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June 29th, 2009 at 11:18pm ] |
1) Goddamn did I forget a lot about I, Jedi. It's a much better book than I remember it being, and Michael Stackpole is a much better writer than he's generally proven himself to be. Also, BAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh, Exar Kun. So Corran, Our Hero, spends the first half of the book being awesome, and then Exar Kun takes him mentally and physically apart in two pages. We're talking broken bones, curled up in fetal position, the works, so he's a genuinely scary villain for a bit.
And then Mara Jade just walks in and verbally bitchslaps Exar Kun back to the Stone Age in about three sentences. "Who dares?" "Who cares, is more like it."
Oh Mara. I less than three you so much.
I also less than three Mirax and Booster. Corran needs to just smile and nod and do what his lovely wife and father-in-law tell him to. Also, in referance to Isard's Revenge, he needs to stop faking with the dead. Mirax is not amused. 'Twas rather cute that he has a picture of her taped up in his X-wing, though. AND LULZ WHISTLER IS MADE OF WIN.
2) KT IS BACK huzzah! I must send her something. Gluten-free easy-peasy peanut-butter cookies, perhaps (remember those, Sarah?)
3) As far as easy-peasy gluten-free cooking goes, I have also learnt to make egg-drop soup. It is yummy and delicious and requires only three ingredients (four if you want to get fancy and two if you're super lazy, which I am). Though the receipe I followed probably needs more egg.
4) This one only Sarah and Eleanor will get, but... remember how I said I needed to work out Olivia's family a little more...? Yeah, so now she has nine siblings who survived past infancy, two of whom died young anyway and only one of whom is a girl. And now I get to work out Earth-related talents for all of them. HALP.
Also, her little sister (the one who shocked the hell out of both parents and all their surviving children) should probably not be named Mary. Suggestions for a Regency-appropriate name that either has a Latinate ring to it or some religious connotations? Those last, because said baby was definitely not an expected one, since it had been nine years since her mother's last successful pregnancy and five years since her last pregnancy, and said mother was forty-eight at the time. I have explanations for why the baby is healthy and alive at such a late (comparatively) maternal age, but they boil down to A Wizard Did It so we'll skip those for now.
Sarah and Eleanor (who will be the only ones to get this as well), it has to do with Anne marrying Peter and living in close proximity with Katherine for a while. Her gift being what it is, and Katherine and Frederick being who they are...
Oh, and Frederick is now Frederick Aubrey, Earl of Brightwood. Sounds reasonably elvish-yet-respectable, no?
Also-also, this entire thing is Bex's fault originally. I blame her. With cookies and ponies. And possibly Australia.
5) Relatedly, I am now writing How Frederick And Katherine Met And Fell In Love And Had Lots Of Sex And Babies (Really Lots of Babies Seriously O Reader You Have No Idea). Puuuuuuck wilt thou beta if I ask really nicely? It's basically a Regency romance IN SPACE WITH MAGIC.
6) I wonder if anyone on my flist is geeky enough to get how Olivia's brothers' names are connected. They are, in age order, Peter Charles, Henry, James, Frank, George, William, and Edward. And yes, Peter's middle name being Charles is important, because Charles actually the name that completes the set, not Peter. I just couldn't bear to rename him, and thought that with Henry's fiancee being named Charlotte that it wasn't a terribly good idea.
7) I GOT MY PONY CARVING OMG. Okay, so last Esco Faire, I purchased a circular wooden carving, about a foot in diameter, of the triple horses of Epona, which is three horses and a lot of Celtic knotwork. It's the symbol in the center here. Anyway. It was ridiculously expensive, and Katie, the wench, was supposed to talk me out of it, but I genuinely couldn't put it down and to make a long story short I stuck it on layaway and finally paid off the full expense a week or so ago. Today, in the mail, I got the carving! I was expecting to have to wait until Esco to pick it up. YAY YAY YAY YAY IT IS SO PRETTY AND SOOTHING TO STROKE. And make no Gollum jokes. I like following the knotwork with my finger. It's a meditational act.
And, okay, maybe a little bit of Gollum in it BUT ONLY A LITTLE.
my preciousssssssss
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