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skygiantsI am pretty sure most of my thoughts on Michelle West's The Riven Shield (fifth book in the Sun Sword series) are highly spoilery, so basically ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elspeth_vimes is the only one who will have interest in much of this entry. Suffice to say: the series is I think still getting stronger as it goes, and even though I occasionally get lost in all the politics of who is what is where is aligning with whom, I can finally see things building to some kind of conclusion. Also, this is the most amazingly culture-clash-y book yet, which I love! The most fascinating parts of the book for me were actually Valedan and his Northern allies/Northern-influenced Southern allies trying to interact with the Callestas, who are interacting based on an entirely different set of ground-rules, and how the book does not shy away from the consequences of those rules. I also love Alina manages to force the possibility of moving between the two worlds, which is why she is awesome. (And Telakas the Least Menacing Demon continues to be hilarious, if . . . possibly only in my head. "Shit, I didn't mean to actually wound her seriously! Um . . . crap.")
Also awesome: SERRA TERESA KILLING A DEMON DEAD. I find it hilarious that everyone else's battles with demons take about twenty or thirty pages minimum, and Teresa takes hers down in, like, a page. AND THEN GOES INTO A COMA. But I am convinced that she will recover! Otherwise she would have just been dead.
However, I will admit that I have pretty much no idea what was happening during the whole epic battle of epicness with rivers rising and demons popping up all over the place and Avandar and the stag freaking out and Kallandras and his elf-buddy having their epic bromance. There was some dramatic manipulation of the elements! I'm pretty sure Jewel/Avandar is now pretty much canon! Other than that, WHO KNOWS, let us get back to the complicated politics now. The kai Lamberto showing up at the last minute was pretty awesome, though.
IN OTHER NEWS:areyoumymemmy linked to this beauty last night, and I - I don't even have words. Andrew Lloyd Webber. Andrew. Lloyd. Webber. Everything points to a production beyond my WILDEST DREAMS OF RIDICULOUS. *_*
Meg shoots Christine dead in a jealous rage.
Meg shoots Christine dead. In a jealous rage.
LEAVING THE PHANTOM ALONE WITH HIS AND CHRISTINE'S FANFIC BABY.
BRB LAUGHING FOREVER AND EVER. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar people, I am suddenly filled with PROFOUND SORROW that Meg is retired and this can never be bar-canon.)
Other comments/highlights: the Phantom lures the child to his lair in a scene filled with the gorilla automaton, walking skeleton and a hanging chandelier of 20+ Medusa like skulls that come to life in song
there are some good bits like when u first see the phantom. He's feeling up one of the christine dummies like in the first one and suddenly she is bathed in coloured lights and her dress spins up into the air and flies off
I can't even suspect it of being a joke, for lo, I know in my heart, it is ALL TOO REAL.
OKAY GUYS WHO IS COMING TO NEW YORK TO SEE THIS WITH ME *_* *_* *_* *_*
elspeth_vimes is the only one who will have interest in much of this entry. Suffice to say: the series is I think still getting stronger as it goes, and even though I occasionally get lost in all the politics of who is what is where is aligning with whom, I can finally see things building to some kind of conclusion. Also, this is the most amazingly culture-clash-y book yet, which I love! The most fascinating parts of the book for me were actually Valedan and his Northern allies/Northern-influenced Southern allies trying to interact with the Callestas, who are interacting based on an entirely different set of ground-rules, and how the book does not shy away from the consequences of those rules. I also love Alina manages to force the possibility of moving between the two worlds, which is why she is awesome. (And Telakas the Least Menacing Demon continues to be hilarious, if . . . possibly only in my head. "Shit, I didn't mean to actually wound her seriously! Um . . . crap.") Also awesome: SERRA TERESA KILLING A DEMON DEAD. I find it hilarious that everyone else's battles with demons take about twenty or thirty pages minimum, and Teresa takes hers down in, like, a page. AND THEN GOES INTO A COMA. But I am convinced that she will recover! Otherwise she would have just been dead.
However, I will admit that I have pretty much no idea what was happening during the whole epic battle of epicness with rivers rising and demons popping up all over the place and Avandar and the stag freaking out and Kallandras and his elf-buddy having their epic bromance. There was some dramatic manipulation of the elements! I'm pretty sure Jewel/Avandar is now pretty much canon! Other than that, WHO KNOWS, let us get back to the complicated politics now. The kai Lamberto showing up at the last minute was pretty awesome, though.
IN OTHER NEWS:
areyoumymemmy linked to this beauty last night, and I - I don't even have words. Andrew Lloyd Webber. Andrew. Lloyd. Webber. Everything points to a production beyond my WILDEST DREAMS OF RIDICULOUS. *_*Meg shoots Christine dead in a jealous rage.
Meg shoots Christine dead. In a jealous rage.
LEAVING THE PHANTOM ALONE WITH HIS AND CHRISTINE'S FANFIC BABY.
BRB LAUGHING FOREVER AND EVER. (
milliways_bar people, I am suddenly filled with PROFOUND SORROW that Meg is retired and this can never be bar-canon.)Other comments/highlights: the Phantom lures the child to his lair in a scene filled with the gorilla automaton, walking skeleton and a hanging chandelier of 20+ Medusa like skulls that come to life in song
there are some good bits like when u first see the phantom. He's feeling up one of the christine dummies like in the first one and suddenly she is bathed in coloured lights and her dress spins up into the air and flies off
I can't even suspect it of being a joke, for lo, I know in my heart, it is ALL TOO REAL.
OKAY GUYS WHO IS COMING TO NEW YORK TO SEE THIS WITH ME *_* *_* *_* *_*
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:19 pm (UTC)Also, generally: whut.
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:23 pm (UTC)Alternately, the gun shoots jelly and they all have a good laugh and then buy the kid some cotton candy.
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-24 03:10 am (UTC)*sits on Becca's feet*
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:34 pm (UTC)APPARENTLY IT COMES TO NY IN NOVEMBER! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME *_* *_* *_*
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-23 05:36 pm (UTC)Feather: ORANGE!
Becca: MEG SHOOTS CHRISTINE!
Feather: ORANGE!!!!!
*much mutual shrieking and waving of hands*
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:46 pm (UTC)WHAT?
And the Art World says back, "Hey baby, how you doing? Like the way I can't match colors and go kind of crazy if you look at me funny? Yeah huh, that's right. I know you like it."
And then I cried.
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:50 pm (UTC)Also, I will lay you odds right now that some portion of the costuming of Phantom 2 will involve hideous orange or hideous harem pants . . . OR BOTH.
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:53 pm (UTC)I'm gonna need a big drink before, during, and after this show.
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:42 pm (UTC). . . except if Return to the Secret Garden was actually written by Francis Hodgson Burnett.
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:27 pm (UTC)For which I am grateful.
Because . . .
Wow, is that messed up.
(Were I closer to NY, I would totally be coming to see it with you.)
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:31 pm (UTC)(Look, if there was ever a reason for you to finally make it to New York, THIS IS IT. >:D)
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:35 pm (UTC)Would Lilie be the one doing the shooting in a jealous rage, then? Or Fakir?
(We shall see . . . :) )
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:47 pm (UTC)(>:D >:D >:D)
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:38 pm (UTC)Also, I feel like someone just needs to make a gif of Sokka's "Secret love cave, let's go" line from Cave of Two Lovers and cut it with the Phantom's, well, secret love cave.
(Edited because I have an icon that is far more appropriate and lulzy!)
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:43 pm (UTC)Also: I AM IN FULL AGREEMENT, THIS MUST EXIST.
(I also really want the Middleman episode that's set in the genre of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical now, I'm not gonna lie.)
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:54 pm (UTC)(I really want more Middleman episodes now period. T___T I'm making my housemates watch it and remembering how much I ~*~love it~*~, and may have to go back to the ballet-themed fic I have entirely outlined and just waiting to be written.)
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:56 pm (UTC)(. . . . well okay yes that too. *pines for more Middleman forever* Also: OMG DO IT. *_*)
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:17 pm (UTC)THANK YOU.
OH MY HATED ATLANTIC OCEAN.
SCREW YOU
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:27 pm (UTC)BRITMUNS, ASSEMBLE!
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:29 pm (UTC)And if you don't make it out alive, we will NOBLY SALUTE YOUR SACRIFICE.
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:32 pm (UTC)IF ANYTHING HAPPENS.
ANYTHING AT ALL.
YOU COME, AND YOU RESCUE US.
I don't want to get shot by psycho!Meg...
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:50 pm (UTC)*ded*"
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:09 pm (UTC)...Maybe I can just go for the first half...
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:20 pm (UTC)(I think my greatest sorrow about this whole thing is that John Barrowman is no longer involved with the production. I mean, WISE MAN, but what a shame for the rest of us!)
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:23 pm (UTC)(That is indeed a tragedy for the ages. He could play Captain jack Harkness! He was totally around then oh my god somebody has to write that fic.)
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:53 pm (UTC)If I wasn't going to be at school at the time then I would. Also did you see that one of the Ice Dancing couples skated to Phantom, the cute Americans Davis and White, it made me grin.
I always want to reread Maskerade whenever talk of Phantom comes up and I'm probably bad but I liked the movie version, it had lots of pretty.
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:56 pm (UTC)I did not, but I am totally going to be looking that one up now! I am so curious. :O
Oh, I totally loved the movie version. It was SO RIDICULOUS, and kind of glorious. The Phantom keeps a horse in the basement of the opera house!
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:03 pm (UTC)I need to put the soundtrack back on my computer - I forgot to transfer it to my new one, and now I NEED IT.
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:06 pm (UTC)Right, I should probably head towards campus or possibly write some fic. I get break soon, I'm so ready.
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:59 pm (UTC)Related questions: Can we arrange it so that we are seated AWAY from anyone who might actually be ~moved~ by ALW's ~art~? What is the best way to smuggle in a bottle of vodka and several shot glasses?
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:06 pm (UTC)Question 1: I think the solution to this is simply to make sure that we have a large enough mass of people who are appreciating ALW's ~art~ in the proper sense (i.e. DRINKING GAMES AND LULZ) that we will have strength in numbers!
Question 2: CUNNINGLY HIDDEN IN OUR PURSES. Much like soda is smuggled into a movie theater. *solemn*
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:05 pm (UTC)This comment preeeetty much sums it all up for me.
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:51 pm (UTC)I don't know if anything else will ever provide me with as much hilarity *_* *_*
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Date: 2010-02-24 02:20 am (UTC)... And omg, I'm... so glad I had no attachment to POTO. XD (Which is more than I can say for Return to the Secret Garden aaaahhhh CANNOT UNREAD)
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Date: 2010-02-24 02:36 am (UTC)Fortunately, my attachment to POTO is the kind that is full of ironic love and lulz anyways, so I am pretty okay with this. (AHHH RETURN TO THE SECRET GARDEN THOUGH. AHHHHH! I skimmed through several pages and now it sits on my shelf like a terror and accusation before I have the chance to pass it off on some other unsuspecting person.)
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Date: 2010-02-24 02:55 am (UTC)(... omg, you didn't read the whole thing? I DID. In hindsight I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHY I DID THAT TO MYSELF AAAHHHH. /consoles self with Mary the Vampire Slayer fic)
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Date: 2010-02-24 02:58 am (UTC)(NOT YET but someday, I know, I will give in and read it JUST TO KNOW and then I will HATE MYSELF FOREVER.
. . . Mary the Vampire Slayer fic does make everything better, though.)
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Date: 2010-02-24 06:03 am (UTC)(QUICK, GIVE IT AWAY. THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW! Memory has mercifully blurred most of it in my mind, but - I can probably spoil you for a few bits, if you wanted. *cough* No one was happy in the sequel. D: Why, sequel author, why.
Mary the Vampire Slayer was the best sequel I never knew I wanted <333)
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Date: 2010-02-24 03:03 pm (UTC)(I - I think I know the relevant parts? @_@ i.e.: suicidal Dickon, TERRIBLE FANFIC BABY of uncertain parentage, Colin pining over Dickon and bringing rentboys to the garden . . .
Vampires do not stand a CHANCE against Mary Lennox.)
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Date: 2010-02-24 03:37 pm (UTC)(I see you have been well
warnedinformed. Excellent! Wait, I don't seem to remember the terrible fanfic baby... probably that's a good thing)no subject
Date: 2010-02-24 03:44 pm (UTC)(I have very vague memories of Mary not knowing whether the kid's father is Dickon or Colin . . . but THAT'S OKAY, because the kid sort of looks like both of them, so really it's like the spirit of their OT3ness. It's like they're both his father! BIOLOGY HAS NO PLACE IN RETURN TO THE SECRET GARDEN.)
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Date: 2010-02-24 03:32 am (UTC)... November, huh? *makes travel plans NOW*
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