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Thanks for playing around, Strega! I'm glad the queues are saved, just not accessible. But it would indeed be nice (and good marketing to tempt people) if the queues were still active, so you could see and add to them.
If you switch from instant to DVD, it is effective immediately -- you immediately lose streaming access and they'll ship out ASAP.
Effective immediately, but what about the...oh, right, there's no issue in pricing since they're the same price. Interesting.
I missed this. Though Pratchett invented it.
Nope, though to be fair it's apparently buried in a bunch of the extra-canonical material published after he died. The only reference in LotR is something in the appendices, about how outsiders think female dwarves must have beards, and that female dwarves are very rare.
I do love the way Pratchett has elaborated on it, and even gone so far as to apply the male-default within dwarf culture itself, rather than as something appearing only to outsiders.
... erm, that was kind of hard to follow. What I mean is: in Tolkein, outsiders can't tell the difference between male & female dwarves, but presumably dwarves can. In Pratchett, nobody but the dwarf himself can tell the difference, which is why it's so scandalous when the Ankh-Morpork dwarves start wearing female clothing. (I wonder what this says about traditional dwarf marriages--some are same-sex, I guess?)
(And I think we can assume that at least some of the female-dressing Ankh-Morpork dwarves don't have male genitalia, because who would know? There's some excellent fanfiction to that effect on the AO3.)
Sherlock Holmes II trailer. I am so there. I hope RDJ saw X Men: First Class and got jealous of the gay.
Damn you, wee ita! I was honestly just about to post that! I *just* posted it to FB.
My only problem is I think of RDJ solely as Tony Stark, which takes me to a weird place of Iron Man and John Watson: They Fight Crime!
I cannot WAIT for this movie.
I have to watch the trailer again. (And what the hell is RDJ wearing in the intro to the trailer?)
Oh dear lord. Shirtless RDJ hanging from the outside of the train. I so heartily approve.
I really have to give Sherlock Holmes another try, I just don't think I was in the right mood the first time I tried to watch it.
Leaked Dark Knight Rises trailer.
Jon Favreau interviews Olivia Wilde.
Leaked Dark Knight Rises trailer.
Already gone. But let's see if I can wait until I see HP on Friday to see it on the big screen!
The Atlantic does an analysis of the Netflix rate change: [link]
I think he's right: I'm going to dump streaming, at least temporarily, because there isn't nearly as much available anyway.