haven't quite found the secret to inner peace, I'll let you know when I do

[crankyoldman]

So I was at work for an hour before I decided to come home and work. Because I'm not playing the schedule game and because I'm still hacking up a lung. But thankfully this staying out of a cold office and sitting at a desk that has two monitors did help me feel better and get stuff done. Wahoo.

I have an excuse to make my Terra costume more detailed (and get a green wig, ha) since darcenciel wants to be Shadow and start up an FFVI group. I'm down with that. I may even get a prop sword out of the deal!

And awesomeness! They went with one of my themes suggested for fst! I suggested mentor characters, cause, yeah. This is me we're talking about. I have far too many mentor characters I adore, I may need some help picking when that comes around. XD This is basically silly, but at least that comm is picking up a little again and is full of less fail. I can't help it, I like music, and I like mixtapes. So.

I finished Beauty today as well, mainly because it's due back at the library soon, so I spend a little longer doing lunch break. It reminded me why my favorite moral was always "appearances can be deceiving" because yeah. If there was ever a childhood moral I clung to, it was that one. I guess that's why I'm so utterly and completely turned off when people redeem prettyboy villains--it just doesn't jive with that principle. And I'm nothing if not stubbornly principled. I guess this carries on with my trend of liking facially-scarred regretful types (and I mean UGLY scars) as they exist in a grey area between. It's food for thought at least. Not that heroes can't be pretty, I mean, I like Cecil (he's my favorite because he's flawed probably more than anyone would like to admit). But I have to wonder if less villains would get redeemed if less of them were pretty.

Maybe it's indicative of my own journey of principles. I'm all about balance now. I guess that means for me acknowledging that certain things exist side by side or something existential like that.

Book review to follow.

~Cendri

Comments

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

I don’t know Cecil made me fairly twitchy and my little brother so far on his play through so I’m sure other people find Cecil flawed. ;p

Skeletor from He-man is my most memorable potential villain redemption as he saved Christmas and all. He’s probably as distant from a pretty boy as a male character can get with a dash of backstabbing.

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

I haven't been following the FST comm in a while, so it's good to hear that they're picking up again. Maybe I should go poke around it. ^^;

I read Beauty a while ago and I don't remember much about it, but I did like it. Have you read her other Beauty and the Beast retelling, Rose Daughter? Apparently she wanted to re-re-imagine the story, and told it again. Like all her books, it's a bit strange and abstract, but I enjoyed that one (Robin McKinley is one of those authors who I will read no matter what she writes)

And I will totally make you an awesome cosplay sword for Terra.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

I'm mildly addicted to making FSTs, because I follow a lot of random music stuff, so... yeah. Only reason I kept up in that comm was because I really just wanted to see some stuff in there that was... different (I like jazz to hip-hop to noisepunk to folk to bluegrass to classic rock).

This was actually my first Robin McKinley book, but yeah. I'll totally read more. I like strange and abstract more than highly detailed and dragging, so it sounds like my kind of thing. XD

I am excited about this! I have a sword for my potential Cecil cosplay, but it wouldn't work for Terra, so. Plus it was just a hack from another really silly plastic sword that I made for a King Arthur skit back in the day (I've pretty much been a costumer since BIRTH). I have no elegant girly swords!

~Cendri

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

I really used to follow FST religiously for the same reason. I would download all the mixes that had new age/jazz/bossa nova/non-traditional stuff just so I could expand my music collection. I should start back up - I got some awesome music out of it.

When I finish the prop I'm working on at the moment and Shadow's helmet, I'll solicit some ideas from you about what you want your sword to look like. (or you can tell me now, but I won't get around to it till the fall probably XD)

[taekwonangel.livejournal.com]

...hahaha, I thought that mentor characters was a Cendri!post. I remeber looking at that poll option and tilting my head and thinking "well." ^_~

Beauty sounds intriguing, btw - thanks for the rec!