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KILL ME, I NEED CONTENT BACK.
That said, two more memes. And, um, I'll resolve my personality conflict about content sometime real soon, or similar. I'm not sure why I make these promises, when I know perfectly well that a) no one cares (this is not where everyone runs and says OMG I DO TOO CARE) and b) I will wind up saying the same thing all over again in three months.
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laurel714: Explain your Live Journal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.
Channon Yarrow is a character in Transmetropolitan. She's rather tall (as I am) and starts out the series as a journalist apprentice of sorts to Spider, then fucks off away after he gets all Spider all over her life. When she returns, she becomes his bodyguard, since he's acquired, in the intervening time, Yelena Rossini, who has taken the journalist apprentice role.
When I made my lj, I was trying to take other nicknames, but every variation of Cass that I could stand was taken, and steppinrazor3 (and variations thereof) was as well. Channonyarrow was my third choice, and I thought of it partly because I really like the character (and the series), but also partly because there was something of a joke at the time that I was a friend's bodyguard. Someone who behaved very badly to her was living in mortal terror of me, despite having never met me, because I was going to go put the fear of god into him if he didn't learn manners, and damn quickly.
I am pleased to report that he learned manners. But it is a role that, I think, I step into easily, partly from the sheer intimidation factor of someone my height and partly from the protectiveness I can feel towards friends. It doesn't hurt that Transmet is sheer genius - after having to explain for the last ten years that my email address is a reference to Neuromancer and I hate Neuromancer with a burning passion, it's nice to have my journal be a reference to something I like and respect and have no qualms about recommending.
As you might imagine, I have a LOT of people to tag, having THIRTEEN LETTERS in my name. Agh agh agh. And I am not tagging anyone whose name I already know the origin of (which leaves out, like, everyone I know in real life).
Tagging:
nullstr
skibinskaya
40hex
isotripy
exairian
niburu33
hammerheadshrk (though I have a vague memory of you explaining this, I can't find it. Am I crazy?)
nebris
adellyna
germankitty
thisdaywefight
woodra
gillen
And a second meme, because I promised. Fromjkivela, First ten people to comment on this entry get free drabbles from me. You pick the content and everything. Then post this and do the same in your journal. (And jkivela had it as doodles, but, seriously, my drawing skills are the Vortex of Suck +5, so I changed it.)
I make no promises on date done or anything else. But you will get what you ask for. And if you ask for fan stuff, I reserve the right to clarify what I know well enough to write for - anyone who asks for SGA or Buffy will be smote mightily. Chances are, if it's on television, I don't know it. Except Homicide. I know Homicide.
That said, two more memes. And, um, I'll resolve my personality conflict about content sometime real soon, or similar. I'm not sure why I make these promises, when I know perfectly well that a) no one cares (this is not where everyone runs and says OMG I DO TOO CARE) and b) I will wind up saying the same thing all over again in three months.
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laurel714: Explain your Live Journal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name. Channon Yarrow is a character in Transmetropolitan. She's rather tall (as I am) and starts out the series as a journalist apprentice of sorts to Spider, then fucks off away after he gets all Spider all over her life. When she returns, she becomes his bodyguard, since he's acquired, in the intervening time, Yelena Rossini, who has taken the journalist apprentice role.
When I made my lj, I was trying to take other nicknames, but every variation of Cass that I could stand was taken, and steppinrazor3 (and variations thereof) was as well. Channonyarrow was my third choice, and I thought of it partly because I really like the character (and the series), but also partly because there was something of a joke at the time that I was a friend's bodyguard. Someone who behaved very badly to her was living in mortal terror of me, despite having never met me, because I was going to go put the fear of god into him if he didn't learn manners, and damn quickly.
I am pleased to report that he learned manners. But it is a role that, I think, I step into easily, partly from the sheer intimidation factor of someone my height and partly from the protectiveness I can feel towards friends. It doesn't hurt that Transmet is sheer genius - after having to explain for the last ten years that my email address is a reference to Neuromancer and I hate Neuromancer with a burning passion, it's nice to have my journal be a reference to something I like and respect and have no qualms about recommending.
As you might imagine, I have a LOT of people to tag, having THIRTEEN LETTERS in my name. Agh agh agh. And I am not tagging anyone whose name I already know the origin of (which leaves out, like, everyone I know in real life).
Tagging:
nullstrskibinskaya40hexisotripyexairianniburu33hammerheadshrk (though I have a vague memory of you explaining this, I can't find it. Am I crazy?)nebrisadellynagermankittythisdaywefightwoodragillenAnd a second meme, because I promised. From
jkivela, First ten people to comment on this entry get free drabbles from me. You pick the content and everything. Then post this and do the same in your journal. (And jkivela had it as doodles, but, seriously, my drawing skills are the Vortex of Suck +5, so I changed it.)I make no promises on date done or anything else. But you will get what you ask for. And if you ask for fan stuff, I reserve the right to clarify what I know well enough to write for - anyone who asks for SGA or Buffy will be smote mightily. Chances are, if it's on television, I don't know it. Except Homicide. I know Homicide.
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Prompt: polyester and free advice.
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HH and polyester and free advice - that might be TOO plausible.
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I wanna do the journal name meme, but mine is boring... Maybe I'll just do my other LJs instead.
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And you shall have a drabble. (I almost said "have a meme." When I knew that was wrong, I almost said "have a sheep." Also wrong. A DRABBLE SHALL YOU HAVE.)
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Oooh!
Initially it was Woodra Woodrike, and it was to be my pseudonym in case my graphorrheic works were to be published by some work of miracle. I was sixteen and I was fascinated with the weird sounding pen-name. I'm pretty sure it also had something to do with the -ike ending, because only the cool characters get to have -ikes in their names. Pretty much brainwashed by noir and pulp fuction stuff back then (just take my obsession with Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series), I thought Woodra Woodrike was a perfect name.
And then? Then it just stuck with me. I shortened it to Woodra and it was present in almost all aspects of my virtual life - email addresses, pseudonyms, chat nicks, SNs, etc. Still present, actually. If I am to ever drop it, I'll probably do it only once I decide to be done with a whole stratum of life that had to do with Woodra.
Ah, hahah, now can't you just tell how very narcissistic I really am? Gods.
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And for the second meme--
Content: Anything up to NC17 and beyond that, if necessary
Drabble descriptors: Various kinds of -fucks: genderfuck, mindfuck, emofuck, foodfuck, uhhh.... whatever else?
Specific requests: Your personal view on the theme.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE!
I'm greatly interested in what you may come up with.
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Re: And for the second meme--
And the username - that's an interesting explanation. I love finding out where peoples' usernames come from, why they identify that way and all. So do you just plan to use your real name if/when you publish? Or were you writing something specifically that you didn't want your name on? Not that I'd want my name on ANYTHING I wrote when I was sixteen, but hey.
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That's an easy one....
~M~
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A nebris is also an electrum plated wand some times found in the tombs of the Pharaohs.
~M~
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added you to this secondary LJ.. ;)
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Shall add back of course, and find out what this journal thing is all about.
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(Also, I think it's totally awesome too.)
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You could tell me and it wouldn't have to count. I profess myself very interested in where your name comes from, actually.
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- Christopher Gillen
(and I had to snag it before Kieron or Aidan)
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Your facts clash with my theories. Please remove your facts immediately.
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1. LOVE sharks. I love that they are automaton, fully equipped, gorgeous, efficient, and eight zillion years old. They reflect the true purpose of life - get very, very good at it, and pass it on. And then eat everybody.
2. Dude, they have HAMMERS for HEADS.
3. I am, occasionally, sharky sharky sharky.
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Hmmm...
Snape learns about guns.
Go get 'em, chica!
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A particular favorite of mine is considering Hermoine, most likely the only student to not only know about but worry about nuclear power, having to keep that secret fast to herself. She would carry the most important information in the world in terms of Voldemort's destructive cpabilities, so the welfare of the wizarding world would actually revolve around her secrecy and safety, while everyone was worried about Harry.
One person wrote a cool fic about that, where Harry is in posession of an artifact that puts him in alternative realities, each starting from the same time, but vastlty altered by the changing possible circumstances, like Quantum Leap. In it, one of the scenarios is that he find himself crouched down in the forest at night. And after some searching, he stumbles across Neville, also hiding hungry and bedraggled in the forest, who explains that Muggles have taken over the castle. They reunite with others, who explain that while there are amazing magical defensive and offensive weapons, most magical weapons cannot be reproduced, handed out and used by people with little or no training, and cannot kill more than one or two people at a time. Hogwarts was easily overtaken with a small military force and tear gas bombs, since Avada Kedavra does not an army make. Harry had to save three prisoners from the castle with a well-established military occupation in place, and everything from dogs to heat sensors to rifles trained against him. It was not only fuckin' awesomely written, it was clever and unusual.
I've always wanted to see the subject explored further. I don't read fanfic anymore, because I have read the most enthusiasticly rec'd ones, and I don't have time, and I've pretty much gotten it out of my system. But I've always wondered what would happen if Snape learned about guns - especially if that lesson was taught by a Muggle-born student.
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It's interesting how his approach to others changes as the story moves on. He gets more confident, more wary, more succinct. Since he know he will only be in each relaity for a short, but unknown amount of time, he increasingly is willing to lie, steal, and do pretty much anything to get himself, his wand, and whomever else he can out of danger before the artifact sends him somewhere else.
I'm tellin' ya, the story rocks, and I would love to find it again. It's very, very long, but it as well worth the two fuckin' days I spend reading it non-stop.
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I'd love to read that fic- I've never seen that subject explored before.
As for reading about a character like those you mention in your comment below, I think it would be extremely interesting. I do wonder, however, how many people would scream "Sue!" about it...
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How much should writing be stifled by critics implying that the character created is too much like what the author would themselves like to be? Writing a shell-shocked Sudanese transfer student into Hogwarts is only MarySuing if the author wants to be a shell-shocked Sudanese transfer student. Now, if that character is impervious to pain and bullets and wind and gravity and has Xray vision and eternally good breath (In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!...)then we're MarySueing up a storm. But what if the character is strong? What if they san see through walls? What if they are strong but only around water, or can see through walls but only if they're fiberglass or concrete?
Is every character an author likes a Mary Sue? Is there a ratio of strength to flaw that must be adhered to? Windswept golden tresses and a complexion fair as a peach are pretty obvious, but what about stunningly beautiful blue-black skin? Being able to handle a knife flawlessly in every battle - and conveniently having one to handle ::snicker - handle!:::: is pretty obvious, but what about picking up a butter knife and getting in a lucky stab? What about carrying a knife? Is that so Mary Sue in a world where students carry guns to the extent that many schools have metal detectors at the front door?
I am not, for better or worse, a war refugee, thank God. Nor would I want to be. But I can relate to a very, very, VERY limited extent to alienation, violence, persecution, and feeling overwhelmed and out of context. Where does using a cool character, drawn from life, to operate within thier own inclination toward a circumstance the author relates to, become a Mary Sue? Does it start if they're pretty? What if they aren't pretty, but are self-assured? When does the suffering of a charcter become the angst of a Mary Sue longing to play hero? Is that negated if the character falls down the stairs? Or sneezes?
Life is, after all, occasionally just plain cool. I don't like the 'awkward first sex scene' fics that try to decry any possible Mary Sueism by making everything as awkward, hairy, smelly, sticky, and embarrassing as possible, during which two charcaters miraculously manage to complete coitus. I have in fact had that first-time sex ( not a WORD out of you, Channon), and it was never like that. It was, in fact, rather hazy and pleasant. If I write hazy, pleasant sex, am I a Mary Sue, or speaking from my experience? So to me, that gruesome scene is just as fake as a sex scene dipped in strawberries and fragrant breezes under an apple tree in a temperate! summer with the harmless - stingless! bees buzzing gently over head pollinating the seedless! apples.
Mary Sue has its place, but I'm not sure it's a good scale for veracity.
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I play one of my rp characters (GJ: fabula_via) as having chosen to leave the Wizarding world because he saw entering it as an escape from a life he didn't like, but it wasn't an escape at all - it was even worse in some ways because suddenly, on top of being Irish (which I had him being insulted for, since he's Irish Catholic and his family's from Belfast) he's also a Mudblood and he's just looked down on. So he leaves the WW in search of safety that he thought he could find there, but no one in the books ever considers that. They're happy just leaving and never looking back at the Muggle world again because they're part of something special.
It might be special, but it could also be about things that Muggles have to deal with. And I would love to see a canon plot where Harry (who can't go more than ten pages without going "Bwuh? Magic is EVEN MORE AWESOME than I thought?!") starts thinking in terms of Muggle weaponry to kill Voldie.
I haven't read fic in a couple years - no time at all, and a lot of the writers I liked are out of it now, but I'd love to see that looked at as well.
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One thing I have noticed - well, let me start properly.
I go to college in Phoenix, AZ. Everyone here is pretty much either Mexican or white or a mix. We have some Vietnamese, some Koreans, but most of them live in Mesa, inother parts of the city. We do have students from all over the world, but the majority of the population is white or Hispanic.
There is one type of student who really stands out. At some point - I don't know much about it - Az created a program to sponsor the Lost Boys. In the genocides of Africa, there were like two generations of Sudanese and Ethiopian boys left starving with no family, called the Lost Boys. So the AZ gov't brought them over, subsidized their housing, and gets them in school. So every once in a while you'll be walking around phoenix and see a seven foot tall boy, or man, depending on age, who is so black they're blue. They're quiet, with bright white grins and a quiet demeanor, and beautiful accents. Many of them have scars somewhere - on their faces, or arms. They seem unpeturbed by anything, they all want to work in medicine, and they are all, every single one I've met, straight A students. They never, ever talk unless they are spoken to, except among groups of themselves, where they all use their tribal languages.
We quickly learned not to talk to them about where they came from, because the conversation went like this:
Me: "Hi. Where are you from?"
Student: " I am Yomimba. I am from Sudan."
Me, trying to be friendly: "What brought you to the US?"
Student: "When my mother and father and sister were chopped with machetes by the (insert paramilitary genocidal force here), the American government found us hiding under their bodies, and brought my brother and me here. "
::::horrified silence as I realize what the terrible scars on his arms are from:::
Me: "Well, nice to meet you! Bye!"
::scuffling sound as I FLEE THE BADNESS:::
So, what would like at Hogwarts be like for a Sudanese boy? The danger, the threats, the social crap, either wouldn't matter or wouldn't even be registered. Threats to family or of physical violence wouldn't matter, because they've seen it. (You'd think they would be traumatised, but that's surprisingly not the case. The Sudanese and Rwandan refugees are very calm and composed - eerily so. The watch everything, but other than their eyes constantly scanning averything around them, you'd never guess what they have been through) There would be no disobedience, but no hesitation to do ANYTHING to stay and complete their education. They would not be afraid of or impressed by dangerous events or potions, dangerous weapons or animals, but family feuds and racial tension would perhaps merit extraordinariy caution and attention.
I'd love to see a character like that explored.
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I apologize.
And, if you're still interested, this entry (http://skibinskaya.livejournal.com/129529.html) explains how I chose