I wanna write fanfic now
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kleenexwomanI had a very disturbing and vivid dream last night. It started out as an episode of Yellowjacket Greenapple, Private Investigator, and it had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drworm in a cameo appearance as some kind of oracle psychic. The plot involved a small group of sorority girls whose brains had been taken over by Yeerk-like aliens (Yeerks were the aliens in the "Animorphs" series, which I used to love; they were little slugs that went into people's brains like in Heinlein's "The Puppet Master" book). The aliens were being controlled by something that appeared to be a Gundam robot (I don't watch Gundam but I know what they look like), and it was making the sorority girls take over my dorm, go into people's rooms and perform weird rituals meant to placate their demon robot master, then steal all the furniture and chop up the stairs so that they could hold the rest of the dorm captive and put the slugs in our heads. I would like to say that I bravely held them off with Yellowjacket Greenapple and drworm, but I actually spent most of the dream cowering in my bunk and trying to find the elevator so I could get out. I'm not sure why Yellowjacket Greenapple was there, because he doesn't actually investigate real things that are happening. Maybe he was there on accident. And drworm isn't actually an oracle psychic, unless there is some spooky new development in her life that she has neglected to inform people of. Also, my dorm doesn't have an elevator. And I didn't have a bunk bed while I was there.
Maybe it's one of those deja-vu dreams I get, and I'll have a bunk bed next year, and evil alien sorority girls will take it over.
Yay for public libraries. I went to mine today and they were celebrating with cheap balloons because they got more taxpayer money. I would much rather my taxes, which I do not pay, go to public libraries instead of nuclear weapons. Of course, this was a millage, so it only affected the Farmington Hills area. And Farmington Hills doesn't have any nuclear weapons. It'd be cool if they did.
Actually, no. That's untrue: Farmington Hills does have nuclear weapons. I distinctly remember one of my history teachers telling me that there was a missile silo on Grand River, left over from the Cold War. I'm going to have to go and verify that...
Anyway, I got books. I got all seven Preston/Child books that they had (everything up until "Brimstone"), but I am not entirely sure which ones actually have Pendergast in them. All of them? Some of them? Are there some that just have him as a minor character, and then some where he's the main character? Are there any webpages that have a guide to this? I'm going to read all of them anyway because I may have to spend more time at Dad's, and I don't have my jewelry things there...but I'd like to know anyway so that I can figure out which books I have to prepare myself with hot tea and a locked door for, and which ones I can just read during commercial breaks.
I also got a new William Sleator book. William Sleator, for those of you who have not read any of his books, is probably the best YA SF author, like, ever. His books have intriguing premises, intricate and deceptive plots, complex characters, and well-developed underlying themes. His writing reminds me a little of most ofghostgecko's stories, actually.
William Sleator books that YOU NEED TO READ:
The Boy Who Reversed Himself
Summary: Kid can go into the fourth and second dimensions. Nosy girlfriend wants to learn how to do it and they get into trouble.
Comments: Reminiscent of, and probably inspired by, the Edwin Abbot book "Flatland", a Victorian SF book about Mr. A. Square, a two-dimensional creature who is kidnapped by a three-dimensional sphere. Contains well-thought-out descriptions of the fourth dimension and what it would look like to three-dimensional people, as well as the effects of dimensionally-reversed ketchup on children. (Just say NO!)
The Duplicate
Summary: Kid finds machine that lets him make duplicates of himself. They try to kill each other.
Comments: There's this movie by Michael Keaton, called "Multiplicity", that has a similar premise. That movie sucked. This book does not suck at all, and partially inspired a "Back to the Future" fanfic that I never got around to writing.
Fingers
Summary: Genius composer kid has dumbass virtuoso brother. Both of them get possessed by musician ghost.
Comments: I thought the ending was kind of lame when I read it, but the book itself is...freaky.
The Green Futures of Tycho
Summary: Kid finds a time travel device and proceeds to fuck up his life and future quite badly.
Comments: The first time travel book I ever read. Has plot elements that are very very similar to "Back to the Future", but it was published in 1981. Also it's a little creepier. If you think Marty was kind of a twit, you will love this book to death. You will probably love it even if you don't think he was a twit.
House Of Stairs
Summary: Five kids are in a psychological conditioning experiment that they don't know about.
Comments: Sociological fiction! I actually gave a copy of this book to my Sociology prof for summer reading, it's so good. If you have any interest in the Zimbardo or Millgram experiments, you will love this. You will also love this if you ever wanted to write a serious academic paper on "Lord of the Flies."
Interstellar Pig
Summary: Kid on summer vacation plays game about aliens with neighbors who take the game very seriously...
Comments: I really want to play this game. I don't know why Wizards of the Coast hasn't come out with an RPG based on it.
Others See Us
Summary: Kid gets power to read minds at family reunion, does mental battle with hot cousin and creepy grandma.
Comments: The description of the mind-reading powers is what really grabbed me, and I continue to love and occasionally use its premise.
Singularity
Summary: Kid uses very small black hole to get one up on his abusive twin brother by aging a year in one night.
Comments: First William Sleator book I ever read. Also first real SF book I ever read; before that, it was all fantasy and whimsical rhyming poetry, after that it was all black holes and rocketships.
The Spirit House
Summary: Thai exchange student has pet ghost-demon thing.
Comments: This book really scared me. When I was done being scared, I got mad because there weren't any books on Thai mythology in the school library.
Strange Attractors
Summary: Kid deals with trying to hide time travel device from scientist and scientist's attractive daughter and semi-evil alternate versions of said scientist and daughter.
Comments: I wish this was a fanfic I'd written. But it isn't. Would it be doubly unoriginal to gank this plot and apply it?
Books I just found out about and am mad that the library doesn't have: The Last Universe
How did I miss this? Why doesn't the library have it? Why doesn't Border's have it? Grr.
Will work on new part of BttF Fanfic Chain story tomorrow. Have plans to lobotomize at least one major character. The group host person, Heidi Rittner, says she wants to make me a moderator. This means I can kick people off the chain and let other people join...if anyone wants to...
drworm in a cameo appearance as some kind of oracle psychic. The plot involved a small group of sorority girls whose brains had been taken over by Yeerk-like aliens (Yeerks were the aliens in the "Animorphs" series, which I used to love; they were little slugs that went into people's brains like in Heinlein's "The Puppet Master" book). The aliens were being controlled by something that appeared to be a Gundam robot (I don't watch Gundam but I know what they look like), and it was making the sorority girls take over my dorm, go into people's rooms and perform weird rituals meant to placate their demon robot master, then steal all the furniture and chop up the stairs so that they could hold the rest of the dorm captive and put the slugs in our heads. I would like to say that I bravely held them off with Yellowjacket Greenapple and drworm, but I actually spent most of the dream cowering in my bunk and trying to find the elevator so I could get out. I'm not sure why Yellowjacket Greenapple was there, because he doesn't actually investigate real things that are happening. Maybe he was there on accident. And drworm isn't actually an oracle psychic, unless there is some spooky new development in her life that she has neglected to inform people of. Also, my dorm doesn't have an elevator. And I didn't have a bunk bed while I was there. Maybe it's one of those deja-vu dreams I get, and I'll have a bunk bed next year, and evil alien sorority girls will take it over.
Yay for public libraries. I went to mine today and they were celebrating with cheap balloons because they got more taxpayer money. I would much rather my taxes, which I do not pay, go to public libraries instead of nuclear weapons. Of course, this was a millage, so it only affected the Farmington Hills area. And Farmington Hills doesn't have any nuclear weapons. It'd be cool if they did.
Actually, no. That's untrue: Farmington Hills does have nuclear weapons. I distinctly remember one of my history teachers telling me that there was a missile silo on Grand River, left over from the Cold War. I'm going to have to go and verify that...
Anyway, I got books. I got all seven Preston/Child books that they had (everything up until "Brimstone"), but I am not entirely sure which ones actually have Pendergast in them. All of them? Some of them? Are there some that just have him as a minor character, and then some where he's the main character? Are there any webpages that have a guide to this? I'm going to read all of them anyway because I may have to spend more time at Dad's, and I don't have my jewelry things there...but I'd like to know anyway so that I can figure out which books I have to prepare myself with hot tea and a locked door for, and which ones I can just read during commercial breaks.
I also got a new William Sleator book. William Sleator, for those of you who have not read any of his books, is probably the best YA SF author, like, ever. His books have intriguing premises, intricate and deceptive plots, complex characters, and well-developed underlying themes. His writing reminds me a little of most of
ghostgecko's stories, actually. William Sleator books that YOU NEED TO READ:
The Boy Who Reversed Himself
Summary: Kid can go into the fourth and second dimensions. Nosy girlfriend wants to learn how to do it and they get into trouble.
Comments: Reminiscent of, and probably inspired by, the Edwin Abbot book "Flatland", a Victorian SF book about Mr. A. Square, a two-dimensional creature who is kidnapped by a three-dimensional sphere. Contains well-thought-out descriptions of the fourth dimension and what it would look like to three-dimensional people, as well as the effects of dimensionally-reversed ketchup on children. (Just say NO!)
The Duplicate
Summary: Kid finds machine that lets him make duplicates of himself. They try to kill each other.
Comments: There's this movie by Michael Keaton, called "Multiplicity", that has a similar premise. That movie sucked. This book does not suck at all, and partially inspired a "Back to the Future" fanfic that I never got around to writing.
Fingers
Summary: Genius composer kid has dumbass virtuoso brother. Both of them get possessed by musician ghost.
Comments: I thought the ending was kind of lame when I read it, but the book itself is...freaky.
The Green Futures of Tycho
Summary: Kid finds a time travel device and proceeds to fuck up his life and future quite badly.
Comments: The first time travel book I ever read. Has plot elements that are very very similar to "Back to the Future", but it was published in 1981. Also it's a little creepier. If you think Marty was kind of a twit, you will love this book to death. You will probably love it even if you don't think he was a twit.
House Of Stairs
Summary: Five kids are in a psychological conditioning experiment that they don't know about.
Comments: Sociological fiction! I actually gave a copy of this book to my Sociology prof for summer reading, it's so good. If you have any interest in the Zimbardo or Millgram experiments, you will love this. You will also love this if you ever wanted to write a serious academic paper on "Lord of the Flies."
Interstellar Pig
Summary: Kid on summer vacation plays game about aliens with neighbors who take the game very seriously...
Comments: I really want to play this game. I don't know why Wizards of the Coast hasn't come out with an RPG based on it.
Others See Us
Summary: Kid gets power to read minds at family reunion, does mental battle with hot cousin and creepy grandma.
Comments: The description of the mind-reading powers is what really grabbed me, and I continue to love and occasionally use its premise.
Singularity
Summary: Kid uses very small black hole to get one up on his abusive twin brother by aging a year in one night.
Comments: First William Sleator book I ever read. Also first real SF book I ever read; before that, it was all fantasy and whimsical rhyming poetry, after that it was all black holes and rocketships.
The Spirit House
Summary: Thai exchange student has pet ghost-demon thing.
Comments: This book really scared me. When I was done being scared, I got mad because there weren't any books on Thai mythology in the school library.
Strange Attractors
Summary: Kid deals with trying to hide time travel device from scientist and scientist's attractive daughter and semi-evil alternate versions of said scientist and daughter.
Comments: I wish this was a fanfic I'd written. But it isn't. Would it be doubly unoriginal to gank this plot and apply it?
Books I just found out about and am mad that the library doesn't have: The Last Universe
How did I miss this? Why doesn't the library have it? Why doesn't Border's have it? Grr.
Will work on new part of BttF Fanfic Chain story tomorrow. Have plans to lobotomize at least one major character. The group host person, Heidi Rittner, says she wants to make me a moderator. This means I can kick people off the chain and let other people join...if anyone wants to...
