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Uhhh...perhaps you should be getting excited for the new Pirates of the Carribean movie? But then, perhaps you already are!

I know I am. And I only just found out that there'll likely be a fifth and sixth too. *squee*

I just finished Deathless (http://www.amazon.com/Deathless-Catherynne-M-Valente/dp/0765326302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304511570&sr=8-1) by Catherynne M. Valente and it was quite good. Russian folklore that touches on the Communist Revolution and WW2.

I'm also reading/listening to Territoy (http://www.amazon.com/Territory-Emma-Bull/dp/B001PO6AYU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304511782&sr=1-1) by Emma Bull in the car. Very fun western fantasy set in Tombstone (AZ territory) with all the historical figures (Doc. Holiday, the Earp brothers, etc.) plus extras that leads to the shoot out at the OK corral.

For complete fluff check out Goddess Girls (http://series.simonandschuster.com/Goddess-Girls/books) by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams. Greek myths set in a jr. high school environment.

And I haven't seen Thor yet but I've heard lots of good things.

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Lately I've been hooked on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It's surprisingly good for an aggressively girly kids' show.

I keep meaning to check it out but we only have basic cable.

Same here. I've been catching up on YouTube.

In order to drive others crazy about a lack of an update, I've been pimping my favorite manga, Liar Game. Everyman honest girl Nao gets a box in the mail holding 100,000,000 yen and, upon opening it, learns she has accidentally entered the Liar Game Tournament. With an opponent ready to steal the money from her by any means necessary and the Liar Game Tournament Office expecting the money to be paid back to them in full, Nao enlists the help of recently released con artist Akiyama. Convoluted schemes of nearly Death Note proportions and everything you could want to know about game theory ensues.

I'm in the midst of reading Deathless too and loving it, dark and fascinating. Doctor Who is my current must watch at the moment.

Otherwise I'm doing a lot of catching up on various things that I meant to read or watch before grad school ate all of my time.

Kate mentioned Doctor Who, which YESSSSSS. SO MUCH YES.

So I will mention FRINGE.

Ohgod why is it not Friday yet?

Last night me and the roomie caught up on this season of Friday Night Lights.
COACH TAYLOR IS THE ULTIMATE TV DAD.

Um...I'm very much looking forward to new Who this weekend. Also Thor hits movie screens this weekend.

Today is new comic day, but I don't think a heck of a lot is hitting my inbox there so...meh.

There's always pseudo scrabble.

Oh, Coach. <3

Eric and Tami Taylor are where it's at, for srs. Best fictional married couple in the history of history.

The new season of Dr. Who is giving me my *favorite* kind of stress headache, I say with no sarcasm whatsoever. (SATURDAY! GET HERE FASTER.)

I finished watching the entire show of Avatar: The Last Airbender five days ago (which... good timing :D). It is awesome.

Also, am really looking forward to Thor coming out this weekend. (Not just for this guy (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm372292352/nm1165110), but a lot of it is for him, yis. >__>''')

And I'm introducing my boyfriend to Sanctuary, which is fun. Though he's just beginning the second season, while I'm wanting to whip the third season to make it go faster (NEEDS MORE TESLA).

Also, in general, Garth Nix needs to write faster. We still don't have the Old Kingdom prequel and sequel he's been promising for the last two years. *pout*

Justified's second season finale is tonight; in the immortal words of the Internet, I ARE EXCITE.

I'm finished up Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy, and just finished watching Life on Mars UK.

Seriously, I'd never get any media-intake without Milliways.

But if you haven't read Watership Down YOU SHOULD because that is on my "reread at every possible opportunity" bookshelf and I think it's a travesty when I meet people who haven't read it.

Yay another person who's read Watership Down multiple times! :D

Also, what're your thoughts on the Abhorsen trilogy (and have you read Nick Sayre and the Creature in the Case yet)?

IT IS MY FAVORITE BOOK AND ALL OF MY CHILDHOOD that wasn't Animorphs. Which is still quite a lot, as I had that book ages longer than I had the war-torn-scifi-kids.

I really, really enjoyed the whole trilogy. Lirael and Sameth are not my favorites by far but I think they redeemed themselves really well in the end. And Dog. :( And and Yrael!! AND AND SPOILER SPOILER.

And things.

I do really wish that Nix weren't allergic to writing relationships not surrounded by death and fire. I'd love to know how they all interact with each other once the main threat is over, without skipping ahead twenty years and giving everybody children.

...if you can find me this Nick Sayre book on audio, I will read it? :D

Creature in the Case is six months after so its a follow up without being a happy ending. Also I'm working on making Sameth more relateable as my idea is Nix kind forgot him in ooh shiny Abhorsens.

I guess six months is better than twenty years. :( Too bad for lack of happy endings, though. I kind of like it when my books occasionally end in confetti and rainbows.

I kind of got that feeling about Sam, yeah. D: I still don't understand what a Wallmaker is supposed to entail, unless it's just "person who builds things." In which case, how is it any different from every blacksmith in the Old Kingdom who also happens to be a Charter Mage?

I have to go back and read all your Sameth threads now. :D

Yeah, its an odd ending. Creature in the Case feels to me much more like a proper epilogue than what was there. The version I read had it tacked on at the end so I got it in one burst.

Heh, I'm still trying to figure out what a Wallmaker is and look forward to threading Sam doing that too. Its one of the reasons I enjoy playing with him, I can poke around in a part of canon that the author forgot about. Also *points down* as always Saph explains canon so much better than I do.

Rachel and Sam definitely need to talk again now that you have that background.

Edited 2011-05-05 06:54 (UTC)

The Wallmakers were Charter Mages especially and innately skilled in the Charter when it is used for making things. Making things that others would not know how to get the Charter to do. The Wall, a great construct of Charter Magic that has lasted thousands of years, was made by numerous Wallmakers working together (though Mogget also mentioned he helped with it ^_^), as well as the Great Charter Stones under the palace in Belisaere.

The spelled swords handed down by the different bloodlines, Abhorsen's sword, Nehima, and the Librarian's sword, likely all the named swords, were all made by Wallmakers.

Where Abhorsens' Charter Magic is much more innately geared towards walking in Death and re-deadifying the Dead, Clayr towards seeing the future, rulers towards ruling etc., Wallmakers' magic is geared towards creation and invention. Which is why Sam is so good at making things, and such suck at being an Abhorsen in Waiting.

I feel that Mogget likely saw the clues in what Sam was when he found out that Sam was a)scared of Death, b)not studying the Book of the Dead like he should because he feared it, and c) was inventing things like the flying fly-eating frog. Everyone is born into their destiny, and it suits them. Lirael takes to Abhorsening like a duck to water, though she is a daughter of the Clayr. The fact that Sam didn't take to Abhorsening should have been a clue to them all that he wasn't meant to. *sighs at characters*

The after-story of Nick and the Creature in the Case is a short story in the collection "Across the Wall."

I'm basically waiting with bated breath for next month and fresh seasons of Burn Notice and Futurama.

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