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zorana provided her invaluable self to a couple of marathons and I have now caught up on some of my shows.Born out of many happy hours playing Skyrim before ESO launched in April. Initial exposure waszorana's fault, closely followed by maharetr who also got into Skyrim and brother J. who pointed out ESO was about to go live and enthused at me over the Beta.
BEST THING: The thing that blows me away the most is that I have now become accustomed to constantly seeing female non player characters of every race performing all the roles. It took me over 200 hours of gameplay to start taking the abundance of female characters for granted. That’s over 200 hours that I spent feeling surprised and delighted every time I met a new female NPC. Now I just get the odd burst when I encounter another married same-sex couple engaged in gay activities like fighting pirates, memorialising their long, happy life together, or dealing with the health issues associated with being a secret werewolf.
NEXT BEST THING: gaming group with maharetr, ascetic_hedony and A. after we all realised we were more invested in roleplaying Khajiit then we were in optimising for racial bonuses. We meet once or twice a week and Do All The Quests or run around Cyrodiil (the player killing map) screaming and dying together. There is no situation that cannot be improved by a fireball trebuchet.
WORST THING: No ‘reason’ field when you add a character to your ignore list. It’s not essential, but it’s an excellent indicator a complaint is accurate if an account has a lot of ignores and comments like ‘gold farmer’ ‘sexist jerk’ or ‘troll’ associated with them. Having said that, the chat tone is surprisingly good and I've seen some nuanced social policing going on.
zorana after we took a trip together and I scoffed at the notion of her buying a painting while we were there. I have now successfully finished a painting AND made a birthday present AND made good on my promises. Wondering if I should now dismantle my little painting nook or line up another challenge. Many thanks to chaosmanor for the lovely (and far nicer) photography.maharetr collecting G.'s car from where it was left this morning, and the QFHC realising to our dismay that none of us can figure out how to put it in reverse. *hums relevant song* We managed to get it tucked away on our verge using the Elvish power of Shoving (thought to be lost before the end of the Second Age) and are experiencing a small amount of car related shame.maharetr who is an enabler of the worst kind| Item | Apparent Health |
| Many cashews and almonds | Excellent |
| One television remote | Excellent |
| The handle of a pair of scissors | Excellent |
| A piece of skirting board | Excellent |
| Untold amounts of Tupperware | Excellent |
| Gluten Free Marshmallows | Excellent |
| Chunk of raw ginger larger than my thumb | Excellent |
| Half a pink thong | Excellent |
| Lid of a travel coffee mug | Excellent |
| Many raw potatoes | Excellent |
| A parsnip | Excellent |
| Another couch cushion | Excellent |
| One stuffed qokka | Excellent |
| Three socks | Excellent |
| One sneaker shoelace | Excellent |
| One rose bush | Excellent |
| Two packets of rice paper | Excellent |
| Three tissue boxes | Excellent |
| Cable for warming dog bed | Excellent |
| Many tennis balls | Excellent |
| Cable for iDevice recharger | Excellent |
| Garden Fertiliser | Excellent |
| Couch cushion | Excellent |
| Russian Caraven loose leaf tea | Excellent |
| Several nectarines | Excellent |
| A bag of green string beans | Excellent |
maharetr. That helped <3littleboot, transcendancing, japester, skud and others and talk shop where 'shop' covered knitting, sourdough, database design, gardening, travel, careers, personal evolution, gender fluidity, social justice and much, much more.A 'scientific romance thriller' set in a world where the British call each other 'old chap' a lot and are anthropomorphic. Archibald LeBrock the badger Detective solves crime and falls upon a political conspiracy.
Has a coherent story which I appreciate and the illustrations are very 'period' and steampunky.
Loses points for predictability and the two sole female characters who play the uninspiring roles of jealous sleazy adulteress and jealous plucky prostitute.
Not a good series to come into Vol 5 at, I ended up on wikipedia looking for context. Two children watch their parents get executed by the Redcoats (revolutionary war) then pretend to deliver a goat so they can tell their brother about it in person. Alas, he has been brutally murdered when a mysterious gate opens and various minutemen are possessed. Lucky one of the children is a blacksmith and can make keys and locks.
Has a coherent story but the next story was a sudden jump to modern day which was v. confusing for me. The visual style is gritty and ugly and has an unsurprising amount of well illustrated perky breasts.
Science fantasy at its finest. Alana and Marko, lovers from warring races flee with their infant daughter Hazel.
I was utterly sold in the first three pages. Has a compelling narrative, gorgeous illustrations and a deft sense of humour. Will chase down Volume 2.
ETA: Ordered Vol 1 and pre-ordered Vol 2.
This is Book 13 and I think you have to have preexisting love for the characters. As I don't, this was incoherent and not very enjoyable for me to read. The illustration style has minimal art content and the strip is heavily character driven.
Grand-daughter of X-Files. Hispanic female governor runs for presidency so that she can investigate her alien abduction experience.
Tragically cancelled after 14 issues (Volume 1 is 1-6 & V2 is 7-14) but has a plot, strong illustration work, good characterisation, passes Bechdel test with ease. Loses points for narrative waffling but I will read 7-14 and probably enjoy them.
ETA: Ordered Vol 1 and pre-ordered Vol 2.
One or more people who worked on Iron Man 3 have either collaborated with Roman Polanski or publicly expressed support for him.