Reading and watching roundup with Revenant Gun, Love Simon, The Good Place s2

[hamsterwoman]

51. Ursula Vernon, Giant Trouble (Hamster Princess 4) -- these are still super cute! In this one, Harriet takes on "Jack and the Beanstalk". The humour in this one, a lot of which had to do with the giant (a giant lop hare :D) having really stinky feet, but, OK, target audience.

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[ikel89]

ok ok *cracks knuckles

[hamsterwoman]

if you'd have thoughts besides "dont be mean to Dima and appreciate your sirniki pls"Haha, that's a fair summary of my primary feelings, but yeah, there's a bit more. So, fun fact, when I was in high school, I was also very proud of having no discernible Russian accent (I do have a slight accent still, but one that most people don't hear, and the rest place as a regional accent or personal way of speaking or generically from-somewhere-else accent; I've only ever had one person both pick up on the accent and figure out where it was from, and he knew my last name and had been in the military, so maybe he was trained in counterintelligence or something, IDK) -- anyway, proud of not having an accent / "passing", and was pleased that my last name didn't have an ending that immediately jump out as Russian, and did not hang out with the other Russian kids in my school. But the reason I didn't was that they were into partying and other such things that were really boring to me. In fact, they were probably more like Anya in some ways (than

[ikel89]

I'm just laughing forever at overwhelming not like other girlness of this comment XD XD XD Even self-aware one!

I'll try to ping Y to tempt her into reading this comic for science! We need more representative data :D

I was so stunned by Siobhan thing that I spend a good half hour listening to how to pronounce Irish names XD Can't say I remember anything except Siobhan = shee-van? I think? I'm so inadequate at this!

[hamsterwoman]

I'm just laughing forever at overwhelming not like other girlness of this comment

Guilty as charged, I'm afraid! (Teenage!me had a lot of Ideas.)

Siobhan = shee-van?

I think so too... I don't actually know any Siobhans, so have never heard it pronounced live.

But I do work with two Niamhs (= neeve, like in the Raven Boys), and there was also an Irish dude I worked with for years who I was convinced was a woman, because his name was Dara. (Which is to say, we spent years exchanging emails, and then he called me up one day, and I couldn't figure out who this was, because the voice was clearly masculine and it just didn't compute. XD)

[ikel89]

:D :D :D I think Ireland is just full of magical unicorns. I do not pretend to understand how their spelling works, just delight on some "it's magic!!" level that is beyond rationalization :D

[hamsterwoman]

Seems legit XD (There's, like, rules and stuff, and I learned them once when we were reading Irish mythology in Medieval Lit. But "it's magic" is a) a good summary of it and b) about what I recall at this point :P And then there's Welsh, which is, if possible, worse, because at least Irish Gaelic using sounds I can comprehend as sounds, even if it chooses to spell them in somewhat counterintuitive ways XP)