My problems with Science Fiction and Fantasy books

I love science fiction and fantasy, don't think that I have a problem with them, I love immersing myself in Tamriel and Middle Earth, the ideas of weapons and beings beyond our imaginations makes me giddy. The problems I have aren't with the genre itself, it's mainly with the writers and the readers. Allow me to explain.
1. Taking themselves to seriously 
So I couldn't get into science fiction or fantasy in middle school, because they tend to recommend incredibly serious, heavy stuff. It was quite a switch from Wishbone and Animorphs.

Tell me a time where being a starfish would help you save the world.

In fact, if it wasn't for Douglas Adams, I might have never gotten into the sci fi/fantasy realm past supernatural love triangles.(Another time maybe). And I'm not saying that all science fiction needs to be as delightfully random as Douglas Adams, I'm saying that there needs to be more authors like Adams and Robert Asprin. There needs to be more options for those who want a light-hearted, but not kiddy, science fiction/fantasy to read. 

2. Where are the women writers?

I know, you can't blame the famous male authors for doing well. And I'm not, I love Tolkien, Asprin, Adams, Moore (even if some don't say his stuff is Sci fi, but I think if you read Fluke you'd call it Sci fi) Millar, and I'm starting to read some Alan Dean Foster. And I know there are women writers in both of these genres, but a good amount are young adult novels and the others I haven't heard of. And I'd be willing to try some of the young adult novels if it wasn't for the force of the love triangle. I was told about The Hunger Games a while a go, but I couldn't bring myself to read it. Not that it didn't have an interesting idea, but the back of the book made the love triangle front and center instead of a side note.

Screw political commentary, Peeta and Katniss forever. 

3. Re-used tropes 

Games have slowly been getting better at this but Douglas Adams and Christopher Moore are offenders of this. The Damsel in distress and/or sexpot. And my favorite in fighting, they either tend to be hyper-masculinized or hyper feminized. And I'm not even getting started on fantasy armor. That started out in books and it hasn't ended yet.

Look all in all, I love the sci-fi/ fantasy genre. Just the books are sometimes not very female friendly. 

Elder Scrolls Online

So I'm not sure what to think of it. At first I was like this:

but with online, but the more I think the more skeptical I am. On one hand, going through dungeons with friends and being able to possibly do a market thing and sell my wares to other than just shop keeps I like the idea of.
 But the open world feel and the sociological density can't be like that on Morrowind through Skyrim. It says on the wiki they have up that you can look up here that right now they only have plans on the three provinces. I can understand that in the quality over quantity idea. And the plot seems pretty cool, but some of the race characteristics they've built well, will probably go away.
For example, Altmers are jerks. In every game since Morrowind, they will act superior over you. But since you have people playing as all races,the snobbishness is going to rub away.
It also sounds like they're bringing back classes, which unless they're doing XP based I'm not too excited about, but that's for another post.
I'm also guessing it'll be a monthly payment kind of thing, so I won't be able to play it. But I'll comment as more is revealed.

Participation not needed.

So I saw the whole movie marathon except for Iron Man And Some of The Incredible Hulk. See last post about class if you're wondering why. So I want to start off  with the fact that most people in the theater saw all the movies. And even if they didn't Captain America was right before The Avengers. But then I hear this:
"Why is Captain America still young?"
Both my boyfriend and I were dumbfounded. We just saw the movie and it was explained. But anyways, the movie was good. My problem after this great episode was with the rest of the audience. The action scenes are good, and the lines were well written, but I don't see the need to applaud after every funny line or during good action scenes.
It kind of seemed like this:

"Just keep clapping, it proves we like this," The scenes were good but I don't think that you need clap every time the hulk or your favorite character is on screen. It just got tiresome. But other than that I enjoyed the movies.

In Preperation for The Avengers

So I'm going to a movie marathon that leads up to The Avengers. But I'm only going to see half of the movies.   Damn class that will dock me half a grade for missing.

Anyways, I'm still super excited to go to Thor and Captain America before the midnight showing.So last night I was shown this awesome video from when Lou Ferrigno was the Hulk.

 

Oh mullet Hulk and shoulder pad Thor. If this doesn't get you pumped for The Avengers than maybe this person who designed fashion inspired by The Avengers.

If you like this, you might want to check out Kaciart on her Tumblr. The only one I don't like is the Hulk one, it feels too simple. But I love the other ones so much. Especially Thor and Captain America.  And also eye makeup. You can't say that it's at least impressive. If I had the talent, time, and not cheapo makeup I might have tried something like that. Or pay to have it done if I had the money. So now I wait until I can go to the marathon. 

Update on my rage and awesome mystery professor

Okay, so after my rage at Bloodmoon, I learned none of my characters were harmed in the hullabaloo of all the uninstalling and re-installing. And to celebrate, here's Samwise from Lord of the Rings to show my enthusiasm that I had inside at 1am when I realized this news.

But I decided to start over because I wanted a better balance of spells and straight up hack and slash.

Oh and someone in the faculty in my college plays Skyrim. How do I know? They have a map of Skyrim on the door. Which makes waiting for your instructor a little better. And it's not on my instructor's door but I still did this:http://myfacewhen.com/183/
and the guy sitting next to me did this: http://myfacewhen.com/110/

Elder Scrolls insanity

So I have had a taste of Elder Scrolls and I want more. But the DOS games aren't worth the hours to spend learning how to just start them up, and I don't have the money to buy Oblivion or Skyrim. The solution, finding Morrowind in a used game store that I have credit in. And for three bucks in credit I got tribunal. Bloodmoon was more than I had so I let it go for another time. So I installed and Tribunal without a hitch. And I  got a witch hunter and a Knight. Then I got the credit to get Bloodmoon. And I did, I went home, the disc was in good shape so I put it in and expected Tribunal-like easiness.
        I was wrong. It installed easily, but when I pushed play it gave me an error message. So I looked up the error message. I was not alone in this error message. Some people said install everything manually. I tried that, no result. Some people said re-install Bloodmoon. No result. Some think the order you install is important, it was in the right order. I've uninstalled and re-installed. I've had it. There maybe a magic cure for it, but I'm not going to spend that much time. I'm pissed that I have to start over anyways.
Other than that I've enjoyed it so far.

And this does happen in game, and sold the scrolls because I would have been the wizard.

Family And F2P

So I have never seen the original Star Trek TV series, I have seen a lot of Next Gen, but not the original. And since I'm going to try the now free to play on steam Star Trek Online, I thought I'd watch the old shows on Startrek.com just to cover my bases.

I've done some of this with every MMORPG I've been playing that has an existing base. I'm reading DC comics as I've been playing DC Universe Online, and I'm reading the Lord of the Rings series slowly but surely as I play LOTR online. That and I feel that its part of my family's culture.

My mom used to know elven, my aunt collects Star Trek Christmas ornaments, my cousin used to collect Star Wars memorabilia, and my dad was an AV geek before it was cool. Oh and my other cousin, Erich is part of this awesome site. And those are the few things my family can talk about easily. So I come from a geek family.

And in other news, get the joke? I did and if you scroll down it will explain it and I think its brilliant.