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Been a great couple of weeks to be a Neil Gaiman fan, that's for sure.

So, MirrorMask! quantum_witch and I went out to see this yesterday with our menfolks.

It's about as beautiful as films get, for one thing. I can't remember the last time I've walked away from a film so dazzled by such an intense universe that is so utterly itself, like no other place I have any frame of reference for, and so completely real in its surreality. Maybe City of Lost Children. (which it reminded me of in some ways)

( More general lovestruck babbling )

I'm also almost finished with Anansi Boys and I am thoroughly loving it. It's certainly funnier than American Gods and a whole lot lighter...but I'm not convinced at all that it's less deep. A lot of the intensity of it is in what one might call the "throwaways"...and yet, they are so not. It's a much "smaller" story of course. With different priorities...actually the more I think about it, the less sense it seems to make to compare them at all!

( Two things about it that have me all a-ponder )

Aaaaand....it won't be long before the only two-week-old Good Omens Library gets its 100th story uploaded. It's currently at 93* Over at the forums I proposed doing something fun for that momentous occasion.

ETR: (edited to rec) Speaking of American Gods, a fantastic gen fic that isn't getting nearly the feedback it deserves: Confidence Men, by xylodemon. Wednesday and Loki, "Life, liberty, and the art of the two-man con."


*(li'l shoutout to David Tibet and a certain kind of music-geeks and the Thelemites in da houze)

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Been a great couple of weeks to be a Neil Gaiman fan, that's for sure.

So, MirrorMask! quantum_witch and I went out to see this yesterday with our menfolks.

It's about as beautiful as films get, for one thing. I can't remember the last time I've walked away from a film so dazzled by such an intense universe that is so utterly itself, like no other place I have any frame of reference for, and so completely real in its surreality. Maybe City of Lost Children. (which it reminded me of in some ways)

( More general lovestruck babbling )

I'm also almost finished with Anansi Boys and I am thoroughly loving it. It's certainly funnier than American Gods and a whole lot lighter...but I'm not convinced at all that it's less deep. A lot of the intensity of it is in what one might call the "throwaways"...and yet, they are so not. It's a much "smaller" story of course. With different priorities...actually the more I think about it, the less sense it seems to make to compare them at all!

( Two things about it that have me all a-ponder )

Aaaaand....it won't be long before the only two-week-old Good Omens Library gets its 100th story uploaded. It's currently at 93* Over at the forums I proposed doing something fun for that momentous occasion.

ETR: (edited to rec) Speaking of American Gods, a fantastic gen fic that isn't getting nearly the feedback it deserves: Confidence Men, by xylodemon. Wednesday and Loki, "Life, liberty, and the art of the two-man con."


*(li'l shoutout to David Tibet and a certain kind of music-geeks and the Thelemites in da houze)