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Apparently LJ's new Weirdly Spiritual Banner may be to mark Judgment Day, which I guess is scheduled for May 21st this year, according to a lot of billboards in California (this is the kind of information having a big readership nets you).

iamshadow suggested that "Judgment Day" is that time of the year that you go out of your way to be nice to your local magistrate -- send them flowers, make them feel appreciated.

I prefer to believe it's a day in which everyone just dedicates themselves to showing really good decision-making skills.

ON MAY 21ST: EAT HEALTHY AND DON'T JAYWALK!

Comments

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

I still think it looks like a magickkkk! fx from a bad 80s fantasy novel.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

I love it that in your brain, fantasy novels have bad special effects. Like they couldn't afford the budget for the full scope of your imagination.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, it's kind of the same thing. "Okay, on the cover we have our teen witch casting a spell. How do we show that?" "I dunno. Some kind of glowy laser ribbons swirling around her hands?" "Genius!"

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

Hehehe.

I feel really sorry for authors who end up with crappy covers. I know Jane Lindskold in particular loathes some of her early covers, because the artist/designer didn't bother to read the book and produced something that entirely misrepresents the characters and the story (http://www.janelindskold.com/about-marks.html). So, anyone judging HER book by its cover would find it was something vastly different from what they thought they were getting.

Also, there's the embarrassment factor for a reader, if you're trying to read a serious historical novel, like Persia Woolley's Guinevere trilogy, which has some of the most ridiculous romance-y covers, and people just think you have a fetish for bodice-ripping and swooning heroines, which really isn't the case.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Mother of Demons (http://www.baen.com/library/067187800x/067187800x.htm), available for free at the link, has a cover that accurately depicts a scene from the book. And yet, it's completely misleading about what kind of book it is. (The perversion mentioned in the text? Heterosexuality.)

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

I've been mentally subtitling it as "HOLY SHIT THE BIRTHDAY-CAKE JUST EXPLODED" myself. I mean, the glowy lines like like contrails made by rocketing candles and the upheld hands could be either protecting the person's face or maybe trying to catch a good piece of cake...or... uh, something. Yeah.