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Well, I'm meant to be writing a dissertation chapter (due on Tuesday!) so what better time for a post, right?
Things what I have been doing: Finished off the semester in a swirl of student-plagiarism fuckery (always a blast!), got really, really sick and stayed that way for weeks (someday would like to experience a summer break that doesn't start ( Read more... )
Things what I have been doing: Finished off the semester in a swirl of student-plagiarism fuckery (always a blast!), got really, really sick and stayed that way for weeks (someday would like to experience a summer break that doesn't start ( Read more... )
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You do have a point about Neal. He has a really hard time with moral abstraction. It's long been obvious to me that the reason he's on the straight and narrow at all has very little to do with What's Right and far more to do with his desire for Peter's good will. What this is really going to come down to, unless Neal does some significant growing, is who is more important to him: Peter or Mozzie. I'm hoping the show gives it more nuance than that, but so far, that seems to be where things are headed. And looking back, perhaps that was always inevitable.
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re: moral abstraction -- yes. There's a difference between having your own moral compass and using someone else that you care for as your moral compass. The second means you're not a Good Guy. But some of my favorite characters aren't (see: The Doctor), so it could really go either way, and I'd still be happy, as long as it was done right.
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And yeah, I can imagine the strain on relationships. I remember how hard it was to get used to the idea that a relationship is like, a full time job on top of your other full time job... adding parent to that must be like juggling four or five jobs at the same time.
*hugs*
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X-Men: First Class is my new favorite thing ever. There are some decent fics on the AO3, and cobweb_diamond's delicious bookmarks have some good recs.
Like you, I'm dubious about the new Torchwood. My original (modern-day) fandom, sigh.
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X-Men: First Class is DELIGHTFUL. Thanks for the recs -- I shall save them for a treat for when I am done with this %#(*&% chapter.
I know, the TW thing is v. sad. :-(
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I also reread all of David Eddings, because it was just that kind of month.
Your reading brain = my reading brain. I might also be having that kind of month, but alas, all my David Eddings books were actually my ex's. I might have to go hit up some second hand bookshops in town. (This also reminds me: must get a new copy of Riders, my dog read my last one, and I am a poorer human being without it)
Game of Thrones \o/ I really hope they keep churning them out for as long as they have books to work with.
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So! Um, here's the thing... the others are less appealing in a holistic sense, and can be insanely repetitive, but they've all got these fabulous bits in them, that to me made it totally worth it. Like, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous has got this insane slashy end with another pairing (not Billy!) for Rupert, Appassionata (the concert pianist/musician/conductor one) actually has a great gay romance (and Rupert's reaction is not to be missed for it is awesome!), and I actually really quite liked the one set in boarding school, Wicked, in its own right. And Rupert dealing with his adopted Columbian kids is pretty hilarious, I have to say. So I really just enjoyed losing, like, two weeks of my life to the whole mad immersive insanity. I thought I wasn't going to like Rivals because of the whole lack of horses issue, and I couldn't care less about television station politics, but I ended up quite liking Rupert's love story, however implausible and ridiculous it was ( ... )
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Oh wow, I did not realise there was a boarding school one, I am so all over that. Is there like a really deep intense chronological story in the others that I must follow, or can I just skip straight to that one?
Game of Thrones: Wouldn't it be funny if they caught up the books and just kept going?
I'm sort of half dreading and half hoping! Actually, my secret wish is that they will overshoot the books and they'll take all the information currently published (IDK if you've read the books) and do the Dammit, You Were Meant To End It This Way ending which a lot of fans are hoping for, but I think GRRM is not going to do. So then they can do that, and he can still do his Holyfuckingwhatdidyoudo ending all of his own, and we can all have our lovely cake and eat it too.
you want the David Eddings... I, um, happen to have the Elenium/Tamuli in .pdf and the Belgariad/Malloreon in .mobi files. So if either of those options work for you, I'd be happy to send 'em along. Genetics Is Destiny!!!Ooh, I'd really love the ( ... )
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Basically you just need to know, I think, Rupert's family set up, which is that he's got two adopted Columbian kids, Xavier & Bianca, which is a little weird for lily-white Tory Rupert; mostly the other stuff is character-carry over.
Garion and co have winged themselves over to you!
re: Game of Thrones -- I've read all the books, but am not up on the fandom theories at all. What ending is that?
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Glad to catch your update during one of my infrequent flist visits :)
Btw, I'm back in NYC, living near Columbia. If you ever feel like hanging out, drop me a line!
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I ♥ your icon!
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