guess what, I'm a dork

[kleenexwoman]

FANDOM STUFF:

--Here, I wrote a little drabble about spies smoking cigarettes because I wanted cigarettes but should cut down on the cigarettes.
--Here, in comments, I stole a very short story and turned it into the first metered, rhymed thing I've written for months.
--Here, my boyfriend wrote a story about cigarettes that's way better than my thing about cigarettes.

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR DEVELOPMENTS! I'm not filtering the heck out of this stuff anymore because I'm just not. Also, I've had some sort of headache for the past few days that's not exactly so much a headache, more like just a mass of bandages hugging my skull very tightly and surrounding me in a fluffy, soothing cloud of disorientation. Guess why.

Oh, great, Sammi has a cold and I'm going to get it in about three weeks. >:[ Should I start stocking up on Vitamin C or just wait until the sniffles start and ride it out?

ROLE PLAYING GAME STUFF:

--My Changeling character, Bloody Sylvia, got tapped to join the Ministry of the Scarecrow, a secret society dedicated to creating and perpetuating urban legends in order to scare mortals away from places where they might be stolen by the Fae. I'm psyched. One of the reasons why I stayed in Changeling is that it's still possible to create and shape storylines without having to stir up a bunch of interpersonal drama. I hope I can do something cool with this.
--I'm thinking of creating a one-off or two-off Changeling game, just for a few people, for fun--something along the lines of mortals trapped in a fairytale. The trick may be finding a fairytale that's obscure enough so that people won't know exactly what to do, but still usable with three or four players. It'd be my first time ever GMing.

Comments

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Guess why.

Because your uterus is blood-rich and fertile and your hormones are hopping all over the place?

I pulled a muscle in my side the other day and bought some of that "icy hot" gloop today. It's powerful stuff. Burns like a mofo, but it works. (Just make sure to wash your hands thoroughly before doing anything with 'em that happens to involve your undercarriage.)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Because your uterus is blood-rich and fertile and your hormones are hopping all over the place?
Nnnnnnnooooooo. I reproduce by sporing.

I wrenched my back carrying laundry a few days ago. I shall have to try this "icy hot" substance you speak of.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Very girly of you. My injury is from mowing the lawn, much manlier. *adjusts groin, spits*

Wouldn't it be cool if we could actually reproduce by, like, popping zits or cutting our fingernails?

It's good stuff. Smells like a really strong, sharp, almost spicy mint, but it's like a liquid heating pad.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I don't have a lawn. I did spend a lot of time dodging dogshit, though.

I wish we could reproduce by mixing equal amounts of humours and saying a little spell and making little homunculi.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

My best friend is a biomedical engineering grad student, and his big project involves bull semen, his experiments with which he has shown me many hilarious videos of. I have this sick desire sometimes to take a sample of my own, um, fluid and look at it under a microscope. Just for fun, y'know. And to see if all their heads look like mine.

Mmm . . . fresh-cooked pasties for dinner tonite. (The Cornish meat pie, that is; not the sparkly nipple covers strippers use. Although that deserves an "mmm", too.)

[drworm.livejournal.com]

Because your uterus is blood-rich and fertile and your hormones are hopping all over the place?

I'm... not sure you know how the body works.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

'Course I do!

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

It's not blood, and the fertility happens a couple of weeks before the menstrual period. Also, the hormonal fluctuation of the average woman is actually less drastic than that of the average man over a 28-day cycle.

The More You Know!!!

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Thank you, NBC crisscrossed with "Today's Special".

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Mixing archetypes is what I do best. I've been looking up Baba Yaga stories; they're really useful in that they incorporate a lot of basic, familiar European archetypes, but the details are often either so medieval or not in tune with Americanized Western European-British fairytales that they're almost dreamlike.

I hadn't been to Changeling for a few games, but this one was fun--not too many people, which always makes for a tighter game. Plus, we ended up taking smoke breaks every half hour or so.

[drworm.livejournal.com]

*flails over the comments from that fic* I, uh, I... they write too much. :(

I'm going to go work on my papers, I theeeeenk.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

THEY LOVE YOU IN WORDS, SETH

good luck on papers :( I keep getting distracted because somebody behind me is eating McDonald's and I want to go get some fries.

[drworm.livejournal.com]

SO MANY WORDS, IDK WHAT TO SAY :(((

I keep getting distracted by Muncle porns. Dammit. Oh and I still need a poem form, I almost forgot. :/

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

lol I know. It's easier when people just say "OH DAMN THAT WAS HOT" and you can go "THANKS GLAD I TURNED YOU ON" back. Plus, you know, now you've got people talking about canon smoking in comments and that is always fun. :/ "Fun."

Try a ghazal! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal) If you're feeling daring.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

Good rhythm, and glass/blank/slack is quality. No compromise of form for story or vice versa; a good piece :)

The tricky bit is then to take a form like that and hold it for 50 to 150 lines whilst telling a larger tale; but in all truth very few people have a use for doing so.

As I thought, you have the capability for this (which is rare), and doing more will be well worth it.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was more fun than I remembered, but I almost feel like it was cheating because it wasn't quite my own words.

I want to do some silly stunt like writing an entire fanfic in metered verse--I actually had this idea where I'd write a story from different characters' points of view using different forms for each character (the antagonist, for example, would get a villanelle, mostly because I like the rather feeble pun there), but I may have to work up to it.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

Versification is a real skill. If you can versify other people's words, you can fix the rhythm of your own, too. That's priceless.

How long would that fanfic be? 'Aurorielle', at 38000 words, is the only example I know of anyone ever carrying that off in anything other than a one or two page poem (and I couldn't name one of those offhand either).

The thing I am working on just gets harder and harder, because the amount of detail and content I am finding through research is phenomenal. I do wonder if I'll ever manage it; target is 100,000 words in just that manner, but that is for book one of the trilogy, now, as far as I can see. Think, writing the Lord of the Rings in that manner with photographic illustrations, and you'll see what I've taken on. At least the illustrations are coming along ---

I'd encourage you to practice forms for their own sake; to put everyday events or news stories into forms simply as an exercise (many of them will turn out to be viable and worthwhile poems in their own right) and to gain skill in finding the form that best expresses character or action in each given case.

Expect help and advice; I strongly suspect there is just you and me in this at all. And yet, once one sees the method work, it appears the most natural thing on earth to do with poetry, everything else looking flat footed and stereotyped.