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:D :D :D Scooty is fantastic. (My numberplate is GO・494... xD) Though, uh. Today was the first time I went riding in a high temperature, and... leather is not waterproof. :D; Which is probably a good thing, or I'd have been running rivulets of sweat down my legs (GROSS, GROSS, GROSS). (See, I actually got some decent gear because despite my confidence, I am weak against odds and fully expect to either have an accident or fall of said scooty sometime within the year. :3 Oh wells <3) Scooty, scooty, scooty. ♥ Well, the only thing I haven't done yet are corners sharper than 90*, or U-turns (which, really, are a subcategory)...
Tomorrow is my day off uni <3 ...which means errands. xD; Oh well. ♥ Scooty, ahaha.
Spotlight had 20% off everything today, so I went over and bought five metres of bright orange drill drill for a starfighter flight suit. xD It is going to be v. f. hilarious. The flak vest (white thing) will be tedious, but que sera... (Really, I want to 'play one of the Twi'lek pilots -- more likely Wraith Squadron's Diap'assik, but uh. 8D; I think the headtails would sort of be tough on short notice. :| All the tutes I've looked up so far speak of pantyhose and copious amounts of latex. If not clay and weird, weird injecting techniques that sort of make me squeamish despite their inanimate status.
Earlier, actually, I lied. :3 I'd been re-reading books 5~7 of the X-Wing series (Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, and Solo Command respectively). And if there are any to read, it is those three. Aaron Allston (books 5-7, 9) vs Michael A. Stackpole (1-4, 8) is... um.
Stackpole's writing tries very blatantly to be clever. xD; Ending remarks and stuff that people would not actually say, for how much they'd look like a tool if they did. His technical writing, though, is fantastic. :D;; I'd recommend him if you're the kind who has tiny X-Wing/TIE /Interceptor models and likes to play out the actual scenes and dogfights and stuff. It's there in all the nitty-gritty. xD; Sometimes it's tedious. There's a lot of detail.
Allston's dogfights and descriptions are a little more fluid, running faster, glossing over a bit more; you still get the point, just without seeing all the pebbles in the stream. It's his characters, however, really come alive -- relative to Stackpole's. In the series, Stackpole mainly writes the Rogues -- and while he does go into their histories and developments, his writing suits the fact that, more than anything, they are a symbol of the Rebel Alliance/New Republic. It's almost impersonal. Of course, the nature of his characters are also that kind -- they're polished; the best of the best.
Wraith Squadron (Allston's) is... the direct opposite of that. They're the worst of the tragic, and... it's more about the squad dynamics, pilot development and relations than anything. Their personal issues, and etc. xD Allston sort of loses at subtlety when it comes to the romantic aspect, but uhhh. It's not a main theme/big thing, so whatever. The friendships and bonds he builds for them are fantastic. (And his practical jokes win ridiculous and kooki.) Aaand... this geekery had no point, so it will stop now. 8Dv
If Allston'd written the Rogues, I think I'd be a very, very happy fangirl, but at the same time it's probably just as well that he didn't. xD; Who knows. ;;;
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