Comments | thorne_scratch: Seen him knock a man clean out of his corduroy slippers

thorne_scratch

Seen him knock a man clean out of his corduroy slippers

Dec 15, 2009 17:37

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horizon_greene December 16 2009, 06:21:13 UTC

Excellent link about animal penises. The world is awesome!

thorne_scratch December 16 2009, 06:33:18 UTC

I cover about five basic topics in this journal, and bizarre animal genitalia has always been one of them. I agree with you! (About the world being awesome, I mean. Also terrifying. But mainly awesome.)

iapetusneume December 16 2009, 08:31:25 UTC

I'm not sure what it says about me that I already knew all that about duck penises and vaginas. Or that I learned about it on NPR. (Google Chrome says the pural of vagina are vaginae. ...I don't usually have to think of the plural of vagina very often.)

I don't know where you get your links, but I approve.

thorne_scratch December 16 2009, 16:41:19 UTC

I knew that ducks were big rapists, (and occasionally necrophiliacs) but I admit, I'd just never thought much about elephant dicks before. Most of my genitalia trivia tends more towards the marine life.

I have a variety of places!

iapetusneume December 16 2009, 10:58:11 UTC

http://verydemotivational.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/129030746257228585.jpg

I saw it and thought of you.

thorne_scratch December 16 2009, 16:39:08 UTC

I should be chagrined, but I'm not. HA.

sakuranochi December 16 2009, 14:35:56 UTC

You know, as much as I like King when he is on, he never really convinced me to give a fuck about Roland. Yeah, he's a badass, we get it, but he's such a self-serving using cunt.

thorne_scratch December 16 2009, 16:45:49 UTC

You know, to be honest, I don't think we're really supposed to like Roland. (And not only because King is totally in big gay love and would cut a bitch for looking at Roland.) Roland's a badass, but King makes no bones about the fact he's a deeply flawed and obsessed badass, and these lead to his own downfall (or loop, if you would.)

I think we're supposed to find him and the way his quest both succeeds and fails interesting-- which I certainly do, but YMMV-- but not necessarily like him.

sakuranochi December 17 2009, 00:08:40 UTC

I dunno, I still like the Dark Tower (although I was really disappointed at some points, but that is life), but I always more interested in "what is going to happen", than "what is going to happen to Roland" specifically. The flawed heroes of the tragedies at least have good intentions that we can get behind, Roland is just obsessed with the tower. Yeah, the villains die and everything, but it feels like it is just a sidething to his obsession, and I could never really care about his obsession. I get what King is trying to do with it, but it never really grabbed me, I just see Roland as a dick. Like Eddie says, he's a "tower junkie", he's like a addict who kills his friends just to get his fix. At first I felt sorry for him, but as the story progresses he just gets worse and worse. Sacrificing people for some abstract idea seems more akin to tyranny than heroism. I spent my time wondering if he was just insane from the deaths of Susan and his first Ka-tet, and perhaps he is. At others, I found myself wondering if Roland and Crimson ( ... )

sakuranochi December 17 2009, 08:54:00 UTC

(Also it probably doesn't help that the one thing I was completely behind Roland for, killing that motherfuck Flagg, was taken away from me when King had Mordred kill him instead. Dude fucked his mom, not cool man, not cool. To say I felt cheated would be a bit of an understatement.)

Hmm, there are so many spoilers here, hope no one reading this hasn't read Dark Tower yet XD)

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soranokumo December 17 2009, 19:31:59 UTC

...animals are awesome but weird. Weirdly awesome? Awesomely weird? We're probably quite lucky there wasn't more beastiality in creation myths that have survived (though the Greeks cut it close, huh), what with all humans have probably witnessed animals doing. (And how they do it.)

Also, considering my coworker's love for horror (and Stephen King in particular), I'm taking those "how to survive a SK story" tips to heart.

Also, you could try pitching the Wookie-shaped cookie jar idea to ThinkGeek. They've already created Tauntaun sleeping bags; I don't see how a Wookie cookie jar would be amiss! (The crazy thing is--they might pay you for the idea, too.)

thorne_scratch December 18 2009, 00:03:26 UTC

They probably think the same of of us! (Perhaps elephants laugh at our genitalia.)

I've long since sadly concluded that if I were in a Stephen King story or in Silent Hill, I'd probably get offed within the first five minutes. But you never know; I've made my way out of things by sheer dumb luck before, and maybe I can pin my hopes on that.

Dude. I totally should! (Mainly so I could immediately buy some and give them to my friends.)