Just a touch of linkspam before I pass out again

[cleolinda]

Sixth Annual Valentine Fairy Deputization! I'm just going to link to last year's because homg, I am sick. I woke up with a cough and then wrestled with an extremely unhappy stomach for most of the morning. So... not doing so good. You may not hear much from me today, I don't know. It'll depend. If anything important happens (cough), you'll hear about it by tomorrow at the latest.

(Related reminder: The Eowyn (Not Eowyn) and book auction ends tomorrow.)

I will, however, show you my favorite valentine-themed earrings. I think I've had them since high school at least, if not middle school. Each one has a pink stone and a white/iridescent stone, and the hearts are tiny lockets.

Snack Deathmatch: Hob Nobs vs. Tim Tams.

Zing, Zing, Zing Went My Heartstring:

For the first time in recorded history, a cat has left its owner a surprise on the floor that didn't require paper towels to clean up. Meet "Tux," who gave her owner Mandy A. a string in the shape of a heart. It's the Valentines Day gift that says "I love you... and I'm into rope."

Want a rose for Valentine's Day? Turn in a gun. "Anyone who turns in a gun gets a free rose and an electronics store gift card. A handgun gets a $100 gift card, while a rifle or shotgun nets a $50 gift card."

Forget love, 'Hex your ex' on Valentine's Day.

Doctor Who, I Love You! [Valentine's Day In Space].

The Star Trek-inspired corset.

Clive Owen on The View promoting 'The International.' Or, as Defamer puts it, Ever See What Happens When You Throw a Whole Roasted Chicken Inside a Crowded Pitbull Kennel?

New Footage of Half-Blood Prince Due on MTV Later this Month?; Robert Hardy on his Former Role as Cornelius Fudge; "Defiance" DoP Eduardo Serra to Shoot "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

The 5 most annoying literary romances...and the 5 most romantic ones. Why this is controversial: Harry and Ginny are included as "most romantic" (Harmonians ahoy!); Edward and Bella aren't included as anything, because "I find that the love-at-first-sight thing, as well as the you-are-my-only-love-thing-but-Jacob's-pretty-great-too thing prevented me from considering them as an inspiring romance; additionally, I've reacted much worse to too many other literary couples to place them on the most annoying list."

Meanwhile, Twilight will have "a presence," "on more than one occasion," at the Oscars. I'm just scared as to how this might manifest. Two words for you: Phake Phantom. Also: The Twilight Ninja?

'Iron Man 2': Emily Blunt still in?; Eliza Dushku Wants To Bite Your Head Off [Iron Man 2].

First Funny 'I Love You, Beth Cooper' Trailer Hits.

Amy Adams shows a new side in ‘Museum 2.’ The tight-panted side, apparently: "It’s going to be an Amy Adams butt show."

Prince's Oscars after-party: You're so not invited. I just tried to imagine what Valentine's Day with Prince would be like, and it kind of blew my mind.

Comments

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

how the hell does Prince still look that good?? He must drink the blood of kittens, or something!

ps... Twilight Presence; will it make you feel like someone is watching you while you sleep???

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

IKR? I swear the only thing that changes with Prince is his hair, other than that he still looks exactly the way he did in 1985!

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

Anne and Gil were not on the couples list.

While this does not make it invalid, I am extremely perturbed.

Also, 1995 BBC >>>>>>>>> 2005 KK version. Though I like them both.

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

I ENDORSE THE ABOVE COMMENT

[ladyairy.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[insomniacafe547.livejournal.com]

ICON
ICON LOVE
ICOOONNNNN

[chiyo-no-hikari.livejournal.com]

I am slightly confused as to why Harry/Ginny were on the list and Hermione/Ron were not. Perhaps it was because Harry was the title character? Oh well.

Also, that Guns for Roses program is kind of the best thing ever.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who can't stand Romeo and Juliet. But seriously, leave Charlotte Lucas alone. She did what she had to do.

I would hope that anything involving Prince would include basketball in frilly shirts and waffles.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

If you want waffles at Prince's party, you will get them, I promise.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

As long as they're served up with a hearty side of contempt.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that. A few years ago I asked for, and got, gazpacho with a side of curiousity!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Do the tiny lockets actually open? If so, I can totally see why those are your favorites. So cute!

Also: Happy Valentine's Day!!!!! Sorry you are feeling under the weather.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Of cOf course they do! That's why they're lockets. : ) I don't have anything in them, though.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

Well, what we really need to do is find you some infinitesimally small pressed flowers or something to stick in there. Hee.

[moriahbard.livejournal.com]

"Twilight Ninja awaaaaaaayyy!" That is hilarious. Yet I'm torn; stealing people's books is definitely not cool, but it's Twilight, so I am compelled to giggle. That guy doesn't seem very subtle for a ninja. Maybe it would be sneakier to insert little paper shurikens in the front covers of all the copies of Twilight saying: "The Twilight Ninja feels it is his duty to inform you that this book is a sparkly absurdity. You have been warned."

[ailaes.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's the sadomasochist in me, but I loved Cathy and Heathcliff. They're so horrible to - and for - each other, yet I love them. ~hangs head~


Also? I am so looking forward to Harry and Ginny's first kiss. The people in the theatre will probably not hear me squee, for all they're going to scream.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It looks like they may have changed the context of the kiss, I don't know--I just really liked how sudden and unthinking it was when Gryffindor won the game, so I kind of wish they'd keep that. Maybe they will, who knows--the bit in the trailer looks like a fakeout.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

I loved Heathcliff and Cathy too, but they were never meant to be heartwarmingly romantic, so I don't really see what they're doing on the "annoying" list.

I mean, technically I do, but because there's the annoying/romantic dichotomy it feels like the list is supposed to be subjective opinion (duh) rather than pointing out of facts, and for an openly unromantic relationship to be branded "hey, not romantic enough" is... slightly too basic? Like... branding them "annoying" for fulfilling their purpose as characters. A bit like saying Voldemort is too wicked to be a relatable villain (as in, I hardly think a ressurrected serpent-faced wizard was ever meant to be relatable...).

Anyway.

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

See, I think the "Most Annoying Romances" list should have AT LEAST one Ayn Rand character pairing. Sweet Moses that woman wrote some frustrating character relationships.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

TV Tropes mentions at least two of those.

Atlas Shrugged (Just Bugs Me) (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/AtlasShrugged)

Slightly later on, Rearden laments his recent plight to Dagney, remarking dolefully that in better days, he would have used his position to extort sexual favours from business partners such as herself.

Ick.

Rape is Love (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeIsLove)

In Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Howard rapes Dominique, not only leading her to fall in love with him, but awakening her to Objectivism. Made far, far worse by a load of Author Tract being dumped into the scene as well, using a variant of Rape As Drama and a particularly twisted Rape As Redemption.
One might argue there was some Author Appeal for Ayn Rand here — Dominique is Rand's Mary Sue, as is Karen Andre in her early work, The Night of January 16th, who is raped by and falls in love with Bjorn Faulkner in essentially the same way.

SQUICK!

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

NOOO NOT TVTROPES THERE GOES MY AFTERNOON

Whenever I read a book of hers, I really WANT to enjoy her writing and her stories, but I end up getting so squicked out by those sorts of "relationships". F She doesn't allow any of her characters to be happy or even make good relationship choices. (for example, Peter Keating's relationship with Catherine Halsey in The Fountainhead.) Instead it's all rape, distaste, masochism, and various extramarital affairs. That added to the repetitive preachiness of her books makes them really hard to *enjoy*. I can learn from them, but by god I'm not going to enjoy it.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Harold and Maude= OTP
Marianne and Colonel Brandon are pretty wonderful, too.

[ladyairy.livejournal.com]

See, I looked at the couples list, and I was sad to see the de Winters (BECAUSE I LOVE THEM) under annoying, but I could understand. And then I saw Jane Eyre under romantic, and was kind of like....Buh? Because y'know, the reasoning for why the de Winters are annoying could be applied to Jane/Rochester just as easily.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I did like that Jane had turned the tables by the end, and that she didn't go back to him until she could do it on her own terms, as an independent woman.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon.

[cherrysakura5.livejournal.com]

Lizzie Bennett and Mr.Darcy are in the same Romantic list as Edward and Bella and Harry and Ginny.
Two words: OH Poop.
I'm not even going to step on this, my icon will do the talking.
anyway
Twilight at the Oscars, somehow I'm not really surprised at this
I'm not going to read the article in fear of laughing too much
I guessing the channel is desperate for some major ratings.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, HON! I'm too lazy to go around indvidiually V-spamming people, but you're the one who came up with the idea of deputizing people, so I had to greet you! Please accept this comment on behalf of me and Laurie, aka pre-rage Christian Bale.

[adri278.livejournal.com]

I Love You, Beth Cooper is one of the funniest books I've read, hands down. That trailer looks like it might be able to do the book justice.

[visionary-gleam.livejournal.com]

So, this is completely random and not at all related to your post, but I heard about "The Gift of Fear" from you - I think you mentioned it in a Twilight post or something. Anyway, I have come across the audiobook version of it and have sent it to a couple of friends. If you'd like I can send your way since you mentioned (I think?) you have given a couple of copies away. Hope you feel better. :)

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

A Twilight "presence". At the Oscars. Mkay. Why not just have Stephenie Meyer take over for the King of Sweden at this year's Nobel Prize ceremony? She can hand over the Lit award. You know. FOR MAXIMUM STUPIDS. *flails*

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

For real. I quite like the concept of the Academy acknowledging non-nominated films, because they (particularly the blockbusters) tend to be a much larger part of cinemagoing life than just the Best Picture winner. But surely they could acknowledge something other than Twilight--I can see the people involved in the Best Screenplay awards squirming already at the Twilight plot...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I will say, the Twilight movie is a miracle of corrective screenwriting, "the skin of a killer" aside. (I still can't believe Rosenberg came up with a howler that was NOT from the book.)

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

LOL.

Judging from your reports on books and movie alike, I don't doubt the scripwriters earned every last cent of their money--I just think that, plotwise, the whole things sounds like a trainwreck anyway, and even as far as blockbusters go, Twilight seems to be a fairly localized phenomenon. It's certainly huge, but mostly among the books' fans, which are mostl US-based, apparently.

So I can see why the US-based Oscars would want to recognise Twilight's "work" in reviving the box office, but globally speaking, they could easily find bigger not-really-Oscar-material phenomena: Mamma Mia, 007, Sex and the City, anyone? I suppose they already think they're "honouring" Iron Man by nominating RDJ for something else entirely, so I won't mention that one, but still.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Heehee. Yeah, that had to take some crazy kind of skill.

Really, tho, I just hate the idea that all the frothing Twifans out there will see this as "OMG THE ACADEMY IS OFISHULLY AKNOWLIDGING TEH AWESUM THAT IS TWILIGHT!!!1!ONE!" instead of as "oh lookit, the Academy is making a play for ratings". This can only lead to madness and a further excess of poorly spelled, over-punctuated, shouty internet rants on how Twilight is the greatest thing ever.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I too have the ValenPlague. *toasts you with cup of hot tea*

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

I have the plague this weekend, too. I blame the fact that exams were this week and so many of my very ill students came to school and many of them ended up breathing in my general direction.

I actually quite liked the romance list for recognizing Tess and Angel Clare as supremely annoying (I spent a lot of time tossing my copy of Tess around before finally giving up halfway through - I couldn't finish Far from the Madding Crowd, either) and for putting Benedick and Beatrice on the best list. I've always loved them.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

and for putting Benedick and Beatrice on the best list. I've always loved them.

YES. Oh, yes - in nearly any rendition, I adore Much Ado About Nothing. Hallmark had an updated version set in the context of a TV studio that had me in stitches.

That said, I think Claudio is a twit. A jealous twit, to boot.

:)

[kellyrfineman.livejournal.com]

Twilight will have "a presence," "on more than one occasion," at the Oscars

Oh please, let it be part of the opening as part of a "make fun of movies" montage, starring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine as Edward, or something.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I suspect it'll be "vampires in the movies" or something.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

I'm rather ashamed to say I OMG-ed, repeatedly and quite loudly, in real life, at the news of Eduardo Serra as DP for Deathly Hallows. OMGOMGOMG...

Burrowing under covers for 24h straight with a gallon of tea and two of cappuccino and pretending the world didn't exist helped kick the flu out of me last weekend--hopefully it'll do something for you?

[gorgeousnerd]

My sister is convinced, after me recounting the Twilight Ninja story, that it was RPattz. I'm sure he's going to have his hands full for the midnight release of the DVDs (which makes me seriously eyeroll, by the way).

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

OMG LOL YOUR ICON! You win at life.

[lemonade8.livejournal.com]

Well, this is off-topic but you make me think of this. I went to see Coraline in 3D for the second time with a different group... and...


The theater was so packed we couldn't sit in the same section, we had to split up. Every single seat was taken. EVERY SEAT. I have never seen the like in that theater before.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

That list is kind of lame, but wins points for including Lord Peter and Harriet Vane.

[iczer6.livejournal.com]

Happy Valentines Day!

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