I'm bored and I'm ill.

[apocalypsos]

Rec me (and anybody else on my friends list who might not have read them) the best original LJ posts you've ever read. (Imagine you were trying to sell your friends on getting LJ accounts by making them read really, really, really great posts.) Fanfic, essays, funny stuff, anything ... just as long as it's not a repost.

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thoughtful:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/destina/135507.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nightdoll/57283.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/d_r_o_n_e/154854.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/d_r_o_n_e/154371.html

For Your Own Good: Jedi, Psi Corps, and Wizards
http://www.livejournal.com/users/prillalar/58484.html

Essay: Male Beauty and The Construction of Desire
http://www.livejournal.com/users/thamiris/150757.html

flavors of beauty:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cortese/129981.html

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. :
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nifra_idril/36650.html

on the fall of centauri prime:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hobsonphile/5171.html

ode to california:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/linaelyn/386909.html

Once upon a time in mexico movie review/response:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/elefwin/100390.html

killing buddha:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/calichan/46826.html

on belief:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gileonnen/80067.html

fandom:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mommybird/251483.html

land where my father's died:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/slit/181285.html

personal axioms of reading:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/melymbrosia/281515.html

differences between fanfic and original literary fiction:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sullensiren/10165.html

perspectives on censorship:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/orpheneritus/10867.html

people meeting:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/emrinalexander/324128.html

LOTR movie meta regarding positions and framing:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/melina123/21904.html

Essay: "Mirror, Mirror": Gazing and the Formation of Identity in Smallville*
http://www.livejournal.com/users/thamiris/176299.html

a great deal about beauty (aka. structural differences in communication of themes, between the Lord of the Rings movies versus the books.)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ugly_blue/13321.html

Thoughts on Art.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/linaelyn/427089.html

symbolism in a writer's world creation
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cathemery/43403.html

In which I defend lit theory, and am rash enough to say what I think it is
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cassandre/20703.html

music vid existentialism.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/reenka/170111.html

Everybody's free to get a fandom live journal
http://www.livejournal.com/users/iibnf/763197.html

a hilarious slash fan's explaining slash to parents at the bottom of this:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/forceofisis/40361.html

Fanfiction and Happy Endings
http://www.livejournal.com/users/isagel/49486.html

science and progress don't speak as loud as my heart
http://www.livejournal.com/users/0100111/170713.html

Wizards vs. Muggles - on the next Jerry Springer!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/wikdsushi/334796.html

and recieve...

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Nautical Disaster - Really Damn Long Post
http://www.livejournal.com/users/daft/182908.html

In which I talk about my favourite subject. Lots.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_royal_anna/22963.html

A momentary digression into an Open Letter to "President" Bush:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/robkaiote/258820.html

How to write a battle scene
http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/149285.html

Literary Hierarchies and Fanfiction
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fabu/50666.html

I distilled aLOT of lj entries on RotK here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/permetaform/84388.html#cutid1

Some links to noteworthy reviews of RotK:

This and this are beautiful anthems to the movie.

And a song to Theoden too...

Some wonderful thoughts on boromir, faramir, and duty.

Some neat points about color use.

Some great comments in this thread about LotR as a collective attachment to a childhoot vision of utopia...

What's said here about anti-hobbitlove and love unsullied by fear is completely worth reading...

And lastly, ajhalluk has some very good points on the 'missing' Eowyn/Faramir scene.

Your Daily Dose of Delusion
http://www.livejournal.com/users/widget285/168006.html

on writing:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/matociquala/231580.html

growing up as a writer
http://www.livejournal.com/users/zortified/425226.html

Draco and the Dementors, or: Why Death-Eater Orgies Are Canon
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spare_change/75307.html

[smallville] Gods, Love, and Sidearms. (Mythomania, baby)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nifra_idril/87522.html

On Seget, Numan, Clark, and Lex.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kelex/161356.html

On DS9 and Trek in General
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sizequeen/9245.html

on Smallville's Aslyum and Why Lionel Luthor is a Pussy
http://www.livejournal.com/users/misswindy/122222.html

AU's and origfic
http://www.livejournal.com/users/guede_mazaka/100447.html

beware me thinking Thoughts (I am a gymnast)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/niqaeli/250016.html

Smallville's Asylum, prufrock's meta and ode
http://www.livejournal.com/users/rageprufrock/100212.html

Rosetta, Dads and SV's Hugs, in a rambling style
http://www.livejournal.com/users/betrue/40701.html

Interview with Brian Azzarello about Man of Steel: Lex Luthor
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aelora/293129.html

Destructive Recreation? Smallville's Dark Fertility Myth
http://www.livejournal.com/users/echoskeleton/89203.html

and recieve some more...[the funny links]

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Things to do (they get progessively funnier)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sisabet/154562.html

recind your independance:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kenovay/32129.html

babies are like slow ferrets:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/234139.html

The temperature in here is beginning to rise, so you should remove your clothing.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ingole/84693.html

Public Service Announcement RE:POTC
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kazzik/183403.html

This is Jaikob, he has a sense of humor
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jaikob/81316.html

jedi scandal
http://www.livejournal.com/users/darthhellokitty/119647.html

THE ENTIRE SILMARILLION OF J. R. R. TOLKIEN IN ONE THOUSAND WORDS.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/camwyn/328358.html

I don't think they're gonna play this on the radio
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mimesere/338262.html

This is funnier if you've seen the one with the eggbaby.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/liviapenn/280104.html

My life is an episode of The Benny Hill Show.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/davywavy/147922.html

LOTR fans:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lordoftherings/1982201.html

fun with missionaries:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/minotaurs/66347.html

boromir picspam:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/rohandove/329360.html

short history of medicine:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/meneathiel/32407.html

'Rings' characters discuss Oscar snub
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mollyringwraith/9460.html

Presidential Race 2004 as 6th Grade Lunchroom
http://www.livejournal.com/users/greyshipcalling/5596.html

woot!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/namey/476329.html

Who Do I Have to Drink to Get a Blow Around Here?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sockkpuppett/144246.html

on Horatio Hornblower
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ladybretagne/667129.html

I have only one thought on the Janet Jackson thing...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/linzeems/389393.html

emo!faramir?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/windandwater/458822.html

transcribed PotC and LotR dvd commentaries
http://www.livejournal.com/users/roz_mcclure/236759.html

Finally, They Came for Me
http://www.livejournal.com/users/doqz/30370.html

Things you learn from watching action movies.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/penm/197086.html

adventures in shop class:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/froda_baggins/64467.html

think of the children!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/wikdsushi/331778.html

Voldemort for President
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gehayi/51717.html

The Internet is for porn!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/3jane/255575.html

To Create
http://www.livejournal.com/users/estellongshanks/50138.html

Now introducing Secret Spells Barbie....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/dontevenknow/101176.html

For the SCAdians.... and others.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/resqdog51/166405.html

pants of the caribbean
http://www.livejournal.com/users/chikkiboo/279404.html

There is nothing on my shoes.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/darqstar/229124.html

a public apology
http://www.livejournal.com/users/thebratqueen/304856.html

my favorite comments about the blackout:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ivyblossom/358647.html

HUMAN EMOTION IS HIGHLY ILLOGICAL (read the comments)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spinooti/662763.html

holy cow
http://www.livejournal.com/users/copperbadge/143068.html

How to Fuck with People
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ivyblossom/362292.html

My Life in Fandom So Far, or A History of Lame
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mistful/39903.html

Livejournal needs to know about pirates and cake.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sithjawa/931445.html

supplication to tech support
http://www.livejournal.com/users/xaelle/50275.html

Genesis - the Cliff's Notes version
http://www.livejournal.com/users/city_of_dis/32304.html

political otp
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kandykorn/299217.html

because summaries amuse me
http://www.livejournal.com/users/seperis/119469.html

amusements with child
http://www.livejournal.com/users/seperis/100302.html

inkbug on RotK
http://www.livejournal.com/users/inkbug/64404.html