I promise this will not be a blog where every entry is apologizing for a lack of updates.
Dungeons and Dragons: Game is going amazing. The best group ever just got better with a visit from my friend Jason from P-Town. He joined the team as a rather urbane Drow Warlock. Never have two guys pretended to be two lesbians in a D&D game before. Actually, that’s probably not true. But I promise it was funny and lighthearted, not creepy and sexualized.
My Obsidian Portal site is up and awesome: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/relics-of-the-past . Recently I’ve just been updating characters, but I’ll probably keep a better log of the game too.
Twilight: I’m tired of people using the argument that I haven’t read it. I suppose it’s possible that only reading essays on the books does not mean I can really judge it, but I’ve been extremely reticent to waste my own time reading prose that I know is mediocre, having flipped through it at least. My issues go deeper than that though, down to the feeling in my heart that Twilight is, in fact, dangerous for girls. Not dangerous in the way that Victorian England thought novels would be, that they would somehow cause the girl to fall into the realm of sin; No, I find them dangerous in that they tell girls they are incomplete without a man, that a man should set every standard for a relationship, that in sex a woman needs to change
So I have to read it. Because then people don’t get the easy way out of an argument with me. Why do I argue over such a seemingly inconsequential thing such a vampire novel/film? Because I care about what literature says, especially pop-culture, and especially fantasy/mythology. As I once drunkenly ranted to my roommate: “My love for Buffy makes my hatred for Twilight all the more profound.”
