Upa-dation, a little lat---tion?
Either way, I have decided I have nothing better to do than start posting here daily. I figured out my problems with these type of things:
1st: I have nothing to say about my life as it is rather boring.
2nd: No one reads this and, as stated above, I do not need a boring life-journal...
But then I decided--maybe I do. I can post art here instead of my little art blog and sketches that will not be on DA...as well as just random things.
Today, I want to do a little book-talking.
First, I was one of the original, say, 30 Twilight (by Stephenie Meyer) fans. I know--whenever were there only 30? So maybe I should reiterate...one of the original 30 obsessive 'find-anything-and-everything' fans. I talked to Stephenie on a regular basis online and I was friends with the creators of the Twilight Lexicon. Bree, as you know from the third book, was based off a real person--another one of my friends and fellow fans. I knew all about her part in the book(well, that Bree was going to 'die brutelly in the third book', as she told us few back then).
Now where am I going with this? I have found the fandom to be too much now. Like, I am sure I will talk to them and now that three years have passed, I will be forgotten(And I do not mean that in a 'oh, woeis me' way). We even had our own code words for the characters. We used them daily. I bet I am one of the only who remember those words(as I had brought them about and even Stephenie used a few)...We were a close-knit group. I miss that. But what I realized is that..I am just not in love with the books like I was. I will admit, I was dissapointed in New Moon and, sadly, as with Eclipse. It just was not that almighty book for me it once was. I have moved on, I think, not only from the series, but from the genre. It just does not offer as much for me as I have found novels like Nightrunner (Lynn Flewelling) and The Last Herald-Mage (Mercedes Lackey) series have. And not just because both have a gay theme to them, though I find those to be more promising half the time than heterosexual romances, but because of the time period. Bards, bows and arrows, a time when you have to watch your back for someone with magic or weapon, and all around a very active period. Kings, queens, and politics that I never thought I would ever be interested in.
Now this brings me to the topic I wanted to bring up---technology has made life a bore. Now you might be thinking 'You would not be on here, getting most of these books so easily, or finding such information with ease if not for this technology you say makes life a bore'....and that is true, but there was so much to do...so much activity. Festivals, kings and queens, rich clothing, and none of what we have now. People were not as obese then, did not dress with their pants down to their tighs, and certainly took more care of the world than they do now! (No grafitti!) But do not get me wrong--I love the ability to communicate with people all over the world. The problem, though, is I make such amazing friends and never get to...meet them. And that puts me off from getting to know them in the first place. There is a dissapointment in not knowing them and having them in your every-day physical life.
All in all, I would have loved the chance to be one of many who knew archery(though I am taking it, I got lucky knowing one other person who knew it...but no one else in my area), and the wonderful clothing of the time--I would have loved it all! Of course, I would have followed more of Beka's path from Nightrunner and would go against the flow and be wearing and doing what the men did, though not in the Guard.....but it would have all be amazing. Absolutely amazing....*swoon*
For what this was really all about. I have found myself with Twilight as a book I will always remember--a true passion and connection beyond the book that I have never had before, but with God-Shaped Hole & How To Kill A Rockstar (Tiffanie DeBartolo) where I have spoken with the author, but only once or twice...and while they are my favorite books in that catagory, pale in my mind to a world that we once had--with just a bit more(sorcery, worlds that are not Earth but similar, ect.).
So if you have any suggestions, if anyone is actually ever going to read this, please tell me. I enjoy homosexual themes, but love a good heterosexual theme as well. There is just so much more...everything to homosexual relationships if the author knows how to write them. That's why both the series, Nightrunner & The Last Herald-Mage, have such a huge place in my heart. They have that same time period, focused on personal, political, and so many deep issues, along with a well spun side of romance that you feel for, you live, that they are beyond amazing. Not too much in magic(though some might try to say different when talking about The Last Herald-Mage, but it's so much more than magic that it really is a small part in the book. The book is about Vanyel and showing what is beyond that magic, really.) and so much...everything.
That is a pretty crappy way to end this, but I'm being dragged into a roleplay. Or, I think I am.
Either way, I have been working on developing my own book. I'm sure I won't go anywhere with it...I'm too much of a procrastinator...and I wrote the opening in the A.M. and found that I want a different main character, and a different story, but I am not sure what. Either way, here is one of the characters who will probably be totally changed....I doodled him up for my MSN icon. Here is his human version...He is something of...well, he was basically cursed by a demon or something, thus his eye being all but..exploded and such. He is the type to not be serious in really any situation, despite being one of my oldest characters of the age of 149(he deals in sorcery, but at the moment, I am not sure what kind). I had a lot of ideas down, but I want to get more books in my mind, more ideas, before I start anything. Enjoy little Talsai. ;D (All chibified and such. xD Art I will be doing for it, if I ever do anything for it, will be realistic...*shrugs*) I will end with his cute little face~
Of Life & Death; Love & Trust,
Raelynn
1st: I have nothing to say about my life as it is rather boring.
2nd: No one reads this and, as stated above, I do not need a boring life-journal...
But then I decided--maybe I do. I can post art here instead of my little art blog and sketches that will not be on DA...as well as just random things.
Today, I want to do a little book-talking.
First, I was one of the original, say, 30 Twilight (by Stephenie Meyer) fans. I know--whenever were there only 30? So maybe I should reiterate...one of the original 30 obsessive 'find-anything-and-everything' fans. I talked to Stephenie on a regular basis online and I was friends with the creators of the Twilight Lexicon. Bree, as you know from the third book, was based off a real person--another one of my friends and fellow fans. I knew all about her part in the book(well, that Bree was going to 'die brutelly in the third book', as she told us few back then).
Now where am I going with this? I have found the fandom to be too much now. Like, I am sure I will talk to them and now that three years have passed, I will be forgotten(And I do not mean that in a 'oh, woeis me' way). We even had our own code words for the characters. We used them daily. I bet I am one of the only who remember those words(as I had brought them about and even Stephenie used a few)...We were a close-knit group. I miss that. But what I realized is that..I am just not in love with the books like I was. I will admit, I was dissapointed in New Moon and, sadly, as with Eclipse. It just was not that almighty book for me it once was. I have moved on, I think, not only from the series, but from the genre. It just does not offer as much for me as I have found novels like Nightrunner (Lynn Flewelling) and The Last Herald-Mage (Mercedes Lackey) series have. And not just because both have a gay theme to them, though I find those to be more promising half the time than heterosexual romances, but because of the time period. Bards, bows and arrows, a time when you have to watch your back for someone with magic or weapon, and all around a very active period. Kings, queens, and politics that I never thought I would ever be interested in.
Now this brings me to the topic I wanted to bring up---technology has made life a bore. Now you might be thinking 'You would not be on here, getting most of these books so easily, or finding such information with ease if not for this technology you say makes life a bore'....and that is true, but there was so much to do...so much activity. Festivals, kings and queens, rich clothing, and none of what we have now. People were not as obese then, did not dress with their pants down to their tighs, and certainly took more care of the world than they do now! (No grafitti!) But do not get me wrong--I love the ability to communicate with people all over the world. The problem, though, is I make such amazing friends and never get to...meet them. And that puts me off from getting to know them in the first place. There is a dissapointment in not knowing them and having them in your every-day physical life.
All in all, I would have loved the chance to be one of many who knew archery(though I am taking it, I got lucky knowing one other person who knew it...but no one else in my area), and the wonderful clothing of the time--I would have loved it all! Of course, I would have followed more of Beka's path from Nightrunner and would go against the flow and be wearing and doing what the men did, though not in the Guard.....but it would have all be amazing. Absolutely amazing....*swoon*
For what this was really all about. I have found myself with Twilight as a book I will always remember--a true passion and connection beyond the book that I have never had before, but with God-Shaped Hole & How To Kill A Rockstar (Tiffanie DeBartolo) where I have spoken with the author, but only once or twice...and while they are my favorite books in that catagory, pale in my mind to a world that we once had--with just a bit more(sorcery, worlds that are not Earth but similar, ect.).
So if you have any suggestions, if anyone is actually ever going to read this, please tell me. I enjoy homosexual themes, but love a good heterosexual theme as well. There is just so much more...everything to homosexual relationships if the author knows how to write them. That's why both the series, Nightrunner & The Last Herald-Mage, have such a huge place in my heart. They have that same time period, focused on personal, political, and so many deep issues, along with a well spun side of romance that you feel for, you live, that they are beyond amazing. Not too much in magic(though some might try to say different when talking about The Last Herald-Mage, but it's so much more than magic that it really is a small part in the book. The book is about Vanyel and showing what is beyond that magic, really.) and so much...everything.
That is a pretty crappy way to end this, but I'm being dragged into a roleplay. Or, I think I am.
Either way, I have been working on developing my own book. I'm sure I won't go anywhere with it...I'm too much of a procrastinator...and I wrote the opening in the A.M. and found that I want a different main character, and a different story, but I am not sure what. Either way, here is one of the characters who will probably be totally changed....I doodled him up for my MSN icon. Here is his human version...He is something of...well, he was basically cursed by a demon or something, thus his eye being all but..exploded and such. He is the type to not be serious in really any situation, despite being one of my oldest characters of the age of 149(he deals in sorcery, but at the moment, I am not sure what kind). I had a lot of ideas down, but I want to get more books in my mind, more ideas, before I start anything. Enjoy little Talsai. ;D (All chibified and such. xD Art I will be doing for it, if I ever do anything for it, will be realistic...*shrugs*) I will end with his cute little face~
Of Life & Death; Love & Trust,
Raelynn