Randomosity

[oyceter]

• rachelmanija has finished her excellent series of posts on PTSD: Parts I, II, and III


• She's also started reading Angel Sanctuary! My joy cannot be contained! Also, spoil her and have your brain taken over by Rosiel.


• rilina and yhlee continue to watch Gundam Wing. My joy is still not contained! OMG people watching and getting into my beloved first anime series despite its mecha-ness!


• I'm sure everyone has already seen the post-apocalyptic cities posters for I Am Legend but I wanted to highlight the fact that they have TAIPEI and SEOUL! EEEEEEE! (I love Hong Kong, but I feel HK is featured much more often than Taipei and Seoul! OMG! Taipei! National monument that is only a few blocks away from my apartment!


• I have taken the plunge, put my Netflix account on hold, and started Blockbuster. I blame my sister. On the minus side, Blockbuster only has DVDs 7-10 of GWing. On the plus side.... THEY HAVE DAMO ON DVD!!!!!


• shewhohashope hosts the 5th POC in SF Carnival and focuses on non-Western fantasy, including... WUXIA! (yes, I am a little obsessed right now) I particularly rec meganbmoore's wuxia primer for those of you like me who only know you like swords and flying people and historical costumes and have no idea what to watch outside of two or three things. And it's good for people who have absolutely no idea what wuxia is too! Win-win!

I should actually catch up on book and TV posting but... oh well. Soon.

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

(You liked LJ Smith too?)

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Validation!

Everyone secretly loves LJ Smith.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Ha! I just read Dark Visions 1, and eagerly await, via BookMooch, volumes 2 and 3.

http://rachelmanija.livejournal.com/523503.html

[oyceter]

Pssst, take 3 off! I got a copy for you from a UBS, will ship it over with everything else eventually.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

So, they have copies on bookmooch? I'd like to read the Forbidden Game also, but I was afraid I'd outgrown LJ Smith, and it would turn out to be boring rather than funny.

[oyceter]

!!! You too? Sister! I came in a little late so mostly glommed onto Forbidden Game (I feel the ending should have been dark and dystopic and Persephone-esque) and Night World, but yes yes yes.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I was one of those people who came in early I think so I was reading The Secret Circle and The Vampire Diaries but then I got sucked into the world of Christopher Pike (OMG, why am I admitting this in public?) and missed out on Forbidden Game and Night World! I didn't even realize they existed until I was in college and discovered LJ Smith fanfiction!

...okay, I'm not doing a good job keeping this a secret.

[oyceter]

Christopher Pike OMG! My favorite was the time travel one with the computer game programmer and the globes of light everyone thought were aliens.

possibly i also committed forbidden game fic over at the other lj

... and that was my cred flying out the window, wasn't it?

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

My favorite Christopher Pike was Remember Me -- the one told from the point of the dead girl. But only the first one. I know there were sequels.

[oyceter]

OH! I loved that one too! The latter ones aren't nearly as good (yes, I also read all six -- SIX! 6! -- of the vampire ones too).

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Christopher Pike!

I was possibly obsessed with Spooksville when I was 12. Just a little.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

We're all coming out of the woodwork.