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I have this great new pic of Cal I wanted to cross-post, but Flickr doesn't seem to be allowing that right now. Oh well. If you're interested, it's the first/last one in the current set, the one titled: "Are You Hugging the Tree?" You'll find them all here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/49573188@N07/?saved=1).
Otherwise--still moving molasses/treacle-slow through Chapter Eight, and since all the cool kids are doing it, I should really coallate/post my Readercon schedule sometime soon. But at the moment, the most important thing in life is that I finally started watching the original Avatar: The Last Airbender, mainlining the first three ep.s of "Book One: Water" on Youtube, and it is indeed quite the ride. I love that it has the true HK quality of not just martial bad-assery and great design/character interaction/supernatural spectacle, but also a consistent streak of goofiness: Appa refusing to fly and sticking his tongue out at everything, Uncle Iroh and his tea/food fetish, Sokka's constant hunger, Aang just generally being a twelve-year-old monk with magical powers who's as likely to throw pies at you as he is to hulk out and drop an avalanche on your head. "You're only a child!" Prince Zuko tells him, to which Aang replies: "Well...you're only a teenager," and neatly hands him his own firey ass.
(Which isn't to say I don't like Zuko, because I do; indeed, I've yet to find a character I dislike thus far, aside from the Commander who tried to flame Zuko in the back, who we're obviously supposed to think is a douche. Zuko's hilariously emo, stupidly honorable, and I foresee redemption in his future; his sister Azula is the real villain in that bunch, right? Or so I've heard.)
Anyhow, back to the wedding-party maelstrom. I need to get this fucking part of the book done before I leave, or I might as well hang up my writer hat entirely...psych!
Otherwise--still moving molasses/treacle-slow through Chapter Eight, and since all the cool kids are doing it, I should really coallate/post my Readercon schedule sometime soon. But at the moment, the most important thing in life is that I finally started watching the original Avatar: The Last Airbender, mainlining the first three ep.s of "Book One: Water" on Youtube, and it is indeed quite the ride. I love that it has the true HK quality of not just martial bad-assery and great design/character interaction/supernatural spectacle, but also a consistent streak of goofiness: Appa refusing to fly and sticking his tongue out at everything, Uncle Iroh and his tea/food fetish, Sokka's constant hunger, Aang just generally being a twelve-year-old monk with magical powers who's as likely to throw pies at you as he is to hulk out and drop an avalanche on your head. "You're only a child!" Prince Zuko tells him, to which Aang replies: "Well...you're only a teenager," and neatly hands him his own firey ass.
(Which isn't to say I don't like Zuko, because I do; indeed, I've yet to find a character I dislike thus far, aside from the Commander who tried to flame Zuko in the back, who we're obviously supposed to think is a douche. Zuko's hilariously emo, stupidly honorable, and I foresee redemption in his future; his sister Azula is the real villain in that bunch, right? Or so I've heard.)
Anyhow, back to the wedding-party maelstrom. I need to get this fucking part of the book done before I leave, or I might as well hang up my writer hat entirely...psych!
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Date: 2010-07-03 04:15 am (UTC)I love Uncle Iroh.
aside from the Commander who tried to flame Zuko in the back, who we're obviously supposed to think is a douche.
I became weirdly fond of him as the season went on (even before I knew he was voiced by Jason Isaacs), but he is a douche.
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Date: 2010-07-03 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-03 04:55 am (UTC)Which bit? The Jason Isaacs, or the fact that my character tastes are fucked?
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Date: 2010-07-03 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-03 10:04 pm (UTC)Dude, they got Mako for Uncle Iroh. The show is a miracle.
Commander Zhao strikes me as a fairly classic magnificient bastard, and you know I can get behind that sort of action.
Just checking . . .
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Date: 2010-07-04 01:49 am (UTC)All this talk about the show is making me want to sit down and watch it all yet again.
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Date: 2010-07-04 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-04 10:38 pm (UTC)Plus, if Freakazoid could get, say, David Warner (to be the Lobe), nothing surprises me about animation casting.
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Date: 2010-07-03 05:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-03 07:22 pm (UTC)Sokka: Hey. Didyouknowyoujustjumpedliketenfeetintheair?
Aang: Oh? Huh. Feltmoreliketwenty.
Or later, ice-surfing on the backs of double-winged penguins:
Katara: Ihaven'tdonethissinceIwasakid!
Aang: You'restillakid!
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Date: 2010-07-03 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-03 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-04 02:43 am (UTC)I do not think it is a spoiler to reveal that the goof-offery of the series does not in fact diminish as the character work intensifies and destiny starts coming up fast on the horizon, which really impressed me. "Pants are an illusion."
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Date: 2010-07-03 06:01 pm (UTC)Also, I want an Appa.
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Date: 2010-07-03 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-04 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-04 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-04 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-04 06:41 pm (UTC)Iroh owns my heart forever. And so does angsty, teenagery Zuko.