Dwarves, elves, no trolls
Stupid Internet. I'm reading Heretics of Dune, right, and because the Master Tylwyth Waff of the Bene Tleilax is described as being only a meter and a half tall, I go to look up on tvtropes.org if there's anything about why dwarves are always evil...
...an hour and a half later I find myself looking up Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic on Amazon.com, having read the TVTropes articles on Elves vs. Dwarves and the Fair Folk a.k.a. evil fairies, read the Wikipedia entry on Tam Lin, written a review on E.M. Pope's The Perilous Gard (I LOVE that book), and read Gaiman's version of Snow White where the stepmother queen is a good witch and Snowy is a vampire (white skin and blood-red lips, mah). *groan*
Anyway...I'm going off to wash dishes and play with the Dremel tool Steve gave me for Christmas. Yay new toy!
Labels: fantasy
posted by xenobiologista @ 22:06
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Vicky called me to taunt me about the Amazon Kindle this morning... "wouldn't your commute have been better if you were reading the Post on a Kindle?" She knows I'm hauling around a 6lb book of short stories.
Amazon sold out of the Kindle in short time. Apparently she was thinking of getting me a Kindle this year, and would like me to get her either a Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle for Valentine's Day. (hint hint) :)
Dremels are great gifts! When you have a dremel, you start finding creative ways to use it. I stripped the head off a screw a few months ago, so I attached a sanding disk, Dremeled a slot into the damaged head, and backed it out with a screwdriver.
Dremeling my name into all my equipment and network gear is also great fun! The various needle heads allow for some real precision work.
"Snow White, Blood Red" and "Black Thorn, White Rose" are two great anthologies if you're looking for alternative fairy tales. The stepmother as a good witch while Snow White as a vampire has been told many times over. The less-than-demure fairy tale damsels are equally amusing, although Vicky didn't care for the idea in Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things" (more short stories). Gaiman's take on Lucy from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia is worth the read.
Wow, that Snow White take was pretty intense. Gaiman is such a nice guy IRL, sometimes I forget how twisted his imagination can be.
Ha...Gaiman lives in the same state I'm studying in, but I've never seen him. Shall have to keep an eye out for book signings or readings and whatnot.
I just reread Brief Lives (Sandman book 7) which I bought for Yue-Yi, so I'm quite aware of how twisted it is.
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