Mademoiselle Satine

Band of Brothers fanvid "Mr.Serious"

The vid is by raquel_el_pillo. The song "True Love" is by Mark Mallman. A few day ago he put his Greatest Hits (98-08) on his website but the download link is gone again. I uploaded "True Love" in case anyone like the song as much as I do.

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I really wish the author provided a summary for this excellent original story because I don't want to try it. But I guess I have to.
Fleur de Lys is the love story of two soldiers who served in the same company in WWI. It's about a friendship that could only exist in the void of war. It will turn your stomach and it will make you cry.

A quote:

Cowan had somehow got the mud off his face and more or less off his uniform, but there was nothing he could do about the stains. He was at least six foot four and younger than Dev had first thought. Hair colour was indistinguishable from mud. Blue eyed. Hard faced. Deverel leaned against the table and looked him over without interest.

“What did you think you were doing out there?”

Cowan’s eyes fixed on the wall. Deverel slammed a hand down on the table.

“Now listen. I can make life pretty damned unpleasant for you-“

Cowan’s eyes flickered down. It was a steady, hot stare, and it scorched right through Deverel, drying the rest of the lecture in his mouth.

It said You arrogant, pretentious little prick, what do you know?

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Warning: This story is intended for an adult audience, contains violence and deals with severe emotional traumata as well as suicide.

... or some nice stuff I wanted to share with my flist!

Take a look at pictures of a diamond mine in Siberia It's like *this* big!

A photographic blast from the past at shorpy.

Two movie trailer spoofs by EvilIguanaProduction Twilight and The Dark Knight

Ever wondered how the Condoms of Champions or Tom Selleck in icing would look like?

Escapism: DailyMail article about three women who live in the 50s, 40s and 30s. I like to close the front door, pull off my gloves and know that I am in my own world.

Olympics: TheGuardian shows tattoos of Olympics' participants and asks you to compete in a literary quiz. I got 5 out of 10. :)

Edited to add:
Music: 'Salt, Peppa, and Spinderella' by Johnny Foreigner is a great song but the video might cause epileptic seizures (I'm not kidding here. I don't suffer from epilepsy and my eyes fucking hurt when I watched the vid).

Books: TheWashingtonPost believes that Young adult novel series "Twilight" has sunken its teeth into feminism and I call bullshit. Quote: "Yet on some level, it seems that children may know human nature better than grown-ups do. Consider: The fascination that romance holds for many girls is not a mere social construct; it derives from something deeper." O RLY?
Speeshul points for missing the point: "Three decades of adults pretending that gender doesn't matter haven't created a generation of feminists who don't need men; they have instead created a horde of girls who adore the traditional male and female roles and relationships in the "Twilight" saga."
And for the lulz: "Instead, a growing number of boys in this country spend much of their free time absorbed in the masculine mayhem of video games such as Grand Theft Auto and Halo or surfing the Internet for pornography." Surfing the internet for porn is a exclusive male thing to do? Bwahahahahahaha!

I just saw that the author of the Post article Leonard Sax has written "Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men". I'm sure I saw this book being torn apart in some blog for the unfair representation of both genders but I can't find the link. (This is my last ETA. Promise!)

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