Monday, May 11, 2015

Weekly Shenanigans

Monday
5 AM* - Mark Reads Street Magic - Chapter 7
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 2x01 Rebel Spirit
1 PM - Mark Watches Supernatural - 9x21 King of the Damned

Tuesday
5 AM - Mark Reads 
Moving Pictures - Part 16
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 2x02 The Southern Lights
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: TNG - 2x05 Loud as a Whisper

Wednesday
5 AM - Mark Reads Street Magic - Chapter 8
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 2x03 Civil Wars, Part I
1 PM - Mark Watches Supernatural - 9x22 Stairway to Heaven

Thursday
5 AM - Mark Reads 
Moving Pictures - Part 7
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 2x04 Civil Wars, Part II
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: TNG - 2x06 The Schizoid man

Friday
5 AM - Mark Reads Street Magic - Chapter 9
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 2x05 Peacekeepers
1 PM - Mark Watches Supernatural - 9x23 Do You Believe in Miracles?

As always, please remember that all video exchanges are to be done in the Black Market, which you'll find linked in the sidebar.

* All times listed are in the US Pacific timezone.

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(Legend of Korra's back, awww yeah)
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Hey, guys!

Reposting this from the old thread, since it was only there for a few hours.

I mentioned a while back that I'd written a short horror story for "Queers Destroy Horror", and that it was rejected. Well, I'm still sad about that, but I figured I should post it online anyway, because I still feel pretty proud of it. The main characters are sisters of color, trick-or-treating on Halloween, when they come across a mysterious stranger...

Title: The Devil Makes Three
Word Count: 6002
Warnings: Character death (nothing graphic), general creepiness.
Summary:

"He'll give you anything you want. Anything. In exchange."

"In exchange for what?"

"In exchange for you."

Here's a link to it at Archive of Our Own: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3915742
Alerting/Waiting/Flailing Post for Mark Watches Videos (for May 18 - 22 episodes)



This is where Mark lets us know when the new videos are up (they're usually uploaded all at once). Please do not try to buy a new episode until he posts here to say there's something new ready to download.

Link exchanges and donations take place on the Black Market post. Below are links to the store page for each show (just click on the show title), plus a list of the episodes that will be uploaded for the week.

SUPERNATURAL (new season, new store page)
[predictions]
10x01

STAR TREK: TNG
2x07
2x08
2x09

LEGEND OF KORRA
2x06
2x07
2x08
2x09
2x10
31 replies · active 529 weeks ago
Has anyone ever watched an adaptation of a favorite book, that is MOSTLY getting everything right and then does something so unforgivable that it completely ruins the rest of it?

1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the Secret Garden, lbh xvyyrq QVpxba, LBH NER QRNQ GB ZR
13 replies · active 529 weeks ago
Yay new week=)
4 replies · active 529 weeks ago
Spoils Reads Animorphs

Hello Spoils! This week we are reading/discussing: #44: The Unexpected

Please remember to rot13 any spoilers past this book.

For anyone who wants to read along: here

If you are just joining or catching up feel free to post any thoughts on previous books.

Next week: #45: The Revelation
4 replies · active 528 weeks ago
KickbackYak Watches Animorphs

Is it weird that I'm actually enjoying this show?

Current progress: 1.09
207 replies · active 528 weeks ago
Spoils (Re-)Watches The X-Files

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This week:

Monday: 2x17: 'Raqtnzr'
Tuesday BONUS: 2x19: 'Qbq Xnyz' AND 2x20: 'Uhzoht'
Wednesday: 2x25: 'Nanfnmv'
Friday: 3x01: 'Gur Oyrffvat Jnl'
23 replies · active 528 weeks ago
Coldrun Plays the Final Fantasy Series


(By theloserfish, via djinn87.)

All prior posts for my playthrough of FFI through the present available at http://coldrungaming.blogspot.com.

Current progress: Final Fantasy VII.
111 replies · active 528 weeks ago
The Why this week already needs to be over thread.
10 replies · active 528 weeks ago
Balthier7285 gaming live on my twitch channel http://www.twitch.tv/balthier7285
This week
Crash Bandicoot 3 5/11 at 8 p.m. eastern
blind run part 4 (finish?) Mirror's Edge Thursday 5/14 at 8 pm eastern

Weekly Stream To do list
Dragon Age Orgins
Okami
Fallout 3

Thinking about
Journey

looking for suggestions

Not doing
ICO

Past Games with my ratings
The Last of Us (4/5)
Valkyria Chronicles (5/5)
Infamous Second Son (3.5/5)
Shadow of the Colossus (2/5)
17 replies · active 528 weeks ago
Aczr plays Golden Sun

2 replies · active 529 weeks ago
Diane Duane's ebook store is having a 50% sale until her birthday on May 18th. This includes the Young Wizard series, which Mark will be covering after Emelan. (I believe he'll be using the New Millennium editions of these books). I thought some people here might be interested.

The store is at: http://ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com/collections/al...
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This weeks MISTY EYED BOY TALK aka Supernatural Plain text spoilers for all season through ep 10.22
92 replies · active 528 weeks ago
This glorious vision came across my facebook feed this morning, from Book Riot:

Imagining a Fandom Edition of an Annotated Harry Potter



Further thoughts below the cut.
4 replies · active 528 weeks ago
So ...um... One of my countries did something rather unexpected.

Reading Japanese articles that are covering this issue, it's kind of bemusing how randomly it happened and how it happened with so little fanfare. The article's commentary on how the LGBTQ community interacts with the rest of society is also pretty spot on.

I wouldn't be surprised if other municipalities will probably take this up because tax revenue is nice, and this is something else that will help with that. Similarly, I wouldn't be surprised if Chiba and Kanagawa (by far the most progressive Japanese prefectures) will probably make same-sex marriage official (with all benefits) in the near future because again, taxes.

I find it interesting that the religious angle is not mentioned here. I can't speak for Shintoism because that religion's one of the most random, inconsistent belief systems with heavy involvement from corporate and nationalist interests. Buddhism in Japan, on the other hand, generally doesn't have a strong official stance on same-sex marriage because they...just don't? At least from Buddhism's perspective...since, ideally, everyone joins a monastery and achieves enlightenment after abandoning all their earthly ties...who marries who is not really the religion's concern. For that reason, there are Buddhist temples in Japan that will conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies (not legally binding, well, outside Shibuya as of now).
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So, there's a trailer for the Lucifer TV series adaptation coming to Fox this Fall:



More info about the series can be found in Fox's press release (scroll to the bottom).
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This week's funny things from tumblr



More in replt
15 replies · active 528 weeks ago
The Flash and Arrow comment thread.

We're heading to the final laps, let us see if they break our hearts this time.
6 replies · active 529 weeks ago
Marvel's Agents of Oh God It's the Season Finale

This is gonna hurt.
19 replies · active 528 weeks ago
Well, will you look at that.

8 replies · active 529 weeks ago
Quick food question:

I've never done anything with beans before. I bought a can of black beans, and want to heat them and eat them. Three questions then.

1) Should I drain the can?
2) Should I rinse the beans after I drain the can?
3) When I put them in a pot on the stove to heat them, am I supposed to add any liquid to the thing, or just the canned beans?

Thanks!
9 replies · active 528 weeks ago
Agent Carter S2 plot spoilers released!
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Now that most of us have seen the new Avengers movie, here are some articles that delve deeper into Avengers: Age of Ultron. Really good reads!

(spoilers for AoU in thread and articles)
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iZombie Thread

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