Sister Time!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

My sister is here! Hooray!

Dang, I love it when she visits. Who else can I go from discussing the publishing industry to gleefully squealing at a Let's Play of Five Nights at Freddy's* to contemplating the attributes of fairy jail in the Disney Fairyverse** with?

It's good to have people who get me.


*If you haven't seen it, I warn you that even with Markiplier's delightful self-comfort chatter in that video, that video and the game itself is fucking TERRIFYING. I haven't had so much fun watching most actual horror MOVIES as I have watching that LP.

**Have I mentioned that I LOVE the Disney Fairies? Especially the movie versions. For one thing, Peter Pan has been thoroughly bussed from the movies (I think it's technically before Tinker Bell meets him, which I'm fine with), and Tink has a much more likable personality. More importantly, though, they're girly as unicorns in a meadow full of rainbow glitter, and yet Tinker Bell is also an ENGINEER. You can totally be a girly mechanical engineer! The Fairies say so, god dammit! (And the latest movie, The Pirate Fairy, has a SCIENCE FAIRY who does experiments and alchemy and stuff! IT'S GREAT.

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

They seem to be trying harder to have a Victorian/Edwardian nursery fiction style, so the worldbuilding is a bit different, and the tone is pretty cutesy. And the talents get WAY too specific, like I said--Tink is a "pots-and-pans" talent, which isn't so awesome as her mechanical engineer status of the movies. There are a few other characters who aren't in the movies (Rani is kind of interesting), but honestly they seem less developed and likable. (Vidia, for one, is a lot more fun in the films as a passive-aggressive but still likable friend.) And they mention Peter Pan--the films are set before Tink went to hang out with him; the books afterward--and it's rather difficult to add him into the mix. I like it when they're distanced from him. But they're definitely different universes. I'd give the books a pass, but you might want to try them for yourself.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'll probably pass, then. It's not like I'm short on reading material. Thanks for the run-down on them.