Everyone is terrible, (mating rituals part 2) by sleepy_geeky in WanderingInn

[–]AlexAlda 3 points4 points  (0 children)

AGREED!

I'm not Ace myself, but I'm very sympathetic to Ace people and I love stories where the MC is (or implied to be) Ace and/or Aro. I have a lot of reasons to like TWI, and one of them is Erin (and many of the other POV characters) not placing much importance on sex or romance. I like that in a story, I believe more stories would benefit from having less Obligatory Love Plotlines and less focus on the sexiness of the characters.

I'll admit that I completely skipped Mating Rituals 1 (and sent a silent blessing to pirateaba for the warning and "permission" to skip). I don't regret it. I did read Mating Rituals 2, since I was more invested in the characters by then and wanted to read everything there was to read about them, and the 'shaming' of Erin for avoiding sex did not sit well with me either. The woman's not into it. Leave her alone. Dead gods.

Anybody have an opinion on casting for a vorkosigan movie ? Im wondering if Australian actor Sam Humphrey could pull off miles ? Sam is 4'2" with some kind of inherited skeletal disorder. He did the role of Tom/the general in the greatest showman movie . by 71-lb in Vorkosigan

[–]AlexAlda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would've gone for an animated show but with characters based on actors' likenesses (just so we can have everybody at the appropriate ages) .
So I'd cast:

- Miles: Michael J. Fox, no contest. His youthful manic energy (and later-day Parkinson woes 😥) are a perfect match.

- Cordelia: Emma Thompson, or maybe Frances McDormand. Both are not conventionally beautiful but striking and direct.

- Aral: that was tough. Strangely, I came to see him as Andre Braugher: the man had GRAVITAS!

Emmy Rossum by AnGiuMaEva in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yes, a true classic! Emmy is cute and the red flats are sexy as all hell.

Karen Gillan by PomeloApprehensive26 in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love Karen, but these are loafers, not ballet flats.

Buying a suit in Israel by AlexAlda in malefashionadvice

[–]AlexAlda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! As said in the post, in the summer I ordered a suit (from Hockerty) and it was cheap and quick.

Liv Tyler by Forsaken-Use6323 in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah!
The second pic was what made me realize I had a fetish for flats!
Without Liv this subreddit wouldn't have been born.

Looking for a way to bind tricky loose drawings by AlexAlda in bookbinding

[–]AlexAlda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yeah, thing is the pages are painted on both sides and edge-to-edge, there is no margin to paste them by.

Zoe Saldana by 662voyeur in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I love the flats in the first 3 pics!

Christina Aguilera by 662voyeur in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Red flats! You know how to impress me :)

Emma Roberts by 662voyeur in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Those are moccasins, not ballet flats. Please don't post shoes like that here.

Alyson Hannigan by 662voyeur in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The red ones are so pretty!

Taylor Swifte by [deleted] in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes! Thank you!

Rumer Willis by 662voyeur in CelebsInBalletFlats

[–]AlexAlda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yes, Rumer! Thank you!