A Place in This World

Fandom: Being Human
Characters: George, Annie, Mitchell, Nina
Summary: There are nine requisites for contented living: health enough to make work a pleasure; wealth enough to support your needs; strength enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; grace enough to confess your sins and overcome them; patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished; charity enough to see some good in your neighbor; love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; faith enough to make real the things of God; hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. attributed to Goethe
Length: 2174 words
A/N: For rydra_wong
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A Place in This World

Conferrin' with the flowers

So…in this season of NaNo and Yuletide, I know that many of my dearest readers are looking for pleasant ways to procrastinate.

Lo, this very night, I have discovered a fabulous way to do it: American Sign Language interpreted songs on youtube.

I have been watching a bazillion ASL interpreted songs on Youtube. Quality is extremely variable, as one should expect in what is, most of the time, a labor (or whim) of love at somebody's desk or somebody's high school foreign language final. However, there are some people doing full on music videos, using all of the fading and layering and special effects that a girl could want.

( Some videos! )

Actual weblogging

Syfy greenlit American version of Being Human Auugh! Real nightmares. Chances of this being good? 50:1. Chances of this turning into fandom's new black? 5:1. I'm not deeply attached to Annie being black in this story (in some ways, in the American context, I think Irish Mitchell being translated to some sort of not-white situation may make more sense [actually, having given two seconds of thought, I think I might go for African-American Mitchell {although not WWI era in that case, either aged up to the Civil War or down to WW II/Korea} and Annie as a child of immigrants]) but if they are all white I will throw a shit fit. I will probably want to punch fandom in the face all the time regardless.

Tim Gunn on ProjRun 6 & 7 This makes me 10000% more likely to tune in to season 7. I was seriously considering giving it up completely, seeing just how horrible season 6 was and how much the pre-promotion on s6 insisted that nothing had changed when, clearly, everything had changed in a terrible, terrible way. One thing I don't remember, though, is Victoria Hong (season 4) being a terrible person.

Stephen Colbert rants about the sanctity of heterosexual burial Awesome (via justacat)

Manpain chart So, so, so apt. Also, don't forget to watch NCIS: LA tonight! (via cofax7)

Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization Since we don't need bookstores to buy books, bookstores are going to have to do something else to get money