cthia wrote:Bruno Behrends wrote:Hahaha - you women are doing this forum good!
It had been entirely too male and tech-centric with everyone nitpicking about this approach vector or that number of missile tubes.
DWs other fantastic strengths - especially the emotional sides of his stories kind of didn't get the attention they deserve in my opinion. And the part of his readership who very much enjoy that side of his stories was entirely underrepresented.
It went so far that I was afraid the one-sidedness of the forums might have a negative impact on his stories.
Why thank you Bruno. That's very gentlemanly of you.
But I am male.
Honest mistake, I know. Someone else in a past-post stated that their brain parses cthia as Cynthia, but it is actually something taken out of Diane Duane's (thanks r&h)
Spock's World. It is the Vulcan term for logic.
But everyone in the forum treats it like I am a regular on
The Big Bang Theory. "It means logic in Vulcan. My costume is the doppler effect."
I probably should get around to filling out my profile.
Also I recognize that men have a hard time facing their emotions outwardly...the getting in touch with our feminine sides. Fear not, I've found that she doesn't rub off!
Blame it on my sister. When I was very young, my older sister was turning ten and having a sleepover. My parents home has a large courtyard in the back and my sister and her friends were playing. Being a boy I threw a series of lit firecrackers in their midst. It was so hillarious seeing them scramble like mice. But...
"Mom!"
I was exiled to my room for the rest of the weekend.
I begged my sister to smuggle me in a book.
A Little Princess was all she'd give me.
I complained, but all I got was "Either this or nothing!"
She said I needed to learn manners.
I read it, after resisting. The weekend was long. I cried like a baby on little Sara Crewe. Been dripping tears ever since on a good read.
So I thought the forum could use a few lighter topics. Where one could easily partcipate, that doesn't always require firing neurons and globs of time.
And you said it perfectly. The Honorverse has very engaging emotional content. If a book doesn't evoke intense emotional responses from me it is a failure.
I don't require it to motivate me to frighten my cat but...well...
