The Magnificent Seven!
What is it? About it

I watched it for the first time years ago, maybe in the 2001. I fell in love with it because... well, it's a western and the characters are interesting. I fell in love with Ezra <3
I can't remember if I was a yaoi fan at that time but I loved the show anyway.
The last saturday one of the Italian televisions re-aired this show, the first episode. I was so excited because I really missed the show.
And I loved it! Again!
Oh my, Ezra is lovely.

The same evening I decided to search on internet if I could find some slash about the Ma7. I hoped in a little site or some fanfictions on FF.net but I didn't expect to find a huge, active and slashy fandom. The fandom of The Magnificent Seven is... enormous! And still active with livejournal, sites and communities (and slashy, because seven handsome boys ARE slashy). Ezra is the most loved one, no surprise.
So now I'm searching the episodes and curiosities (and fanfictions). It's good to discover a new fandom <3

Meme found on Kanky_yamato's lj : D
Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

Gintama

01: I started to watch it because I found an hilarious vid on youtube about on of Gintama's parodies of another anime. I love parodies! Then I fell in love with the characters and the comicity.

02: I know that I'll watch this anime till the end <3

03: My favourite episode is the last one of the Itou arc (the ep 105) . It made me cry (a lot and twice).

04: Yes : D I created the first Italian site about Gintama, I still have it but the updates now are rare (because of the lack of time). I wrote some fanfictions and created also some amv. And I'm the admin in an active forum.

05: Yes, definitely yes! The Italian version had a bad dub so many Italian otaku don't like Gintama because of it but... there is still the jap and subbed version!

Gundam Wing

01:  The television! : D

02: I often abandon it but I always return to Gundam Wing, it was my first fandom

03: My favourite episodes are the Endless Waltz's ones <3 and I loved Episode Zero

04: Yes : D I have a mini site about Gundam Wing and I wrote a fanfiction and created some vids.

05:  Yes ;_; It's not loved enough and many people forgot it

Hetalia

01: Some friend of mine talked about it in a forum and a friend of mine joined a community lj about it. But I decided to watch it only after seeing the avatar of one of my dearest friend.

02: I don't know, I'm in the fandom but I think I'll move on very soon also if I'll continue reading the fanfictions and watching the anime

03: I don't really have one

04: I don't partecipate very much : ( I only partecipate with discussions in a forum.

05:  Not really... too many people already XD
 

Some piece of various articles from the Times, the Guardian and the Economist, because Italian press is not free (I'm not saying it, it's written here.)
My comments and opinion are in the ( )

Veronica Lario, Mr Berlusconi’s wife, announced their divorce with the words, “I cannot be with a man who spends time with under-age women”.
There is increasing concern over the damage that Silvio Berlusconi is inflicting on Italy’s image at a time when the country is an important player on the world stage and holds the chairmanship of the G8.
The Italian Prime Minister’s popularity ratings have been unaffected so far by his public divorce battle. According to a recent poll, they stand at 66 per cent, despite insinuations by his wife, Veronica Lario, concerning his relationship with — or to — Noemi Letizia.
Ms Lario has said that he is “unwell” and “needs help” but many Italians admire Mr Berlusconi for his exuberant energy and drive as a self-made billionaire. They see him as “one of us”, despite his wealth.
“He is popular because he is not a snob, like the leaders of the Left,” said Il Giornale — his own newspaper.
(I humbly think he is quite snob. He is arrogant and he doesn't know how real Italian people live. He doesn't know the crisis and the difficulties.)
Ms Bonino was applauded on Thursday when she told a studio audience on RAI, the state channel: “Italians, whether they voted for him or not, have the right to have a leader who does not embarrass us at the international level.”
She said that the scandal over Mr Berlusconi’s promotion of showgirls as European Parliament candidates confirmed his lack of respect for women and reinforced a “vulgar macho stereotype which I had hoped was over”. She recalled that two years ago Mr Berlusconi had described Baroness Thatcher, pictured, as una bella gnocca, or “a great piece of pussy”.
(And we have to rememeber that time on tv when Berlusconi was talking about disoccupation of young people and a girl asked him: "How can I live in the future if there is no job for us?" and talked about problems of disoccupation and women. Berlusconi replied: "You are a beautiful girl, you'll find a man rich as my son to marry". If this is respect for women...)
Another danger for Mr Berlusconi is that, if his divorce is protracted, Italians will take sides, and some of his female followers will sympathise with his wife, particularly since she claims to have been publicly humiliated by him.
To a greater extent than any other European leader, moreover, Mr Berlusconi has built his political career on his life and lifestyle. He has forged the image of a virtual Superman, enjoying wealth, power and the love and loyalty of a beautiful wife even as he also enjoyed the company of an endless stream of pretty girls.
(Pretty girls are also some of his politics. When Berlusconi was elected he called his female ministers "his babies" - "le sue bambine".)
The opposition leader, Dario Franceschini of the Democratic party, keeps saying that he doesn't want to profit politically from such personal issues, but of course, he does.
(Indeed, it's a great occasion. Politics can insult each other and cover with gossip our real problems. Good work, people.)
Italian premier believes his wife fell into a trap organised by his political opponents.
(And this is PRICELESS.)

(When I read this new, in our Italian newspaper, I felt an overwhelming shame. Shame of being Italian.)
A proposal to introduce racial segregation on trains, trams and buses in Milan provoked an outcry from Italian opposition politicians today.
The scheme was put forward by a representative of the anti-immigrant Northern League, the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's main ally in government. Matteo Salvini, the league's secretary in Milan, told a rally to launch his party's European election campaign that he wanted "seats or carriages reserved for the Milanese" on local public transport.
Dario Franceschini, leader of Italy's biggest opposition group, the Democratic party, said: "One's thoughts go back to the affair of Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to give up her place on the bus and inspired Martin Luther King's struggle."
Salvini tried to downplay the row, insisting: "It was just a provocation to say the residents are now in a minority and, as such, need safeguarding." (As if I believe it... Think before speaking.)
But the Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, spoke of a "worrying" increase in intolerance (And I noticed it. I noticed it in the television, the press and some of my friend, especally my rommate), while the opposition Italy of Principles party called on the government to disown the idea publicly.
However, Berlusconi, whose government is already under attack for its immigration policies after the Italian navy returned to Libya more than 200 boat people without letting them apply for asylum, said: "Salvini himself has said it was a quip, a provocation."
(Well, that's good to hear. Our ministers and politics are only capable of provocations about non-existing problems.)
 

[Berlusconi] jovially likened the condition of the homeless survivors of the Italian earthquake to "a weekend of camping". The final remark was the most unforgivable: an uninhibited fool is one thing, a callous fool quite another.

About something happier:
Some legendary and historical figures I'm interested in.

Mordred (of course)
I have a list of books I have still to read/buy about him.
Of course, he is my favourite.

Emperor Nero
I'm still looking for a good biography about Nero. I like his figure because there are many controversial versions of his life and reign. I think og him as a good emperor but I think he was hated because he tries to reduce noble men's priviledges.
And I'm still trying to watch 'Imperium Nero' with one of my favourite actors (Hans Matheson... yes, the one that played Mordred in Mists of Avalon).

Boadicea (Boudica)
She was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia in England, who led an uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
I heard they made a movie about her... but I never found it.

John of England
I don't know much about him. Still reading/looking for.


And now: amv's time (sorry, fanvid's time). I watched the movie The Other Boleyn Girl and also if I didn't like it very much, I thought that it'd be wonderful for a fantrailer about an Arthurian fake-movie. Eric Bana, as King Arthur, is engaged/married with Guinevere (Scarlett Johansson). But Morgana (Natalie Portman) comes to court and she falls in love with Guinevere who, slowly, starts to love her back. Yay, femslash Arthurian fake-trailer. Jim Sturgess as Mordred (or maybe not, Sturgess is to cute/baby to be Mordred. Maybe he'll be Lancelot, just because).

Getting better.
Statistic is still going to kill me, one day. My professor is not able to teach it, really.
About manga... I managed to sell 'Full metal alchemist' to one of my friend and with the money I'll finally buy 'The Talisman' by Stephen King.
I'm not a Stephen King's fan, actually I only read three of his books, but I'm in love with 'The Talisman'.
I read it twice and I wanted to read it one more time, this month, but it disappeared from the library °_° so I thought it was time to buy it.
Oh, Richard! <3
And I found out that the 2009 will be a great year for this book.
The Talisman Graphic Novels
Coming Fall 2009
And they are trying to create a tv series for 'The Talisman' . Maybe in the 2010.
(Please! Find an handsome Richard! *superficial girl*)

I wrote it!
Gundam Wing girls drabbles. (Italian only :( ) with hints of 1xR, 2xH, DxR, 3x11 and 6x9.
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