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I promised I'd put start putting up discussion posts for the Walking Dead because it's been hard to find places online to chat about the show. Walking Dead TV has a good set up, but not a lot of commenters. I'll do a roundup up of whatever posts I do find, so we can discuss them. If you see any good reviews, link them here too, please.

Posts will go up before the episode, with my comments added later.

Any good places to talk about The Walking Dead? It is currently the Fandom Of My Heart and while I've dragged most of my RL circle into watching it (some kicking and screaming was involved), and chat about it regularly on Twitter, I don't have anywhere to do longform discussion... aside from here or Tumblr, I suppose. Anyway-- what places have you discovered to chat about The Walking Dead?

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Crossposts: http://schmevil.livejournal.com/331108.html

Walking Dead trailer:

*fans self*

It would probably be a lot like the Gilmore Girls vs. the Zombiepocalypse. Quippy mom, genius daughter, controlling snooty grandparents, gruff yet sweet, handyman love interest. Millions of zombies.

Thoughts?

outlawpoet's recommendation, I'm listening to the audiobook of Max Brooks' World War Z. I found the whole thing conveniently on YouTube. It seems that the audiobook doesn't have all the content of the actual book, but since I've been meaning to get around to reading it, and haven't, this is a good start.

If you've read it or not, I highly recommend the audiobook. The voice acting is superb - the cast is top notch - and the stories are all visceral and immensely affecting.

The book is an oral history of the world wide zombie war. It takes the form of survivor interviews that span the globe, and the outbreak from start to finish. Brooks pulls no punches, and it goes without saying that the subject matter might be triggering. He's also done his research. He's thought out so many of the possible political, economic and social affects of the dead walking the earth. It's a really smart, really thorough work.

Run, don't walk.

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"You are like a giant cock-blocking robot. Like designed in a secret fucking government lab." Goddamn Woody Harrelson, I love you and your utter LACK OF DIGNITY.

Dueling Banjos vs. Zombies? "I love the fuck out of this song!"

Awesome links:

Plants vs Zombies

Jim Henson's Resident Evil 5

Zombie shoes

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28 Days Later comic
Initial launch story will be firmly based in 28 DAYS LATER continuity with the first arc focusing on Selena. Bridging the gap between 28 DAYS LATER and 28 WEEKS LATER, a few key questions will be answered along the way: what happened to Selena after 28 DAYS LATER? How did Selena happen upon the machete she wields in 28 DAYS LATER?

So, Supernatural fandom. What's up with all the horrifyingly OOC fanmixes? Are you aware that Dean is nearing 30, with Sam close behind him, and they spend their life on the road, out of touch with the finer details of popular teen culture? And for those reasons, in addition to taste, (Dean particularly, though Sam too, if only to avoid the inevitable mockery) would never, ever be caught dead listening to a My Chemical Romance/Iron & Wine /Arcade Fire mixtape? No, really. Really, really. STOP. As

elspethdixon pointed out, SPN has one of the best soundtracks known to man. Learn from it. As Dean dispenses his manly tears, so too employ your emo and your indie: sparingly, and for deliciously pretty dramatic effect.

But fanmixes. It brings up an interesting question: is it better to select songs that could be part of the canon (the official soundtrack, listened to by the characters), or songs that describe your feelings about the character? I like both kinds of mix, but I wish mixers were more committed to commentary, so I could figure out what they were going for. Liner notes people!

Btw, bless you Wikipedia, for listing this important information about Dean Winchester:

Specialty
Combat
Hunting
Driving
Torturing

Dean Winchester: for all your driving and torturing needs.

Current Music: Arsonists - Bravo Ft. D-Stroy, Miri Ben Ari | Powered by Last.fm

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given, if you want.

Via

nevermore999. By accident, actually, but who am I to pass up a chance to talk about myself.

1. Marry/ F*ck/Kill and other polls

I started doing MFK because I'm crap at updating regularly, and as a weekly fixture, it keeps from getting distracted from posting for week-long periods. It's turned into one of those wicked indulgences you only find in fandom, or at really good parties: who we gonna kill today, and how? Also, you know, polls are fantastic way to ask incredibly silly questions.

[Poll #1355060]

also

[Poll #1355061]

2. Ron Weasley

If not for Severus Snape (Snape +

schmevil 4eva), Ron would be my favourite Harry Potter character. He's sweet, but a bit of a jerk; a true everyman. He's capable of fierce devotion and jealousy, has mood swings that could bowl over a giant, and is stubborn enough, and dumb enough, to cut off his nose to spite his face, nine times out of ten. He's the friend who offers to rough up people that make you cry. The guy who rarely lives up to his potential, unless you drag him kicking and screaming into achievement. But he's the guy who, when times are desperate, has your back and will lay down his life to save yours.

And please, the sweaters? The dress robes? Weasley Is Our King?

3. Newspaper Funnies

Two of my favourite webcomics are The Nietzsche Family Circus and Garfield Minus Garfield. Not just for the lolarious irony, but because I have a deep affection for comic strips. I read the funnies about three times a week, and make time on the weekend to read the comics insert, over a cup of coffee. Newspaper strips were my first exposure to comics. When I was a kid, my dad would lie on the floor, my brother and I on either side of him, and we'd read them together. He explained the jokes when we didn't get them, as many times as was necessary. Now, when we get a chance to spend a morning together, we'll read the comics separately, and then force our favourites on each other. (SherMan's Lagoon ftw, people).

4. modliness

I've been a mod of this list or that board almost as long as I've been in fandom. Much though I'm loath to admit it, this is probably a sign that I'm just a take-charge control freak at heart. Fear my modly power!

5. zombies

Zombies. My all time favourite movie monster. When I was a kid, there was a video store down the street that had one of the largest collections of genre movies that I've ever seen. They stocked everything from Texas Chainsaw Massacre Three, to 7 Golden Vampires. We'd watch upwards of six movies a week, all of them badly dubbed kung fu or horror. At ten years old I knew Nightmare On Elm Street backwards and forwards. Zombies though, are my horror true love. They at once fascinate and, quite literally, horrify me.

Zombies are complicated. No, really. They're an interesting philosophical problem. An undead, ravenous vessel for the expression of a seething mass of cultural anxieties - metaphor for consumerism? infection? sin? capitalism? human nature? Ask ten people what zombies 'are about' and you'll get ten different answers. While you're busy hashing out what zombies mean, your loved ones are disintegrating before your eyes, pulling themselves out of their graves, and deciding you're what's for dinner. Unlike a lot of old school zombie fans, I'm not a purist. Shambler or runner, magical or diseased - I'll take 'em all. Even kung fu zombies. For me, the appeal is in the idea of zombies, and their uniformly revolting appearance.

And hey, the side benefit of a childhood wasted on kung fu and horror movies is that nothing is too gory for my iron constitution.

Current Music: Ice Cube - Why We Thugs

Left For Dead has given me a new band: Elbow - Grounds for Divorce. Great song. Great looking game. I might be able to run it on my iMac...

In other zombie news, who watched Dead Set? For those out of the know, it's a Zombiepocalpse mini series, set in the Big Brother House. Boyle/Snyder running zombies fused with all the media commentary, tragedy and satire of Romero. Simon Pegg likes it (you trust Simon Pegg, don't you?) though he wants to remind you, that zombies don't run! If you're a Brit, all the eps are available on E4. Otherwise, it's up on a variety of streaming sites, and since we're only talking about five episodes, you have no excuse. Do you?

Americans, did you know that your new President Elect is funny? Barack Obama at the Roast of Representative Rahm Emanuel. (Also, that Rahm's brother Ari might be the inspiration for Entourage's Ari Gold? *fangirls*)

Bush vs. Zombies. The sitting president wants to up defense spending for protection against zombies. "Is there any scientific evidence of an actual, biological difference between these zombies and slow-moving tourists?"

Dexter 3.8 "The Damage A Man Can Do": I liked this episode. ( spoilers )

True Blood 1.10 "I Don't Wanna Know": I also liked this episode. ( more spoilers )

I hate the IOC. I've hated them for years but today I found an exciting new reason to despise those assholes.

Olympic mottoes borrow lines from O Canada

Two phrases borrowed from Canada's national anthem have been chosen as the mottoes for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and organizers have already moved to protect the commercial rights to the lines.

The lines "With glowing hearts" from the English version and "Des plus brillants exploits" from the French version will soon be emblazoned on Olympic merchandise and promotional material as a national campaign to promote the mottoes is rolled out across Canada this fall.

The phrases were recently trademarked by the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee in anticipation of the announcement, it was revealed Wednesday.

Cory Doctorow had this to say:

The International Olympic Committee has trademarked a line from the Canadian national anthem, "with glowing hearts," and is threatening to sue anyone who uses the line in Canada, as part of the Vancouver Games.

This is par for the course. The IOC is a corrupt, bullying, greedy, hypocritical organization that uses trademark laws to limit the free speech and commerce of people who have the misfortune to attend or live near the games -- for example, in Athens, they forced people to take off or cover up t-shirts that had logos for companies that hadn't paid to sponsor the Olympics; and in Washington, they attacked decades-old businesses named after nearby Mount Olympia.

The Olympics cloak themselves in the rhetoric of international cooperation and development, but everything they touch turns to garbage: totalitarian surveillance camps where corporate greed rules all. The Canadian IOC ought to be disbanded over this -- it's an affront to the entire nation.

I'm not generally a ra ra nationalist but really, IOC? Really? You're trademarking our national anthem. You're trademarking the word WINTER. Could you get more patently ridiculous, more blindly grasping, more desperately in need of sucking host countries dry of every last drop of profit? More determined to keep up the pitiful, endlessly glittering, cannibalistic hucksterism and spectacle, lest the international community wake up at last to the great sham of brotherhood you've sold us?

Our national anthem is not your property. The word winter is not your fucking property.

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In other news, this site is so me. How did I not know about this site?! Caffeine-fueled movie marathons aren't a lifestyle choice in the house of

schmevil. They're an imperative.

Oh, and this! George Romero's script for Resident Evil? Donkey balls! It's not that I worship the man (as so many zombie fans do) but it's hard to deny that a Romeo Evil would have made for interesting viewing. It could not be more different from the movie that finally got made.

Weapon: Since I only get one, MP7A1. Good in close quarters but with the power of an assault rifle. You can use it as a rifle, machine gun or pistol. Penetrates body armor, including helmets.

Music: Tool - Stinkfist or Aenema. Really, anything by Tool.

Famous person: Ashley J. Williams. Hey, he did ok with that army of deadites, right?

56 Days Later, K.A. Rose
28 Days Later | NC 17 | Drama | Jim/West

About a quarter of this entry is made up of author's notes detailing why the 28 Days Later fan is of a superior breed. 28 Days Later fandom is the province of zombie aficionados and true fannish intellectuals and certainly not populated by those porn-addicted, hardcore shippers that frequent bigger fandoms. No, the 28 Days Later is unfettered by such silly, artificial barriers like ships and fandom-specific slang. The 28 Days Later fan is above all of that.

She goes on to explain why intelligence is of supreme importance. You see, she's not interested in her vignette being wasted on idiots. She may have written it in one night and slapped it up the next day without even a spell check, but this is no ordinary self-indulgent fanfic. No, this fic is inspired. Justified. After all, the writers pointed to the homoerotic subtext on the DVD commentaries themselves. I can totally see her point though - it takes a keen mind to appreciate a m/m rapefic based on a zombie flick.

As for the fic, I've only a couple of things to say on that front. Just some minor quibbles. Nothing that detracts from the brilliance of the concept, characterization, style or form.

1. Jim is not weaker than the average woman. Sure he's weaker than Selena, but that lady was amazonian. Jim was a bicycle courier. He killed Infected. He killed soldiers. Jim? Not a wilting flower of pussydom.
2. Jim is not passive aggressive. He's an everyman who seems to have no trouble speaking his mind or standing up for himself. Jim may not be an alpha male but canonically? He's not about to lie down and take it.
3. Suspense? Hellooooo? Where are yooooooou? *crickets*
4. Jim does not have the emotional range of a wet rag.
5. Major West and the house do not share a special psychic connection literally, and the omgmetaphorical one-off to that effect is poorly supported by the rest of the fic. Left hanging in the wind of the author's laziness, what could have been useful insight into Jim's terrorized mind is nothing more than a shitty rip-off of every shitty haunted house/demon possession movie ever.

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no future

Walking Dead 202

Walking Dead

oh. OH.

If I ever wrote a zombie novel...

World War Z

"time to nut up, or shut up"

zombies, fanmixes (not at the same time)

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Are you fucking kidding me?

zombie meme

I just had to share this with someone...

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