красно дякую :)

you are right, I am in Eastern Europe, Ukraine, to be exact.

well, in our part of the world, a booka is a basically boogyman, something you scare children with.

such energy and determination!

the first one I like. the rest made my head hurt.

tell me, tell me!

fair warning :) the comic books from the U.S. are not sold in Ukraine, and I don’t make enough these days to order them from Amazon, so I am probably safe on that front :)

Saw the French Beauty and the Beast. The camerawork, the landscapes, scenery, costumes and the SFX are astounding. the story, not so much. A real eye-candy that leaves unnerving questions like, why would the script writers think that a woman switches from contempt and hatred to love in, like, 2 days?

I was mostly angry with what he made of an interesting female character — maybe it was supposed to show that she is a hub of the group but it did look like she was just used as a tool.

thank you, a rather picturesque explanation :)

well, then. at least, it had Tim Curry.

my husband used to be an avid MUD player so he keeps referring to obscure monsters and perks all the time. weird things we learn to survive.

what is a drider?

I watched it once then — and will never ever watch it again, for all my love for both King and Curry, and I do not intend to watch the new adaptation: i have a baby girl of myself now and it would be sheer torture.

that is truly good news. although I haven’t seen any mentions of the show for quite some time.

I wonder whether this means that Rhianna is not doing the TV adaptation of the Night Watch series any more.

As a matter of fact, the Battle of the Bastards is indeed unreal — as in, anachronistic. my husband, a historian and DM of some experience, pointed out to me in our discussion of the episode (luckily after we watched it, not during) that the pikemen as they were shown were at least several hundred years ahead of the…

if only it had more women in its creative team and did not implement the Not All Men metaphor so by the numbers.

and before them there were Wild Dances (that was Ukraine’s second year at Eurovision that brought it the victory):