Valin Nosta! (And LKH's Goddamn Merry Gentry Books)--
Ok, so I crapped out rather spectacularly as far as birthdays go lately. So, um, while these are all belated, my wishes are no less heartfelt.
A bushel of very, very Happy Belated Birthdays to green_grrl, etherealaurora, formagic, aprilkat, off_that_bridge, travelingcarrot, ice_weasel, lannamichaels, seanlily, mickat24, pure_spirit, spacefille, azewewish, hugsnkisses_, wynterhawk, dawning_star, nieninque121 and calvinsajammer!
I hope your birthdays were full of joy, and I hope the year ahead holds nothing but good things for all of you. ♥
Incidentally, Saturday also marked four years of sons_of_gondor! I put up our birthday/anniversary post here, thanking the community, and I'm hoping against hope that Feb. 1st will hold some interesting surprises that people will be interested in taking part in. *fingers crossed*
In other, unrelated news, LKH is trying to kill me. Seriously. I keep having these long grouches at savageseraph (for she is at fault) regarding LKH's continued campaign to vex and otherwise harm me (I refer to these bitch!sessions as "Book Club" in my head ^_~), and I keep thinking about posting them here, but... Well, they all go something like this:
caras_galadhon: ...Oh, fuck, I'm pissed at Merry just now.
savageseraph: Oh?
caras_galadhon: *nodnod* Rhys is for all intents and purposes a survivor of not just torture but rape, is he not?
savageseraph: Ummm. Yes. I believe so.
caras_galadhon: That's how he lost his eye. The goblins tortured and raped him. Remember?
savageseraph: Ah... Yes. YesYesYesYesYes.
caras_galadhon: Who in their right mind lectures a rape survivor about how they could've made it more pleasant? WHO?
savageseraph: *snorts*
caras_galadhon: Seriously, WTF? She spends pages telling Rhys that if he'd known about goblin culture, he wouldn't have lost his eye. If he'd known about goblin culture, he wouldn't have had to deal with males as well as females. And if he hadn't been wearing that short skirt, he wouldn't have been asking for it!
savageseraph: Mmhmm. He's just a loose boy. We all know it. He probably liked it too.
caras_galadhon: Good fucking lord. She was an amusing Mary Sue before, but now I just... hate her.
caras_galadhon: *nodnod* Oh, I'm sure he did. I mean, come on, flashing all that sidhe flesh? What were the goblins to do? He should've known better, dammit.
savageseraph: Yep.
caras_galadhon: And, ok, I'm sick of the Frost bashing too. The poor guy is the first to fall in love with her, and gee, starts to be kinda grumbly about all the other guys fucking her, and she calls him moody and unreasonable? He offers opinions that do not line up with her own, and she says, "shovelling his emotional shit was a full time job?"
savageseraph: Well, yeah. She should be able to fuck them all. Often.
caras_galadhon: *snort* Uh huh. And yet in the second book she was all, "Oh! I love Frost too!" and then promptly forgot.
savageseraph: Love is...a fleeting, fragile thing...
caras_galadhon: I've got to wonder what the guy who Frost is based on did to LKH. How did he piss her off?
savageseraph: Good question.
caras_galadhon: *nodnod* And seriously, this is a horrible exercise in what's wrong with telling instead of showing, because she says Frost is a pain in the ass, but then she doesn't show him being a pain in the ass. So I find myself, as a reader, refusing to believe her.
savageseraph: Heh. Fight the urge... ;-)
caras_galadhon: Urge? To do...?
savageseraph: To see through the eyes of the Sue.
caras_galadhon: God, it's not even an urge. I just don't believe shit all she says. She whines about Frost, but I don't get her problem. She lectures Rhys about how he's at fault for the extent of his rape, and I want to hit her and then blame her for the beating that will follow. ("Aw, honey, why do you have to make me so mad?")
savageseraph: Bwahahaha.
caras_galadhon: Seriously. GAH. *stompstompstomp* And WTF is up with all of her ideas revolving around more sex? "I need an alliance with the goblins. ...Sex!" "I need to extend the alliance... through SEX!" "I need to get rid of the pesky paparazzi... let's look like we're having SEX!" "I need an alliance with the demi-fey... OOOH! Blood drinking is LIKE sex! Let's go with that." Tsk. If I was Frost, I'd ditch her and fucking run off with Doyle.
savageseraph: Heh. Where there is sex and no drama.
caras_galadhon: Yes. Lots and lots of very, very hot sex, but no whiny princesses around. And GOD, I did not need to hear about how big Doyle's dick was under the bathing suit that many times.
savageseraph: *snorts* Largeness of cock stipulated. Please move on.
caras_galadhon: *snerk* Yes! Exactly!
savageseraph: Heh.
caras_galadhon: Also, I'm annoyed that now that Rhys has some of his powers back, he won't fuck-- share Merry with Nicca anymore. I mean, come on. Just because he's more dominant doesn't mean he can't appreciate a nice submissive pretty boy.
savageseraph: Well, they are just...cutting her out of the loop. *nods*
caras_galadhon: Ah. Ok, I'm totally willing to go with that. ^_^
savageseraph: *nods* I thought you would.
caras_galadhon: Mmhmmmmmm. *happysigh* I'm all for the Guard!slash. Oh, yes.
savageseraph: :-)
In summation: LKH is driving me nuts, yet I can't put the stupid books down. *stabz*
*cough* Also, GIP. This is the first time in a very, very long time that I've been tempted to change my default icon.
A bushel of very, very Happy Belated Birthdays to green_grrl, etherealaurora, formagic, aprilkat, off_that_bridge, travelingcarrot, ice_weasel, lannamichaels, seanlily, mickat24, pure_spirit, spacefille, azewewish, hugsnkisses_, wynterhawk, dawning_star, nieninque121 and calvinsajammer!
I hope your birthdays were full of joy, and I hope the year ahead holds nothing but good things for all of you. ♥
Incidentally, Saturday also marked four years of sons_of_gondor! I put up our birthday/anniversary post here, thanking the community, and I'm hoping against hope that Feb. 1st will hold some interesting surprises that people will be interested in taking part in. *fingers crossed*
In other, unrelated news, LKH is trying to kill me. Seriously. I keep having these long grouches at savageseraph (for she is at fault) regarding LKH's continued campaign to vex and otherwise harm me (I refer to these bitch!sessions as "Book Club" in my head ^_~), and I keep thinking about posting them here, but... Well, they all go something like this:
caras_galadhon: ...Oh, fuck, I'm pissed at Merry just now.
savageseraph: Oh?
caras_galadhon: *nodnod* Rhys is for all intents and purposes a survivor of not just torture but rape, is he not?
savageseraph: Ummm. Yes. I believe so.
caras_galadhon: That's how he lost his eye. The goblins tortured and raped him. Remember?
savageseraph: Ah... Yes. YesYesYesYesYes.
caras_galadhon: Who in their right mind lectures a rape survivor about how they could've made it more pleasant? WHO?
savageseraph: *snorts*
caras_galadhon: Seriously, WTF? She spends pages telling Rhys that if he'd known about goblin culture, he wouldn't have lost his eye. If he'd known about goblin culture, he wouldn't have had to deal with males as well as females. And if he hadn't been wearing that short skirt, he wouldn't have been asking for it!
savageseraph: Mmhmm. He's just a loose boy. We all know it. He probably liked it too.
caras_galadhon: Good fucking lord. She was an amusing Mary Sue before, but now I just... hate her.
caras_galadhon: *nodnod* Oh, I'm sure he did. I mean, come on, flashing all that sidhe flesh? What were the goblins to do? He should've known better, dammit.
savageseraph: Yep.
caras_galadhon: And, ok, I'm sick of the Frost bashing too. The poor guy is the first to fall in love with her, and gee, starts to be kinda grumbly about all the other guys fucking her, and she calls him moody and unreasonable? He offers opinions that do not line up with her own, and she says, "shovelling his emotional shit was a full time job?"
savageseraph: Well, yeah. She should be able to fuck them all. Often.
caras_galadhon: *snort* Uh huh. And yet in the second book she was all, "Oh! I love Frost too!" and then promptly forgot.
savageseraph: Love is...a fleeting, fragile thing...
caras_galadhon: I've got to wonder what the guy who Frost is based on did to LKH. How did he piss her off?
savageseraph: Good question.
caras_galadhon: *nodnod* And seriously, this is a horrible exercise in what's wrong with telling instead of showing, because she says Frost is a pain in the ass, but then she doesn't show him being a pain in the ass. So I find myself, as a reader, refusing to believe her.
savageseraph: Heh. Fight the urge... ;-)
caras_galadhon: Urge? To do...?
savageseraph: To see through the eyes of the Sue.
caras_galadhon: God, it's not even an urge. I just don't believe shit all she says. She whines about Frost, but I don't get her problem. She lectures Rhys about how he's at fault for the extent of his rape, and I want to hit her and then blame her for the beating that will follow. ("Aw, honey, why do you have to make me so mad?")
savageseraph: Bwahahaha.
caras_galadhon: Seriously. GAH. *stompstompstomp* And WTF is up with all of her ideas revolving around more sex? "I need an alliance with the goblins. ...Sex!" "I need to extend the alliance... through SEX!" "I need to get rid of the pesky paparazzi... let's look like we're having SEX!" "I need an alliance with the demi-fey... OOOH! Blood drinking is LIKE sex! Let's go with that." Tsk. If I was Frost, I'd ditch her and fucking run off with Doyle.
savageseraph: Heh. Where there is sex and no drama.
caras_galadhon: Yes. Lots and lots of very, very hot sex, but no whiny princesses around. And GOD, I did not need to hear about how big Doyle's dick was under the bathing suit that many times.
savageseraph: *snorts* Largeness of cock stipulated. Please move on.
caras_galadhon: *snerk* Yes! Exactly!
savageseraph: Heh.
caras_galadhon: Also, I'm annoyed that now that Rhys has some of his powers back, he won't fuck-- share Merry with Nicca anymore. I mean, come on. Just because he's more dominant doesn't mean he can't appreciate a nice submissive pretty boy.
savageseraph: Well, they are just...cutting her out of the loop. *nods*
caras_galadhon: Ah. Ok, I'm totally willing to go with that. ^_^
savageseraph: *nods* I thought you would.
caras_galadhon: Mmhmmmmmm. *happysigh* I'm all for the Guard!slash. Oh, yes.
savageseraph: :-)
In summation: LKH is driving me nuts, yet I can't put the stupid books down. *stabz*
*cough* Also, GIP. This is the first time in a very, very long time that I've been tempted to change my default icon.