okay I legit want to try that beer, Russian Imperial Coffee Milk Stout actually sounds good
i’ll never drink beer but yeah, coffee milk what intrigued
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yavieriel replied to your post “Look, I’m just going to fake all the sheep farming bits for this…”
as long as the sheep are somewhat less intelligent than chickens and manage to get themselves killed, injured, or nearly killed in improbable ways, you’ll be fine
There’s something delightful in this, especially with my complete ignorance of sheep (Like I don’t think there is a place more “cow country” than living within an hour’s drive from the King Ranch, Texas). Now I do feel a smidge of defensiveness on behalf of the sheep that will appear, as they are going to be the first technically not even domesticated, just tamed via elf-magic, and sheep stupidity is a by-product (or goal) of centuries of human domestication. But, to quote the most recently written sentences:
Ingwë’s reasons were selfish.
He did not adore the sheep. His concern for their safety was not tied to any deep empathy that he felt for the animals …
Over the course of the Great Journey, the Vanyar would replace their sheep with goats and cattle. The more intelligent goats, in particular, could withstand the scarcity and variability of food and climb the two mountain ranges. Ingwë’s biases may have also been a guiding hand.
that is _impressive_, especially coming from a family that actually doesn’t get particularly enthusiastic about nativity displays and generally goes with minimalist 3 or 4 piece sets
also for some reason the bedazzled palm trees are just a bit… unsettling (why are there palm trees that is not what date palms look like?)
There’s a more minimalist terra cotta set in the bathroom (still eight or so pieces), and the rubber duckie set. Partially it’s because my mother loathes decorating the Christmas tree with ornaments, and she’s a completionist figurine collector who loves Lenox dining china- she also has santas and the complete reindeer set and other holidays like Easter. So it’s much easier to just unbox and set up the nativity then unbox and hang ornaments, plus more ‘real meaning of christmas’ plus some strong narrative to organize how they are to be displayed by. The current Lenox nativity is a painted enamel look instead of just these enamel dots, but before they discontinued the line they branched out into the Town of Bethelhem for the weirder figurines like fish monger and dove seller. The palm tree was part of that- and my mom bough duplicates. And eh, when are creche scenes done with much accuracy anyway?
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INDEED.
Not going to lie, I find it genuinely weird to contemplate anything where the Green Lantern character isn’t just an amusing ensemble member, much less the idea that there’s whole series or whatever about it. The whole Lantern-ring schtick always seemed really cheap and uninteresting to me compared to the more individualized powers/backstories of other superheroes.
Whereas honestly I find stories were Green Lantern is just another rando in the Justice League to be jarringly out-of-place. And that for me his backstory and powers only work when he has an entire corp (and competing or complementary corps) of similar powers, and the stories are about not him (or her) as a superhero, but as this psuedo-magic/science empowered police/interpol agent. That this isn’t a superhero vigilante gig but a day job. That he has to report to bosses, work with co-workers and partners, that there might be paperwork to fill out, etc… The SF spin on something familiar to make it extraordinary. Anything that makes the GL unique and therefore interesting enough to read about is either the full on space opera and space adventures, or the space cop stuff. When he’s just ensemble superhero dude with a piece of tech that provides morphable powers, at that point you can go grab Blue Beetle instead for something more interesting.
yavieriel replied to your post “One of my favorite posts is still when @crocordile gave me a birthday…”
hey I actually read a handful of DC stuff and couldn’t have told you anything about any Green Lanterns other than one of them being a in-universe comics artist resulting in lots of meta-jokes and also there being some setting where there’s like… a bunch of different-colored rings with different powers or something?
Kyle~
Yeah I’m only reading the Green Lantern stuff of the Rebirth Era so I haven’t got around to reading all those essential GL books that established the modern mythos and the various colored rings that is standard GL world-building. But I watched the animated series -which is some of the best DC animation in the last decade or two for storytelling- and despite being technically a separate setting does explain more half the lantern corps and various characters.
Kyle was a graphic designer, the lantern that was heavily shilled in the 90s until Hal came back with the revamp of the Lantern mythos, and Kyle did make shoujo and other comic media jokes. He’s also main human GL that I know the least about and certainly care the least about. Very similar to Tim Drake, but at least he doesn’t have all the underlying ugly classism and victim blaming that Tim embodies. Just… painfully late 90s. The root of the ‘stuffed in a fridge’. And a crab mask. So it’s not like you know much less than me in that particular case.
yavieriel replied to your post:
One of my favorite posts is still when @crocordile…
I was just in it for Batman rescuing Superman from being tortured on Apokalipse
Well, that sort of happens in the animated JL movie, so yeah. DCEU version….ugh mixed to poor feelings about how so much of that film was executed. Well, the terrible reshoots and reworking of the script. But SuperBat fans who don’t mind MCU cheese could find many moments to cheer.
So yeah… ….”I don’t …not like you.”…. *rolls eyes*
We’ve already had the discussions of how I strongly dislike treating Clark and Bruce as archetypes instead of very human characters (and how that’s what appeals to you – we could not be diametrically opposed.) I won’t say SuperBat is my strongest NoTP in DC. Maybe into my list of the top five DC Comics NoTPs. That relationship as something romantic or as a relationship weighing more than their personal canon strongest relationships ties -Lois and Robins respectively- is a very strong turn-off for me. The Superman story revolves around a few things and the romance with Lois Lane is probably the most central and the reason I am interested in his character, whereas it’s canon that Bruce Wayne would pick up a gun for Dick Grayson and argued against the destruction of the DC universe because of the goodness of Dick (and not Clark) – and anyways, I’m not here for Bruce really but for his children, especially his second son 😉 SuperBat feels like loosing all of these reasons to care about either character for something meh.
Don’t mind the parts of Hush, or like the most recent Batman issue where their friendship and the closeness or strain of it and how they do fit complementary but opposing heroic types, that has Supes and Bats together. But I prefer canon stories that don’t depend on a closeness between them. Now Jonathon Kent and Damian having a book together and having their friendship as something central to their characters? No problem. Me like. Bring on the Super-sons.
But as said, a good portion of the fan reaction to recent JL movie was focusing on SuperBats stuff. *shrugs*
I keep trying to cancel 2017 but somehow I’m still subscribed and it won’t even let me change the channel to an alternate timeline
uugh. And i’m still feeling unreasonably bummed because I was using Justice League as my motivation to make it through the second half of the year, and I got my worst fears realized. At this point there’ll be some bullshit connected to Tolkien/Silm and/or The Force Awakens will have all the plot and character developments I fear including idk, that Snoke is actually Admiral Thrawn.
yavieriel replied to your post “I don’t want to tally how many needles I’ve gone through (though…”
Sally Beauty sells Remi hair pretty cheap, if you want something nicer. Well, cheap if you’re only buying one pack.
yeah this was an ‘attempt to see if i could’. I really want a Jessica Cruz, or at least another that isn’t a blonde or redhead, but that would mean sacrificing a Wonder Woman, and the two dolls actually have slightly different head molds and paint jobs (and even if I didn’t say “Donna Troy”, black hair and blue eyes is a DC default), unlike duplicate Ivy (still deciding who she now resembles, not to mention frankly the default Ivy looks more a Mera – I like my Pam Isley with a greenish tint skintone) or Supergirl/”Stephanie”. So i can live w/out immediately customizing one to differentiate. -this whole thing is a back and forth between completionist collecting and hobby dabbling in customizing…
doesn’t help that artists can’t stay consistent with Jessica’s hair color
d;akfjdklfj;a I’m gonna be late for work but YESSSSSSS
Running late for work myself – but yesss~
still trying to polish this, and I wrote it so I can answer a prompt meme later today – aka more is coming
that is terrifying and also why I approve of Steampunk not being _too_ accurate. I like looking like a sepia-toned photo not a circus clown. (Bright accent colors are getting more popular though.)
Personally I think it’s beyond hideous, and I also really don’t like most Victorian silhouettes and fashions to begin with- but yes. I don’t want all Steampunk outfits to be accurate awful synthetic Victorian dyes (though need to do more with that arsenic green dyes as story character-inspiration), but break away from the monotone. Or admit that the AU isn’t just ‘hey what if the technological advancements were more fantastic but what if they also had a more refined and elegant restraint to color use?’
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