Comments | goldenveila: these fragments i have shored against my ruins

goldenveila

these fragments i have shored against my ruins

Sep 11, 2009 12:20

Just took Jack out. Ugh, it's so exhausting. He gets his stuff done pretty quickly, but there's this gang of stray and/or wandering dogs that congregate around the old rental we used to live in. They rotate as to who's hanging around--today it looked like a Chesapeake Bay retriever of some kind that decided to wander into our yard, making Jack pull ( Read more... )

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goldenveila September 11 2009, 20:47:48 UTC

Oh, yeah, I've got a whole bunch of Gaiman books still on my "to read" list, that among them. :)

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goldenveila September 11 2009, 20:48:58 UTC

*laughs* Wow. That's...quite interesting. :D

killer_roach September 11 2009, 20:42:23 UTC

Actually, it's not that weird of a use of mythology if you count side titles... the World Tree factors very heavily in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology (and, I would assume, Radiant Mythology 2 as well, although I'm not up for playing a game entirely in Japanese).

goldenveila September 11 2009, 20:45:28 UTC

Well, yes, the World Tree is used a lot in the series and not that arbitrarily. It's Ratatosk that I was focusing on. Considering the role that he has in the Tales of Symphonia sequel, the fact that he's supposed to be a messenger squirrel is quite odd. :p

sorayume September 11 2009, 22:49:48 UTC

Maybe a fenced in yard for Jack is something you should ask Daniel to invest in, it would make it so you guys don't have to worry about the other dogs and give your puppy a greater feeling of freedom :)

goldenveila September 11 2009, 22:53:43 UTC

We've talked about it. Actually, there was a point recently where Daniel sounded like he was really considering it. Which is kind of amazing, considering that hardly ANYONE has fences around here. It's completely baffling to me. In the rare case that one does have a fence, it's an ugly chain-link one. So bizarre.

kei_mai September 12 2009, 05:24:17 UTC

I really don't have anything constructive to say about dog care (I think they're actually afraid of me; they like sniffing me and they wag their tails, but it turns out almost like Estelle and Repede when I actually try to approach them =/), but the fence sounds good? Although you'd still have to walk Jack; running around a yard can only go so far.

...Ratatosk is a squirrel? Wow, I don't know what to say to that. It's always intersting when a game allude to myths and legends, though!