Ask the Wizard!: 9 years of questions and answers!

[Midori Suzume]

Brass Goggles

Brass Goggles

Midori Suzume

Brass Goggles

Midori Suzume

Brass Goggles

How major does the movie have to be?

If you're asking about my game, then most people should have heard of it. Really, it just has to be full-length and by Disney.
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"major motion picture" is how Disney strokes it's own ego.

Yea I have decided to win it. 3nodding The Pagemaster movie then.

I'm not sure that I can count it because it's half live action. *is on the fence about this one* Poop. I don't think it counts. I actually do want someone to win the game, too.
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Ha! It's not Disney!

Bah....well...I will think of something. Maybe the wizard would know.

Peter Pan maybe or 101 dalmatians.

Both of those are FULL of orphans. Peter Pan is one. About 84 puppies are orphans too.

[ThreadlingBrain]

Midori Suzume

Rei Davidson

Paranormal Activity, a webcomic | Rei's DeviantArt | La Boutique Argentée, an art shop

What are the chances Pega will get on AIM and help me get passed some writer's block with ParaTivity?

*shakes Magic 8 Ball*
"Your chances are good"

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On AIM:
Pega: *glompchewchewchew*
Rei: 8-Ball reads "Outlook is Good!"
Pega: XD did you see my response on Wiz thread then?
Rei: *checks*
Rei: XD!!!!
Rei: I totally didn't read that when I made that joke.
Pega: XDD Threadling brain strikes again

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[mcm]

Why do boob discussions keep coming up? Thought we had hashed out as much as we woulda.
Must be the new people. Welcome, new people.

[wafflezinmahpantz]

Rei Davidson

wafflezinmahpantz

Rei Davidson

Midori Suzume

PokuteSoup

wafflezinmahpantz

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne... basically books from the AP English classes I've been in. But these five have both taught me a lot and are a good read.

The Metamorphosis was good, but for month's after reading The Scarlet Letter my standard curse when I was angry was "F*** YOU, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE!"

The descriptions I'd heard of it made me think the main character would be interesting and make for a good read, but it was just a giant morality tale and I could not identify with any characters because they were mostly all either annoying/stupid or pushovers! gonk

Disclaimer: this is just my opinion. But damn, I hated that book.

Ugh... I remember having to read that. But I didn't hate it as much as I hated Babbitt or Wuthering Heights.

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We had to read a book called Cold Sassy Tree. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone ever.

That book is the bane of my existence and it is awful and please everyone avoid this book at all costs gonk

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I've never seen anything tackle the subject of incestual rape SO BADLY. I'm not even sure why it was there! She mentions it for all of five seconds and then goes about her happy life! And you know, the concept wasn't terrible. It was unique. But the person who wrote couldn't capture human emotions if they were tied to a fence post.

Wait. Incestual rape? I don't remember that being part of the book. x_X

[wafflezinmahpantz]

Kai LittleBlackSmith

wafflezinmahpantz

Can I just shamelessly plug peregrine falcons for a moment? Aren't they cute? Couldn't you just sit around for an entire day checking back on them like I have? sweatdrop

HOW CUTE!!
I clicked and saw a clump of gray on gray... then the wind came by and they started moving. They looked around and yawned! So funny-looking and cute! GLEE!
Thank you, Waffs!

Everyone should spread something so adorable. 3nodding

The chicks have gotten up and are stumbling around. 4laugh

[Gwynn Masamune]

mcm

Why do boob discussions keep coming up? Thought we had hashed out as much as we woulda.
Must be the new people. Welcome, new people.

mcm, we NEVER discourage discussion of the boobs!

Now please ladies, continue in as much detail as you desire heart blaugh

[wafflezinmahpantz]

mcm

Why do boob discussions keep coming up? Thought we had hashed out as much as we woulda.
Must be the new people. Welcome, new people.

Dude, I love talking about boobs. sweatdrop And lots of other things normal people don't.

[Kelwyn]

Kawaii5Kitsune

cara shining-sun

Kawaii5Kitsune

✎ @Wizard: Aw. Darn. Anyone else know of any?
@Kai: redface Well, it's just I was expecting more because all of my nearest relatives, including my mom and sister and aunts, they all have fairly large boobs. I'm just disappointed since I was expecting more. >////>


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You're just 14 right? Trust me, you have plenty of time to grow. I grew a whole size bigger my first year of college. I was not a happy camper...

But! Don't girls stop growing around this time? I mean, only physically stop. Mentally, yes, they grow till 21.
Also, my sister told me the progression of her growth, and she was a C by my age or so.

I'm a DD now, and at 14 I don't think I was more than a B at most. I didn't grow any taller than I am now by your age, but I didn't stop filling out and getting curvier until I was well into college. And everyone is different. Don't worry about it.

[Silverbel]

Midori Suzume

Brass Goggles

Midori Suzume

Would you say that's the same genre as Disney's love of "broken families"? I've challenged several people at work (keep in mind WHERE I work) to name me a major Disney motion picture (animated) where the main character is in a complete, unbroken family and stays that way through the whole movie and no one has defeated me yet. BTW, Pixar films simply don't count so no one can claim Incredibles.

Swiss Family Robinson. 3nodding

Not animated xp

Counting out Pixar is pretty mean - that rules out Toy Story.

=D
I answer, "Mulan".
Although the protagonist is sent to war, she chooses to go of her own volition, in the place of her father. And her family is never harmed or broken at any point (in fact, Mulan II is about her wedding)

[iKit5]

wafflezinmahpantz

mcm

Why do boob discussions keep coming up? Thought we had hashed out as much as we woulda.
Must be the new people. Welcome, new people.

Dude, I love talking about boobs. sweatdrop And lots of other things normal people don't.

Lol. I saw this one comment made, and it said 'I don't like cleavage, because too much looks like a butt. XD'
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[Rei Davidson]

Kai LittleBlackSmith

Rei Davidson

wafflezinmahpantz

Can I just shamelessly plug peregrine falcons for a moment? Aren't they cute? Couldn't you just sit around for an entire day checking back on them like I have? sweatdrop

Oooh I came just in time for feeding time!

... *moves one of the babies out from underneath the others* sweatdrop Poor thing is being trampled.

One of them was watching a bug when I was viewing. *GLEE*

Oh! One of the parents is back!
"Hi, babies! I brought you a deadthing! Here, eat the deadthing!" "Yaaay!"

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it doesn't seem like it should be cute, and yet...

[Rei Davidson]

recondite sumpter

Rei Davidson

Paranormal Activity, a webcomic | Rei's DeviantArt | La Boutique Argentée, an art shop

What does AEBO think of the song Romeo + Juliet by Taylor Swift?

I think it's super catchy but I have some issues with it.

:youtubes: S'ok, I guess
What are your issues?

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That the situation described int he song is only vaguely similar to the story of Romeo and Juliet. >.<

[Rei Davidson]

Brass Goggles

I kinda dont like it when I go out and read a classic or a award winning book and I am expected to like it because it is a classic or a award winning book.
I read "War and Peace" and when I mention to my English teacher that I had read it and did not like it he almost attacked me. The book had a entire paragraph describing how this one dress made this 15 year olds cleavage look super amazing. sweatdrop

NEVER criticize a classic book inf ront of an English teacher. Even if it SUCKS. D:

[Rei Davidson]

Styphon

Wizard Random Sempai

Rei Davidson

Wizard Random Sempai

Styphon

wafflezinmahpantz

Try reading it with a teacher who WILL NOT. SHUT UP. ABOUT. THE PROSE.

IT'S AMAZING, WE GET IT! stressed

Well, I still liked it afterwards.

Phon's reading bane is a whole category that haunted him (and his sister) all through elementary school... Where the Red Fern Grows, Sounder, Ole Yeller... OK, we get it, the people handing out awards for children's literature have a sick fetish for killing off dogs, now can we PLEASE stop making these books required reading just cause they've got shiny medals on the cover?

There's a phrase to describe that sort of thing.

Oh nos, another TV Tropes link. *will be reading for hours*

Also, I liked Bridge to Teribithia. was a liiiittle upset when Disney hyped it into a movie.

But other than that, my favorite books as a kid were not Newberry Award winners.

The creators of the movie were utterly pissed with Disney's marketing of the film as well.

But the movie was beautifully true to the book, so it's not horrible.

Phon never had to read it (watched the movie though stressed ), but his sister hated that book... and one of his online non-Gaia friends had issues with it since he just went and replaced his dead friend with his sister... terribly anti-feminist, she thought

Phon's glad to see he's not the only one who noticed this Death by Newbery thing... he's also glad that he has to be at work in an hour and can use that to keep from going on a ten hour tvtropes binge.

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The anti-feminist thing is odd I think. I dunno that he "replaced" so much as he learned to appreciate what he had and his relationships. He realized that he didn't want his sister to be as lonely and dejected as he was before he met his friend girl person, and so he showed her what had made him snap out of it.

Like he goes from hating his dad to starting to see his dad's way of thinking and realizing that at times he is a good father. It's a definate coming of age story.

[Rei Davidson]

Kawaii5Kitsune

I dun get it.
Can anyone explain? Wiz?

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HAHAHAHAH AOhman that's great.

I refer you to the awesomeness of Flight of the Conchords

The shirt is referring specifically to the lines "Wednesday night is the night we usually make love" and "you know when I'm down to just my socks, it's business time."