there, I said it

I'm sick.

Not horrifically so, but enough to make it unwise to follow through with my tentative plans for an SCA event tomorrow night - I might be socially inept but I'm pretty sure sneezing and spluttering on people is frowned upon.

Still gotta get out Sunday to pick up my dagger :)

But, smeg :(

strong women characters

I'd been recommended the Honor Harrington series long ago (hat tip vree and skill_grl), but it took D. getting me the first one for Christmas to finally get me reading it.

Wow... wow! A confident female lead who does stuff plus 10 chapters in and not a love interest in sight (nothing wrong with love interests, but it seems every single fictional female character has to have one, so it's nice to see one without, or at least not the focus)! I think it even meets the Mo Movie Measure, as thus far she's talked to other named female characters (Suchon the medical officer; Matsuko, Medusa's commissioner) about work.

semmie17, it's kinda like Horatio Hornblower in space, with a female protagonist.

And being a geek for good visuals, I have to think this would make an awesome movie.. .but who would play Honor?

Based on the description I initially thought Angelina Jolie should cut off her hair again, but she's too delicately pretty with her full lips and turned up nose - Harrington is described as having strong features. Are there any women in Hollywood who do?

Maybe Claudia Christiansen (Babylon 5's Susan Ivanova)?

But then, I'm the newbie in the Honorverse. Who would y'all cast?

D. shall henceforth be known as

dotheranon :) Go show him some LJ love!

start your (difference) engines!

Steampunk lightsaber

Steampunk laptop

Steampunk flatbed scanner.

shemhazai, I SO didn't need to know about the first one - some one get me some hardwood and brass plate, stat!