I've realized I've been using a lot of different tags for my fanart posts, which makes for a very disorganized journal. Until I get to clean up my tags and re-arrange everything I'm making this post in order to help anyone who wants to see everything I've made and posted here.

These are all categorized by type and fandom. Some of these are in multifandom posts so there will be a few repeats in the links.

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I've just realized that quite a lot of stuff that i've done lately isn't posted here, so expect an update soon.

Also, some of my older stuff, including more Lost and lots of Mutant X stuff (which is really really old!) can be found at my phtotobucket account:
Wallpapers here (guest password is friends)

Here's another tvrealm challenge. I actually like how this picspam turned out. I hope it looks as good on other people's screens as it does on mine. 


( My life, my way )

For tvrealm


( And the nominees are... )

You know, 'cause everyone else is doing it. And It's funny. 



And I'd volunteer to spend time with British accents any time.

In case you haven't seen it, there's a full trailer out for series two of Sherlock:





SAFYUJGSXFTR *ded*

Irene Adler. She looks amazing. Her "would you  like me to try?" line. It's fucking HOT. And awesome. AND SO MANY PERFECT CHEEKBONES. Is it 2012 yet?!

Perfect! I get to rand about the new comment system. Bad things: the lack of thread/parent links (and I used those A LOT), lack of subject comments, the new way of choosing icons (at least use thumbnails, not the whole icons - the people with more than 20 icons will have a very hard time). And it looks ugly and unintegrated with the rest of the site.

This is more 3x03 Matchmaker @ TVRealm. Three minispams of crossover pairings under the cut: Olivia/Sherlock, Helen Magnus/Temperance Brennan and Colette/The Doctor (11)

( Playing Emma for TV characters... )

Apparently LJ thinks comments don't need subject lines. Because God forbid people have actual conversations on actual topics!

There's a lot more info on what's about to go down (complete overhaul of the commenting system) over here posted by heeroluva. If you're using LJ this is probably important to you, so you might want to raise some noise about this. 

I'd like to send out Christmas cards to anyone who'd like one this year - but i'm not exactly sure how to go about this. Do you send actual X-mas cards? Those store-brought things seem a bit impersonal. Do you send out something that's bit more specific for the country you live in? How does this work?

Anyone? Bueller?

I may have not mentioned it yet (because I kind of suck at updating my journal) but I joined tvrealm. This is only my second completed challenge, but so far I'm having fun. They have such awesome challenges.  Their latest challenge is a crossover. I'm not exactly sure how this idea came to me initially (and it was way before I saw this challenge), but I thought that Sherlock could well be a cortexikid (from Fringe). 

( A picspam and a manip/wallpaper )

As you all know, I’ve fallen in love with BBC’s Sherlock this summer (if you haven't seen it, watch it now, it's brilliant!). And finally, finally AXN Romania is airing it over here. Yay! Or not.
 
This is about the subtitles. Thankfully, only cartoons are dubbed here, but all movies and shows are subtitled. I’ve seen the translated promo materials previous to airing the show and the translations are quite hilariously bad. So, I kept an eye on the subtitles last night when I watched the aired version.  It happens on others shows as well, but for some reason this one is particularly bad. Whoever did the translations and subtitles chose to use this third-person present-continuous form for verbs which make everything sound oddly impersonal. Add to that a few words people don’t usually use in everyday speech or antiquated words and it starts sounding really ridiculous. And, of course, this verb tense isn’t consistent throughout the translation.
 
Also, because Benedict Cumberbatch apparently delivers lines without ever having to breathe, in some points the subtitles don’t correspond with the monologue on screen, and the translator took it upon himself to condense the lines which, in turn, losses a lot of the flavour and characterization of the original. “Anderson, don't talk out loud. You lower the IQ of the entire street” comes out as “Shut up, Anderson, you’re bothering us!” – which really just makes Sherlock sound like every other American detective on TV. It’s dull. They’d also be able to fit in a bit more dialogue if they used a slightly smaller font and three lines of text on the screen at times. It’s possible that my TV screen here is just small compared to most flat-screen wall-sized TVs that get sold nowadays but the subtitle text was big enough to bother me. They also skipped on translating the text messages on screen when they showed up at the same time as the characters were speaking. You know, texts that were plot relevant. “If inconvenient, come anyway.” makes no sense when you don’t know the first text was “Baker Street. Come at once if convenient.”
 
The subtitles on several shows on TV have been bugging me for a while now, but this one is the most egregious. Are there no editors that look these over? Do they translate this stuff without actually watching the show?

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

In which I have thinky thoughts about Doctor Who, Torchwood and Burn Notice. Spoilers for the latest epsiodes of all three series.

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I saw this meme on my flist and I couldn't rezist! Under the cut for heavy gif-age.

GIF Meme; snagged from lifeistoobrevis.
1. Open your .gif folder.
2. Use every third .gif as a reaction to the statement.

( click me! click me! )

TOP 5 ME! Books, art, culture, politics, music, fandom stuff, movies, television, pictures you want me to take of whatever you want to see, ANYTHING. Ask as many as you'd like. Be vague. Be specific. I don't care if it's mundane or off the wall, although the latter might be more fun.

Dear Burn Notice writers,


I love you. I really do. You make a fantastic show and you've somehow managed to keep the same shtick of "Michael tries to find out who burned him! But wait, there's more!" not actually get old in five seasons, which is, nowadays, quite an achievement.


But I have a problem with you making this episode's war criminal Romanian. Why? Because Romania doesn't have any war criminals, having not been involved in any wars directly since WWII. The military force has been involved in peacekeeping efforts in former Iugoslavia as well as operations in Irak, Afghanistan and now Libia under the NATO flag. Furthermore, none of the former communist heards of military or secret police have ever been tried of war crimes. So couldn't you have picked a country that, you know, actually <i>has</i> some war criminals? Also, stop mentioning Bucharest like it's some backwater place that can be barely called a city. I may bitch and moan about it, and things are often halfway done, and it floods with every major downpoor, but it's really not that bad. We have electricity, running water and - look! even a pretty damn good internet connection!


So really, I'm offended. I don't know why, exactly, but I am. So please stop and at least do your research!


Not very much love right now, 

Me

I have to share this with the whole flist here, because this trailer looks absolutely amazing. I've watched a like 6 or 7 times since it was released last week, and I haven't been this excited to see a movie in... years. And the cast is pretty much any movie nerd's dream cast: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch... So of course Romania has no official release date yet. *throws hands up* Bah!

I love landcomms and I love graphic challenges, and for fascape_land's latest challege "Beam 'em Up Scottie" you have to put four Farscape characters in other shows.  So I did. :D

( Picspam and exlanations under the cut )

 Yeah, that  thing where I don't join any more landcomms? So not happening.