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Feb. 14th, 2008
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Feb. 14th, 2008 11:19 amFor the fleet of relatively-new parents on my f-list: Tacky Living shows us how to make an alien brain hat for your baby.
Another random question...
Feb. 14th, 2008 11:48 am...answers to which may or may not be put to any use whatsoever.
So, if you had, say, a seekrit institute filled with psychic kids, what sort of talents/powers/whatever d'ya think might be in there? Aside from the normal telepathy, teleportation, etc., and aside from anything that's an exact copy of a well-known superhero. Or what about interesting twists or limitations on standard powers?*
("Psychic" isn't really accurate, "powered" is better: it involves not only things that are traditionally purely mental, like telepathy, but physical augmentations as well. Not like adamantium bones or cyber-stuff, but like super-speed or bat-like hearing.)
* Like, I always figured that telepathy would only work on words and images currently in someone's mind, and that people have thought processes just different enough from each other that interpretation would be a problem. A friend of mine put it this way, when I explained it to him: "So you'd be thinking [3.14159] and I'd be thinking [*purple*]?" Yeah. Kinda like that.
So, if you had, say, a seekrit institute filled with psychic kids, what sort of talents/powers/whatever d'ya think might be in there? Aside from the normal telepathy, teleportation, etc., and aside from anything that's an exact copy of a well-known superhero. Or what about interesting twists or limitations on standard powers?*
("Psychic" isn't really accurate, "powered" is better: it involves not only things that are traditionally purely mental, like telepathy, but physical augmentations as well. Not like adamantium bones or cyber-stuff, but like super-speed or bat-like hearing.)
* Like, I always figured that telepathy would only work on words and images currently in someone's mind, and that people have thought processes just different enough from each other that interpretation would be a problem. A friend of mine put it this way, when I explained it to him: "So you'd be thinking [3.14159] and I'd be thinking [*purple*]?" Yeah. Kinda like that.
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Feb. 14th, 2008 02:48 pmWHY HAS NOBODY ON MY FRIENDSLIST BEEN DISCUSSING LAST NIGHT'S PROJECT RUNWAY, HUH?
YOU PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.
( spoilers )
YOU PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.
( spoilers )
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Feb. 14th, 2008 03:17 pmAfter posting about things she learned from children's and YA books, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija is now holding the YA Agony Awards. Voting to be done in rounds until there's a last man standing. Go vote!
rachelmanija is now holding the YA Agony Awards. Voting to be done in rounds until there's a last man standing. Go vote!(no subject)
Feb. 14th, 2008 03:56 pmIf you're wanting or needing art, kerbox is currently taking commissions to pay for needed computer equipment. :)
kerbox is currently taking commissions to pay for needed computer equipment. :)I don't THINK so!
Feb. 14th, 2008 05:32 pmYou know how much I paid for the copy I eventually found? $17. (After searching for about six months, admittedly.)
Your search for:
Bagthorpes Battered by Cresswell
9780340788240.
Matched:
Bagthorpes Battered (Bagthorpe Saga) by Helen Cresswell
Paperback. Hodder Children's Books.
9780340788240.
Very good. $413.24
Buy now at: http://www.alibris.com/search/detail.cfm?bid=9373532593
I haven't gotten around to canceling my automatic searches, because the prices they turn up with are so entertaining. This is the highest price yet.
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Feb. 14th, 2008 06:16 pm20 min. 3.5 mi. Total: 662 From Rivendell: 200 mi. I spy, with my little eye, another something that begins with R.
Yes! The Death Note novel has been translated and published here! (Along with volume 13: How to Read, which is a character guide and collection of notes and interviews and things.) The book is nicely produced: a slim hardback with a 3/4 jacket and a ribbon stitched into the spine to serve as a bookmark.
It tells the story of one of L's cases before the Kira case, this one of a serial killer in Los Angeles. It's also the story of the first time Naomi Misora, one of the minor Death Note characters, worked with L.
And we can all rest assured that it's got that hardcore charm peculiar to Death Note: a thoroughly tin ear for English names. I'd heard that a character in the book was named Backyard Bottomslash and yes: that's correct. Along with Believe Bridesmaid and Quarter Queen. And the street the first victim lives on is Insist Street. None of them have that je ne sais quoi that is "Quillsh Wammy," but they're good enough.
I feel so nostalgic for those days when I eagerly read the manga, awaiting the next insane English name.
( cut for non-plot minor possible spoily hysterically funny things from the book )
It tells the story of one of L's cases before the Kira case, this one of a serial killer in Los Angeles. It's also the story of the first time Naomi Misora, one of the minor Death Note characters, worked with L.
And we can all rest assured that it's got that hardcore charm peculiar to Death Note: a thoroughly tin ear for English names. I'd heard that a character in the book was named Backyard Bottomslash and yes: that's correct. Along with Believe Bridesmaid and Quarter Queen. And the street the first victim lives on is Insist Street. None of them have that je ne sais quoi that is "Quillsh Wammy," but they're good enough.
I feel so nostalgic for those days when I eagerly read the manga, awaiting the next insane English name.
( cut for non-plot minor possible spoily hysterically funny things from the book )
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Feb. 14th, 2008 10:06 pmBLACKBERRY BROWN!
BLUES-HARP BABYSPLIT!!
DEATH NOTE, I LOVE YOU! YOU FREAKY LITTLE FRANCHISE, YOU!!
Have finished Another Note while in the tub, and there was a twist I didn't foresee, but which was actually foreshadowed at least once when I look back at the story (I'll have to reread and look harder), and a bit at the end when I howled with laughter, but I cannot relate it here without giving away a bit of the plot, and That would be Bad.
So: it lives up to the crack that is Death Note, IMHO, although without quite the same sort of twisty tension that the Light/L cat-and-mouse game provided.
P.S. This the same sort of mild spoilery thing under the cut in the previous entry: The scruffy, sugar-loving detective that shows up calling himself "Ryuzaki" to help Naomi on her case XD mentions that he is an "aggressive top" at one point. Is this a shout-out to the fans? XD (or, more likely, a reprimand to the fans who always write and draw uke!L, WHICH IS TOTALLY NOT HIS STYLE THANK YOU VERY MUCH)
BLUES-HARP BABYSPLIT!!
DEATH NOTE, I LOVE YOU! YOU FREAKY LITTLE FRANCHISE, YOU!!
Have finished Another Note while in the tub, and there was a twist I didn't foresee, but which was actually foreshadowed at least once when I look back at the story (I'll have to reread and look harder), and a bit at the end when I howled with laughter, but I cannot relate it here without giving away a bit of the plot, and That would be Bad.
So: it lives up to the crack that is Death Note, IMHO, although without quite the same sort of twisty tension that the Light/L cat-and-mouse game provided.
P.S. This the same sort of mild spoilery thing under the cut in the previous entry: The scruffy, sugar-loving detective that shows up calling himself "Ryuzaki" to help Naomi on her case XD mentions that he is an "aggressive top" at one point. Is this a shout-out to the fans? XD (or, more likely, a reprimand to the fans who always write and draw uke!L, WHICH IS TOTALLY NOT HIS STYLE THANK YOU VERY MUCH)