*pokes Iximaz back*
*feeds Iximaz's SPaGhetti to SkarmorySilver's Italy mochi, as instructed*
Thank you to both of you! I'm fond of the mochis, since they're the only characters I can draw. And the drama is kind of what made me decide to introduce myself -- everything is tense, yes, and zero punches are being pulled, but people are still being polite, constructive, and empathetic. Which is cool. I am excited.
I've read a lot of PPC spinoffs in a short period of time, and I can't remember which author goes with which story goes with which agent. . . . I really liked the one where canon!Spock helped the agents kill his replacement and the Sue. Two of the agents were in a romantic relationship? One of them was ace? One had a name beginning with C? Ugh.
*bandages ears, wincing perhaps slightly more than it actually hurt*
*puts on earmuffs. Winces again from the pressure*
*pulls Larfen J. Stocke, esq. aside, out of earshot of the others*
THANK YOU IN ALL CAPS
*slowly saunters back, badly covering a smug grin by munching on a Schrodinger's cookie, collapsing its wavefunction to "chocolate chip."*
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a really good book (yes, it's only one book. One feels-like-five, don't-drop-it-on-your-toe book. Plus shadowy rumors about a sequel-in-progress). I watched the BBC adaptation, and I thought it did a good job of keeping the spirit of the book, but I'm not as attached to the fandom jokes as a lot of people are. I think it's kind of like The Princess Bride: the screen version is amazing and inspires love everywhere it goes, but the book is STILL so much better because it has a snarky narrator who goes off on tangents which are impossible to include in the screen version. (Here's hoping Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events fits this pattern *fingers crossed*.)
Carry On is, in its simplest form, a love letter to Harry Potter fanon. . . but it's so much more than that. For one thing, one of the main characters is basically Edward Cullen rewritten as a sympathetic, well-developed, lovable character. And the World of Mages is comparable to the wizarding world, but it's also comparable to France in the late 18th century, if you take my meaning. Also, the main characters are boys, but the book passes any test of feminism you'd care to give it. And I'm not going to gush about it here. But you really should read it. You all should read it. *smiles sheepishly and backs away, almost tripping over what I could've sworn was a kitten. I turn around and am convinced that I scoop it up and pet it.*
