Various and sundry.

Books: I took a break from Martin (because he must be savored, dammit) and have been immersed in Lackey’s Brightly Burning. She’s done the tortured teenager who is omgspecial before, but Lavan is officially way cooler than Vanyel or Talia because he seems like one of her most well-drawn characters. And I only want to smack him half the time. Which is definitely an improvement over Vanyel, who I wanted to smack throughout his trilogy. That being said, I do want to smack Lavan’s Companion. She’s just… somewhat grating.

RPGs: I had this awesome meta-y thread idea that I started playing with on Saturday, and now the idea has spawned three distinct and different threads. Two of them are full of angst and great plot and character torture. But one of the players involved decided to introduce Legolas. Yes, that Legolas. And so I decided that I would keep introducing characters stolen liberally from deleterius who would keep popping up inconveniently and then getting killed. Only the serious writer and I are trying to figure out how we’re going to separate our serious story from Legolas because Legolas really isn’t fitting our grand plans. That being said, I still like the comic plot development of the random Mary Sues. The first one we killed was a half-elf, half-fairy. I’m thinking the second might be a modern-day girl who was bound for Middle Earth but wound up in that thread instead. I also have plans to introduce Saphira Potter-Snape, (the really bad crossover Sue) and the daughter of Lord Voldemort and Sauron (the even worse crossover Sue that involves mpreg.) There should also be an anime-inspired sue, but someone else will have to write that post up for me I’d actually really take any suggestions for that thread.

I had more to say, but I think it’ll wait until morning.