I am so silly

[spiderstars]

So I sold out and got a twitter. I'm not sure if I'll actually use it for anything other than watching much cooler people, but it's here. Does anyone else have a twitter? Would you like me to add you? Would that be cool? Is that what I'm supposed to do? WHY IS THIS SO HARD SOB.

Still working my way through Fire. I have about 100 pages left

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[igrab]

FOLLOWING YOU.

omg, urgh, i know exactly how you feel sort of. re: fire. the story is just... it's told all wrong, and archer IS the best character, and everyone else is really annoying/frustrating/not... presented well. i'm actually warming to brigan a lot but that's just because i like daddies, and it's. I DO NOT ACCEPT BRIGAN/FIRE. i still don't know if that's where the book is actually heading? but it seems that way and just, NO NO NO. BAH. WRONG ALL WRONG. but the whole story feels wrong and poorly written and it makes me crazy, because graceling was written and presented SO well. this is just. i don't even know.

i miss archer and fire's relationship at the beginning of the book. i loved that. they really, really seemed to suit each other and suddenly i feel like, halfway through the book, fire is making up reasons to dislike him and pretending like they were there all along and just. :\ he loves her so much. and so well. jfc fire.

[tommyrotter]

Hum, I actually enjoyed Fire better than Graceling on the whole but yeah, I agree with you when you say the book feels like it's meandering through the plot. Also that Archer is the best. HE IS. And yes, I miss their relationship early on in the book where their relationship was just theirs and no one else could define it and that was just fine. At first I was impressed that Kristin Cashore was willing to be so risky as to have the romantic pairing already established when the story started, but alas.

SIGH!!!

[spiderstars]

I kinda like Brigan most of the time? Like, I don't particularly care about him, but when he's joking I'm like "aww, you're cute enough I guess." Ugh, he's just such a flat character.

I also really love the Archer/Fire relationship too, and I understand the Archer is kind of a jerk about some things (like with his I AM SO JEALOUS OF EVERYTHING TO DO WITH FIRE shtick) and he does deserve some of the stern talking-tos Fire gives him (SOME, not all), and I really, really wanted Cashore to have them grow together and work through their problems and form a really good, mutual relationship, because it's awesome when couples grow into each other. But instead Cashore has taken the route of "Look how awful Archer is! EWW. EWW." when I don't really think he's all that awful

[igrab]

and like, re: blaming the guys - it worked for katsa, because she's, well, she's smallminded and stubborn like that and i loved her whole... interaction and discussion with po, where he was pretty much like 'oh god how on earth do you see me, i am not clingy/a brute jfc woman i just love you'. and she did come to realize more about herself, grow into herself, etc.

but, fire. i still don't even know what kind of person she is and everything seems to keep changing and it's annoying and there's no driving plot to the story, everything just meanders but it's not interesting because the characters are inconsistent.

[spiderstars]

I really like your point RE: Katsa! Very true, and I agree.

If it was just Fire with the guys I wouldn't mind, but the thing is, it's the entire cast. Like. Okay. (This is mildly spoilery but I'm not going to use names and it's not a major plot point, but if you want to skip it go for it.). Archer sleeps with a lady. The lady doesn't use birth control. The lady gets pregnant. She is not happy about this. AND THE ENTIRE CAST IS LIKE "ARCHER YOU AWFUL PERSON HOW COULD YOU EVER RUIN THIS LADY'S LIFE" which bugs the hell out of me because dude, both of them are responsible. I get it the Archer is kind of a twat about things, but it's not solely his fault that people choose to sleep with him just. WHAT IS THIS. (end spoiler).

[vociferocity]

/adds you on twitter :D

oh mann I keep meaning to read fire, but I also keep hearing conflicting reviews of it, so I keep...not reading it. haha. is it overall a good book, should I read it? GIVE ME YOUR WISDOM

[igrab]

well, i think you should read it anyway (or at least try) because it is.... interesting. clearly i don't have the highest opinion of it but i guess it also makes you think how it could be different? IDK, i still haven't finished and i till feel like i'm waiting for it to catch up.

i guess, if you can get it from the library or something it's worth it, but don't buy it?

[vociferocity]

right right, that kind of book. I shall have to check my library! ofc since I have a ridiculous fine I will just have to sit there and read it, but that's all cool haha

[igrab]

ahahahaha :| me too. er. i really need to find that book on the mycenians so i can, um, stop accruing MORE fines. shitfuckdamn.

[soujiokita]

I have a twitter, but I've maybe used it twice ever. I only use it to follow Johnny. XD

And yay swimming! I wish I was any good at it. I feel like it would suit this warm weather much better than running...

[spiderstars]

Haha, Kelli is mostly teaching me to swim, as I sucked at it as I hadn't gone swimming in years. Still, it would be fun to hang out at the pool sometime!

DUDE when are you back? Also, not this weekend or the one after that, but the one after that, would you be free/want to do something? Slash would you be back in Hilliard? Slash I want to rent a boat with some friends and have a party one night, but I wouldn't be able to do it on a weekend. Would you be able to swing that? JENNY TELL ME.

[soujiokita]

Um........ This weekend is the 9th, so next weekend is the 16th, so the one after that would be the 23rd? :( I actually don't come back until after the 30th, so I wouldn't be in Hilliard unless my math is wrong, which it likely is, because I just did two hours worth of dishes and it's broiling in the kitchen and outside and EVERYWHERE.

We should go to the pool sometime. I have a new bathing suit that I'd like to wear somewhere...

[tommyrotter]

SLAYERS IS THE BEST. THE BEST it is the truth. EVERYONE IS AMAZING AHHH.

[spiderstars]

YYYYYY. THOUGH THEY NEED TO STOP HURTING MY BABIES.