May I introduce you to Rommie?

[zhadrani]

I am posting from my lovely special awesome new laptop, an ASUS K50 series beauty whom I have optimistically named the Andromeda Ascendant, AKA Rommie!

Her only flaws are that she runs Vista (GRRRR!) and that her glossy glossy exterior shows fingerprints if you even think about touching her. But these things are not her fault, precious, no they aren't, and I forgive her, and anyway she comes with a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out in October, and I devoutly hope it will improve on Vista (GRRRRR!).

Also that she was advertised at $499.99, which actually came out to around $720, when including tax, a two-year warrantee, and an upgrade to 4GB memory instead of 3GB.

But I haz a battery that lasts more than 2 minutes! And a screen without fritzed-out lines running through it! And a power-cord connection that does not capriciously shift to my 2 min. battery if you breathe on it wrong and was steadily deteriorating and had already been fixed for this very same problem once and which would not be fixed again!! YAAAAAAY!

In other news, I finally read 2 things that I have been meaning to read for ages and were just as completely awesome as I had been anticipating, or really, even more awesome.

These were

1) Sarah Rees' Brennan's Demon's Lexicon. Ive been following her LJ for years, all through back through her top-notch HP fanfic, so I was utterly confident that I would love her novel, and I did, but I didn't expect to love her characters and her plot twists as much as I did, even though I know she hard-core rocks on characterization and development, and I had been stringently warned about the hard-core awesome of the plot twist. But DAMN! :DDD Highly, highly recommended. Even if, uh, the American cover is pretty wince-worthy. Man, I wish we could've even had the UK cover, or best of all, the Japanese cover, which was done by Hiromu Arakawa, YES the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist! OMG that cover is awesome.

2) Naomi Novak's Temeraire series. OMG. I cannot even articulate how much I loved this series. I bought them on a whim, since I had been meaning to read them for forever, but it was a powerful whim, seeing as how I never ever buy books without having read them first. (I, uh, read Demon's Lexicon all the way through in the bookstore, and then promptly bought it and took it home and read it again. XD)

The world-building in Temeraire is incredible (I love the views of the different cultures and how they each think of and treat dragons differently), and the characters entirely lovable. <3333 Laurence, Temeraire, Granby, Tharkay, Jane, Iskierka, Roland, so many more. (Also Laurence/Granby/Tharkay OTP, and Laurence+Temeraire gen OTP FTW!) I also love how there's really no magic at all, it's just like, hm, what would the Napoleonic War have been like if people had tamed dragons and had been using them in aerial warfare for centuries? It's like a naval adventure story! BUT WITH A DRACONIC AIR FORCE KJDSO:"ADk

As for fandom, the newest-new SPN S5 promo, the one with the music and the awesome, you know which one I'm talking about, SPN-people, has completely blown my mind, and I think for the first time I'm actually anxiously awaiting the new season. Before I was pretty much mellow, it'll start when it starts and it will be epic, but now it's like OMG IT'S STARTING SOON AND IT WILL BE EPIIIIIC. XD

I've also realized that I do not actually dislike Anna, after a serious case of "the lady doth protest too much." I think I just really didn't like 4x10. The ridiculous grace thing and the ridiculous sex in the Impala thing didn't help. But I actually liked her quite a bit in 4x09, and every time after that was colored by my dislike of 4x10, while now that I look at them on their own I do actually like her.

Just, y'know, not with Dean. At all. Really. No chemistry, seriously! I rather like her running about being one of the rogue good-angels helping the boys and being a big sister with way more human-experience to Castiel.

As for One Piece 554...well, the fight is certainly shaping up to be epic, I grant you, but I think I will be better able to tolerate a chapter almost entirely filled with two-page spreads introducing the awesome powers of secondary characters once the arc is done and I can read it altogether as a whole, when I'm not tearing my hair out over THREE WEEKS WITHOUT A GLIMPSE OF ACE OR LUFFY. Good God, man, I'm not that strong, really!

Also, I think this is probably an unpopular opinion in OP fandom atmo, but I don't really like that Marco is a phoenix Zoan. (wince) I was frowning a little when it first came out that he was engulfed in blue flames, but now? When he's basically a blue-flame Fire Logia that is even more special than an ordinary (Ha!) Logia because he can turn into a legendary bird and maybe-possibly-don't-know-yet be reborn like his animal?...Yeah, Marco, sorry, I do like you, but Ace was the only fire-elemental that I wanted. (Lava is different, yes it is shut up.) I feel like his power is kind of a cheap way to get around OP's established universe law that no two fruits with the same power exist at the same time. It's just, it's too similar, damn it. I don't care if it opens up possibilities for AcexMarco elemental sexxings, AcexSmoker is my elemental OTP, anyway.

Well, I'm not actually as totally cheesed off about it as I sound, I guess I just have to put my faith in Oda like always, he hasn't steered me wrong yet. XD.

Comments

[thisistony.livejournal.com]

I think Marco's power if full of lulz. Everytime I see him, I hear "KRAW KRAW" in my head and lulz for EVER.