Comments | somebraveapollo: the stars came falling on our heads

somebraveapollo

the stars came falling on our heads

Jan 04, 2014 21:56

Dearest flist - happy 2014!! Hope you are all well and will have a better (or even better) year than the last one.

My New Year was phenomenal. I saw the Desolation of Smaug and adored it beyond all reason (I love Tauriel and her lovelife and may - juuuuust may - kinda ship Freeman's semi-evil tax-collector Bilbo with Cumberbatch's drama queen Smaug ( Read more... )

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egelantier January 4 2014, 22:13:28 UTC

dude, you got the best yuletide haul EVER. and brighd was so sneaky about hers!

i will have to read this book, will i not? :D

(tauriel was badass. i would watch a tauriel movie. did you see this gifset where she middle-fingers thranduil behind his back?)

somebraveapollo January 4 2014, 22:32:56 UTC

Brigdh is a mastermind and I am glad she's using her powers for good ( ... )

egelantier January 4 2014, 22:37:43 UTC

she's awesome and i'm 10000% sold on her and don't know why anybody ever bitched about her storyline. it's perfectly in place and looks awesome and she fights like a stone-cold badass and has a sneaky sense of humor and i bet she and legolas were good cranky friends before legolas discovered, you know, elf hormones.

(oh baby legolas, you precious little cranky speciecist asshole. JUST WAIT FOR HIMLI OKAY).

somebraveapollo January 4 2014, 22:49:57 UTC

YES THEY DEFINITELY WERE AWESOME FRIENDS before Legolas's tragic descent into asshole maleness. Which like - I love that Tauriel's main source of unhappiness isn't that she's a woman working in a male-dominated field... it's that her boss/patron is a sleazy asshole who basically keeps accusing her of golddigging (and has no sense of respect or personal boundaries) while her friend/coworker is slowly devolving into a frigid bully. BUT THEN LEGOLAS LEFT MIRKWOOD AND BECAME LIKE 12% LESS OF AN ASSHOLE AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR HIM TO BECOME DECENT AND GIMLI-WORTHY. ♥

wordsofastory January 5 2014, 22:34:50 UTC

I also spent most of last week swimming in a sprawling volcanic thermal lake with soot and waterlilies.

THIS SOUNDS AMAZING.

Also thank you for the rec! It was very difficult being sneaky because I kept wanting to talk about it.

(Also, I noticed in rereading skimming the book that Anna Cowan acknowledges S.U. Pacat- the woman who wrote 'Captive Prince'- as a beta! Which I feel like makes so much sense.)

somebraveapollo January 7 2014, 01:14:51 UTC

IT WAAAAS AMAZING. Sadly the waterlilies were outside while I was a wimp who chose to stay indoors where the water was warmer - but it was still grand to know they're there and see my brothers swim around them!

(haaaah. Would you believe I never read Captive Prince? I keep meaning to! I guess I feel like - I already read the most glorious deconstructiony free-online-original-slavefic... which is silly because nobody says there can't be more than one of those! Anyway I am the worst procrastinator. But yes. This makes a lot of sense and OH MY GOD I HOPE SHE PUBLISHES HET SLAVEFIC *_*)

wordsofastory January 7 2014, 04:04:16 UTC

Considering it's January, I can't really disagree with your choice not to go swimming outside. But still! Waterlilies! Thermal lakes!

(I don't know if I can entirely rec Captive Prince? It isn't a deconstruction for one! Just a totally straight-up take on iddy slavefic. I found the first few chapters really hard to get through- which is where it most relies on slavefic tropes- and only really started to like it once it morphed into "unlikely allies fight convoluted high fantasy court politics".)