Comments | greygirlbeast: "The hunted look, the haunted grace..."

greygirlbeast

"The hunted look, the haunted grace..."

Dec 14, 2010 12:20

Very, very cold here in Providence (25F, feels like 14F) with an overcast sky.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,858 words on Chapter Three (3) of The Drowning Girl. As it stands, I'm 20,970 words into the manuscript, which means I'm probably somewhere between one third and one quarter of my way to THE END, if upon this book's completion it's going to look ( Read more... )

second life, angela carter, the drowning girl, winter, sleep, warcraft, china miéville, gaming, thomas hardy, audiobooks, insilico

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michael_b_lee December 14 2010, 17:07:50 UTC

Jude is one of those rare movies that I absolutely love, but can't bear to watch again. It was, indeed, devastating.

greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 17:11:40 UTC

Jude is one of those rare movies that I absolutely love, but can't bear to watch again.

Not sure I could ever watch it again, either.

humglum December 14 2010, 18:53:45 UTC

This was my second time seeing it. The first was over a decade ago. I may be able to watch it again in another ten years.

jdack December 14 2010, 17:07:59 UTC

This is a rather arbitrary question (that may have been answered previously in the journal but I missed it) is Two Worlds and In Between a reference to the Sisters of Mercy song Lucretia?

I only ask because funnily enough, a friend and I recently did a reworking/cover of that song for fun (turning it into a sort of NOLA blues thing) so the lyrics have been stuck in my head.

Kind of popped out when I read that.

greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 17:12:09 UTC

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greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 18:09:47 UTC

Yes, the Draenai area is the same. I'm equally disappointed that they didn't update those areas. I'm also seriously annoyed that they didn't change the Death Knight starting area either, from what I could tell. I'm thinking they might update them in the next major patch. Maybe that's more hope than anything, though.

The effect is that we have two timelines running concurrently.

OT... just because... nykolus December 14 2010, 17:29:17 UTC

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html#14

Re: OT... just because... greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 18:10:17 UTC

Ellen Datlow showed me this a few days back. It's wonderful.

Re: OT... just because... nykolus December 14 2010, 19:26:19 UTC

ah, well... there ya go. it IS wonderful, indeed.

girfan December 14 2010, 17:48:35 UTC

Agreed, Kraken is a very funny book. :D

greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 18:10:51 UTC

Agreed, Kraken is a very funny book.

That facet of it surprised me more than it probably should have. All the same, marvelous.

stsisyphus December 14 2010, 20:55:22 UTC

I've compared it to a 1970s police/caper television series. I'm sorta baffled why people want to tack "Lovecraftian" to it. Well, I'm not really baffled. It has a squid, but really outside of that, there's really no relation.

greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 21:08:18 UTC

I'm sorta baffled why people want to tack "Lovecraftian" to it. Well, I'm not really baffled. It has a squid, but really outside of that, there's really no relation.

Except for people worshiping an octopoid/tuethid god, and direct allusions to Cthulhu...

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