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shadowkat1. So, I perused the Needy Stocking list in Fandom Stocking, hoping to find something I could contribute an icon to, because really that's all I have folks. And I'm limited even in that regard. (Not that I've a clue how to post an icon to a DW message -- because DW is funky about posting images and I still haven't gotten the knack of it.]
I don't write fanfic. You do not want me to write fanfic. People don't tend to like my fanfic. Trust me on this. I'm a subversive writer, fanfic isn't meant to be subversive.
And all the Needy Stockings DO NOT WANT icons. Or greetings. Or really anything but specific sexy or kinky fanfic for their specific fandoms and pairings. In short they want erotic fanfic on their pairing.
Folks? That's why they are a needy stocking. Hello. Too frigging picky and hard to please.
Fandom Stocking tried to make me feel guilty for not stuffing any stocking -- and I thought, but your needy stockings don't want my gifts. They want fanfic that I do not have the ability to write, have never seen anyone else write (so can't rec), am not certain even exists.
Even if I was a fanfic writer, which I'm not, I can't write fanfic for pairings I don't ship, have never seen, know zip about...on the fly... I'm not that type of writer, if I could write like that on demand, I'd be writing comic books, video games, multiple author novel series, and television series for a living. But I can't and what's more really do not want to.
Why can't these people want female Black Panther Gifs? I can provide those. But no..they want male gifs and icons, if any at all -- and I don't have any. (I don't tend to do male icons...)
Anyhow, they did not tell me up front that I had to stuff stockings if I wanted one stuffed. I know I checked the rules carefully, and looked through it -- before I submitted a stocking. It's also why I hadn't previously participated in it or Yuletide...because I knew I couldn't contribute anything.
2. Loving "Essex Serpent" at the moment. It's so calming and comforting in the oddest way. Also enjoying X-Men Dissembled.
The Good Reads reviewers are split on it -- between those who were mislead into thinking they got a Victorian Fantasy/Gothic Thriller - it's not that, and those who were relieved to find it to be a cool, character driven literary novel with philosophical chats.
I will state that if someone hadn't told me that it took place during the late 1800s, I'd have placed it sometime in the 20th Century. (Although not because of how the people spoke, but what they spoke about and behaved...and the general description of the setting, which had a feel of post-Industrial Britain, in the early 1900s just after Queen Victoria's reign.) Not that that is a problem for me -- because I despise Victorian writing and the Victorian Period in general.
I don't have an issue with Historical Romance novels that take place during Victorian times, because the writers don't try to write like Henry James, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, etc. Instead they just use their own clear style. And most genre novels...except for steampunk, which annoyingly feels the need for everyone to speak like Conan Doyle or Bram Stoker or the Bronte's was writing their dialogue. Honestly, how do you frigging know how Victorians talked? You can't go by writers -- people don't talk the same way that they write -- and up until a certain point, approx. the mid-20th century, writers felt the need to write in a very formal and somewhat flowery style. Conversational writing and slang didn't really hit novels until the 1930s. Sure there were a few here and there, but not even playwrights wrote dialogue as people actually spoke it.
Unless you think everyone in Elizabethan times spoke in iambic pentameter. (They didn't.)
There's different schools of thought on writing -- one group insists on a formal style, that is precise, and uses pitch perfect grammar. Basically follows the manual of style to the letter.
Another thinks that the author should have their own voice, play a bit, and write dialogue the way people actually talk. Use swear words or four letter words. Kick the "she said" and "he said" to the curb unless absolutely necessary. And make it bit more conversational, informal. This is the more subversive group.
While yet another -- wants minimalist, clear writing. Cut the description to a minimum. Cut out the adverbs and adjectives. Cut the poetry. Crisp clean writing.
And there's more.
I've read every style imaginable in my life time (in the English language, and a little in French, I can't go further than that.) And...I've my preferences. I despise the formal writing -- I find it flowery and too silly to bear. (I agree with Mark Twain, and even Twain's writing style irritated me.) I tend more towards James Joyce and the more contemporary writers...such as Atwood, Butler, Gibson, Chandler, Hammett, Becket, etc. I don't really like the writing style of anything prior to the 1930s, with few exceptions.
And I don't believe for one second that people in the Victorian Age talked like the people in Dickens or the Brontes. And unless someone can find recorded conversations and video from that time of actual conversations..I don't think we'll ever know. Plus people from different classes and countries spoke differently. But I'm pretty sure the word Fuck wasn't a modern invention.
3. Watched The Connors -- the last two episodes have been slightly disappointing. Although this one was better than last week's which felt like filler. I'm afraid they are going to break up Darlene and Ben (her new boyfriend), who I really like. Because I'm not sure how they are going to handle Darlene moving to Chicago with Ben, and in with him -- and keep the show about her and her extended family all living in the same house. I see a breakup on the horizon.
4. Weird dream last night. It made no sense but felt real.
I dreamed that I had to visit my parents in Hilton Head. My boss was going to drive me to work and then I'd go to the airport from there. Why he was driving me to work to take the Air Train, I've no clue. It would have made more sense to just take me to the airport. I get there, and I've less than an hour and a half to get to JFK. So I rush from work to the Air Train...and once I get to the airport, as if by magic, I discover that I've managed somehow to leave my bags at home. All I have is my backpack from work, my id, my money, and my plane ticket. I hunt frantically for a t-shirt or something, but I can locate nothing in my size. Then...my plane is being called. I rush and I magically end up at my parents house -- but with no clothes, except what is on my back. My mother shows up in her robe and says no problem, you can borrow mine or buy new ones...but I say, I can't fit into yours...and the alarm goes off. I wake up. Bewildered. And VERY relieved.
Most vivid dream I've had in a while. I have a lot of nightmares about traveling. Used to have quite a few about driving in Kansas. In the travel ones -- I'm always leaving behind baggage, passports or id. Or missing flights. Or getting on the wrong ones or ending up at the wrong airport. In the driving ones -- I'm usually lost and can't get to where I'm going. I've also had dreams about forgetting my pants, and being pantless on the street or at work. Or my shoes -- lots of dreams about forgetting to wear shoes and being barefoot for some reason. Now you'd think I'd know I didn't have shoes or pants on prior to leaving the house, right?
There's also dreams about still being in college and forgetting about a class, for some reason I forgot to go to Math Class all year long. Or History class. It's usually a math or history course that I forgot to attend or completely spaced. Another one? I get lost and can't find the class. In another -- I forgot to enroll in the classes and got the wrong ones.
I have a lot dreams about forgetting stuff. Apparently I have a fear of being perpetually absent-minded? Or getting lost or stuck somewhere -- one of the reasons I despise driving.
Also, had a fight in my dream. A real yelling match. But I can't remember who I was yelling at or why. And it was not really part of that dream, but a prior dream. That also happens a lot -- in a lot of my dreams, I'm yelling at someone or someone is yelling at me. I'm fighting them. It's never physical though -- it's always verbal.
Dreams are weird.
There's various schools of thought on dreams too...
* Just stories that the brain or subconscious puts on to entertain itself while the body sleeps. Pieced together from bits and pieces floating about in the memory.
* Subconscious messages
* Problems your subconscious mind is trying to work through
* Visions or messages from the source or the universe
* Matter from the mind that is largely meaningless
* Psychological hopes, dreams and fears...that are festering about in the mind.
I honestly have no clue which if any of the above it is. Nor do I think does anyone else, no matter how much they want us to believe otherwise. I think the mind, body, and soul of humans remains forever outside our complete understanding. We only understand thismuch. The rest is an unsolvable mystery that we are all constantly trying to unravel.
Oh well. Off to bed. Hopefully it won't snow too heavily or rain too much tomorrow. I'm hoping the storm swings far north and misses us completely. Of course that wouldn't be nice to my northern neighbors, so just disappears entirely?
I don't write fanfic. You do not want me to write fanfic. People don't tend to like my fanfic. Trust me on this. I'm a subversive writer, fanfic isn't meant to be subversive.
And all the Needy Stockings DO NOT WANT icons. Or greetings. Or really anything but specific sexy or kinky fanfic for their specific fandoms and pairings. In short they want erotic fanfic on their pairing.
Folks? That's why they are a needy stocking. Hello. Too frigging picky and hard to please.
Fandom Stocking tried to make me feel guilty for not stuffing any stocking -- and I thought, but your needy stockings don't want my gifts. They want fanfic that I do not have the ability to write, have never seen anyone else write (so can't rec), am not certain even exists.
Even if I was a fanfic writer, which I'm not, I can't write fanfic for pairings I don't ship, have never seen, know zip about...on the fly... I'm not that type of writer, if I could write like that on demand, I'd be writing comic books, video games, multiple author novel series, and television series for a living. But I can't and what's more really do not want to.
Why can't these people want female Black Panther Gifs? I can provide those. But no..they want male gifs and icons, if any at all -- and I don't have any. (I don't tend to do male icons...)
Anyhow, they did not tell me up front that I had to stuff stockings if I wanted one stuffed. I know I checked the rules carefully, and looked through it -- before I submitted a stocking. It's also why I hadn't previously participated in it or Yuletide...because I knew I couldn't contribute anything.
2. Loving "Essex Serpent" at the moment. It's so calming and comforting in the oddest way. Also enjoying X-Men Dissembled.
The Good Reads reviewers are split on it -- between those who were mislead into thinking they got a Victorian Fantasy/Gothic Thriller - it's not that, and those who were relieved to find it to be a cool, character driven literary novel with philosophical chats.
I will state that if someone hadn't told me that it took place during the late 1800s, I'd have placed it sometime in the 20th Century. (Although not because of how the people spoke, but what they spoke about and behaved...and the general description of the setting, which had a feel of post-Industrial Britain, in the early 1900s just after Queen Victoria's reign.) Not that that is a problem for me -- because I despise Victorian writing and the Victorian Period in general.
I don't have an issue with Historical Romance novels that take place during Victorian times, because the writers don't try to write like Henry James, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, etc. Instead they just use their own clear style. And most genre novels...except for steampunk, which annoyingly feels the need for everyone to speak like Conan Doyle or Bram Stoker or the Bronte's was writing their dialogue. Honestly, how do you frigging know how Victorians talked? You can't go by writers -- people don't talk the same way that they write -- and up until a certain point, approx. the mid-20th century, writers felt the need to write in a very formal and somewhat flowery style. Conversational writing and slang didn't really hit novels until the 1930s. Sure there were a few here and there, but not even playwrights wrote dialogue as people actually spoke it.
Unless you think everyone in Elizabethan times spoke in iambic pentameter. (They didn't.)
There's different schools of thought on writing -- one group insists on a formal style, that is precise, and uses pitch perfect grammar. Basically follows the manual of style to the letter.
Another thinks that the author should have their own voice, play a bit, and write dialogue the way people actually talk. Use swear words or four letter words. Kick the "she said" and "he said" to the curb unless absolutely necessary. And make it bit more conversational, informal. This is the more subversive group.
While yet another -- wants minimalist, clear writing. Cut the description to a minimum. Cut out the adverbs and adjectives. Cut the poetry. Crisp clean writing.
And there's more.
I've read every style imaginable in my life time (in the English language, and a little in French, I can't go further than that.) And...I've my preferences. I despise the formal writing -- I find it flowery and too silly to bear. (I agree with Mark Twain, and even Twain's writing style irritated me.) I tend more towards James Joyce and the more contemporary writers...such as Atwood, Butler, Gibson, Chandler, Hammett, Becket, etc. I don't really like the writing style of anything prior to the 1930s, with few exceptions.
And I don't believe for one second that people in the Victorian Age talked like the people in Dickens or the Brontes. And unless someone can find recorded conversations and video from that time of actual conversations..I don't think we'll ever know. Plus people from different classes and countries spoke differently. But I'm pretty sure the word Fuck wasn't a modern invention.
3. Watched The Connors -- the last two episodes have been slightly disappointing. Although this one was better than last week's which felt like filler. I'm afraid they are going to break up Darlene and Ben (her new boyfriend), who I really like. Because I'm not sure how they are going to handle Darlene moving to Chicago with Ben, and in with him -- and keep the show about her and her extended family all living in the same house. I see a breakup on the horizon.
4. Weird dream last night. It made no sense but felt real.
I dreamed that I had to visit my parents in Hilton Head. My boss was going to drive me to work and then I'd go to the airport from there. Why he was driving me to work to take the Air Train, I've no clue. It would have made more sense to just take me to the airport. I get there, and I've less than an hour and a half to get to JFK. So I rush from work to the Air Train...and once I get to the airport, as if by magic, I discover that I've managed somehow to leave my bags at home. All I have is my backpack from work, my id, my money, and my plane ticket. I hunt frantically for a t-shirt or something, but I can locate nothing in my size. Then...my plane is being called. I rush and I magically end up at my parents house -- but with no clothes, except what is on my back. My mother shows up in her robe and says no problem, you can borrow mine or buy new ones...but I say, I can't fit into yours...and the alarm goes off. I wake up. Bewildered. And VERY relieved.
Most vivid dream I've had in a while. I have a lot of nightmares about traveling. Used to have quite a few about driving in Kansas. In the travel ones -- I'm always leaving behind baggage, passports or id. Or missing flights. Or getting on the wrong ones or ending up at the wrong airport. In the driving ones -- I'm usually lost and can't get to where I'm going. I've also had dreams about forgetting my pants, and being pantless on the street or at work. Or my shoes -- lots of dreams about forgetting to wear shoes and being barefoot for some reason. Now you'd think I'd know I didn't have shoes or pants on prior to leaving the house, right?
There's also dreams about still being in college and forgetting about a class, for some reason I forgot to go to Math Class all year long. Or History class. It's usually a math or history course that I forgot to attend or completely spaced. Another one? I get lost and can't find the class. In another -- I forgot to enroll in the classes and got the wrong ones.
I have a lot dreams about forgetting stuff. Apparently I have a fear of being perpetually absent-minded? Or getting lost or stuck somewhere -- one of the reasons I despise driving.
Also, had a fight in my dream. A real yelling match. But I can't remember who I was yelling at or why. And it was not really part of that dream, but a prior dream. That also happens a lot -- in a lot of my dreams, I'm yelling at someone or someone is yelling at me. I'm fighting them. It's never physical though -- it's always verbal.
Dreams are weird.
There's various schools of thought on dreams too...
* Just stories that the brain or subconscious puts on to entertain itself while the body sleeps. Pieced together from bits and pieces floating about in the memory.
* Subconscious messages
* Problems your subconscious mind is trying to work through
* Visions or messages from the source or the universe
* Matter from the mind that is largely meaningless
* Psychological hopes, dreams and fears...that are festering about in the mind.
I honestly have no clue which if any of the above it is. Nor do I think does anyone else, no matter how much they want us to believe otherwise. I think the mind, body, and soul of humans remains forever outside our complete understanding. We only understand thismuch. The rest is an unsolvable mystery that we are all constantly trying to unravel.
Oh well. Off to bed. Hopefully it won't snow too heavily or rain too much tomorrow. I'm hoping the storm swings far north and misses us completely. Of course that wouldn't be nice to my northern neighbors, so just disappears entirely?
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Date: 2019-01-18 01:17 pm (UTC)I will not press upon you my multivolume pastiche Regency memoir fic!
LOL! No, probably not a good idea. ;-)
Those travel dreams, with the losing/missing luggage, and the ones about missing classes/unexpected exams seem to be very common: it's almost as if they're modern archetypes, at least in certain societies.
Curious to see how widespread they are. Because there's a certain group of dreams that are quite common. The one's cited above, I've been told -- mean I feel unprepared about something or am forgetting something.
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Date: 2019-01-18 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-19 12:08 am (UTC)Or I will start arguing with the dream -- it's almost as if I'm a viewer watching a movie and I start thinking, wait this makes no sense. What the heck? And I wake up.