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01:36 pm
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Fic: Loyalties
Summary: General Gisko finds himself in a soul tearing conflict with his creator.
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( It was a warm morning on the Varn homeworld )
Tags: fanfic, fic, gene mage, general gisko, terinu
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08:12 am
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What's "Sorry, wrong number" in Deutsch?
So last night I get home and check the messages on my answering machine. There was just one, a wrong number evidentially, because it was from a woman speaking in either German or Dutch (it was hard to tell, I don't think it exactly sounded like German but I don't know much Dutch to make a comparison). I ddin't think anything of it and erased the message.
This morning around 7:15 the phone rang. This isn't a usual occurance, unless my mom is having a panic attack, so I ran to the phone to pick it up. It was the same woman, speaking rapidly in German/Dutch and continuing to talk even after I said, repeatedly, in English, "I don't understand you, you have the wrong number." Finally, after I realized she was just going to keep talking, I hung up. I feel bad about it, but whatever she wanted I wasn't going to be any help.
Current Mood:  confused
Tags: family, wierd
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10:11 am
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Five Minute Iron Man
Just because I loved this movie, doesn't mean I'm not willing to spork it.
( Spoilers, obviously )
Tags: humor, iron man, movies
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06:14 pm
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Pictures of Georgia Grace
( Here are the pictures from our adoption agency )
Tags: china girl, family
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03:11 pm
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We have a Daughter!!!
Just got this from moonshadowed
Last name, First Middle: Yang, Qian Ya
Date of Birth: March 23, 2006
She is in Yangzhou County Welfare Institute in the Jiangsu province.
She has 8 teeth, sucks on her fingers when she sleeps. She can crawl on her hands and knees, cruises, walks alone. She speaks in 3-5 word sentences and is cooperative when putting on her clothes. She is fond of music and toys. She is talkative, extroverted, has a ready smile and gets along well with others.
Current Mood: Speechless
Tags: china girl, family
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12:52 pm
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Fic: Andrea's story, (5/02, part 2)
( Elves, ogres and kittens )
Tags: andrea, arthur, fic, maria, tez
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09:12 am
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Fic: Andrea's Story, (5/2)
( CSI: Elven Domain )
Tags: andrea, fic, maria, tez
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06:55 am
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Dream: Doctor Who/Terinu mix & match
Weird story idea that came to me in a dream but I likely won't write. I've got this persistent idea in my head of an animated Second Doctor serial, lIkely inspired by watching the animated re-creations of the missing episodes of the Invasion of the Cybermen serial.
The Plot (or at least what I've worked out): The TARDIS materializes in space and is immediately intercepted by a squadron of Vulpine fighters, who take it in tow to the command ship of a Varn Dominion fleet. They meet the leader of the squadron, who's a sort of a crossover between my Hazel Swiftfoot and wolfstormdancer's Rue Nightwind, in that she's had most of her body replaced by cybernetics after a flight accident. The Varn considered her skills too valuable to allow her an honorable death, so they repaired her. She's not real happy about it and has a snarky personality as a result.
Then they're brought to meet the Varn Gene Mage and Dream Stalker, who greet them warmly and with amusement respectively. The Doctor's suspicions about the GM's intentions are immediately aroused, especially when he see those cute little grey critters serving drinks, but he puts them aside for the moment. The GM is happy to see them, especially when he realizes that Jamie is a "primitive". You see, one of his servants, a ferin named Terinu, seems to have been lost on the planet they're orbiting, and their high tech Galapagos soldiers are having a hard time hunting him down...
TBC
Tags: crossover, doctor who, terinu
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09:20 pm
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A day at the beach
Last Saturday moonshadowed and I, along with our friend badasher took a trip down to Assateaque Island to go to the beach, mostly because our son Thomas had been begging to go for two weeks, ever since being read a story about the beach at school.
BA was nice enough to take some pictures and post them to his LJ. Feel free to take a look and compliment him on his photography.
Tags: family
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02:25 pm
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Fic: Andrea's Story, 4/30 Part Two (PG-13)
Two scenes in one day! I'm on a roll!
( PG-13 for elfboi bondage and torment )
Tags: andrea, fic, maria, tez
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09:01 am
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FIC: Andrea's Story, cont.
( Ye gods, I've actually finished a new scene. )
Tags: andrea, maria, tez
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12:11 pm
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More character conversations
Andrea: You're working on my story again, yays!
Me: Only because I'm stuck on what to do next for Visitors and Altered Trajectory. It won't last, trust me.
Black Hearts: What about me?
Me: Get back into your file folder.
BH: But we never talk anymore...
Tez & Maria: Hey, we're bored. How about some elfPr0n just to keep our visibility up?
Me: Shut up, shut up, shut up!
Tags: meta
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06:01 pm
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Review: The Sharing Knife, Passage, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Short Version: At first read, a better read than the previous book, TSK: Legacy. Certainly not fraught with emotional danger for Dag & Fawn. Most of the time is spent with Fawn wowing everyone with her 133t cooking skilz and Dag wowing everyone with his 133t Lakewalker healing skilz. There isn't even that much sex in it. Mostly it's just a lazy trot down the river while Dag explores his emerging abilities.
( Speaking of which (spoilers) )
Tags: reviews, tsk
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02:21 pm
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FIC: Altered Trajectory, Part Four
Just a short one today.
( Hazel is annoyed by people and hardware. )
Tags: altered trajectory, hazel, rufus, terinu, vulpine
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09:00 am
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I'm in ur fanfic, naming ur doodz
Okay, so I'm moving forward with Altered Trajectory, until I either get inspriration or hit myself hard enough with a hammer to get the plot straightened out for Andrea's Story or Black Hearts. Unfortuately, I've reached a point in the story where I'm going to have to introduce a few more Vulpine characters and I'm getting tired of recycling names I've used before. So I'm reaching out to the intrawebs to get help. Help me by coming up with a name and if I like it, I'll use it in the story.
Vulpine Naming Conventions
Going by what I've observed reading Terinu, Vulpine names roughly follow Western patterns of Personal Name followed by Family Name.
Family Name
Family Names are generally descriptive, either of a physical trait or a traditional job. Canon examples include Brushtail, Softpaw, Whitebrow and Fieldmaster. One assumption with these names is that We the Readers are reading the translation of the Vulpine family name, into a form comprehensible to humans. This becomes important when we get to personal names.
Personal Names
Personal Names are slightly trickier. Going by our two primary Vulpine characters in the comic, Ru Ofanius and Melika, what we're reading is a phonetic recording of their "true" names. But, especially with Ru Ofanius' name, there appears to be tradition adapting their personal names into a format presumably more pronoucable to humans when they're in mixed company. So for Ru Ofanius we get "Rufus", Melika is shortened to "Mel" and so on. The one canon exception is Rufus' lawyer, who goes by the name "Regina". This would suggest a little bit of word borrowing between Vulpine and English potentially.
Canon Examples
Ru Ofanius "Rufus" Brushtail
Bethany "Beth" Brushtail
Melika "Mel" Softpaw
Regina Fieldmaster
Non-Canon Examples
Marturari "Marty" Greycoat
Haz Elin "Hazel" Swiftfoot
Samaneus "Sam" Sharpears
So, if you've got an idea for a new Vulpine name, add it in a reply below!
Tags: fanfic, fic, linguistics, terinu, vulpine
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10:30 am
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Fic: Visitors (TSK/Terinu)
Okay, apparently there was a bit of interest in this. I'll try to keep the tale short, since I'm just filling time until I can wrestle the plot knots out of Black Hearts
( Spoilers for TSK, Books 1 & 2 )
Tags: lmb, terinu, tsk
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06:13 pm
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Cleese vs Bellhop, final scene
Our Players
Cleese as The Manager
?? as the Bellhop
?? as Jasmine, a server at the hotel restaurant and the Bellhop's girlfriend. She's also an accounting wiz, frustrated at bouncing into the hotel's glass ceiling.
George Takei as the Mr. Takashima, The Very Important Hotel Company Executive
Scene: Just after the Grand Climax of Destruction in the hotel. The lobby is drenched in water after a bowling ball has dropped ten stories to the bottom of the central atrium, caught in the banner and flung like a slingshot into the front of the giant fishtank on the mezzanine, the waters pouring down like Noah's Flood to slam straight into the front desk where the Manager was standing.
LOW CLOSE UP: The brass & glass lobby doors open and we TRACK a pair of black men's italian shoes walking calmly through the half-inch of water standing in the lobby's green carpet, stopping at the front desk. We TRACK UP to MR. TAKASHIMA's face, which is a study in absolute inscrutability, honed from forty years of dealing with every possible hotel disaster. Except for this one.
THE MANAGER pops up like a pogo stick from behind the front desk where he'd fallen, his black suit soaked. He's got a fixed smile of utter panic on his face.
Manager: Mr. Takashima! Good morning! Right on schedule!
He grabs his tie with both fists and twists out a stream of water, straightens it, then offers his hand.
Takashima looks at him with continued blandness, ignoring the hand. He takes a bouquet of flowers from a vase that has improbably remained upright on the lobby desk, hands them to a trailing ASSISTANT, bends over and retrieves a flopping goldfish by the tail and calmly plops it into the water in the vase. Then he smiles calmly and shakes the Manager's hand.
Takashima: Good morning.
He looks about, taking public notice of the disaster for the first time.
(cont.) I take it there has been some difficultly with the fishtank?
Manager: Not at well! Well, a slight leak. A bit more than slight. Bigger than slight. A deluge really. Perfectly routine though!
BEAT. The panic smile slips in just plain panic.
(cont.) I don't suppose the phrase "I can explain" is going to carry any weight at this point?
Takashima: Let's give it a try.
Manager: Well, it all started with...
Looks up to see the BELLHOP and JASMINE observing from the safety of the mezzanine. His face turns to angry snarl.
(cont.) THEM! They're the ones responsible!
The Bellhop and Jasmine freeze as Takashima turns to look up at them.
Takashima (still calm): Would you two come down here, please?
The Bellhop and Jasmine approach with trepidation.
Jasmine: Good morning.
Bellhop: Hi.
Takashima: Care to explain what happened, son?
[At this point the Bellhop and Jasmine trade off the story, explaining exactly what they did to set up the disaster, in revenge for the Manager's treatment of them (and his embezzelment of the hotel's profits). In the process they basically demonstrate that they know the hotel inside out AND have a connection with the dedicated staff that runs it that the Manager completely lacks.]]
Takashima: I see.
Bellhop: Mr. Takashima, sir, I'm really sorry about ruining the lobby though. I'll make it to...
Takashima holds up his hand, shutting the Bellhop up.
Takashima: First things first. Do you know how you're going to get this lobby cleaned up?
Jasmine: There's an emergency cleaning service. The number is in the office. In the end using it would be cheaper than making the staff work overtime.
Takashima: How much cheaper?
Jasmine: At least 20%.
He turns to the Bellhop, who blanches a bit.
Takashima: As for you, we've got a lobby in ruins. How are you going to handle checking guests in and out today?
Bellhop: Um, we can set up a desk in the street entrance to the restaurant and run cable out to hook up the lobby terminal there. Maybe give everyone a 10% coupon for their next meal in the restaurant for their trouble.
Takashima: 25%
Bellhop: 25%, okay.
Takashima: You have fifteen minutes to set it up.
Bellhop (delighted, realizing he's not going to be canned): Yes, sir!
Takashima: An hour after that I want a peliminary budget and timetable for repairing the damage to the hotel.
Bellhop and Jasmine together: Yes, sir!
Manager (worried): Excuse me, isn't that my job?
Takashima (smiling firmly): Not anymore.
Montage of scenes of Bellhop and Jasmine doing what they said, then the lobby being repaired, then Bellhop and Jasmine standing proudly behind the lobby desk, dressed in manager suits, greeting guests as they come in.
THE END
Tags: dreams, movies
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04:44 am
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Strange John Cleese dream
Dreamed of a John Cleese movie that doesn't exist, with him playing the manager of a huge Dunston Checks In style hotel, who is the sort of uptight stereotypical British neat freak perfectionist that he can play in his sleep. Not quite Basil Fawlty insane, but a major prick. Does things like have his faithful minion shift a vase five centimeters to the right ("That's CENTIMETERS! Not INCHES!") so the protagonist, a bellhop at pepetual war with him, can smack into it as he comes tumbling down the stairs. He also fills the lobby with hoitie-toitie classical music, Mozart, Bach, Beetoven, which Our Hero, the Hip Hop/Rap/Disney Tie-in Singer lover, loathes, especially since it's all the boring pieces designed to lull guests to sleep.
The bellhop spends most of the movie avoiding abuse, but every scene he also manages to shift a little something that Cleese's character doesn't notice, setting up a massive Rube Goldberg wave of destruction that nearly brings the hotel down at the climax.
Just before he starts it though, he hooks his i-pod up to the lobby PA system, and starts playing the music he downloaded the night before with the help of his girlfriend, Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.
Tags: dreams
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08:16 pm
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Fic: Altered Trajectory, Part Three (PG-13)
Rated PG-13 for one nasty word.
( Hazel thinks things through... )
Tags: altered trajectory, grace of god, hazel, rufus, terinu, vulpine
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08:28 pm
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Fine, you tell ME what to do next
Because I'm too lazy to figure it out myself. :)
Poll #1174449 What Should I Work on Next?
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllTime to finish another story. What should I finish first? Something new? So who's your favorite original character of mine?
Tags: fic, poll, writing
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