Beyond Selidor

I've got lots of great links tonight.

The first two are from i09. Honestly, I really should add it to my RSS feed, rather than waiting for other places to link me to awesome stories, as that site always has really great articles.

The first one is about what 'Team Jacob' (or rather, the 'defeat' of Team Jacob) represents in Twilight. The second, via thelxiepia, is about tropes in television (but not TV Tropes). They're both really thought-provoking.

ceilidh_ann has a great post snarking Cassandra Clare's book City of Ashes. It's part of a series of posts reviewing dodgy YA literature.

Hal Duncan has an excellent article up at BSC about the Last Airbender film.

Finally, the Australian federal election has been called for 21st August. I don't think I know many 17- or 18-year-old Australians who read this blog, but if there are any of you reading, make sure you're registered to vote. Being in the UK myself, I'm going to have to figure out how to vote from over here, since I'm going to be flying back from Ireland that day. Clearly, I'll have to get a postal vote, so I should organise that as soon as possible. Any UK-based Australians reading this should sort out what they're doing, too.

ETA: Via angelofboox, this Marauder-era Facebook timeline by Julvett on DeviantArt. The link goes to part 1. There are three parts.

So, I feel the depth of failure of the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender has been adequately documented more ably than I could manage, and I think you all know my thoughts on the matter.

I never had any intention of watching the film, either legally or illegally, but I am enjoying the art and videos that the fandom is producing in response to this horrific trainwreck of a movie. I've collected just three of the best, so far, but head over to capslock_atla to see more.

Scadenfreude by sylvacoer on DeviantArt is a hilarious comic about Jet and the outlaws' reaction to being left out of the film. Secondlina, also on DeviantArt, has done a series of sketches documenting the true horror of the film, while Heartless_Demon has made pretty funny video doing the same.

I never have high expectations of film adaptations, and Emma has articulated the reasons why I'm keeping the hell away from the adaptation of Tomorrow, When the War Began. I, myself, have written about that adaptation for the Book Show blog.

Last night I went over to my friend M's house for St Patrick's Day shenanigans. There was a group of about six of us. We basically hung around, drinking and chatting, and, as is our wont, listening to increasingly cheesy music. This playlist got quite an airing.

At some point, M, C and I separated off into a little Whedonite group and started discussing which Buffyverse character we identified with. C was convinced he was Giles ('Don't talk Latin in front of the books!'). M said that she was Buffy. I was more confused. I said I thought I might be a strange mixture of Willow, Xander and Dawn. C shook his head emphatically.

'You're Tara,' he said.

I'd never thought about that before, but as soon as he said it, I knew he was right. I'm both amused and confused about what this says about me.

In terms of Firefly/Serenity characters, it's obvious. I'm Simon. No question about it.

I've got some links for you tonight. This two-part interview with Jake Adelstein, an American reporter for Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun who spent 12 years writing about the Yakuza. The interview is absolutely fascinating.

I've been following the whole Avatar: The Last Airbender racebending debacle in a rather scatterbrained manner, but Hal Duncan has some rather important things to say about the matter. Check it out.

Sady Doyle's got some good points to make about the 'Telephone' video clip. Also, I've been saying for years that each era gets the vampires it deserves, but I never really thought much about zombies. But Mark Dery's done it for me.

Now, sleeeeeeeeeep.

ETA: I, um, have 'Mr Vain' by Culture Beat on repeat.