The perfect way to start actually using a Dreamwidth account is obviously to post fic.

[tiamatschild]

Cyteen fic, at that.

Five Board Games Ari Emory II Has Played and Disliked

1) Go. Planning out the shape of a confrontation ten or twelve steps ahead of the actual pace of the argument is neither novel nor relaxing.

2) Trivial Pursuit. Although, upon reflection, it might have been more successful if they’d had an edition newer than eighty years old.

3) Chutes and Ladders. The most boring fifteen minutes any four year old has ever spent.

4) Battle for the Hinder Stars. Somehow all of the ships had unlimited fuel and foodstuff supplies, and the strategic set up of the game didn’t even make a note of the independent Merchanter’s Alliance, which was bizarre, given who’d finally ended the conflict. Interesting concept, but a deeply flawed execution.

5) Chess. Uncle Denis said she was quite good.

Comments

[aldanise]

Don't know Cyteen, so can't comment beyond I deeply sympathize with her boredom at Chutes and Ladders, but are you moving to DW primarily?

[Er, seshat_maat on LJ, in case that wasn't clear]

[tiamatschild]

I suspect she threw it at people. She was that sort of four year old.

And no, not really, I don't think. At any rate, it's not my plan at this point, but I figured crossposting wouldn't be a bad idea, since I do have the journal. I haven't been using it long, but I like DW's interface.

(I should change the little crosspost notice so it says something less... prescriptive, I think, is a good word.)

[aldanise]

...I should read this series, shouldn't I? (I'm never going to get my to-read list knocked down.)

Gotcha. I'm pretty much equally on DW and LJ now (crossposting from DW on the rare occasions when I post), so I was curious.

[tiamatschild]

All of the Alliance/Union books are very good and feature fantastic female characters: I usually put a caveat on reccing Cyteen itself, because in addition to being extremely good, it's incredibly triggery. Compromised consent is everywhere, and there's a rape scene early on, as well as a pyschological torture scene that is just. Deeply upsetting. It's all done mindfully, but it's still triggery.

[ilyena_sylph]

*GRINS*

Oh, Ari.

...have you read Regenesis yet?

[tiamatschild]

She is inimitable!

I haven’t. I want to, but Cherryh tends to leave me an emotional wreck, and no series more so than the Union/Alliance, and Cyteen had me jittering all over the place and walking into walls when I read it, so I keep chickening out whenever I run across it in the library.

[ilyena_sylph]

Regen was much easier on my nerves than Cyteen, amazingly enough.