End-of-weekend mishmash
Today's excitement was getting together with liannesentar and having supper and talking shop. *^^* People, I'm a freelancer who (usually) lives on the east coast of Canada. Such things do not happen every day. It also helps that she's great fun! We managed to cover work, fandom, manga trends (which could fall under "work", I know. I love my job), politics, chemistry, health stuff, universities... ^_^
We met up at bakkaphoenix, which was my first time in their new space on Harbord Street. (I also got slightly lost getting there, which is embarrassing--I knew approximately where it was, but got thrown by the part where Harbord has a different name where it intersects with Queen's Park. Oops?) It was a lovely novelty to be able to browse and not feel the need to drop $100+ all in one go since I'll be able to go back. Books acquired: The Drowning City (Amanda Downum), Warrior (Marie Brennan), and The Ask and the Answer (Patrick Ness). Mmm, books. At the rate I haven't been reading while I'm here I suspect I'll be taking them home and adding them to the to-read shelf there, but that's okay.
If fandom osmosis has its way, Tumblr and its astounding array of fanart is going to convince me to ship Luffy/Nami long before I get back to reading One Piece. Today I took steps to make that happen, though--I don't have a TPL card yet, but
ginny_t was willing to request the next handful of volumes for me. (I mentioned to Lianne that the Toronto system has something like 20-22 copies PER VOLUME of the ones I looked at [they also have up to vol. 55, and possibly further], while my library is stalled at vol. 23, and she pointed out that a factor is that the Beguiling has someone on staff whose job is to provide libraries with manga and graphic novels. *_* That would do it, yes.)
Lest I get too bitter at my home library system, I also note that today I remembered (for the first time in several months) to go make some purchase suggestions on the Halifax library website. AFAIK it's much less convenient to do that with the Toronto system. They may even require actual paper forms.
Back to Tumblr and fandom: in the last few days I have saved a mind-boggling amount of Sailor Moon fanart, most of it via Girls By Daylight [EDIT: fixed link]. Ginny's been looking at some of it with me, and somehow it came out that she didn't know that Haruka and Michiru are my favorite characters. I was sort of appalled. (Not at her!) I mean, I already hadn't been active in the fandom for five years or so by the time I met her, but it broke my brain a little.
This implies that I could someday have friends who are completely unaware of my Extreme Love for Furuba and Haru and Rin. I could have friends like that now and not know it! (...okay, I know I wrote that, but the fact that I just stopped and wracked my brain to imagine who those friends could possibly be is sad. ^^;) This seems deeply wrong. It seems like the kind of thing that ought to be on the standard list of things people find out reasonably soon when getting to know each other: name, partner/family, occupation, fandom, favorite singer, food allergies/restrictions, OTP(s)...
One link: via
unusualmusic, "Last Airbender rules Razzies as worst picture"."The Last Airbender" led Saturday's Razzies with five awards, among them worst picture, worst director and worst screenplay for M. Night Shyamalan.
The movie also received Razzies for worst supporting actor (Jackson Rathbone, who was cited for both "The Last Airbender" and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse") and for a special award, worst eye-gouging misuse of 3-D.
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We met up at bakkaphoenix, which was my first time in their new space on Harbord Street. (I also got slightly lost getting there, which is embarrassing--I knew approximately where it was, but got thrown by the part where Harbord has a different name where it intersects with Queen's Park. Oops?) It was a lovely novelty to be able to browse and not feel the need to drop $100+ all in one go since I'll be able to go back. Books acquired: The Drowning City (Amanda Downum), Warrior (Marie Brennan), and The Ask and the Answer (Patrick Ness). Mmm, books. At the rate I haven't been reading while I'm here I suspect I'll be taking them home and adding them to the to-read shelf there, but that's okay.
If fandom osmosis has its way, Tumblr and its astounding array of fanart is going to convince me to ship Luffy/Nami long before I get back to reading One Piece. Today I took steps to make that happen, though--I don't have a TPL card yet, but
ginny_t was willing to request the next handful of volumes for me. (I mentioned to Lianne that the Toronto system has something like 20-22 copies PER VOLUME of the ones I looked at [they also have up to vol. 55, and possibly further], while my library is stalled at vol. 23, and she pointed out that a factor is that the Beguiling has someone on staff whose job is to provide libraries with manga and graphic novels. *_* That would do it, yes.)
Lest I get too bitter at my home library system, I also note that today I remembered (for the first time in several months) to go make some purchase suggestions on the Halifax library website. AFAIK it's much less convenient to do that with the Toronto system. They may even require actual paper forms.
Back to Tumblr and fandom: in the last few days I have saved a mind-boggling amount of Sailor Moon fanart, most of it via Girls By Daylight [EDIT: fixed link]. Ginny's been looking at some of it with me, and somehow it came out that she didn't know that Haruka and Michiru are my favorite characters. I was sort of appalled. (Not at her!) I mean, I already hadn't been active in the fandom for five years or so by the time I met her, but it broke my brain a little.
This implies that I could someday have friends who are completely unaware of my Extreme Love for Furuba and Haru and Rin. I could have friends like that now and not know it! (...okay, I know I wrote that, but the fact that I just stopped and wracked my brain to imagine who those friends could possibly be is sad. ^^;) This seems deeply wrong. It seems like the kind of thing that ought to be on the standard list of things people find out reasonably soon when getting to know each other: name, partner/family, occupation, fandom, favorite singer, food allergies/restrictions, OTP(s)...
One link: via
unusualmusic, "Last Airbender rules Razzies as worst picture"."The Last Airbender" led Saturday's Razzies with five awards, among them worst picture, worst director and worst screenplay for M. Night Shyamalan.
The movie also received Razzies for worst supporting actor (Jackson Rathbone, who was cited for both "The Last Airbender" and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse") and for a special award, worst eye-gouging misuse of 3-D.
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/74360.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
(Need a Dreamwidth invite? I can probably hook you up.)