so, her being involved somehow on the show might be why it worked so well.

any ideas when S2 will be released?

oooh, awesome *makes note*

yea yea yea that's what i used to do. anything not on netflix i would pirate. but in the last couple years i've been able to afford more so i figure it was time to start paying up lol.

I want to read more Atwood too, but I'm staying far away from Handmaid as I'm sure I will not like the themes.

I read Surfacing and Oryx and Crake in college and Uni. (Neuromancer as well (lit degrees are great!).

I'm making myself a tiny list as well, just one book a month. The Princess Diarist will also be in there. My mom got me the memoir on Gordie Howe for Christmas, so I want to read that as well.

Maybe I should just make a list of books.

I wanna read Neuromancer because one of my favorite books is Snow Crash from Neal Stephenson and I know cyberpunk doesn't exist probably without Nueormancer. -_- I feel like that's one I should have read a long time ago.

Handmaid's Tale was hard to read at points because of how real it felt to me, but I'm a radical feminist so I might have a different perspective on the subject matter than most people. uwu

Liberal Feminist here, and I fully expect the story to make me angry and annoyed, so just not going there. I don't like to be sour with books I'm reading for leisure.

Apparently, Gibson went to see Blade Runner in theater when he was writing Neuromancer and it looked so much like the world inside his head he had to leave the theater.

You'd have to add Phillip K. Dick in there if you want to talk cyberpunk. I'm interested in the genre but haven't actually read too much into it. We read Neuromancer in my Literature and Popular Culture course in the section on cyberpunk, as inspiration for things like The Matrix

woooow. that's interesting about Gibson and Blade Runner. I haven't ready anything by Phillip K Dick, but there are a couple that I am aware are majorly majorly MAJORLY important to the genre. I fell in love with cyberpunk because anime lol.

i own the first Bladerunner.... and i've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, too. i still need to see the new Bladerunner movie. =)

and i've read the Man in the High Castle - and am ready for S3 of that show too!

I'm looking forward to seeing the new Blade Runner, I've only heard good things about it. I'm sure boyfriend will rent it as it's available on the playstation network lol.

Do you know which Blade Runner version you saw, trystan? There appears to be a big divide over which version is superior: the theatrical cut or the director's cut (the unicorn scene being a big topic I think). I've only seen the director's cut. I picked up the "Final Cut" on blu-ray for cheap a bit back, but I'm not sure which version it has, or if it's a new edit. I know people were griping that it didn't have the theatrical release on it.


Man in the High Castle is sitting on my shelf as well. ;).

What go me about P.K. Dick was the stuff I knew that was his. Blade Runner, plus Total Recall and Minority Report were based on his stuff. Memory was apparently a thing for him. His episode of Prophets of Science Fiction was interesting. If I could get the whole series on DVD or something, I'd buy it. I think there's only maybe one season.

Updated my reading challenge! One book per month, and half of them must from my shelf. And no, I cannot read two books in January and say I'm done until March. those just go in the bonus reading pile. ;)

I've seen two versions of Blade Runner. I MUCH prefer the director's cut, but I also saw the theatrical release version. We really don't need the cheesy voice overs stuff I'm so glad that was removed from the film. -_- I haven't seen any other versions, but from what I've read online the differences are small.

hmm... i know i saw the theatrical version. but i also have the director's cut, and i may have seen that too. my DVDs have like 3 or 4 versions. XD

and while i've seen Total Recall and Minority Report, i haven't read the source material for them.

Minority Report is another of those things where I didn't like the themes I was seeing in the trailer, so I didn't watch the movie. I've seen Total Recall with Arnie a few times though, but not the remake. I was surprised because I didn't know those were based off of anything. I think they were short stories. Not sure.

Speaking of stories to film, I have a request in with the local used bookstore to flag me if they ever get a copy of The Hellbound Heart. It's proving elusive still. My whole regional library doesn't have a copy anywhere, but I keep checking.

there's a remake of Total Recall?? yeesh.

pretty sure i read Hellbound Heart ages ago (like, in the 90s when it new XD.... and after i'd seen 2 of the Hellraiser movies XD

I read The Scarlet Gospels this year and I liked Barker's writing so I'm looking into more of his stuff.

I am joining the Reading Challenge:

Goal: 60 books
Progress: 10

welcome to the challenge, Moonshadow!!

Thanks Trystan!
I can't find the Usable Tab on my inventory. Did something happen to it?
Where did it go?

Thanks Mekatra. I will do that.

cool Mekatra!

if it's the firecrackers, i found them in my Accessories tab.

But aren't you supposed to "open" them by clicking the Usable tab?

I thought so, and for some reason I lost my usable tab.
I know I had it because I would use it to open the anka eggs.

No I'm in the regular avi place.

yeah, i thought they were in the Useable tab too.. i dunno

Well I messaged Toho, hopefully he can help me figure it out.

I was wondering if there was a way to use just the firecracker. Found it there.

Usable tab might be a bit tweaky. I suddenly have an item in there that doesn't belong.

yeah, i think the usable tab and the fireworks are a little glitchy?

i mean, i read paranormal romance, that's what Sherrilyn Kenyon writes... but i also like a plot, too.

Ah yes...paranormal romance. I used to like Laurell K. Hamilton's two main paranormal romance series (not sure if she has more, I just know of the Anita Blake and Meredith Gentry ones) they were okay, but I kind of hated how in the Anita series, Anita starts off all bad-ass, no compromising, powerful woman, and through the course of the series kind of becomes an out of control sex fiend (admittedly, I haven't read past Skin Trade), but she used to be sort of the kind of person who didn't make mistakes or who at least would take responsibility for her actions, but then at some point just get all "sorry, vampire thrall, were-animal hormones, can't control it!" excuses all the time.
And maybe I'm just ranty over nothing; maybe the books really don't come across that way and I'm just reading too much into it, but it feels like the books became less about Anita and her necromancy and life specifically and became more like "let's see how many times she can have sex in 300 pages".

ah, yes, LKHamilton. i read Anita and Merry religiously. i've read all of both of them, with the exception of the most recent Anita - Crimson Death (it came out in October of 2016 (thanks wiki!)). it's #25. and yes it did get to be "let's see how many times she can have sex in 300 pages" and not much plot.

my understanding of it (along with some of LKH's blog posts that i'm remembering) was that some time ago, her publisher basically said that her characters were a bit tooo much erotic (? maybe. something like that) - so.... LKH introduced a plot device that needed sex to work (the ardeur) and that's what she continued to write from that point onwards.... so i don't think it's just you, Kaderin.

the biggest reason i didn't read Crimson Death was that it's a HUGE hardback book. the other reason was that out of the 720 pages (thanks Amazon!), about only 100 of them would probably be plot. now, i'm okay with a smutty novel or two, but -- and like with Kenyon also -- i'm starting to want more diversity with my plots to be honest.

Kenyon's novels aren't all that smutty, but she keeps using the same formula ad nauseum... but i still keep reading 'em. XD

I mean, honestly, I'm not really big into smutty stories. I liked the Anita ones because the first few actually had a really good plot and a potential for some really good relationship conflict with Jean Claude. But the smuttier it got, the less excited about the next books I would get. I kept hoping they would get better, but they never did.

I never kept up with the Merry ones really, they also (if I recall) were very much smut based, but I recall there being initially a decent plot? I don't really remember the ones I read very well since it was just maybe 2 or 3 of them and many years ago.
I did get into Kresley Cole for a while (again in high school), and those were kind of fun. Again with smutty, but the plots weren't terrible for being quick little romances and they did have characters that definitely were referenced and made cameos throughout the series.

the Merry ones were originally based on Merry having an heir, and bringing back magick to the faerie mounds, which was all sex-based. for some reason, that storyline didn't get draggy like the Anita series did for me.

Yeah that's what it was!
I mean, lots of sex in an attempt to conceive an heir is at least a plausible reason for excessive smut. It's pretty simple and not really that imaginative, but at least it's kind of a good excuse?

I do like the Kushiel's Dart series by Jacqueline Carey because, while there is some light smut/sex (frequently with decently written s&m), it also has a lot of conflict and political intrigue and an actual plot. I've only gotten through the first 2 books though just because I keep forgetting to look for the next one when I'm at a book store.