swim through the fires to stay in this world

Oh my god, look at the UK reprint covers of Dimestore Magic and Industrial Magic!



SO GODDAMN PERFECT. I have a lot of fondness for the original DSM cover but there has NEVER been an Industrial Magic cover that didn't suck. But this - ominous and techy with just the slightest hint of whimsy in the font....

I WANT BOTH OF THESE RIGHT NOW.

Also, someone mentioned that they believed that Paige and Lucas would end up co-CEOs of Cortez Cabal and you know... part of me things they were right. Another part things that Kelly Armstrong would never go there... but if she did, no one could say the groundwork hadn't been laid.

 Are you all super-excited? (audience yawns)*

Name the five most loving fictional moms.

5.) Katara. Yes, she's not an official mom, yet, but she basically raised her brother, guided the avatar, and helped birth a baby in a dirt hut. I think she qualifies.

4.) Trisha Elric (I was tempted to put Izumi, but while I think Trisha was probably a much more affectionate mother).

3.) Inara. I know a pregnancy would most likely be a career ender for her and she likely has about six different methods of prevention going, but I think she would be very loving with a child.

2.) Paige Winterbourne. Ah, Paige. My favorite Women of the Otherworld. Geek, witch, and she took in a black witch's child because that was what her mother would have done and didn't back off from that choice even when it cost her the coven she'd been raised to lead. She also makes sure her foster-daughter has a snack ready for her every day when she gets home from school.

1.) Lorelai Gilmore. 'Nuff said.

*I'm sick and have  no appetite, you're just going to have expect a little weirdness from me right now.

 Oh my god you guys.

yukitheawesome utterly and totally lived up to her lj name with my birthday present.

She got me a signed first edition of Kelly Armstrong's Dime Store Magic, which is NOT ONLY my very, very, very favorite Armstrong book but one I have bought and rebought several times because I keep losing it. (Trust me, this copy is not leaving the house.)

*glees*

from last weeks fannish5 :

Name your 5 favorite families, from any fandom.

1.) The Gilmores. First of all, this is the only time I have ever seen a mother/daughter relationship that even approaches my own relationship with my mother. Secondly, EVERYONE is this family loves and cares for each other, even if the sometimes hurt each other and screw up. It is clear that Emily and Richard, even after forty years, love each other very much.

2.) The Bristows. Jack and Irina and Sydney, oh my. How could you go wrong? They're like the Gilmores, only with more betrayal, killing each other, sex, and hot outfits.

3.) The Sabaku Nos aka Temari, Gaara, and Kankarou. Admittedly, like most things in Naruto, I think this family may be more awesome and fucked up in my head. However, I imagine that Temari and Kankarou basically got kicked out of the house once daddy realized that, maybe making my youngest into a monster (and killing my wife in the process) wasn't a good idea, and so they kind of raised each other, and then got shoved into a team with their crazy youngest brother, and then, after he realized that killing everybody on the planet wasn't a good life goal, the Sabaku Nos are left to try and build a family out of the bloody, violent ruins of their familial relationships. (And yeah, I ship it.)

4) The Cortez/Winterbourne family. Paige and Lucas are the best characters Kelly Armstrong ever wrote, and the relationship between them and their adopted daughter hits so many of my kinks: the woman being more experienced sexually, the man knowing he's in love and committed to this relationship first, a father/daughter relationship between two people who aren't related.

5.) The Mars Family. See icon. I can't say it better than that.