Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

I don't disagree that AC was underrated, but I can't say I'd really call the assassinations open-ended. Certainly not in comparison to the kinds of targets we got in II and Brotherhood.

 

Arrr!

 

The escapes are great. The whole city is on alert and you've got to make a getaway. It's a better way of putting the pressure on than the notoriety system or the weak "escape the area" requirements.

 

Because I hate it when people post about what they ate on Facebook, I'm going to be a huge hypocrite here, instead! Mwahaha, they'll never know...

However, in the interests of those without interest in my banal nonsense, I'm going to hide it behind spoiler tags.

Spoiler

I HAD THE MOST EPIC BREAKFAST. Well, fairly standard TBH, but I've not made myself a full fry-up in aaaaaaaaggggggggeeeees, and now I'm wondering why I don't do it every day. There was egg (x 2), and bacon (x 3), and sausage (x2), and (muggle) mushrooms (x 6) -- I don't even like mushrooms, but they were awesome today -- and beans (x lost count), and toast (x 2) and, finally, a GIGANTIC MUG (yes, MUG) OF TEA.

And then, as if that weren't English enough -- and it really was -- I ate it while watching repeats of QI. (Which is its own kind of Fry-up).

Today is a good day.

 

....muggle shrooms?

 

From Ulipedia:

"In the Expanded Uliverse, a muggle mushroom is a mushroom which lacks any sort of magical ability."

 

I prefer this one. Almost scary how well it matches up.

 

So no making you grow or giving you a 1UP. Got it.

 

I've been hankering for a full English breakfast since the last time I was in Britain.

 

Now, the remark about their hygiene is totally uncalled for.

Though I guess it makes sense that they'd smell bad, if only people at the top of the chain can be special flowers.

 

I'll find a way to cope.

 

First Toy Story 3, now A Very Potter Senior Year. Are my tears and feelings being used in some sort of weird experiment?

Well, I don't think there's anything else that can make me... the last Artemis Fowl novel is smiling at me.

 

Artemis Fowl has been something I've been considered looking into for awhile now. Lugija, if you'd like, sell me.

 

Who do you want to be sold to?

Okay, some points:

1) The first novel reads like a fast-paced action film in novel-form. It can be read as a stand-alone. Starting from the second novel the relationships between the main characters are explored more.

2) Characters are intelligent. The main character is a 12-year old criminal genius who has forged paintings, made computer programs to do all kinds of illegal stuff and on leisure time composed an opera. There is character growth later in the series but in the first one he is pretty much Thrawn from TTT. That is not to say that the author has him to magically know everything and win by having his opponents be idiots, they also think things out. And point out cliches in other people's words. "Over your dead body? That's old, and you are just begging for it by saying that"

3) Our fantasy creatures are different (as TV-Tropes would put it): After a war between humans and the fairy folk in the ancient times, the seven species of fairies had to move underground to live in secret. These species include elves (from Irish legends), centaurs, goblins (who can make fireballs and look like reptiles) and dwarves who can literally eat through the ground and use different body excretions to build large spaces underground (yes, this is a source of a lot of humor). The fairies use both magic and high-tech technology, and have ancient magical rules which they have to follow (like not going to human houses without permission in the pain of being sick and in the long run losing their magic).

 

Who would put jello in a wine glass?










Sophisticates, that's who.

 

I'd think a brandy snifter would be more appropriate for that. Or a parfait glass.

 

Saw this and it reminded me of that TS conversation here the other day:

Undeniable Proof That “The Walking Dead” And “Toy Story” Have The Exact Same Plot

 

Just got back from Book of Mormon.

Spoiler

Surprising amount of Star Wars characters.

That is all.