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Um...chose that icon because, uh...Winter is Coming?

Anyway, I finished book 5.  I'm caught up now!  The internet and its rampant spoilers in unexpected places can't hurt me anymore.

Speaking of spoilers, here is a cut:

( Thoughts about the book, the series, and some things I need to get out )

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If anyone is wondering, I did not lapse during the March Media Blackout, except when I accidentally bought Feast for Crows.

But I didn't watch Community.  And now I get to catch up.  But this is not about Community, this is about S2 of Game of Thrones.

Okay so season 2 rolls around and suddenly I'm a fancy-pants who's read the books through very-nearly-the-end-of Feast for Crows and now I'm some kind of sassy authority.  But seriously, all I've done in March was read A Song of Ice and Fire and then I got older and Ian gave me Skyrim and so then it was SOIAF *AND* Skyrim.  Goddamn swords everywhere.  Swords when I sleep.  Also fire.

Also in the spirit of GoT/SOIAF, I had a glass of mead when I watched the episode.  Which I finished 6 mins ago.  JUST ONE TINY GLASS.  From the bottle that I opened that was a housewarming gift to Ian like 8 years ago or something.

ANYWAY (Jesus), here is a pretty much instantaneous reaction to the first ep.  I will NOT spoil anything for the books, beyond where the story currently has us.  And when I do it will be to pout about like, inconsequential changes.  That is the warning.

( Thank God It Wasn't Chevov's Axe )
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Title: The One
Artist: Elton John
Source: Rocky I, II, III, IV
Summary: Like freedom feels...
Warnings: Graphic sporting violence (boxing), major spoilers for all films.

Download link: http://www.joyovids.com/media/video/Joyo-The_One-480p.m4v (97MB)

Streaming:

password: freedom

Big thanks to  absolutedestiny  for formal beta-ing, and massive tech support. Additional thanks to greensilver and fan_eunice for massive cheerleading and VITAL SISABET PSYCHE-PENETRATION advice.

Alternative summary: A gentleman punches another gentleman with an unusual amount of skill. The other gentleman then helps the first to punch different gentlemen with more efficiency, and then the original gentleman returns the favor. They hug a lot.


( Lyrics )



( Background, explanation, confessions )


( Trivia for Sisabet )


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Sorry if you've already seen this on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter (or all 3) but this is the most exciting thing that's happened to me since we got back from the states:

Fate of the World was mentioned on a "green games" segment on Fox and Friends: http://bit.ly/pteiAR

For the record, they contacted us for a quote about the segment.

We knew damn well how it was going to go down, although the "ruining childhood for five-year-olds" angle was unexpected, as was the SUPERIOR punchability of the professional Radio Presenter/Parent. Still, to be officially declared as a cog in the mechanic of the "liberal agenda" is an HONOUR and a PRIVELEGE.

And, you know, if people, say, like Rachel Maddow and think maybe she'll think that's a cool thing and you like, tweeted/emailed her as such, then...

omigod my brain cannot even process how amazing that world would be. If...omg.

I'm sorry I cannot be punchier with this entry. I am so nearly asleep.



...that said, who the hell goes after Sim Society? Really? Is that? REALLY?

It's not just that Sandy Herrold's influence on fans and fandom is unquestionable.  It's that it's unquestionably *excellent*.  I mean, just look at this:  http://fanlore.org/wiki/Sandy_Herrold#Remembrances

She touched so many people in such profound ways...before I was even *born*.

I was looking forward to finally seeing more of her, and I can't help but feel cheated that I will never get the chance to know her better than my first (dazed and hopelessly n00b-tranced) Vividcon.  Her feedback was...honestly it's the only feedback I can still clearly remember. 

Personally, I will never know her any better than as the woman who boldly stated "This vid made me cry, but did not earn my tears" in Vividcon Vid Review in 2009.  But I will not forget that moment.  Because when you hear something like that, it is something that you *remember*.  You take it with you, and it challenges you to demand more from media as a viewer, and more from yourself as a creator.

And she was (hell, *is*) so important to people who are very dear to me.  So frankly, if they credit her with even an ounce of the brilliant, lovely beings they are today, I have to consider myself lucky just to have entered her orbit.

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( Here be spoilers )
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I haven't posted in like months

Whatever, not the point, the point is that  ^  That up there^  In the title.

What.

( I have an opinion. That opinion as spoilers. And swears )

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Here is a rundown of the last four weeks:

1. I have experienced "Crunch" It was not as bad as coder crunch, but even *observing* coder crunch made me extra-:( so...let's just nevermind. 60-80 hrs/week sitting in front of a screen trying not to scream at people/be screamed at/not witness screaming and occasionally (frequently?) failing = HUMAN WRECKAGE.

2. I was "rescued" early from crunch by a trip to AMERICA to publicize GAME. East coast, then LA and San Francisco. I got on the plane physically *destroyed*. My rsi flared up in basically my whole right arm, my back and shoulders were one massive consistent knot with a couple trapped nerves and generally moving was ill-advised. Which was good prep for experiencing the first time in my life why a massage can be *therapeutic*. Holy damn, y'all. $25 bucks and she *fixed me*. And then I went to a real live Hollywood workout class with our LA host. And I couldn't move for the next two days but oh my god I had my full range of motion back for the first time in *months*. Still have trapped nerves, though, and my head seems to prefer angling itself downwards, so need to see osteopath about that. That knee thing which is most definitely not going to turn out to be rheumatoid artritis is flaring up but then...it's *always* flaring up. I need to keep active. I need to be more grateful for having a body that is capable of feeling mostly okay (stomach, you bastard, you are not included), while I, you know, still have a body that is capable of feeling mostly okay.


3. On that pleasant if cryptic note I AM OLD soon. Wednesday. 27. Jesus. I think instead of pretending I'll made ups omething awesome to do between now and then, Ian and I will just clean the livingroom so we can have friends around again.

No...no, really. No one is coming into this house until that happens. Trust me.

4. How is the game doing, you ask? Well, it got launched. Beyond that...I shall be cryptic again. I'm really really touched by our fans, though. They kind of love us just by virtue of the fact that we exist and some of them seem to just *will* us to succeed no matter if we made some pretty big mistakes. I think we're finally reaching out to them "properly" (if you compare to like, Cliffski and Jonathan Blow and such). All this time it feels like we've been chipping away in isolation, and some of that has been self-inflicted but damn. When people love what you've done it's kind of *amazing*.

It's the only part of the industry that one could find "uplifting", I think. This should be nurtered. Seriously. I love our fans.

*EDIT* Swapped out "shocking mistakes" for "big mistakes". Poor word choice. There was nothing particularly shocking about them. I need to chose words more carefully.