technically I had to make all the kids be Lucille/George's kids.
3 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Official Arrested Development season 4 thread
Spoilers for the entire season in reply
28 replies · active 620 weeks ago
Tim watches The X-Files
11 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Alice watches Star Trek TOS

Yep, this is happening now! I’m super stuck on playing Mass Effect 3, and though I’m keeping up with The West Wing, I’m getting that itchy feeling that means I haven’t watched anything with spaceships in it for too long.

And guess what self-confessed sci-fi nerd has never seen a single episode of Star Trek The Original Series all the way through? Me! Though I have seen some of the movies, so I’m not a total newb.

So in the interests of full disclosure, here’s what I know:

- The basic premise of the show
- The names of all the main characters, and their basic personalities
- Anything that’s mentioned in later series like Voyager or TNG (for example I know the names of alien races like the Klingons and Romulans)
- People with red shirts die a lot
- Kirk and Spock have an epic subtextual romance thing going on
- Tribbles are a thing

I expect it to be more episodic than most shows anyway, so I guess there won’t be much in the way of spoilers to avoid. But I don’t know what happens in any individual episode, so let’s have fun finding out, shall we?

See in the reply for episode one!
22 replies · active 621 weeks ago
My thoughts on Elementary (spoiler-free). I'm so not posting this to tumblr.
9 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Weekly Adorableness Thread


Princess Tutu is late for class.


Hey, look! An arctic hare.


Sirius brings the post.


It's knut_knut!
10 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Xyliane reads A Song of Ice and Fire

Plaintext and predictions below!
18 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Well, I just got my grades back for the semester... ALL A's!

*does the dance of joy*



I had been on the edge with my College English Composition and Literature class, I needed an A for my last essay, and I got it! Other classes included Managerial Accounting (showed up for the final just for fun since even if I got a 0 on the final I would have had an A in the class...), Accounting Software, Beginning Excel, and Business Math.

Over the summer I will be taking Public Speaking, and in the Fall I will be destroying my soul with Economics, Statistics, US Government, Biology, and two 1 unit computer software classes. o/ Well, that's if I get into my Stats class. I'm currently number 14 on the wait list, which is never a good sign.
weekly food/baking/cooking thread!



So what is everybody concocting this week, food-wise?
56 replies · active 621 weeks ago
FMA Brotherhood liveblog!

We're liveblogging Episode 29: Struggle of the Fool at 6:30 EST. Join us!
99 replies · active 621 weeks ago
lilykep watches Hetalia (kinda)
6 replies · active 621 weeks ago
So, something fun (that everyone's probably seen already, but whatever; I kind of love it, and it's entertaining as all get out)!

This time last year, Will Smith was on The Graham Norton Show and ended up performing the theme from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. You can watch the clip here (the song starts around 1:50, but the whole thing's worth watching, even if you've already seen it).

On this week's Graham Norton, Will Smith and his son Jaden were on the show promoting their new movie, and, well... this happened:



And then Michael Douglas came out and ran awkwardly around the table a few times as a callback to an early joke in the show, and it was just a really fun talk show.
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A place for Stef to dump all her thoughts as she sighs over her West Wing babies



Current progress: 6x06
16 replies · active 621 weeks ago
sirius_mistake watches Princess Tutu

I'm going to try and watch as much of it as I can this week because it's awesome and I can't get enough to provide for maximum nuns before my upcoming two-week absence from the internet.

Progress: episode 6. Spoilers abound.
54 replies · active 621 weeks ago
spectralbovine watches Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

My brain is melted from mainlining Arrested Development and I've forgotten what is even going on in this show.

Current Progress: Episode 33.
167 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Ah, good. Glad to see everything's still in order.

Anyway, First Test videos are up on YouTube. I'm off to nun.
20 replies · active 621 weeks ago
Does anyone mind if I kill a few people tonight?
38 replies · active 621 weeks ago
I just wrote my [FNL season 2 ep 1 spoilers] shpx gur Ynaqel naq Glen Xvyy n Thl fhocybg rant, and it was very cathartic.

Now I can get down to writing about how much I love the rest of it.
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spectralbovine watches The West Wing

My politics babies!

Current Progress: Season 3, Episode 2.
27 replies · active 621 weeks ago
This evening, after listening to part of one of the First Test videos, my baby sister expressed a desire to read through Mark's Twilight reviews. I'm not sure if it will come to anything, since she is pretty busy, but I'm now trying to imagine what life would be like if my sister came to understand things like ableism and cute animal oppression. The world would be turned on its ear. I could have someone who understands me in my own family. What would that even be like?
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I just woke up from nightmares about my parents finding me and all sorts of bad things proceeding to happen from there. Thanks to the Lamictal, my dreams are terribly vivid things. But then again, thanks the the Abilify, I was able to wake up and immediately distinguish that the dreams were not reality.

And yet it was still so terrifying that I'm left shaking and crying. I suppose it's the unfairness of it all. Holidays shouldn't be like this. But it's more than that: I just don't feel safe. In my own house I don't feel safe. I need to shower, to do laundry, a lot of things, but I can't even leave my bed, I'm so scared out of my mind right now. It's actually probably a low level PTSD recall thing.

If I can get out of the house, I might feel better. But then it's an on-the-run thing, like what happened repeatedly when my parents were stalking me. And nothing will be open.

I don't know what to do. I guess I should wait it out, but sometimes it lasts an entire day AND night. And then I'm a wreck the next day.

I'm so scared, and there's nothing to be scared of. I can't seem to help it, and that makes me feel weak and foolish.

I think I need people, and there's nobody around, and I'm so scared.
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G U N N E R K R I G G C O U R T
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Buzzfeed knows me too well: 25 Signs You're Addicted to Books.

The only part of my dream home I have visualized is a room with tons of bookshelves, a low armchair, and a globe.
17 replies · active 621 weeks ago

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