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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 6, 2020 15:22:56 GMT -5
*hugs* Ah no! How long do you have to wait for the next season?
Ugh, how did you manage to do that?
Well, right now I'm reading a murder mystery, so the characters are mostly sad people with a dark secret. In the Holly Black books I was telling you about before, they're more clever, scheming people with a dark secret.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 9, 2020 5:54:41 GMT -5
Probably another year. XD
Ooooh ... both were called Dracula. With "Bram Stoker" as the author too, but hey what do I know? I can't work out how that's a situation that happens.
Is the murder mystery mysterious or each to guess yet still entertaining?
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 9, 2020 7:04:59 GMT -5
Oh no! Better find another heartbreaking show to keep your mind off it in the meantime then How does that even work? You'd've thought that the cataloguing system would only allow one Dracula by Bram Stoker Kind of neither, the author was trying so hard not to throw suspicion on the murderer that they faded into the background until the last few chapters. But it was still entertaining so I didn't mind too much
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 10, 2020 4:02:31 GMT -5
On it. I don't know if Star Trek is heartbreaking. But failing that a new season of Castlevania has been out for ages.
Riiiiiiiiiight? I have no idea. It was apparently commentary on Bram Stroker's Dracula. With a whole lot of other authors chiming in. Cool, but not what I was looking for. I'm buying Frankenstein tomorrow.
Well, so long as it's entertaining, that's fine! I recently read a mystery story called Firestorm which was really good.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 11, 2020 16:38:46 GMT -5
Depends which Star Trek, I guess. I've only seen TOS and that's more amusing than heartbreaking. But good! Castlevania's also a good shout.
Huh. Sounds like that might be useful once you're revising, but not so much now xD
Agreed. Sometimes you just need an implausible murder mystery. Tell me about Firestorm?
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 16, 2020 2:17:32 GMT -5
I think I'm watching the Next Generation. Apparently a new season of Lucifer is coming out soon. Aaaaand ... uh ... Psyche is cool?
I'm halfway through Frankenstein at this point, which hopefully has gotten me a step ahead in things. I'll have to check out what Shakespeare play is up first. Maybe I can get through it as well. X'D
It's all done with mirrors! Or by the butler! That's always the answer!
It's by Nevada Barr. The series its apart of has all the mysteries take place in National Parks - in this case Lassens Volcanic National Park in upper California. I've been there - super cool when it isn't on fire. :3 So anyway, the mystery is about a group of people who get stuck in a firestorm and when everyone comes out, one of the group has a knife in his back. Issue is ... there was a fire, so how could someone have killed the guy when going out meant dying?
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 17, 2020 6:53:48 GMT -5
That's the one with Picard, right? Are you enjoying it? I need to catch up with the seasons of Lucifer that are already out... Ooh, what's Psych like? If you're still looking for shows, I'm currently working my way through Leverage, which is very good.
Hopefully! That sounds like a good plan.
Actually, the victim had an identical twin the whole time!
That sounds like a really cool story! Particularly the setting... (Also Nevada Barr is an excellent name for someone who writes about US national parks)
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 17, 2020 12:43:18 GMT -5
Yep! That's the one! And yes I am! I'm enjoying it a lot so far. This is fair. There are a number of seasons. (Not as many as Psyche though.) Psyche is a mystery-comedy about a guy solving murders while pretending to be psyche. Apparently it's compared to the Mentalist a lot. What's Leverage about? I have goals to read two chapters today, so we'll see how that goes. The locked door mystery somehow involved a string. Which the murderer totally knew how to rig off the top of their head. It IS an excellent name, you are 100% right. I need to read more of her books.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 18, 2020 18:01:03 GMT -5
And I juust started season two, so I have a way to go. That does sound pretty cool! It's a heist show, about a group of grifters who steal from corrupt businesspeople. With excellent found family dynamics within the crew.
Hope it went well!
And that kind of string is only sold at one specific shop - that was the murderer's mistake.
Why can't every author have that cool of a name?
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 19, 2020 20:37:09 GMT -5
You do have a ways to go! Wild ride! Have fun! Oooooo! I'm very interested! I love found family a lot!
It did!
Love murder mysteries. Particularly the ones that somehow always lack decent police officers and no phone lines.
No idea. XD
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 21, 2020 16:23:14 GMT -5
It's a very wild ride indeed! And I'm having a lot of fun. Lucifer's mum is an... interesting character. It comes recommended by Tuesday, so you should definitely be interested!
Same! However improbable the setup is, it's always more fun when the characters have to figure out everything themselves.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 23, 2020 3:24:54 GMT -5
She is indeed. I just finished binging the latest season. Ouch. Huuuum o.o Where can I watch it? This is very true! How are you doing?
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 23, 2020 17:11:22 GMT -5
Nice! Please don't tell me anymore... until I catch up and then we can talk spoilers x'D It's on amazon prime for me, don't know about where you are.
I'm alright! Had a mess of a week trying to get uni to release me from my accommodation contract, but that's sorted now thankfully. (Otherwise I've been trying to sort through my clothes/other old stuff. Which is why I was throwing out socks the other day.)
You?
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 25, 2020 0:16:59 GMT -5
Wont say another word. Hum. I think I have to pay for it, but it's confusing. It says I have to pay for it on Sun Dance ... or something? (I did that a couple months back. I apparently had a lot of single lost socks which I didn't know. And also for some reason a lot of hats in my sock drawer.) I've recently been working out on some of the things that I've always wanted to work on - like getting all my pictures tiled on my wall instead of all over the place. Then I'm finally drawing some of my coloring pages. I'm thinking of buying a push-pin board as well.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 26, 2020 12:27:07 GMT -5
That's really strange, I haven't heard of sun dance...
(Yup, bunch of odd socks that I hadn't worn in months plus a depressingly large number with massive holes in them. Can't relate on the hats, though. I'm surprised you could fit anything else into your sock draw.) That sounds tiring work, but a good plan! Oh, and definitely look into a push pin board. Those are the best! The only reason I ever learnt vocab back when I took latin and french was being able to pin it up at eye level xD
Hope school's going well!
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Aug 27, 2020 19:28:51 GMT -5
Neither have I! Which is mildly impressive. (Yeah! I kept so many socks with holes and I really couldn't work out why in most cases. Most were just ... plain white socks ... I had three sock drawers. Now I just have one. Heh heh heh heh! The power.) Now that's a way to learn vocab! Speaking of Latin, it is becoming a real pain because of what I'm writing. I may have to learn it just to feel like my book is semi-accurate. Speaking of, if you were interested: wcrpforums.com/thread/78708/flow-consciousness-history-editionIt is thus far!
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Aug 29, 2020 17:36:56 GMT -5
Huh. There are so many streaming services nowadays, it's a mess. (The holes aren't that big, they're fine *entire foot pokes out of the toe part*. Getting rid of two whole sock draws is the definition of power.) Yes, learn latin! Six noun declensions and every other verb is a variant of 'to kill'. In all seriousness, the Cambridge Latin Course has a lot of free resources online if you did want to learn. Let me know if there's any passages you're having trouble with! Edit: Okay, I just finished reading through that thread and wow what a ride. Have you ever considered taking over the wikipedia page for Arthur Dee yourself, you probably know more about him than most historians at this point. I'm glad
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Sept 1, 2020 0:13:38 GMT -5
Right? There are so many!
(I relate. Boy do I relate.)
XD Somehow, I am not surprised. I'm still trying to learn the past, present, and future tenses in German though. Just be my Latin person, Sapphire. XD And I'll have to check those out!
XD I've never taken over a wikipedia page, but darn does that one need it. I'd be tempted, honestly. It isn't like I don't have the resources saved to a favorites folder.
And yeah, I'll likely be adding more to that stream of consciousness thread. I made a new friend and we've been RPing a lot in that time period and myself with Arthur, so much is very, very high.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Sept 1, 2020 10:03:36 GMT -5
So many streaming services, and so little time to watch everything you want before your free trial runs out
German seems pretty intimidating to be fair. Although probably a more useful language to learn. I mean, I'm two years out of practice but I can give anything a go.
Doooo it! That wikipedia page doesn't do him justice at all. Historically accurate rp sounds difficult but fun.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Sept 3, 2020 0:49:45 GMT -5
RIGHT? Also, the fact they pass rights to each other like they're hot to the touch. Not if you live in the USA. XD That would be Spanish or even French. Japanese is more popular. German is just ... something. I'll admit that I have the drive to try and learn it, so I give it a shot. Time to practice! For the time being I don't need it. Unless you wanted me to randomly PM you at odd hours to help me with a line for an RP. I try for accuracy, but my timeline is wacky. And you tempt me soooo much.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Sept 3, 2020 17:27:06 GMT -5
Exactly! At this point you might as well go back to buying dvds... except my laptop doesn't have a dvd drive so I'm kind of stuck. Oh, I didn't know that. The useful languages over here are Spanish and Mandarin Chinese afaik. I have holiday level Spanish and no Mandarin, but a lot of Latin so I mean you tempt me, but our odd hours don't tend to match up so I wouldn't be much use. Still. I bet it's the most accurate Arthur Dee rp out there.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Sept 5, 2020 4:35:18 GMT -5
I bought a DVD player that plugs in via USB. :')
Time to write a whole book in Latin! XD Probably not, very sadly.
If I ever found someone else RPing Arthur Dee, I would want to know so I could fangirl.
Additionally, I DID find a story from 1885 which had Arthur Dee as a character. :3
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Sept 8, 2020 11:55:51 GMT -5
Nice! There's our solution then
*Flashes back to having to translate a single paragraph of latin back in school*
Same tbf
Ooh, what was that like?
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Sept 8, 2020 21:27:02 GMT -5
Yes indeed! Just get things to work on the computers. XD
Oooh. Then a book would be a nightmare.
XD They shipped him with the girl he knew when he was 3 (not at the age of 3, but when they were both adults) and had him either aged down or his friends aged up because nothing in that time would make sense otherwise. And then his friend Thomas Browne dies - which is out of order since Arthur Dee dies before Browne. It's wild and I need to read it cover to cover rather than just browsing via ctrl+f.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Sept 9, 2020 16:27:38 GMT -5
xD Hardware beats software for solving any problem Believe me, it would. Although judging by the number of modern books translated into latin, some people enjoy the torture.That does sound wild Do you know what audience it was aimed at? Ahh good luck with reading the full version.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Sept 9, 2020 23:44:08 GMT -5
This is very, very true!
XD Sounds like a very, very fun time.
It IS wild. And I have no idea what 1885 had in mind for that stuff. Adult, probably.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Sept 11, 2020 14:54:48 GMT -5
I kind of miss it. Not doing it for class because that was really hard, but it was a fun puzzle.
I mean, literature was wild in the 1800s, so probably. Any more discoveries?
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Sept 12, 2020 6:19:43 GMT -5
I was talking (briefly) about you yesterday. In regards to the fact a friend gave me several manuscripts by John Dee ... in Latin.
More literature, actually! Highly amusing literature! Arthur Dee in a murder mystery is highly amusing to me.
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Post by ~Sapphire~ on Sept 13, 2020 17:40:55 GMT -5
I'm complimented xD Ah no, can you get what you need from the articles anyway?
Arthur Dee in a murder mystery does sound promising! (To add to our murder mystery conversation from a while ago, of course the mystery is solved by a historical figure who's famous for completely different reasons)
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Sept 14, 2020 21:59:04 GMT -5
Probably! I can probably find an English translation somewhere. It's John Dee, so it's a bit easier. Then thank GOODNESS Elias Ashmole translated Arthur Dee's stuff out of French.
Yes it does!
Also, Saph! Saph! Saph! Guess what? (Note to myself in case I forget: it's about another instance of Arthur I found in a fiction story.)
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