nrrrrrrrrgh

[nekokoban]

Nnnnnot my best month ever. AND IT'S BARELY BEGUN, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT.

LONG STORY SHORT: on Friday, it was publically announced that the company I work for (previously privately-owned) was sold! Business will continue as usual for the next month or so, while the deal is officially closed, and THEN MAYBE WE WILL FIND OUT THE STATE OF THINGS! My parents have been exactingly practical about it, which is stuff I needed to hear, but do not really help with the worry. I know, there's not much I can do, even if I'm panicking, and mostly I am doing all right with that, but ugh. EASIER SAID THAN DONE! And my first mortgage paymet is due next month, l-lol, so I am possibly panicking juuuust the tiniest bit. It's a very contained sort of panic, that involves zoning out and obsessively keeping tabs on the amounts in my accounts and juggling to the largest interest rate. On top of that, my cat has been doing some worrisome things that I need to keep an eye on and have my fingers crossed that things were just a fluke, and that he's not actually sick.

I suspect this is why I am feeling vaguely sick this week, but WHO KNOWS. Maybe it's just a summer cold, lol.

This has also sort of colored ... everything I've been doing/thinking/whatever so I'm just feeling super worn-down and sad about a lot of things. It's one of those days (weeks? something?) where you just want to go to the most public forum you can and say EVERYONE PLEASE LIKE ME, I AM HAVING A BAD DAY!--only I'm not sure how deserved everyone liking me is, right now. *wg* MY PERSPECTIVE IS SKEWED. Also I usually try to reserve actual outright attention whoring for my birthday, because then I feel less guilty about it. It's a lot of little things that have sort of come together and one-two-three'd me, so I feel sort of like a bad friend, an uninteresting person, insert negative thing here.

AND IN A WAY I GUESS I AM ATTENTION WHORING RIGHT NOW! But you can tell me the bad as well as the good; I've sort of hit the zen threshhold of bad feelings, so at least I am at a starting point to try fixing things. *g* Or just talk to me about things. TELL ME ABOUT A NEW FANDOM YOU LOVE, a book you've read, talk to me about something I've talked about before! Give me something to focus on so I don't sit around being 8( and maybe I will actually EAT THE DELICIOUS FOOD I BOUGHT.*

The one major upside is that IF THINGS GO WELL, in six months, I will have the best commute in the history of ever--fifteen minutes tops, and that's when I'm weighed down by heavy grocery bags. I timed it. Kya kya etc.

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[ysadrel.livejournal.com]

♥ ILU.

SO I AM WATCHING LEGEND OF THE LEGENDARY HEROES and actually quite liking it. It has a Slayers-y vibe of Fighter + Mage Are Adventuring, Look At Them Adventure but there are hints of more complex and interesting things (after two episodes); also, I'm fond of most of the cast at this point (and am probably apping the main character somewhere.)

[nekokoban]

♥♥♥ ;;;;

LEGEND OF THE LEGENDARY HEROES SOUNDS--well okay, I laughed at the title alone, is that bad. :( ARE THEY ON A QUEST?

[ysadrel.livejournal.com]

no, no, see when I say "slayers vibe" it means "doesn't take itself seriously at all" (although that might change soon.) XD SO LAUGHING IS ENCOURAGED. But I suspect it will always have comic relief and lighthearted around. like, the main character wants to sleep through everything and his fighter BFF is obsessed with dango, okay. and yes, they're on a quest. for something I'm not sure about yet, because they decided to do backstory in ep 2 instead of plot.

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

♥

I watch a lot of TV lately. I just finished Legend of the Seeker, which is basically Hercules and Xena's love child, with more lesbian kissing and arrow-time.

AND I LOVE YOU.

[nekokoban]

That sounds INCREDIBLY FAMILIAR, but I know nothing about it, other than what you've told me. However, three for three IT SOUNDS COOL. TELL ME MORE.

I LOVE YOU TOO ♥♥ Thank you for indulging me. ;;b

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

It's based on the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind (which. I wouldn't recommend. At all. I tried to read them and then wanted to stuff the books down his throat). It's cute and campy and it knows it's campy, yet pulls off a decent plot while being fun and entertaining. Also I fucking love the Mord'Sith.

IT IS THE TRUTH so there.

Also



LOOK LESBIANS!

[nekokoban]

........ I didn't know anyone would make anything bsed on that series. I've read excerpts, like the bit about the chicken that was EVIL INCARNATE; that's about it.


ON THE OTHER HAND, I DO LIKE LESBIANS. :|a

[nekokoban]

See, depending on how it's handled, it would actually make me happier to see backstory EARLIER than later--even some of my favorite series do it, but sometimes I am frustrated by the TEASE OF BACKSTORY that only shows up like ... right before someone dies. :|a THAT IS FRUSTRATING.

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the evil chicken did not make it to television. How I wish it did

I just finished it yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed it. SO DUMB AND YET SO HEARTENING. Very good if you just want to switch off your brain.

[nekokoban]

But the evil chicken was the best part! It's the only thing I remember of those books, ever.

HOW LONG IS IT, are there batch torrents?

[ysadrel.livejournal.com]

I think they're giving us quite a bit of the gory backstory next episode, and I actually like that too! I just don't really know what they're doing in the "present" time. ;;

ANYWAY if nothing else it's good mindless Slayersish fun.

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you. I try to forget everything I read in those books.

2 seasons, 22 episodes, currently ended (though networks are debating about picking it up). I don't use torrents though, but there are probably batch ones lying around.

[nekokoban]

Perhaps the episode after that! Or it'll be relevant to the plot in general. :|a

I need mindless fun, man, nearly everything I'm reading right now are at pretty Serious Business points in their plots, as much as I'm enjoying them.

[nekokoban]

I had a friend in high school who read the first few books--back when they were still tolerable, as I understand it? But I never got around to it myself. (Pee ess if you can find copies, I would recommend the Expendable series by James Alan Gardner, even though it will NEVER BE FINISHED. ;;)

I will look it up this weekend! Derp derp.

[zidane.livejournal.com]

... I am intrigued!

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

I will look into that! I need more books to read.

[ysadrel.livejournal.com]

Yah, I think it's actually going to, say, show us why people recoil from the main characte. (which probably means some incoming srsbzn.) Like, they're marching a cadet class of fightermages off to war and there is apparently a surprise enemy strike force waiting for them SO.

Mindless fun is awesome, yes. |D

[ysadrel.livejournal.com]

It's actually free on funi right now! Two episodes so far, but it's definitely got the "derpy adventuring party" vibe, even if it looks like things are going to get more complicated, and I've missed that a lot in other anime. (Also, main character is a MAGE, super pinged. And his fighter BFF is amazingly badass and also a gish, I suspect.)

[nekokoban]

YOU SHOULD, I would love to introduce his work to more people. :D

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

My book-reading has fallen lately :(

[nekokoban]

MINE HAS TOO, SADLY! I think it's because the best times I have to read are on the bus, and I'm usually dozing then. >_>

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

I don't read on the bus (it gives me a headache) but I do read before I go to sleep.

[fyredancer.livejournal.com]

*snuggles you*

My fandom has twins. <3



I kind of love them a lot.

Feel better and eat delicious food!

[nekokoban]

I used to be better about reading on vehicles than I used to be, but I still mostly have the skill of Not Getting Sick. :|a Otherwise I just forget. /)_(\

[zidane.livejournal.com]

Dude, my policy re: what people on the FL complain about is that what else is a Livejournal for? Attention whore away o/

I'm seconding Timmy's Legend of the Seeker rec. It's a really fun show! PROOF:



As for books, I've gotten into Megan Whalen Turner's "Queen's Thief" series. I love the alternate-universe brasspunk Greek-esque pantheon. It's good stuff and I'm just starting on the latest book /o/ \o\