I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe.
Jul. 11th, 2007 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greygirlbeastMore than eight hours sleep, thank the gods of 21st-Century generic pharmaceuticals. But it left me filled with dreams (mostly of Mordor, apocalypse, and collecting Triassic archosaurs) and disoriented — pause here, because Bill Schafer of Subterranean Press called, and we talked a bit. Er, where was I. Okay, who cares. Next.
Yesterday, I wrote 1,073 words on "In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection," without absinthe. I hope to finish it tomorrow. I would be finishing it today, probably, but Spooky has proclaimed that we will be seeing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix today, and I can think of no compelling reason why that should not be so. Nymphadora rocks my socks (worry not, any spoilers will be placed behind cuts, at least on LJ). And after the film, we have dinner with Byron, who we have not seen in a couple of weeks.
Good walk last night, though the humidity was a monster. I erected my first attempt at a building in Second Life, just to start getting the hang of construction. Two adjacent walls, a first and second floor, a bit of roof, and then I tore it all down again. Before I can actually begin the Palaeozoic Museum, I must sit down and draw out a plan (based somewhat on Hawkins' sketches). Spooky's learning Wings 3D, a sculpting programme that we will be using to build the actual dinosaurs and such. Oh, and she's talking a trilobite stained-glass window for the atrium. My concept is sort of a steampunk cathedral dedicated to 19th-Century paleontology. Meanwhile, of course, there are the the rp travails of Nareth Nishi, which is that other part of my Second Life and which you may follow by reading her journal.
In this First Life, Spooky has just about finished her second Elizabethan owl sculpture (a commission), which you may get a peek at here.
Oh, and another episode of Deadwood last night before bed, "No Other Sons & Daughters."
Okay, I need coffee and a bath, so I think that's it for now. Other than a reminder of the current eBay auctions.
Yesterday, I wrote 1,073 words on "In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection," without absinthe. I hope to finish it tomorrow. I would be finishing it today, probably, but Spooky has proclaimed that we will be seeing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix today, and I can think of no compelling reason why that should not be so. Nymphadora rocks my socks (worry not, any spoilers will be placed behind cuts, at least on LJ). And after the film, we have dinner with Byron, who we have not seen in a couple of weeks.
Good walk last night, though the humidity was a monster. I erected my first attempt at a building in Second Life, just to start getting the hang of construction. Two adjacent walls, a first and second floor, a bit of roof, and then I tore it all down again. Before I can actually begin the Palaeozoic Museum, I must sit down and draw out a plan (based somewhat on Hawkins' sketches). Spooky's learning Wings 3D, a sculpting programme that we will be using to build the actual dinosaurs and such. Oh, and she's talking a trilobite stained-glass window for the atrium. My concept is sort of a steampunk cathedral dedicated to 19th-Century paleontology. Meanwhile, of course, there are the the rp travails of Nareth Nishi, which is that other part of my Second Life and which you may follow by reading her journal.
In this First Life, Spooky has just about finished her second Elizabethan owl sculpture (a commission), which you may get a peek at here.
Oh, and another episode of Deadwood last night before bed, "No Other Sons & Daughters."
Okay, I need coffee and a bath, so I think that's it for now. Other than a reminder of the current eBay auctions.
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Date: 2007-07-11 05:05 pm (UTC)I am going to need to make a pilgrimage to this.
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Date: 2007-07-11 05:11 pm (UTC)I love the way they start themes, and trail off, half-complete.
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Date: 2007-07-11 06:11 pm (UTC)This really makes me want to jab a riding-gloved finger into someone's chest and demand, "Just what the hell is going on here?" But I'm brusque like that.
Does Spooky have a RP journal for her character as well?I am curious as to the IC/OOC motivations here...
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Date: 2007-07-11 06:21 pm (UTC)Does Spooky have a RP journal for her character as well?I am curious as to the IC/OOC motivations here...
She does, though she hasn't made many posts. I'll post the link tomorrow.
The "save the murdering werewolf" thing, that honestly came as quite a shock. Not something we'd "written" into the rp, though, it's all pretty freeform.
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Date: 2007-07-11 08:21 pm (UTC)I chalk this up to the prevalence of xeno-sympathy in our contemporary culture, the capacity to suspend antipathy for the "monster" and other liminal characters in genre. I dare say that the trope is not unknown in your own work, Ms. K. Still, it is an unexpected sentiment in a setting constructed around Victorian England's social mores, culture, and technology.
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Date: 2007-07-11 10:33 pm (UTC)I chalk this up to the prevalence of xeno-sympathy in our contemporary culture, the capacity to suspend antipathy for the "monster" and other liminal characters in genre. I dare say that the trope is not unknown in your own work, Ms. K.
Which is one thing that makes Nareth Nishi fascinating to me. I am trying to make her not me, to imbue her with problems I myself do not have, so that I am forced to work through them from an alien perspective. And of course, she's trying to cope with being a "monster" herself and not doing a very good job of it.
Still, some of the lycan symps were really unpleasant people. ;-)
Still, it is an unexpected sentiment in a setting constructed around Victorian England's social mores, culture, and technology.
In Caldedon, and to a lesser degree with Babbage, I have come into the story a good ways through. It's a world in flux. In a way, it's a very prim and proper world invaded by the outlandish topsy-turvy laws of Faerie. Things are being shaken up.
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Date: 2007-07-11 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-11 07:16 pm (UTC)Just wanted to say I put up a post about reading your books backwards (http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/295739.html).
It made for quite the interesting trip. Thought you might get a kick out of the write-up.
You rock.
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Date: 2007-07-11 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-11 10:27 pm (UTC)Thought you might get a kick out of the write-up.
I did. Thank you. That was oddly reassuring to read.
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Date: 2007-07-11 10:52 pm (UTC):D