Ok I've had to explain this to a few people now... I realised that not everyone would know what it means when a friend of mine told me that she was thinking of changing her screen name to "spunk lover" and I had to explain why that wasn't such a good idea. ;)

I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what "spunk" can mean...

( The definition of Spunk )

I put it behind a cut just in case anyone takes offense really easily.

I'm doing exam revision on the Panopticon today -

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience."

Jeremy Bentham also had written into his Will that his body be preserved, stored in a cabinet and brought out for special board meetings. They termed this his 'auto-icon.' Then one day his head, which was not preserved well…fell off. So they made a wax one.

This is a picture of it, something I've seen in numerous lectures before:



The creepy thing is that I had never noticed his real head staring at me from the bottom of his feet until a few minutes ago! :O

Thank you so much to everyone who wished me Happy Birthday! *group_hugs* I love you guys!

I'll write a longer birthday review later. :)

*whispers* It's my 21st birthday as of 18 minutes ago! I always get ridiculously excited about my birthday...

I wonder what the day will bring! :)

Firstly, I want to point out that I enjoyed reading Breaking Dawn and thought that the book was good. However, it could have been brilliant if Stephenie had more of an insight into what the teen fans actually want to read in the book. I thought she did before I read Breaking Dawn, but while reading it, I realised that she doesn't really.

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Does anyone agree or disagree with this? Does anyone have any similar opinions about other aspects of the book?


In other news - I'm 21 tomorrow woooooooh! *woot*

I love meeting people from online! The last week or so I met a lot of friends from Fan Forum.

On Sunday 3rd of August I picked up likethesun from a service station because she'd been on a Doctor Who trip around the UK with nad2912, coffeeaddicted and fairyfloss_love it was great to meet them all. It was a brief meeting, but they all seemed really nice!

Then likethesun came back to my house and we hung out, watched High School Musical, played online and made a banner (an inside joke on the Graphics Team on Fan Forum) to hold up at the airport when we went to pick up fojbe & lostemilie the next day. We had to both had to wake up really early to go and meet fojbe at the airport - she landed at 7:35. Unfortunately we must have missed the bus (or it didn't show up) and we were quite late. fojbe laughed so hard when she saw our banner, we had coffee/hot chocolate before heading back to my house on the bus. After having lunch (English cooked breakfast), we went into town to buy Breaking Dawn (as it was released that day). However, when we got there, they had only held one copy of it. I said that I had reserved 4 and the guy checked on the computer which said I had. There were 4 copies there, but when I insisted that he give me those copies, he told us that they had already been pre-paid for. I said that I would have gladly pre-paid for them if I had been told that would have ensured that I receive the 4 copies that I ordered. I argued for a while before requesting that they give me the one copy they put by for me with a discount because THEY had admitted making a mistake and asked to see the manager. The guy went to ask the manager and came back and told me that he wouldn't give me a discount, so I bought the book they had. We checked the other book stores in town, but it had sold out everywhere veh! Then in the evening my Mum took us to go collect lostemilie.

The next day I took them sight seeing in my home town and we finally managed to get 3 more copies of Breaking Dawn. Then in the evening we had a movie night - we watched The Princess Bride, ate ice cream and drank Vodka & Orange juice.

On the Wednesday we went up to London to meet jj_jule & isabell16 who came over from Germany for a few days. All of us (likethesun, lostemilie, fojbe, jj_jule and isabell16) are on the Graphics Team at Fan Forum so we all knew each other. It was great - we did a little sight seeing and a little shopping had lunch and dinner before we parted ways. We were all really tired I think from walking around.

On Thursday we went to Chessington World of Adventures. likethesun and I were the only ones who wanted to go on the "big" rides 'The Vampire' and 'Dragon's Fury' so fojbe and lostemilie looked around the zoo while we went on them. Though they did go on a few of the baby rides with us. ;)



On Friday likethesun, fojbe and lostemilie moved to a travel lodge in the next town over because my Dad & Brother were supposed to come back (though they decided to stay in Europe until Monday evening) we went shopping and then to see The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. It was an ok movie, but not brilliant and it really missed Rachel Weisz

Saturday we went up to London again and did more sight seeing/shopping. I bought a new purple jacket for only £19.99, I love it and a bunch of dvds (as usual - I updated the list).

Sunday we hung out, watched tv and read Breaking Dawn at my house - we didn't do much, but my Mum cooked us roast dinner. On Monday, I met the girls at the station and went off to the airport. I waited while they checked in on their respective flights and sadly said goodbye. :( I'm really going to miss them! I wish that they didn't live so far away and I hope that I see them all again.

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Does anyone know how many chapters Breaking Dawn has?

Um... what's all the fuss about?

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The Twilight For Everyone Petition has over 100 signatures already!

Please please please re-post the link on your journals and help me let people know about it! It would only take a second, but would make me really happy! This is something I really believe in and I hope that it will make a difference!

I created a petition to let MTV know that fans outside the USA feel as though material to do with Twilight should also be made more relevant and available to them because we are just as dedicated as USA fans.

Sign The Petition!

It only takes 10 seconds to fill out. Please sign if you agree and pass on to other twilight fans by linking to it on your journal, forum, website, community etc!

+ Scans at www.cullenandhale.com

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Please don't upload it to your own gallery - I will be able to tell.

I seem to enjoy taking text off images lately... ;)

I removed the text etc from the new Edward/Bella cover:



I know his arm isn't perfect but... I think it works ok.

Please only repost if you credit me & www.cullenandhale.com and please don't upload it to your own gallery - I will be able to tell. I'd appreciate it if you just drop me a message before using it in icons or art!

Some people are complaining that it's over airbrushed, but I don't see the problem with airbrushing... it just makes people look prettier ;) (though I could be biased because I would love to do that for a job! Hey now I have a degree in Digital Media maybe I can!)

I got my University results through the post today...

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LMAO Ok there is just a GOLDMINE of funny Stargate videos on youtube, but this one is just completely made of awesome! I LOVE Amanda that she was able to keep a straight face through doing this - she's fantastic! It's made me realise what an amazingly fantastic actress she really is.



LOL!!! Non Stargate fans will be able to appreciate this too!

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I love Amanda Tapping so much but... I can't decide whether her English accent is awful or not. It just sounds really off to me, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm used to her speaking with her American accent or... I'm also not loving her brown hair so much. Being blonde suits her more definitely I think. I liked the use of hand motions when they were planning attack - just like Stargate hehe!

( Harry Potter Wand Test )

Stargate SG-1 Jack/Sam Fan Fiction
I'm really enjoying Sally's SG-1 Fan Fiction (thanks so much for the rec samjackshiplove!)

Personal Reasons was really funny:

"This is incredible!" Daniel breathed, shining his wristlight up along the edge of the plinth they had discovered. "It looks like some kind of alter, although the statuary is gone. It must have been down here aeons."

"Aeons?" Jack asked. "How long's an aeon?"

Daniel flashed him a dark stare. "A long time," he said.

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Random thought
I think that it is very cool that loads of the characters on Doctor Who have the same last name as me (Harriet Jones, Ianto Jones, Martha Jones) ;).

Stargate Theme
Oh AND! LMAO I discovered that the Stargate SG-1 theme actually has lyrics to it! ROTFL I haven't laughed so hard in ages! (Apart from when Rodney showed me Dramatic looking Gopher today!)

( Stargate theme lyrics )

I just found out that Don S Davis died 2 days ago! :( This is a very very sad thing... I was surprised to find myself in tears when I heard the news.

For those who don't know, he played General Hammond in Stargate SG-1 for 7 years and he was such a lovable character. Hammond of Texas will live on in the hearts of his fans.

My sincere condolences to his friends and family.

fojbe I miss you! *bawls*

I've been so busy these past 2 weeks. I feel like we haven't talked in ages! I'll have more time next week though. Love you! Hope you're doing ok!

Does anyone have any good Jack/Sam fic recs?

I've been noticing that Jack is an aggressive bastard in pretty much all fic I've read so far... why is that? That's not how he seems in the show to me... Any sweet Jack fic recs would be good, but I'll read anything. So far I think JenCamp is my favorite author, but I've read all of her stuff.