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let's post to LJ instead of working on my to-do list
Reccing a couple of webcomics for those of you who like things that are well-drawn, funny, and compelling:
"Lackadaisy" by Tracy Butler is about speakeasy shenanigans in Prohibition-era St. Louis, Missouri, and goddamn, it is a lot of fun. Gangs! Flappers! Jazz bands doubling as heavy-lifters! Politicians of easy virtue! Irritated assassins! Butler has a talent for facial expressions. Warnings for occasional violence, and anthropomorphic cats.
"FreakAngels" by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield is set in a post-apocalyptic Whitechapel, London. Okay so, there is a group of childhood friends with powers like Jean Grey, right. They're just trying to survive and grow their community without letting people know about their telekinetic/-pathic/whatever secret, but it's the post-apocalypse, and death/mayhem is kinda unavoidable. It's much darker than Lackadaisy [/understatement. Behold the list of warnings: gore, violence, noncon, offscreen cannibalism, full-frontal nudity, and that's only so far. But god, the worldbuilding is great, the action is absorbing, and the friends are such bitches with each other, I <3 it.
And now I talk about Vampire Diaries!
-- PEEEAAAAARRRRLLLLL NOOOOOOO DDDDDDD: OMG GUYS SHE WAS THE BADASSEST WHYYYYY WHYYYYYYYYYY. See also: Sheila.
-- Ditto Anna! I loved her in all her incarnations, from her introduction as geeky stalker girl, to ruthless vamp, to someone who just wants to rescue her mother, to her feeeelings for Jeremy (omg, when she found out Jeremy just wanted to vamp out because of VICKY? my heeaarrrt Anna Anna Anna). I loved it all! AND NOW SHE'S DEAD?!?? WHAT EVEN.
-- Ditto Vicky! ngl, the first ship I shipped was Matt/Vicky. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT. They're like post-Narnia Peter/Susan, but with more drugs and rock music. GUESS CANON KILLED MY SHIP, THOUGH. This is like when I watched 'And Then There Were None' over Fourth of July and all my favorite characters kept dying next, geez.
-- I was kinda underwhelmed by Jeremy at first, but his post-Vicky Jeremy/Anna self grew on me, especially after he got that better haircut. AND NOW. NOW WE'RE GONNA GET VAMPIRE JEREMY? I say bring it on. \o/
-- I love Caroline SO MOTHERFUCKING MUCH. She is selfish, self-absorbed, insecure, sidelined, easy to manipulate, and tries too hard, but she tries not to be a dick, in her own dick way, and she does care for people, and oh, she is even more compelling because of it. Her being all special snowflake and accusing Bonnie and Elena of always leaving her out? Her STUPID SPEECHES TO MATT?? GOD. CAROLINE. YOU DON'T RULE. AT ALL. THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU.
-- I wanna do a thousand happy hours with Jenna and Bonnie. <33333
-- Stefan was hotter in the past than in the present. You really don't need that much hair gel, dude!
-- I like the trio best when they're hurting people and fucking shit up as a team.
-- After Supernatural and Merlin, I'm just like... "What, why does no one have subtext with each other? What is that? Are pigs flying?"
[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/28554.html |
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"Lackadaisy" by Tracy Butler is about speakeasy shenanigans in Prohibition-era St. Louis, Missouri, and goddamn, it is a lot of fun. Gangs! Flappers! Jazz bands doubling as heavy-lifters! Politicians of easy virtue! Irritated assassins! Butler has a talent for facial expressions. Warnings for occasional violence, and anthropomorphic cats.
"FreakAngels" by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield is set in a post-apocalyptic Whitechapel, London. Okay so, there is a group of childhood friends with powers like Jean Grey, right. They're just trying to survive and grow their community without letting people know about their telekinetic/-pathic/whatever secret, but it's the post-apocalypse, and death/mayhem is kinda unavoidable. It's much darker than Lackadaisy [/understatement. Behold the list of warnings: gore, violence, noncon, offscreen cannibalism, full-frontal nudity, and that's only so far. But god, the worldbuilding is great, the action is absorbing, and the friends are such bitches with each other, I <3 it.
And now I talk about Vampire Diaries!
-- PEEEAAAAARRRRLLLLL NOOOOOOO DDDDDDD: OMG GUYS SHE WAS THE BADASSEST WHYYYYY WHYYYYYYYYYY. See also: Sheila.
-- Ditto Anna! I loved her in all her incarnations, from her introduction as geeky stalker girl, to ruthless vamp, to someone who just wants to rescue her mother, to her feeeelings for Jeremy (omg, when she found out Jeremy just wanted to vamp out because of VICKY? my heeaarrrt Anna Anna Anna). I loved it all! AND NOW SHE'S DEAD?!?? WHAT EVEN.
-- Ditto Vicky! ngl, the first ship I shipped was Matt/Vicky. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT. They're like post-Narnia Peter/Susan, but with more drugs and rock music. GUESS CANON KILLED MY SHIP, THOUGH. This is like when I watched 'And Then There Were None' over Fourth of July and all my favorite characters kept dying next, geez.
-- I was kinda underwhelmed by Jeremy at first, but his post-Vicky Jeremy/Anna self grew on me, especially after he got that better haircut. AND NOW. NOW WE'RE GONNA GET VAMPIRE JEREMY? I say bring it on. \o/
-- I love Caroline SO MOTHERFUCKING MUCH. She is selfish, self-absorbed, insecure, sidelined, easy to manipulate, and tries too hard, but she tries not to be a dick, in her own dick way, and she does care for people, and oh, she is even more compelling because of it. Her being all special snowflake and accusing Bonnie and Elena of always leaving her out? Her STUPID SPEECHES TO MATT?? GOD. CAROLINE. YOU DON'T RULE. AT ALL. THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU.
-- I wanna do a thousand happy hours with Jenna and Bonnie. <33333
-- Stefan was hotter in the past than in the present. You really don't need that much hair gel, dude!
-- I like the trio best when they're hurting people and fucking shit up as a team.
-- After Supernatural and Merlin, I'm just like... "What, why does no one have subtext with each other? What is that? Are pigs flying?"
[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/28554.html |