I've scanned the Harry Potter fanarts I bought at the Anime convention I was at a few weeks ago, you can see them here.

Website of the fanartist: http://www.la-pensine-d-harry-potter.com/

A rather academic and well written essay on Avatar the Last Airbender, and the white washing occuring in the movie adaptation: http://community.livejournal.com/racebending/61396.html?view=1733844#t1733844

There's a Slacker's Remix hosted by aliaspiral for all of us who missed the original Remix deadline, woot!

I'm taking icon requests!

The only fandoms I have extensive amounts of pics for are Utena, CLAMP and some ASOIAF stuff, oh, and Natsume Yuujinchou 1st season, so it's better to give me a pic you want unless it's one of those fandoms (or a text icon)!

Johari window : http://kevan.org/johari?name=etrangere

Nohari window : http://kevan.org/nohari?name=etrangere

Black Lagoon

In South-East Asia during the mid-nineties, Rokuro is a salary man on a mission to deliver a CD containing important data when he's kidnapped by pirates looking to blackmail his enterprise and ransom him. However Rokuro's boss would rather kill everyone to cover all tracks - including Rokuro. Shocked by this ruthlessness, the now renamed Rock decides to join the pirate crew of the Black Lagoon rather than go back to Japan - which is the start of a whole new life for him in the crime-riddled city of Roanapur in Thailand.


The crew of the Black Lagoon, from left to right: Ben, an American Jew from Florida who handles hacking and all stuff related to communication and electronics on the ship; Rock, our Japanese former salary man who is good as negotiation and social skills in general and the occasional crazy awesome plan; Revy a Chinese-American gun slinger who is more that a little bit hot headed and violently inclined; and Dutch, also American, the leader of the team and pilot of the ship.

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Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:

1. Seishirou/Subaru (TBX)
2. Snape/Lupin (HP)
3. Azula/Zuko (Avatar)
4. Touga/Saionji (SKU)
5. Sandor/Sansa (ASOIAF)
6. Gerald/Damien (Coldfire)
7. Hikaru/Akira (Hikago)
8. Baltar/Gaeta (BSG)
9. Suzaku/Lelouch (Code Geass)
10. D/Leon (Petshop of Horror)

(there is so much guys up there, I need more femslash and het ships)

(For those who I curious, I took up my user info and wrote the big ships I had in each of the fandoms I list there, then removed the fandoms I just wasn't that much into, that I got in mostly for one writer or that I shipped but didn't really read fics for until I got it down to 10. The long list included also Aziraphale/Crowley (GO), Charles/Erik (Xmen movie), Richard/Alec (Swordspoint), Tatsumi/Tsuzuki (YnM), Lust/Scar (FMA), Kyouya/Tamaki (Ouran), Anaki/Obi Wan (SW), Shigure/Akito (Furuba), Bartimaeus/Nathaniel, Fakir/Ahiru (Princess Tutu), Ivan/Byerly (Vorkosigan) - I didn't have any ship for PotC due to shipping everyone with everyone)

Meme taken from trobadora

RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

Harry Potter

What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Someday I saw a friend (I think it was cygna_hime) linking to a Snupin story by Juxtan Tang, Howdy. I really liked it, so then I read, like, every other fics by the same writer. Then I was hooked so I kept looking for more fanfics.

Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
It's safe to say I already moved on...

Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
Probably PoA. I'm rather fond of OotP and HBP as well.

Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I used to write fics and participate in discussions, but I haven't done in a few years now...

Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Into Harry Potter? God, no.

Coldfire

What got you into this fandom in the first place?
You know that's a good question. I read the books and I loved them, but I never thought of searching for the fandom. I don't really remember how I was made aware that people shipped Gerald/Damien and wrote fics for them. My first reaction was surprise and doubt, and then I progressively got intrigued and interested until I found myself converted. I think that actually took me several years.

Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
Stay on, I think. As an on and off interest.

Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
Well, it's only three books so... but I guess When True Night Falls. It's got some of my favourite scenes, and Jenseny and Hessieth being a main character.

Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I'm horribly lazy about participating in this fandom, I feel quite ashamed about it. I wrote all of two verrrrrry short fanfics, and I've also failed reading and participating in discussions.

Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
YES! It's a pretty cool fandom, a great universe and I'd love for it to have more people. I try to rec it sometimes (I think I pushed it to mithrigil who I think would eat it with a spoon at least a couple of times!) but seldom with much success. 'Tis sad.

Avatar

What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Well, I got into the fandom from watching the show (which is how I usually get into fandoms, nonobstan my two previous answers); and I watched the show mainly due to laurus_nobilis, amewarashi, catiechu and TV Trope Wiki squeeing about it.

Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I'm not sure... but I guess I won't stay into it forever. I'm not all that much involved with it anymore already.

Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
The Blind Bandit, The Blue Spirit, Zuko Alone, The Chase, Tale of Bah Sing Se, Day of the Black Sun.... so many great episodes!

Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I wrote two short fics, once upon a time... I really suck at participating, don't I? *sighs*

Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Yeap. It's a great show that deserves a lot of love and intelligent ficcing and other fanworking.

I've been reading a little bit more. Woot!

Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells
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The Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
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Powers by Ursula K Leguin
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Old Tin Sorrow by Glen Cook
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Deliverer by CJ Cherryh
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I've got two invite code for DW. I know there are people who asked me for invite codes when I get them before, but I believe they already recieved them through other means? If not, they have, of course, priority. Anyway, if anyone still wants a Dreamwidth invite code, speak now.

I was wandering RPG.net as usual when I've suddenly happened onto this piece of information : There's a Vorkosigan saga sourcebook and roleplaying game come out next summer!! How come I didn't know that? On scale of meh to fucking awesome, this is very close to fucking awesome. That's not yet the Coldfire trilogy and This Alien Shore rpg I've always dreamed of, but I might have to try myself at GURPS.

I haven't been all that good about reviewing series as I was watching them. Soooo watching up on series I've finished watching a few weeks ago:

Mononoke

Continuing on the Bakeneko arc of Ayakashi, Mononoke tells the stories of the mysterious medicine seller, as he goes about historical Japan, finding malicious spirits and exorcising them by finding their nature, the cause of their existence and what they're trying to do (roughly).

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Spice and Wolf

In a Europe-like setting of the high middle age/early Renaissance, Lawrance is a wandering trader who goes about his business, when a pagan wolf deity of wheat (in the form of a young girl with wolf ears and tail) by the name of Horo hitches a ride on his cart and makes a deal for him to bring her up north to her native land.

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Natsume Yuujinchou x40
Miscellaneous x3 (Tokyo Babylonx2, Sarah Connor Chroniclesx1)

Teaser:

( Natsume Yuujinchou )

( Miscellaneous icons )

Comment & credit if you take them, please
Concrit always welcome

(so my first attempt at crossposting from DW: failed; and my LJ entries for some obscure reason looks better on LJ than on DW... oh well)

It's created : Salinea at Dreamwidth.
I'm still in the process of setting it up all neat and pretty, and archiving stuff I want there. I've put all my fics from my fanfic journal over there, but there's a lot of posts I made on my primary journal I want to archive there was well.
I wonder, is my only way to do so is to import my full livejournal and then delete non-necessary entries, or is there a cleverer and easier way to do it? Have you folks any ideas?

If more people could vote in my poll for a new username please, it'll help not being in a tie. BTW, no point in telling me to keep Etrangere as the name is already taken on Dreamwidth. Yeah, those willy Canadians *shakes fist at sky*. Although "Nevertheless" might be a new possibility.

I've just watched the Wolverine movie. It was just as hilariously bad as I expected.

My favourite part was
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Anyway there was also a lot of wince-inducing cheesy scenes and naked Hugh Jackman. So it was fun, in that hilariously bad way.

Alright I've got my account invitation courtesy of misstopia (see I failed to confirm my email address with my OpenID account, which is why I never recieved anything, hah!)

However I'm still flailing trying to think of new user name for that account. So poll time it is!

Poll #1393636 new name
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which new username should I use on Dreamwidth

Free box for suggestions!

By the way I do plan on using my DW account a lot. Basically I'm planning on splitting my livejournal. Fan-related content, reviews and fanworks and the like will go to the DW accounts. I'll keep my LJ for journaling stuff about my personal life, and I'll make it friend only. So yeah, I'll make my DW account as followable as possible even from LJ though.

For whenever that invite code will arrive, I'm kinda weary of Etrangere as a pseudo and am looking for ideas for a new one. Please, make suggestions.

I had another pretty busy week.
Monday, I got to watch an avant premiere of Star Trek and Coraline - both were pretty good. Well, Coraline was awesome, and Star Trek was okay in a shallow good fun and pretty FX way.
Tuesday, I went to Disneyland Paris to accompany my visiting cousin from Israel (another one than the one who was staying at my parents' a couple of years ago) who's in vacation at my parents' before her military service, which was pretty fun if tiring (unexpectedly I found myself buying a Nightmare Before Christmas-themed plaid. (The mind boggle cuz I'm one of the least merchandising-inclined person I know).
Wednesday I, errr, rested. Okay actually I haven't done so much this week. And realised I could no longer watch the Colbert Report and the Daily Show on streaming on their websites :((( Damn you Comedy Central. Now I have to watch them illegally, like most of the other stuff I watch.
Today, I'm waiting for my Dreamwidth invite which IS NOT COMING. Damn you Dreamwidth! You did say Open ID account would receive an invite on the 1st of May! Of course I could probably get an invite in all of 5 seconds by asking one of the many people of my flist who have them but it's the principle of the thing :p
Also I swapped by 2nd ed Exalted corebook for an Everway box - a pretty old rules lite fantasy game - cuz I've been feeling like mastering something, but not something crunchy like Exalted.
And I kinda fail at answering memes which is surely not new.

Taken from a_white_rain and puella_nerdii

Comment, and I'll:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. -- only if you want to. But I do think it's a fun meme.

Taken from meganbmoore

What Fictional Character Do You Associate Me With?