600,000

Mod tip for Ley:

https://pending.me.uk/

^^ To make life easy on everyone, this countdown timer site will give an easy to follow reference whenever a deadline is set - it creates a .png graphic that you can insert into an image tag in every vote count so people can keep the deadline and time remaining straight in their heads, like so:

Lazy Shadow Shocker

 

 

That's the headline of Tainted Times next month.

*scribbles down a note*

Pants Blue Ribbon!

A mani/pedi would be nice! Er, i mean...NO, not a mani/pedi! >.>

*giggles maniacally*

PINK GLITTER

Apparently we have trifle of chocolate cake in the fridge

*envy*

Go Ley...it's your birthday...

Ithi and Turin really are entertaining!

And yay, congrats mintee!

Make sure you report it to... panchi I wouldn't think. Hit threads don't normally get tallied anymore but she said she'd count them if people tallied their own iirc.

As I recall, hot threads were the responsibility of the Light faction leader to tally.  At least they were when I had the job.

Hurry up and put that thing (Zep) back where it came from or so help me!

*giggles uncontrollably*

Oh, I have missed you Meesh

MEESH!!!!!! *snuggletackles*

Happy birthday, Led

I totally would love a Song of Ice and Fire restaurant.   George R.R. Martin's descriptions of food are legend.

All you smartypants!

Congratulations Dar!

I usually just geek out via the internet as that's the cheapest.

^^

Podcasts and YouTube videos, forum discussions and Facebook groups... check!

At first the hero seeming to be a normal person but later finding out they are born for the role through some bloodline trait or prophecy.

Probably this, although whether or not I get tired of it depends on how well it's done.

The Song of Ice and Fire fandom is pretty starkly divided between the book purists who can't stand the TV show changes and those who can enjoy the Game of Thrones show on its own merits and not get too upset about the storyline alterations.

Aside from that, the other thing that springs to mind is from the book series/Starz adaptation for Outlander. There's a significant portion of the fandom that thinks the two main stars' on-screen chemistry is so great that they insist on shipping the actors off-screen, and some have gone overboard with it.

As I recall there was a bit of a controversy over it last year, and William Shatner got involved.

https://www.themarysue.com/william-shatner-outlander-fandom/

#1 Turin... #2 Ithi.

@ Oscar - I have, but it's been probably 20 years. I was just thinking I'm due for a reread.

Planning a trip to JordanCon next year

Other than that, it's mostly the hours upon hours of reading and/or binge watching... listening to podcasts and watching YouTube videos related to the subject... and the occasional merchandise purchase.

I am considering future attendance to something like Con of Thrones, but I think I would rather attend something where I have people I know already.

Side-bar, the Dark Is Rising is something I read like 15 years ago, and I found it again thanks to Goodreads! The only problem is I now can't find a copy of it anywhere

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00CKCVTQ0/ref=st_afs_B00WTJNU3E

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Back on topic, post here if you're playing!!!

Tooooooo much I don't know, too frustrating!

Game of Thrones, for certain... I was a fan of the books before the show was developed, and it was actually my excitement for that series that introduced me to Wheel of Time - thanks to Kaylee

Buffy/Angel/Firefly would be another love

Less so lately, but the Warcraft universe was an obsession for several years running - I played WoW for five years, and still love the lore of the backstory and read the novels as I can find them.

I can also get pretty enthused about Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere and dearly look forward to the next Stormlight Archive book and the upcoming adaptations.

There are others that I enjoy thoroughly (Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, and a handful of others mentioned), but I'm less likely to spend hours upon hours reading, listening to podcasts, rewatching the shows, and pay to attend a con to participate in the other fandoms.

I would love to play this, in theory... but there are far too many of these that I haven't either watched the adaptation or read the book, in some cases both, and in the case where I am familiar with both, it's been long enough that I've forgotten