Further to my redisocvery of XKCD -

[sebastienne]

Hullo human race, a message for you:



*has cramps*

*has had no central heating for a week and is freezing*

*kicks landlord*

jacinthsong finally showed me Shortbus, which was just as good as I would have expected from the creator of Hedwig (ie phenomenal), although admittedly a little more triggering than I was prepared for. Also didn't have nearly enough Severin.

Right, I'm off to curl up round my woefully inadequate electric heater and shiver...

Comments

[jix1125.livejournal.com]

ITA on everything you said about Shortbus. I cried a little afterwards. And Severin . . . yesssssss. I also wished for much more.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Lack of central heating + poorly insulated house = badness. Lots of layers and hot water bottles Are Your Friends. Actually, I find the most important thing is to insulate the extremities - many socks, and there's nothing wrong with wearing gloves indoors.

Or spend all your time round at friends' houses :-)

[spidrak.livejournal.com]

Funny, I discovered xkcd this weekend too - it is indeed great and deserves to win Many Internets.

Hmph. Had hoped to join the Shortbus-watching, but I've been unpleasantly ill all week. Even my supervisor's been avoid my foul pestilence. (Well, nasty cold. But it is irritating.)

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

How do you do that linky-hovering-screencap thing?

[andustar.livejournal.com]

Hm, triggering? For depression/suicide?

Severin was made of pure awesome.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

i neither do it nor want it - lj has started doing it all over the place and it's irritating the s*** out of me right now.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

yes, exactly. specifically, the depression/suicide of somebody that you think loves you enough not to, that it turns out they've been planning for ages, even through the times you thought were good.

[andustar.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. Thanks for the clarification, I've only really heard that phrase used in the context of sexual assault before and I couldn't see how that would really apply.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I can see how confusion would arise - in the bits of the web I frequent, however, you'd be more likely to find a cut saying "cut for E.D. triggers", "cut for sexual violence triggers", "cut for suicide triggers", etc.

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you mean an ALT tag?

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I know about those, I meant the snap.com preview that comes up when you hover over the links in E's post...or at least it does in my browser!

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon. *suddenly feels very stupid* *bites lip*

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

Oh, well in that case, I have absolutely no idea, never seen that.

I'm guessing it might be some new piece of Javascript from LJ, but blocked for me by the Noscript extension.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

is that what they're called?

they're horrible :(

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

I think I misunderstood, because xkcd was mentioned. Anyway, it was a TITLE tag I was thinking of, which xkcd makes significant use of (hover your mouse over the comic image). Also, see my other comment.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

ah, i'm doing the whole "reply to lj comments in your email so as not to be seen on lj at work" thing, so i didn't see your other comment until it was too late.

still, at least i'm GETTING lj comments in my email now, since giving up on hotmail & getting them sent to my gmail, instead..

[andustar.livejournal.com]

Ah well, we all know what parts of the web I like to frequent :)

Hope it wasn't too triggery an experience. It's such a tenderhearted film.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

no, not at all - it was an incredible film and i'm so glad to have seen it.. it just punched me in the stomach a little bit too. *insert wank about "like all good art" here*

*squish*