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So, *points to subject line* it's airing now on Pro7.

The German voices are so urgh. *shudders* I definitely prefer the original voices. And to think I originally started watching in German...

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For anyone who's interested, Supernatural season 3 starts airing on 01.03.10 on Pro7. Which is somewhere around two years late for free tv, but what the hell.

So, it seems like Australia wants to censor their internet access by law. Of course, since that's part of the crusade against child pornography, that's okay? Especially since 82% of the URLs the blacklist that is the basis for the filters used contains no child abuse material. Very efficient, ain't it?

And not to forget the impact this law will have on the Australian slash fandom and academic fan studies and others, because of the rather broad definition of child pornography. (Makes the USA's seem reasonable, and I never thought I would say that.) Bye, bye boys love mangas. Bye, bye slash fiction.

I can see how this law will be very effective in protecting the children in Australia. *rolls eyes at a certain Minister in Down Under* I don't want to know who thought of this brilliant plan.

I am so very glad that I'm not in Australia. F-list, check out the links and spread the word?

ETA: Also check out the Fact Sheet from the EFA.

... but it's really annoying how what appears to be the majority of the fandom tears into Sam for sleeping with Ruby while she's possessing coma-girl, at a time where he was totally fucked up mentally and emotionally. Especially when people are apparently totally okay for Dean to have sex with Castiel in all those fics (Cean/Castiel seems to be the most popular pairing right now, if the amount of fic for it is anything to go by) who we KNOW is possessing poor Jimmy, who certainly didn't agree to that when he gave his consent to the angel.

Nobody seems to care about the consent issues involved in that, despite the fact that we know that Jimmy has been at least partially aware of what's been going on until 4.22, maybe even beyond that.

But then again, what is okay for Dean to do is never okay for Sam to do, so why am I surprised? Just look at Route 666 where Dean had apparently told someone he'd been dating for a few weeks at most about the family business, but even hinting at it in Jessica's presence, someone Sam lived with, went completely against the grain.

Also, it's very easy to bitch about someone's bitchiness when you're the one making the rules that are a big reason for that bitchiness.

On another note, before I start ranting for much longer, Sam/( spoiler for 5.08 ) seems to become my second favourite pairing in SPN. I'm curious whether ( spoiler for 5.08 )

P.S. I'm debating if I want to write a meta about whether or not Dean likes/cares about Sam as a person apart from the fact that they're brothers and protecting Sam is a defining part of Dean's personality.

It might be because I missed the first few minutes of the first and second episode, but how the hell did they go from  Richie watching a challenge to Richie apparently living with Ducan and Tessa and getting their help finding his dad? That seems kinda strange to me, but what the hell. *hand waves*

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Happy New Year

Incidentally, Dominion is an excellent game, well worthy of the title Game Of The Year 2009.

So. Watched HP amd the Goblet of Fire tonight. Can someone please explain to me why they thought it necessary to display Beauxbatons as an all-girls and Durmstrang as an all-boys school? I'm pretty sure nothing like that was ever specified in the books and the HP Lexicon seems to agree with me, seeing as there's no mention of it there.

Of course they also edited away much of the first half or so of the book only to have much more of the second half in it.

The dancing lesson at least was one of the funniest scenes in the movie, though I don't remember anything like that from the books. Seeing as I haven't read GoF for over five years, I might just have forgotten it. Nevertheless I loved the Weasley Twins to pieces in that scene. And that McGonagall obviously never noticed or cared that they were once again up to no good.

I also don't like what Fleurs performance said about her school. Especially, now that I think of it, after it's been presented as an all-girls school.

And what gave Cedric the idea that just standing there, aiming his wand at who knew what (from his POV, at least) was better than dragging Harry and himself to cover and assess the situation? I remember quite clearly that in the books Cedric didn't have the time to think about things like that, before Wormtail killed him, but in the movie? especially after the trial of the maze, you'd think he'd be on high alert and chose the more cautious route. But he somehow decided being a Gryffindor was a better idea.

And was Padma Patil actually sorted into Gryffindor? I didn't see the uniform of both twins at the same time, but they were both in the Gryffindor commons for the celebrations.

Also, it's really cool how there is much more slashy chemistry between the characters in the movie. Harry for example cried immediately pon his return to Hogwarts, while in the books he only did that in the Hospital Wing. Which might point to his tears in the movie being more for Cedric and less for the whole situation. Or maybe I'm just seeing things.

On an entirely different note, it's always funny to see John McClane have the lives of a cat. And every movie is a new game so he gets all nine lives. Though it seems that he never got off as easy as in the fourth movie. Which might be explained with the age of the actor.

I'd also like see a fourth Mission Impossible movie, if only to see whether Ethan's marriage lasts.

I should stop rambling now. It's almost four a.m. *headdesks* At the moment I'm unable to get to bed at reasonable times. Maybe I should just not sleep one night...

Merry Christmas Glitter Pictures

P.S. A real update is to follow soon. Just not today, as I'm off to celebrate with the family in a short while.

...my internship at L.U.M. GmbH. From around 9.00 to around 7.30.

Today was the first day. I was given the usual safety instructions, though they're less strict there. Tomorrow I'll start wearing closed shoes. The weekend I'll see about pants that aren't too warm. I really didn't plan on turning into a puddle.

Then there were the tour and introductions. And when the boss get's back I'll finally get my contract.

Then I was shown how to prepare samples, document everything in that nice note book (the paper kind), put the samples into the nice machines and use the software. And I typed everything up for the customer. And when there wasn't any more stuff to do today I got to leave more than an hour earlier.

Tomorrow there'll be more new stuff to learn.

P.S. It takes 40 min to get there on my bike. One way. Twice a day. When classes start again I should be a bit thinner, don't you think?

P.P.S. Saturday we went swimming in one of the lakes here. I might even have tanned a little. And yesterday I had to mow my grandmas lawn, vacuum her apartment, water her plants and change her bedding. I only did th efirst two and my mum the latter two.

So, yeah. I haven't updated since I sat in my exam for the first part of OC II. Well, apart from Christmas wishes.

By now I mostly finished my fourth semester, turned twenty, found a place for my internship this summer, still didn't get my grandma her birthday present (now almost six months overdue), didn't get any writing done (as evidenced by my failure to even properly start my bb fic for Cap/Iron Man) and a few other things happened.

( college stuff, 3. semester )

( college stuff, 4. semester )

( the rest of my life )

( fannish stuff )

So, I think that's all.

Oh, and I have a Dreamwisth account now. Same name as LJ. I don't know what I'm going to do with it right now, but I wanted ot have my usual name, so...

So, I haven't updated in five weeks or so and for a change much happened.

( Ramblings about college )

A few weeks back one of the guys in my semester came up to me and asked whether I went to the high school I went to. Turns out he's the fiancé of one of my old class mates. And he went to the same school as my mum. Sometimes the world is just very small.

And we've had the first snow. Was a very curious thing. I changed buildings while it still rained and when I looked out the windows again around an hour later it was snowing. Heavily. For quite some time. The week after that it's been snowing on and off.

I'm still fighting to get Bafög. *headdesks* Don't ask.

Last Sunday was the annual advent meeting of the family. And that's another thing where problems have been brewing for a while.

And it seems my mum might have gotten the wrong medication for her type of bipolar disorder (yay wikipedia!!!!). Now it doesn't surprise me that she spiralled down again. She apparently had an appointment in the Charité today, so there may be some news there.

Did I mention that there is now a gay tv channel in Germany? I can even watch it. It's called Timm, started broadcasting 1. Nov and the way I learned about this is totally random. But yay internet.

On the fandom front, I haven't written one word for any fanfiction for over a month now I think, though I still have ideas and the bunnies are still running around. I'm just glad they're letting me study in peace.

Of course, last week was the week I decided I want to watch the new BBC show Merlin. It's really great. It's very slashy. And it has a dragon who's throwing the two male main characters at each other (or more exactly: one at the other, because the other doesn't talk to the dragon). And the best thing is, it gave me an idea for a fic I've started writing years ago, in the time I still wrote fics in German. It will still have to wait until the semester is over at least.

And I think I've rambled on enough for now. (More prove that I'm too tired to be doing anything. *yawns*)

I think I'm going to bed now.

I finally sent off the application for another year of Bafög (a special kind of student loan from the state) and a letter to the youth welfare office, so the Bafög office gets the neccessary information about my father (with whom I never had any kind of contact), last Thursday. Just like I did last year. I didn't hear from either office after that last bit of correspondence ("I asked them to send you the info" and "Please send them or me the info or tell me when you can't"). Which, of course, meant that Bafög got their info, presumably from the youth welfare office.

Now I got a letter from the youth welfare office telling me that my file was closed on my 18. birthday (which was before I applied to university, never mind Bafög) and that they sent me the address of my father. Only that I never got those letters.

Haha. *growls*

So, according to the youth welfare office, if the address of my father from last year, which I never got (I only have one that's five years old, so, no help whatsoever), is wrong now, I have to go to the Bürgeramt with a paper saying I have the right to get the address of him, so I can get him to fill out a form and give me copies about his financial situation.

Which he will of course give me the second I tell him who I am. After we've had no personal contact all my life and my mum had to drag him before the courts to get it written into the files that I'm his child. Not that he ever payed even one cent.

After a failed attempt to get those financial records (or even a successful attempt, with him having the money to pay instead of Bafög for my education, which I don't expect him to do just like that) the courts would be the next step. Which takes time, and money, and paperwork. For me, for the courts, for any offices that get dragged into this. And with the employees in those offices on strike. And me in the middle of the semester. Oh joy! *snorts*

And, yes, maybe I am overly pessimistic. But considering that in over nineteen years there has been only one attempt to get into contact with me, five years ago. And I, honestly, have no urge to get into contact with him at all. He could drop off the face of the earth, for all I care. *glares*

There is, of course, still the question where the Bafög office got their info. I didn't give it to them. The youth welfare office didn't, apparently, either. So, did they just check up on him themselves (in which case I hope they'll do it again this year) or they just didn't care either way.

I feel very pissed off right now, and would very much like to throttle someone.

God, I hate the fact that this man, who has absolutely no meaning beyond my conception to me, has this much influence over my life. And it will fucking stay that way until I'm over 27 years old!!!!!!!!!!! *screams in frustration* *punches wall*