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I don't know if I want to get back to the Anita-verse. I said I was going to stop reading LKH's stuff, but I fell for it, reading the preview for the next book, and something in me seriously died. I don't know if you've read it, but the Anita in that book was *not* the Anita I fell in love with. Because really, to have this much dedication for a series, there was serious emotion. I can't see that Anita in what is coming out now, and it hurts, in a way. That said, I can't see stopping the AB fics. I have the endings in mind... but I can't find the energy to reconcile my Anita with the canon Anita.
I think Anita has to take the fourth mark. To not do so puts everyone in danger (the whole Belle Morte issue) and as far as I can tell she doesn't actively want to kill everyone... anyway, without giving away the ending of various fics I'm writing, I'm in favour.
Music... god. Almost all of it? Jazz sparks out as Joshua Redman, and classical, anything Rachmaninoff and/or Yo Yo Ma... as for the "pop" "culture", stuff that's not stupid. As in, I'm not a Holla Back Girl. I'm 28 and cranky.
Bribes? Can you find someone to take over the position of head administrator and/or secretary at my office so I don't have to do those two positions plus my own job? As in, for serious? Then I may have some time. [/drama]
- I haven't read the preview; I'm thinking perhaps I shouldn't. The series in general has gone from something you don't want your English teacher to know you read, to something you don't want your mother to know you read, to something you don't want your shrink to know you read.
- Agreed - if nothing else, what happens to the immortal types she's tied to (JC and Damian) when she ages?
- . . you mostly lost me after "Music..." but that's cool. :) I like some classical, and can't think of a way to catagorize what I like in the way of more modern stuff.
- point taken. Sorry. I'm all hyper-obsessive and twitchy and possibly being a selfish twit. Feel free to swat me.
I agree with you about the shrink thing. It's like... seriously.
I thought Anita stopped aging. Didn't someone say she was looking more youthful? I thought the third mark had done that... yet another thing that was contradicted from ealier in the series. But whatever.
You are not a selfish twit! This is your baby!
!!
I will read it, promises. Tell you what -- next week we should AIM or something and we'll talk.
Hrmm, re: Anita and aging - maybe? I don't remember. There was also the possibility that she'd already done the 4th Mark thing with Damian, and was already immortal (thus making it make even more sense for her to go ahead and take the plunge with JC, 'cause Damian's like, a metaphysical dishrag, and she's dragging the whole two-tiered triumvirate thingie down by not completing that final step on the first tier where she's servant and yet having somebody dependent on her on on that level on the second tier, where she's master. It's like . . being a subcontractor and hiring more subcontractors working below you. If you're going to pay them, then you need money coming in from above, or else you either stiff them or go bankrupt (which, hrmm, actually sounds sorta like what's happening with her and the increasingly needy ardeur and Damian's repeated almost-dying). Or . . at least this makes sense to me.)
And you can read when you have time, there's no particular rush, except me being twitchy and obsessive. But, IM sounds cool. I'm mostly on YIM or gmail, though I can be on AIM too sometimes. I'm SLV80 there.
I think Anita has to take the fourth mark. To not do so puts everyone in danger (the whole Belle Morte issue) and as far as I can tell she doesn't actively want to kill everyone... anyway, without giving away the ending of various fics I'm writing, I'm in favour.
Music... god. Almost all of it? Jazz sparks out as Joshua Redman, and classical, anything Rachmaninoff and/or Yo Yo Ma... as for the "pop" "culture", stuff that's not stupid. As in, I'm not a Holla Back Girl. I'm 28 and cranky.
Bribes? Can you find someone to take over the position of head administrator and/or secretary at my office so I don't have to do those two positions plus my own job? As in, for serious? Then I may have some time.
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- Agreed - if nothing else, what happens to the immortal types she's tied to (JC and Damian) when she ages?
- . . you mostly lost me after "Music..." but that's cool. :) I like some classical, and can't think of a way to catagorize what I like in the way of more modern stuff.
- point taken. Sorry. I'm all hyper-obsessive and twitchy and possibly being a selfish twit. Feel free to swat me.
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I thought Anita stopped aging. Didn't someone say she was looking more youthful? I thought the third mark had done that... yet another thing that was contradicted from ealier in the series. But whatever.
You are not a selfish twit! This is your baby!
!!
I will read it, promises. Tell you what -- next week we should AIM or something and we'll talk.
So there.
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And you can read when you have time, there's no particular rush, except me being twitchy and obsessive. But, IM sounds cool. I'm mostly on YIM or gmail, though I can be on AIM too sometimes. I'm SLV80 there.
-Sonya
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