rainy Monday
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jade_sabreIt's a rainy Monday, which isn't helping my mood, which is grumpy because I'm waiting to find out where I'm going to go when WP leaves which, if we're counting, is going to be in approximately sixteen days, even though it's not official, and last night we cuddled and ate ice cream and watched Casablanca and I don't want to go back to doing that sort of thing by myself.
and I was doing really well last week too I promise, after my meltdown. I made plans and moved forward and figured some things out! And now I'm waiting for follow-up on those things, which is why I don't know where I'm going to go. Also, organizing getting from here to there is going to be a headache and a half, as if I don't have enough stress on me already.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN THIS POST IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT ME IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A CHEAP SHOT TO GENERATE COMMENTS AND THEREFORE MAIL IN MY INBOX BECAUSE i am so bored because, as I was explaining to Emerald, the only things I have to do right now involve either a) cleaning the kitchen (never-ending chore) or b) getting ready to leave (do not want do not want do not want). Also there was a thing the other day about getting more house cleaning done in ten minutes before guests arrive than in past six months, and that's about how I operate--I don't feel any need to get things done around the apartment until WP calls to tell me he's starting the hour-long commute to come home. And since I never know when that's going to be, I just sit.
Lush is telling me my strength or weakness is feeling secure, my subconscious is calm, and my aspiration is motivation, just based on their new make up colors.
ANYWAY so to do things, here are some requests for prompts, because I'm even too lazy to write these days. (I hate rainy Mondays.) Expect drabble-y things in response.
1. Give me a character or pairing or something and a "five times" prompt.
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2. Comment, and I'll do an insta-drabble ficlet thing, prompted from whatever icon you use.
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4. Give me:
1. A line from a song or a poem.
2. The title of a book.
3. A color.
4. An emotion.
[5. A fandom, if you like.]
and I was doing really well last week too I promise, after my meltdown. I made plans and moved forward and figured some things out! And now I'm waiting for follow-up on those things, which is why I don't know where I'm going to go. Also, organizing getting from here to there is going to be a headache and a half, as if I don't have enough stress on me already.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN THIS POST IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT ME IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A CHEAP SHOT TO GENERATE COMMENTS AND THEREFORE MAIL IN MY INBOX BECAUSE i am so bored because, as I was explaining to Emerald, the only things I have to do right now involve either a) cleaning the kitchen (never-ending chore) or b) getting ready to leave (do not want do not want do not want). Also there was a thing the other day about getting more house cleaning done in ten minutes before guests arrive than in past six months, and that's about how I operate--I don't feel any need to get things done around the apartment until WP calls to tell me he's starting the hour-long commute to come home. And since I never know when that's going to be, I just sit.
Lush is telling me my strength or weakness is feeling secure, my subconscious is calm, and my aspiration is motivation, just based on their new make up colors.
ANYWAY so to do things, here are some requests for prompts, because I'm even too lazy to write these days. (I hate rainy Mondays.) Expect drabble-y things in response.
1. Give me a character or pairing or something and a "five times" prompt.
---
2. Comment, and I'll do an insta-drabble ficlet thing, prompted from whatever icon you use.
---
4. Give me:
1. A line from a song or a poem.
2. The title of a book.
3. A color.
4. An emotion.
[5. A fandom, if you like.]
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Date: 2012-08-08 02:20 pm (UTC)as I was saying
rain rain rain all week. But I did get out a little bit yesterday, which was nice!
...YOU GAVE ME THE TITLE OF AN ACTUAL BOOK I THOUGHT YOU WERE GIVING ME A TITLE AND I HAD TO MAKE UP A PLOT FOR IT. well if it's already been written I will stop writing it in my head then. I am intrigued. Tell me more. (What part of the analysis?)
My parents are pretty awesome and my dad is pretty much unreal. One of my mom's nicknames for me is the female version of Dad's name because we are so much alike. Anyway, one of my favorite stories about my dad:
[SCENE: Jade's fourteenth birthday party. All her little eighth grade friends are spending the night and discussing how Jade really needs to get instant messaging so she can be up on everyone's social lives. They devise a plan wherein as soon as Jade's dad enters the room, they will ask him in unison to allow this.]
[ENTER Jade's dad]
Jade's friends, on the count of three: MR. SABRE, CAN JADE GET AIM?
[Jade's dad carefully surveys each and every girl in the room.]
Jade's dad: People in hell want ice water.
[EXIT Jade's dad]
[A pause]
Jade's friend #1: ...your dad is SO COOL.
Jade: WHAT.
JF #2: My dad would NEVER say something like that to me!
Jade: WHAT NO.
Jade's friends: WOW your dad is so neat that was totally awesome!
Jade: GUYS GUYS WERE YOU PAYING ATTENTION HE SAID NO THAT'S NOT COOL AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
fin.
ANYWAY.
I think the only time that female protagonists show any sort of hormonal emotionalness is when they're pregnant and haven't realized it, or when they're about to get their period for the first time/are going through puberty. And after it's been dealt with
and they've gotten their birth control charm, Tamora Pierce, it's never an issue again. It's just such a hard thing to work in, you know? Like it requires you the author to know where your character is in her cycle in a given scene (and if you're like me and have a terrible sense of time you're in trouble) and like you have to decide if it matters to the scene or not, but at the same time how often do you read about female kickbutt heroines being like "uuuuuuuuuuuugh I really can't fight today the cramps are too bad"? And I feel like that's a part of female experience that deserves to be brought up in fantasy. But at the same time you want to be subtle about it, instead of just being like SHE'S PMSING GUYS. Which, in the end, is why we really just don't bother.I am EXCITED it's done by a Frenchman too I just...don't know how I'll ever get a chance to see it. /weeps for local movie theatres.
OH YES. I STILL HAVE THE EARRINGS QUARK GAVE ME. I'M ACTUALLY WEARING THEM IN MY MILITARY ID PICTURE because I couldn't find my peace sign earrings I think I left them at home but dragons are pretty good too I think.
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Date: 2012-08-09 03:24 am (UTC)I have this problem where I want to write the kinds of books I loved as a kid and also wanted to write as a kid but now I'm older and Know Things about Government and People and The Importance of Logical Worldbuilding and It Is Lazy To Just Write Generic Fantasy Without Having Some Interesting Underpinnings and scale is hard because it's like look, I just want to write about these two countries, but it's not like it's they're Haiti and the Dominican Republic, obviously they have neighbors that probably play some kind of role in their international interactions, and if you have magic you don't necessarily have the excuse of "well people usually don't travel more than ten miles away" for keeping things limited and anyway part of the fun of generic fantasy is going to all sorts of different places and Journeys and Stew and you have to be so much cleverer to write this than I thought you did.
It is literally about adjacent countries and their governments and people in them and basically fantastic worldbuilding. No dragons, though.
AHAHAHAHAHA your dad! I feel terrible for fourteen-year-old you but that is still hilarious :D
(I'm not the only one annoyed by that in Tamora Pierce! Yes. Thank you.)
how often do you read about female kickbutt heroines being like "uuuuuuuuuuuugh I really can't fight today the cramps are too bad"?
Well, never, but since when do they show any sign of physical weakness at all? It's part of a bigger problem, I think. But yeah, I would imagine that subtlety is really difficult. Also, maybe it's something that third-person narration wouldn't necessarily know? Or that it would bring more of an intimacy into a more distant narration, which would possibly be jarring? I have to think about that more.
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Date: 2012-09-07 01:36 am (UTC)You don't. What you should read is, "Snarrllllllll! Hey, enemy soldiers!!!! I have cramps that would send any man in the world whimpering to a hospital. I am not in the mood for any testosterone-driven stupidity, so get out of my face before I rip out your liver! KILL KILL KILL KILL CHAAAARGE!!!!"
I have this theory that someday some poor fool of a terrorist is going to try to take over a plane or ship people almost entirely by women with PMS. The result won't be pretty.