Gratuitous My Dolls Are So Cute Post

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Molly got a new outfit, from Terri’s Touch! My dolls are so cute.

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In completely different news, I have become one of the poor dopes who are not receiving all their comment notifications.* If I fail to respond to you or wind up responding several days later, this will be why.


*LJ refers to this rather ominously as a “third-party problem,” which I believe is code for “Decepticon attack.” Curse you, Frenzy!

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

I'm blaming Starscream. As one does.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

... Now I think about it, I can totally see Starscream as an LJ drama queen. "FUCK! OK guyz my stupid boss ttlly fucked up our chances of beating teh Autobots AGAIN 2day. If I was in charge we wouldn't have these problems but NOOOO, Soundwave says its never gonna happen b/c Megatron's such a great leader. Well just SEE about that hehehehe ..."

On the other hand, if that's the case he will definitely want to keep the comment notifications on so he can answer flames and trolls in a timely manner. Perhaps this is Soundwave's doing?

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's getting comment notices left undelivered to keep Megatron from finding out who's talking about him behind his back! It'd explain a lot, wouldn't it?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, it would make his power display, in the form of an army of sock puppets, harder to pull off.

He's alwys been hilariously open about his plotting, though. It's one of my favorite character dynamics EVER. "Starscream! Pass the ketchup." "Curse you and your incompetent leadership, Megatron! It is you who should be passing the ketchup to me! One day, when you least expect it ..." "Uh-huh. Now pass me the mustard."

(Meanwhile Optimus Prime is off committing pseuicide AGAIN. "You guys, I-i am typing-from the ICU ...I dont think I'll last much longer. Till all are ... one ..." Followed by: "This is Ultra Magnus posting. Optimus's power spark is fading. I think he's lost the will to live after you were all so mean to him. ARE YOU ALL HAPPY NOW????" Then they call bullshit and Optimus gets back online and claims it must have been just Bumblebee who got hold of his password and was playing a little joke on him ...)

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Man. I clearly did not watch enough Transformers as a kid. I mostly remember the yelling kid who hung around with them, and never being able to get the toys to transform like they were supposed to.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

It was a TERRIBLE cartoon. Bad art, bad writing, just plain bad. But it did have that entertainingly transparent Megatron/Starscream dynamic--I swear all their conversations were like the one I printed above, except for the ones that were "Megatron has a paper cut! IT IS MY CHANCE TO SEIZE POWER!" "No, it's not, Starscream, sit the hell down." Megatron WAS an incompetent loser, but I'll give him one thing: with Starscream, he had the patience of a SAINT.

The best episode is the Fantastic Voyage ripoff. Not because of the ripoff itself, but because of the scene where the Decepticons all get totally smashed and start reminiscing about their home planet. "Good ol' Shybertron! Those were the daysh! Din't hafta wear these shtoopid dishguises ..." Then Laserbeak augurs into the ground and they all pass out.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

A quick check of Netflix says I cannot easily get those old terrible episodes. Which is a crying shame, because that sounds exactly like the sort of thing I'd love to put on in the background on weekend evenings when I'm having a beer and doing other things on the computer.

(Currently filling that slot: The Mysterious Cities of Gold! Terrible voice-acting, worse music, and the most hilarious exposition ever. The only reason the phrase "As you know, Bob" has not been uttered is because no one is named Bob. YET.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they could be bootlegged somewheres, but I am too lazy to look up where.

I will have to check into this Mysterious Cities of Gold as my next Thing To Ignore! What is it?

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

It's streaming on Netflix! And, as far as I can tell, not actually available anywhere else. (Officially, anyway.) It's an anime from the late 1970s or something, dubbed into English--rather poorly, which makes me hope the original dialogue is better. Somehow. It takes place around the time of Cortez or a little after, and chronicles the travels of Esteban, a young boy with Mysterious Powers and an obligatory Significant Amulet, who goes to the New World to try to find his lost father. By episode two he's hanging out with a South American princess of some sort--I'm fuzzy on which nation she's supposed to be from--who has another Significant Amulet, and who defiantly proclaims she will never help the wicked men who kidnapped her find the lost cities of gold.

According to the credits, there will be some sort of condor-shaped steampunk plane at some point, so I am watching at least until then. And an Indian boy who looks to be comic relief, but...I'm hoping he'll be less goofy than the credits suggest? He hasn't appeared in the show in the first three or four episodes I've seen.

Oh, and at the end of each episode they have a little set of video clips in which, with stock photography and re-enactments, they earnestly explain some aspect of anthropology/history/culture from South America in that time period. Circa late 1970s and aimed at grade school kids. It's...interesting.

Catchy theme song, though.

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Rattrap is hanging out on fandom_wank...

I'm a Beast Wars fangirl, what can I say?

... I'm sorry, I just had to. (HI THIS IS ALLY, BY THE WAY HOW ARE YOU.)

[inursatellites.livejournal.com]

SOUNDWAVE:

NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SERVER FAILURE OF: TEXT-BASED NOTIFICATIONS.

FRENZY: WILL BE REBUKED.

*salute*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Soundwave, it seems to have worked!

/return salute!

[inursatellites.livejournal.com]

SOUNDWAVE: ACKNOWLEDGES.