(I am spindleless. This grieves me.)

[idiosyncreant]

In the vein of random thoughts,
at Tokyo in Tulsa, I saw a guy in a very striking costume--he looked great. I can't tell you if he was particularly good looking because his make-up was INTENSE. But he carried off the intensity very well.

But it started me thinking...though I'm not photogenic, I think I would make a pretty good costuming doll.
My coloring, particularly, would be fun to use as part of a character design.
(Sometime I'll have to show you the two shots I took of myself in which one is a self-portrait and one is a portrait of me as Tilda Swinton. Just by a slight angle change...)


Things I read Worth Reading lately:



Dealing with Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede is one of the books I've passed over, because I thought it was something else I wasn't interested in.

Finally, I learned my error. This is one of those perfect fairy-tale/fantasy parodies that still uses the tropes to it's advantage, and keeps the joy. Also, bonus-plus-points for having a spunky heroine who enjoys running a household even if she's not a fan of doing the dishes. Searching for Dragons, the sequel, is equally delightful. Calling on Dragons is just as funny, if not moreso, but took a sober turn that hurt my heart at the end, and I have to read the next to see how I feel about it...


Sidescrollers is another of-a-kind with the above, except on the side of geeks writing about geeks for geeks. The characters have their lame moments, but always have something funny to say about it, which is the point of writing about geeks, really. These are rather bum-like gamers who have enough spine left to take on Football Gorilla with Nefarious Designs on one guy's Crush, with only a brief interlude for snacks and action-figure-wrongness.

It has the kind of specific feel to the detail I love in *anything* but is particularly awesome in comics.
The Hopeless Savages I read a while ago, but is on par, as a graphic novel. (In this case, band punks, not gamers.)
These have more adult language and humor, so don't be shocked when you buy it for your 11 year old.


Conrad's Fate I've read before, but mostly tributed it's delicious cover. (Fits the feel and actual elements of the story in a great way.)

It's in the Chrestomanci Chronicles with Lives of Christopher Chant, Charmed Life, etc. I'm rereading them right now.
I love this one for the protagonist's admiration/irritation with the older Christopher (a nice complexity), for a setting with a lovely weirdness and depth, and for Christopher's season here of being less insecure, but having problems beyond his immediate power to fix.

Comments

Dancing Wedding Entry

[fabricalchemist.livejournal.com]

That's the power of a fresh beat.

Re: Dancing Wedding Entry

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Looked like the wedding party was a lot of friends enjoying being there, and that was fun.

(I took down that part of the post for Mysterious Reasons, but I didn't want you feel slighted.)

[charismitaine.livejournal.com]

A note on Talking to Dragons (the fourth Enchanted Forest Chronicles book)--it was written before the other three, and re-written after them to fit, and personally I've never liked it as much (although I would like to read the original version, to see if I like it better).

I love the series, though. Love it. I just won a set of four hardbacks on eBay, and I am crossing my fingers and hoping that they all have Trina Schart Hyman covers!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

wait, was it really? Fascinating.

[charismitaine.livejournal.com]

Yeah--I learned this years after reading the series, and suddenly the gap between the first three books and the fourth one made a lot more sense!

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Hmm. So she had to write something up to that? I certainly understand that...

I'll keep that in mind, as I read. It does...end happily, right? If not, I'd rather know, I'm serious.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

you SKIPPED OVER Dealing with Dragons? *gasps* man in middle school in math class my friends and I used to write each other letters set in that world (awkward trufax: one of my friends named her dragon Myanmar because she thought it sounded cool).

and yes, the end of Calling on Dragons is heart-achey. But I really like the entire Enchanted Forest Chronicles, so I'm glad you're enjoying them!

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

I warned my siblings about it, but I honestly think for a grown woman it's going to be more sad. I have a more mature understanding of the marriage relationship, even though no more experience with it than they do--and though Cimorene gives no histrionics that makes the awful patience she's living with all the more hard to see.

The reason I skipped over them recently is that they had such similar titles to the Here There Be [blank] series, which I looked at a little and put down again. I don't know when I first came across them: it may not be that long ago.

Which is why I'm making sure to mention them! No one told me about it.

Your Trufax Made Me Laugh.
(That sounds like so much fun!)
But I don't think that's so embarrassing. I named a character Paxton in my Middle-Eastern Ninja Princess Rebel General novel. (My first, basically.) I thought I'd made it up, even though I knew about Pax and was using it that way on purpose.