Chade is one of those really irritating people who is incredibly nice, generous, kind and all sorts of other adjectives that sound far too generic to do justice to how lovely he is.
2nd attempt at the Malazan books has gotten me into them. Finding them quite a slow grind, which is odd for me as I usually destroy books in a matter of hours, but not in the soul-destroying way that I did last time.
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If I can have a bow/sniper rifle, I generally have a bow/sniper rifle (unless archery is rubbish like with Dragon Age). I pretty much always use sneak skills.
I'll be away from tomorrow until Sunday, playing amongst other things a 19th century railroad navvy and a Spanish demonologist. As you do. You know. On a weekend.
Dragon Age 2, continuing my playthrough to prepare save games for Inquisition (soexcitedomg) - and Skyrim, because the DLCs I didn't have came up in the Steam sale. Playing through with magic this time which I haven't done before and it's very cool …
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I started writing a Star Trek aetherspace spoof and never finished. It was a very long time ago (I know this because it's so old it has Krellan in).
I'm currently working my way through the Dresden Files for the first time (no, I'm not sure how I hadn't read it either, I love the Codex Alera). You can definitely tell that his writing gets more practised as you go through. They're fun reads, but …
It was after her emotions came back with the Red Star stuff, and Tacita started writing Synkarin letters, when his replies basically told her to go the hell away/that he didn't love her/that she was being stupid/etc.
Tacita hates Synkarin with the fury of a thousand blazing suns and views what he's done to her as a betrayal comparable with Xynthin's. And I don't mean the part where Synkarin left Nocht - the worse part came after. Of course she spends most of her…
I went to the hospital today and they are referring me to the department that can give me the treatment I need, plus giving me really good support in the time between now and the referral coming through in Real World RavesComment by TacitaJune 2014
So "The presence of your Deity's avatar soothes you." is boring, and makes no sense if you're the avatar in question (finding my own presence soothing is a little too narcissistic even for me).
Daraius's tea shop is now my favourite place, and I cannot believe it took me this long to go there. That is precisely the sort of shopkeeping I adore.
Honesty is a terrifying thing, but it is also an incredibly powerful gateway to understanding, solidarity and freedom from the prison of one's own thoughts.
Last week I was on the verge of checking myself into hospital because m…