Howard Hughes vs. the Clever Monkeys

[greygirlbeast]

Oh my fucking dogs, why can't people leave fucking well enough alone? What am I on about this time? The fact that I just discovered that LivefuckingJournal has decided it would be a good idea to stick a tiny little pair of scissors and a dotted line in front of the text whenever a blogger uses a cut. Get it? Cut along the dotted line. How cute. How

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[greygirlbeast]

I gotta admit. The horse lords get to me...

[greygirlbeast]

It's complicated.

On the one hand, there's my centaur fetish. On the other, the Night Watch put me in mind, very much, of the Ice Watch in Rift, my favorite little militia in the game (and one that Selwynn spent about a month getting exalted with).

[stillsostrange]

A:W is a beautiful book. I haven't had a pull bag at a comic shop in years; it's a nice habit to get back into.

[greygirlbeast]

Thank you!

[greygirlbeast]

What holds true for many as far as liking it, well it doesn't usually apply with me.

I think it's best simply to take things one at a time. Otherwise, our outlooks can become dogmatic, and we can end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In short, that which is popular is as likely to be good as that which is unpopular, and vice versa. There's no quantifiable correlation between when it comes to the good and the bad, the popular and the unpopular.

[vulpine137]

I agree on Game of Thrones. I've been a fan of his short stories since I was a teenager and saw the utterly cheesy 'Nightfliers' movie. I haven't started in reading GoT, because I'm not a huge epic fantasy fan, and I'd like to see that it has an ending before diving into that kind of epic. But the show may have changed that, as I really enjoyed a marathon of the first season while I was out sick with some random bug. My only 'complaint' is I'll get into one of the myriad threads of the show, then it changes to another point of view, and I want to click a magic button and see what happens next with the first POV. And none such exists...then I get hooked on that thread and boom. It's like every episode is cliffhanger week times 5.

[greygirlbeast]

and saw the utterly cheesy 'Nightfliers' movie.

Thankfully, I didn't.

My only 'complaint' is I'll get into one of the myriad threads of the show, then it changes to another point of view, and I want to click a magic button and see what happens next with the first POV. And none such exists...then I get hooked on that thread and boom. It's like every episode is cliffhanger week times 5.

I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. "Leave 'em wanting more."

[vulpine137]

Agreed, well other than when I'm twitching looking at the TV going 'Don't
stop there!!!' and then counting the days til the next episode. Maybe I should wait for them all to pile up and have another marathon...yeah, like I could be that patient. *laugh*

[greygirlbeast]

Maybe I should wait for them all to pile up and have another marathon

Not having cable (or any other form of television), this is what we do anyway. I have found that if the series originates on a channel that includes commercial breaks during a show, the marathons are far preferable, and often preferable, regardless. In both instances, the story is more coherent and the tension less broken.

[ashlyme]

Sad that even LJ's been hit by the Great Dumb. I've just been added by a bloody journal promoting Nike trainers (sorry guys, I'm a Converse boy) and I thought "What the fuck is going on here?"

Oh, I'm looking forward to the new SD! I hoped you'd do a collaboration with Sovay at some point. She's a cracking writer.

I'm chuffed for you over the reviews! Roll on Sunday...

I think I may be the last person who hasn't seen Game of Thrones. But I haven't read any Martin beyond Fevre Dream, I think.

[greygirlbeast]

I hoped you'd do a collaboration with Sovay at some point. She's a cracking writer.

Indeed. We need more short fiction from her.

I think I may be the last person who hasn't seen Game of Thrones.

No, I think there are still some people in Kenya...