Well, now, this is random

[ultranos]

1. I have this strange craving for novels with female protagonists. But I want a fantasy with a swashbuckling heroine of some sort who is Made of Awesome. Pirates would be good. I don't care if she had to hide her gender or if female pirates are common (I think Faris Scherwiz had an impact on my psyche as a child), but I want her to be the bloody Pirate King. Or at least, Pirate-King-in-Training.

This is one of those things I'll need to write myself, isn't it?

1b. Or a awesome hacker in a cyberpunk distopia would also be good. Bonus points if she doesn't become bitter or fall at New!Boy's feet when he shows up. Or, hell, give HIM a different skillset.

1c. Or a cranky engineer on an airship. Or something. DAMMIT, I WROTE THAT GAME. (Sydney was AWESOME. As was how long it took everyone to realize we named the cross-dressing AIRSHIP ENGINEER "Syd".)

(1d. I should get a better book icon, but damn if Cecilia and her Book of Doom isn't awesome.)

2. I have finals next week. I have a circuits exam I must pass on Monday, and a thermal-fluids systems exam on Wednesday. I know exactly what I need to study. My brain, damn it, has decided to go on strike for the day. *headdesk* Maybe I can bribe it with coffee.

3. I think I might have an alpha draft of the Atlantis rulebook done by the start of the new year. Not that I've really been working on it much for the last two weeks.

4. I am still ridiculously gleeful about the Iron Man yo-yos. Link, Yarmond, and I ended up watching the movie last week. It's a very entertaining film to watch with a bunch of engineers. "Can I have SolidWorks: Imaginary Edition?"

5. I'm holding onto the hope that I can get one more fic out before the end of the year, that being the RepliCarter fic that's been sitting in first draft form for the last 5 months. After finals, though.

Comments

[samantilles.livejournal.com]

*coaxes brain to come out and play with gingerbread cookie, but swaps it quickly for circuits textbook...*

I still haven't seen Ironman, but it is on my list during the holidays (I used to be soo up on watching everything as it came out, and this year I havent had the time to see nearly anything (it doesn't help that I have stargate on the brain all the time either though)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

My brain is scowling at you for tricking it.

I'm generally really bad about seeing movies. I saw Iron Man because lots of my friends did and said it was a good movie, and I convinced my mother to see it with me by saying RDJ was in it and the main character was an MIT grad. :) But beyond that, the only other recent movie I've seen is, um, The Dark Knight.

(But Stargate-on-the-brain is so very entertaining!)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

good luck on writing. if you figure out how to motivate yourself, pass it along, please.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Hah. Yeah, that'd be nice.

Really, I actually want my brain to focus on finals. Writing comes LATER. :P

[zixi.livejournal.com]

[I'm not here, really, la la la]

1) Robin Hobb's Liveship Trilogy. Go. Read. Not 100% what you're asking for, but awesome storytelling, really neat world-building, great (and a variety of) female characters, and lots of pirates (though piracy is emphatically not romanticized).

[shanghairain.livejournal.com]

I was not horribly impressed by Robin Hobb's writing through about the first third of Fool's Errand. Interesting characters, but the writing makes me cringe at times.

[zixi.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I enjoyed the Assassin's trilogy, loved the liveship trilogy, and was fairly "meh" about the Fool trilogy (which I think also wouldn't work as well had you not read the other two).

She has a very different narrative voice (compared to the other trilogies and slightly unusual in general) in the Liveship one that really worked for me.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I think you mentioned this series to me before. I suppose there's always the library.

[You're not really here just like I'm not really here.]