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[froodle]

So there's this one thing I totally don't get about Skulduggery Pleasant, aside from the question of why Billy-Ray doesn't wear a cowboy hat even though he is, like, super-Texan:

All the sorcerers have three names - their given or birth name, their super-secret true name that basically guarantees ridiculous levels of power and accompanying levels of foaming-at-the-mouth crazy, and their 'taken' name, which is basically a magical superhero identity that they make up for themselves.

And the 'taken' name usually says something about who they are as a person - Skulduggery is a stealthy nefarious ninja spy, and also a skeleton. Valkyrie is a warrior. Ghastly Bespoke is a gifted tailor with a fucked-up head. Billy-Ray Sanguine has a sunny disposition and also slits throats for a living. Basically, as soon as some magical dude shows up and introduces themselves by their taken name, you have some idea of the kind of person they are.

So if you were hanging out with your wizard bros one day, all being good and keeping the world undestroyed and shit, and some dudes come up to you and are like, "hey my man, mind if we join your gang of totally peaceful dudes.and find out all your political info and whatnot? My name is motherfucking JARRON GALLOW, and these are my besties, MURDER ROSE and GRUESOME KRAV," would you not just be like, "get the fuck away before I melt your fucking evil faces off, seriously if you're gonna be sneaky about being evil, you might try picking names that don't have the word MURDER in them."

But then again, pretty much everyone in the Irish Sanctuary straight fails at picking up on narrative clues, so I guess if you're a baddie in Ireland, you might as well go around calling yourself Traitory McStabsalot or whatever, because this bunch of professional epic retards aren't going to pick up on it until it's too late anyway.

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[scheherezhad]

"Traitory McStabsalot" made my night a lot better after being a)furious at a show and b)irritated by dumbasses on tumblr. Just so you know.

[froodle]

Ooooh, which show?

I basically use Tumblr to read Texts From Last Night mashups with various shows and movies, and to look at pictures of.Joseph Gordon Levitt. I've never seen any idiots on there because I never actually talk to people on it.

[scheherezhad]

Teen Wolf, gods help me. This entire season so far has been an exercise in rage for me. I sometimes make the mistake of reading the tag for it on tumblr, thereby encountering mind-boggling levels of stupid that are not present on my carefully curated dash.

P.S. Have you listened to Welcome to Night Vale? It's kind of amazing, and I desperately want Eerie crossover fic for it.

[froodle]

I watched the first season and I was like, SERIOUSLY WHY ARE YOU ALL SO UGLY?! and then I didn't watch it anymore. Occasionally I start to think about watching it because people put it in my head by basically FILLING my flist.with porn, but then someone will post a screenshot with the porn amd I'm like, NUP STILL UGLY.

Also, why.did that blonde dude cry.all the time? Isn't he like, the main dude in his school? What does that little bitch have.to cry about? He's.not even as ugly as the main werewolf guy.

No, I haven't, but I was just on Tumblr and WTNV has literally EXPLODED over.my dash, so i.need to go somewhere withfree wifi at the wkend and get downloading!

[scheherezhad]

NEVER WATCH IT. THAT WAY LIES ONLY PAIN.


But yes, WtNV has taken over my life, and I'm slowly trying to convert coworkers since my friends are already getting into it. The fic is coming in on AO3 almost faster than I can keep up with it, though. *back to reading all the things*

[froodle]

HOLY SHIT! I downloaded it all on Sunday and 1) it is AWESOME and 2) you are totally right, it is perfect for an Eerie crossover - I'm about halfway through and already I can see half a dozen parallels:

the underground city beneath the bowling alley and the Bureau of Lost

the forbidden dog park and the dogs trying to take over the world

Street Cleaning Day and the trash collectors from the Lost Hour

The library you can only enter through dreams and the surplus books where Mars finds Tripp McConnell's letter

Old Elvis and Buddy Holly trapped between two worlds and begging to be allowed to die

the screams from the presumably haunted post office and dash's introductory scene from the hole on the head gang

[scheherezhad]

RIGHT? I can't believe it took so long for this to become a huge thing, because it is everything I never knew I wanted.

*desperately counts down to the next episode*

[froodle]

I'm glad to be late to the party because it means I had loads to listen to. I say "loads" because as of last night, I am almost completely caught up.

I spent four hours last night wandering around a glen near my house, listening to it, freaking the fuck out when jogger passed me during "Street Cleaning" and squealing ridiculously loudly when Carlos the Scientist called during the show and left all the voicemails about clocks.

[scheherezhad]

I was also pleased to have so much to listen to all at once, because mainlining the Before bit of something new is one of the great joys of fandom life.

Carlooooos. I am kind of fixated on the thought, right now, that a)one of my friends owns a lab coat because he dressed as a mad scientist for Halloween last year, b)one of my other friends is stunning and photogenic with "dark, delicate skin", and c)I could combine those two things and make her do a Rule 63 Cecil/Carlos cosplay photoshoot with me. I want to do this thing.

Of course, I also want to see a plastic bag drifting across a parking lot so I can shriek "FERAL DOG!" and flee in terror to the bemusement of unwary onlookers. So.

[froodle]

Ooooh, ooh, do it! The world totes needs WtNV cosplay!

I got a dude at work to listen to it and now he is a) insisting that Carlos is basically Mohinder from Heroes (though hopefully with a slightly better survival instinct) and b) blaming me for the fact that he's having weird dreams.

But those dogs were also really good artists!

(also, I am a dumbass, because I totally missed the Harvest King/purple ticket lottery the first time around, even though they both specifically involve being eaten by wolves).