I found these in fiddlinartist's gallery, and I wanted to make a big song and dance about them ^_^ If you like LoTR you'll fall out of your seat laughing, I promise you!

ROTK Alternate Ending Part 1 : [link]

ROTK Alternate Ending Part 2 : [link]

ROTK Alternate Ending Part 3 : [link]

Hehe, Peter Jackson really should see these ^_^;;

Heya everyone ^_^

I would like to attract your attention to something new I started... BEHIND THE RED CURTAIN! ^_^;; It's a Moulin Rouge RPG/Fan-fic which I've been a member of for over 2 years, in a yahoo group. I had the idea of starting to serialise it on DeviantART so I set up a group account for it ^_^

If you like Moulin Rouge (or even if you don't!), please go check it out, it's really good (not biased at all!).

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That's all! ^_^;;

Heya everyone ^_^

Why is it that even though I've given up all but two of my modules (they're the only ones which will be worth something for my new course), I'm still way too busy? Perhaps it's because I've decided to start doing something about my personal website, which is still in limbo.

I've been intending to split it up into sections (mainly because I have a habit of doing that), and possibly even change the domain, if I have time. It certainly needs updating. The new sections would include a new (smaller) personal site, an anime & manga site and a Lord of the Rings research site (which is my major project, as I'm writing everything myself). It's all taking forever though, and I'm losing patience with that China layout - no text seems to look good or clear enough on it.

I also got round to playing the new game in the Broken Sword series - The Sleeping Dragon. I found the first game in the series on a bargain shelf in HMV last year and, although it was cartoony (and more than a little corny), the game itself wasn't too bad. There are apparently three games in the series, the second of which I haven't seen.

This third one is quite good too. It has a new 3d gameplay which means the areas are more explorable, and some of the action sequences are amusing (try climbing into a dead hacker's apartment, coming face to face with his killer and whacking her in the face with a frying pan, then a fridge door, before she runs out of bullets). It's good fun though. The developers obviously haven't lost their tongue-in-cheek sense of humour - Nico and her French friends still sound like they've walked out of an episode of 'Allo 'Allo, and there are a lot of endearing character stereotypes (the coarse-tongued and laidback Australian, the Irish presenter sitting outside of a pub at 10am, the dumbwitted hippy, the 20-something English girl with a BBC accent and a thing for blonde American men).

Haha I don't really know why I like this game, it's as corny as hell, but it's good fun I guess.

I just saw a documentary on TV about brutality in a few American prisons. It showed how inmates have been sprayed with gallons of pepper spray, mutilated, beaten up by gangs of officers, tied up in chairs, even killed... and I saw the hatred, and confusion, and lies and cover ups to hide it. I saw how much suffering and hate that is going on. It truly shocked me... yes, these people are criminals, but what I saw was not dignified imprisonment, it was torture. Is this really the answer to crime?

One girl told a story of a fellow inmate who died of an ectopic pregnancy, because the prison officers wouldn't call for an ambulance or doctor. A man died after being severely beaten by several officers on two different occasions... and the pictures and footage were horrific.

I sat there and watched it until I had to turn it off, because I couldn't stand to watch the countless, obvious evidence and accounts of this abuse of prisoners. Despite the things they were put into prison for, I can't believe that anyone should be treated in this inhumane manner, and then have the officers and heads of prisons lie about what they did to these prisoners, and get away with it.

I don't want to start a debate by saying all of this. I just request that anyone who feels the need to, please pray (or the equivalent of your belief) for these people... for the prisoners abused by the system, for their families suffering, that this suffering will end, that something will be done. In the end, everyone who suffers to this degree is a victim, and I believe no one should have to.

Prisons are meant to punish criminals for the things they have done, but another important function is to try and change these people, change their ways so they come to terms with what they have done and become better people. The past can never be changed, their crimes won't ever be erased or taken away from them. They will live with what they have done for the rest of their lives. This degree of "punishment" however, is a breach of basic human rights, and no one should be subjected to that.

I hope that anyone reading this will take what I am saying seriously... please support the families of these prisoners, as well as the families of those who are victims of crime. Both sets of people have gone through so much, suffered so much... I can't even imagine how painful it must be. In the end, they are all victims, and they equally need our support.

** please don't reply flaming me - I am just writing my honest opinion, and I am by no means trying to trivialise crimes committed by prisoners. **

Update re: the course situation! I talked to the leader of the course I want to go on (who also takes one of the modules I do on my current course) and he seems to be pretty happy with the idea of me moving to Electronic Media! :-D And on the second year too

It turns out that I've done both of the major core modules already on the course I'm on now, I'm just missing Design Theory. But things are definitely looking up - come September, I will be an art student! (YAY!)