Weekend, also, gratuitous use of new gormenghast icon.

[featherynscale]

Everybody loves a three-day weekend. Here are the highlights:

- Friday Night Supper Club. kittenpants and I met sxypaganmom and kcgreenman for pizza, following which, we had a huge discussion on philosophy, religion, and ministry. This led us out of the pizza parlor, down the street for ice cream, and then, when we'd out-talked the ice cream shop's open hours, off to McCoy's for a beer. Good times.

- Sobriety checks. Kansas City cops are infinitely nicer than Jacksonville cops. We pulled out of Westport on Friday night, and were shunted into a sobriety checkpoint. The cops there were friendly and pleasant, which was sort of a surprise, since my experience of checkpoints has been entirely one in which the cops were primarily there to pick a fight. "Have you been drinking?," they asked. "I had a beer," I replied. "Okay then, go on through. Have a nice night." Unbelievable.

- Half Price Books. $75 later, we have some very exciting titles. And a Wheel of Time d20 book, so that I can make a new character at home after my party leaves me to die by torture at the hands of the Children of the Light, because they're not sure rescuing me would be the right thing to do. It would, after all, be breaking the law.

- Ritual at Gaia. Did not suck, despite being spontaneously created. Also, any public generipagan ritual in which one can invoke Fotamecus as rite patron is fine by me.

- X-Men. Good, but hard to watch, the new one was. Made me cry in several bits. Too many of my formative experiences were all about comic books, I think. Can't talk about it without spoiling, so let's leave it at this, since this is the Most Important Question of the Day:

[Poll #738776]

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I picked Professor X, not necessarily because I want to be Good. (Really, I tend to be more True Neutral than anything else.) No, I just prefer his leadership style. Plus, he seems much more interested in his people learning and growing and changing and thinking for themselves than Magneto does, you know?

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

I don't know if todays icon is new, but it is tres cool.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is new! And funny! I discovered a trove of screencaps from the first two volumes of Gormenghast and pirated some pictures for icons. I can find the page again for you, if you like.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I went with Magneto for similar reasons, really. I agree with X's leadership style and wanting people to grow and think. He has his limits and own biases on that, though, and sometimes I wish he'd once in a while say, enough of this shit and knock some heads together. So, yeah, neutral, but slightly coming down on the Magneto side.

Welcome to Mutant Land

[druidevo.livejournal.com]

I be like, you know, we're mutants, we're diffrent, lets go and do something else. I would solicit members from both sides and fence sitters to go and live away from all the non-mutants entirely. I mean with enough people we could build a small island or go found a colony on the moon. And then trade with the outside world when we needed to.

I would however not want to take over any place that was already owned by someone else. I wouldn't want anything like the Israel/Palestine situation

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

X but I'd be in touble a lot and courted by Magneto relentlessly.

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

I'm more likely to come down on Xavier's side, but it's more likely that I'd find a nice little niche in the world to call my own until something came along that only I could have a serious impact on.

A cool enigmatic fringe character. Yep, that's me.

Being an X-Man...

[niveus-tigris.livejournal.com]

Well, you know I'd want the kick-ass padded leather suit, naturally. Aside from that, I'd want to be in the training with Wolverine. Why? I'd be some tiger-muty-thing and would always remind him of Sabertooth a little too much. One or two 'Here, Kitty...' comments and it would be game on in the simulator when we were supposed to be teaching students. Prof. X would have us in the office every other day to tell us to chill out and we would laugh about it over a beer later that night while ogling hot mutant girls.

(feral grin) Yeah.

Re: Being an X-Man...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's so you. "I want to be a good guy so I can fight with the other good guys."

Re: Welcome to Mutant Land

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think Magneto went that route eventually. I don't remember, though, if they just created Genosha, or if they had to kick someone else off of it first.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Everybody loves an anti-hero.

Re: Being an X-Man...

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

So the second-most important question of the day is "What is your mutation?", followed closely by "What is your mutant nickname?", eh?

I'd go all invisible and be called "Wraith," I think.

Re: Being an X-Man...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think we did that one on here before, but it's probably still fun. I'll pop up a post on it.

Re: Being an X-Man...

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I just remember doing one on superpowers or suchlike.

Professer X

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Because he's hot, in a bald-headed, can't walk sort of way. Plus, I'd get to be closer to Wolverine. Yum!!

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I want to be evil...I want to use my powers for hubris. (Salvitoria spits, take that! hahh...spitoons are for whimps!)

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I never read comic books...but x-men reminds me somewhat of a Fantasy series I read about aces and jokers. There was some redheaded guy who was an alien, and goo escaped, it turned some people into aces (flyers, golden boy, dino kid) and some into jokers....It's been a long time since I've read those though.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Then you probably feel inexplicably drawn to Magneto's side. Are those metal earrings, by any chance? :-)

P.S. Pyro is on our side, too. Hee.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

I'd choose the X-Men, but I'd likely be beligerent and trouble-causing like Wolverine. Yeah. DOOM.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

And DUDE. X-Men took in $120.1 million dollars this past weekend (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13024609/) - which is a record for Memorial Day weekend.

Da-yum.

re: Xavier goes postal

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Apparently, he did, once:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mindwipem.png

It didn't take, of course, but such is the way of comics...