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That's what he said.

But yeah, get some trumpets in there and I'd totally probably pay to see it if it were in my area and I actually knew about it.

Totally wish we could exterminate mosquitos... without collapsing like a dozen ecosystems in the process. Bloody bastards are the primary food source for too many things, bleh. I think they saw it coming, and somehow set it up so their continued existence is too important to undermine.

But yeah, northern Floridian here. During parts of the year, the air is almost as much mosquito as it is water. We just... stay inside, mostly. T'hell with summer, late spring, and early fall.

Quote from: Darvi on June 17, 2012, 01:10:16 pm

I can't give the name of a single person who has. It was also mandatory to read during high school. :V

It's free through Project Gutenberg. No excuses.

Other than not wanting to read it

More generally, I've never read it... I think. If I have, I forgot about it. Reading through the wikipedia page, it doesn't look like something I'd be terribly interested in reading. Main down points seem to be the caste-system stuff (which we already social engineer to a sickening degree ) and the distraction point, which... bread and circus isn't exactly a new concept, heh. Maybe the one-world-government thing. Some other stuff too, of course, but skimming seemed to point those as the larger ones.

Dystopian fiction needs some GAR or something to be readable -- it's much faster and less malaise inducing to just read an essay a fraction of the size expressing the same points just as eloquently if you're looking for social commentary, heh.

It's a fair take on the possible direction of a post-scarcity society, though. Which... really, it's better than extinction. Dystopia, of course, but still. Which was my derail point, mostly. I'd rather have the option for th'species to survive via dystopia (assuming there's not a better option, of course!) than not have it, yeh. The chances that we'd be stuck on a single planet if we actually got together a function one world government are bloody small, anyway That opens up a lot more possibilities~

I'd be fine with wasps/hornets (it's one of those two, anyway), if it weren't for how they breed. It's flat out facehugger-esk nightmare fuel, and one of the various things people point to to prove that a hypothetical creator deity cannot be kind or loving. Bedbugs and their entire slice of propagation method fits in that latter category, too. Otherwise wasps're pretty okay from the human perspective.

Truean's the city slicker lawyer who moved into town.

Aqizzar is the cattle baron.

And in a dangerous, war torn frontier town, they find... Love?

I... really hope not. Bedbugs are fucking horrible terrible creatures, from a human perspective. One of the insect species that propagate through traumatic insemination, plus goddamn menaces when you get an infestation.

Don't think we get those centipedes in this area, but if they eat bedbugs I welcome their presence happily.

Finally read back through In Flight. Managed it in a <48 hour period, huzzah. Being caught up is nice. Gabriel writes one of the better Shirous~

Now I can go read something else. Wheee.

Not sure how you'd get a lesson in heart from nanoha, but there probably is someone in the series who has it.

Hey, Nanoha's all about the magic of friendship. Just very... emphatic friendship. I think it fits well enough.