Gloomcookie and other evilness

[fluffymark]

Waaaaaaaah! I want I want I want. laumiere is very evil for introducing me to the wonders of Gloomcookie. Now I need to buy for myself. Thats despite me already having spent my spare money by accidentally buying the t.a.T.u. album earlier this week. Where do i find it? Forbidden planet and comics shops, yes, but i doubt I'm going into central London this week. Will large bookshops sell it? I'm going to diiiiiiiiiiiie without it.

Managed to miss a swathe of social engagements this weekend (Vicar alex's birthday, Tenebrae, Picnic&Piracy and Gay Pride march) due to feeling ill and stoppy and unsociable. Feeling a bit insecure recently, which is odd, as I've been feeling the most loved in many months, in a general sort of way, not by anyone in particular. I blame all you wonderful people for making me feel great, you're all wonderful! *huuuuuugs*

I vanquished evil today. I purged Elvira (snow_leopard's computer) of virtually everything. And she appears to be behaving now. Or maybe the evil spirits that got exorcised have passed to jellyfish - as later the impossible happened - Linux crashed!! Been using Linux for 7 years now, and thats the first time I've seen a Linux crash.

For anyone interested, my game apricots is now version 0.2.4, and compiles under Linux and Windows (assuming you have a compiler and the SDL libraries), with optional audio. I did the cunning thing of putting it on freshmeat.net and now a bunch of geeky Germans appear to be debugging it for me. I'm such a lazy sod. :)

Many many huggles to doseybat who's had her passport stolen while in Moscow. *huuuuuuuugs*

Comments

randomness is always fun

[stranger-inside.livejournal.com]

lol, just heard of gloomcookie.. i was serchin for it and ur journal popped up, lol..

yea, i dont kno much about gloomcookie, but i still say jthm is and will always be #1 in my heart. ^_^

Re: randomness is always fun

[fluffymark]

Gosh....*goes and googles for gloomcookie* yes, you're right!!!!! Eeeep. Thats unexpected.

I now proudly own the first Gloomcookie book, and can safely say it's extremely fab. A highly satirical take on the entire gothic subculture, wrapped around a rather tenuous plotline, but hte plot is unimpotant - some of the subplots are pure gems!!!

Still not read JTMH - I really must, given that my best friend (now in russia) keeps going on about how fab it is. Any others like it you'd reccommend too?

Re: randomness is always fun

[yukihada.livejournal.com]

you like gloomcookie especially the beginning then I must recommend Ted Naifeh's Courtney Crumrin series from Oni press. Already they have one graphic novel called Courney Crumrin and the Night Things. After that I would recommend Serena Valentino's other series Nightmares and Fairy Tales that is I'm pretty sure from Slave Labor Graphics like Gloomcookie. I'm sure your local comic book store would be glad to help you locate the back issues or you can order online at the SLG homepage or Oni homepage (or *shiver* get it at Snottopic.) Hope you like the recs...