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[nyara123]

So I'm in Seattle now, AND I have a job at http://thepinkdoor.net HELLS OF YES. I'm the lounge server on Mon/Tues/Fri/Sat nights - and the lounge is where the Cabaret is held, with scandalously naked performers

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[pwylltwiceborn]

big big fan of Fionavar.
-->I'm loathe to say that it's a thing "that Drew and Allison put together."
-->Diarmuid is bad ass. The earth-humans get better.

[flamingophoenix]

Didn't they write it together? Am I forgetting something?

[farrow]

They put it into words, yes. The first part of it, anyway.

[pwylltwiceborn]

They did much of the drafting. The conceptualization, I had recalled, as more general.

[flamingophoenix]

I love the Fionavar books.

I don't remember much about the W&M saga...anybody have a soft copy handy? I remember the Walkers, and Matoaka, but that's about it. And Teranarafaine. It was pretty highly derivative of Tolkien, from the little that I do recall (see again: Walkers) but then I think everything in modern fantasy is derivative of Tolkien because I'm biased like that. (And note that I'm not using derivative as a pejorative here. It's just an is.)

The Earth humans do eventually become non-pussies. That's partly what the series is about. One of them you think is awful right up until the end, when it suddenly all makes sense.

I think the giants are my favorite subplot...the tragedy just really hits me, for some reason.

rant--not directed at you! Forward as appropriate.

[flamingophoenix]

FUCK FUCK FUCK FIRE YOUR WEB DESIGNER THEY ARE AWFUL AND HATE BLIND PEOPLE.

Sorry. Just had a Section 508/usability freakout there.

But in all seriousness, your website's front page uses an image (GAH) rather than text-on-a-background to present words. This is inexcusable. If nothing else, please get them to add alt text to the following line. Replace

Re: rant--not directed at you! Forward as appropriate.

[flamingophoenix]

Oh god, and it's like that for ALL the text.

::curls into a ball and cries::

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[nyara123]

Um, I think I'll tell La Padrona about this, but as a real curiosity: when did you become blind? Are you actually blind or is it your computer?

Re: rant--not directed at you! Forward as appropriate.

[flamingophoenix]

No, I'm not blind, I'm just a Usability junkie.

[farrow]

Reading it for the first time last summer, I had to put it down every few pages to think "Oh, God, this is what everyone was drawing on when we made that freshman year." Because yes, it's exactly the same - not just as the novel, but like, our lives that year.

That wears off once the awkward college-kids-in-fantasy-land conceit wears off and you're just reading a fantasy novel.

It's a good book. I think the only thing I didn't like about it was how flatly he wrote the college-kids characters' relations with each other - they are always nauseatingly loving and weepily adoring of each other, pretty much constantly. But then I guess it would have been a distraction to have a realistic immature stubborn screaming fight every once in a while, on subjects like "Wait what the hell do you mean we should go back there, PEOPLE DIE IN THAT PLACE, I have a LIFE here on Earth thank you very much."

[farrow]

the Earth humans are total pussies.

You still use the word "pussy" to mean weak and/or lame? I thought that was falling out of fashion, with recognition that pussies are, in point of fact, pretty muscular and impressively badass in their range of talents. I think Dan Savage had a thing on this? Rachel, help?

[nyara123]

It's true. The correct word is now "scrotum" or "scrote".

Pussies are awesome; scrotums are shivery little flaps of delicate and easily-hurt ouchie-tissues.

[farrow]

Not that there's anything wrong with shivery little flaps of delicate and easily-hurt ouchie-tissues.

[pwylltwiceborn]

see, e.g., labia minora