...was underwhelming.

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 Oh my god you guys.

yukitheawesome utterly and totally lived up to her lj name with my birthday present.

She got me a signed first edition of Kelly Armstrong's Dime Store Magic, which is NOT ONLY my very, very, very favorite Armstrong book but one I have bought and rebought several times because I keep losing it. (Trust me, this copy is not leaving the house.)

*glees*

gacked from despairinbeauty :

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."

2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.

3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on ...

( She Asked Me... )

from last weeks fannish5 :

Name your 5 favorite families, from any fandom.

1.) The Gilmores. First of all, this is the only time I have ever seen a mother/daughter relationship that even approaches my own relationship with my mother. Secondly, EVERYONE is this family loves and cares for each other, even if the sometimes hurt each other and screw up. It is clear that Emily and Richard, even after forty years, love each other very much.

2.) The Bristows. Jack and Irina and Sydney, oh my. How could you go wrong? They're like the Gilmores, only with more betrayal, killing each other, sex, and hot outfits.

3.) The Sabaku Nos aka Temari, Gaara, and Kankarou. Admittedly, like most things in Naruto, I think this family may be more awesome and fucked up in my head. However, I imagine that Temari and Kankarou basically got kicked out of the house once daddy realized that, maybe making my youngest into a monster (and killing my wife in the process) wasn't a good idea, and so they kind of raised each other, and then got shoved into a team with their crazy youngest brother, and then, after he realized that killing everybody on the planet wasn't a good life goal, the Sabaku Nos are left to try and build a family out of the bloody, violent ruins of their familial relationships. (And yeah, I ship it.)

4) The Cortez/Winterbourne family. Paige and Lucas are the best characters Kelly Armstrong ever wrote, and the relationship between them and their adopted daughter hits so many of my kinks: the woman being more experienced sexually, the man knowing he's in love and committed to this relationship first, a father/daughter relationship between two people who aren't related.

5.) The Mars Family. See icon. I can't say it better than that.

For one glorious moment, when I saw this title: Men of the Otherworld I thought Kelly Armstrong had fulfilled my wildest dreams and wrote an awesome, glorious books focusing on one of her best characters ever, Lucas Cortez. *fangirls*. (FYI, Paige Winterbourne, his awesometastic wife, is the best character she ever wrote).

But noooooo, it's about stupid Clayton, who only exists so Elena, this series' resident Mary Sue can get her rocks off. (And yes, that is very, very harsh, and it's not that bad, but Elena has a WAY too high ration of angsty trauma to everybody-thinks-she's-gorgeous-ness.)

Also, Patricia Briggs continues to sell her soul to the popular kids, instead of writing winning and original fantasy. Want to bet this one has a contractually obligated everybody-loves-the-heroine clause too?