Bloodsucking, friendship, ukuleles, frostbite, a dead poet and a rather unusual hat
Today I left school at the perfect time, which was quarter to four. This has, really fairly improbable for a whole bunch of reasons: my school officially ends at four; I have a lesson until four on a Thursday; I am not predisposed to skive gratuitously; I am even less disposed to skive off English lessons. It becomes somewhat less surprising
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I really should play Halo some time. Find a cheap PC version or something...
Orbitals were pretty much stolen from Ringworld anyway, I believe. I'm pretty sure that was what he said in an interview somewhere, anyway...
The young man was a youth leader on a camp that I went on four summers ago now (is it that long ago? is it that recent?) and sadly I never got to see it. However, there was a different young man the year after who taught me to tell stories... :D
*laughs* The whole Rishathra thing was so ridiculous, but at least I'm now innoculated against fandom for life. :p But oh, Nrin/whatever-her-name-is for ever... :P
You do, yes. You'd also probably appreciate this... :D (I recently picked up State of the Art and The Bridge, and am currently about half way through the former. Yay for short stories, I say...
The background image is of a Warhammer 40k plasma gun, Imperial standard issue (he says, revealing his inner 11 year-old) found by searching 'plasma gun' on Google and grinning. Str7 Ap2 Rpdfr, overheats on a to hit of 1 :D
It's gnomes. I swear. Gnomes.
Thinking about it, isn't squick essentially what it's all about?
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Oh, you should, you should. I love it so very much. I managed to get Halo very cheaply, but the two sequels were slightly more expensive - though I still got them on special offer, so they weren't nearly as highly-priced as they would have been. *worships at Bungie's altar* 'Twas all worth it, despite my limited funds.
I may have read that interview! Was it the one where he mentioned someone having bought the film rights to The Player of Games? Am currently unsure how I feel about that... although film rights being owned doesn't necessarily mean that any such thing will ever get made, of course.
I have acquired a +8 resistance to Fandom Dramatics over the years, along with a +10 saving throw against Bad Fanfiction/Art (with a modifier added if it involves excruciating smut). 'Tis a very useful thing, fandom inoculation. :p
I... I... I appreciate it enough to give a virtual stutter! That's scintillatingly wonderfully awesomely fantastically full of win. And woo, Sma! *bookmarks for further reading* The temptation to write that Culture/Halo crossover lurking in my brainmeats (or at least to write an eljay post on how said crossover could potentially be written) is growing at a frightening rate.
Yay for short stories indeed! It has occurred to me that I might have more success with regards to getting back into writing if I put the Huge Epics of Doom that have been prodding at my brainmeats on indefinite hiatus and wrote short stories and drabbles instead for a while. I am also vere srsly considering signing up to fanfic100.
The picture reminded me a little of certain video game guns, at first glance; most notably, the zero-point energy field manipulator gravity gun from Half-Life 2. I have no idea why, since they don't look even remotely alike on second glance.
I was going to write something about BNW and horrible squicky false-utopias here, but I fear that long comment is becoming too long, and really should go to sleep now after having not done so all night. *points to timestamp* Maybe later, when I'm awake and in more of a position to brain. :p
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