The final manga chapter, here.  (The new anime will be another month or so catching up.)
That was one seriously awesome run.
--Sam
"A lesson without pain is meaningless, for you cannot gain something
without sacrificing something in return. But once you have overcome it
and made it your own... you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart."

Stumbled across this link... Made of pure win.
What do you get when you cross Electricity with Doctor Who? Pure Win.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdrqdW4Miao

I'm trying to find a fic I read once that was a BtVS/Taken!Movie cross.  When the two girls get grabbed at the beginning of the movie, a slayer also gets taken, prompting Xander to help get the girls back.  Later parts involve destroying the slave business.
Any help would be appreciated.

... (Wed 10 June), do it now.  I needed IE for a jobsite that didn't play well with SeaMonkey, opened up to my default home page (Google), and went "whoa".
Pity it doesn't work for Mozilla browsers, apparently.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

The popular occult mystery/adventure series is apparently getting a complete 22 episodes adaptation starting this January.
Being a major fan of the show, this is interesting to me. I had no idea the series was popular enough internationally to justify this kind of expansion. Hopefully this means more anime adaptations of series in the future.
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Epsilon

Specifically, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in In Nomine

Okay, so Haruhi's a god, if not God. That's practically a given. So crossing her over with IN seems like a reasonable idea, right? Not so fast, young Reliever.

In the support webforum for In Nomine, there's currently http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=64634]a thread about renaming the band of demons called Djinn (so as to avoid conflict with the middle-eastern spirits of the same name). The current front-runner is the Greek word for "hounds", which is related linguistically to "cynic" - both meanings suit the band well. This term is "Kynoi", or in the singular... "Kyon".

This would explain much...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

All right, feel free to writhe in the torment of the cliffhanger in Dresden 12 here.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Not by me, alas - I had to work that weekend - but by a friend. I haven't seen these yet. However, I trust said friend's judgment regarding music. (I don't always agree with it, but I trust it...) All links are to animemusicvideos.org.

Quoting from his con report:

Quote:I've missed a good lot of the main masquerade thanks to these things running behind time, so I decide to chuck the rest of it in and go to the AMV creators and judges party instead. When I get there, all the pizza has been inhaled (s'allright, not really hungry) and only chips and diet cola are left. I grab these things, settle in, reintroduce myself to Todd Serge of Corndog Vidvids and tell him the story about the Asian loligoth girl at my music panel last year reacting to his Chobits/Masonna AMV (for those who haven't read it, the volume was louder than I expected, and she leaned forward with her hands clamped over her ears, and smiled at the same time; very memorable). He was greatly amused to hear about it. Here it is again; turn your volume down, because this is louder than hell and about as easy to listen to:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=119088
(requires free membership to download)
The crew have a laptop and projector to show off several odd AMVs for each others' edification, so I get out pen and paper and take down some rough titles when I'm not pitching in the occasional heckle. I ask Todd for these files, and he just takes my list, writes down the correct titles of most of the vids, adds a few more and recommends that I get them off of animemusicvideos.org. Here's a list of some of those, with links. I warn you that some of these may cause brain damage if your brain is susceptible to that sort of thing. If it's a bit late for that already, then you might as well finish the job.

Floating Through the Veins (a nice NSFW cross between Azumanga Daioh and the 18+-rated Mezzo Forte OVAs):
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=113066

Snap of Doom (a nicely sick spin on Utawarerumono):
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=147838

Woolongs for Nothing (Cowboy Bebop meets a classic 80's music video):
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=142999

Daydream (a self-made 3D Yotsuba from Yotsuba&! meets Azumanga Daioh, and thoroughly weirds it out):
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=142565

AMV is over: This is Shaking Computer Music Part 3 (One of the Ghiblies covers the infamous self-described "Japanese ultra shit band" the Gerogerigegege covering the Rolling Stones...in molten lead):
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=130908

MSTRB80s - (Or Iron Chef Idol2 80s Flashback) (Several AMV creators karaoke 80's hits and then Iron Chef-edit anime over the results. Contains alcohol--which is good advice before watching this):
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=102574

Cheers, enjoy, I am not legally liable for any damages you may incur, etc. This wraps up before I have to get to the second panel I'm hosting, so I'm off out again.

apparently restored the Braided Buns hairstyle from the MA pack that has been missing for a bit according to the patch notes I've been reading while waiting for the update to install.  And they've turned down the resistance on the green eggs of Hami in LGTF from some obsenely high number (over 50-ish iirc) to 10.
I know someone mentioned being at least slightly miffed about that, so I thought I'd mention it.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children