Meep. *cuddles* Want some mental sugar to run on? I'm bored with my current demon-twins+their-supposedlyhumanlover (it turns out he's not, after all, human. :D) so I'm probably going to indulge in spreading my tentacles out in that world.
I did recieve your package in the mail. Apologies for not stating as such sooner. The vast amounts of games, goodies, and generic fantasy literature are all appreciated.
Good luck on your attempt at Nano, I'm too ingrained in the online odyssey that is WoW to attempt such a time investment.
On a related-if-you-can-stand-obscure-referencing-to-my-youth note, I finally read any and all works related to Raistlin Majere. If you even remember the brooding angst fest that is the mage you spoke so highly of once upon a time. Not that you still aren't the sucker for the skinny, troubled, I-need-a-hug-but-I-like-to-rage-against-the-machine(ie- displace gods) kind of characters. They aren't still all over your stories.
*dies laughing* I write that? No. Certainly not. Never. (They're not all skinny)
Raistlin is like textbook Angsty!Man. I mean he's got the twin who's cooler than he (at least to most), the Eyes That Watch Things Die, the Staff From Someone Cooler, the I Am Going to Kill God. And everything else. Come on, you gotta love Raist. I think he even got the whole angsty love story thing, it was a riot. AHAHAHAHA. I was so totally in love with him.
"Generic fanatasy literature"
Be a little nicer to my book, you brat. It's really good - I thought maybe it was one we could agre for once, since you prefer the "let me go on forever and ever about how pretty and old and ancient and complex and unapprciated the leaf of this ancient, wize tree in ye olde forest forgotten by time...what plot?" variety and I prefer the "they were in a room. so and so was angsting heavily while so and so brooded" style and that book is a nice balance.
No hate or discontent for you story. I am engaged in reading The Historian at the moment so I can hardly comment on whether or not what I will eventually read is good, bad, or sleep inducing.
And I could hardly criticize anyone on reading "generic fantasy literature" when the hallmarks of my collection amount to the most base form of contemporary fantasy.
I mean, let me take a look at what I got . . . OK, here's one about an outcast "Dark Elf" who's a really good fighter trying to save his humans from an evil gem filled with dark magic. Insert dwarves. Next . . . a magical sword + magical guy + magical chick + magical evil dad. Insert dragons. What else, what else? Oh! Here's one about three swords of power, and another about a magical sword + magical orb. Insert some random gods.
So I mean come on? I say generic out of love, and because I needed a way to keep up the alliteration.
Also, it's not so much scenery as it is appreciation for environment. It's easier to step into a foreign world if the author takes the time to drag you into it. And nothing off-sets or emphasizes a powerful scene like powerful imagery.
And also I'm trying to avoid cleaning this room . . . roomy doesn't know the meaning of clean and his girl will throttle him if she finds he let her come visit with the room looking this way.
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Date: 2005-11-04 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-04 04:16 pm (UTC)Hey hey.
Date: 2005-11-04 06:12 pm (UTC)Good luck on your attempt at Nano, I'm too ingrained in the online odyssey that is WoW to attempt such a time investment.
On a related-if-you-can-stand-obscure-referencing-to-my-youth note, I finally read any and all works related to Raistlin Majere. If you even remember the brooding angst fest that is the mage you spoke so highly of once upon a time. Not that you still aren't the sucker for the skinny, troubled, I-need-a-hug-but-I-like-to-rage-against-the-machine(ie- displace gods) kind of characters. They aren't still all over your stories.
I jest, just playin' with ya.
Enjoy.
-F.
Re: Hey hey.
Date: 2005-11-04 06:31 pm (UTC)I-need-a-hug-but-I-like-to-rage-against-the-machine
*dies laughing* I write that? No. Certainly not. Never. (They're not all skinny)
Raistlin is like textbook Angsty!Man. I mean he's got the twin who's cooler than he (at least to most), the Eyes That Watch Things Die, the Staff From Someone Cooler, the I Am Going to Kill God. And everything else. Come on, you gotta love Raist. I think he even got the whole angsty love story thing, it was a riot. AHAHAHAHA. I was so totally in love with him.
"Generic fanatasy literature"
Be a little nicer to my book, you brat. It's really good - I thought maybe it was one we could agre for once, since you prefer the "let me go on forever and ever about how pretty and old and ancient and complex and unapprciated the leaf of this ancient, wize tree in ye olde forest forgotten by time...what plot?" variety and I prefer the "they were in a room. so and so was angsting heavily while so and so brooded" style and that book is a nice balance.
And thank you ^_^
Re: Hey hey.
Date: 2005-11-04 06:50 pm (UTC)And I could hardly criticize anyone on reading "generic fantasy literature" when the hallmarks of my collection amount to the most base form of contemporary fantasy.
I mean, let me take a look at what I got . . . OK, here's one about an outcast "Dark Elf" who's a really good fighter trying to save his humans from an evil gem filled with dark magic. Insert dwarves. Next . . . a magical sword + magical guy + magical chick + magical evil dad. Insert dragons. What else, what else? Oh! Here's one about three swords of power, and another about a magical sword + magical orb. Insert some random gods.
So I mean come on? I say generic out of love, and because I needed a way to keep up the alliteration.
Also, it's not so much scenery as it is appreciation for environment. It's easier to step into a foreign world if the author takes the time to drag you into it. And nothing off-sets or emphasizes a powerful scene like powerful imagery.
And also I'm trying to avoid cleaning this room . . . roomy doesn't know the meaning of clean and his girl will throttle him if she finds he let her come visit with the room looking this way.
-F.
Re: Hey hey.
Date: 2005-11-04 07:44 pm (UTC)Heh. I was just harassing you. Sorry if it didn't seem that way ^^; I think all fans of the genre accept and love the pitfalls.
Cleaning = I feel your pain.
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Date: 2005-11-04 08:03 pm (UTC)p.s. http://www.livejournal.com/users/skylark97/380751.html?view=1798735#t1798735