It's so true...

[odycee]

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In other news:  Gay outrage over penguin sex test.

"Gay rights activists have protested at a north German zoo's plans to test the sexual orientation of six male penguins which have displayed homosexual traits.

Bremerhaven's Zoo am Meer said it would introduce four extra female penguins from Sweden to the group to see if the males really were gay.

But zoo director Heike Kueck said "gay groups worldwide have been cursing us since that announcement".

The zoo says it just wants to encourage the rare Humboldt penguins to breed.

The males have been observed trying to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring out of stones.

"We don't know whether the three male pairs are really homosexual or whether they have just bonded because of a shortage of females," said Mrs Kueck, quoted by Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine.

Gay groups insisted that penguins had a right to form couples without human interference, she said.

"Nobody here wants to forcibly separate homosexual couples," she said.

Only one baby Humboldt penguin has been born at the zoo, which has six males and four females, Der Spiegel reports."

Um. They're threatened with extinction. Though the idea of the two males trying to hatch a stone is rather cute surely it's better to see if they actually will breed?

Comments

[odycee.livejournal.com]

Exactly! They can't force them to breed with the females - they're just giving them the option! And frankly, where's the harm in that if the species is endangered?

I too am very glad. Who needs manips when you've got it right there on the screen? ;)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Is that manipped? Am I stupid? They were clearly all over each other in that scene, though.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's manipped at all. At least I'm pretty sure it's not. It was a very um, intimate hug and Remus definitely had his hand on Sirius's arse at one point. I was just referring to the manips that people have done - such as the numerous ones in my icons.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

lol! I thought you were being heavily sarcastic saying hello, it's manipped, you mook.

It is certainly a rather intimate greeting. And so heartbreaking after so long! <3<3<3

I must watch it again to see the hand on the arse, though.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

No! lol!

It is certainly a rather intimate greeting. And so heartbreaking after so long!

I know. *sniff* And that's why I cannot stay away from that pairing.

Here's a cap that's definitely not manipped and is obviously from moments before or after that one:



Did you ever think any more about that manips community then?

[niennah.livejournal.com]

*sniffle* You only do the one arm up, one arm down hug when you *really* mean it. And their smiles! <3 I totally get this pairing. I predict that I'll fall for it when it's gone out of fashion, lol! Just like Jack/Daniel.

I did give it more thought, but it seems like I'm rushing around doing stuff constantly these days. Also, there was v little feedback on that. I'd like to do it, though, so I have to work out how to define 'manip' and how to run the comm. I think an awards comm would be best, but that would depend on there being enough manips around to be nommed every one week or two... I'm not sure there are. How about the HP fandom? What's that like for manips? I've seen great SG ones, bot SG-1 and Atlantis, as well as Angel and Buffy ones of course. But I'd need lots of fandoms involved for it to be at all successful.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

Jack/Daniel never goes out of fashion (at least not in my book!)

I obviously read that post you made about it but I think it must have been in the period at the end of Jan where I wasn't about very much and only did flying f-list checks.

Hmmm... HP fandom. There's probably some about but really the only ones I've seen are icon sized ones. But generally I don't venture out into the wilds of HP fandom. I stay in the safe little Maurauders corner so I can't speak for the rest of it. I think it's more about the fanart really and of course there's a lot less stock footage than there is for a TV show.

I remember those Stargate ones that you linked to a while back and they were absolutely gorgeous. I seem to remember there being Highlander ones there too.

So yeah, not sure what all that rambling up there is about.

I have just found a few manip comms: lost_manips, sv_manipsnip (woah - some pretty explicit manips there!), photo_manip - not fandom.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

The Smallville one looks like it's got a good system going. The best way to prove it's a manip is to show the original pics it came from. I could give a theme or something. I like it. And good definition of manip in the Lost one. I like the format of posting there, too. Muchos gracias for the linkage.

I want to include fanart, I think, to allow for fandoms that don't have vast amounts of caps, like HP, LOTR and even LOTRPS (lord save my soul).

Jack and Daniel 4 evah, yo! :)