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[Nov. 20th, 2009|01:07 pm] |
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Back in the days of yore when I was super active in fandom, I used FF.net. Really that was all there was. Other than that, I submitted my Digimon and Zelda fics to personal shrines/sites - Mostly on Geocities, if I remember correctly, so they're probably long gone. I have very little experience with fanfiction archives; after FF.net, I primarily used my LJ for fics, both for posting my own and reading other people's work.
Anyone get an invite to AO3? Even if you haven't, what do you think of it? |
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| Still NaNoing |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|12:19 pm] |
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SQ
Working on: Walking along the boardwalk as Mari comes to terms with her little death and Simonsant and Nine flirt/fight.
Word for this chapter: 89
Chugging along in NaNo. I've fallen a bit behind, but I'll be able to catch up this weekend. It's almost halfway done!
I'm not as happy with SQ as I was with TTBtM last year. My writing's just so bare bones; all my sentences are the same and my vocabulary so limited. I have a hard time writing descriptions. Reading Catherynne M. Valente makes me desperate to come up with metaphors and similes like hers, but I don't have her lyrical ability. One of the folks in my writers group said he didn't like my metaphors/similes - Too forced and awkward. Gahhhhhhh I have these images in my brain but somehow they get muddled up and crappy when I translate them into writing.
Blarggggggggggglepants. |
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| website help! |
[Sep. 10th, 2009|03:41 pm] |
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I want to learn how to write/use/program PHP. Can anyone recommend any good sites or books that deal with it? All I know is that my HTML coding is ancient at this point. I haven't designed a website since high school.
I want to make a Jecht fansite, since all the sites dedicated to him and to Auron/Jecht have closed. Poor guy needs some loving! And while I'm at it, I want to make a Willis fansite, and maybe one for Yuffie. Or one for Yuffie and Rikku called "Double Trouble," which I started about a hundred years ago but never got off the ground.
So, where does an internetard like me start? |
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| prawns! |
[Sep. 2nd, 2009|05:22 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | good is good >> sheryl crow | ] |
Get your prompts in for the new round of ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) porn_battle! |
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| 3:10 to Yuma - Hide Out |
[Aug. 4th, 2009|11:06 am] |
Title: Hide Out
Characters: Ben, Dan
Summary: Ben and Dan hide out in barn for a night.
Warnings: This was for porn_battle, so: sexy times. Nothing too graphic, however.
A/N: Porn for great justice!
( Breaking into the barn was easy enough. ) |
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| Porn porn porn |
[Jul. 19th, 2009|08:30 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | cliffs of dover >> eric johnson | ] |
Don't forget - This round of porn_battle ends soon! |
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| Comic Con |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|01:39 pm] |
I want to go to Comic Con, goddammit! Neca's selling a limited edition Coraline doll dressed in her star sweater and kick-ass blue shoes. DO WANT.
AND Neil Gaiman and Henry Sellick will be there.
STUPID SAN DIEGO. Why do you have to be on the other side of the country? |
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| Princess Tutu |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|12:25 pm] |
Eeee! The Princess Tutu Cute Meme! Must write some Ahiru/Fakir.
I loved loved loved this anime. I kept coming across threads about it on 4chan and finally decided to pick it up. A-FUCKING-MAZING. It's a show about a duck. Or maybe it's a show about a duck who dreams she's a girl. Or maybe it's about a girl who can transform into ballerina with magical power. Or maybe it's all of those things. Maybe it's about the power of stories. Maybe it's about the forces of good and evil. Maybe it's about the ambiguity of the forces of good and evil. Or maybe it's all of those things. |
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| 3:10 to Yuma - Two Aces |
[Jun. 4th, 2009|10:46 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | cowboys | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | optimistic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | ordinary world >> duran duran | ] |
Title: Two Aces
Author: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) yayforjae
Fandom: 3:10 to Yuma
Summary: Ben and Dan gamble.
Rating: PG
A/N: A drabble for baggyeyes! You are continually awesome and your stories blow me away. You rock!
( I could teach you how. ) |
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| Undoing |
[May. 2nd, 2009|06:11 pm] |
"Undoing" - Coraline
She hated hated hated the stupid school uniform. From sixth grade all the way up to twelfth, everyone was wrapped up in the same gruel-colored sweaters and dull brown shoes. She hated the skirt, hated the pants even more, and despised with ever fiber of her being the collared blouses.
But she loved the boys' shirts.
Specifically, she loved Wybie's shirts.
Specifically, she loved unbuttoning Wybie's shirts.
When they were fifteen and her birthday was a teasing week away, she leaned over him, the old couch creaking under their weight, and slipped each button free of it buttonhole. They were off-white - not glossy black - but she still got a thrill from it, as much as she did from Wybie's warm skin and surprised-open mouth. And they were smaller - probably only an inch across - but she still could practically feel the Other World shiver, like Wybie did when she popped the last button out. And they had two holes - not four - but she still grinned in triumph.
When they were seventeen and her parents were gone to a writers convention, she made fists in his shirt and yanked, and the buttons went flying helter skelter across the room and clattered on the floor. She found two later, partially hidden by the rug's fringe, and crouched down to inspect them. For one horrible second, the buttons were big and black with thread jutting out of their four holes like fingers. She slammed her hand over them and when her heart slowly returned to its normal rhythm, she pealed her palm from the floor and exhaled a long breath; they were just ordinary, off-white, small, two holed buttons. She stood up and stuffed them in her pocket. Maybe she'd sew them back on Wybie's shirt for him.
Maybe.
(crossposted from my DW) |
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| making up a song about coraline |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|09:10 pm] |
This is definitely an OH MY FUCKING GOD moment: “There’s always a chance for a sequel,” Selick acknowledged in an exclusive interview with MTV News, “but I’d like to do something else with Neil.”
A Coraline sequel? Excuse me as I run madly around the apartment, squeeing and waving my hands. Coraline is one of my favorite characters - Girls need more tough, courageous, smart heroines like her. Oh man - What would is be about? Another journey into fairy land, this time to rescue Wybie, who's been captured by the Fairy Queen. Or exorcising the ghosts that still cling to the Pink Palace. Eeeeeeee! Of course the shipper in me wants to see teenage! Coraline and Wybie, but anything they create will be awesome.
Coraline was a success, so LAIKA will hopefully continue to make awesome stop-motion movies. I love that style of film; computer-generated movies just don't have the intrigue. Even if Selick decides to work on other Gaiman projects, it'll still be amazing.
Eeee Coraline was absolutely breath-taking. The character design was perfect, the scenery - like the house collapsing at the end - was gorgeous, the song/dance numbers were incredible. The more LAIKA, the better. |
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| Mass migration? |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|03:59 pm] |
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Since IJ seems to be emptying, I'm going to start using DW; I'm jaetion over there, if anyone else on my FL is making the move. I'll still update this here IJ since I'm fond of my layout and userpics (and my FL, naturally!).
I'm bummed that IJ never expanded enough to be a serious competition to LJ. I still have serious issues with LJ, despite my continued use of my LJ account. |
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[Apr. 10th, 2009|01:21 pm] |
There is a strange phenomenon in the Coraline fandom: portraying Wybie as white. For those who didn't see it, Wybie, Coraline's friend and (possible) love interest, is black. I've seen at least three pieces of CoralinexWybie fanart where he's clearly white (white with red hair, no less) or he's tan.
I've been talking it over with my boyfriend (who saw the movie with me multiple times), and he thinks that it's not a purposeful change: Wybie's race didn't leave a big impression on him (or me either), but we have terrible memories and the second time we saw Coraline, it was actually like we were seeing it for the first time because we didn't remember, like, half the movie.
Here's the scene where they meet for the first time:
I think this is incredibly, incredibly interesting. Around the same time the movie was out, RaceFail was all over LJ, and I followed it through various journals. The observation about lack of minorities in fantasy made a big impact on me -- And it relates to this white-Wybie thing.
So there are two main things about white-Wybie: Are people being intentionally racist (in that Wybie should be white since he's being paired with [a white] Coraline)? Or does Wybie not act "black" enough and thus they don't notice that he's not white? (Do white and black Americans in the same economic sphere act that differently?) I'll agree with my boyfriend that it might not be immediately obvious that Wybie's black, but I find it hard to believe that someone drawing pictures of him would simply not notice it (I mean, if you didn't remember exactly what he looked like, you'd find a picture of him as reference, right?). His race isn't important to the story - there's no racism that he has to overcome, etc - but I think it was a deliberate choice of Henry Selick (who adapted and directed the film) to make him (and his grandmother and great-aunt [who appears as a child-ghost]) black. Gaiman wrote Coraline for his daughter and Selick said that Coraline was a "girls film" (here) -- This is just my assumption, but I can see them trying to engage a minority race, too.
For reference, some of the white/tan fanart are here, here, and here. |
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| good advice |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|02:25 pm] |
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Good Fiction Writing
1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said" ...he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. |
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| eeee coraline eeee |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|09:50 pm] |
More Coraline! Eee I love this movie. Coraline and Wybie are just too cute.
Growing Up
They were both twelve and Coraline was the best friend ever. One time at the waterfall she found a crayfish that was probably a mutant or something because it was the biggest thing ever and she caught it with her bare hands after chasing it all around the stream. Then she chased him around and the crayfish had these claws that could chop someone's head off, but then she tripped in the water and dropped it, and it pinched her nose in vengeance before returning to the depths from whence it came. That night they lit a bunch of fireworks and it was like the Fourth of July and Chinese New Year all in one.
They were both thirteen and Coraline was still the best friend ever. Ever Saturday they rode to the thousand-year-old cinema in town to catch the sci-fi double feature and demolish one of the massive tubs of popcorn that was really more butter than popcorn. If they didn't feel like throwing up by the end of the show, they'd go to the playground in the park and spin on the old merry-go-round until they fell/flew off.
They were both fourteen and they still went to the movies sometimes, but Wybie spent most of the three+ hours trying to accidentally brush hands with her when they reached for the popcorn. They played basketball a lot since she made it onto the school's team, and she beat him in every game even though he was finally taller than her. She taught him how to spin the ball on one finger and he showed her how to change an oil filter. The first time she tried to do it by herself she got old oil all over everything, and when he laughed at her she left a black hand-print right on the front of his shirt, which he actually didn't mind at all. |
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| more writing stuff |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|04:25 pm] |
Every good book begins with a protagonist who wants something. - Nathan Bransford
Applying that to that crap I'm working on now:
NaNo novel
-Katharine wants to get married to cement her status in town and the power that comes with it, but while her betrothed is the handsomest man in town, he's also one the most difficult and dim.
-Sam wants to upstage his father by earning his own place in the world of medicine while aiding a backwater town with his modern medicinal training, but his teacher has too many secrets and too few morals to help him gain a foothold.
Fine Art
-Daisuke is deluding himself by thinking he wants a normal freshman year at high school; he actually wants to bone his best friend.
Typical!fantasy story
-At first P. wants to get over the rejection of her first love by finding a new target for her affections while escaping the marriage her parents have arranged for her. Later she wants to figure out the secret of the city. And bone her new crush. |
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