I swear I wouldn't post this if it didn't demand!

[idiosyncreant]

Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker book

Apparently by request of Adams' widow--he mentions the opportunity being like "suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice".

I have nothing original to say that doesn't sound crazed and LOLgirlish.

Comments

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

holy frickin' wow AWESOME HILARIOUS I am torn between hilarity and "but but the ending of Mostly Harmless was PERFECT!"

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

It was except for The End Part. ^_^ I mean, I was kinda sad to know that was where Adams had been aiming all along...but I couldn't believe he'd really leave it at that.

And since you're here (in some very fluid definition of *here*), I have to ask...now I've read Time Paradox, what was all that screaming about? I assumed at the time it was an absolute crushing of your Holly hopes, but now I'm inferring it was the total opposite. Hmm? Shall we discuss?

(I was a bit gobsmacked. How cute was that, though, turning her back to a teenager...)

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

yes, but at the same time...it just wraps everything up! Completely! Nice and neat.

YES DISCUSS. Uh, it was, uh...did you go back and read the whole entry? Because it's pretty straightforward. Holly hopes aren't CRUSHED, they're just...they're infinite, and yet not? Because there's an infinite "what could be" because let's face it, NO ONE (at least that I have come across) was expecting to get ANY kind of recognition for the H/A ship. In Lost Colony we got the deep, soul-friends connection (which is the most important one), and I was 100 content with that, because...who needs Minerva when you've switched eyeballs? I mean honestly.

So now it's like NO LOOK IT'S THERE, IT'S REALLY THERE, but at the same time, "it's not a challenge" and "in another time" and Holly is...older...but at the same time there's Artemis and "extraordinary, what have I lost?" Because frankly even if Holly never really ever expresses any romantic feelings for him again, I'm pretty convinced that she's the only one for Artemis, species and age regardless. It's just...they're so PERFECT. And yet there's a bazillion issues and yet despite those bazillion issues THERE'S STILL A CANON KISS.

it's like the crackiest ship ever, except not, and I adore it to pieces and just want them to have a happy ending! so whlie on the one hand I'm totally thrilled that it's all canon now, on the other hand...it's so complicated now! BUT HOLLY YOU CAN'T DENY YOU'VE EVER MET A MALE OF ANY SPECIES HALF AS ATTRACTIVE AS ARTEMIS. And for Artemis...I mean, duh. Where's he going to meet a girl like Holly? Nowhere. SO PERFECT. SO COMPLICATED.

and you?

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

It is kind of purposefully ambivalent. Because how the species thing could work out is much harder than in most "oh no he's a vampire/werewolf at full mooon/humanoid bug" sort of thing.

I'm very much for lovers getting married and having BABIES, which does not include dying heroically in childbirth. So that's a real complication.

I actually was all for Trouble, but he got kil't. *sad eyes*

Then again, I'm of the sort to fully support the author in whatever they choose to do, unless it's marrying a Weasley twin off to total background types. LAME.

I think Colfer now has the groundwork to somehow have Artemis get turned into a fairy (after all, he's had magic and lost it already) but there's the whole hairy deal of Opal from the past running around and he seems to really like her way of villaining. There could be a whole slew of girls.

Artemis is still only 15, right? He's got too long to go to close off the possibility of a new character.
Or Minerva. She was cute. (I know you hate her, don't even bother responding to that one.)

Do I sound too much like a writer?

Also: I'm not sure there's really much between Artemis and Holly, in terms of connection besides circumstance. Sorry. I've said it.

And no, I didn't go back and read your post. How would I find it? I guess it may not be as buried as my posts from around that time are, since you don't abuse your friends the way I do, but I am lazy...

I will go find it if it's fairly easy.

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

It's not just superpowers, it's like being asked to write fanfiction. To be published. By the wife of the author.

He is so lucky.

I hope it's good, is all.

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

We all do. Including him. He sounds kind of blow away, which is a good sign and...well. I wouldn't be in his shoes for the world. I mean, Douglas Adams is one of the funniest men in the world. There's nothing harder than funny.

Um, wow?

[emily (from livejournal.com)]

I could never do that. Take on someone else's characters? Tell their story? It's like Tamar all over again. I know they were smited by God and all, but I wouldn't have wanted to be the guy responsible for providing a heir for my dead brother, either--no matter how pretty the chick was--and no matter how legendary the book is.

That said, you better believe I'll read it. Heck. Thanks for the awesome link, Red. You're definitely in the right loops--glad I'm in yours. :P

[hysteresismonky.livejournal.com]

When I saw this I couldn't think of anything to say that didn't start with ZOMG.

Last weekend I was defending myself against a friend's assertion that I posted too much in my other blog about tea. I tried to remember how I had gotten started on that obsession, and then I realized it was Douglas Adams's fault.

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Okay, that replicator sequence is sooooo hilarious.

Actually I was thinking about your rant on the pouring-over-the-bag technique the other day (I kid you not, like last week--it's been what, seven months since you posted that?) and had the thought that you were missing a point: that some tea-drinkers enjoy the ritualistic dipping of the bag, and watching the color disperse.

Not to say I don't just dump hot water over the bag and let it stew. But it occured to me.

This has nothing to do with Adams, obviously, except getting back to tea.

The true humorist, like Adams or so many satirists, know hows to take the most mundane things to ridiculous heights of funniness. I am saddened to know that's not me...but I appreciate that humor all the better.

Heaven help Colfer, I like him to much to see him EPIC FAIL on this...