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  1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    But doesn't she want to make sure as many people as possible know the truth?
  2. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    My mom is praying I move to a small town in western WA. "I think it would be fun for you to get away from us for a while," she said, "but it'd still be close enough for us to visit. And then, in a few years, you can apply for a job in Spokane." I'm not. I'm not applying in WA. I want to move back but I'm not applying and I wish she'd stop writing my life story for me.
  3. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    But why would they want to?
  4. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I'll be sure to let you all know what the preacher looks like.
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    I'm sure it'd be absolutely insane, but still grounded. Maybe Sanderson would write the Joker, giving him a Heath Ledger sort of treatment; while Wells wrote for Luthor, making him a sympathetic antagonist. Hurm....perhaps some of the less well-known ships, like Lightwards/Hat or Nighthound/Death. And if anyone has any idea how Obliteration and I actually meet, I'm dying to know.
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    I think the ideal writer for Wonder Woman should be female, not because I think a male writer would automatically objectify her--Sanderson comes to mind as a male author who would treat her with the respect she deserves--but because she is so quintessentially female that I believe a woman would simply have keener insight into her past and her motivations. As for the ideal author, I would choose Barbara Kingsolver. She usually writes realistic fiction, but I see no reason why she would be unable to tell a Wonder Woman story. The first book of hers I read, The Bean Trees, tells the story of a young woman who flees her small Southern town and the dead-end life it seems to have chosen for her, how she winds up adopting a toddler whose mother can't care for, and what happens when she winds up moving in with a woman whose self-esteem is crumbling after her divorce. In that book, characters and story are inseparable. The same approach is needed for Wonder Woman. Too often, she is reduced to a "RAH RAH FEMINISM!!!!" role, her presence doing little for the story besides providing the audience with a kick-butt female hero to cheer for. Kingsolver would dive deep into her past, showing us her life among the Amazons and how it informed her approach to heroism. We would see what she thinks of the Justice League and how they treat her, whether any petty slights bother her more than those who made them think or care to admit, how she views her defeats and victories. It would be a slower, more character-driven approach to an icon, and that is exactly what Wonder Woman needs. Gravity Falls theories (Season 2 spoilers):
  7. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Rude, in his book.
  8. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Now all you need is the Delightful Shard chanting "And then Nighthound died" as a coping mechanism.
  9. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Having read most of Dan Wells' I Am Not a Serial Killer, I think Wells would be best suited to writing Batman. He wouldn't shy away from Bruce Wayne's darker side or the consequences of his neuroses on his daily life, but he would still keep the Dark Knight sympathetic. There is only one word for a crossover of that magnitude: Awesome. Writing for the Man of Steel, Sanderson would show us a god who chooses to be human, yet protects those he has come to love. Writing for the Dark Knight, Wells would show us a broken man who shares more in common with the criminals he fights than the god he allies with, yet chooses to fight his darker impulses all the same. Rather than fighting for the sake of pointless drama, Batman and Superman would work together, their authors drawing parallels and sharp contrasts between them, giving us the definitive look at both heroes in a story that would make Snyder fall to his knees and cry "I'm not worthy!"
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    It's hard to get to sleep when your dad is already yammering, though.
  11. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I don't know how big they usually are, but pug rescue sites are very much a thing. So it stands to reason that they have to keep those pugs somewhere....
  12. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Abbie and I have conferred. She isn't in the mood for waffles, and we aren't sure how close the nearest pug sanctuary is. So we're doing the second two.
  13. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Yeah, I'm with Voidus on this one. (I came up here for my friend's wedding, and that's why I'm staying. No idea what we have planned for today, though.)
  14. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Hopefully, next time I'll be traveling on my own terms, so I can rent a car.
  15. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    *brief pause* *look of anger* "Your mom and I give you so much, Danielle. Here I am, picking you up from the airport. I didn't have to do that. I could have said 'Nope, I'd rather do my own thing' and made you rent a car, but I picked you up instead, and now you are being deliberately rude...."
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    If I don't respond, he'll ask me what's wrong and I'll have to make up an excuse. Best case scenario, he leaves me be for a few minutes before suggesting solutions. Worst, he lectures me about how being tired is no excuse for being rude and how sometimes in life there are crappy situations and you just have to push through them, like the one time he had to do something somewhere for work and he wasn't feeling well.... Best to just give him what he wants in the first place.
  17. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    "My name is Atrophy and this was my day. By the way, I live in Canada."
  18. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    So my dad is an Epic? Or just working for one?
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    She'd be an awesome wedding guest. And if things got boring, she could just explode the cake! Things are a bit better now. Found out our dog sitter IS staying the night, meaning the pugs won't have to sleep alone. Still, I'm not looking forward to the rest of this trip the way I was.
  20. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    It's okay. Nighthound crashing the party wouldn't be ideal, but I do know his weakness...and my brother has a conceal carry permit. Though between you, me, and whoever else reads this, I'm already wishing I hadn't come. I'm tired and my dad won't stop talking, apparently things are already going sour with my brother and his friends in the wedding party, and I'm really worried about the dogs and my car.
  21. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    You may be smarter than I am. I'm in Portland now. It isn't that every red light is making me nervous, because I know most of them are tail lights or something....it's more that one star...low to the horizon....that looks a little redder than it should....
  22. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Oddly enough, that's the last thing I'd want to be distracted from.
  23. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Fun things you learn when you're an introvert in a family of extroverts: They don't like silence. So when your dad picks you up after a long flight when you'd like to sit quietly and admire the Oregon scenery, he will. Not. Stop. Gossiping.
  24. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Ooohhhh I like this interpretation.
  25. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Ugh, so much yes. First it seemed like they had a decent relationship, and then it becomes clear Roth needed an easy source of pointless drama and a quick way to make her life worse, so she gives them the communication skills of tone-deaf parrots.
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