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Leading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT. The site in question is UKNova.

Rapidshare Goes Down Locally.

Dropbox upgrades security with two-factor authentication.

Karl Kesel, Marvel Comics Writer, Sells Comic Book Collection For Adoption Of Baby With Heroin Exposure.

Fan Expo Canada: Marvel’s X-Men Panel In Art.

Fan Expo Canada: Darwyn Cooke vs. Amanda Conner…To The Death, But Not Really.

Fan Expo: James Marsters and Juliet Landau Look Back On Buffy.

Geoff Johns and David Finch add Stargirl, Catwoman, and more to the brand new Justice League of America.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—So How Many Ice Maidens Are There?

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 239: Detective Comics #610.

When We First Met—The Life Of Roy Harper.

Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain will return.

17 Fictional TV Towns With Personality.

David Hadju reads from The Ten-Cent Plague.

Comics in the classroom: news and resources round-up.

Hobbyist builds working S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.

5 Horror Movies With Horrible Endings.

Dancing With The Stars: Sabrina Bryan wins viewers’ choice vote.

Deadpool Pie.

Probably Not What Batman Would Carry: Batarang Knives.

Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves In Fantasy.

The first five pages of Justice League #12.

The Dark Knight Rises Box Office Update.

Superman on TV: From August 27th, to September 2nd.

Michael Dorn Talks Trek, Kickstarter, and More, Part 1. Part 2.

Doctor Who Prequel: Pond Life, Part 1.

A Warm Welcome For Doctor Who In New York.

More Pics of Carrie Before And After Her Blood Drenching.

Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch recreate a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Steampunk Madam Vader Cosplay.

4 Cool New Posters For American Horror Story: Asylum.

Comics Alliance Reviews X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Part One.

Kevin Feige On Why Guardians of the Galaxy Was Greenlit; Seemingly Confirms Thanos.

Perhaps the most disturbing cereal ad ever filmed.

Watching reruns can actually help restore willpower.

Continuum renewed for second season. Now when will the U.S. get it?

Norman Bates’ mother has been cast in A&E’s Psycho tv series: Vera Farmiga.

Jo Blo Podcast Commentary: Jaws (1975)

Film Sack Podcast #128: Wild Wild West.

Weirdly, I was just nominated for the Wicked Awards for a ship_manifesto essay I wrote for Angel/Darla back in 2006. I have until September 1st to accept or reject this nomination. Looking through it now, I see almost all of the links are dead (a couple went to Geocities) and gone, several fanfic sites turned to dust, and at least one journal has been deleted and purged. I’m leaning towards rejecting this nomination due to the fact it wouldn’t be of any practical use to people these days, and is barely an overview.

BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional.

The trailer for Robot Chicken’s DC Comics Special.

The Official Poster For The CW’s Arrow.

The Line It Is Drawn #102—A Tribute To Joe Kubert.

15 Kids Comics That Have Deservedly Been Forgotten.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 229: JLA #95.

The Legal View: Legal manuevering on both sides as judge cancels Superman hearing

Shatner Returns As The Priceline Negotiator.

Seth Green joins the cast of Delete, a new four-hour miniseries from the writers of Stargate SG-1.

Interview with Gail Simone on Leaving Megalopolis.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste joins the cast of Robocop.

David Alpay joins The Vampire Diaries.

Stan Lee On His Favorite DC Character, Marvel Movies, And More.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Nathan Fillion, Extended Cut.

Superhero Origins: Martian Manhunter.

The Cinefiles: Terry Gilliam, Part 1.

Colin Morgan discusses the upcoming fifth season of Merlin.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Alex Kingston.

Comics, Everybody! The History of Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers).

The First Frankenstein Movie Was Made In Edison’s Bronx Studio…In 1910.

10 great tear-jerker geek TV episodes. Personally, I would remove Buffy’s The Gift from that list, and slip in The Body.

Io9’s Giant Guide To Fall’s Must-See Science Fiction And Fantasy TV.

The Revolutionary Technology That Turned Rebecca Romijn Into X-Men’s Mystique.

Bane Window Art. For those that can’t make out the words, it says “When the car has been washed, you have my permission to drive.”

Comic Book Legends Revealed #380.

Now Playing Podcast: Casino Royale (1967)

Movie Issues Podcast: Stay Tuned (1992)

Geoffrey Hughes has passed away, at the age of 68, after a battle with prostate cancer. May he rest in peace. He played Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances, and should be remembered by Doctor Who fans as Mr. Popplewick in The Trial Of A Time Lord.

Hans Zimmer Writes Song In Dedication To Aurora Victims.

Twitter explains Thursday’s outage.

The Cheering Up Meme.

The 10 Best Resurrections In Comic Book History.

Evil Dead Inspired Boombox.

TARDIS Nightlight.

Superhero Origins: The Justice League of America.

X-Men: First Class Sequel Officially Titled X-Men: Days of Future Past.

What Dracula really looks like, according to police composite software.

Listen: Before And After Comparison Of Bane’s Voice In The Dark Knight Rises.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked – How Did Alfred First Meet Batman?

TR Contest: What Should/Will A Fifth Indiana Jones Film Be Like?

Updated Synopsis For Frozen.

Ghostbusters Blu-Ray to get ‘Steelbook Edition’ re-release.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Boy Who Cried Werewolf.

When A Robot Chicken Met Starro.

SDCC 2012 Cosplay Round-Up.

Preview: Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe #1.

Completely Adorable Art That Depicts The Eleven Doctors As Time Ladies.

Interview with William Shatner.

Greatest Movies Ever Podcast: Supergirl.

Morgan Paull has passed away, at the age of 67, after battling stomach cancer. May he rest in peace. He was famous for his role in Blade Runner—MST3K fans may also remember him from Mitchell.

Court May Order Google To Censor ‘Torrent,’ ‘Rapidshare,’ and ‘Megaupload.’

Dropbox Users Targeted By Spam, Possible Address Leak To Blame?

SDCC 2012: Man of Steel panel.

SDCC 2012: The Hobbit panel.

SDCC 2012: Being Human panel.

Best Comic Con Cosplay Gallery Ever: Sunday. Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Galactus and Thanos had great costumes.

CCI: Marvel’s 2012 Costume Contest. There’s a Phoenix possessed Illyana in there, along with some great costumes of Deadpool, Storm, Emma Frost, Dark Phoenix, Hope Summers, Venom, and more.

Bleeding Cool has more costumes that were spotted. My favorite is the one at the end, The Dark Knight Retires. Deadpool Pokemon (is that what that was?) is a close second.

Deadpool Takes Comic Con By Dancing Storm.

The 10 Biggest Comic Con Announcements.

The Most Astounding Comic Book News Of Comic Con 2012.

Galactus Is Nigh: Counter-Protestors Warn of the Comic Con Apocalypse. There wasn’t as much said about this as there was about a certain church that protested a couple years back. The only two amusing bits are the Galactus sign, and the list of things they think lead to possession: Vegetarianism, Halloween fire walking, LOTR, and Twilight films?

SFX interviewed Paul Cornell at Comic Con.

Featurette for ParaNorman

Molly Quinn will be voicing Supergirl in an upcoming DC animated feature.

Trailer for Drew: The Man Behind The Poster.

Trailer for Merlin: The Game.

Rifftax at Comic Con: Best Of Trailer.

Cinematic Titanic’s Next DVD: Rattlers.

The Dark Knight Rises TV Spot #10.

7 Wildly Incorrect and Irresponsible Rumors About Batman Movies.

Mark Hamill and Nathan Fillion with Stan Lee on Youtube.

Nathan Fillion came up with an interesting (and classy) way to sign things for as many people as possible, while trying not to disappoint them—an apology letter with his signature.

Greg Pak talks Doctor Strange Season 1.

Bill Murray +12 more actors who almost wore a big-screen Batsuit.

Green Lantern The Animated Series: SDCC 2012 Preview.

The Sci Fi Channel just got a brand new name and identity…in Australia.

Do You Listen To Podcasts?

Denis Medry’s Steampunk Spider-Man and Rogue’s Gallery.

Every Dinosaur’s Kill Count From The Jurassic Park Franchise.

From Cracked: The 4 Weirdest Lessons 80’s Movies Really Wanted To Teach Us.

Jessica Biel May Not Be In The Wolverine After All. Pretty much as I expected.

There’s Nothing Strange In Your Neighborhood Shirt.

The Hub recreates Dark Knight Rises trailer for Batman cartoon marathon.

5 Modern Movie Trends That Were Started By Peter Jackson.

5 Things You Might Not Know About Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop, Released 25 Years Ago Today. Or yesterday, as the case may be.

Star Wars Lightsaber Chopsticks That Actually Light Up.

R2-D2 Football.

Wizard of Who T-Shirt.

Warren Ellis shows Joss Whedon hard at work on Wastelanders. Whedonesque discusses it here.

Now Playing Podcast: The Dark Knight (2008).

Nearly half a million Yahoo passwords leaked following hack. If you want to see if you were on the list, you can go here and check for your e-mail—I’m safe, from the looks of it.

Kristen Chenoweth was injured on the set of The Good Wife after being hit on the head by a falling piece of lighting equipment. As a result of which, she had a seizure and was hospitalized—so best wishes to her on a speedy recovery.

First Clip From Total Recall. The international poster.

Alex Ross To Paint All Of Chris Roberson’s Masks, With The Shadow, Green Hornet And Zorro.

The Dark Knight Rises VHS Cover.

TNT Renews Falling Skies For 10 Episode Third Season.

Nickelodeon Orders Second Season Of The Legend Of Korra.

Drew Goddard Rewriting The End of World War Z. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

A New Space Adventure Show From Buffy’s Steven DeKnight? Starz also announces a new Dracula show by J. Michael Straczynski.

Model for Max Fleischer’s Superman found to be a 1950s pro wrestler.

Face To Face With The Hobbit Trolls—The Shrounds Have Come Off Weta’s Wonderful Creations.

The Hobbit at Comic Con: Peter Jackson’s San Diego plan.

The AV Club interviews Darwyn Cooke.

Dark Shadows Movies (House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows) Blu-Ray Covers Revealed. Very nice.

Looking back at Batman Begins.

Fall 2012 Complete Schedule For ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, And NBC With Trailers Of New Series.

Which new TV show will be your crack? Our First Impressions.

Get Under The Cloak Of Arrow.

J. Michael Straczynski Creates Studio JMS.

Science Aims To Misbehave With Firefly-Focused Browncoats Unite Special This Fall.

Fox Gung Ho On Fantastic Four Reboot, Lock Josh Trank As Director. Meanwhile, if Fox doesn’t find a new director for Daredevil soon, the rights revert back to Marvel/Disney.

The Line It Is Drawn #97: Comic Book Characters And Star Trek Characters.

First Look At Guy Gardner On Green Lantern Animated Series.

P:R Redesign: Daniel Irizarri’s Superboy.

Pajiba recasts Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whedonesque discusses it here. I disagree with most of the choices.

Why Did You Join Twitter? At this point in time, I have not.

Famous science fiction movies, depicted as 16th century Ottoman paintings.

The Art of Frankenweenie Exhibition Photo Gallery.

NECA Show Off Prometheus Action Figures.

Two new clips from The Dark Knight Rises.

Could We Build Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise.

Plush Spock.

First image of Skyfall’s Q.

20 Facts About Life of Brian That Might Make You Feel Like Whistling A Cheery Tune.

Digitally created portrait of Merida from Brave.

Stephanie Brown Dropped From Smallville In Favor Of Barbara Gordon?

Nerdist Writers Panel #46: Len Wein, Ed Brubaker, and Jackson Publick.

Sci-Fi’s Weirdest Musical Moments.

Venom Movie Set To Cross Over With The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Is Ice A Goddess Or What?

Fan Art: The Boogieman Cometh.

Last.fm Passwords Also Leaked.

See the first image from Dreamworks’ CG Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

Retro light sculptures to decorate your mad scientist’s laboratory.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Cindy Reynolds/Gypsy, and Angel Salvadore.

The Many Costumes of Janet Van Dyne, The Wasp.

X-Men Muppets.

The 8 Worst Types Of Merchandise On Sale At Every Nerdy Convention.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Hand.

From Cracked: 6 Mind Blowing Special Effects You Won’t Believe Aren’t CGI.

Halloween II TV Cut Finally Coming To Blu-Ray.

DC Comics cancels Captain Atom, Resurrection Man, and Voodoo.

Disney XD’s Ultimate Spider-Man was renewed for a second season.

Comics Alliance Reviews Steel (1997), Part One.

Brand new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Shark Attack in the Meditarranean.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 250: H.P. Lovecraft.

The Nine Circles Of Hell, As Depicted In Lego.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Horse Feathers.

‘Jackie’ The Ripper: Was The Serial Killer a Woman?

The Fearsome Bosnian Lampir.

PBS Cut 24 Minutes From Series 2 of Sherlock To Make Room For Adverts.

CBS Cancels CSI: Miami. They will not have a series finale.

CBS orders seven shows, beginning with Elementary, starring Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller.

Community moves to Friday nights this fall.

The Avengers passes the $1 billion mark worldwide in 19 days.

Dark Shadows earns $28.8 million and second place at the box office. If you combine domestic totals with overseas amounts, Dark Shadows made $65 million.

New photos from Total Recall.

22 main characters casually dismissed in sequels.

Falling Skies Season 2 Promo Art.

Lance Henriksen Thinks A Millennium Film Will Happen.

Gabriella Wilde Joining Julianne Moore And Chloe Moretz In The New Carrie.

A couple of videos featuring Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors in The Amazing Spider-Man.

10 High Risk Sci-Fi/Fantasy Careers.

Paramount allows The Godfather prequel to go forward.

Comics Alliance Reviews Supergirl (1984), Part One.

DC Cancels Justice League International With Issue 12.

Fox Announces Its New, Genre Free 2012-2013 Schedule.

Seven Snow White And The Huntsman clips show off the Evil Queen’s secret.

Schlock Treatment 77: Slugs (1988).

Dark Shadows Podcast: The Cinementals.

Mac Flashback Attack Began With Wordpress Blogs.

Trove of 500 fairy tales discovered in Germany—will Disney option the Turnip Princess?

Syfy confirms it now has the pilot script for Booster Gold.

An Unexpected Connection: Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Hobbit To Preview At CinemaCon.

50 Greatest Friends And Foes of Spider-Man: Supporting Cast #’s 25-16.

Johnny Depp Explains The Look of Tonto In The Lone Ranger.

The Near Mint Avengers #1 Which Was Almost Thrown Away.

Spider-Man, Batman, Huntsman—A Nerdy Summer Movie Preview. The only one I plan to see this year is The Dark Knight Rises. I’m not an Avengers fan (and don’t like a single actor in that movie).

Valiant Entertainment debuts a new logo.

Scorpion Releasing Brings Mortuary To DVD.

Lego Darth Vader Lamp.

Dalek Cake

George Takei looks back at his career.

An Embroidered George McFly.

The Piranhaconda Looks...Well, Like a Piranhaconda

Another Avengers clip, this time with Bruce Banner and Black Widow.

Dan DiDio and Jim Lee address Chris Roberson’s DC departure.

Comic Alliance reviews Spider-Man: The Secret Wars (1997).

Yogi Shot First

Read two pages of the original pitch for Eureka.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast discusses Monster Dog (1984).

Megaupload Data May Soon Be Destroyed.

Google Strikes Back After MPAA Objects to Hotfile Intervention.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Meggan (aka Meggan Puceanu, Meggan Braddock, or Gloriana). I once managed to locate an icon of that moment where Meggan delivers cocoa to Kurt in the tub. Amusingly, hit the random icon button on Dreamwidth, and got that one first for this entry.

Patricio Oliver’s New Mutants redesign.

crack_van is in need of drivers.

Stephen Fry and Ian McKellen pay licensing fees to save Hobbit pub.

An excerpt from Dark Shadows: Angelique’s Descent, by Lara Parker.

We Wish You A Turtle Christmas, and other proof that Michael Bay’s not the first to screw up the Ninja Turtles. The good news for me is I managed to miss each and every one of these during my interest in Ninja Turtles. I do remember the promos that featured Venus on Fox, though.

The trailer for season 2 of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

The first clip from Wrath of the Titans.

Remembering Are You Afraid Of The Dark.

Stained Glass TARDIS.

New IMAX promo for The Avengers.

New promo art for The Amazing Spider-Man reveals The Lizard.

Found via noscans_daily: Courtesy of MAD TV and Cartoon Network, a spoof/musical number with the JLA. The JLI make a cameo in the middle of the insanity.

75 words every sci-fi fan should know.

8 Forgotten 80’s Live Action Children’s Sci-Fi Series. From that list, I watched Small Wonder and Out Of This World.

Director Rupert Sanders discusses making Snow White And The Huntsman.

Julie Taymor’s original ending for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

New clip from The Cabin In The Woods.

Veronica Mars will begin airing on SoapNet on Saturday, April 7th.

ETA: Disney Junior launches today; Soapnet to continue on some carriers. So in light of that tidbit, it all depends on where you live, whether or not you get to watch Veronica Mars.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Michelle Carter.

Bryan Singer will direct the pilot for The Munsters.

Marti Noxon will be writing the Ouija film for Hasbro. whedonesque discusses it here.

The copy of Action Comics #1 which was stolen from Nicholas Cage, is expected to bring in over $1 million in auction.

Fox has officially confirmed that X-Men: First Class will have a sequel.

From Cracked: 7 Movies That Put Insane Work Into Details You Didn’t Notice.

zombie_fest is beginning another round.

Preview clip for the next episode (A Herald of the New Age) of Merlin.

Charlize Theron discusses Snow White And The Huntsman…and says she’s hoping to slaughter Kristen Stewart. That would be a unique way to end a Snow White movie—and between that, and her other interview, I’m almost starting to like her.

The trailer for Neverland.

The AV Club looks back at The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, and The Muppets Take Manhattan.

fandom_stocking opens soon.

Syfy has ordered a Booster Gold pilot script.

Benedict Cumberbatch discusses his role as Smaug in The Hobbit.

Insanejournal is having a holiday sale.

Extended tv spot for The Woman In Black.

The Adventures of Pete and Pete: The Cast Reunion.

Wizard’s Gareb Shamus is launching a blog and Twitter feed—and shutting down the digital magazine. I never did hear any news along the lines of returning the money of those that still had subscriptions to his magazine, so I assume they’re still ignoring that.

12 holiday gifts for the Doctor Who fan in your life.

The 10 Most Obnoxious Cartoon Theme Songs.

Anne McCaffrey has passed away at the age of 85, after suffering a stroke. May she rest in peace.

Another look at Johnny Depp’s Barnabas, along with Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth, and Jonny Lee Miller as Roger.

Stephen King is working on a sequel to The Shining.

Spider-Man’s public service announcement comics are being collected in a trade paperback.

As part of a bonus feature, the boxed set of Doctor Who season 6 will include a five part (short in length, given the comments) miniseries called Night and the Doctor.

A t-shirt with Cthulhu in the Ghostbusters logo.

First there was the theory that Nicholas Cage was a vampire, based on that old Civil War era photo that surfaced. Now we have someone that vaguely resembles John Travolta.

This week’s Dimestore Dames is the late, great Sue Dibney. I loved that character.

Think Geek is selling the Master’s pocket watch. Memories of a maniacal Time Lord not included.

Batman editor Janelle Asselin has seemingly quit DC for Disney.

An editorial asks: How young is too young for comics? I would say you’re never too young, given I got started when I was 2.

From Newsarama: 10 Comic Book Super Powers Way Worse Than Talking To Fish. #3 includes certain mutants. While I agree with Maggott’s inclusion, I disagree with Doug Ramsey being on the list.

BBC 3 have chosen to cancel Doctor Who Confidential.

Sara Douglass has passed away after a struggle with cancer, at the age of 54. May she rest in peace. She wrote fantasy novels such as Starman and The Wayfarer Redemption.

Syfy renews Alphas.

Neil Gaiman wants to continue a tradition (which he started last year) of trading scary books on Halloween, called All Hallow’s Read.

According to Dan DiDio, Justice League International never existed in its original incarnation—also in this brand new world they’ve made, Ted Kord and Dan Garett never existed.

Christopher Lloyd did a commercial as Doc Brown for an Argentinian electronics store. You can watch what appears to be a prequel here, and the actual commercial here—love Doc’s backfiring inventions.

From Cracked: The 7 Creepiest Old School Robots.

Three clips have been released for the next episode of Doctor Who. Clip 1 is here. Clip 2 is here. Clip 3 is here.

I came to the conclusion that whatever’s going on with IE might involve Java or something similar to that. whedonesque has a live Twitter feed window in their site, as do many of the other pages affected. Coincidentally, at that same moment Windows Updates notified me of a patch for IE 8 in XP--KB2559049. According to this site, this patch might be able to correct it. “Another fix helps ensure that IE8 can properly access sites that advertise IPv6 addresses when those sites are not reachable over IPv6 due to configuration errors on the site or the user’s network.” Has anyone else had this problem and used that patch yet? I’d like to know if it will mess anything up before I attempt to allow it in.

The newest Thor trailer.

15 cases of really bad film and TV superhero costumes. The 1997 pilot for Justice League of America makes the list, as does Generation X and the characters involved in Legends of the Superheroes. I disagree with the inclusion of Magneto’s outfit in the X-Men movies, since that actually looked good. Instead of that, I would have said Halle Berry’s Catwoman, or the 70's version of Dr. Strange.

Oh, and if I’m slow to answer any comments during the course of this next week, this is probably the cause, judging by the latest status update:

“We are currently upgrading our notification system. Some notifications may be delayed by up to a week. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience while we increase notification efficiency!”

Just thought I'd mention that in case anyone else notices something strange with their own notifications. I’ll periodically check everywhere I’ve posted just in case I miss something. If someone posts in my journal, at least, that ought to pop up on the Journal Comments bit on the main page. I think they were already getting a bit of a lag, because I haven't received as many as I should in the last few days.

A developing story is that Wizard Magazine may be dead. Calls go unanswered, the subscription page of their site returns a 404, their “bullpen website” is down, and numerous other suspicious things are going on. Toyfare may continue being published for now, but I wouldn't count on that lasting too long given the evidence. I had just renewed my subscription to Wizard for another year and they’ve cashed that check, so they owe me--and many other people.

ETA: Good, just checked and I hadn't renewed my subscription to Toyfare yet. Now I won't be doing that.

ETA 2: An update on the developing story. They now say that Toyfare will also be ceasing publication immediately.

Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? I had a problem with one rather large snake on the front porch (Dad decapitated it with a shovel) which just refused to slither off when I was little, but thousands inside the house? I would have lost it. According to someone in both the Gawker and Jezebel comments, that house was featured on an episode of Animal Planet’s series Infested. If you want to see news footage of the house, head for the Gawker link.

Booster Gold has been cast on Smallville. He will be played by Eric Martsolf, who I know as Brady from Days of Our Lives. And, formerly, Ethan from Passions. He doesn’t really seem right for the role, but he can act.

And now, just spreading a meme from a few on my IJ friends list:

1. Name one of my RP characters and one of yours (or one of someone else's if your really want).
2. Name a destination, anywhere in the known or created universes.
3. I'll write you my character's postcard to the other, from that destination.

There’s two more days for bidding in the auction to help Australia at qldfloodauction, and my thread is here. Bidding was at $10 as of the last I checked.