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impyForgive me, Father, for I love the drama. Even old drama that doesn't really impact me in any way shape or form, I love coming into a fandom, realizing it's Insane, and reading about [hopefully?] long dead drama. It's dinner theatre!
Ah, good, good times. Forgive me again while I indulge my current obsession. You know me. Give it a week or two [maybe less] and it'll fade. I'm very easily distracted after the first week of insanity.
Crap, I can't remember if tonight is a 12 or a 10. I think it's 12. I'll just act like it's a 12. Yeah, that's it. Cuz I think this week is all 12's and 11's. This was so much easier when it was essentially set for the first three days and Friday/Saturday matched each other. Then someone had to go and complain about not getting to work the other shift, even though they made it so I will have to work 12 on Wednesday for the rest of my natural life there. How is that fair? Your "needs" [and yeah, I'm going to get obnoxious with the quotation marks] trump mine? Forever? BAH. I was fine with the Wednesdays of doom until you got all cranky and fucked up my schedule. Because, you see, by requesting this switch, it took a fairly simple system and turned it upside down. Sigh. The less I think of this, the happier I am.
In other news, Ruthie's been shipped. Maybe. We're in that limbo stage where one site says she has, the other just says it's theoretically possible... and I say bother. She will show up Thursday as that'll be the day I have the least amount of time to devote to her. Possibly Friday, as I'll be even more tired than I was the day before. But she's totally allowed to prove me wrong and appear earlier. *nods*
Okay. I've got a question about a book I just finished reading. I don't know whether it's too much time spent in the supernatural areas of entertainment has skewed my world view or if it's something else entirely. Ended up with a copy of Any Given Doomsday, either from Library Thing or Good Reads. Don't recall which. I'd been dragging my feet and couldn't remember why until I went to finish it tonight.
Spoilers, obviously. Turn away!
So. You've got your heroine who has managed to copy her ex's supernatural powers through the magic sex!fu that is still less annoying than any given Anita scene. Well, actually, that's a rant for a different time. Anyway, to kill our Big Bad [ex boyfriend's father] the only lead they've got is that blood of his blood will do the trick. Immediately my brain says, fab. Get your boytoy to bleed on something and stake that stupid vampire.
No. Too literal, right? Yeah. So, we just assume Jimmy, the ex, will kill his father. Worked for other cultures. Only Daddy Dearest sets Jimmy and Heroine up to fight to the death, and for reasons never fully explained, Jimmy can't NOT do what he's ordered by Daddy Dearest to do. So they fight and she's all super!powered up and she's forced to seriously contemplate killing Jimmy. She has to kill him twice in the same way. So she stakes him once, laments her inability to follow through on the second death until Dearest is close enough and then stabs him with the bloody stake. And the bitch goes down.
I'm fine with this chain of events. It's the explanation that follows that blows my pretty little mind.
She assumes that because she got Jimmy's powers, she also gained the ability to kill Dearest even though that's a blood-only deal. So unless you and Jimmy are related, honey, we have a problem. Either my original literal interpretation was an option, they're related, the rumour of how to kill Dearest was wrong, or the author needs a beat down. For the most part I liked the book, magical!rape aside but this last thing is killing me.
If I weren't dead tired, I'd review it and mention it. Until then your help would be appreciated.
Spoilers for Any Given Doomsday, or whatever it's called. *is lazy* And I do mean serious spoilers.
Ah, good, good times. Forgive me again while I indulge my current obsession. You know me. Give it a week or two [maybe less] and it'll fade. I'm very easily distracted after the first week of insanity.
Crap, I can't remember if tonight is a 12 or a 10. I think it's 12. I'll just act like it's a 12. Yeah, that's it. Cuz I think this week is all 12's and 11's. This was so much easier when it was essentially set for the first three days and Friday/Saturday matched each other. Then someone had to go and complain about not getting to work the other shift, even though they made it so I will have to work 12 on Wednesday for the rest of my natural life there. How is that fair? Your "needs" [and yeah, I'm going to get obnoxious with the quotation marks] trump mine? Forever? BAH. I was fine with the Wednesdays of doom until you got all cranky and fucked up my schedule. Because, you see, by requesting this switch, it took a fairly simple system and turned it upside down. Sigh. The less I think of this, the happier I am.
In other news, Ruthie's been shipped. Maybe. We're in that limbo stage where one site says she has, the other just says it's theoretically possible... and I say bother. She will show up Thursday as that'll be the day I have the least amount of time to devote to her. Possibly Friday, as I'll be even more tired than I was the day before. But she's totally allowed to prove me wrong and appear earlier. *nods*
Okay. I've got a question about a book I just finished reading. I don't know whether it's too much time spent in the supernatural areas of entertainment has skewed my world view or if it's something else entirely. Ended up with a copy of Any Given Doomsday, either from Library Thing or Good Reads. Don't recall which. I'd been dragging my feet and couldn't remember why until I went to finish it tonight.
Spoilers, obviously. Turn away!
So. You've got your heroine who has managed to copy her ex's supernatural powers through the magic sex!fu that is still less annoying than any given Anita scene. Well, actually, that's a rant for a different time. Anyway, to kill our Big Bad [ex boyfriend's father] the only lead they've got is that blood of his blood will do the trick. Immediately my brain says, fab. Get your boytoy to bleed on something and stake that stupid vampire.
No. Too literal, right? Yeah. So, we just assume Jimmy, the ex, will kill his father. Worked for other cultures. Only Daddy Dearest sets Jimmy and Heroine up to fight to the death, and for reasons never fully explained, Jimmy can't NOT do what he's ordered by Daddy Dearest to do. So they fight and she's all super!powered up and she's forced to seriously contemplate killing Jimmy. She has to kill him twice in the same way. So she stakes him once, laments her inability to follow through on the second death until Dearest is close enough and then stabs him with the bloody stake. And the bitch goes down.
I'm fine with this chain of events. It's the explanation that follows that blows my pretty little mind.
She assumes that because she got Jimmy's powers, she also gained the ability to kill Dearest even though that's a blood-only deal. So unless you and Jimmy are related, honey, we have a problem. Either my original literal interpretation was an option, they're related, the rumour of how to kill Dearest was wrong, or the author needs a beat down. For the most part I liked the book, magical!rape aside but this last thing is killing me.
If I weren't dead tired, I'd review it and mention it. Until then your help would be appreciated.
Spoilers for Any Given Doomsday, or whatever it's called. *is lazy* And I do mean serious spoilers.
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Date: 2008-09-30 09:57 am (UTC)Also, fuck Walgreen's, why didn't you change your availability to fit your "needs" as well?
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Date: 2008-09-30 05:01 pm (UTC)Zee obsession is just the American Girl dolls. I've found myself distracted from the stuff by all the drama that seems to have unfolded over the years. Religious persecution and intolerance! Failing to get that memo that you're not supposed to discriminate against someone due to their gender or sexual preference! Banning people who belong to a certain board/LJ comm just because!
And that's just the fans and what I've managed to find over the course of a couple of nights, with just a couple of hours each.
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Date: 2008-10-01 11:35 pm (UTC)