Open Thread

[mhalachaiswords]

Open Thread!

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So, as mentioned, this is an open thread on all things Mhalachai. Ask anything you want. I'll answer anything. Except how I plan to

Comments

[cissasghost]

- so do you want to get back to writing Anitaverse (apart from wanting to finish WsIP), or is the magic utterly gone?

- based purely on your understanding of the character, and unrelated to where you think canon may be going, do you think Anita should/would ever take the 4th Mark from JC? (This counts as a "you" question 'cause I'm asking for your take on it! Really, it counts!)

- what sort of music do you like? What sort of art?

- what manner of bribes are you accepting to get you to read/review something long-ish and incomplete? ;)

[mhalachaiswords]

I don't know if I want to get back to the Anita-verse. I said I was going to stop reading LKH's stuff, but I fell for it, reading the preview for the next book, and something in me seriously died. I don't know if you've read it, but the Anita in that book was *not* the Anita I fell in love with. Because really, to have this much dedication for a series, there was serious emotion. I can't see that Anita in what is coming out now, and it hurts, in a way. That said, I can't see stopping the AB fics. I have the endings in mind... but I can't find the energy to reconcile my Anita with the canon Anita

[cissasghost]

- I haven't read the preview; I'm thinking perhaps I shouldn't. The series in general has gone from something you don't want your English teacher to know you read, to something you don't want your mother to know you read, to something you don't want your shrink to know you read.

- Agreed - if nothing else, what happens to the immortal types she's tied to (JC and Damian) when she ages?

- . . you mostly lost me after "Music..." but that's cool. :) I like some classical, and can't think of a way to catagorize what I like in the way of more modern stuff.

- point taken. Sorry. I'm all hyper-obsessive and twitchy and possibly being a selfish twit. Feel free to swat me.

[mhalachaiswords]

Candlelight has an ending. And it's a good one, in four parts... but. But I'm a spaz, and can't seem to finish anything to save my life. Tell you what. If I can't get another chapter done on Candlelight by... May 22, I'll send you the ending.

For reals.

So what's this comm? Share with the crowd :D

and I know :)

[mhalachaiswords]

Actually, I don't think I have time at this point to join any more comms, but thanks for the invite :) I'll check it out!

[satyrnfive]

If you could have any car in the world regardless of cost to buy and cost of upkeep what would it be?

How did you choose your penname/username thingy?

[mhalachaiswords]

Funny how you mention that. I am buying a new Toyota Corolla on Saturday. Black as sin and twice as moon-roofy :D

As for Mhalachai... see, I was in a bible phase, and since Malachai is the last Old Testament prophet, who went all bat-shit insane on the populace, I was all "I have to be Malachai!" and that was the day I was going to sign up on LJ.

Then I came to LJ and found that Malachai was taken.

And I died a little inside.

So I added an "H" and was Mhalachai.

How's that for an answer?

[satyrnfive]

Yay for new cars. :) I was hoping for something really bizarre like a Delorean or something.

[mhalachaiswords]

I works hard for the money
so hard for it honey

I'm a magazine editor and website manager for a scientific institute. I also do everything else, but that's what happens in a small office like ours :) I get to go on my very first business trip in June to cover the board meeting. Flying to Regina, party on.

Religion -- I haven't any, believing as I do that morality, civility and compassion can exist independent of religion. I respect the religion (or lack thereof) of others, so long as that is kept separate from the state and education. Living in Canada as I do, it seems to work that way. How's that? :D

[thymidinekinase]

Articulate and sensibly secular.

[shadow_in_eden]

- Where did you get that image of mini!Dawn you use on your icon? This is the picture so far. I know she had a face last time you saw it, but it got damaged and I had to rub it out. Only to find I lost the link to her face. DDD:

- Did you ever know you were my hero?

- Have you ever thought of writing original stuff and publishing?

- Are you intrested in any other urban fantasy books, by authors like Patricia Briggs or Kim Harrison, or was LKH just a fluke?

-You are the wind beneath my wings

-What book are you reading at the moment/was the last book you read?

-*tackleglomps*

[mhalachaiswords]

I don't know where I got the image, but I have it saved to my HD. I can email it to you if you want.

Hee.

I have thought about writing stuff, but the characters see contrived to me. I have to get over that block and get something out... I have good ideas.

LKH was a fluke at the time. Now, I read two other authors in the genre, namely Tanya Huff (andpuff) and Charlaine Harris. Nothing else has grabbed me recently, tho.

The last book I read was by Agatha Christie, Ordeal by Innocence. I love a good mystery book :)

[mhalachaiswords]

The show will begin to air in the fall up here in Canada, so I plan to watch it then. But with her books, even, I haven't found anything to add to those stories. So no fanfic on that angle, I think.