Quiver

I'm sure this isn't entirely serious... but double shipping means I have missed quite a few books. Actually, I think I was running a little behind before then anway, but I'm at least... jeez, at least ten issues behind, maybe more? I'm trying to collect too many series... And then Marvel had to go and release new books that have my attention! Argh! I need to get ajob at one of those company's, just so I can read books at a discount. You know, for research.

I just realized I haven't bought any comics in about a month. My funds have just been so tight that I haven't been able to justify any purchases. I am in danger of losing my comic nerd street cred.

Thirded, Ten Soon would be a fairly apt name.

Marvel dropped the new trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Ooh, I've been waiting for the UK release of that series! I loved the two OVA's they released, so I'm somewhat hyped for the series proper

I'm not sure if this should go in the Reading or Playing thread, frankly. I'm doing another play through of Steins;Gate, this time gunning for the True Ending, with a guide because hidden flags are hard to hit I've actually been wanting to replay this game for a while, so I could do some analysis of it, so... yeah. That's a thing.

A little late, but in regards to the Moana talk:

... I don't know if this deserves a bad day post. It isn't anything specific after all. But... Well, I sort of want to indulge my melancholy a little, I guess. I've been having some mood swings for the past few days, but even that makes it sound more serious than it is. Maybe once a day, I'll be doing something and then my brain will just be like "Nope." I suddenly just feel kind of sad and lethargic, and don't want to do anything. I tried going for a walk yesterday when it happened - get some fresh air - but I couldn't really muster the energy to be bothered with that. This is something I know I've mentioned here before, and honestly, it's not even as bad as it used to be. Like I said, maybe once a day, and it does end up passing after alittle while, just... not really fun.

I freaking love terrormancy as a concept. I mean, fear is such a primal part of the human psyche, and we already have a lot of myths and egends associated with it; stories about someone getting such a fright that their heart stops, or their hair turns white. So I think this is a great concept. I kind of like some of the effects of the magic do; it kind of makes terrormancers like a classic slasher villain; they can walk through a storm of bullets, they can strengthen their limbs for Jason-like strength... I like it. Honestly, I'd suggest leaning more into that slasher villain vibe. The energy blast stuff didn't interest me quite as much; I'd prefer to see more playing with horror villain tropes, like maybe short range teleportation?

I don't think it's problematic to want to be "normal", so long as it's placed in a proper context; that that is one person's opinion. Someone may want to be considered normal by society; someone else may may feel insulted by the implication that they need to be fixed. There are -and can be- a range of opinions on the subject. (This is only tangentially related... I've spoken, at length, about how much Vin means to me as a character, because I read a lot of her paranoid and obsessive behaviours as mirror ing my own. She was the first protagonist I really related to... and I liked the fact that her story arc had her admitting that, no, these behaviours are part of who she is. She might not be able to change them, but she can manage them, and they won't prevent her living afull and happy life; that was empowering to me. Someone else might have preferred if she conquered her fears entirely, showing that that is possible. Neither of us are wrong, we just look for different things in media) Also, a disclaimer: I am Neurotypical, and am not well-versed in this stuff. Apologies if I offend anyone; if I do offend, all I can offer as a paper shield is... I am dumb. And I learn things by talking with people, so if you see something outrageously offensive here, please call me out on it so I can correct my attitudes. I think part of Brandon's issue with the way he wrote that character was the fact that... it was in Elantris. Specifically, the fact that Adien was the only character in his work who would be considered neuroatypical. When you have a variety of characters, they don't need to represent or mean a particular thing... But Adien was it so far as representation went. There was no Steris, no Vin, no Kelsier, no other characters to be compared against. The closest we could get to "not normal" in Elantris besides him were the genius kids, and that was written and presented in a very different way; while the family was proud of the children, they were over-protective of Adien. And yes, the reasons as to why they treated him that way were due to the magic, not because they were ashamed or hiding him because of who he was, but... ... but Adien was it so far as representation went. Whether Brandon meant to or not, by shoing this character, in this context, and ending his arc with him being "fixed" and accepted by everyone... he might have felt that carried a certain message that he wasn't comfortable with, and implications -regarding his own thoughts- that he wasn't comfortable with. The thing abot representation -and this is me soap boxing some - the thing about representation is, you need a lot of it. Because if you don't, then every character is taken as symptomatic of the whole, rather than being "this particular character of this particular community at this particular time." After all, these characters were created by -and ultimately obey the whims of- the author, so if he is including them, he must have a purpose or be trying to say something, isn't he? If you have three people giving three separate opinion, you can take that as "these are three people who have different takes on a complex subject"; if you have one person, then it seems more like the author is making a blanket statement about the entire community via this one person. (There is also, I think an argument to be made about what constitutes "normal", and to what extent "normal" is a harmful idea that makes people ashamed of who they are and afraid of experimenting and expressing themselves... but that might be a slightly different ramble.)

Did he give any details on how they didn't fit? I'm bad at realmantics, so...

Darn. I mena, thanks. I'm sure that's an interesting book! I just hate the ide of imitating someone elses work, even if I didn't know that the idea already existed. Guess I'm putting Solfege on the back burner projects wise, too...

Haven't checked UK Netflix in a while, but if it's there, I'll include that on my To-Watch list I'm waiting for Little Witch Academia to get a UK release, which should be around June.

I killed this topic. I'm sorry- it was unintentional! Would anime news help revive it? Because I come bearing news. Spcifically, the fact that a trailer for season 2 of Attack on Titan has been released. I really liked season one - it's a big part of what got me back into anime - but I've actually been reading the manga lately, so I don't know if I'll watch the series.

I... never quite get far enough in anything, honestly. I feel like I need to build a world before I can build the characters... but then I never figure out how to go about doing the worldbuilding, what ideas are good, what are bad... I know that is stuff which comes in time, but... still. I feel like I should better than I am. As a side note, the new Justice League trailer dropped:

The problem I keep running into is... I might have a single idea. "Oh, it'd be cool to do a naval fantasy setting." "What is clothes gave people magic?" "MLP expy musicians in a world where music is magic." ... but then I never really know what to DO with any of that. World build? Okay... I have no diea what I'm worldbuilding to. Characters? I have a vauge, detached concept for one, but they don't seem connected to the world itself. Plots? Yeah, got nothing on that front... It's... depressing. ... On a side note, I'm gonna go see Power Rangers this afternoon

Not exactly got many characters. either. Frakly, my ieas keep floating at the "Oh, would it be cool if" stage.

Well, I also have THAT problem. I have... I've had a few concepts for fantasy worlds that Ive wanted to write for a while now. But they are only large scale conceptual stuff; no actual worl building or plots involved.

Yeah, it's... Honestly, I keep hitting a pretty serious writing block wall: I have absolutely no plots.

Write. Seriously. I have written anything in... lord. More than a year?

Guess what thing I don't do