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shadowkat1. The Meghan Markle Helpline - a Made up Helpline for a Made Up Problem.
LOL. The line that made me laugh? "The Meghan Markle Helpline for the people who got incensed watching the interview - which they watched of their own free will..."
2. I also watched a rather entertaining podcast with Russel Brand on the whole thing.
Russel Brand on the Meghan Markle Interview - he addresses the class issues - which I thought was really interesting - American Classicism is very different than British Classicism, because we don't really have the whole monarchy thing. (Trump tried - it did not work. We had a Revolutionary War for a reason - hello. But he did try along with his idiotic white supremacist supporters. So - we really have a divide on that issue. Also, Americans romanticize the Royal Family and British class system or aristocracy. Do you have any idea how many American historical romance novels there are that focus on British Regency Period and Dukes? So not only romanticize, fantasize about it - but don't understand it or why it still exists. )
3. For those into RPG (I'm not, but if you are) Kickstarter for a RPG that takes place in a fantasy world where the Americas were never colonized - 700 years in the future entitled Coyotes and Crows
I'm not into games or cosplay. It's the one cultural medium that makes no sense to me. I keep trying to like them - because you know, socialization? But, alas, no.
4. Hmmm...saw this on Twitter and thought about sisinlaw - who creates her own dyes, fabrics, designs, and clothing line.
Sisinlaw was highly appreciative and emailed back that she'd just painted their plates in arsenic green.
5. Regarding books, writing, comics, audiobooks, and reading?
* I've discovered audio books - which have too pluses, 1) they don't take up shelf space - and since I have none left, this is a good thing. I have books in an old coffee table that I need to get rid of - the coffee table, not the books. I also took about three bags full down to the basement laundry room library. 2) you can listen to them while making breakfast, dinner, getting ready for work, and electronic filing, also walks to and from the cemetery.
* Kindle and Fire HD - work very well for storing electronic books that take up no shelf space. I basically have over 1000 books on the Kindle and Fire (some are comics, which is about 200?) and 1000 regular on Kindle. I also have all those other books on the shelves. And no, I haven't read most of them - because I have a tendency to comfort/impulse buy books when I get upset, depressed, craving something, edgy, bored, frustrated, or anxious. Weirdly I've bought less during the pandemic - I've no idea why that is. So possibly I'm wrong? And I have a tendency to buy books when I'm none of those things? (Still flirting with Kindle Oasis, but not sold on it yet.)
*Michelle Obama's Becoming I'm half-way through Michelle Obama's Becoming - it's better than expected. She's a good writer - or whomever she got to help her is, I don't really know. Also she's an excellent reader. It's an intriguing book to read after reading Barack Obama's Promised Land, because it's kind of like seeing the other side of his story or his story from another perspective? Seeing a President from the perspective of the First Lady is an interesting experience.
* Writing And on the writing end? I'm playing with a fantasy novel, which I'm considering illustrating with paintings, drawings, and photographs. Along with little descriptions of the species in it - as one might find in a book. Haven't really gotten to the world-building quite yet - I see the world unfolding in my head. I kind of write in weird snippets, and as the story unfolds in my head - I write it down and play. Stories unfold like movies in my head, but often not in sequence. I have to back up and fill in the gaps as I write - my head wants to jump ahead , but if I give in, I have troubles filling in the gaps in between.
My brain isn't really linear. It jumps about. I have to kind of corral it into one groove.
I am still getting responses to the meta I posted to Ao3. I didn't post my fanfic. I'm leery of posting that. I'm not really a fanfic writer. To be one - you have to trust betas. And it makes me edgy. I don't like to beta myself either - why? Because I am not a good line or copy-editor. I have a tendency to want to change the story or fix it. And that's not a beta's job. My mother is a very good beta, so too are professional line editors.
But I've had miserable luck with friends as betas - they either want to change the story completely into another story that is in their heads (in other words throw out mine, substitute their plot and have me write it - and just no), or they liked it, but don't have any constructive comments to make. Let's face it - most people suck at betaeing. My father found this out too early on - and wisely advised me to hire a professional.
The problem with fanfic or my issues with it - is a)I need a beta, b)I don't want one, c)I don't write well on demand or to a fan's fantasy, more to my own. d) it's a lot of work...and I feel like I'm in someone else's territory and have to get all the character's voices, actions, and the world exact - in short? I think I may be too much of detail-oriented perfectionist to write fanfic?? I don't tend to have issues reading it, I just don't enjoy writing it.
* Comics
I've started reading comics again, after a bit of a break during the pandemic.
The story got good again, although I kept getting lost and unable to find issues. Comixcology doesn't make it easy to find Marvel stuff - other stuff yes, Magna? No problem. But it appears to have issues with Marvel.
My favorite? Weirdly? Unexpectedly? X-Factor - and my favorite characters? Northstar/Kyle (gay couple), Aurora/Dakken, Lorna, Rachel, Eyeboy, and Prodigy. I love this group. They solve mysteries. Their job is to figure out why someone died, and if they actually died, verify their death - etc, in order for the person to be safely resurrected.
The interactions are fascinating. There's really no romantic ships on the team. The Team Leaders are Northstar and Polaris, Northstar is Quebec/French Canadian and Gay, he's also married. Polaris is Magneto's daughter and getting past Alex Summers. Northstar's sister isn't really on the team, but kind of, and has a thing for Dakken, Wolverine's son. Scott & Jean's daughter from another timeline, Rachel Summers is on the team with her pet Warwolve baby. Eyeboy - is mutant with eyes all over him.
It's different, and the art is fantastic.
The others - I'm kind of ambivalent about at the moment. Although I keep reading them.
Off to bed. Sigh.
LOL. The line that made me laugh? "The Meghan Markle Helpline for the people who got incensed watching the interview - which they watched of their own free will..."
2. I also watched a rather entertaining podcast with Russel Brand on the whole thing.
Russel Brand on the Meghan Markle Interview - he addresses the class issues - which I thought was really interesting - American Classicism is very different than British Classicism, because we don't really have the whole monarchy thing. (Trump tried - it did not work. We had a Revolutionary War for a reason - hello. But he did try along with his idiotic white supremacist supporters. So - we really have a divide on that issue. Also, Americans romanticize the Royal Family and British class system or aristocracy. Do you have any idea how many American historical romance novels there are that focus on British Regency Period and Dukes? So not only romanticize, fantasize about it - but don't understand it or why it still exists. )
3. For those into RPG (I'm not, but if you are) Kickstarter for a RPG that takes place in a fantasy world where the Americas were never colonized - 700 years in the future entitled Coyotes and Crows
I'm not into games or cosplay. It's the one cultural medium that makes no sense to me. I keep trying to like them - because you know, socialization? But, alas, no.
4. Hmmm...saw this on Twitter and thought about sisinlaw - who creates her own dyes, fabrics, designs, and clothing line.
Sisinlaw was highly appreciative and emailed back that she'd just painted their plates in arsenic green.
5. Regarding books, writing, comics, audiobooks, and reading?
* I've discovered audio books - which have too pluses, 1) they don't take up shelf space - and since I have none left, this is a good thing. I have books in an old coffee table that I need to get rid of - the coffee table, not the books. I also took about three bags full down to the basement laundry room library. 2) you can listen to them while making breakfast, dinner, getting ready for work, and electronic filing, also walks to and from the cemetery.
* Kindle and Fire HD - work very well for storing electronic books that take up no shelf space. I basically have over 1000 books on the Kindle and Fire (some are comics, which is about 200?) and 1000 regular on Kindle. I also have all those other books on the shelves. And no, I haven't read most of them - because I have a tendency to comfort/impulse buy books when I get upset, depressed, craving something, edgy, bored, frustrated, or anxious. Weirdly I've bought less during the pandemic - I've no idea why that is. So possibly I'm wrong? And I have a tendency to buy books when I'm none of those things? (Still flirting with Kindle Oasis, but not sold on it yet.)
*Michelle Obama's Becoming I'm half-way through Michelle Obama's Becoming - it's better than expected. She's a good writer - or whomever she got to help her is, I don't really know. Also she's an excellent reader. It's an intriguing book to read after reading Barack Obama's Promised Land, because it's kind of like seeing the other side of his story or his story from another perspective? Seeing a President from the perspective of the First Lady is an interesting experience.
* Writing And on the writing end? I'm playing with a fantasy novel, which I'm considering illustrating with paintings, drawings, and photographs. Along with little descriptions of the species in it - as one might find in a book. Haven't really gotten to the world-building quite yet - I see the world unfolding in my head. I kind of write in weird snippets, and as the story unfolds in my head - I write it down and play. Stories unfold like movies in my head, but often not in sequence. I have to back up and fill in the gaps as I write - my head wants to jump ahead , but if I give in, I have troubles filling in the gaps in between.
My brain isn't really linear. It jumps about. I have to kind of corral it into one groove.
I am still getting responses to the meta I posted to Ao3. I didn't post my fanfic. I'm leery of posting that. I'm not really a fanfic writer. To be one - you have to trust betas. And it makes me edgy. I don't like to beta myself either - why? Because I am not a good line or copy-editor. I have a tendency to want to change the story or fix it. And that's not a beta's job. My mother is a very good beta, so too are professional line editors.
But I've had miserable luck with friends as betas - they either want to change the story completely into another story that is in their heads (in other words throw out mine, substitute their plot and have me write it - and just no), or they liked it, but don't have any constructive comments to make. Let's face it - most people suck at betaeing. My father found this out too early on - and wisely advised me to hire a professional.
The problem with fanfic or my issues with it - is a)I need a beta, b)I don't want one, c)I don't write well on demand or to a fan's fantasy, more to my own. d) it's a lot of work...and I feel like I'm in someone else's territory and have to get all the character's voices, actions, and the world exact - in short? I think I may be too much of detail-oriented perfectionist to write fanfic?? I don't tend to have issues reading it, I just don't enjoy writing it.
* Comics
I've started reading comics again, after a bit of a break during the pandemic.
The story got good again, although I kept getting lost and unable to find issues. Comixcology doesn't make it easy to find Marvel stuff - other stuff yes, Magna? No problem. But it appears to have issues with Marvel.
My favorite? Weirdly? Unexpectedly? X-Factor - and my favorite characters? Northstar/Kyle (gay couple), Aurora/Dakken, Lorna, Rachel, Eyeboy, and Prodigy. I love this group. They solve mysteries. Their job is to figure out why someone died, and if they actually died, verify their death - etc, in order for the person to be safely resurrected.
The interactions are fascinating. There's really no romantic ships on the team. The Team Leaders are Northstar and Polaris, Northstar is Quebec/French Canadian and Gay, he's also married. Polaris is Magneto's daughter and getting past Alex Summers. Northstar's sister isn't really on the team, but kind of, and has a thing for Dakken, Wolverine's son. Scott & Jean's daughter from another timeline, Rachel Summers is on the team with her pet Warwolve baby. Eyeboy - is mutant with eyes all over him.
It's different, and the art is fantastic.
The others - I'm kind of ambivalent about at the moment. Although I keep reading them.
Off to bed. Sigh.
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Date: 2021-03-18 09:04 pm (UTC)Comics? It's kind of like video games? You either like them or you don't. I love the idea of art telling a story - but I'm incredibly picky about the art. Also I adore dialogue, so comics are basically action paintings with lots of dialogue - or story boards with lots of dialogue, win-win.