Legend of Korra, Book 3: Sadbending
It has been a long while since I made a public update. I have a fair trail of half-finished private ones, but in some respects I have forgotten how to put together an entry that I want to share with anyone.
Jill and I finished Book 3 of Legend of Korra this weekend. Now, I have had my reservations about Books 1 and 2 - largely feeling that there was a lot of untapped potential there. But this season lived up to its potential in a big way. It was good, it was surprisingly intense, and it was confident in its storytelling. All the characters were stronger, both in plot role and in writing consistency. The world felt as big and alive as it did in the Last Airbender. And the fight scenes were the best so far - intense, colorful, and always fast. Each one clearly laid out what was at stake from the fight too.
I would recommend it highly. I did not go into the show with high expectations - just the opposite - and I was blown away.
Since Feng Shui 2 is on kickstarter and the playtest document is in the wild, a part of me is tempted to run a short vignette set in the Earth Kingdom (or Republic City, my original idea) with the FS2 rules after Pirates! wraps up. (I don't know when that will be.)
There is a playtest/adventure in the back of the document, so that might be a fun break for a session and let me see how well the style fits my games, too.
From the weekend, I feel kinda shaken up and exhausted. It happens. Nothing bad really happened, I was just dehydrated and tired.
I feel like I'd been getting comfortable with my current frame of reference (mostly urban fantasy and Cthulhu horror) but now I am in the mood for something different.
As an aside, I have such a tendency to try and hoard things. Ideas, music, library books. I think I've become a bit better, but again and again I reach out for more than I can possibly read, use, or digest. It's a coping mechanism but the resulting clutter stresses me out. Trying to get rid of things once I have them also tends to stress me out.
Last week I was merely hoarding podcasts, which is fairly harmless. Stockpiling lots of them to listen to while doing yardwork or shoveling snow or whatever. But the behavior is still there, still kind of instinctive. It's another thing that I am afraid to let go.
I have tried again and again to 100% identify with something or another, but that just isn't my style. I tend to move between things, combining a lot of different ideas. So I had heavily steeped myself in horror for a few weeks (and enjoyed it) but now it seems like I want some lighter stuff in the meantime.
But this sometimes leaves me feeling like I haven't accomplished much and that I have a low level of knowledge in a bunch of things, instead of a useful level of knowledge in a few things.
Also Jill and I worked out that the Avatar: tLA guys were at most a little older than me when they made the first series. Plus the many scientists, writers, and actors who had really put out something meaningful, something that will last by this point in their lives. I don't entirely know how to view myself at this point; I hate the idea of feeling too old to undertake something new or ambitious, but it's a new bit of ammunition for the self-doubt.
Some of that is feeding on the fact that it's been two weeks and no word on my stupid paper. Accept, reject, or revise - just tell me at this point.
Jill and I finished Book 3 of Legend of Korra this weekend. Now, I have had my reservations about Books 1 and 2 - largely feeling that there was a lot of untapped potential there. But this season lived up to its potential in a big way. It was good, it was surprisingly intense, and it was confident in its storytelling. All the characters were stronger, both in plot role and in writing consistency. The world felt as big and alive as it did in the Last Airbender. And the fight scenes were the best so far - intense, colorful, and always fast. Each one clearly laid out what was at stake from the fight too.
I would recommend it highly. I did not go into the show with high expectations - just the opposite - and I was blown away.
Since Feng Shui 2 is on kickstarter and the playtest document is in the wild, a part of me is tempted to run a short vignette set in the Earth Kingdom (or Republic City, my original idea) with the FS2 rules after Pirates! wraps up. (I don't know when that will be.)
There is a playtest/adventure in the back of the document, so that might be a fun break for a session and let me see how well the style fits my games, too.
From the weekend, I feel kinda shaken up and exhausted. It happens. Nothing bad really happened, I was just dehydrated and tired.
I feel like I'd been getting comfortable with my current frame of reference (mostly urban fantasy and Cthulhu horror) but now I am in the mood for something different.
As an aside, I have such a tendency to try and hoard things. Ideas, music, library books. I think I've become a bit better, but again and again I reach out for more than I can possibly read, use, or digest. It's a coping mechanism but the resulting clutter stresses me out. Trying to get rid of things once I have them also tends to stress me out.
Last week I was merely hoarding podcasts, which is fairly harmless. Stockpiling lots of them to listen to while doing yardwork or shoveling snow or whatever. But the behavior is still there, still kind of instinctive. It's another thing that I am afraid to let go.
I have tried again and again to 100% identify with something or another, but that just isn't my style. I tend to move between things, combining a lot of different ideas. So I had heavily steeped myself in horror for a few weeks (and enjoyed it) but now it seems like I want some lighter stuff in the meantime.
But this sometimes leaves me feeling like I haven't accomplished much and that I have a low level of knowledge in a bunch of things, instead of a useful level of knowledge in a few things.
Also Jill and I worked out that the Avatar: tLA guys were at most a little older than me when they made the first series. Plus the many scientists, writers, and actors who had really put out something meaningful, something that will last by this point in their lives. I don't entirely know how to view myself at this point; I hate the idea of feeling too old to undertake something new or ambitious, but it's a new bit of ammunition for the self-doubt.
Some of that is feeding on the fact that it's been two weeks and no word on my stupid paper. Accept, reject, or revise - just tell me at this point.