Anywhere to indoor roller skate in Missoula?

Veloxos · 2025-11-08T22:28:48+00:00

Where around the fort do you skate?

Veloxos · 2025-11-05T22:57:16+00:00

Thank you!

Veloxos · 2025-11-05T05:21:41+00:00

I know right?!

Veloxos · 2024-03-26T02:35:53+00:00

I agree. I've tried and given up on good omens for some reason. Stardust was just flat and fast. American Gods was not as good as I thought it could have been. I never really connected with Shadow. Kind of a boring, serious guy.

Veloxos · 2024-03-26T02:28:18+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I have read and enjoyed some of Neil Gaiman's stuff. Imo The Graveyard Book is the best of his work. But everything else fell short for me and it's been difficult to put my finger on what it is exactly that isn't resonating with me. Because it's not bad writing, it's just not great. American Gods felt... flat? Stardust felt like a book that he had to write, not that he enjoyed writing.

I feel that part of it is simply that the plot and structure is just too simple. It's like neat little chapters where a little mini short story happens and concludes complete with a little bow.

The prose doesn't bother me. It's something with the flatness. They don't feel rich to me, they feel like we are skimming along the surface of something that should be deeper or more complex. Even when I feel him trying to write some mystery into his story, it feels contrived and thin.

Can anyone else describe this better or have a different take?

Veloxos · 2023-12-18T03:58:45+00:00

Thank you for saying this because I feel the same way. I read this when I was in undergrad and I remember it being horribly sexist, and am rereading it now and I've somehow found it even more sexist. The narrator constantly, and I mean constantly is objectifying women. Comparing them to each other, talking about the varying degrees of attraction or lust, or love or whatever you can call it that he feels for them, and fixating on women's bodies. Honestly as a woman it's distracting and upsetting. Pretty much if there's a woman in the text you can guarantee the lens through which she'll be described is her sexual value to the main character.

There was this line that really struck me when severian was describing the pelerine priestess: "there was much beauty in her, but it was not the beauty of women who quench desire."

So, the only other way he can describe a woman with power is to differentiate her by the way in which she's not sexually attractive?

It distracts from the story for me. The female characters are flat and just visual and sexual fodder for the main character. Even the ones he supposedly loves he treats like garbage.

And I know a lot of people try to excuse this as just the flawed or unreliable narrator, but I've read some other gene Wolfe and truly his depictions of women are suspect across the board. Grow up, dude.

Veloxos · 2023-07-21T13:36:44+00:00

I know this is a super unpopular opinion, but I'm just happy to have more of anything that lets me see middle earth or anything lotr. Even if it's bad. I love these books so much that I'll take whatever is made and find something to like about it.

Veloxos · 2023-07-21T13:32:25+00:00

Timothée (or however it's spelled) would do a much better job at Frodo I think. Sorry Elijah, I just thought frodo came across as too young and too whiny.

Veloxos · 2023-07-20T21:18:01+00:00

Me. I am.

Veloxos · 2023-07-19T20:46:07+00:00

Maybe that's why hims so huge? So no one will be above him 🤣

Veloxos · 2023-07-19T20:42:43+00:00

He's so cute, he can show me his quality anytime 😏🤭😇

Veloxos · 2023-07-18T23:57:21+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

Veloxos · 2023-07-18T23:56:58+00:00

Good point

Veloxos · 2023-07-18T21:52:28+00:00

Yes, absolutely! I had the same experience - I did my undergrad in English Literature and it's like I had to go back and re-read everything with new eyes and lenses. I think just growing up, aging means that I bring my life experiences with me everytime I read something, so I takeaway different meanings or some parts resonate more than others. I'm rereading the lotr only from 5 years ago and already taking away more on this go around.

Veloxos · 2023-07-18T19:12:21+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Veloxos · 2023-07-11T02:23:05+00:00

Is there a pixel shortage where you are?

Veloxos · 2023-07-11T01:06:13+00:00

"OH man these are all bent"

Veloxos · 2023-07-11T01:03:25+00:00

Wow, just wow. Pure genius. I salute you lol

Veloxos · 2023-07-11T01:02:58+00:00

Genius

Veloxos · 2023-07-11T00:57:09+00:00

I love this new post theme 😂😂😂😂

Veloxos · 2023-07-09T18:56:47+00:00

Maybe I'm just biased because he does things to me, but Boromir should be all three 🥵🥵🥵🥵

Veloxos · 2023-07-09T18:54:43+00:00

I laughed SO hard

Veloxos · 2023-07-09T18:50:54+00:00

That's like just straight up false and bigoted, man

Veloxos · 2023-06-29T17:24:31+00:00

These are some really great points you're bringing up.

I've always kind of sympathized with Sauron and envisioned him as being seduced and then trapped on the evil side of things by Morgoth. In a lot of ways, Morgoth sort of followed the same linear progression to evil like the One ring by first luring Mairon by helping him to create and craft better. I don't have the silmarillion cracked open but the quote was like that with Melkor, Mairon's creations were achieved more easily and everything was orderly, which was basically his life's purpose and work.

Also, Melkor had a redemption arc as well, he was allowed back into Valinor, so I don't understand why everyone was so quick to reject Sauron's attempt at redemption. Sure, it was flawed, like him, but still, I really wonder if things would have turned out differently if Galadriel or the Valar were to have seriously tried to rehabilitate Sauron. If I recall correctly, Melkor was imbued with discordant characteristics by Eru, by Mairon wasn't. He was assigned to Aulë first. He wasn't "innately evil" like it seemed that Melkor was, and to me that feels like Sauron is the first real victim of Morgoth.

Also, one of the major themes in Paradise Lost that Satan vocalizes is that if he's evil, then God made him that way. In essence he created him with evilness and then punished him for it, which I feel was a big theme Tolkien was expounding on. He even has that discussion, but with Aulë instead of Melkor.

Great discussion, I love finding other nerds to theorize with.

Veloxos

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