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pauraque_bkThis is a weird meme. I'm not sure I even understand it.
Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 3 to 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
Elaborate on them, I'm not sure what that means. Say stuff?
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maidenjedi gave me:
Krycek
Aw. I still love Krycek. He was so fun to write. One of those characters I was immediately comfortable with; his voice felt like it came easily... I guess I would have to re-read old stuff to tell if I was actually doing as good a job with it as I felt like I was. But I certainly was enjoying it at the time. Like most of the primary XF characters, he was often strangely written, but always well *acted*, which is usually where I crib voice decisions from. We tried so hard to figure out the plot of that show, because we had to know our characters' motivations, but I felt often it was futile. I didn't watch for the plot anyway, and I rarely read for plot. I read and wrote to hear Krycek (and the others) talking again.
Not too long ago I checked outflambeau's fic site, which I hadn't visited in a long time, and remembered days and nights reading her Mulder/Krycek novel series. It really made me nostalgic for those days.
California
Something I've been thinking about a lot since I'm going to be leaving. I never wanted to leave, not in the sense of being tired of living here. I've visited a reasonable number of places in the US and seen a bit of how they differ, and it never made me not want to live here.
I like the bay and being near the ocean. I orient myself towards the water, and feel strange when I'm too far inland. I like the shape of the bay, I like the peninsulas and bridges, I like knowing where things are. I like our seasons, Rain and Drought and the ways they bleed into each other. I like the palm trees, which I never noticed until it was pointed out to me that most places don't have them. The scent of the alien eucalyptus trees which can no longer be cut down, because our animals live there now.
I like the colors of the houses, pastel stucco split-levels with triangular roofs.
I like the colors of the people, I like hearing Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi. I like the guilty white Marin County liberals too, I make fun of them but fondly.
I like the GLBT community. There are so many things I don't like *about* it. But I like it near me. Rows of rainbow flags down Castro Street, and there are such layers of history and irony, very thick in the air.
I even like earthquakes. I think little ones are fun, and big ones don't scare me even though I know how dangerous they are.
I could go on... I'm going to miss it here.
Snape
Contrary to my usual mode, I actually don't see Snape as Alan Rickman at all. My vision of him is much more steeped in the books, and in fic I've read that I thought was particularly true to his voice in the books. I do like him ugly and mean, yes... and particularly I like him the age he is in canon. When you do the math, he was so young when he first became a teacher that he would have been teaching students who were first-years when he was in seventh year, who might well have remembered him. What defenses would he have had to put up to survive that? I wouldn't say he never grew up, not after reading all the books... but his ability to grow up was highly stunted and discouraged by his situation.
fanfiction
I will start this with what I was going to say at the end of my rambling on Snape: As a shared character in fandom... he contains multitudes. He's what people want him to be.
This is perhaps more true of certain iconic characters in fandom, but it is true to an extent for all of them. They are for everyone to share; that's what fanfic is. Yes, even the people who write crap, they are theirs too, theirs to love, use, and abuse. No matter what you do to the characters, they are still there for the next person, inspiration is a constantly renewed resource. There are people today watching TOS for the first time and getting starry-eyed about Kirk/Spock, and that is awesome.
I like that it's something people can't do for money. You do it for love, and when you stop loving it, you stop.
storytelling
Oddly out of all these, I'm blanking on this one. I find that the *telling* of a story is by far the hardest part, much harder than imagining one. It is terribly hard to get something to come out the way it looks in my head... I really am right-brained, and the way I write is right-brained, made of shapes and colors. I try to paint with words, and sometimes there aren't enough lines in the picture for it to come out looking like anything.
But the process of getting the ideas out where people can see them is for me the engine that generates most of the rest of the ideas. I can sit in front of a blank page forever and I will never think of anything, but if I actually write something down, even something absurd, I'll think of something else while I'm writing it. So telling the story to myself in my head really isn't enough, it has to become external, possible to be told to other people even if only in theory.
This is why Nano is good. I want to do it again. :P
Well actually that was quite fun! Good meme I say.
Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 3 to 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
Elaborate on them, I'm not sure what that means. Say stuff?
maidenjedi gave me:Krycek
Aw. I still love Krycek. He was so fun to write. One of those characters I was immediately comfortable with; his voice felt like it came easily... I guess I would have to re-read old stuff to tell if I was actually doing as good a job with it as I felt like I was. But I certainly was enjoying it at the time. Like most of the primary XF characters, he was often strangely written, but always well *acted*, which is usually where I crib voice decisions from. We tried so hard to figure out the plot of that show, because we had to know our characters' motivations, but I felt often it was futile. I didn't watch for the plot anyway, and I rarely read for plot. I read and wrote to hear Krycek (and the others) talking again.
Not too long ago I checked out
flambeau's fic site, which I hadn't visited in a long time, and remembered days and nights reading her Mulder/Krycek novel series. It really made me nostalgic for those days.California
Something I've been thinking about a lot since I'm going to be leaving. I never wanted to leave, not in the sense of being tired of living here. I've visited a reasonable number of places in the US and seen a bit of how they differ, and it never made me not want to live here.
I like the bay and being near the ocean. I orient myself towards the water, and feel strange when I'm too far inland. I like the shape of the bay, I like the peninsulas and bridges, I like knowing where things are. I like our seasons, Rain and Drought and the ways they bleed into each other. I like the palm trees, which I never noticed until it was pointed out to me that most places don't have them. The scent of the alien eucalyptus trees which can no longer be cut down, because our animals live there now.
I like the colors of the houses, pastel stucco split-levels with triangular roofs.
I like the colors of the people, I like hearing Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi. I like the guilty white Marin County liberals too, I make fun of them but fondly.
I like the GLBT community. There are so many things I don't like *about* it. But I like it near me. Rows of rainbow flags down Castro Street, and there are such layers of history and irony, very thick in the air.
I even like earthquakes. I think little ones are fun, and big ones don't scare me even though I know how dangerous they are.
I could go on... I'm going to miss it here.
Snape
Contrary to my usual mode, I actually don't see Snape as Alan Rickman at all. My vision of him is much more steeped in the books, and in fic I've read that I thought was particularly true to his voice in the books. I do like him ugly and mean, yes... and particularly I like him the age he is in canon. When you do the math, he was so young when he first became a teacher that he would have been teaching students who were first-years when he was in seventh year, who might well have remembered him. What defenses would he have had to put up to survive that? I wouldn't say he never grew up, not after reading all the books... but his ability to grow up was highly stunted and discouraged by his situation.
fanfiction
I will start this with what I was going to say at the end of my rambling on Snape: As a shared character in fandom... he contains multitudes. He's what people want him to be.
This is perhaps more true of certain iconic characters in fandom, but it is true to an extent for all of them. They are for everyone to share; that's what fanfic is. Yes, even the people who write crap, they are theirs too, theirs to love, use, and abuse. No matter what you do to the characters, they are still there for the next person, inspiration is a constantly renewed resource. There are people today watching TOS for the first time and getting starry-eyed about Kirk/Spock, and that is awesome.
I like that it's something people can't do for money. You do it for love, and when you stop loving it, you stop.
storytelling
Oddly out of all these, I'm blanking on this one. I find that the *telling* of a story is by far the hardest part, much harder than imagining one. It is terribly hard to get something to come out the way it looks in my head... I really am right-brained, and the way I write is right-brained, made of shapes and colors. I try to paint with words, and sometimes there aren't enough lines in the picture for it to come out looking like anything.
But the process of getting the ideas out where people can see them is for me the engine that generates most of the rest of the ideas. I can sit in front of a blank page forever and I will never think of anything, but if I actually write something down, even something absurd, I'll think of something else while I'm writing it. So telling the story to myself in my head really isn't enough, it has to become external, possible to be told to other people even if only in theory.
This is why Nano is good. I want to do it again. :P
Well actually that was quite fun! Good meme I say.
