sick9. I am also getting ready to do a few more Parasite giveaways. I'm very conflicted. On the one hand, I like the ease of "comment and RNG" giveaways, but on the other hand, I really appreciate it when people put out a little bit more effort, since I have to do a lot of effort on my end, and then I feel like I get to have fun too. I'm still deliberating.
8. Since a few people have asked recently: the tip jar is currently closed, but will be opening on October 1st, since I figure that once every six months is a good way of doing things. I'll make a post clearly stating the situation and what your tips will do when we get to next Tuesday.
7. No, funding a second "season" of Velveteen vs. is not currently on the table. I may be doing something else about that. We shall see.
6. Ryan and Amy are visiting! Ryan and Amy are incredibly tolerant humans who understand that time and deadlines wait for no house guest, and thus allow me to retreat into my room and actually get stuff done while they amuse themselves. Best Amy and Ryan are best. Also...
5. I remain too sick to die, although I'm breathing a little better, so a lot of "company" thus far has consisted of "I want soup no not that soup different soup oh gods above and below why is air so hard?" and whining piteously. I hate the human body sometimes.
4. I am super excited about Frozen, but am amused by the fact that—thanks to the current trend of "gender neutral, non-evocative, mentioning no characters, single word" titles—it's hard to sort news about the movie from news about a remarkably wide assortment of books. Disney, perhaps it is time to reconsider your titles...
3. ...says the girl who wrote Feed.
2. Jean Grey is currently not dead and my mother refuses to come into the comic book store because she's afraid I'm going to develop telekinetic powers and burn the place to the ground.
1. Zombies are love.
September 24 2013, 13:58:37 UTC 3 years ago
While I appreciate the whole Jean Grey/Phoenix conundrum ("Is she or isn't she?"), I vastly prefer one version of the answer over the other. I like the whole coming back to life shtick -- to paraphrase a quote from George R.R. Martin's superhero anthology, _Wild Cards_ "It's the death and resurrection show." But I'm partial to the theory that Jean is just so screwed up that the Phoenix is a manifestation of her multiple personality/repressed unconsciousness. In short, yeah, she keeps killing herself, then bringing herself back to life. There is no cosmic entity running the show -- just a really #%#! up Jean Grey.
Strangely enough, when I offered this decades as a player character concept in an "Aberrant" (by White Wolf) superhuman game, the Storyteller felt that playing a beyond-Omega-level mutant might be unbalancing to the campaign. Not beyond the scope of the character creation rules (you must have seen the Players Guide to appreciate this), just...game unbalancing. That's sort of how certain writers and readers feel about every time the Phoenix shows up yet again as a deus ex machina (easy way to solve all the plot problems).
:) :) :)
October 4 2013, 17:02:40 UTC 3 years ago
They need to leave her the fuck alone.