fandom miscellanea
Aug. 21st, 2011 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat1138Having another one of my periodic splurges of editing single-fandom wikis (Okami and Temeraire), possibly as avoidance of my continued slogthrough of ASOIAF from the start. IIRC I started this series re-read in late May or early June, but hadn't gotten through more than halfway through ASOS before receiving and reading ADWD (which took ~3-4 days?). After that, I continued dragging my way through ASOS and AFFC before finally getting back to ADWD last week or two.
I would love to see Temeraire's reaction to the way Dany treats her dragons in Meereen.
Started a replay of Okami a few nights ago but haven't gotten back to it-- I accidentally skipped parts of some of the early cutscenes, and it's been long enough since I last played the game that I'd kinda like to go back and start over. On the other hand, the early cutscenes are so long that a restart would probably take an hour or so to return to the minimal gameplay progress of my save point.
Edited to add abject squee-- I was just reading up on details for the RK OVA Blu-rays that I just pre-ordered, and they're going to include Japanese-language subtitles. Not that I can read kanji (or even kana) fast enough to follow them in real time, but it's the principle of the thing. Besides, it might also help clear up some longstanding questions. (Probably not about why Tomoe dashes out of the Otsu house in the middle of the night, but hey.) There's also going to be a small-scale theatrical screening of the first OVA (in subbed format!) up in SF Japanrown next weekend. Not sure if I can cajole the wombat-consort into going to see it, but if not, I suspect I'll trek up there on my own.
Re-edit-- I suddenly realized something yesterday about GRRM's "Others", the eldritch ice zombies north of the Wall. They randomly leap onto people, tear them apart, and chew on their heads. They're also pale, with piercing blue eyes and dark hands and feet.
The Others are Siamese cats.
I would love to see Temeraire's reaction to the way Dany treats her dragons in Meereen.
Started a replay of Okami a few nights ago but haven't gotten back to it-- I accidentally skipped parts of some of the early cutscenes, and it's been long enough since I last played the game that I'd kinda like to go back and start over. On the other hand, the early cutscenes are so long that a restart would probably take an hour or so to return to the minimal gameplay progress of my save point.
Edited to add abject squee-- I was just reading up on details for the RK OVA Blu-rays that I just pre-ordered, and they're going to include Japanese-language subtitles. Not that I can read kanji (or even kana) fast enough to follow them in real time, but it's the principle of the thing. Besides, it might also help clear up some longstanding questions. (Probably not about why Tomoe dashes out of the Otsu house in the middle of the night, but hey.) There's also going to be a small-scale theatrical screening of the first OVA (in subbed format!) up in SF Japanrown next weekend. Not sure if I can cajole the wombat-consort into going to see it, but if not, I suspect I'll trek up there on my own.
Re-edit-- I suddenly realized something yesterday about GRRM's "Others", the eldritch ice zombies north of the Wall. They randomly leap onto people, tear them apart, and chew on their heads. They're also pale, with piercing blue eyes and dark hands and feet.
The Others are Siamese cats.