Artemis Fowl and other random things

[sholio]

1. AHAHAHAHA ... good thing Joe Flanigan's not getting typecast or anything: http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/2011/01/trailer-for-the-other-side-with-joe-flanigan/ (As seen everywhere on my flist.) And we now have independent, i.e. non-Stargate confirmation that the entire multiverse DOES look like British Columbia! ETA: Or Ireland, as half my flist has now pointed out to me. *g* Which, in a way, proves my point, I guess ...

2. I am in the middle of book 6 of Artemis Fowl and still very hooked. These books are such tasty little morsels! I also, er, bought the boxed set of the first 3 books when I went to the bookstore yesterday to get the ones the library didn't have. (What? It was cheap ...) And I love the covers! The library ones just have plain covers, but the covers for (I assume) the reprinted versions are great; they're very sci-fi and kind of comic-book-ish and exactly the aesthetic that I like. (It does bother me that Holly is described in the books as being brown-skinned and she's got clearly Caucasian skin tones on the covers, which is very disconcerting though I can't say I'm surprised. They really nailed Artemis, though, and Holly's general badassery.) You can see them on Amazon: book 1, book 2, book 3. (And while I'm at it, the boxed set! It's cheap! And very pretty! And MINE, ALL MIIIIINE. :D)

But anyway, these books! I need to make a happy flaily post about them, because they are SO much fun. I love Holly to bits, and d'awwww, Artemis has won my heart utterly with an endearing combination of ultra-competence in certain areas and complete adorkableness at everything else:

"I imagine you're in great pain," he said. "It's to be expected with such a laceration." Bedside manner was not one of Artemis's strong suits. "You will have a rather large scar, but then looks are not really important to you."

Mulch squinted at Artemis through a narrowed eye. "Are you trying to be funny? Oh my God, you're not. That was actually the nicest thing you could think of to say."

... OH ARTEMIS. You do try. <3

3. My white_lotus fic has been sent off to the mods, YAY. I just have my family_haven to go and then NO MORE FICATHONS for me for a while. I'm watching all the spring ficathons gearing up all over my flist, a bit wistfully, but I am determined not to sign up for anything else right now. (Though yes, Genficathon is still a go; I'll open signups in a week or two.)

Comments

[abyssinia]

1. AHAHAHAHA ... good thing Joe Flanigan's not getting typecast or anything: http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/2011/01/trailer-for-the-other-side-with-joe-flanigan/ (As seen everywhere on my flist.) And we now have independent, i.e. non-Stargate confirmation that the entire multiverse DOES look like British Columbia!

Oh, man, SO TYPECAST. He's even wearing the same bracelet. Although for some reason I vaguely want to see the movie. And it says it was filmed in Ireland...which does have similar climate to BC, I suppose. Though more ferns and fewer pine trees, from what I remember.

I figure there are worse character archetypes to be typecast as.

[sholio]

Ha, I didn't even notice the bracelet, but ... yeah ... And I didn't know it was Ireland, either.

I figure there are worse character archetypes to be typecast as.

True! And when it comes to getting work in Hollywood, there's never a huge shortage of action-hero military-guy roles ...

[abyssinia]

The bracelet kinda jumped at me, but it's the sort of thing I'm likely to notice.

I only knew it was Ireland because the text right above the video on your link says it was filmed there. I was hiking in Ireland 3 years ago and in BC this summer and....honestly, looking at the bit of scenery from that footage, it's not obvious which it is (I wonder why they filmed where they did...) and they do have similar vegetation patterns

Exactly! and he's pretty decent at it, with enough quirky goofballness to be amusing in the roles.

[siria]

Not British Columbia! Wicklow, Ireland. We are somewhat different ;)

[sholio]

Hee! Sorry! I had no idea it was filmed in Ireland -- the clips look very similar to the backgrounds on SGA. (To me, at least -- not being especially familiar with either place!)

[siria]

That's why Joe was in Ireland this last summer, tweeting pictures of him and Jason drinking an awful lot of Guinness :D

[sholio]

Ohhhhh! I just ... don't really pay much attention to what celebrities are doing. It's actually very sad; it's like trying to stuff calculus into my brain ... it falls right back out, if it manages to go in at all. XD I mean, I'd seen the mention of Joe and Jason being in Ireland on my flist, and I'm sure that I must have known Joe was filming a movie there, but I never actually paid much attention beyond looking at the odd picture or two. I'm lucky if I can even manage to remember actors' names (admittedly never a problem in SGA; I did pay that much attention *g*).

[siria]

Hee, you're probably putting your brain to much better use than me, I think :D

[sholio]

Well, I never said I was using it for USEFUL things. :D For one thing, I seem to make up for not storing actor trivia by, instead, storing fictional character trivia. For shows I haven't watched in ten years. Poor brain.

[nonniemous]

Am I going to have to break down and read the Artemis Fowl books? The boys read the first three or four and loved them.

[sholio]

You might really like them. They're sort of like Harry Potter with a sharper edge -- essentially they're YA fantasy heist novels, if you can imagine such a thing. YA with mobsters, cops and con artists. You do have to overlook a certain amount of clunky prose, especially in the first one, but they have an awesome female protagonist and her opposite number in the criminal element -- the title character -- started growing on me in a major way in the second book.

Also, I'm glad you're feeling better, and sorry for the health-suck you've been having lately!

[helen_c]

Oh, Artemis! (6 is Time Paradox, right? I remember loving this one, especially when Artemis finds himself face to face with, well, himself...)

He's so adorable, in his own way--I love how he grows up as the story goes.

[sholio]

Yeah, 6 is Time Paradox -- I loved seeing him get brought face-to-face with the kind of person he used to be. Literally. :D

He really is his own kind of adorable. Like I was saying on the LJ comments side, he wouldn't be nearly as much fun if he were good at everything. But he's not; he has these huge areas that he's incredibly bad at (like, say, talking to people when he's not trying to get something from them), and sometimes he slips from suave genius into "shaken-up teenage kid". Awww, Artemis. ♥ And, yeah, watching him grow up and make mistakes and learn from them has been really delightful.