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Dec. 2nd, 2010 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrThe edges of images and stuff on my laptop keep flickering green and white. Obviously this is very disturbing as it may indicate that my laptop is broken. Fellow Homestuck fans will understand why it is particularly disturbing, especially since I noticed it late at night after finishing this very silly Mass Effect/Homestuck crossover manip (no spoilers for either).
Saw my brother today which was nice, even if it was the result of me cancelling and then feeling better but noone telling him I'd left a message about being sick in the first place.
Just finished "Luck in the Shadows" by Lynn Flewelling. It was indeed a very fun fantasy story, just the right mix of intrigue and drama and characterisation. I'd heard it was very slashy and was worried it wouldn't have any major female characters, and sure enough it is mostly the story of a bunch of white dudes but there's a few interesting female characters here and there (all white though, I think the closest you get to a non-white character is a "swarthy thug" near the start. Unless I missed something, I can be pretty unobservant about descriptions in books). I like the main characters enough to mostly overlook the fact they're all boys, though every now and then I imagined what an interesting story it would have been if Seregil (and possibly but not necessarily Alec) was a lady :D(*) And now of course I want the rest of the story and have to wait until I can get out to buy them.
(*)Shortly afterwards I was catching up on The less than epic adventures of TJ and Amal, whose just-about-dudes-li-ness doesn't bother me at all, probably because they are the ONLY characters. Plus the story would become less interesting if either of them was a girl.
Saw my brother today which was nice, even if it was the result of me cancelling and then feeling better but noone telling him I'd left a message about being sick in the first place.
Just finished "Luck in the Shadows" by Lynn Flewelling. It was indeed a very fun fantasy story, just the right mix of intrigue and drama and characterisation. I'd heard it was very slashy and was worried it wouldn't have any major female characters, and sure enough it is mostly the story of a bunch of white dudes but there's a few interesting female characters here and there (all white though, I think the closest you get to a non-white character is a "swarthy thug" near the start. Unless I missed something, I can be pretty unobservant about descriptions in books). I like the main characters enough to mostly overlook the fact they're all boys, though every now and then I imagined what an interesting story it would have been if Seregil (and possibly but not necessarily Alec) was a lady :D(*) And now of course I want the rest of the story and have to wait until I can get out to buy them.
(*)Shortly afterwards I was catching up on The less than epic adventures of TJ and Amal, whose just-about-dudes-li-ness doesn't bother me at all, probably because they are the ONLY characters. Plus the story would become less interesting if either of them was a girl.
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Date: 2010-12-03 03:10 am (UTC)(Also, the dynamic of Seregil's cross-dressing and the ship's captain would be altered in interesting ways...)
I think you're right about the all-whiteness, although given the climate they live in it may actually be plausible. (The solution to this is to not set fantasy stories in pseudo-European setting/climate. ANYWAY.) But it's been a while for me, too, and I tend to not notice physical descriptions either.
If you're comfortable reading digitally I do have an ebook version of book 2... Although of course if you like it def. buy it, I'm just saving you a trip. It's a public service.
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Date: 2010-12-03 03:46 am (UTC)Oh no :)
If you're comfortable reading digitally I do have an ebook version of book 2... Although of course if you like it def. buy it, I'm just saving you a trip. It's a public service.
YES PLEASE. And then I can tell my parents to buy me it for christmas!
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Date: 2010-12-03 03:58 am (UTC)I know. It would be dreadful.
Are there any 'genre' books with canon f/f romance? I haven't been following the trends in "profic" at all.
PS: http://random.fangirling.net/junk/Nightrunner.zip
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Date: 2010-12-04 09:18 am (UTC)There's "Ash" by Melinda Lo, an f/f retelling of Cindarella, which I believe I have reserved at the library. There's lots of short stories. There's various manga. Otherwise I can't off the top of my head think of any genre novels with a primary f/f relationship at their core. Lesbian romance novels are hard to find too, I'm sure they exist but m/m seems to be much more prevalent.
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