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THIS IS MY NEW SHOWER CURTAIN.



NOW I WILL NEVER GET LOST WHEN TAKING THE EL FROM MY BATHROOM.

It is without a doubt the most awesome thing in my bathroom, possibly in my entire apartment.

Shut up, trains are cool.

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[brightly-woven.livejournal.com]

You can play Mornington Crescent NAKED and wet.

Wow.

[brightly-woven.livejournal.com]

I was going to write more filk, but after using the word naked, I could then not write a ditty about Sam the Magic Unicorn.

Just...no.

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

Are we gonna start a giant game of Mornington Crescent in the comments? oh please. I wanna take the red line first to stop at Tar Valon...

[euruaina.livejournal.com]

Do I spot a fellow WOTer? (I just *finally* finished Gathering Storm.) XD

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

ME TOO. I didn't read it for the longest time because I was so let down by the last four books.

[jme1374.livejournal.com]

THIS. Now I'm trying to decide if it's worth going back and rereading from the beginning, as it's probably been 15 years since I read book 1.

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

man the new book was excellent. I loved it. I hadn't read any in about 5 years and I fell right back in. But then again I did intense WoT RPG while I was reading them too, so I had a lot of background with the world and terms...

[euruaina.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd meant to, but I didn't really have the money when it came out, then it sort of slipped my mind, then I got it for christmas, but decided that I'd better re-read at least KoD, just so I wasn't completely confused. That, along with GS was read mostly on the bus to and from school. My dad got me into the series several years ago (before book 10 was out, I think), but he hasn't read GS yet, and so I've ad no one to flail about it with. Yay people on the internet! :D But yeah, I liked it. I mean, it made me angry, and certain parts were so hard to read, just because you didn't like what was happening with that character or the plot progression, and... ::hugs Rand:: Ok, gonna stop rambling. :P

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

OMG I KNOW. Rand was so <3333 in this. Though I dunno about his redemption at the end. I guess it was inevitable? But didn't feel authentic at all given that every time he goes through something it's just made him MORE BADASS.

SO BADASS HE WIPES OUT AN ENTIRE CITY BY BALEFIRE. SO MUCH WIN.

[euruaina.livejournal.com]

Re: Redemption. I like what he did, and part of how he did it, just... there was something about it that sort of bugged me. I think it was that it almost seemed... too cliche. I mean, yeah, the reason to do it is cause you have people that you love, and the chance at love is reason enough for everything, but they just wrote it so... ::sigh:: I think if they'd maybe included names, or something more along the lines of "I can see now that I have so many people that care for me, and people that I care for a love in return. Even with chances as slim as they are, having hope, and daring to dream of a life full of love and peace after the Last Battle is worth it all." Etc. Oh god. Will not write fix-it, will not write fix-it. It would turn out soooo much worse...

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

plz plz plz. do it.

There had to be a better way to do it, some way that incorporated Lews Therin and wasn't crazy OOC for Rand. This was a little too much. I mean, this has worked for him in the past--we had to see an instance of him hardening making things much worse for him. Elayne's pregnancy would have worked BEAUTIFULLY for giving him a reason to change. But it wasn't even mentioned except by Aviendha in passing.

[euruaina.livejournal.com]

Ung, can't write fanfic. Or much fiction very well. I'm afraid I would make it so much worse, and I really really don't want to be one of those awful writers that I see sometimes.

But YES. I know, Rand doesn't even seem to care or notice things sometime. I mean, if they weren't connected via the Bond, I would wonder if he was even aware of Elayne's pregnancy. ::facepalm:: Rand, you are such an oblivious bullheaded sheepherder. I must sympathize with Nynaeve so much sometimes. :P

[trinity_clare]

I was just about to say, Sam will never lose at Mornington Crescent again!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, unless we're playing Old Money Rules, in which case Chicago is entirely discounted from the game (not having been built yet when the rules were codified).

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

There's what can be, with some care as to reading, parsed as a time-travel rule in the last full section (i.e. before the appendices): the one dealing with alternate calendars and proper use of allowed time-keeping devices for speed play, in case of games played (at the point the rules were written) by telegraph or carrier pigeon. Iirc, the UK had many different local time zones at that point, some only a few minutes apart, so it makes sense (or was that changed before the rules were written?)

I don't recall exactly, but the wording is something like 'If use of an alternate calendar, which has allowed in advance by the moderator, shall put an affected player at a date numerically or logically after the game will reasonably be expected to have ended, and that player has been accepted for play by the moderator and all allowed players, then that player shall still fall under the rules under which the majority of players have agreed to play.' Or something like that, anyway, I might have missed a sub-clause or two. It then goes on to say something about timeliness of responses in such a case, and to reference the usual date/time/day-specific rules and how they're to be arbitrated. Our club ended up calling that one the 'Dr Who Wants To Play Too' rule.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Man, I love Mornington Crescent. :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, technically I could always do that, but now I have inducement. :D