Norq: Hahaha, yes! Fan service in sentence form. :-D

But... Just how broken is Steff, anyway?

I wonder when Mackenzie will realize that they're real orgasms. Hee hee.

Yeah, she's really reaching the point where her character either needs to either be shot, or... actually, yeah, she just needs to be shot.

My boyfriend keeps trying to get my housemate addicted to my internet addictions.  Bad boy!  We're too alike already!

(I was reading this thread, and my housemate turns to me and says, "Do you know what this "Tales of Moo" thing is that [TIP] just linked me to?")

I was upset she dropped out of Prof. Ariadne's class, but I know she cares about her scholarship more than making a point... it was just a disappointment.

OMG, Twoooooooooo! *MELT*

Thoughts on Tales of MU, in no particular order:

*Half demons and prejudice - People believe that even half demons need to feed on humans. This is correct. It is not entirely unreasonable jump from that to assuming they need to kill people, do other horrible things to humans, etc. Also, I'm not sure they would all be rape babies. The Triclops on the floor? Almost assuredly a rape baby. Mack? No clue. I can see a demon seducing a human. Are they always obviously demons? We don't know.

*Professor Ariadne - I'm sure that there is more to this story. And we know that Mack is going back to confront her. She decided that when she Steff convinced her to drop the class. Can elves hear the subharmonic sounds that aren't directed at them? Dee knew there was someone talking to Mack, but could she make it out. She was sitting right next to Mack. Ariadne probably couldn't hear it; she just knew that Mack was listening to something. That's my guess. I'm still not sure on her exact reasoning for treating Mack so badly.

*I'm looking forward to meeting Victor.

*I'm glad I read Terry Brooks' "Running with the Demon" before being introduced to Tales of MU. Issues dealing with magic and demons got me thinking about some stuff that was handy approaching ToMU.

*I like that author's approach to building her world. Instead of taking our reality and slapping magic on top of it, she turns everything upside down. "Science is a nice fantasy, but believe that everything is set up so conveniently? Absurd." (quote from memory, so close enough) Lots of little touches, references to our world that don't have the same meaning there. (ring on the finger) That sort of thing.

*I'm really looking forward to more of Mack's classes. Especially invocation and fighting. Though the thaumatology professor is cool.

That's it for now.

OK, I'd seen links to this on webcomics I read, but I hadn't actually checked it out until this thread here.

Now over the past 2 days I've read from the beginning to the latest installment.

This is some fantastic writing. I absolutely love the fantasy world she's created, and I laugh out loud on a regular basis at some of the quirks she throws in (the circle, the "ring on the finger", etc.). I very rarely do more than chuckle at most of the stuff I read, but this is just too good.

She is also very good at characterization, even the characters I don't *like* I can understand. Or at least realize there is more to their story than has been revealed. And I love how everything is filtered through this one character's view, and quite often she just gets it *wrong*.

Overall, I'd have to say that AE must have had a much more....interesting college experience than I did (sadly).

Eee!


Aw, Twoey.