Two for the price of one!

Happy belated Birthday to raikochan!

And:

Happy Birthday to blessed_fire!

Have a great day, guys! You deserve it! :)

Two for the price of one!

Happy belated Birthday to raikochan!

And:

Happy Birthday to blessed_fire!

Have a great day, guys! You deserve it! :)

Links and recs: All Naruto (A)

Anime-only stuff. Move along, uninterested people. :)


I'm really going to end up making a new recs page or expanding my HP page to include other themes. I keep finding good things that I want to save and share!

Four fic links/recs:

* Weak - In my HP-only days, I would never, ever have ventured onto FF.net to read stories. (Read to mock them, yes. Read them to enjoy them? No.) However, for non-HP themes I sometimes pick through the fics there, and in this case I got lucky. Zabuza/Haku, from Haku's POV. Not slash, but the love is there. It tells of their final time together. *sniff*

* Hand Over Fist by velutlunas. NC-17. A wonderfully realistic view of a teenage boy (Kiba) exploring his sexuality both with himself and the people around him. I grinned the whole time I was reading this -- it made Kiba into such a real person! It's odd when a fanfic makes you like a canon character more, but that's the case here.

* Two drabbles written by ryuuro by my request. One, Seven Days and Seven Nights, I mentioned here last week, but it's worth mentioning again! Zabuza and Haku are stuck on a tropical island and... well, you should just read it! Gigglingly funny. The second she wrote for me, That Special Time of the Year, is a snickeringly good look at Ebisu trying to, well, get into Iruka's pants. Ebisu is his usual overly "enthusiast" self (enthusiast's not the right word, but I don't think there is one to describe him. Energetic, forward, confident? Whatever. Ebisu-esque.). Both can be found here.

Bonus fanart link: Keen dark Zabuza.

One BT rec -- 72 Naruto wallpapers. Lots of fanart, nearly 100% of it is great quality stuff. It's a tiny file and at the moment the torrent is moving super-fast (over 100 Kb/sec!!). I completed the download in about a minute; it's totally worth it!

http://anime.mircx.com/download/aa18e928b5fe150b1ea3479e179bd8e2a204add1

Even if you don't need new wallpaper, it's cool just for the art. (I love the Ninja-Dogs ones and the Kakashi's bedroom one.)

Links and recs: All Naruto (A)

Anime-only stuff. Move along, uninterested people. :)


I'm really going to end up making a new recs page or expanding my HP page to include other themes. I keep finding good things that I want to save and share!

Four fic links/recs:

* Weak - In my HP-only days, I would never, ever have ventured onto FF.net to read stories. (Read to mock them, yes. Read them to enjoy them? No.) However, for non-HP themes I sometimes pick through the fics there, and in this case I got lucky. Zabuza/Haku, from Haku's POV. Not slash, but the love is there. It tells of their final time together. *sniff*

* Hand Over Fist by velutlunas. NC-17. A wonderfully realistic view of a teenage boy (Kiba) exploring his sexuality both with himself and the people around him. I grinned the whole time I was reading this -- it made Kiba into such a real person! It's odd when a fanfic makes you like a canon character more, but that's the case here.

* Two drabbles written by ryuuro by my request. One, Seven Days and Seven Nights, I mentioned here last week, but it's worth mentioning again! Zabuza and Haku are stuck on a tropical island and... well, you should just read it! Gigglingly funny. The second she wrote for me, That Special Time of the Year, is a snickeringly good look at Ebisu trying to, well, get into Iruka's pants. Ebisu is his usual overly "enthusiast" self (enthusiast's not the right word, but I don't think there is one to describe him. Energetic, forward, confident? Whatever. Ebisu-esque.). Both can be found here.

Bonus fanart link: Keen dark Zabuza.

One BT rec -- 72 Naruto wallpapers. Lots of fanart, nearly 100% of it is great quality stuff. It's a tiny file and at the moment the torrent is moving super-fast (over 100 Kb/sec!!). I completed the download in about a minute; it's totally worth it!

http://anime.mircx.com/download/aa18e928b5fe150b1ea3479e179bd8e2a204add1

Even if you don't need new wallpaper, it's cool just for the art. (I love the Ninja-Dogs ones and the Kakashi's bedroom one.)

Primary Colors (a movie not starring ROY G. BIV)

Remember how, back in high school or junior high, you sometimes got to see a movie in class? It was always "educational" (pronounced in a groan), but sometimes it was interesting as well? That's what Primary Colors was like.

Primary Colors came out in 1998, so it's not surprising if you don't recall it. IMDB.com called it a comedy/drama, and one reviewer called it a satire, but neither really fit it. The movie felt more like a documentary about how Clinton beat George Bush (senior) back in 1992.

Being the "Rah! Rah! Let's vote Clinton in for four more years if we could!" person that I am, I especially appreciated seeing this. It put my feet back on the ground and reminded me that (no matter how bad the current Bush is) Clinton wasn't perfect himself. It was also an interesting view into how magnetic/charismatic people can control and affect others without even really trying.

John Travolta was utterly amazing as Clinton Stanton. The voice was exactly right, and he looked like Clinton's twin. Kathy Bates (who I love dearly) played an idealistic spin-doctor type, who also happened to be gay (boy, did the girl-girl kiss surprise me!). Billy Bob Thornton was actually sort of loveable, in an "OH MY GOD! You're a redneck perv!" kind of way. The whole cast did a really great job.

Before Primary Colors, I really never felt overly bad for Hillary, but even though I didn't learn anything new about Clinton's cheating, I feel differently now. I guess *seeing* ("seeing"?) the cheating first-hand makes a difference. Hillary put up with a lot of crap and stuck by him -- if she hadn't, if she walked out because he was sleeping around, it would have likely been the end of Clinton's political career. I wonder if she stayed because she still loved him? Or because there was something (power?) in it for her if she stayed? Just how early on was she planning on launching her own political career?

I'd really like to read the book of the same name. I've been googling and looking for information on this time of our history, but it's surprisingly hard to track information down. (Though Clinton's win feels like it happened only a year or so ago, I guess 1992 was really 12 years back. Heh.)

And on this post's subject line: Yes, I know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet aren't all primary colors, but other than that the joke fit! Heh.

Primary Colors (a movie not starring ROY G. BIV)

Remember how, back in high school or junior high, you sometimes got to see a movie in class? It was always "educational" (pronounced in a groan), but sometimes it was interesting as well? That's what Primary Colors was like.

Primary Colors came out in 1998, so it's not surprising if you don't recall it. IMDB.com called it a comedy/drama, and one reviewer called it a satire, but neither really fit it. The movie felt more like a documentary about how Clinton beat George Bush (senior) back in 1992.

Being the "Rah! Rah! Let's vote Clinton in for four more years if we could!" person that I am, I especially appreciated seeing this. It put my feet back on the ground and reminded me that (no matter how bad the current Bush is) Clinton wasn't perfect himself. It was also an interesting view into how magnetic/charismatic people can control and affect others without even really trying.

John Travolta was utterly amazing as Clinton Stanton. The voice was exactly right, and he looked like Clinton's twin. Kathy Bates (who I love dearly) played an idealistic spin-doctor type, who also happened to be gay (boy, did the girl-girl kiss surprise me!). Billy Bob Thornton was actually sort of loveable, in an "OH MY GOD! You're a redneck perv!" kind of way. The whole cast did a really great job.

Before Primary Colors, I really never felt overly bad for Hillary, but even though I didn't learn anything new about Clinton's cheating, I feel differently now. I guess *seeing* ("seeing"?) the cheating first-hand makes a difference. Hillary put up with a lot of crap and stuck by him -- if she hadn't, if she walked out because he was sleeping around, it would have likely been the end of Clinton's political career. I wonder if she stayed because she still loved him? Or because there was something (power?) in it for her if she stayed? Just how early on was she planning on launching her own political career?

I'd really like to read the book of the same name. I've been googling and looking for information on this time of our history, but it's surprisingly hard to track information down. (Though Clinton's win feels like it happened only a year or so ago, I guess 1992 was really 12 years back. Heh.)

And on this post's subject line: Yes, I know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet aren't all primary colors, but other than that the joke fit! Heh.

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