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  1. Thorn Wilde
    Yeah, but you can't reprimand someone for just disagreeing with someone, nor can you prove that it's systematic bullying even if it is, but you can deal with someone who bullies outright. Personally, hurtful words don't bother me so much. That I can deal with. But I would be severely hurt and discouraged if people kept 'disliking' things I said or did (perhaps especially stories I'd written) without ever telling me why. That might discourage me from writing at all, or at least from posting my writings. A negative ratings system is not productive for a creative environment.
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    I can say with perfect honesty that I have no idea what the kitty thing is about.
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    Jacob

    Thorn Wilde commented on Thorn Wilde's story chapter in Jacob

    It's interesting, because my other stories about Jacob were generally quite well received, in spite of the language. I wonder what it is that makes this one different? Because it has a lot less swearing in it than the others. Is it perhaps because there are kids swearing here? I know there are a lot of cultural differences, but I swore when I was 12, and my friends did too. It was exciting and forbidden and something we did when no adults could hear us. The only other thing I can imagine is that people are made uncomfortable by the idea of preteen kids having a sexuality. In which case, that's a bit sad, because they do. It's not like we hit 13 and SUDDENLY we develop sexual feelings overnight. Children's feelings are also very real. Thank you so much for reviewing!
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    I think that having dislike buttons can be a gateway to bullying. If a person dislikes another poster personally, the dislike button could be used to unfairly and indiscriminately 'vote down' that poster. You see it happening in all kinds of social media that employs a down vote as well as an up vote button. I think GA should be a positively charged space. Negative feedback is unhelpful, and if you have an issue with someone or what they've written or said, the decent thing to do is to tell them why, not just press a button and give a negative rating.
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    I LOVE 'I would like to thank the Academy', I need that one to be in there. I second this title.
  6. Thorn Wilde
    If you're thinking of Scarborough Fair, that's actually a traditional ballad from Yorkshire.
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    From what I've understood, the full feature version will star the same kids. Though, of course, they'll be a little bit older... The acting is very lovely, though, it's true. Although that opinion may also be coloured by the fact that they're not speaking a language that you know (unless you do know Portuguese, of course), because it's much easier to tell if lines are delivered well in your native language than in one you don't speak or don't speak as well.
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    The Edge of Seventeen is such an awesome movie!
  9. Thorn Wilde
    No, if that were true it would also reflect her fingers and her thigh a little. It is photoshopped, and it's an easy job, too. First you set up your camera. Then you take one picture without the girl. Then you take one with. Then you layer the two and cut out the content of the mirror to show what's behind the girl. As you can see, what's in the mirror lines up with the scenery behind her.
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    This is one of the sweetest little films ever! Watch it if you haven't seen it already. Press the captions buttons for English subtitles as the film is in (I believe) Portuguese.
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    Very, very cool!
  12. Thorn Wilde
    I'd like to point out that Daredevil wasn't a bad movie because of Ben Affleck. It was just a bad movie that Ben happened to be in. It's like all the people blaming the suckiness of Twilight on Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and saying that they're terrible actors when this is demonstrably untrue and they've done very well in other films (and both hate Twilight). One does what one can with a script. Personally, I think Ben Affleck might end up surprising many of you if you just give the movie a chance.
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    Firsts

    Thorn Wilde posted a story in Fiction

    Jacob doesn't really like Oliver, but somehow he seems to be his first for almost everything. Marcus hates his life, and his dad, and pretty much everything in his dreary industrial town, but makes a go at trying out new things anyway. Two short stories set before The F*cking Trilogy. Contains gratuitous swearing.
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    Jacob

    Thorn Wilde posted new chapter in Firsts

    Two things happen when Jacob enters secondary school. One is that he makes friends with Oliver, the scrawny, curly-haired, ginger, blue-eyed, specky little shit he always used to ignore in favour of the bigger, stronger boys who all seem to have been sent to independent schools rather than the local comprehensive. The other is that, because this is the local comprehensive, and girls aren’t properly cool unless they’ve had at least one fucking abortion by the age of fifteen, they start all the pu
  15. Thorn Wilde
    Well, the logo in the corner looks like DR, which would be Danmarks Radio, the Danish public broadcasting corp. The Xs lead me to believe that this is from Danish X-Factor. I think that's Danish being spoken at the end of the second vid, too. EDIT: Wait, of course it isn't X-factor, they don't do dancing. This is from a talent show. EDIT2: Okay, so from what I can tell they're called Robot Boys. Here's their website.
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    Oh, I can't stand sports for the most part (except for occasionally hockey, cause watching people get injured is fun), but that book was comedy gold. All the little bits of trivia, info about all the teams, the history, just hilarious!
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    I have Quidditch Through the Ages (in two copies, I think) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and the fancy special edition of Tales of Beedle the Bard. I was a serious Harry Potter nerd.
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    Actually, America is mentioned in The Goblet of Fire. There's a tent at the Quidditch World Cup belonging to a group of witches from Salem (of course). Who knows, maybe they have a school there? She's never gone into it because it's never been relevant. But I'm sure they exist.
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    BRAT

    Thorn Wilde commented on advocatus diaboli's story chapter in BRAT

    Yup. Tears. Totally lots and lots of tears. Fuck you very much. ...
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    Oh god, he would be the worst Robin ever! Please, do not do this!
  21. Thorn Wilde
    I really do think it's great that there are artists and performers standing up for us in the LGBTQ crowd, and anthems like this are wonderful and make me feel like there's hope for the world. At the same time, I think it's really sad that the only ones that are taken any notice of are straight artists 'sympathising' with us, when there are so many talented non-straight artists doing the same. That's too 'controversial', no one wants to hear from us, they just want feel-good tunes by straight artists who make them feel like they're somehow extraordinary for not being bigots. Yeah, well done, you're not a completely awful human being, you deserve a reward!
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    Yay! Happy Birthday!
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    Chapter 1

    Thorn Wilde commented on advocatus diaboli's story chapter in Chapter 1

    This turned out wonderfully! A really neat idea well executed. Kind of wish I didn't already know how it would end, though, would have been cool to actually get the WTF feeling at the end.
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    For me, I have several brothers and it just seems really, really weird... So I don't exactly seek it out. But I don't think I'd be opposed to reading it if someone recommended a good story to me that contained it, so... I dunno. I'm a subversive artist, I believe in breaking boundaries and forcing people out of their comfort zones. It's not what I'd write, but I wouldn't outright refuse to read it.
  25. Thorn Wilde
    Thanks for that, Brink, saved me the trouble. If one is after something a bit more... alternative and Norwegian, here's some Kaizer's Orchestra, which is my favourite Norwegian band: Some more straight up rock, this is Madrugada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHDTWRxkBZc And here is trad-folk-rock band Valkyrien Allstars playing a Norwegian translation of Lord Byron's Fill the Goblet Again. (It would only let me embed two vids....)
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