Set: Emily Kinney : 25
Details: female : white : blonde : blue : 10s/20s
Character Suggestions: hp: luna lovegood, hp: alice longbottom, hp: gabrielle delacour, hp: katie bell
Link: LINK

http://community.livejournal.com/fanthropology/469081.html

Starting with Twilight…

In a USA Today story distributed by Gannett, Maria Puente wrote, of adult engagement with things Twilight, It's moms and grandmas standing in line at theaters, reading and rereading the books, spending big bucks on the merchandise (such as Nordstrom's Twilight-themed apparel and jewelry) and writing reams of fan fiction (17,000 stories on just one fan-fiction site alone).

In the Broward New Times, Nicole Rodriguez had a piece on the upcoming Fantasy Twi-Life Tour, which will feature, among other events, autograph sessions, celebrity photo shoots, cocktail parties, and banquets, trivia, fan fiction, and more.

In the University of Guelph's The Ontarion, Duncan Day-Myron wrote Twilight is the VIP of a seemingly unstoppable all-star team of brooding, effete bloodsuckers tearing through almost every conceivable media: along with The Vampire Diaries, True Blood and The Vampire's Assistant, books, television and cinema are all pretty roundly spoken for, to say nothing of the amount of magazine covers the stars get. And in the grandstands, an army of teenage girls, fanfiction in hand, screaming for more.

In the Lexington, NC Dispatch, Matthew Lucas began a review of New Moon with The phenomenon behind the wildly popular Twilight books and the film adaptations they spawned is just one of those inexplicably faddish things that I will never understand. Author Stephenie Meyer has created a series of books that read like fan fiction written by a hormonal 15-year-old girl, filled with endless pages of breathless longing and loving descriptions of how beautiful its male protagonists are. They're trashy romance novels for the tween set. I'm thinking Lucas was the wrong dude for this gig.

And, on The Faster Times, Rachel Shukert wrote what she called anti-fan fiction, in which I make Bella Swan act less like herself and more the way I would advise her to act.

(Like last week, criticism of Twilight in the comments gets a PM from me explaining why I'd buy Stephenie Meyer a cookie)

In other news...

In a Sun Media article by published throughout Cananda, Sharon Weatherall wrote about an Ontario girl who is going to travel to Australia to meet an ailing fellow writer, thanks to the Australian Wish Foundation. Laura and Emmy became met three years ago on Fan Fiction, where participants write stories on line, then started chatting on MSN.

In the Minneapolis City Pages, Jessica Armbruster wrote a piece promoting Mulligan Stu's Do-Over Revue, "Where artsy folks will share some of the lamest train wrecks from their past." Many creative types are willing to admit that on the way to making the works that they are most proud of, there's a wake of bad art, atrocious writing, and pieces in general bad taste. This is especially true when exploring stuff from the teen and college years, be it angst-ridden poetry about vegetarianism, fan fiction from seventh grade involving characters from Scooby Doo, or a collage with hundreds of pictures of Luke Perry glue-sticked to poster board.

Finally, in the Mountain Home, Arkansas Baxter Bulletin, Deb Peterson reported the eight-year-old poet Averee Hutson has started filling a journal with fan fiction from the iCarly series.

(Crossposted to http://as-others-see-us.dreamwidth.org/8426.html.)

Hi!

We're a brand-new just opened small group PSL sort of game looking for people to fill some roles. Here is the current cast list and I'd really like to get someone to fill out the roles of Abrax and Carion so we can get the game moving - though we'd welcome all other characters.

All the details can be found in the mod journal, though all questions can be addressed to stonemod@gmail.com

Thanks for looking.

I love Glee, sfm. It's my favorite thing on television right now, and the last three episodes have been kicking my ass emotionally. I don't know what I'm going to do when it goes on hiatus for American Idol. For four goddamn months. At least we'll have new episodes to look forward to, though, instead of having to content ourselves with a 13 episode season.

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Damn that was long. I'm done now. Almost. Only three more episodes left until it goes of the air for an age. I already miss it, but I'm looking forward to a Joss Whedon directed episode. And Johnathan Groff's guest appearance, thanks completely to euphemistic who keeps telling me how wonderful he is and linking me to Spring Awakening videos. Oh, and also? I need Glee icons.

2x10: "Sweet Dreams". You know by the title you are in for some crack. AND YOU ARE. PURE. UNCUT. SHAKESPEAREAN. CRACK.

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Drabbles:
alisanne: Ready - (Harry/Draco, PG)
alisanne: The Appeal of Books - (Severus/Harry, PG)

Art:
jin_fenghuang: Holiday Drawble - (Severus/Harry, PG)

Community News:
lupin_snape: Posted a message from the mods
lupin100: Posted Prompt #271: "The seasons always change and life will find a way."

Newsletters:
snapenews: Posted Issue #792: Thursday/Friday

If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com.

revelationsmods/causamortismods/throwing_mods. Join or die, bitches.

These are, perhaps obviously, not great for RP purposes, but I really like the photos at medicated + sedated (which I can unfortunately not find a link for at present), so I iconed a few hundred of them.



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LOOKING FOR A PLAYER TO FILL AN SL:
About me and the character I play: I am an experienced RPer and I play several chars at this game. I play Penny (this journal), who is a naive and romantic merchant's daughter, Rena (seekingserenity), a runaway lady turned barmaid, and Ismenia (ontherise), an ambitious courtier looking to improve her position in the world.
Character wanted to fill an SL & why: I'd love to see the boy that this girl's mother wants her to marry! I'd love someone who is exactly what she thought she wanted but she can't seem to fall in love with him. I think it would be fun to play out! I am open to any pb, though game rules say pbs must be in period costume!

For my other char, seekingserenity, I'd love to see her long-lost sisters come back to haunt her! Check out her profile for info! Open to any pbs that look as though they could be related to Bridget Regan!

Finally, any court characters would be more than welcome! We have a prince who needs friends and companions as well as courtiers vying to make the most of a court in transition. And of course, Ismenia would be happy to conspire with or against your char!
Game to join: enchantedmod! It's a fantasy game based on the world of Gail Carson Levine (of Ella Enchanted fame!) but no previous knowledge is necessary to play! We're active, friendly, and love to write!

revelationsmods/causamortismods/throwing_mods. Join or die, bitches.

This dude has the most amazing glasses I have ever seen in my life. I really want to see him PBd somewhere. I just wish he made more expressions than “D:” or “:|” or “o.o”.

He'd make a great NPC, though.



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revelationsmods/causamortismods/throwing_mods. Join or die, bitches.

Logically, I know this man is too dirty, too rough, and too not-redheaded to be an Arthur Weasley PB, but I want him to be anyway. I think this is because he is skinny and, in the show, dominated by his wife.



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So. Bruce Wayne. Comic canon version - tall, built, black (or dark brown, whatever) hair, blue eyes, caucasian, well-dressed, serious-looking. Not Christian Bale. Preferably over the age of thirty.

halp?

Set: Mads Mikkelsen: 125
Details: male : white : brown/greying : brown : 30s/40s
Character Suggestions: HP: Remus Lupin
Link: LINK

Mads is just as fierce and indomitable since the last time I iconed him, two years ago. I love his salt-and-pepper hair. The skeletal bone structure. The cheekbones that could cut me like a knife. The wolfish eyes. I love him.

MADS MIKKELSEN


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http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2009-11-28&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

The 15 year old brother to Taylor Kitsch, Kat Dennings, and Willa Holland?

Set: Seth Rogen : 75
Details: male : white : brunette : brown : 20s
Link: LINK

The lack of any previous requests makes me less than hopeful, but Joshua Third (apparently also known as Joshua Von Grimm)? I saw the ones at Hollow Art and fell in love with his poofy hair, but I'm wondering if there might be any more out there.

Set: David Cook : 85
Details: male : white : brown : gray/dark : 20s, 30s
Link: LINK

Long shot, but does anyone have Kelly Osbourne icons especially from the short lived Life as we know it?

If anyone wants to make icons I have pictures from the first season but I am rubbish at icons.

Forgive me if this isn't allowed, but I seem to remember a community on GJ that had a long list of actors/actresses in period films (with photo examples). I'm hoping to do some historical lines soon so I was wondering if anything like that exists here on IJ. I try to use believable faces whenever possible.