tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26010263967290772962024-03-12T21:30:33.215-07:00Charlotte's WebUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-42109989052249941282013-12-31T18:11:00.000-08:002013-12-31T18:11:35.497-08:002013 In ReviewFacebook has that app or feature or whatever it is, called 'Your Year in Review' and for mine it basically is Disneyland, Dickens Fair, and pie. Which is not all that interesting so I've decided to take a look at all the numbers and add things up here that equal my 2013.<br />
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Number of Days in Disneyland: 5<br />
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Southern CA trips: 4<br />
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Disney Costumes:11<br />
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Other Dresses: 2<br />
Original Designs: 3<br />
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That is pretty much my life this past year. Not too much going on but that is kind of what school does to a person. Here's hoping next year will be more eventful, and if all goes according to plan, it will be.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-40952545698550616462013-12-19T15:49:00.001-08:002013-12-19T15:49:35.744-08:00Fish Fingers and Custard<img alt="fish fingers and custard" class="pinImage" src="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/28/3e/71/283e7117a2c910432f0b64eaf87f207a.jpg" style="height: 282px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 40px 0px; width: 500px;" /> <br />
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On the Day of the Doctor, after watching that glorious episode, I went to the store and bought custard powder. I already had the frozen fish sticks having bought them earlier in the week in preparation for this day. I had debated for a long time whether I actually wanted to try out fish fingers and custard and I felt the time had come.<br />
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But not until a week later. The idea was just off putting but as a loyal Doctor Who fan and running into many other loyal fans who had tasted it, I felt I just needed to know that flavour for myself.<br />
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On the day I actually prepared this 'dish' I had a cold so it might have been my sick brain going crazy, but I made the custard, it turned out amazing and very tasty. Other people have used vanilla pudding, but that really won't work for this because it is way too sweet. What is nice about this mix is that it isn't crazy sweet it is creamy and smooth (should you mix it correctly) and the hint of sweetness makes it a dessert and not a sauce.<br />
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Now the time to put the two together. They were plated nicely, and I stared at the plate for a while before reaching out and hesitently dipping a fish finger into the custard and bringing it to my mouth.<br />
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There are three things that I've had in my life that I've had the same taste bud confusion to. The first was the dill pickle flavoured popcorn available in Carsland at the Cozy Cones. They didn't taste like dill pickle and I didn't know what it tasted like and I'm still not sure whether I liked it or not, but I ate all of it because I was starving.<br />
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The second thing was a cider. Described to be more like a sour beer, it had the apple flavour in there but all the other flavours mixed in, plus the sour taste, just threw me for a loop and I kept drinking my sample because I couldn't tell if I liked it or not.<br />
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And the third is fish fingers and custard. Because the Bird's custard isn't ridiculously sweet it didn't taste all that strange with the fish. Had it been vanilla pudding I bet it would have been gross. The fish wasn't too salty so that didn't work against the custard either, this could vary depending on fish finger type. The custard added a creamy sauce to the crispy fingers so it balanced nicely in the texture department. I'm still not sure about the flavour since neither really has all that of a strong flavour in order to out shine the other. Overall, it is edible, and you know for someone not of this world, it could be their favourite thing ever, for me I'm okay not eating it together, but I'm not afraid to try it anymore should I have to.<br />
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Additionally, there is an Asian custard that is very eggy, I've had it from a Japanese market before, and it isn't sweet at all. In fact it has a bit of a salty taste to it. I bet that with fish fingers would be really good and would help bring forth the natural fish flavours in the fingers.<br />
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Last year I decided that I really was too poor to afford all these fancy ornaments anyway so time to do something different and practice my hand at making them stuff, and all my money was used to buy fancy gifts for my family who I can never figure out what to get and usually just get them a DVD or something.<br />
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I had been sewing for a good six years now many, many different costumes and I try to keep the larger scraps of fabric for later use just in case I need them. Well I never found a use for them and often being in odd shapes I had no clue what to do with them so I decided to give those to my friends. But sewn together. In fancy patterns. With a theme. And stuffing inside.<br />
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Yes I made them pillows! Fancy decorative pillows!<br />
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I inconspicuously sent them a message in October I believe asking them who their favourite Disney character was (a common, neutral theme amongst my friend were that they are huge Disney fans) and they replied back and I got to work drawing out basic designs for each friend then tweaking it in accordance to the cut of fabric I had.<br />
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In the end I produced seven of these fabulous pillows and I must say I like them quite a bit. Though they did take up a lot of space in my room between completion and distribution.<br />
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And I can remember what each scrap of fabric came from and for a special added Disney treat, in each pillow I added a scrap of fabric from some Disney fabric. Last year when I worked at Disneyland, I had access to the Company store where they sell outdated merchandise, old hotel funiture, and even fabric that the costume department doesn't need anymore. I got this white, shiny fabric that I think either was used for Tiana's dress or the Soundsational Parade Princess dancers, and I got a lot of it so since it was Disney fabric, I decided to use a piece of it in each pillow. <br />
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Fabrics used:<br />
Rapunzel purple<br />
Mother Gothel red<br />
Mother Gothel gold trim<br />
Random Pirate gold<br />
Random Pirate ivory<br />
Mrs. Lovett's red fringe<br />
Anna Sackville-Bagg velvet<br />
White Disney Fabric<br />
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Alice from Alice in Wonderland</h2>
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Fabrics Used:<br />
Park Alice blue and white cotton<br />
Haku dragon white ribbon<br />
Dickens Fair black ribbon<br />
Burton Alice blue sheer<br />
Disney Park fabric ruffle<br />
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Donald Duck</h2>
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Fabrics Used:<br />
Sailor Jupiter white trim<br />
Kanmuri Shigeru blue cotton<br />
Susan Pevensie daisy fabric<br />
Kiki's red ribbon<br />
Disney White Fabric at neckline<br />
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Jane Porter from Tarzan</h2>
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Fabrics Used:<br />
Mother Gothel silk yellow<br />
Mrs Lovetts' paisley gold<br />
Random Pirate gold<br />
Rapunzel purple<br />
Burton Alice lace<br />
Disney White Fabric neckline<br />
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Loki from Thor and The Avengers </h2>
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Fabrics Used:<br />
Dickens Fair green<br />
Random scrap fabric gold<br />
Susan Pevensie brown leather<br />
Mother Gothel cloak black<br />
Disney White Fabric at top<br />
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Peter Pan from Peter Pan</h2>
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Fabrics Used:<br />
Mother Gothel trim<br />
Failed Hook Tinkerbell attempt brown<br />
Chihiro green<br />
Susan Pevensie suede thread<br />
Dickens Fair feather<br />
Disney White fabric at neckline<br />
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So this year I once again asked my friend a vague question that they have no clue what it is in relation to, and I plan to make something else in response to their answers. I could sew them something again since I have so many fabric scraps still, but everyone shall have to wait and see.<br />
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-Charlotte<br />
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Because <i>The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug</i> was released today I shall share a Lord of the Rings story from my childhood.<br />
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In third grade I started attending day care after school and there you were suppose to do your homework and then play with the other kids. I would finish my homework in class and I didn't really care to play with the other kids so I spent my time reading since they had a really good selection of books. It was here that I read all of the<u> Chronicles of Narnia</u>, many Dickens classics, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and all of the Lord of the Rings books (including <u>Hobbit</u>). When I was in fifth grade or so <i>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</i> came out in theatres and on DVD and I was obsessed and watched it again and again.<br />
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<a href="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/99/ce/38/99ce381debcb038da761e1caa0a2f660.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="accurate" border="0" class="pinImg fullBleed loaded" src="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/99/ce/38/99ce381debcb038da761e1caa0a2f660.jpg" /></a>None of my friends understood my obsession and a few thought the movie was boring. I had this one friend whose entire family would say 'whenever I need to take a nap I'll pop in a Lord of the Rings movie'. I never liked that comment and would get so angry inside I had potential to turn into the Hulk. Needless to say we aren't friends anymore, not because of that but sometimes I like to think it is because of that.<br />
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The main story takes place on Valentines Day in fifth grade. Because it is elementary school they have the rule where you have to bring a valentine for everyone in the class so no one is left out and my friend Sergio brought Lord of the Rings valentines. My friend Sergio is one of the most laziest people I know, and he takes pride in it, so he just grabbed a random Valentine to bring regardless of what theme is was and he didn't even write our names on it just left the 'To:' part blank and wrote his name in the 'From:' before giving them out willy nilly.<br />
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I sat at the same table as him so I knew he brought Lord of the Rings valentines and I really wanted a Legolas one. The elves are my favourite race from the series and the only elf on the Valentines was Legolas so I really wanted that one. Because they were folded in half and stickered shut so you couldn't see the picture on the inside, my friend Sergio just sort of shrugged and said 'you get what you get.' He distributed them, I opened mine, and saw I had Gandalf- don't get me wrong I love Gandalf, but I really wanted an elf and I could be a bit selfish at times so when I handed my valentines out I scoped to see who had the glorious elf valentine.<br />
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My friend Megan did.<br />
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Now she was into mythological creatures and things of that nature. Influenced from her parents, they have dragons all over their house and she spent her free time playing an online game with wizards and dragons and stuff of that nature (...or not of nature...). But she did not know Lord of the Rings, nor did she see the movie. I had tried to talk her into it because I knew she would like it, but she hadn't gotten into it yet. Bingo.<br />
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I finished passing my valentines out then grabbed my Gandalf valentine and sat next to her.<br />
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"What did you get?" I asked. She shared her valentines and then came to the Legolas valentine.<br />
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"That's my favourite character!" I said when she showed it to me.<br />
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"Really? Who did you get?" she asked. I showed her.<br />
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"This is Gandalf the Gray, he is a really powerful wizard. Really cool, but you have my favoruite character," I said. I knew she loved wizards a lot so I started making Gandlaf seem like the only wizard in the world and that she must have him. I spewed out all my knowledge on him till she began to look back and forth between the two valentines.<br />
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"He does sound cool," she said staring at my Gandalf card.<br />
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"Hey, do you want to trade?"<br />
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She looked back and forth between the two cards before nodding and switching. I had my elf valentine.<br />
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The funny thing is that once she finally saw the movie and all the other ones, she became obsessed with Legolas. As Tumblr is to Hiddleston she was to Legolas. She had his picture as her desktop wallpaper, screensaver, a shirt of him, even a life size cardboard cut out of him in her room. She didn't remember this Valentine's Day, but I do and every time I saw one of her Legolas items I would always remember this story and smile.<br />
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But what the best part is...<br />
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...I STILL HAVE THE VALENTINE!<br />
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I smooth talked my way into getting this Valentine and even lied my ass off, it was a huge win in my book and I could never see it in my heart to throw it away so I kept it all these years.<br />
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-Charlotte<br />
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Finally got around to seeing Disney's newest animated feature <i>Frozen</i> and I have to say it did not disappoint. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTzZ6DZQWxXT9CQsmoy8TNEPKZFB1jbYbhGD2fbFTs_Xd81mniQs_D0zMku-k_DIPpcYLr1puqEdqFFeONb7zbmd6ecEOxRd8w8dT4OpqmjtP8cE85A0_u93pcV5SM8E7OyM851POsqU/s1600/RISE+OF+THE+GUARDIANS+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="mainImage" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTzZ6DZQWxXT9CQsmoy8TNEPKZFB1jbYbhGD2fbFTs_Xd81mniQs_D0zMku-k_DIPpcYLr1puqEdqFFeONb7zbmd6ecEOxRd8w8dT4OpqmjtP8cE85A0_u93pcV5SM8E7OyM851POsqU/s200/RISE+OF+THE+GUARDIANS+5.jpg" width="200" /></a>When I first heard about this film (a long, long time ago) I immediately fell in love with the story and the character Elsa. It is inspired by Hans Christen Anderson's <u>The Snow Queen</u> which meant two of my favourite things: snow and queens. And with recently animated movies capturing frost and snow such as that in Dream Works' <i>Rise of the Guardians</i>, I knew it was going to be very beautiful. One thing animation can bring to a winter wonderland that real life really can't is the intricate patterns frost and snow creates but so that our naked eye can see them. Animation allows artistic takes on these patterns that end up being so beautiful. While the frost in <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> was better than the frost in <i>Frozen,</i> the Disney animators went all out when it came to the ice and snowflakes. The animation was amazing and it was great to have the character Kristoff, an ice shipper and salesman, to constantly admired the ice created by Elsa because it really allowed the audience to stop and and appreciate it too.<br />
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As far as Queens are concerned, I've always liked and connected more with Disney Queens than Disney Princesses. It could be the whole power thing but from the Queen of Hearts to the Evil Queen in Snow White, I even liked Rapunzel's mother, I've always preferred to be or meet a Disney Queen than a Disney Princess. So when this movie was announced everyone kept saying that there was going to be two princesses in it and I had to keep saying 'no, one princess and a queen'. And what a queen Elsa is. As far as Queenly duties go, her first day I'd admit is a little rough, but she is very powerful. As far as her character s concerned I felt it lacked a little mainly because most of the focus was on her sister Anna and so at times Elsa fell a little flat and that disappointed me, especially at the end of the film. But the times with Elsa was amazing and I really do think she was one of the most beautifully designed characters ever.<br />
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Now to music. It is a Disney movie so of course there is singing. In fact the movie opens up with singing, majestic choir singing. I bet it was the same choir that sang all the choral parts and they were amazing! The entire movie could be done with their singing and I would be happy. Every time the chorus sang it was perfectly in harmony and it was much more powerful than any other songs in the film except maybe 'Let It Go'. I'm a choir singer and I can appreciate a damn good choir, and this was a damn great choir. And Demi Levato's cover of 'Let It Go' shies in comparison to the original, it isn't even on the same level, the point where I'd say it is like a bad YouTube cover of the song. Compared to Idina Menzel's voice, Demi Levato's just seems shrill and boring with really no depth to it like Menzel's achieved. So I'll stick with the original...on repeat.<br />
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As far as the songs in the film go, they were okay. None really stood out quite like 'Let It Go' did except 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman', both were key points in the film and great songs that really developed the characters and represented the root of the film. The voices were all great as well, I especially liked Josh Gad, who voiced Olaf, I didn't like the song 'In Summer' because I really don't like Olaf, but coming from the Broadway Production of <i>Book of Mormon</i>, he has a great voice when he is singing.<br />
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I really didn't like Olaf...at all. I understand why he is there, to make it more enjoyable for the kids that undoubtedly would flock to see the new Disney movie, but as an adult I felt there was plenty of comic relief in Sven and Kristoff. Those two were great together and hilarious but then when Olaf arrived pretty much all silliness from Sven and Kristoff disappeared and it was all channeled into Olaf. I felt like too much was placed on this snowman that really didn't need to be there.<br />
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One things I also look for in animated movies, especially computer animated films is the clothing. Did they show the stitching? Does it move like a realistic type of fabric? Can I recognize that fabric? And various other things just like that, and this movie did address all of this. You could see the stitching, you can see the realistic movement of the fabric and how it is sewn and pleated, and I can vaguely figure out what fabric is what. It is those little details that I really appreciate because it is a Disney movie, people are going to be wanting these costumes and I'm going to have to make them. Example, I've mostly finished Elsa's Snow Queen costume, will soon start on her coronation outfit, and my friend wants to be my Anna so, yeah, all those little details in the film helps because I want to be a accurate as possible.<br />
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Last, the story. It is a very good story, not great but good. The theme is obviously family, a tale of two sisters, and while the focus is more on Anna, they do a great job of showing their relationship and how Elsa feels about it and how Anna is confused about it. The end was sort of what I wanted to happen, but because the focus was on Anna and not on Elsa like I wished, the end wasn't as ideal as I would have liked, but still better than what they tired to get you to believe.<br />
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So there were elements that I absolutely loved and a few things that I really did not like but over all I am now obsessed with this movie. I'm a December baby so I've always loved snow, ice, frost, things like that, and finally animation is at that place where they can just nail it in their films and I would be sold just on that alone but with the addition of the costumes, the story, the queen, and choir, it is all just 'frost'ing. Like <i>Tangled</i>, this will be a classic Disney film in no time, but I think this could be tied with Princess and the Frog as my favourite 'princess' movie.<br />
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If you haven't seen it, go and see it, there is bound to be something in there that you will love.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-8338115107808488232013-12-06T12:38:00.000-08:002013-12-06T12:38:04.453-08:00Flashback Friday: The EighthThis is a flashback so far back in the past that it is impossible to calculate in days...<br />
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Eighteen hours ago my friend texted me to wish me a happy birthday. Last year she sent me a...interesting image and she decided to resend it which makes things...not so happy, in fact it makes it scary.<br />
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Scary, no?<br />
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Anyway after we got passed that we proceeded to have this conversation (and yes Brittany, I did just type all of this out).<br />
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Brittany: Sorry, I couldn't keep it low key...<br />
Charlotte: Your pun is not appeciated.<br />
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Brittany: Also happy Thorsday...<br />
Charlotte: You're making it less happy with confetti filled pictures of Loki...<br />
Brittany: Aww don't be fury-ous...<br />
Charlotte: See now you've gone and made things hawkward.<br />
Brittany: Roger that.<br />
Charlotte: This is for children.<br />
Brittany: Is it?!<br />
Charlotte: Oh but I like this.<br />
Brittnay: That was the plan.<br />
Charlotte: We need a plan of attack!<br />
Brittany: I have a plan, attack!<br />
Charlotte: Your move reindeer games.<br />
Brittany: I have an army.<br />
Charlotte: We have a hulk.<br />
Brittany: I thought the beast had wandered off...<br />
Charlotte: Have you ever tried shawarma?<br />
Brittany: I don't know what it is, but I want to try it.<br />
Charlotte: Get in line.<br />
Brittany: I've been compromised.<br />
Charlotte: TELL ME!<br />
Brittany: What have I to fear?<br />
Charlotte: Shakespeare in the park.<br />
Brittany: Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?<br />
Charlotte: You are an old man and a fool!<br />
Brittany: Yes...I was a fool, to think you were ready.<br />
Charlotte: I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things.<br />
Brittany: No hard feelings point break, you've got a mean swing.<br />
Charlotte: HAMMER! HAMMER!<br />
Brittany: What are you prepared to do?<br />
Charlotte: ANOTHER!<br />
Brittany: Alright, no more smashing. Deal?<br />
Charlotte: I need a distraction...and an eyeball.<br />
Brittany: Is this about the Avengers? Which I know nothing about...<br />
Charlotte: That is the point! That's Loki's point. He hit us right where we live.<br />
Brittany: Do I look to be in a gaming mood?<br />
Charlotte: Better clench up Legolas.<br />
Brittany: Well I see better form a distance.<br />
Charlotte: I watched you when you were sleeping.<br />
Brittany: And you're all about style, aren't you?<br />
Charlotte: Tell me, what is my disadvantage?<br />
Brittany: The Avengers. it's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. Earth's mightiest heroes type thing.<br />
Charlotte: Seeing as it was a stupid ass decision I've elected to ignore it.<br />
Brittany: I still believe in heroes.<br />
Charlotte: I would sit this one out, Cap. These two come from legend they're bascially gods.<br />
Brittany: not a great plan.<br />
Charlotte: How any of you are ready to help me sock old Adolf in the jaw?<br />
Brittany: JARVIS, initiate the House Party protocol.<br />
Charlotte: They took my iPod. I just downloaded like 30 songs on there.<br />
Brittany: is that your excuse?<br />
Charlotte: Put on the suit let's go a few rounds.<br />
Brittany: Look at you. Still all muscly and everything!<br />
Charlotte: Are you really that desparate?<br />
Brittany: You can take away my suits, you can take away my home, but there's one thing you can never take away from me, I am Iron Man.<br />
Charlotte: With great power comes great responsibility.<br />
Brittany: Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer?<br />
Charlotte: Did I get it?<br />
Brittany: Let's find out!<br />
Charlotte: you're not dressed warmly enough.<br />
Brittany: As none of us mutated to endure extreme g-forces or begin riddled by bullets, I suggest we suit up.<br />
Charlotte: I don't get a suit of armour.<br />
Brittany: You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message.<br />
Charlotte: What silver tongue turn to lead?<br />
Brittany: What's the matter, scared of a little lightening?<br />
Charlotte: I'm not overly fond of what follows.<br />
Brittany: Are you an alien?<br />
Charlotte: Sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass....sea bass.<br />
Brittany: Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity.<br />
Charlotte: Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break.<br />
Brittany: I've seen worlds you've never heard about! I have grown, Odin's Son, in my exile!<br />
Charlotte: you get the big guy.<br />
Brittany: I'm here on behalf of SHIELD.<br />
Charlotte: Wait I want to see this.<br />
Brittany: And what if the other guy says no?<br />
Charlotte: Barton's been compromised.<br />
Brittany: You have no idea what you're dealing with.<br />
Charlotte: I am Loki, of Jotunheim.<br />
Brittany: Puny god.<br />
Charlotte: I don't understand this usually works.<br />
Brittany: Well, performance issues, it's not uncommon.<br />
Charlotte: what's you secret? Mellow jazz, bong drums?<br />
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And that is when we broke the midnight barrier and continued the converstation.<br />
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Brittany: Avoiding stress isn't the secret.<br />
Charlotte: Recognitive recalibration.<br />
Brittany: That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did.<br />
Charlotte: He said his name was Thor.<br />
Brittany: Loki, this is madness!<br />
Charlotte: Look at you!<br />
Brittany: Oh, I still don't think you're the god of thunder. but you ought to be.<br />
Charlotte: I want bird.<br />
Brittany: I need horse.<br />
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And that's where we finished and I still need to text my reply...and come up with a Marvel quote to use.<br />
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It was amusing and interesting and if anyone is bored and wants to figure out what movie and character each quote comes from go for it....there might be a prized involved. Meaning there will be.<br />
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I have a feeling we are going to continue this for a while so their will be a sequel to this post.<br />
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Other then that I had a pretty boring birthday being sick and stuck in classes all day. I would have liked to go to the Walt Disney Family Museum since it was his birthday first and foremost, but I didn't have the time.<br />
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-Charlotte<br />
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Here, there is a shop, some might know it as the corset shop, others by its proper title of Dark Garden Corset Shop, either way it is a place to buy proper ladies undergarments and to oodle at beautiful mechaniques in the front windows who will gladly display these corsets for sale.<br />
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As you may or may not know, I am a performer at Dickens Fair and decided that this year I shall lend my skills and model some corsets myself. Since I was new to the game I had my audition during the first weekend of fair (just last weekend) and I do believe it went rather well.<br />
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We pick a theme for our window and wear clothing that looks Victorian to fit with the theme. I made my bloomers, chemise, and arm guards to fit with my theme and our wonderful model wrangler supplied a corset that matched my theme the best.<br />
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Can you guess my theme yet?<br />
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Yes it was Loki, mainly because I had green fabric to make my other pieces of clothing for this so it just seemed to work and several props of my own that would fit. And it helped me with my poses by drawing inspiration from poses he's done. But I did try to focus more on mythological Loki than Marvel Loki mainly because that is Victorian. My one really distinct mythological Loki pose was my last one.<br />
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Involving snake venom (the best I could portray given what I had). If there was a horse plush and a wolf plush I would have placed those on the chair too but alas they did not have those and I don't have any either.<br />
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Next Sunday I shall be doing my last window (only signed up to do two my first time round) and my theme is something I'm sure you all will recognize it will be familiar but a Victorian spin.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-5603704665422038772013-11-29T16:57:00.002-08:002013-11-29T16:57:57.256-08:00Flashback Friday: The Seventh<a href="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/33/25/b5/3325b559f8c4000ea76d519520029480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="doctor who" border="0" class="pinImg fullBleed loaded" height="293" src="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/33/25/b5/3325b559f8c4000ea76d519520029480.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Still in the Doctor Who spirit I will share yet another Doctor Who related story.<br />
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Summer 2011 I was doing a cake decorating internship at a local bakery and there I made two very good friends. Very similar to my Disney internship the following year, I went in with this obsession for Doctor Who that no one understood and I left with many people obsessed with it.<br />
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I'm not entirely sure how it really started but my two friends at the bakery were Emily and Marci, both geeks and both lots of fun to work with.<br />
<br />They started watching the show and that was a lot of what we would talk about at work. Eventually we started hanging out on weekends and have mini Doctor Who marathons and it always involved carrots, celery, hummus, and one time we made bacon brownies and another I made us butterbeer.<br />
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There are two instances I wish to tell you about.<br />
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The first story happened at work. Emily came in around 8 in the morning while Marci and I started work at 4:30 in the morning. We did all the morning prep before the bakery opened along with one or two other people. One morning I think there was just four of us opening and one was out front putting cakes in the display and Marci was in the pantry.<br />
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Marci walked out of the pantry and that was when I jumped out in front of her and 'sonic'ed her. She screamed bloody murder.<br />
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I really didn't expect her to scream so loudly and jump out of her skin. It was hilarious but it 'up'ed our sonic screwdriver war, though I am glad to say she never got me back quite as badly as I did her.<br />
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The second story still involves Marci and this time it brings in her awesome roommate. When we would watch some episodes at her place her roommate occasionally joined us and he was a big Doctor Who fan as well.<br />
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I was bored so I drew two weeping angel drawings: one of a regular weeping angel and the other of a creepy weeping angel. I gave them to Marci and she smirked with an evil idea.<br />
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Apparently, her roommate's brother was coming to stay with them for a weekend and he was a fan of the show as well. So when he came, that night after he fell asleep, she and her roommate taped the pictures up in the bathroom and at some point in the night, they heard his brother scream in fright at being scared by drawings. Marci couldn't stop laughing as she told me what happened the next day.<br />
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Both amusing stories and I really miss those two. We all moved away from each other and once in a while keep in touch with each other. Whenever I watch Pyramids of Mars I remember them because we watched that together and one scene where the mummies squished a guy between their chests we had to watch again and again because it was too hysterical.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-29214820176968092322013-11-23T14:14:00.003-08:002013-11-23T14:14:50.081-08:00Creepy Computer ScreensaverHappy 50th Doctor Who!<br />
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Here is a creepy way to add more Doctor Who in your life. It will not just freak out Doctor Who fans but in general it is just freaky so others will befall the terror that is the Doctor Who monster.<br />
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Step One!<br />
Make a folder in where ever you keep your files and label it something so that you will recognize it (like D.W. Screensaver).<br />
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Add the five photos on this page to that photo and make sure they are in order (label them 1-5).<br />
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Go to your computer's preferences or system operations or whatever you wish to call it and locate where to personalize your wallpaper/screensaver settings.<br />
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Go to the screensaver settings and choose to use your own photos. Add that folder you created as where to get your new screen saver photos from. Then be sure to click settings so that there isn't any moving or zooming on the picture when it is displayed in screen saver mode and make sure they show the pictures in numerical order on full screen.<br />
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This year's run time starts this Saturday, November 23rd and is every weekend (plus Black Friday) till December 22nd. Doors open at 10 AM and close at 6PM.<br />
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This will be my second year attending Dickens Fair but I don't just go, I play. I am a performer at Dickens Fair- Miss Charlotte Web part of the Coventry Carolers. And while I might not be an expert, I was there every weekend and found out about many things and experienced them while I was there thanks to other performers and my own curiosities. So here is my list of stuff to do at Dickens Fair. It might not be perfect but these are just merely suggestions, and in no particular order.<br />
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1. Well first things first, you must hear the Coventry Carolers perform!<br />
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We are the ones responsible for spreading the Christmas cheer all throughout Dickens' London all day long starting before the doors to the event even open! Yes while you lot are lining up outside in the cold waiting for the festivities to begin, we are out there entertaining you with Victorian Chirstmas tunes and preparing you for coming attractions. But if you miss us during opening, then here is a list of our other scheduled times:<br />
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2.The Characters!<br />
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Dickens drew his characters in his novels from the people around him and so when re-creating his London, naturally those characters will walk the streets. It is what makes this Christmas Party better than any other because not only are we re-creating Victorian London but you can actually meet and interact with literary characters. You can see the tale of the Christmas Carol being told throughout the day. Wish Scrooge and Merry Christmas and get an actual 'Bah Humbug' in return. We try to represent all characters and novels but the most characters seen come from Nicholas Nickleby. Of course there is Dodger and his gang from <i>Oliver Twist</i> and you can even meet Dickens himself.<br />
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Last year, on the last day of fair I got to dance with both Scrooge and Prince Albert! Another great thing I witnessed was Edgar Allen Poe reciting <i>The Tell-Tale Heart</i> and <i>The Raven</i> in all his drunken glory at the Adventurer's Club. You never know who you are going to meet.<br />
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3. Food and Beverages!<br />
I believe the total count is 7 pubs/taverns. They have a variety of different drinks, both with or without alcohol, that are very unique and quite delicious. My brother loved their beer selection and my parents keep reminiscing about the drinks they had. And you can tell what food is near based on the smells. Scent of malt vinegar? Probably by the fish and chips. Cinnamon sugar roasting? By one of the two almond stands (which are amazing and addicting). Then there is this whole area with the most food that has pasties and bangers and all the foods you can expect in London. And across from the Victoria and Albert hall is the meat pie shop, but you'll want to get one early because the line gets scary long around mid-day.<br />
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4. Dancing at Fezziwig's!<br />
If you are awkward and don't want to dance with someone you don't know, I know the feeling, but you have to get past it because the Fezziwig dancers are really nice and friendly and will make sure you don't feel awkward while you dance. Just dance one dance and you'll understand just how much fun it is. For prime dancing times, the end of the night is where it is at because that is one the few things still going on at this time.<br />
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5. Corset Models<br />
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Dark Garden Corsets have two display windows where the beautiful citizens of London kindly lend their bodies for an hour to display the beautiful corsets available at the shop. They pick a theme and whether you recognize what or who they are or not, it is still very tasteful and a work of art. I can happily say that I shall be lending my statue talents this year for, hopefully, two windows.<br />
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6. Saucy French Post Cards<br />
Might as well follow corsets with this. Saucy French Post Cards is a show at the Victoria and Albert Hall in the evening hours that is for the older visitors because if does contain suggestive language and nudity...lots of nudity. But it is comedic dialogue mixed with living art. It is entertaining and pretty amazing to watch so if you are of age and can get tickets, I highly recommend it.<br />
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7. Mad Sal's<br />
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Because I am of the higher class of Victorian Citizen I do not often find myself down in the Southern end of London with the scum, but I hear there is this stage hosted by a lady named Mad Sal where there are can can dancers and lots of other strong women and men who sing and entertain with catchy songs.<br />
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8. <a href="http://dickensfair.com/merchants" target="_blank">Shops</a><br />
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So many shops. Most performer's get their Christmas shopping done here because there are many unique arts and crafts type of gifts from leather masks, old books, even Harry Potter wands. One of my favourite things was this key shop where they sold old keys on chains with other charms and there were actual keys. My mum got one that was 150 years old from England that opened a door. My aunt received one that was American and opened a chest, I believe. <br />
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9. Fun time for kids!<br />
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Did you just see Alice walking with the White Rabbit down the street? You bet you did. Over at the Father Christmas stage you can see a performance of Alice in Wonderland, classic nursery rhymes, and even meet Father Christmas himself. And it is interactive so your kids will be involved.<br />
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10. Time Travel<br />
Let's face it, this will probably be one of the closests way you will ever come to actual time travel. It is a completely emmersive experience and while you and many other might be wearing funny clothes, there are plenty of performers to make you forget about those. Yes there is occasional guest dressed as the Doctor (in fact you will see a multitude of them) and just know those are guests, but it doesn't means we aren't Doctor Who fans. I took this picture of a back stage wall:<br />
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So there an even ten but that really can't sum up Dickens Fair quite enough. You really just need to go there for yourself because there is nothing else like this in the world, not even in the original London.<br />
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Hope to see you there!<br />
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In honour of the 50th Doctor Who Anniversary tomorrow I shall post one of my many humorous Doctor Who stories.<br />
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This happened last year, Summer 2012. It is amazing who ends up being a fan of Doctor Who. Did you know that pretty much most of the management and cast members on the Hollywoodland side of Disney California Adventure are massive Who Fans? Because they are. And even if they aren't fans, they know of the show because of everyone else around them being fans.<br />
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There was one lead in Bug's Land who would get obsessed with something and urge others to become obsessed and during my working time there that obsession was Doctor Who. There were pictures all over the Bug's Lead office and we would solve Doctor Who secrets on the white board (that was really supposed to be used for important Disney things). There was a cast photo taken for the grand re-opening and those of us that weren't in the picture drew ourselves in- I won because I drew myself standing inside a T.A.R.D.I.S. floating above everyone else. Oh yeah, they were pretty jealous.<br />
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Well this story takes place one afternoon. I had the opening shift and I was on my last break of the day. Usually I spent it in the lead office talking to the lead if they weren't busy, usually about Doctor Who since I knew more about it, and this time was no different only there was a manager visiting. Managers at Disneyland are fun and while they do their job, they are often some of the coolest people ever. Example, this manager, whom I had never met before, had brought a bunch of papers with weeping angels and T.A.R.D.I.S.s on them that you cut out and fold up to make 3D paper Doctor Who things.<br />
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<a href="http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/94/1d/22/941d22579fbf7347f81b1181917915c5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="I believe this represents fair warning. Haha" border="0" class="pinImage" height="200" src="http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/94/1d/22/941d22579fbf7347f81b1181917915c5.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 40px 0px;" width="200" /></a>They were sitting there cutting and folding and pasting these and asked if I wanted to help so I joined in, having nothing better to do on my break. The manager explained that in the manager's office there was one manager who was beyond obsessed with Doctor Who and were coming in later that day. So for fun, they were going to put an army of paper weeping angels and T.A.R.D.I.S.s on his desk. I couldn't say 'no' to that.<br />
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I never did get to see the final result since I was off the clock and well at home by then, but I heard from my lead that the manager loved it and thought it was brilliant.<br />
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Yep just another random day working for the mouse.<br />
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Gosh, I miss those dorks.<br />
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-Charlotte<br />
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The big topic on my Facebook feed today, and two completely different people sent me these articles:<br />
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<a href="http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/11/07/butterbeer-starbucks-harry-potter/" target="_blank">Butterbeer Starbucks Harry Potter by Pop Watch</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Forget-Pumpkin-Spice-Starbucks-Now-Serves-Butterbeer-40250.html" target="_blank">Forget Pumpkin Spice Starbucks Now Serves Butterbeer by Cinemablend</a><br />
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There are several more floating out there and I wish to set the record straight to all those wrongly informed Harry Potter fans.<br />
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First off, I will start with something a friend of mine, a barista at Starbucks himself, commented on this<a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/starbucks-serving-harry-potter-inspired-butterbeer-to-muggles-heres-how-to-get-it/" target="_blank"> article by Slash Film</a>, with:<br />
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<span class="null">"<i>As a barista, this is the most frustrating thing I've
read in a while. There is no such thing as a Starbucks secret menu. If
someone comes in and asks for this while I'm working I will pretend to
not understand that its from Harry Potter and instead explain to them
that we don't serve alcohol. Also this article says toffee nut is a
holiday syrup. That is wrong.</i>"</span><br />
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<span class="null">*(I'm sure he will still serve the drink if you ask for it, but inside he won't be happy.)</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.insideadog.com.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/book_cover_full/harry-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="http://www.insideadog.com.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/book_cover_full/harry-3.jpg" border="0" class="decoded" height="320" src="http://www.insideadog.com.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/book_cover_full/harry-3.jpg" width="196" /></a><span class="null">I am wondering where all this hype is coming from? It is kind of odd and crazy especially if this is something on the 'menu' at Starbucks but you specifically have to ask for the ingredients.</span><br />
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<li>A Creme Frappuccino base. Don’t skimp on the fat by asking for skim
or 2% milk as whole milk is required for the right consistency.</li>
<li>Add 3 pumps of caramel syrup.</li>
<li>Add 3 pumps of toffee nut syrup.</li>
<li>Top with caramel drizzle</li>
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<span class="null"> And going off of these ingredients, this doesn't seem to fit with what the drink was described as in the books. The books described butterbeer tasting as </span>"a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch" and the above listed ingredients seem like they won't make it taste like that. It is a shame that people think that they can just take something similar to butterbeer and call it such because they know they will make money from the many Harry Potter fans.<br />
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Several years ago, I created my own butterbeer recipe, it isn't perfect but if you like to make your own at home and not spend $5+ on one from Starbucks here is the recipe.<br />
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In the past I've had:<br />
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A fat T.A.R.D.I.S., a rather large hamburger, and a walker head...and some various drinks and food for different things. I like to keep weird things in my fridge.<br />
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And the newest addition to this collection is a small RV.<br />
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You can tell that we are either having a party or my brother is home by the copious amounts of beer.<br />
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I already know what cake I am making next so there will be a new addition to this collection at the end of the year.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-52360727047387510092013-11-12T12:27:00.000-08:002013-11-12T12:27:02.360-08:00Happy 50th Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last Saturday we celebrated my father's 50th Birthday. It was a grand affair with lots of food, lots of people, and of course, I made the cake for this joyous event.<br />
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When I first asked my father what type of cake he wanted he only said vanilla cake with strawberries, but the design was left up to me. I was just going to default to a Frontierland themed cake from Disneyland since that is his favourite but then I started brainstorming with my mum and I think I just mentioned a Breaking Bad cake and that led to making the RV. The 1986 Fleetwood Bounder RV used in the show.<br />
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My father loves Breaking Bad, as do I and my brother, my mother is kind of indifferent to it as far as I can tell, same with The Walking Dead. I almost made him a Walking Dead cake, but I had already done one and he wasn't as into the show as he was into Breaking Bad. The RV was sort of a natural choice because it can easily be sculpted from cake and it is a classic image from the show.<br />
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As I was working on the cake, my father guessed that it was a car of some sort because of the base shape so I joked and told him it was a delorean, and when it didn't turn out to be a delorean he was kind of depressed by that but that had more details to it than this RV and I did not have that much time to work on this cake.<br />
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It isn't as perfect as I would have liked it to be but considering the amount of time I had I think I did a pretty decent job. Also the elements on his name plate are hydrogen, bismuth, and protacinium.<br />
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Story One: <u>Mother is Not Amused</u><br />
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My mum and I were walking around in Target and we had made our way to the Halloween section. It was a few weeks before this joyous holiday so we decided to see what treats they had. Of course I had to go and look at the costumes they had out, just to see, and I was hoping to play with some of The Avenger's props since the movie had come out earlier that year and it was the big costume choice for kids this Halloween.<br />
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The aisles were somewhat messy, which happens a lot and is to be expected but I still found the props. I amused myself with the Hulk fists and the Captain's shield till my mum came over and I was holding Mjolnir. She just sort of looked at me and knew I was going to want one of these things.<br />
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After that statement she just gave me this look that showed she was not amused and that I was not allowed to get started. So I put the hammer back where I found it and we resumed our shopping.<br />
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My friend and I were returning from WonderCon 2013 in Anaheim back to our homes in Northern California. This was the second year that WonderCon was held in Anaheim; the first year I was living down there so I just walked to the con after work (people gave me weird looks as I walked through it in my World of Colour costume). The second year I was back up North so I drove us down and back and on the return trip we left during the evening so most of the drive home was at night.<br />
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On this particular drive home it was crazy windy, so I had fun trying to stabilize the car. We were in some flat farmland area and we were listening to the Thor soundtrack (having already gone through Avengers, Danny Elfman, Disney, and my special WonderCon playlist) when it starts to rain. It wasn't heavy rain just light rain.<br />
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Then it got significantly better. Out of the corner of our eyes there was a flash of light, we couldn't tell if it was lightening or not. But then there was another flash from behind us that I saw in the mirror and it was lightening! Soon there was lightening flashing from all around that area, just not really close to our area, we were surrounded but not in any danger. The rain would come and go and the lightening eventually stopped since we had driven out of that area, but with the music, that made driving through California seem really, really cool.<br />
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It was probably the most epic drive I've ever been on just because of that. It was perfect timing and 100% amazing. We still recall it to this day with fondness, like we did last night after we finished watching the Thor Marathon.<br />
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In <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"><i>Thor: The Dark World</i></a>, audiences one again are transported to a marvelous world of Norse mythology and enraptured in the strained relationships of Thor and Jane, and Thor and Loki, and Thor and Odin, and Thor and Sif, Thor and Malekith, even Thor and Richard- the only people that Thor doesn't have an interesting relationship with aren't in the film for very long.<br />
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Lots of anticipation and expectation came leading up to this film. Of course it is another one of Marvel's superhero movies and with Disney backing it, promotion for it was, of course, over the top. With all the hype and build, it is difficult for a film to live up to that level of expectation and this film....I would argue barely met that mark.<br />
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Malekith, played by our glorious 9th Doctor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001172/?ref_=tt_cl_t5" target="_blank">Christopher Eccleston</a>, is ruler of the dark elves, believed to be extinct thanks to Odin's father Borr, but instead they were just sleeping. Their only goal is to obtain the power known as the aether, the ultimate power, and destroy the nine realms once the alignment of them is complete. Which is a very good striving point for the film's antogonist and his constant terrorizing is what keeps the story moving.<br />
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Another person who keeps the story moving is Jane Foster, once again played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000204/?ref_=tt_cl_t2" target="_blank">Natalie Portman</a>. One could say that Foster is pretty much the cause of everything that happens in the film. All the major events happen pretty much because of her and her lack of being a proper scientist. Her take on how to proceed in finding other worldly objects is the same that was in <i>Prometheus</i>. 'Weird, random, alien object? I think I'll touch it.' Hollywood is really making scientists look like fools. But then for a lot of the film she is back to being that smart astrophysicist that we all grew accustomed to in the first film. So all the people that get hurt or killed in this film can blame Jane Foster for it.<br />
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One thing that I really enjoyed was the director <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851930/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" target="_blank">Alan Taylor</a>. This was his first feature film and previously worked on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3" target="_blank"><i>Game of Thrones</i></a>, and while a lot of the shots and blocking was very reminiscent of that show, it works. Asgard and the world of <i>Game of Thrones</i> are very similar, and if you think about it Thor is pretty much about a game of thrones as well. The commonalities in shots and blocking worked really well and brought a different cinematic quality to Thor that wasn't in the first one.<br />
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When the dark elves attack, especially with their space ships, it looks a lot like the Empire striking back. Additionally, Skywalker Sound added the post production sounds so all those laser guns and the sound of the ships seem like they were just re-used sounds from Star Wars. I love those sounds but it kind of takes you out of the moment if you recognize it.<br />
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Tolkien thought up his elves based off of the light elves of Norse Mythology, so to see some similarities between these elves, even if these elves were the dark ones, and the ones found in the <i>Lord of the Rings</i> movies brings it full circle in a way. There obviously is a distinct difference between the majestic elves that we already know and these vengeful elves but I can see some commonalities, especially in the light hair with the different plaits to it. Also the dark elves have their own elvish language, and at times the music sounded like music that would come from Middle Earth. Such commonalities isn't too surprising given the history of the Tolkien elves, and I appreciate the relationship between the two if it was on purpose, but once again it is something that takes you out of the experience.<br />
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I'm not just talking about Zachary Levi, voice of Flynn Ryder now playing Fandral, being in this film. You don't really notice how the Asgardian palace is shaped like the castle/kingdom Rapunzel's parents rule over until this one particular scene involving floating lights at night time, and they aren't stars. It was just a little thing but it makes you say to yourself 'haven't we seen this before?'<br />
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This is in reference to the 2009 film. Just a lot of the insides of the dark elves ships reminded me of the inside of the Romulan's ships. They are both dark races and their ships reflect that, but the dripping, metallic yet natural elements can start looking very similar.<br />
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The fact that Foster and her team of scientists: a crazy man, an intern, and the intern's intern, has moved from New Mexico to London really doesn't help you to not think about Doctor Who. Then you toss in a bunch of different aliens and gods and you just are waiting for the Doctor to show up and fix the whole mess before Thor does. Particularly when they get to the crisis point of the film, it would make a better episode of Doctor Who- a really good one too- than part of a Thor film. If it was anywhere but in London, this relationship would not be noticed, but it was in London, therefore it is noticed.<br />
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Today is the day in which I will be seeing <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"><i>Thor: The Dark World</i></a>. AMC once again is having its Marvel Movie Marathon; I attended the Iron Man one when <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"><i>Iron Man 3</i></a> came out and it was fun even if I had to endure <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/?ref_=nv_sr_3" target="_blank"><i>Iron Man 2</i></a> again. Today they are once again doing that only with Thor so they will be showing <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Thor</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">The Avengers</a>, </i>and <i>Thor: The Dark World</i>. Before these movies, I would want to watch the ones that came before first so this kind of saves me the trouble of finding time to do some, plus you get stuff.<br />
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Really I keep going to these just because of being able to see <i>The Avengers</i> on a big screen again, I will always attend a movie theatre screening of <i>The Avengers</i>.<br />
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So how will I get ready for this Thor's Day?<br />
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-I made two Loki inspired shirts, one for me and one for my friend, to wear.<br />
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When I first saw the very first trailer released there wasn't much information in regards to the story to me so I didn't really care but when I got to the end of the trailer when they finally revealed Loki all I could think was how much I liked his shirt. It was green, which is my favourite colour so I'm immediaetly drawn to anything that is green, it was lightweight and flowed well, the fabric looked somewhat futurist, and with the Asgardian zipper trim it made it more interesting.<br />
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I tried to make an exact copy but when I was dying the fabric to get the same brilliant green as in the film it never quite got there, no matter how many times I tried, so I found this other knit fabric that was green and black striped and had this gold speckling over the front. It was the best I was going to get and it was very Loki so I went with it and cut and made the shirt the same as in the film.<br />
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-Probably going to get some Avengers fruit snacks.<br />
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I always had these for lunch back when I worked at Disneyland, I put them in my metal Avengers lunchbox (sometimes I even made shawarma for lunch). There were Iron Man fruits snacks out for the last marathon that my friend brought, but I brought Avengers fruits snacks. So I shall see if I can find some again for this marathon.<br />
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It was something I created during an Avengers' party that I had. I created a 'dish' inspired by each of the characters in <i>The Avengers</i> and for Thor I made this mocha pudding. It is dark chocolate pudding with some coffee added to it, because Thor is rich and likes coffee. ANOTHER! It is also really tastey, so if I had the time I would make that but I don't think I can get away with making it, we'll see how crazy I feel like being after class.<br />
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Okay so there isn't that much to do to get ready for today and the marathon, but how much can you honestly do to get ready to sit in a movie theatre for 8ish hours? I mean I am a master of sitting in theatres, that is what happens when you study cinema, and typically I just go in and sit and try not to fall asleep. Last time I designated <i>Iron Man 2</i> as my nap time movie so this time I'm designating <i>Thor</i> as my nap time movie because I was up late finishing the trim on those shirts and I've seen that film many a time.<br />
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So happy Thorsday and later I shall write a review for the new Thor movie. My expectations based off of what I've heard is to not take it as a serious movie like <i>Iron Man 3</i>, someone is going to die (someone better), and Loki sure as hell better get back at Jane Foster for slapping him- the guy hates mortals and one slaps him, yeah he shouldn't let her get away with that. Also, since the director came from <i>Game of Thrones</i>, I want some really epic battle sequences.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-6911439062808010112013-11-05T22:23:00.000-08:002013-11-06T05:24:52.986-08:00Fowl Fantastic Face Off Finale<a href="http://www.syfy.com/" target="_blank">Syfy</a>'s <a href="http://www.syfy.com/faceoff" target="_blank">Face Off</a> season five has now come to an end and I don't really know what to look forward too on Tuesdays. I love this show and have been watching since the first season. It has inspired me to look into make up and special effects make up beyond just costumes. The amount of talent and the different characters created on this show has been amazing and inspiring.<br />
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I even used this character from the Burton-esque episode on <a href="http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/episodes/season/2/episode/208/burtonesque" target="_blank">season 2</a> created by Rayce to help me with my concept for costume designs for Marriage of Figaro. <br />
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This season they switched things up and instead of introducing us to a whole new set of artists they decided to make this season newbies versus veterans. It was great to see so many of my favourite veterans return and I couldn't wait to see what they would come up with but there lies the problem. Because they brought back so many amazing veterans, I didn't care about getting to know the newbies because no one in my mind would be better than Roy, RJ, Tate, and definitely Laura. Laura is my all time favourite from all the seasons. She had me at how much Star Wars knowledge she had during her first challenge.<br />
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I always felt during her season that she wasn't recognized enough for what a good job she did. Most of her make ups were amazing and shone above others yet she didn't start winning till towards the end of the season.<br />
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I was thrilled to see her come back as a veteran for this season and even more happy that she finally was getting a lot of the recognition that she deserved. I do feel that this season she has shown improvement since her first time on the show in season three, which is partially why she she had been winning a lot more challenges.<br />
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But there were others that I was rooting for as well. I was sad to see RJ go so early in the season since he was always a favourite with unique and fun make ups. In the finale are Tate and Roy, two favourites from their respective seasons and them plus Laura in the finale made me not care terribly who wins in the end, though I was leaning towards Laura.<br />
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For the final challenge they had to take the story of the popular ballet Swan Lake and create two characters: the Sorcerer and the Princess; who would then dance ballet with a dance inspired by the story. Originally the story takes place in the middle ages, but with inspiration from the recent film Black Swan taking place in modern times the artists then had to choose a time period.<br />
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Each one's final production was amazing and then danced in what I believe to be Face Off's best season finale presentation ever. It was amazing and I intend to watch it again, and possibly again. What helps is that in past season finale performances there was always one set of make ups that were not up to par with the others, but this time around each one was spectacular and clearly reflected their time periods and were well made. I really felt sorry for the judges in having to decide who would win because for once when Glenn Hetrick said "This is the tightest race we've had on the show to date" it wasn't just him being nice or whatever, I believed him because the evidence was in the make up.<br />
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In the end they did make a decision and our new winner is LAURA!<br />
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I very loudly screamed 'yes' with a fist pump when they said her name and am still grinning like a Cheshire cat as I type this. The other two artists were amazing, it really could have gone to anyone and I would have been happy but the fact that Laura won and finally got all of the recognition that she deserves.<br />
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New season of Face Off premieres January 14th at 9 and from the preview, apparently it is going to be intense.<br />
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You can see all of Laura's designs for the past season <a href="http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/photos/laura_s_looks" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I did a little victory dance in my head at being able to recognize it, which I confirmed I was correct a little later when I returned to my bedroom and saw what my brother was watching for he opened his door. But I paused in my victory dance and realized that I had just recognized Hiddleston's voice. It felt weird. Sure I've seen a lot of things that he has been in- who knows how many times I've watched <i>The Avengers </i>now- but I never thought his voice would be something I would be able to recognize. I thought that maybe I should lay off the Hiddleston movies/shows....but then I realized that a lot of them were too good to do that (I use to watch <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"><i>Midnight in Paris</i></a> at least once a week all last semester, mostly for the music but also for the Woody Allen wit).<br />
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The second incident really confirmed that I could identify his voice even a very short line. In my Film and Holocaust class we were learning about the Wansee Conference and at first our professor showed us a 1982 film in German that was a re-enactment of what happened, but we didn't watch all of it because he was going to have us watch the HBO film from 2001 called <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/?ref_=nv_sr_4" target="_blank"><i>Conspiracy</i></a> of pretty much the same thing only in English and with details explained more. I was excited to watch the film because it was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001804/?ref_=nv_sr_2" target="_blank">Stanley Tucci</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000110/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Kenneth Branagh</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000147/?ref_=nv_sr_4" target="_blank">Colin Firth</a>, so no complaints from me- it sure beats watching a 1940's film with Hitler yelling no matter how cinematicaly amazing it is. The film was just beginning and those participating in the meeting were just entering when I decided to shift positions in my seat. Our theatre is kind of worn and I spend 9 hours a week in there for my cinema classes and those seats are uncomfortable for three hours of sitting. Well while I was shifting I heard Tucci's character address someone of the staff and that's when I heard Hiddleston's voice again. Given the cast and everything, I knew it was plausible that he could have had a small role in it so for the rest of the film I wanted to confirm that it was him.<br />
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It isn't a very scientific deduction, but merely an observation based upon two different events. I'm not really sure what I can do with this bit of knowledge besides just having a very strange ability that I'm an sure many a Hiddleston fangirl has...and cherishes....I bet they have just recordings of his voice that they listen to as they sleep...or that one audio book he did that my friend had us listen to in the car....yes I'm somewhat rambling now.<br />
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Anyway! So there is my useless talent for you all to know about. Although I did just think of a fun game to play with fellow geeks: Guess The Voice. One person plays a sound bite and the guesser has to guess based off voice and possible quote who says it. Technology and celebrities in one, the ideal geek game.<br />
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Since yesterday (pretend this came out on Friday, please) was Halloween, I wanted to share my past Halloween costumes going as far back as I can.<br />
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Starting with my first Halloween. I was nothing. My parents were too lazy, or something, and decided to not dress me up for Halloween. I was in a carrier on my dad's back as he went trick-or-treating with older brother, who was a dragon I believe.<br />
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When I was six I was a witch, just a generic orange and black costume I got from a costume shop. Another girl in my class had the same costume and I think it was that year that I decided I didn't like having the same costume as someone else.<br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/a/aa/20121007143339%21Princess_Belle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="mainImage" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/a/aa/20121007143339%21Princess_Belle.jpg" width="114" /></a>The next year I was Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Again it was a generic Halloween costume from a shop but I had fun with it. That is my cousin in a cowgirl costume, I believe her mum made for her.<br />
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Next year I was a vampire, again generic costume, but I did spice things up with some black lip stick which freaked a few people out.<br />
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<a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Ebrannantim/hexgirls/dusk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="mainImage" height="133" src="http://home.comcast.net/%7Ebrannantim/hexgirls/dusk.jpg" width="200" /></a>Then I started getting creative and wanting to be characters that weren't in Halloween shops. One of my favourite Scooby-Doo movies is Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, and in it is a band called the Hex Girls. I decided to be one of them, Dusk, the blonde drummer. I really wish I could find a picture of this because this was when I started to figure out how to make costumes and what pieces I would need and stuff like that.<br />
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I loved the Lord of the Rings books, and my favourite race was the elves, so when the movies came out I decided I wanted to be Legolas for Halloween. Again I don't think they quite had costumes for that available so my mum made mine. It isn't perfect, but I loved it, and at least this year they sort of knew who I was. Those that saw the movies did at least. (My father was a Hello Kitty pirate...)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEeTFbr1jceHe61LmMI8uDbNGSsgKRJzzexC7KnWVn1fIeYfP6U4Rok-g3mPWAcOoJJvxlU8vYojhOQ5061dEDgOPF2lFSx3jwxATpzVLU2MboqkfBmEzkgTY3g9KbABuF7Wr3KDyeTO-/s1600/DCP_6717.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img class="mainImage" height="200" src="http://www.kidsmomo.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/luna-lovegood-book-art.jpg" width="162" /></a>The year after I was Luna Lovegood. I used a bunch of found pieces of clothing that I already had and only made the butterbeer cap necklace and the wand, it was kind of a last minute rush costume, but I was still happy with it. Still no one knew who I was, just a random witch.<br />
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Then the year after I do not recall who or what I was, wish I could but I really can't, this is when I started to not care too much for Halloween but that will quickly change in High School once I start cosplaying.<br />
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Next year I was a vampire again. They are my favourite monster and really it was a last minute buy at the Halloween shop. I realized I hadn't picked out a costume so I went with the coolest looking one and the one that was possibly the most covered up. That was the first time I dyed my hair black too, and got my awesome vampire fangs that I still have and use to this day.<br />
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<a href="http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120115172954/protagonist/images/b/b1/Susi-sailor-jupiter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="mainImage" height="200" src="http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120115172954/protagonist/images/b/b1/Susi-sailor-jupiter.jpg" width="133" /></a>Now comes the time when I started cosplaying. It all began this year when I decided I wanted to be Sailor Jupiter and I wanted to make the costume myself. So my mum taught me to use her sewing machine and it became a six year relationship until she bought me a new one for my birthday. I sewed that costume and I got to be Sailor Jupiter, and people knew who I was! I remember walking out of one of my classes and a guy dressed as a Bleach character gave me a head nod of approval.<br />
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I went from a recognizable character to one pretty much no one knew. It was a character from a musical in Japan based off the manga/ anime The Prince of Tennis. But it wasn't just the musical, it was a special musical called Dream Live 3rd. I made a costume for me and friend to be Oshitari and Gakuto from it.<br />
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<a href="http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110610142345/lotr/pl/images/5/56/Legolas3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110610142345/lotr/pl/images/5/56/Legolas3.jpg" border="0" class="decoded" height="200" src="http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110610142345/lotr/pl/images/5/56/Legolas3.jpg" width="151" /></a>The next year I was well into cosplaying by now and had a lot of old costumes so I decided to just revamp one so I reached in and pulled out my Legolas costume from several Halloween's ago that my mum made. I decided to make it more like the one in the film so I re-watched the films and did a complete re-do of it. Even now I could still improve it if I wanted to but I'm good.<br />
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<a href="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4400434203_e6d219bba8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4400434203_e6d219bba8.jpg" border="0" class="decoded" height="200" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4400434203_e6d219bba8.jpg" width="147" /></a>Last year of high school I decided to go out with a bang and made a costume for a film that wasn't even out yet. There was still a good two months till it's release. Iracebeth, the Red Queen, from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. I love Colleen Atwood's costume designs, it is what got me through Snow White and the Huntsman, and when I saw her design for the Red Queen I had to make it. And I did and people still recognized me as the Queen of Hearts.<br />
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Charlotte Labouf from Princess and the Frog was a character that had to grow on me and when she did I finally decided to attempt to make her ballgown. It still isn't perfect and I want to fix a lot of things on it, but it was okay for that night. There was just a lot of pink and lot of poof, and for some reason people liked to watch me go down stairs in it. (That was my friend in a Giselle costume from Enhanted that I made for her).<br />
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And those are all my Halloween costumes so far. Looking back I could say I am happy with them, each one unique and not very mainstream as others would be. I still wish my parents had dressed my up for my first Halloween though.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-1288894033273490572013-11-01T20:45:00.000-07:002013-11-01T20:45:12.392-07:00Halloween Costumes EverywhereI am so happy October is done.<br />
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Every year I look forward to October: the pumpkins, the horror movies, the costumes, the scary attractions- I love everything about October. But that also means midterms and lots of school work and then I offered to make costumes for others for Halloween so literally no time for much of anything else.<br />
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I love to make costumes so I was happy to make them for everyone and I did, it just took the time out of my own Halloween costume.<br />
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Back in August, I believe, I planned to make Elsa from Disney's new movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Frozen</a> and I got about halfway through all the detailing before I decided to put it aside and complete all of my commissions.<br />
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The sleeves still need to some major work, and after going on Pirates of the Caribbean and sitting in the front row, I need to clean the hem and replace some of the beading, and finish the beading on the bodice because it is suppose to go on all around the bodice not just in the front there.<br />
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So I put Elsa aside and devoted all my time to commissions and midterms. First to get out was a Jane Porter costume from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120855/?ref_=nv_sr_2" target="_blank">Tarzan</a> since my friend needed it for a cast member costume party on October 20th. Jane was a costume I had wanted to make for myself, so I took this as good practice for when I make my own....if I ever get there.<br />
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Next to be completed was Mary Poppins from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Mary Poppins</a>, and the costume from when you first see her. Once more this was a costume I wanted to make for myself so I took this as good practice once more. I even knitted that scarf...my first scarf I've ever knitted. I have yet to receive a picture of my friend wearing it though so that will come later.<br />
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Last of my commissions was Flynn Ryder, well really it was Eugene Fitzherbert since he wanted the outfit from the very end of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398286/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Tangled</a>. He actually requested this costume some months before because his girlfriend had received a Rapunzel costume from me. So I watched that like five seconds of Tangled on repeat till I could make out every detail of the costume.<br />
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And once I finished his costume I discovered that I had half a day to make my own Halloween costume of Molly Hooper from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Sherlock</a>. I had put her on my list of cosplays to make but didn't think I would make it so soon, but alas I did. The jacket I bought due to time constraints, but I made the badge and the shirt, and I never took a full picture but I just wore some dress pants I have.<br />
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I found when I was wearing the ruffled shirt without the jacket, it was very annoying, but once I put the jacket on I really sort of felt like Molly. It is amazing what a costume can do, and that is why I love cosplaying because costumes really can transform you. <br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45,"tn":"*G"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">And for Halloween I went to my screenwriting class, where there were only two of us in Halloween Costumes, me and a girl came as Annie Hall.</span></span><br />
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I never believed in superstitions and always felt sorry for black cats because people often hate then due to the possibility of them causing bad luck when they cross your path. I also own a black cat and she crosses my path all the time and so far nothing, if anything my luck has increased.<br />
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Another thing that prompted this posting was a recent <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/norman-reedus-25-things-you-dont-know-about-me-20131110" target="_blank">interview</a> actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005342/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Norman Reedus</a> (Daryl Dixon on <a href="http://www.amctv.com/" target="_blank">AMC</a>'s <a href="http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead" target="_blank">The Walking Dead</a>) did with <a href="http://usmagazine.com/">USMagazine.com</a>. He revealed 25 facts people/fans didn't know about him, and all are interesting but my particular favourite, and the one I can relate to, is number 17:<br />
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<i>"17. My best friend is my cat."</i><br />
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And his cat is a black cat, and really adorable. I'm pretty sure if I ever met the guy I wouldn't talk about walkers or crossbows or even a pair of saints, I would talk about his cat.<br />
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But there are other famous black cats out there as well that we can't forget about.<br />
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Luna from <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114327/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Sailor Moon</a></i><br />
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Thackery Binx from <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107120/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Hocus Pocus</a></i><br />
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<br />The Cat from<i> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Coraline</a></i><br />
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Salem from <i>Sabrina, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115341/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">The Teenage Witch</a></i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115341/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"> </a><br />
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Exotica from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2227830/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank"><i>Cats</i></a><br />
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<br />Black Cat from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_%28comics%29" target="_blank">Marvel Comics</a><br />
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Jiji from<i> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097814/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Kiki's Delivery Service</a> </i><br />
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In fact, Jiji was the reason my family got a black cat in the first place. We've always had at least one pet cat in the house, never more than two, and after our last one went missing we had a long period without a cat. When we finally decided to get another one my parents and I went to the local animal shelter and got to look at the different cats they had for adoption. Going in, my mum and I knew we wanted a black cat and when we voiced this to the worker she was surprised and explained how those were the ones never adopted, because of superstition.<br />
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My mum and I knew we had to have this cat, and we knew that if we ever got a black cat we would name it Jiji, but since this cat was a girl we changed the spelling to Gigi and we got her a red collar, just like the red bow the stuffed animal cat wears in the film. She has happily been living with us for almost four years now.<br />
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Black cats are not bad luck, they are sleek and elegant, adorable and creepy. The only problem you have to watch out for is black blankets on the sofa and walking around in the dark. My cat likes to play ninja and curl up into the black blankets we have on our sofa, she has been lightly sat on occasionally because we did not see her- we've gotten in the habit of checking before sitting. Additionally, she likes to follow me around the house, which is cute but I don't always turn lights on so sometimes she will be right in front of me and I'll walk right into her, I've gotten use to shuffling my way along in case she was there.<br />
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So not all black cats are bad, I'm sure there are the occasional cranky ones, but that applies to cats just in general. As far as the ones I know of, and own, they are just like any more cats. Only more awesome because when they stretch by arching their backs, it is a lot cooler than when other cats do it. She is our permanent Halloween decoration!<br />
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It really is a story about a costume piece that I was wearing a week or two before Halloween, just because I loved it.<br />
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This takes place during my middle school years, and as I recall them I often feel that shiver of horror run down my back. During this time I was OBSESSED with Harry Potter- it was pretty bad. I knew every little useless fact about Harry Potter and the films that was possible, so now I have a pretty vast Harry Potter knowledge, which isn't a bad thing, I just don't use it much anymore.<br />
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So I got started on my costume. It would be some years before I actually would start cosplaying but each Halloween I would usually make my Halloween costume because I would want to be characters that you can't find at a costume shop, and I would make costume pieces with whatever I can.<br />
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The particular piece of interest here is Luna Lovegood's butterbeer cap necklace. I had a recipe for butterbeer that was amazing and I felt is was essential to make this necklace as a great little character detail- which is why I was sad I didn't see it in the movies. I took all the leftover bottle caps laying around my kitchen and collected them for a while then painted them gold, scrolled black 'BB' on them and strung them all together to create a necklace. And voila: A butterbeer necklace.<br />
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It needed a test run so I wore it to school the next day and while I was waiting in line during lunch to get a cookie, because those were the best cookies ever, someone caught sight of my necklace and decided to comment on it. This person was, what I could only come up with, a Yard Guard. She liked to tell students what was wrong with their uniforms and give them trash duty. She had given my friend and me trash duty our second week of school there ever for eating past a pole....yeah, I don't know either. To this day I cringe when I see her, and even worse, she was exactly like Umbridge. She would be happy and smiling while she tortured you, and still claim that she was just looking out for you.<br />
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Well I made it to the front of the line where Umbridge was standing and she decided to ask about my necklace.<br />
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"What does the BB stand for? Bad Boy?" she tried. I almost vomited in my mouth at that. I would never wear something like that. Also I didn't look like the kind of girl that would with my frizzy hair, large backpack, notebooks and large book tucked under arm, and school trousers that were baggy yet still too short for my legs.<br />
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My response was a simple, "no." She then proceeded to try to guess a multitude of random words that started with B's and lump them together, never quite getting even remotely close. Finally she gave up.<br />
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"Beer? As in alcohol?" she asked in a somewhat joking manner but there was seriousness in her words.<br />
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"It is non-alcoholic, unless you are a house elf." She kind of gave me a blank stare before asking some smart ass question that pretty much translated to 'what'? I sighed and you know that large book I had tucked under my arm, it just so happened to be my copy of <i>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</i>, so I pulled that out and held it up in front of her face and said:<br />
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"Butterbeer is a drink found in the wizarding world from the <i>Harry Potter</i> series. On page 185, of this specific book, the character Luna Lovegood has a necklace made of the caps of this drink and that is what my necklace is in reference to. It isn't some gang related thing and it isn't alcoholic- it's literature. Have a great afternoon."<br />
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And then I bought my cookie.<br />
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I just think this Umbridge finally irked me enough to just be a smart ass right back at her. I did see her again, just last year. I was at a restaurant with my parents that we call The Brit and it is located near my old middle school so I guess sometimes the faculty would go there in the evenings. Their group was sitting outside while we were inside but when I saw her pass by I still felt that cringe inside me and immediately looked the other way. It is a shame that she wouldn't remember me, but she shall forever haunt my memories of those three years in middle school.<br />
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-CharlotteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601026396729077296.post-43568332711945681872013-10-22T19:06:00.001-07:002013-10-22T19:06:48.029-07:00A ReliefLast Saturday, while procrastinating on school work, I found myself on <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/" target="_blank">BuzzFeed</a>- a place I usually find myself when procrastinating. I opened up the '<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/entertainment" target="_blank">entertainment</a>' section and found a posting about <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/tom-hiddleston-defies-all-odds-and-does-his-most-amazing-thi" target="_blank">Tom Hiddleston</a>. I have found that usually BuzzFeed is obsessed with <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/fifthestate/13-secrets-benedict-cumberbatch-shared-with-the-internet?sub=2667343_1793426" target="_blank">Benedict Cumberbatch</a> pretty much at an incorrect, scary level, so seeing a post about Hiddleston interested me in just how weird they are going to make things. Let me tell you, it got weird.<br />
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Only one time have I witnessed the horror that is Tumblr, particularly in reference to a Tom Hiddleston search (a friend was showing me a picture- I was tricked into it!), and therefore I know just how scary some fans can get. I wish I could say that a dying wish to bear his children was the worst thing I saw on Tumblr but alas it was not and I'd rather not re-live it, just know that it ended with me thinking:<br />
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It is just that Hiddleston fans seem to hold the guy at the height of perfection, and I understand where they are coming from. He is very handsome, definitely falls into my description of ideal guy- lean, tall, geeky, manners (i.e. Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Cillian Murphy, Conan O'Brien)- an amazing actor, and he's British.<br />
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But sometimes I feel like they see him as so perfect that when he does something that isn't good, they'll think it is still amazing anyway. To fully explain, this BuzzFeed '<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/tom-hiddleston-defies-all-odds-and-does-his-most-amazing-thi" target="_blank">article</a>' was posted after his recent trip to Korea. Hiddleston has been touring the Eastern Hemisphere to promote the release of his new movie, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Thor: The Dark World</a>. While in Korea he obviously did interviews and press releases and things like that but he also made a guest appearance on SNL Korea. For those that don't know, SNL is short for <a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/" target="_blank">Saturday Night Live</a>, which is an American sketch style comedy show filmed in New York. Well apparently Korea has their own version, with writers that are just as awkward as the American ones, and Hiddleston participated in a sketch during it before doing an interview.<br />
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I'm guessing at the interview he was asked questions in regards to it because on this BuzzFeed 'article' they went crazy over footage of him doing the dance from the sketch:<br />
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Here is my impressions of what I witnessed on this 'article'. His dancing was quite reminiscent of the 11th Doctor's drunken giraffe style while his singing would most probably earn some snarky comment from Simon Cowell. In other words, his dancing was litterally all over the place and his singing was just bad. Now his dancing I don't really care too much about, since I love the Doctor's drunken giraffe, all limbs dance style, but the singing. People keep asking him to sing, and so far it has always been strained and not very good.</div>
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BUT there is no denying that Tom Hiddleston is a superb actor. I've seen majority of what he has been in and he owns each role perfectly from Africa Boy Bill Hazeldine in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483862/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_25" target="_blank"><i>Suburban Shootout</i></a> to Henry V in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2262456/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"><i>The Hollow Crown</i></a>. Each one you forget that is it Hiddleston because he has such a great grasp of the character and you really believe that he is them. And frankly, I think him being that amazing of an actor really doesn't need to be combined with other things like singing and dancing. Sure he is no triple threat and we probably won't see him in any Broadway, or West End, musical, but that is all right by me.</div>
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