The OOC Hangout Thread (New people introduce yourself here!)

[Electric Kool-Aid]

DTT we can be job hunting buddies! *huggles* Once you get well of course!
*tucks you in bed with a hot water bottle and bajillion teddy bears and good movies + books*  

[Alexander Magnus]

*atomohuggles for Goosey*  

[Tanakietsu]

*Throws a couple pies on the ground* Argh! These goddamn Karen Miller novels are going to be the death of me. They are simply too slow.

In other news I redecorated my bathroom so it no longer has teal rugs/towels/etc and is instead maroon. I snickered to myself as I bought the merchandise, though I'm sure no-one remembers him to snicker. 3: *shrug*  

[AlwynRowanwind]

*pulls webs out of her hair before gluggling everyone... she sits back in her chair obviously exhausted.*  

[Alexander Magnus]

The Hunger Games are actually a surprisingly dark and decent set of books. Doesn't really get good till the second book, though. Damn, they are depressing though.

Maroon is a far manlier color, Tana. mad props.

*gluggles for Alwyn* Good to see you!

I's listening to epicness too, lil sexy. Course, my epic may not be your epic.  

[Electric Kool-Aid]

I was (surprisingly) thoroughly unimpressed with Hunger Games. I work in a library and all my coworkers were OMGing about it constantly so I decided to read it. It was so plot driven it made my brain hurt. I tried to read the second one and got to page 70 something before I decided it wasn't worth my time.

But hey, it's getting people (and young people especially) to read who didn't normally like to so I guess I can get behind it for that. I do still however think that there are significantly better Young Adult books out there and a large part of Hunger Games popularity is derived from the fact that it is sensational. The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey is a similar phenomenon.  

[Tanakietsu]

I must say that I prefer Shades of Gray by Jessica James. Not that I've read either Fifty Shades of Grey or the Hunger Games in order for me to back my base comparison. But that's all I can afford - a blind pre-biased statement. *shrug*

I thought Maroon would be a manlier color as well (Though I enjoy teal as well), but it has a much lovelier meaning to me. He was such a fun and amusing character - one so much that I made a fanfic out of him and it's lasted three years and is still going. My little psychopathic terrorist turned father turned destroyer of worlds. *holds his laptop tenderly like an infant*  

[Electric Kool-Aid]

In the US, there's been some protesting as Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is on several young adult reading lists and is being confused with E.L. James' book. I lol'd.  

[Tanakietsu]

I despair.  

[Alexander Magnus]

Hunger Games is not the greatest series ever . . . not by a long shot. I feel that it glosses over far too many details, completely ignores just about every good point in the main character's life, and constantly assails her with shite.

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Particularly the end where she saw her beloved little sister vaporized before her eyes.

I've heard nothing but negativity about 50 shades of gray from friends in the BDSM community, and nothing but raves from everybody else. So, meh. I don't go for that kind of thing anyway. My kinks lie elsewhere.  

[Alexander Magnus]

Was it ever started? I know that we discussed it, but I never saw it get moving.  

[Tanakietsu]

Eka darling put up a sticky about it just the other day as well as the thread in Barton itself.