Happy International Raistlin Majere Day!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
We were quite startled (and DELIGHTED) to discover how many fellow Raistlin fans lurked quietly amongst our beloved Author-friends! And so, in an expression of great joy and solidarity, we have officially declared today, Thursday, April 8, INTERNATIONAL RAISTLIN MAJERE DAY. Today is a day to celebrate all things Raistlin! Why don't you take a little sojourn in Raistland (GET IT? RAISTLAND??? OMG), the premiere Raistlin-fan website! buy a Raistlin shirt! befriend Raistlin on Facebook! who knew you could even CALL RAISTLIN AT HOME?!?!? Fucking bananas! EVERYONE LOVES RAISTLIN!! Seriously.
SOME MORE IDEAS FOR CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL RAISTLIN MAJERE DAY
1. Drink some bitter, smelly tea! Dandelion root, burdock, and astragalus are all quite rank, and have the additional benefit of being good for your liver.
2. Sneer. A lot. If you have to, practice your sneer in the bathroom until it's really terrifying.
3. Put yourself first. All day. Would Raistlin eat the last cookie at the staff meeting? YES HE WOULD.
4. Be kind to someone less fortunate. Remember, Raistlin showed great kindness to the humble and unloved gully-dwarf Bupu! Even the meanest among us can secretly harbor a boundless love for the oppressed!
5. Be smarter than everyone else all day. Carry around books no one at your workplace will understand. Make exasperated noises a lot and stomp off when people say things you find displeasing.
6. Quietly but ruthlessly mock jocks and people who are more attractive than you. Tell them you can see what they'll look like when they're really old and hideously ugly. Stare at them until they become uncomfortable and look away, then laugh.
7. Make whispered pronouncements in a dead language. Say things like "I must travel roads that will be dark and dangerous before the end of my long journey" while looking very solemn.
8. Go home and change into a red bathrobe. Hang out looking sinister. Throw fireballs at your enemies.
How shall YOU celebrate INTERNATIONAL RAISTLIN MAJERE DAY, Author-friends? Tell us!!!!
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This is too beautiful! And I'm already wearing red! I could take a Sharpie to class and sit there slowly coloring my shirt black over the block, and when it is totally black, smite everyone and take over the world.
You know, if I don't pass out from Sharpie fumes first. Which might actually be what Raistlin would do - HI, 3 CONSTITUTION.
Yep, still a nerd. That's this morning's check taken care of.
How about an International Raistlin Majere Day wordle?
I'm officially addicted now. ;) And yes, I know I screwed up the title. S'okay. I've never claimed to be edit-proof.
Cheers Rejectionist, you just brought back some fond, geeky memories for me.
Raistlin was by far the best character in Dragonlance, and my whole reason for reading that book.
OMG I LOVE RAISTLIN and now I love you even more, Le R. Thank you!
I shall celebrate by finding Caramon and mocking him incessantly. :D
(by the way, I signed up for a typepad account especially so I could comment on this post!)
OMG, I just discovered you yesterday while shopping for clever, reality-checking write-about-writing stuff and I find that there's a closet Dragonlance fan behind all that third person wit?
Color me pleased.
So can I now show you my failed queries binders form my short story collection about growing up playing D&D with an alcohophile sport jock father and a esoteric bipolar mom in snowy Montreal?
:)
What if you're already doing all those things?
What if you're already doing all those things?
Play tag.
*throws fireball at Laurel*
You're IT!
Hey, fun, didn't know about this 'holiday', I'm in! Readying fireballs and already mumbling to myself.
Number 6 is the best. I AM REALLY GOING TO DO THIS to the very next person who pissed me off.
@ Lydia:
I'm engaging in #2 now. Fireballs. How...quaintly nostalgic.
holy crap i think i love you...
ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!
I... I.... the love... it burns... like Fizban's fireball...
ZOMG ZOMG
I think I shall seduce a virgin to assist me in my evil plans. But I'm in Los Angeles.
This could take a while.
Any volunteers?
This has completely made my day.
You are awesome!
@ Lucy: You want my mother-in-law? She is a virgin. You pick up travel and incidentals.
Open a tanning salon.
Pfft. Those suggestions are lame. I'm off to challenge Tiamat to a duel.
Oooh, Dragons of Autumn Twilight I read that one!!!! Yeehaw!
I regret to admit that I know Kiefer Sutherland did his voice in the cartoon. :P
Make women fall in love with me then tell them they can't follow me into the dark.
Epic day, fer sure.
The cartoon was a bitter, bitter pll to swallow for this Dragon Lance fan... Until I realized it started getting my young boys into it! They are hooked, soon it will be the books...
(PS. We are geeks at our house - Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Dragon Lance, Icewind Dale trilogies and beyond. Yep GEEK FEST AT OUR HOUSE)
I had a baby whose ears are pointed, no fooling. A year and a half later they are still pointier than the average persons. From the beginning, my family alternated between calling him Frodo,and Yoga, with Tanis thrown in by the adults :D
The home-visit counselor had a cow but I simply laughed. My child was a god in our house and she could lump it or we would be more than willing to throw fireballs and give dirtly looks. lol
BTW his name is Isaac... we didn't see the ears before naming him *sigh*
Holy crap! So *that's* what my toddler has been doing all day!
#2 explains a lot.
But now that I'm onto her, two can play at that game >:) I'm already the master at #8. That kid is goin' down!
Thanks for the grin, heh...
I have no idea who this Major Raisin guy is, but I just wanted to point out something that The Rejectionist must already know:
Anyone tell you that you look like Skeletor's huskier older brother on a horse, on his way to the Golden Corral buffet, where you will try to get a free meal because your brother is a celebrity, but they reject you? You then pay anyway because it's steak night (dude--all you can-eat steak for $10?!?), but then proceed to eat only salad with those little chick peas and light italian dressing because some dude online called you husky.
While there, you see, "I Habda Powah!" Dolph Lundgren (He-Man in the Masters of the Universe movie), but decide not to fight him. Leave that to Stallone.
Moral of the story is that Rocky beat up the dude with the Russian accent in Rocky 4 that also played He-Man. And today is International 'Rasslin Mahjong Day.
Or something.
This is just another day at the office for me.
All hail Raistlin Majere!
Okay, now I'm completely convinced you guys are teh awesome. You need do nothing else - I'm now a hopeless fangirl.
Raistlin, oh Raistlin, who carried my faith in fantasy long after I'd really outgrown the genre. What a wonderful character! *sighs* *sobs*
I am wearing red and black and sneering. I will mock the beautiful people and give Solace to the oppressed. (See what I did there?) I will convince good men that they could change me in order to manipulate them to my goal of becoming Goddesslike.
However, it takes valerian to make a really foul herbal tea, the pro being that it's a sedative and will mess you up quite nicely.
OH AUTHOR-FRIENDS! We love you so much today we are, like, getting a little weepy.
I think I left my red cloak in Xak Tsaroth.
But my sneer seems to be working fine. Hint: the smelly tea helps.
There's no crying in Raistland.
To celebrate I am going to stare with lifeless eyes into an orb all day at work. When I get home I plan to throw down with the Queen of Darkness.
word ver- fumness: the state of yum and fun
I just happened to be wearing red and black today as well! Synergy!
I married a guy who wanted to be Raistlin when he grew up. (Still would, if given the option, I have no doubt.) I have a giant framed poster of Raistlin and Crysania signed by Elmore, Weis, and Hickman that used to hand in my office. (Go GenCon!)
Let's just say you've totally made my week. ;) Thanks Rejectionist!
Awesome idea. I coughed a lot today. Does that count?
I'm sad that I am looking through my RSS feed so late today.... but am delurking just long enough to show off my 12" Raistlin action figure. Not enough people appreciate the ridiculous awesomeness of Dragonlance.
http://bluefairysworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/01/raistlin-majere.html
This is a Great Day. Today I learned that OTHER PEOPLE are into Raist, I am NOT ALONE.
I saw this a day late, but I will salute Raistlin anyway. And yes, indeed, I vote that coughing a lot should count. This is especially true if said coughing could be called "hacking." I also feel there should be bonus points for any blood or spittle produced from coughing, but only if you have a discreet cotton or linen hankie to wipe your mouth with. A wadded up Kleenix will not suffice.
I am sooo sorry I missed this. I wonder if I can still get belated Raistlin Day card from the Hallmark store.
Guess I'll just have to mark it on my calendar for next year.
OMG! This is amazing! xD
Thank you for making my night! <3
oh my goodness, this is amazing.
i did not love chrysania though, am i alone?
Someone over the RPG Twitter community mentionned that a show centered on the Chronicles-era Raistlin/Caramon/Chrysania would make have all the ingredients for a Twilight/True-Blood success... I'll leave it at that :)
Interestingly enough (to me anyway), I found your blog because I had been wasting obscene amounts of time wracking my brain over what modern day actor I could possibly accept as Raistlin Majere in a live action film. Seriously. I'm always at least mildly offended by casting choices when I've loved a book (see Tom Cruise in The Firm. Really? Sad). Anyway, I was never in love with Mitch McDeer, but Raistlin, he's in my heart. He's in my soul so you know, I'm going to be pickier than normal about something that's not actually ever going to happen. It had to be someone compelling who could convey a tender creepiness whilst remaining disconsolately attractive. I was lost and then a vision of James Franco's deranged smile flashed behind my eyes. I could totally see it and so I began to hunt for images of James Franco creepy or weirdo James Franco. Google matched me up with your Dear James Franco entry from April of 2010 and the rest, as they say, is history. It was really interesting to learn that he's a worse writer now than I was in high school; interesting and comforting. And your writing has been nothing short of inspirational to me ever since. I'm just saying'.
=)
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