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[salinea]

Happy belated birthday elihice, I hope you had a great day ♥ !


I'm feeling like death warmed over, I've been having a week from hell (not to mention the one before that), and I doubt the week-end is going to help that.

I've also felt in a very wanky mood and been pissed off at a variety of things that don' t appear to annoy anyone else (like that post about spoilers that has made me yearn to insult the OP x_x)

On the good side I'm the proud owner of the Game of Throne board game which is very cool and fun and complicated like hell, yay!

I'm generally feeling like I'm a very bad friend and lacking in time in general to do, well, anything, and I hate that.
I really need to start workling on the Snupin Story too, but mind is all dried up as far as ideas and plotting goes.


*sigh*

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[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

*Hug*

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

thanks :)

[littlelizzyann.livejournal.com]

What is the Game of Throne?

What is the insult-deserving spoiler post?

I'm very, very sorry about the hell-week...I hope the weekend was some help...now come explain things to me!

*is inquisitive and demanding*

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Game of Throne is the first volume of a very, very, very good fantasy book series by George RR Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire. And there's a boardgame dapted from it.

The spoiler post was linked by metafandom which is a community I would reccomend following :) : On Spoilers by allyoops

and thanks, the week end did help :)

[littlelizzyann.livejournal.com]

I don't generally go in for the RPG-type games, but do you think I would like the books if my tastes run to Philip Pullman, JKR (natch), and Tolkien?

I am sorry about the great spoiler frustration (although I hope you have recovered by now, as I was so diletory with this reply). I myself don't really have strong feelings on either side. But it does sound as if a few unpleasant people on both sides of the debate (and perhaps some pleasant people having bad days) are sending everybody up in arms and making them think the worst of each other. But I do remember the annoyance of the buffy/angel vs buffy/spike shipping wars, and my tendency to see *every* b/a shipper as a teenager in either age or mind, with a romeo and juliet fixation. ~g~

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

It's not a Role Playing Game, it's a strategy boardgame. Think Diplomacy if you know about that.

It's a very good book I'd reccomend to anyone. I've given a longuish review here
They are darker than Tolkien, more medieval, less magical. It's a WIP of course (4 books out of 7 are released) it's got a huge cast of lovable and loathable characters. The style is very good. The moralities are always complex and ambiguous. The plot is exquisitely good. People die, often. Or are mutilated and crippled.

Better now:) well this person still pisses me off, but I'm not reading them. The trouble with spoilers is it's not a question of opinion (compared to ship wars), it's a question of policies, how you behave with others, what is considered rude, polite, or extra nice. If someone spoils you with their carelessness, there's nothing you can do but bitch at them and maybe unfriend them.
What pissed me off in their post was how they presented the situation as spoilerphobes needing to beg nicely for spoilerholics people to lj cut, while I think it's required by civility and cutesy to lj-cut such things. But that person considered themselves the ultimate judge of when a spoiler expires or not x_x

[littlelizzyann.livejournal.com]

Don't know about Diplomacy (I'm an American ~smirk~), but it sounds interesting.

Will take a look at the books.

That wasn't a particularly attractive part of her post, no. I think the comparison I was trying to make was that each side felt put-upon and villainized by the other, which was to the discredit of a few less-than-tolerant and unfortunately visible individuals.

I agree that there does seem to be some consensus on the expiration point for spoilers, but I also think that there does have to be a point at which it expires. I was spoiled (in RL) for the Sixth Sense, and while I wasn't thrilled, it was a couple years after the movie had come out, and obviously if I were that interested, I would have seen it by then. That seems, to me, a more than sufficient amount of time (taking into account different geographies and allowing them all the opportunity to be despoiled by the event, not by premature tales of it) to allow for spoilers. After that--well, if someone is interested enough in a show to care about its spoilers, shouldn't she make the effort to see it before she becomes involved in its fandom?

I am, of course, fully willing to be persuaded by counter-argument. ~g~