culture consumed Wednesday
books:
Done rereading It Girl and currently reading the last of the Gossip Girl novels, I Will Always Love You.
Coupla thoughts:
So I really like the way the regular series ends the Blair/Nate/Serena love triangle (with Nate sailing off into the sunset alone) and I'm curious to see how it will wrap up in this book.
Currently right in the middle of a Dan/Serena revival (I wonder how much that is influenced by the tv series? since in the books that's a pretty much one-off ship) and I like it v much (def influenced by the tv series) but Dan/Vanessa is 100% my endgame OTP for the books, so yeah.
Also I get that Jenny is showing up very little because she was off having her own series, but the timeline overlap is over (IWALY looks like it will cover 4 [college] years after the regular series, and It Girl only covers the first of those years) and I want to know where Jenny ends up.
I really like Serena, always. Especially since I now picture her as Blake Lively (which was perfect perfect casting.)
Next: since this is finally the end of this universe, I'm going to switch gears entirely and read Neal Stephenson's Reamde next.
tv:
Finished S1 of Once Upon a Time and just barely managed to convince myself that I didn't need to buy S2 immediately; I can totally wait till my hold comes in.
[spoilers]
Predictably, I cried when August|Pinocchio and Marco|Geppetto reunited. Show pushes all my parent-child feel buttons.
I was close to tears at the end of the finale, too, while at the same time going "HOW IS EVERYONE IN STORYBROOKE SO DIM?" and "WOULD YOU MAYBE TRY TRUE LOVE'S KISS BEFORE TRYING DRAGON SLAYING??" I'm usually so very bad at figuring out twists, so when I can see a mile away what's going to work and the characters can't it feels especially annoying.
Amy Acker playing a character who is both a fairy AND a nun is basically an injection straight into my id, wow.
Next: (Re)watch of the seasons of Gossip Girl that I own.
video games:
Dragon Age: Origins: the Princess Denne adventures (Denne is my dwarf noble origin playthrough.) I finally figured out how to make the downloadable content work, so I'm using that to space out the quests that I've already played through at least twice. I just wrapped up The Heart of the Beast and now we are in Denerim.
I'm using Alistair, Morrigan, and Leliana as my battle party pretty much exclusively.
Leliana is maxed on lockpicking and theft and is only an indifferent battle rogue.
Morrigan is perfect in every way.
Alistair and Denne are both basically tanks, although I'm putting more of his stats in constitution and hers in strength -- she's at 38 strength and can now wear kickass armor that Alistair still can't.
So our strategy involves them taking a lot of damage and consuming a lot of Lesser Health Poultices while the girls pick away at enemies from the sidelines.
We're at level 11/12-ish.
Completed Soldier's Peak, the first extra DLC quest we've done. There was some nice loot (Getting Winter's Breath for free instead of paying for it as we did last time was really nice) and it was nice to get some achievements but the plot itself left me kind of indifferent.
Although it really pained me to say no to Leliana, Denne is romancing Alistair, no frills no fuss.
Next in this playthrough: after we finish Denerim I think we'll finish Redcliffe and go hunt for the Urn of Sacred Ashes, and save Orzamar for last, as it'll be Denne's homecoming and I really am curious to see how it will look for her given the conditions under which we left Ostagar.
Next in general: I think when I finish this playthrough I will play through the Darkspawn Chronicles.
Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1202867.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are
comment(s).
Done rereading It Girl and currently reading the last of the Gossip Girl novels, I Will Always Love You.
Coupla thoughts:
So I really like the way the regular series ends the Blair/Nate/Serena love triangle (with Nate sailing off into the sunset alone) and I'm curious to see how it will wrap up in this book.
Currently right in the middle of a Dan/Serena revival (I wonder how much that is influenced by the tv series? since in the books that's a pretty much one-off ship) and I like it v much (def influenced by the tv series) but Dan/Vanessa is 100% my endgame OTP for the books, so yeah.
Also I get that Jenny is showing up very little because she was off having her own series, but the timeline overlap is over (IWALY looks like it will cover 4 [college] years after the regular series, and It Girl only covers the first of those years) and I want to know where Jenny ends up.
I really like Serena, always. Especially since I now picture her as Blake Lively (which was perfect perfect casting.)
Next: since this is finally the end of this universe, I'm going to switch gears entirely and read Neal Stephenson's Reamde next.
tv:
Finished S1 of Once Upon a Time and just barely managed to convince myself that I didn't need to buy S2 immediately; I can totally wait till my hold comes in.
[spoilers]
Predictably, I cried when August|Pinocchio and Marco|Geppetto reunited. Show pushes all my parent-child feel buttons.
I was close to tears at the end of the finale, too, while at the same time going "HOW IS EVERYONE IN STORYBROOKE SO DIM?" and "WOULD YOU MAYBE TRY TRUE LOVE'S KISS BEFORE TRYING DRAGON SLAYING??" I'm usually so very bad at figuring out twists, so when I can see a mile away what's going to work and the characters can't it feels especially annoying.
Amy Acker playing a character who is both a fairy AND a nun is basically an injection straight into my id, wow.
Next: (Re)watch of the seasons of Gossip Girl that I own.
video games:
Dragon Age: Origins: the Princess Denne adventures (Denne is my dwarf noble origin playthrough.) I finally figured out how to make the downloadable content work, so I'm using that to space out the quests that I've already played through at least twice. I just wrapped up The Heart of the Beast and now we are in Denerim.
I'm using Alistair, Morrigan, and Leliana as my battle party pretty much exclusively.
Leliana is maxed on lockpicking and theft and is only an indifferent battle rogue.
Morrigan is perfect in every way.
Alistair and Denne are both basically tanks, although I'm putting more of his stats in constitution and hers in strength -- she's at 38 strength and can now wear kickass armor that Alistair still can't.
So our strategy involves them taking a lot of damage and consuming a lot of Lesser Health Poultices while the girls pick away at enemies from the sidelines.
We're at level 11/12-ish.
Completed Soldier's Peak, the first extra DLC quest we've done. There was some nice loot (Getting Winter's Breath for free instead of paying for it as we did last time was really nice) and it was nice to get some achievements but the plot itself left me kind of indifferent.
Although it really pained me to say no to Leliana, Denne is romancing Alistair, no frills no fuss.
Next in this playthrough: after we finish Denerim I think we'll finish Redcliffe and go hunt for the Urn of Sacred Ashes, and save Orzamar for last, as it'll be Denne's homecoming and I really am curious to see how it will look for her given the conditions under which we left Ostagar.
Next in general: I think when I finish this playthrough I will play through the Darkspawn Chronicles.
Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1202867.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are
comment(s).