cry havoc

"a multifandom tribute to female characters" ... now if only I knew who all of them were! (see cut)
h/t: shiegra

( the list... help! do you know? )

This entire site is an absolute WEALTH of information -- I can tell from the pictures! -- but it's far above my grade level, and it's ALL IN CHINESE. I can get maybe one character out of every ten, and it doesn't help that (again, based on the pictures) there's probably plenty of less-common technical terminology in there. I can't even run it all through a translator, because, hello, text on pictures, embedded, not translatable!

*goes back to staring at pictures*

someone on my flist has got to know this one: what's the average amount/type of care if you've got thick, v. coarse, curly-to-kinky hair and want it to look like this or this? (Pam Spalding is the first; Rep. Cynthia McKinney is the second.) I know that thick, v. coarse, and straight is the usual for Asian hair, and I've been told that historically Asian women used an oil (kind of like a pomade, I'm guessing) to condition their hair, sometimes nightly, to keep it healthy. Would something similar be done for thick, coarse, kinky African hair?

Not requiring anyone to give me a dissertation (though I wouldn't complain if you can/would), but even a website that has basic facts about how to get the look(s), how to take care of them, what kind of upkeep is required -- that would be really awesome. There's got to be something out there, I'm sure, but my google-fu seems to be lacking on this. (Mostly because the top 300 hits on any search are all blog posts about Michelle Obama. Not that I'm complaining, but I know her style requires chemical processing, and I'd like to find info on styles that do not require processing.)

Any ideas, advice, sites with reliable info?

Because if you took a shot everytime she repeats something your mother said to you, at :30 into it, you'll have finished the bottle. Or two.

Because Welshmen dream of electric sheep.

I had to play it twice because the first time I was laughing so hard at 30 seconds in that I missed most of the rest. Drink warning!

If there's a conflict of interest, you disclose it... and if you don't realize that right away, you disclose it as soon as you do. DOH!

(when I've got the pennies to hand over, that is, but until then, at least there's the demo!)

I mean, Scrivener freaking ROCKS*. FINALLY a way to rearrange scenes and have the document rearrange itself automatically.

Why didn't I use this sooner? Oh, right, because I are an IDJIT.

* warning: somewhat largeish image, but screenshot if you want to see what has me all happy -- normally I have it larger so I can see the entirety of each notecard, but I scaled it down some so you get the gist but without everything being one-sixteenth of an inch high to fit in a normal screen-size.

[MAC ONLY; suggested winapp is pagefour.]

For those of you who aren't familiar with or haven't seen Mushishi, I thought it might be helpful to at least get a visual of the story's representation of mushi. [The corollary, for Mo No No Ke, is an earlier post.]

Among the AMVs on youtube, this one seemed one that (despite using non-series music) has a timbre closest to the feeling of the original. In some ways wistful, sometimes strong. Not only is nearly every frame showing various mushi, but note also that in many of the cases, the mushi themselves don't just resemble bugs; in some cases they look remarkably like hanzi/kanji characters. (In fact, at least two storylines deal with mushi that are created from, or take shape through, written characters.)

Time and again in manga and anime, magical spells are represented by a single character -- ( as though the character itself were being formed out of thin air and thrown at the other person... ) Actually, in thinking of any sort of (western-based and western-written) urban fantasy in which two characters have a show-down and proceed to throw air-created words -- as the written form -- at each other... Hrm. I would probably laugh, to be honest. It'd just seem so silly, when something like, oh, 'electrocute' -- did that word even exist before a hundred years ago?