[squirm]

[tealin]

ONE WEEK TILL I HAVE THUD! IN MY GRUBBY LITTLE HANDS!!

I shall buy it at lunch and set it in reigning glory over my desk until I get off work.



You can stop smirking now, unfairly-advantaged Americans.


The Colour Quiz, courtesy of buttfacemakani:

Your Existing Situation
Sensitive and understanding but under some strain; needs to unwind in the company of someone close to him.

Your Stress Sources
Eager to make a good impression, but worried and doubtful about the likelihood of succeeding. Feels that she has a right to anything she might hope for, and becomes helpless and distressed when circumstances go against her. Finds the mere possibility of failure most upsetting and this can even lead to nervous prostration. Sees herself as a 'victim' who has been misled and abused, mistakes this dramatization for reality and tries to convince herself that her failure to achieve standing and recognition is the fault of others.

Your Restrained Characteristics
Very exacting in the standards she applies to her choice of a partner and seeking a rather unrealistic perfection in her sex life.
Conditions are such that she will not let herself become intimately involved without making mental reservations.

Your Desired Objective
Seeks the determination and elasticity of will necessary to establish herself and to make herself independent despite the difficulties of her situation. Wants to overcome opposition and achieve recognition.

Your Actual Problem
Depleted vitality has created an intolerance for any further stimulation, or demands on her resources. This sense of powerlessness, combined with frustration that she cannot control events, subjects her to agitation, irritation, and acute distress. She tries to escape these by stubborn insistence on her own point of view, but the general condition of helplessness renders this often unsuccessful. Is therefore very sensitive to criticism and quick to take offense.

Your Actual Problem #2
Disappointment and the fear that there is no point in formulating fresh goals have led to anxiety. Desires recognition and position, but is worried about her prospects. Reacts to this by protecting at any criticism and resisting any attempt to influence her. Tries to assert herself by meticulous control of detail in an effort to strengthen her position.

Wow ... how very off.
I took this test in animation school as well, and it was even more off – claiming I was on the brink of 'imploding' – and this one's a leetle more accurate, but I'd hardly say I feel helpless and distressed. I just like cool, dark colours. Sheesh. I like minor key music too, does that make me suicidal?

Comments

What is THUD?

[(Anonymous)]

The sound of Tealin hitting the floor after she finally buys the book. Followed by the soft swishing sound of skin rubbing against fabric as she twitches.

[btheweird.livejournal.com]

Poor Tealin. Suffering a classic case of pre -THUD anticipation. it is a cruel cruel world.

Thud...and Dragon movie

[lepitot.livejournal.com]

I've never read any of those books. But perhaps I should so I'm not one of those ignorant Americans who doesn't take advantage of it?

Also...sorry to sort of randomize your journal...didn't you work on a movie called Dragons: Fire and Ice? It's coming to Toon Disney...in a Marathon of animated movies (most of which are the worst of the cheapquels, but with The Emperors New Groove, so it's all good!) I can't wait to watch it. What scenes did you animate??

Jon

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Urgh, really it's not that good. Not bad enough to be entertaining, but not good enough to be worth 74 minutes of your time.

Dragons

[lepitot.livejournal.com]

Haha, I've sat through some really horrible movies: Bakshi's Lord of the Rings(and, really, nothing can be worse than that...thing), Tarzan and Jane, Atlantis: Milo's Return...

I'm sure I've seen much worse. Plus, I'm easily entertained, so I'm sure I will find it at least enjoyable. Besides, I know (well, not literally "know" but...have an online acquaintance with?) one of the animators. That's exciting haha.

Jon

Hmm, are there any more Prince drawings in the stewing pot? Or are you pretty much done with those?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It'll probably have to wait until I read the book again... so, feel like waiting a couple years?

Haha

[shirasakura.livejournal.com]

Thud was great. And I think I know why they moved up the date in the US. Terry Pratchett was at the Barnes and Nobles in New York City when it came out and I got an autographed copy.

[infiniteviking]

Don't open it in the store. It's bewitched. You won't be able to close it again until you've finished it. I could hardly put it down when I reached the desk to get it signed, and I don't even remember what I said to Mr Pratchett because MY BRAIN WAS STILL READING THUD!

Does that quiz ever decide someone is a nice well-adjusted individual with no personality problems? Its glass is half empty, I guess.

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

Honest! I wasn't smirking! I'm upset you don't have it because it meant I had to wait for your visions of it.

*sob*

[doomandnachos.livejournal.com]

I'm not smirking!...if only because I am a great dork and waiting for the Canadian edition, just to get the pretty cover. I have a weakness for pretty books.

(The color quiz is an interesting one - my reaction to a lot of my results could be classified under "you started out on the right track, then went teen-girl-emo-angst-drama-power on it..." :) )

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

Unfairly disadvantaged Brits, too, I'm afraid. It was in Tesco the other day, at a grotesquely reduced price, but I did not buy it - I want to try to get to a signing on the 14th October.

Besides, my brain belongs to Waking the Dead at the moment - series one and five simultaneously!

[my-fox-rocks.livejournal.com]

Mmm...Waking the Dead...good show that is.

I wish I could come with you to a book signing : ( but I'll still be stuck in Uni then *sigh*

which school

[zeshen.livejournal.com]

what animation school did you go to?

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Waking the Dead is the Show wioth Boyd & Co? (It's called something else in Norway.) It's really cool.

[villrot.livejournal.com]

Hullo ms. noodle.:D Found your lj through your webpage. Hope you don`t mind me being here.

[indomituslupus.livejournal.com]

Yes, what animation school did you attend? please comment back to tell me :]
Anyway, i wasn't smirking 0_0...

do you have a picture of Rincewind? I can't get a clear picture of him in my mind. I just replace how he looks with a really shabby Lupin. o_o

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

For Rincewind, see Paul Kidby. No one does him better. (His artwork, I mean, I don't know if he actually looks like Rincewind. I doubt it.)

Email is a marvelous invention, don't you think?

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

*stops smirking*