"That's good, since it's one of the areas I know the most about/have friends living in. XD"
Heh, yeah. I know my mom, who's originally from NYC, is always wincing at movies and books that get details of the city wrong because the writers or whatever have never been there before, especially since it's so utterly famous a city and with such a big population that you'd think it'd be easy to research, yet you constantly see things where her first reaction is "Did they seriously even look at a map of the city? Ever?" Heh. XD
" And no, I wouldn't mind at all! Feel free to hit me up any time."
Awesome! :D
"Not a lot of people call Seattle the Emerald City- generally just tour guides and the like-, I've noticed, but Seattleite is really common. :)"
Very good to know. :)
"And yeah, once I heard of the sparkling vampires, my expectations out of the books sank like a stone... I wasn't surprised that the author didn't do her research about Forks. I think the craziest wildlife we have is the squirrels on the UW campus that leap out at you from trash bins and steal your food. ETA: Out at you, not out of you. XD"
Ahaha. Kind of like that 95% of the time here, too. We're famous for "OMG wildlife", but aside from harmless but pretty birds (including, fun fact: cattle egrets, which will actually cross the street at the cross walk and wait for traffic to stop first no less, and sandhill cranes, which are beautiful but occasionally intimidating as they're like 3 ft tall and some of them are so used to humans that they come up to you expecting food)... it's really so developed that the worst that ever happens is very, very rarely during the dry season, someone will find a gator (often under 3 ft, so, not that big) wandering around looking for a new pool of water, or an obscenely large and fat raccoon getting into their trash. Or maybe a small corn snake on the porch, but unless you have finches out on your porch like we do, that's not really a big deal, since they're not poisonous to humans or anything. Probably the "scariest" I've ever come actually across without having to go to a wildlife sanctuary are wolf spiders... because they're pretty big, and they jump sometimes several feet in the air even, which can scare the bejesus out of you, or at least it does me, because anything with more than four legs automatically kind of creeps me out, let alone when it's freaking out and jumping at me. XD
"XD Luckily, the Space Needle is visible from pretty much everywhere, so it's hard to get too terribly wrong. But I know what you mean. Just remember, you can always go back and fix things/add information once you're done, it doesn't have to be perfect this time. :)"
True, true. :) I sometimes have trouble forgetting that, I'm one of those people that edits as she goes, and obsesses over where to place the commas, ahaha. XD
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Date: 2008-11-10 10:56 pm (UTC)Heh, yeah. I know my mom, who's originally from NYC, is always wincing at movies and books that get details of the city wrong because the writers or whatever have never been there before, especially since it's so utterly famous a city and with such a big population that you'd think it'd be easy to research, yet you constantly see things where her first reaction is "Did they seriously even look at a map of the city? Ever?" Heh. XD
" And no, I wouldn't mind at all! Feel free to hit me up any time."
Awesome! :D
"Not a lot of people call Seattle the Emerald City- generally just tour guides and the like-, I've noticed, but Seattleite is really common. :)"
Very good to know. :)
"And yeah, once I heard of the sparkling vampires, my expectations out of the books sank like a stone... I wasn't surprised that the author didn't do her research about Forks. I think the craziest wildlife we have is the squirrels on the UW campus that leap out at you from trash bins and steal your food. ETA: Out at you, not out of you. XD"
Ahaha. Kind of like that 95% of the time here, too. We're famous for "OMG wildlife", but aside from harmless but pretty birds (including, fun fact: cattle egrets, which will actually cross the street at the cross walk and wait for traffic to stop first no less, and sandhill cranes, which are beautiful but occasionally intimidating as they're like 3 ft tall and some of them are so used to humans that they come up to you expecting food)... it's really so developed that the worst that ever happens is very, very rarely during the dry season, someone will find a gator (often under 3 ft, so, not that big) wandering around looking for a new pool of water, or an obscenely large and fat raccoon getting into their trash. Or maybe a small corn snake on the porch, but unless you have finches out on your porch like we do, that's not really a big deal, since they're not poisonous to humans or anything. Probably the "scariest" I've ever come actually across without having to go to a wildlife sanctuary are wolf spiders... because they're pretty big, and they jump sometimes several feet in the air even, which can scare the bejesus out of you, or at least it does me, because anything with more than four legs automatically kind of creeps me out, let alone when it's freaking out and jumping at me. XD
"XD Luckily, the Space Needle is visible from pretty much everywhere, so it's hard to get too terribly wrong. But I know what you mean. Just remember, you can always go back and fix things/add information once you're done, it doesn't have to be perfect this time. :)"
True, true. :) I sometimes have trouble forgetting that, I'm one of those people that edits as she goes, and obsesses over where to place the commas, ahaha. XD