Romance Tropes in Anime vs Romance Novels
Recently I’ve finished playing Valkyria Chronicles and If My Heart Had Wings.
Valkyria Chronicles, recently released for PC (earlier released on PlayStation 3) is a strategy game; featuring a bunch of cute boys & girls in cutesy uniforms with rifles in an almost WWII-esque setting.
If My Heart Had Wings is a ‘visual novel’; the story is about [...]
Pretty HG Log Style
There’s a somewhat famous styled git log I have in my config. The guy I grabbed it from said it was from scm-breeze, I think maybe he meant tiimgreen’s github-cheat-sheet. In any case, The Git one is like:
%h - [...]
I Could Solve This in Five Minutes
So, at the moment I’m sludging through Sherry Thomas’ latest, & first Contemporary, “The One in my Heart”.
There’s lots to not-enjoy about it. (Like the character lamenting the lack of timeless marriage, at the same time as looking at her phone during lunch with her partner). Whatever. The bigger issue for the Romance Novel here is that there’s [...]
You Know You Should Be Using VCS For That
It’s kindof cute that all programmers, if they’ve worked on any project for a long enough time before learning about VCS, surely all take the same approach to novice “version control”. e.g. Keeping folders/copies as snapshots of how the code looked at that time. – We weren’t all born knowing how to use VCS. (Though, maybe those who didn’t bother [...]
Case Study of Conflict in Narrative
Maybe in my previous postings on this topic I’ve come across as a little harsh on RASalvatore, and perhaps it seems that I think all Romance Novels do character well. Okay. That’s obviously not going to be true.
But I’d still like to consider Katherine Ashe’s novella from the “At the Billionaire’s Wedding” anthology with regards to conflict in [...]
Devil in Winter
So. Recently I re-read Lisa Kleypas’ “Devil in Winter”.
Not the first time I’ve re-read that book. There are some less-than-stellar parts of the book. (Notably, an awkward sequel-setup, which then doesn’t get follow-through in the next book besides “oh. that. haha. oops.”.).
But it’s such an amazing, fantastic book! I can’t believe there’re those who don’t think [...]
On Women in Tech
So. This is a topic I see come up at various times.
Broadly, tech/STEM/etc. has many more men in it than women, and so naturally there we need to make efforts to remedy this. This post has also been a post which has been sticking around in my “Draft” pile for a while. Figured I should get it off [...]
Conflict in Narrative, RE: Genre
I rambled recently about some genres, romance and action/adventure, particularly that one genre did characters well and the other was strong in plot.
I wondered whether romance genre was inherently worse at plot. A tool which would help this thought would be the notion of whether conflict is ‘internal’ or ‘external’.
Gunfights, explosions and whatnot would be ‘external’.
Silly Things to Say on International Women's Day
It was International Women’s Day a couple of days ago. A knee-jerk response seen on social media was: When is it ever International Men’s Day? This is a stupid thing to say.
Do you want an International Men’s Day? Grow up, I’d reckon. Saying “What about International Men’s day?” on International Women’s Day, when sure as shit you’d not [...]
Rambling on Genres, Romance and Action
Lately, I’ve been reading lots of RASalvatore. Specifically, his Legend of Drizzt series. I’ve read the first 11 books so far. I enjoy them well enough. They’re sword-and-sworcery stories, falling roughly under action/adventure and scifi/fantasy genres.
What I don’t enjoy is RASalvatore’s characters, for the most part. And so generally any monologue Drizzt has, or any morality consideration (usually [...]
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