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handful_ofdustI 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: 2010-07-04 06:41 pm (UTC)Iroh owns my heart forever. And so does angsty, teenagery Zuko.