plenilune replied to your photo: And loooook what else I finally caved and bought!…
MARI EH
Yes yes, my formative influences are showing. What can I say, I’ve liked the name for ages and it’s easiest to have sort of a bank of RPG names to draw from…which I don’t really, but I’m working on that, and Mari is apparently becoming my go-to name for non-fantasy RPGs. Like, Maris was my main Baldur’s Gate character (then Sheyra when I played the first game…which was basically a more pronounceable version of Xeyra, the name I gave my D&D character) and I’ve used that elsewhere, but somehow it didn’t feel right for SF, so when I made my Fallout 1 character, I named her Mari. And then I gave my Fallout 3 character the same name. And my Commander Shepard, for that matter, although you wouldn’t know it since it’s under one of Calli’s standard character names, actually. But, y’know, that’s her real name (which…I sort of only just decided. But it fits). Also what she’ll be for ME2 and ME3. And then the smuggler was the first SWTOR character I made, so I had to pick a name, and again Maris really didn’t feel right, and neither did the randomized names I was getting…and then I remembered oh hey, Mari, and it…felt right, idk.
tl;dr I am predictable.
r-cycle asked: What are your top 3 favorite books and why? They can be books that you enjoy based on literary merit or as just plain fun. (or any other reason at all) :3
Okay so, I am a ridiculous person because I’m all PLEASE TALK TO ME and then you do and I let it sit here for ages, but my excuse is that I’ve been thinking about this the whole time. IT’S A HARD QUESTION OKAY. Like, everywhere I’ve mentioned favorite books in my profiles, I list favorite authors instead, because that’s a little easier. And then of course any time there’s something like this I get all WHAT ARE MY FAVORITES OF ALL TIME EVER I DON’T KNOW WHAT IF I FORGET SOMETHING OR PICK THE WRONG ONES which…is pretty ridiculous because it’s not like I’ll suddenly have all my other books taken away from me (WAIT WHAT IF IT IS this is why I can never do “deserted island” lists unless they’re…long and comprehensive). And then there’s the fact that for various reasons I haven’t been doing a lot of reading lately…and my lists of favorite books and formative books would probably have a lot of overlap but not be identical…but ANYWAY.
Off the top of my head, I’m gonna say…Sarah Rees Brennan’s The Demon’s Surrender (because ALANNNN but the first two in the trilogy are pretty marvelous too, and you definitely want to start with The Demon’s Lexicon), Diana Wynne Jones’ Dark Lord of Derkholm (introduced me to her books, made me laugh all the way through while still telling a gripping adventure with some really touching family stuff, and left me with a big stupid grin when I finished…which is kind of my mark of a favorite in general, come to think of it), and…Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks (basically perfect urban fantasy). Given that those are all fantasy YA, it should probably tell you a lot about my tastes. >_<
Wait but Robin Mckinley’s Sunshine should be there too (favorite vampire book, fantastic worldbuilding and narrator voice)! And…something sci-fi because I really like sci-fi too! Possibly Joan Vinge’s Catspaw even though it was 1) a recent discovery and 2) weirdly depressing in parts (Emma Bull’s Falcon was another recentish awesome discovery), or Kathy Tyers’ Firebird trilogy because it got me into SF in the first place and kicked off my obsession with telepathy and made me realize that while I still found straight-up no-other-story-except-the-romance books deadly boring I really did like romance as a major plot element as long as it wasn’t the emphasis! And probably something a little more Literary except I’m a bad English grad already as far as my preferences go so whatever. (Have I mentioned—and I ask this rhetorically/ironically/something because I know I mention it all the time—that my master’s thesis was only a little on Dracula and a lot on Twilight? Because it was. I’ve also written, or attempted to write, about fanfic as reader-response theory given concrete form, the importance of content warnings in fic headers, and female gamers. Unfortunately none of those were very good because they ended up only partly being about what I wanted to write about. In general I really like taking an academic approach to pop-culture stuff, I guess—for instance, I get a huge kick out of referring to a particular game, or really anything that wouldn’t traditionally be analyzed and treated as such, as a “text.” So…I’m an academic nerd who’s burned out on school and hates writing papers but is still interested in some of this stuff and doesn’t actually like most of the classics and whatever that I was supposed to read and like during my bachelor’s and master’s. idek.)
