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Post by SailorPtah on Aug 10, 2006 12:30:24 GMT -5
Too few people think description is important. Every year I get fangirl applications where the description is "Brown hair". Long, short, bangs, no bangs, curly, straight, light, dark, hanging loose, ponytail? Not a clue.
That's why I prefer when people just give me pictures =D
Where's that line from?
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Post by SailorPtah on Aug 8, 2006 16:23:49 GMT -5
Yes, there's a level below beatification. Mother Teresa got pushed past it pretty quickly, though.
And, at risk of sounding racist . . . Asian guys kind of do look alike ^_^; It's also true that drawing people in anime style (or anything simpler than realism) eliminates what could otherwise be distinguishing characteristics. And that, with a vague description, the result would necessarily be generic enough to fit a lot of people. (I wish you'd told me before that you don't have bangs ^_^; )
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Post by SailorPtah on Feb 27, 2006 0:31:45 GMT -5
I finally finished the actual book ^_^
Here's the socialist passage (page 41; chapter 5):
"At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it will seem gortesque enough to you--and wildly incredible !--and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way. There is a tendency to utilise underground space for the less ornamental purpose of civilisation ; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply. Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end--! Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth ?
"Again, the exclusive tendency of richer people--due, no doubt, to the increasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor--is already leading to the closing, in their interest, of considerable portions of the surface of the land. About London, for instance, perhaps half the prettier country is shut in against intrusion. And this same widening gulf--which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich--will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by inter-marriage which at present retards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent. So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots ; the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there they would, no doubt, have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns ; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die ; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs. As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough.
"The great triumph of Humanity I had dreamed of took a different shape in my mind. It had been no such triumph of moral education and general co-operation as I had imagined. Instead, I saw a real aristocracy, armed with a perfect science and working to a logical conclusion the industrial system of today . . . My explanation may be absolutely wrong. I still think it is the most plausible one."
[The Time Traveller speaking. He didn't know at this point in the story that the Morlocks eat the Eloi, but when he tells the story he knows it, and carries on about how most of his theories were incredibly wrong - but not this one. Even at the end of the tale, he believes this. In other words, Wells was saying "Boo, capitalism!" ]
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Post by SailorPtah on Feb 23, 2006 0:35:51 GMT -5
Confession to make.
While I have read the Great Illustrated Classics version of The Time Machine (these are editions of classic novels with highly simplified language and lots of pictures, very accessible), and I have seen one movie version (an old one that stayed pretty close to the plot), I have yet to read the actual novel.
(My Morlocks are designed after the drawings in the Great Illustrated Classic book ^_~)
Futher confession.
I started reading the actual book tonight, with an edition that I "borrowed" from my English classroom. I type "borrowed" in quotes because technically you're supposed to sign these books out, and I just sort of . . . slipped off with it.
It isn't bad so far - the GIC version changed some things, which irritates me, but the original isn't particularly hard to read. Besides, the GIC version actually added a whole chapter. (Frankly, I don't know where they get the nerve. Other GIC books I've read haven't done that.)
So I recommend the original ^_^ It may look intimidatingly thick, but I have the Dover Thrift Edition, which are paperback books that are conveniently cheap so schools can buy them in bulk, and it's extremely skinny when printed economically.
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Post by SailorPtah on Aug 8, 2006 16:28:42 GMT -5
I'm going to be plugging this all over for the next week or two. Check out the Shine store. See if there's something you like. If there's something you'd like but don't see, tell me and I'll make it available. I'm less than three weeks from being an Official College Student. I want to take a little responsibility for making my own income. To put it bluntly: Buy stuff. Thank you.
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Post by SailorPtah on Nov 15, 2005 15:52:05 GMT -5
Actually, Napoleon was not terribly short . . . below average, yes, but not a midget. But he was a general, and the soldiers in the army would usually be the cream of the crop in terms of physical prowess, so he was always surrounded with tall guys ^_^
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Post by SailorPtah on Jan 23, 2006 20:19:10 GMT -5
Everyone's picking on the "savoir/connaitre" thing. Sigh.
I was trying to use the more impersonal word, because Diane is not a "person" to Madeline at this point. Catholic vampire hunters have a very narrow view of vampires, as you may have noticed ^_~
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Post by SailorPtah on Nov 28, 2005 21:56:55 GMT -5
Can someone whos seen madeline explain what is going on? Drop by your local library; it's bound to have the books. You don't have to have read them to understand this storyline; you'll just miss a few jokes ^_~
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Post by SailorPtah on Apr 2, 2006 23:59:45 GMT -5
Yep, 'twas meant to be a surprise - I figured, since you'd gone and written that scene and then I'd skipped it, it would be nice to go back and put it in.
I made sure to take quotes from our emails so I wasn't putting words in your mouth ^_~
I'll probably be doing this again when I next can't think of anything to do with the Sunday strip get the chance.
Aebliss: Watch Order 09, or look at the frontspiece from Dead Zone 1. It doesn't show under the suit, but she's got a really rather impressive rack =P
Although I admit to this scene being somewhat unrealistic in more than just the personalities . . .
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Post by SailorPtah on Jul 15, 2006 3:44:07 GMT -5
Hello ^_^ Nice to meet you!
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Post by SailorPtah on Jul 30, 2006 21:59:30 GMT -5
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Post by SailorPtah on Jul 30, 2006 12:57:06 GMT -5
So the Gigelf disaster and the Millennium invasion coincide? That's fic fodder right there.
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Post by SailorPtah on Jul 24, 2006 19:19:43 GMT -5
Walter was 14 in 1942 (the time of Hellsing: The Dawn). Integral is 23 in 1999 (the time of Hellsing, although I write Shine as if it's in 1997). Do your own calculations from there ^_~
I'd love to see a Silent Möbius/Hellsing crossover, because Rally is the Integral of the future. (I saw the first 75% of the series on Tech TV, dubbed, and I'd love to see the whole thing in subs. Unfortunately, it's been long enough that I'd need to watch it from the start again.)
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Post by SailorPtah on Jul 8, 2006 17:38:34 GMT -5
TV series, I assume?
(People who don't like criticism on Hellsing should chill out.)
TV-Integral is generally calmer and more stoic than her manga counterpart. Alex's Japanese seiyuu brings the crazy, though.
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Post by SailorPtah on Jul 24, 2006 19:23:42 GMT -5
Every time someone says Rip is a werewolf instead of a vampire, Hirano kills a character.
(Being intentionally vague so as not to spoil too much.) I will definitely give better deaths to the character(s) who died right when Dark Walter appeared, if I kill them at all. Because that part was just . . . eh.
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