looking at my watch and I'm half-past caring
While I am having fannish ideas people should make for me, there should be a Loki vid to "Boy with the Bubblegun," y/y? (note: I honestly don't know if it's the case with this, but I don't care if a song is over-vidded? so you know, get on that, fandom.)
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Recs update:
unfitforsociety has been updated with 31 recs for January 2012:
*10 Captain America movieverse
*3 Avengers movieverse
*3 DCU
*2 Avatar: The Last Airbender
*4 Harry Potter
*3 Crossovers
*1 each Sherlock (BBC), Fringe, Life, Community, Mary Poppins, and Push
Read, love, comment! It is the circle of life!
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Last night, I finished Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey, which I think one of you recommended? I liked it a lot. It starts slow, with a big old exposition dump, but once it gets going it moves at a pretty compelling clip.
Let me say upfront that it's not actually about werewolves, which was sort of what I'd expected, given that the main character's name is Loup Garron and this is commented on in the text (I guess the author thought lampshading it was even more clever? except it's not very clever at all. But that is pretty much my only complaint - oh, and the way people say 'should of' instead of 'should've,' but I took that as an annoying stylistic choice, not ignorance, since the book was professionally edited and published).
What it is about is a teenage mutant lesbian Latina named Loup Garron, who learns to box for reasons that include both vengeance and justice. It's not so much her strength and speed that make special, though obviously, they do, but the fact that she feels no fear, and thus, has no idea when using her skills would be dangerous and when she should blend in. She has an older brother who teaches her that, and then friends who look out for her, but it's a very interesting inversion of "with great power comes great responsibility," because even though one of her friends consistently refers to her as a superhero, and there are occasional small-scale vigilante heroics afoot, what Loup learns is that because she lives in a town controlled by the army that does not officially even exist anymore, she has no real power; nothing she does can change anything for long or for a large number of people. It's an interesting look at living under an oppressive regime while trying to pass as "normal," whatever that means, when you're not, and how you might have to wait years for the opportune moment to strike, and it might not even get you anywhere but disappeared.
All of which makes the book sound depressing, which I didn't think it was, mostly because it does have a hopeful ending. Bad things do happen to Loup, but I never felt that she couldn't live through them and move beyond them if she got the chance.
Anyway, I enjoyed it and recommend it. It's a quick, interesting read.
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New Fringe tonight, yay!
Anyone know when Young Justice comes back?
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/427331.html.
people have commented there.
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Recs update:
unfitforsociety has been updated with 31 recs for January 2012:
*10 Captain America movieverse
*3 Avengers movieverse
*3 DCU
*2 Avatar: The Last Airbender
*4 Harry Potter
*3 Crossovers
*1 each Sherlock (BBC), Fringe, Life, Community, Mary Poppins, and Push
Read, love, comment! It is the circle of life!
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Last night, I finished Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey, which I think one of you recommended? I liked it a lot. It starts slow, with a big old exposition dump, but once it gets going it moves at a pretty compelling clip.
Let me say upfront that it's not actually about werewolves, which was sort of what I'd expected, given that the main character's name is Loup Garron and this is commented on in the text (I guess the author thought lampshading it was even more clever? except it's not very clever at all. But that is pretty much my only complaint - oh, and the way people say 'should of' instead of 'should've,' but I took that as an annoying stylistic choice, not ignorance, since the book was professionally edited and published).
What it is about is a teenage mutant lesbian Latina named Loup Garron, who learns to box for reasons that include both vengeance and justice. It's not so much her strength and speed that make special, though obviously, they do, but the fact that she feels no fear, and thus, has no idea when using her skills would be dangerous and when she should blend in. She has an older brother who teaches her that, and then friends who look out for her, but it's a very interesting inversion of "with great power comes great responsibility," because even though one of her friends consistently refers to her as a superhero, and there are occasional small-scale vigilante heroics afoot, what Loup learns is that because she lives in a town controlled by the army that does not officially even exist anymore, she has no real power; nothing she does can change anything for long or for a large number of people. It's an interesting look at living under an oppressive regime while trying to pass as "normal," whatever that means, when you're not, and how you might have to wait years for the opportune moment to strike, and it might not even get you anywhere but disappeared.
All of which makes the book sound depressing, which I didn't think it was, mostly because it does have a hopeful ending. Bad things do happen to Loup, but I never felt that she couldn't live through them and move beyond them if she got the chance.
Anyway, I enjoyed it and recommend it. It's a quick, interesting read.
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New Fringe tonight, yay!
Anyone know when Young Justice comes back?
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/427331.html.
people have commented there.