The most random thread ever!!!

[Banya]

Shannon Hale's adult books are pretty good. The Actor and the Housewife sounded pretty sketchy to me at first, but I decided that I trusted Shannon Hale and read it. I can say that it is not adulterous, but it does have a relatively in-depth look at platonic male-female relationships...

(But whatever you do, don't read Dangerous. I'm not even sure Shannon Hale wrote it. )

Too late.   That was actually the first book of hers I tried.  It was making me uncomfortable with all the kissing, though, and eventually I decided to stop reading it and just skimmed a few parts to see what happened.  I was horrified that she ended up with that sleazy Wilder, though.

The Books of Bayern are way better so far.  I skipped The Goose Girl because it wasn't available at the library, but I looooved Enna Burning.  Hale's writing was so beautiful.  I don't know what went wrong with Dangerous (or why James Dashner gave it such a glowing endorsement).

I loved Goose Girl; it's one of my favourites. I haven't read the sequels, though I remember at one point having a copy of Enna Burning that I didn't finish but would be willing to give another shot (for another reason to re-read Goose Girl). Goose Girl reminded me a lot of Howl's Moving Castle (so I think @Peony might like it); the worlds are similarly styled with a touch of magic and the protagonists are both strong girls personally targeted by the antagonist having to overcome major changes in lifestyle and environment. Yeah. Good.

[Cornflower MM]

Cool, thanks Banny. I'll look for it.

[Banya]

^ Hooray.



Waiting for @James Gryphon to respond to a PM.

[Feles]

I can't guarantee this makes sense, but its the first thing that came to my mind seeing that picture

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[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

*Juzt came back aboot tva 'ourz ago from 'iz firzt drivin' lezzon*

[Rosie Willowwater]

Yay!  How'd it go?

[Luftwaffles]

Yay!  How'd it go?

[Jetthebinturong]

Just finished watching Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated for the first time. What a stupid and unsatisfying ending ending. Everything was going so well right up until that ridiculous plot twist. I get that you can't have such a high bodycount in a children's TV series, but doing that is not the way to fix things.

Spoiler

TIMELINE RESETS ARE THE ABSOLUTE WORST PLOT DEVICE EVER! THEY ERASE ANY POINT IN THE ORIGINAL TIMELINE! EVERYTHING THE GANG DID AMOUNTED TO NOTHING! AND THEY'RE OKAY WITH LIVING IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT UNIVERSE WHERE THEY'VE LIVED DIFFERENT LIVES? NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!

All that character development wiped away.
Straight-up magic.
Cassidy got blown to smithereens! But it's okay, now she's with the guy who was her abusive boss in the original timeline.
Marcie got executed by bloody robot Nazis and we're going to look past that?
Brad, Judy and Pericles get happy endings? WHY? What did they do to deserve that?
The Blakes are horrible to Daphne's sisters instead, but that's okay? First of all, the sisters were never bad people, in fact one of them comforted Daphne in one episode. Second of all, WHY IS THIS SERIES SO OKAY WITH EMOTIONAL ABUSE? Velma's parents, and surprisingly, Mayor Jones were actually good people to their children, but the Blakes and the Rogers were horrible.

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Please tell me that someone who watched the series hated the ending as much as I did.

[Feles]

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Cat Type.

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Yay!  How'd it go?

It actually vaz eazier ance ye get in the cae und are drivin'. Ze readin' aboot it makez it zeem much more difficult.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

i love jinetes

[Ungatt Trunn]

Crush: Hi Ungatt

Me: wlie7uwsjnmdfbha,jegywukjemnbdclweja,n

[Lady Ashenwyte]

Civil War aka
my name is Buck

and wen i'm free,

or wurld polise

chayse after me,

and best frend Steev

is beeing dum -

I run away.

I lik the plum.

- soundingonlyatnightasyousleep

@Jukka the Sling

[Jukka the Sling]

Okay, what's that based on?  I can't think of it.

[The Skarzs]

It's based off you.