Potato Chip books

Subject: Potato Chip books
Author: Sevenswans
Posted on: 2012-08-11 20:30:00 UTC

I prefer to think that certain books are potato chips - not particularly good for you, but salty and you end up eating a lot of them at once, but some books are like granola bars. They're better for you to snack on but occasionally the chewing isn't what you're up to that day. Like... House of Night, for example, I consider to be a book series that is a bag of potato chips. They're fun to munch but I get a headache if I eat too many of them. And now I've killed the metaphor.

I've beaten my auto-correct into submission, mostly. It's doable! Of course, I used a blunt-force metaphor, which may not be everyone's weapon of choice.

I agree on Girl Genius - I would not start over completely, but I'll happily get caught up to several week's worth of updates in one fell swoop. Now, if only Order of the Stick would update more often, I'd almost never lack for a way to kill five minutes.

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Hello everyone by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 18:45:00 UTC Reply

Ok, so I should really say hello and a littler bit about myself. I'm an artist role player model maker jewellery student who turns his hand to anything that takes his interest. And my intrestest is easily taken. Think the kind of person who chases after shinies. Then draws them. And is then distracted by pigeons. And draws them.

Kinda rambling a bit.

Long story short, Hi!

Welcome a-Board! by TheMadHatteress on 2012-08-14 02:41:00 UTC Reply

Welcome (somewhat belatedly) to the PPC! Since I'm pretty sure that everyone else has said whatever needs to be said, I'll skip most of my spiel. Anyway, have an incredibly shiny hat! It's wonderfully distracting and has many small bits that make noises. It's great if you don't want people to pay attention to the rest of your body. You probably shouldn't wear it if you need to concentrate on something though.
Hello! by dramaticsoprano on 2012-08-14 02:14:00 UTC Reply

Have some Swiss Chocolate and some Bleepka. You'll need them both pretty soon.
Hello there by SingingTheThunder on 2012-08-13 18:28:00 UTC Reply

Here have a messenger pigeon, perfect for those longish distance calls in low technology continuua.
First plover! (nm) by Tawaki on 2012-08-13 13:41:00 UTC Reply
'Ello! by ThatOne on 2012-08-13 12:21:00 UTC Reply

Welcome a-Board the good ship PPC, where your love of canon is more important than any sanity you may or may not posses. Here is a bag of oddly shaped shinies for amusement and drawing purposes.
Re: Hello everyone by Antigone68104 on 2012-08-13 02:31:00 UTC Reply

Hi! Have some fudge!
Hello by StarShadow on 2012-08-12 18:10:00 UTC Reply

Hi! For you newbie gift, have some non-euclidean geometry.

Re: Hello by Anonymous on 2012-08-13 21:42:00 UTC Reply

Thank you! I'd been wanting to practice Escher style drawings! Yay!
Non-Euclidian Geometry? by Tomash on 2012-08-13 04:37:00 UTC Reply

What kind? Eliptic? Hyperbolic? Both? Something else entirely?

Hello Hello~. (nm) by Wodan on 2012-08-12 12:19:00 UTC Reply
Hi there! by Ponystar17 on 2012-08-12 11:11:00 UTC Reply

Nice to meet you. I know what it's like to be distracted by shinies; it's a lot more fun than not being so easily distracted. Here, have a ten-ton hummingbird. Flightless, but very aesthetically nice when it flaps its wings.

Re: Hi there! by MrThorSir on 2012-08-12 13:22:00 UTC Reply

Thanks, I've just hooked it up to the aircon. I needed a replacement fan, and something to eat the vast quantaties of nectar produced by the waste disposal system. Yay creative problemsolving!

Hello there! by SeaTurtle on 2012-08-12 08:19:00 UTC Reply

Welcome to the Board! Have some hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. Caution: reacts violently with reality.
/rolls in with a graduated cylinder by Lily Winterwood on 2012-08-12 02:22:00 UTC Reply

Hey-o! Have fun measuring things with it!
Short story by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:33:00 UTC Reply

Ok, link to the story I was just asked to write. Enjoy!
http://Happinessandchoc.deviantart.com/art/Of-flowers-and-patinas-320526565
Hi by desdendelle on 2012-08-11 20:03:00 UTC Reply

Hello there. First of all, if you haven't done so already, read the Constitution (there's a link in the top of the page). Reading the Original Series, as well as any spinoff that catches your fancy, is also recommended.
Last but not least, your newbie gift: a cup of tea. Just don't let the leaves eat you.

Re: Hi by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:13:00 UTC Reply

Done and done. Apart from the spinoffs. It might take a while to read them all.

Re: Hi by desdendelle on 2012-08-11 21:22:00 UTC Reply

-Chuckles-
I don't there's a person in existence who read all of the spinoffs, Thor. There's simply too many. Archive Panic much.

Ahuh. Hi. (nm) by JulyFlame on 2012-08-12 02:15:00 UTC Reply

You have not! by Huinesoron on 2012-08-13 18:30:00 UTC Reply

I keep one hidden away especially so no-one can say things like that.

(Well, no-one said /published/ anywhere in there...)

hS

Yes, but I have a spy network! So there! (nm) by JulyFlame on 2012-08-13 18:31:00 UTC Reply

Mild curses! by Huinesoron on 2012-08-13 19:46:00 UTC Reply

Still, you've given yourself away now - I simply have to stop The Small Child getting at the computer ever again.

So, y'know, one of the easier impossible tasks.

hS

Hm! by JulyFlame on 2012-08-13 19:59:00 UTC Reply

Clearly, my plan to use toddlers as spies was not as foolproof as I though.

Good thing that countermeasures are usually impossible.

Impossible mission? Accepted. by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 21:47:00 UTC Reply

Well, at the very least I'll try. I'm just like that. So I might have to skimread some, but that is a last resort. I have a habit of doing things like this. Its in my nature.

Spinoffs by Tomash on 2012-08-12 01:23:00 UTC Reply

Hi, welcome to the PPC.

With regards to spinoffs, I'd like to recommend Neshomeh's work

Also, you wanted it's in your last sentence. Rule of thumb: if you can replace the "its"/"it's" with "it is" and the sentence still means the same thing, you want the version with the apostrophe.

Re: Spinoffs by Anonymous on 2012-08-12 10:36:00 UTC Reply

Thanks, I'll try my hardest.

Good to have you a-Board! by doctorlit on 2012-08-11 19:55:00 UTC Reply

Greetings, new friend! Oho! Someone else I can direct drawing envy towards!

So, what sort of stories do you prefer to read?

Hey, pigeons are very distracting!

Re: Good to have you a-Board! by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:12:00 UTC Reply

If its a drama or romance, something character development heavy, and slow paced. If its action, character development heavy and clever trickery. If I'm I'll or bored, violence and nudity. But most of all, clever descriptions.

Greetings, fellow newbie by Sevenswans on 2012-08-11 19:32:00 UTC Reply

Somebody told me to bring gifts, so here's some orange juice and shiny rocks.

Re: Greetings, fellow newbie by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:13:00 UTC Reply

That's awesome! I just baked cookies! *hands over cookies*

Re: Greetings, fellow newbie by Sevenswans on 2012-08-11 20:23:00 UTC Reply

Yum!

'Lo! by Lilac Lielac on 2012-08-11 18:54:00 UTC Reply

What fandoms are you into? Is your handle off Avengers movieverse, Marvel comicverse, mythology? Would you like some essence of glee?

Re: 'Lo! by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 19:21:00 UTC Reply

Actually it's from the battle tech universe. Ive been playing their mechshatever series since I was a kid, and one of the mechs, the best one in my opinion, was the Thor class clan battle mech.
Incidentally, this series has particle projection cannons, which shortens to PPC. Just a bit of trivia.

Fandoms... Ok, never been much into western comics, marvel or dc, but I read a lot of web comics and manga, probably favourites are freefall and girl genius for web comics, and orange marmalade and kenichi for manga. I read disc world. In fact I have every book I could get my hands on. I might be missing perhaps two, but it's possible I just can't find them. I love lord of the rings, and trudi caravan and Charlie bone and possibly my favourite written works are by Alastair Reynolds. I started the mortal engines series about age ten, and the original four books I once read in a day. I love stories, and hunt them out like peanuts. You suddenly realise you're eating them by the handful, and it's kinda unhealthy. Also, finished every fiction book in my school library a couple years ago that I could stand to read and now I'm considering trying to finish the sci if section of the local one. And now this post seems a little long.

Dunno about peanuts... by Lilac Lielac on 2012-08-11 20:03:00 UTC Reply

I prefer books being like potato chips. :D Mostly because I don't actually like peanuts.

I haven't finished reading Girl Genius... I got distracted years ago and now I can't get back in from the start because it's not quite amazing enough that I can just reread it whenever.

Discworld... oh lordie love Discworld. You will be in good company so long as you don't tell me about anything that's happened in books other than... Wintersmith, Soul Music, ummm... Guards! Guards, yeah I think that's it. And I have Feet of Clay and The Truth out from the library, so especially no spoilers from those.

Lord of the Rings. Very good company. Have you read any of the Silm.? I've only got to about page 40 and also I lost my copy so I'm stuck there. It's amazingly dense but the prose is incredible, though that's only to be expected seeing as Tolkien was a linguist and such.

Turn off your autocorrect, it can go hang if it misspells Discworld or sci-fi.

P.S.: Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are our friends. I think capitalization either falls under grammar or really needs to be added into the acronym.

Potato Chip books by Sevenswans on 2012-08-11 20:30:00 UTC Reply

I prefer to think that certain books are potato chips - not particularly good for you, but salty and you end up eating a lot of them at once, but some books are like granola bars. They're better for you to snack on but occasionally the chewing isn't what you're up to that day. Like... House of Night, for example, I consider to be a book series that is a bag of potato chips. They're fun to munch but I get a headache if I eat too many of them. And now I've killed the metaphor.

I've beaten my auto-correct into submission, mostly. It's doable! Of course, I used a blunt-force metaphor, which may not be everyone's weapon of choice.

I agree on Girl Genius - I would not start over completely, but I'll happily get caught up to several week's worth of updates in one fell swoop. Now, if only Order of the Stick would update more often, I'd almost never lack for a way to kill five minutes.

Potato chips being that you can never have just one. :P by Lilac Lielac on 2012-08-11 20:42:00 UTC Reply

Granola bars, though, I can eat those aaaany day. Eh, different metaphors for different people.

Mmmmm, blunt force metaphor trauma.

Augh Order of the Stick. So awesome but so slowly updated... but then Rich Burlew has a chronic illness so I forgive him because every strip is wonderful.

Re: Potato chips being that you can never have just one. :P by Sevenswans on 2012-08-11 20:59:00 UTC Reply

It's a win that he manages to keep it up at all, really.
I do eat a lot of granola bars, but I eat somewhat at random anyway.
Re: Potato chips being that you can never have just one. :P by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:47:00 UTC Reply

Its like Megatokyo in that. It may be updated slowly, but its totally worth the wait.

Re: Potato chips being that you can never have just one. :P by Lilac Lielac on 2012-08-11 20:53:00 UTC Reply

Dunno, I've never read Megatokyo.

Also, it's. Learn the homophones/homonyms! Learn them! Or else! -branishes red pen menacingly-

Re: Potato chips being that you can never have just one. :P by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:58:00 UTC Reply

Whenever I think of anything I find myself thinking of it in sounds, so this does tend to be a problem. I will improve. It's part of why I'm here.

Re: Dunno about peanuts... by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:19:00 UTC Reply

Sorry about that. I'm used to being judged by the speed of my reply. I'll try and proofread things a lot more carefully from now on.
Also, never got my head round the Silm. It's a lot like reading Bible. I know that it's important, but there are more succinct summaries that are enticing.

Odd place by Sevenswans on 2012-08-11 20:32:00 UTC Reply

Must be an odd place where people value the speed of reply over the grammar. Of course, I tend to hang out on forums and such that will smack you over the knuckles for using the wrong homonym, so what do I know?

Re: Odd place by MrThorSir on 2012-08-11 20:36:00 UTC Reply

Odd place... I'll grant you that.
Regardless, this should improve my typing accuracy on this stupid keyboard at least.

Capital letters are your friend. Use them. (nm) by JulyFlame on 2012-08-11 19:51:00 UTC Reply