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beccaelizabethToday I am bored
for I am too tired to do anything that might get me un-bored.
I tried watching TV but couldn't really concentrate. I tried reading book but couldn't really concentrate. The internet has much more shiny for the short of attention span, and yet still, am left grumpy and annoyed.
This is why I can't study full time.
Which is also annoying.
I would sleep more except it didn't happen.
I did make up a bunch of soap opera type scenarios with the new characters I dreamed this morning. My favourite is the one where they have been dating for weeks without finding out what the other does for a living and then they both raid the same monster's lair at the same time. So there he is, stripped to the waist so his tattoos all show (because if you're going to borrow teh pretty, is good to use it), gun in each hand and talismans strapped to each arm so he's got like dreamcatcher looking things and feathers on. And there she is, all chainmail and a huge great sword (probably that monarch claymore sword AP was swinging about, the 5 ft long one, because gigantimous and pretty) and theres all the monsters and they all freeze for a moment seeing each other.
I have a feeling this is somehow a cliche, yet cannot currently think of a time it has happened.
Decided that made up not-Lindsey can be associated with a secret society of Native American monster hunters. He's the whitest guy in the organisation, like 1/8th cherokee or something.
I know nothing of the culture, I just wanted to borrow different kinds of magic to play with. Gets boring if everything is all about dead white guys, you know?
But then there are Issues with, whatsit, cultural appropriation or whatever.
Is 'pretty' a good reason to borrow someone?
*sigh*
I'm all tired and dopey and fed up of it.
But, have had pretty daydreams.
for I am too tired to do anything that might get me un-bored.
I tried watching TV but couldn't really concentrate. I tried reading book but couldn't really concentrate. The internet has much more shiny for the short of attention span, and yet still, am left grumpy and annoyed.
This is why I can't study full time.
Which is also annoying.
I would sleep more except it didn't happen.
I did make up a bunch of soap opera type scenarios with the new characters I dreamed this morning. My favourite is the one where they have been dating for weeks without finding out what the other does for a living and then they both raid the same monster's lair at the same time. So there he is, stripped to the waist so his tattoos all show (because if you're going to borrow teh pretty, is good to use it), gun in each hand and talismans strapped to each arm so he's got like dreamcatcher looking things and feathers on. And there she is, all chainmail and a huge great sword (probably that monarch claymore sword AP was swinging about, the 5 ft long one, because gigantimous and pretty) and theres all the monsters and they all freeze for a moment seeing each other.
I have a feeling this is somehow a cliche, yet cannot currently think of a time it has happened.
Decided that made up not-Lindsey can be associated with a secret society of Native American monster hunters. He's the whitest guy in the organisation, like 1/8th cherokee or something.
I know nothing of the culture, I just wanted to borrow different kinds of magic to play with. Gets boring if everything is all about dead white guys, you know?
But then there are Issues with, whatsit, cultural appropriation or whatever.
Is 'pretty' a good reason to borrow someone?
*sigh*
I'm all tired and dopey and fed up of it.
But, have had pretty daydreams.
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Date: 2006-03-26 11:03 am (UTC)I'm angsting about that with regard to James' ancestry. There's got to be something interesting in there on at least his mother's side (possibly his father's side too, but that side are keeping quiet about it) -- Native American and Roma would both be cool, but I'd need to do big research before using either. Father's side would probably involve a voodoo priestess type way back in the line, but it'd be all hushed up 'cause of slaves and slave-owner type things.
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Date: 2006-03-26 11:31 pm (UTC)the Wiki article on voodoo is interesting. I have no data on how accurate it is, but is interesting.
If I was going to use a culture I'm not familiar with as a where for a character to be from, I'd probably research it obsessively. I mean when I was writing Methos I bought a half dozen books on Sumeria and started trying to learn sumerian cuneiform. And for werewolves I have already 3 wolf books, and I haven't even started that story yet...
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:29 am (UTC)Thanks.