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[kittydesade]

Aw fuckity fuckbeans I did get onto an Arrow panel. And that The Flash panel. And the Haven panel. O.o It's like they like me as a panelist somehow, which is awkward because I've been nagging them about panels for at least a couple days now. Oof. This also means I have at least 46 hours of TV to watch and take notes on in the next three weeks, because why come prepared to a panel when you can come overprepared! I suppose the plus side here is that 'watch and take notes on' just means 'have on in the background with something I can put down when I need to type something. ... Not that it's making me any less flaily or awkward though. Much flail and panic. At least this time I think it'll subside once I do watch at least those seasons and take notes, though.

Heh. I managed to get all of my day jobligations done in record time and now I'm sitting here staring at the computer screen knowing there's other stuff I need to do and unable to figure out what the hell it is or whether or not I have brain cells to do it with. This is sub-optimal.

I guess the plus side here is, as long as I keep moving, I should be physically awake enough to do capoeira tonight? Less tired? The minus is definitely I just spent a good two hours staring at nothing. Not even anything entertaining. I have not been entertained in my glassy-eyed lassitude.

Also the to-do list is irritatingly full of things I don't have the resources to do at work, btu that's another thing. On the other hand, I guess the fact that I noticed it means that my brain is waking up again? Slowly. Hopefully slowly but surely.


1. Weed the damn herb garden that was.
2. Pick up office
3. Blasted Lands timeline
4. Make event list for timeline
5. White Lightning supp document
6. Helix blog post
7. Haven 2x05
8. Haven 2x07
9. Haven 2x09
10. Haven 2x11
11. Haven 2x12
12. Add book/story descriptions to fiction site, you idiot.
13. Arrow 3x01 Miniboarding
14. Flash 1x01 Miniboarding


Wednesday Reads
I should probably post this here even though I haven't made much time for reading lately, which I probably should also do. I am currently in the process of Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett, which for a Discworld book I'm find surprisingly hard to get through. Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal, and I did finish Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey which was astoundingly juvenile from what I remembered. Not that I minded it and not that I'm terribly upset to have spent money on it again, but damn. It feels like I grew up and the book... really didn't. Not in the good way that some childhood classics remain appreciable and relevant after you've grown up, just in the "oh my god you're still in high school that's adorable backing away now." Wow. For contrast, I recently read Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, which was published around the same time, and that stayed very very relevant and enjoyable. Burning Water did not age nearly so well.

(It should be noted that this book is also 20 some odd years old maybe, and I have no idea what Mercedes Lackey's writing is like now. I'm kind of curious. Maybe enough to pick up something from the library, not enough to spend money on it.)

Comments

[kikibug13]

... if you want to toss thoughts/questions/stuff about Flarrow my way, go right ahead? I might even get off my ass and finish watching the tail half-season of each...

[kittydesade]

The only question I have right now is, can I get it on Netflix so I can work while at work. :/ After that, maybe, yeah. I'm just. ugh. I need to do a rewatch and take murderboarding notes and SO MUCH WATCHING.

[kikibug13]

... I'm not sure you get the most recent season on Netflix BUT HOW SHOULD I KNOW THEY DON'T OFFER NETFLIX HERE AND I'M TOO LAZY TO CHEAT

[kittydesade]

Rassum frsshgdfhg. I'll probably just end up doing it all at home, anyway. *amused* Maybe I should get my binder of notes signed by Stephen Amell and company.

[kikibug13]

Hah. That would be nice. Also Alex Kingston, because... she's also coming, apparently. (If they get Karen Gillian in one of the associated series, the Doctor Who anvils will get... even worse. I mean, Jack, River, Rory...)

[kittydesade]

Which one's Rory? I still can't see Alex Kingston as anything but from ER.

[kikibug13]

... which actor, or which role in the shows?

[kittydesade]

Who was he in Arrow and Flash? I don't know the actor's name either, though.

[kikibug13]

Arthur Darvill, and he'll be on the third spinoff, Legends of Tomorrow as Rip Hunter.

[kittydesade]

Ahhhh okay. So I didn't miss a thing I should have noticed!

I was all set to do some note taking after capoeira and no. Too tired. I should have realized. >.

[kikibug13]

But Capoeira, so day is good.

[alexseanchai]

Mercedes Lackey now, not so hot. Most of her back catalog in Five Hundred Kingdoms and Elemental Masters is my comfort reading, though.

Is Burning Water the one with the evil Aztecs? I forget.

[kittydesade]

Burning Water is the one with the evil Aztecs that, heh, as a person who is half Mex-indian by blood if not by culture, made me go UUURRRRKK. Well, it was either my blood or my anthro training. One of them.

I should add, I was a big ML fan in the day. I read her Elves with Racecars, the Last Herald Mage books, the Talia books, the Gryphon books, the Owl books, um. Almost everything up until the ... I want to say, around when the Skif and Alberic books came out and then I just sort of dropped off. oh, and Tarma, Kethry, and Kerowyn.

[alexseanchai]

Yeah. I was Rather Younger when I last read the Diana Tregarde books, so I didn't pick up on the ugly racism then, but thinking about them now...ugh, Misty, no.

[kittydesade]

To an extent, all her books were simplistic in the extreme, which leads to racist stereotypes whether she meant to or not. I just. No, Misty. I award you no points.

[lemon_badgeress]

Mercedes Lackey became a Big Name and as a consequence she is not actually edited. Her work is riddled with continuity errors (I'm not talking 'I'm going to completely ignore everything I published regarding this ten years ago because I have a better idea now' -- which she ALSO does, and which I HATE -- I am talking within the less than 10 page chapter) and her plots do not always actually work.

[kittydesade]

.... That's horribly depressing, in the way that everyone who becomes a Big Name and negotiates for no editors in their contract is maddening and sad, but at least I'm not missing anything and can content myself with reading for nostalgia value.

[longmagpieroads]

I saw those!! And plotted to show up on some of them because it's fun to just watch you talk up there.

[kittydesade]

Awww, thanks. :D Good luck on your panels, they look fun, I'm going to try and make at least some of them.

[longmagpieroads]

The Daredevil one is the one I'm most excited about for the AMSFF folks. Then I got randomly stuck on one about Celtic and British History and Fantasy which is making me go eep a lot (because I am the only non published writer on that panel) .

[kittydesade]

You'll be fine. Take it from me, just because you're not published doesn't mean you don't have as much or more to say about things, clever and intelligent and well-read and accurate things, as any of them do.

[longmagpieroads]

Thanks! I know these things, just every now and then I need reminders. grin

[kittydesade]

I know the feeling. Happy to help. :D