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Oct. 27th, 2007
A Doctor Who Rarity
Oct. 27th, 2007 06:17 pmDimensions in Time. The story is completely and totally incomprehensible to the point it makes my brain hurt. But it's nice to see everyone again running willy nilly. It came out as a Children in Need Special in 1993 (four years after the first run of the show was cancelled) as a special celebrating 30 years of Doctor Who and I think 20 of Eastenders). I only ever managed to get a bootlegged copy just last year. Here's the "Story" (if you can call it that) off You Tube.:
Part One:
Part Two:
I miss Ace. Ace could kick Rose's ass three ways to Sunday.
Part One:
Part Two:
I miss Ace. Ace could kick Rose's ass three ways to Sunday.
A Doctor Who Rarity
Oct. 27th, 2007 06:17 pmDimensions in Time. The story is completely and totally incomprehensible to the point it makes my brain hurt. But it's nice to see everyone again running willy nilly. It came out as a Children in Need Special in 1993 (four years after the first run of the show was cancelled) as a special celebrating 30 years of Doctor Who and I think 20 of Eastenders). I only ever managed to get a bootlegged copy just last year. Here's the "Story" (if you can call it that) off You Tube.:
Part One:
Part Two:
I miss Ace. Ace could kick Rose's ass three ways to Sunday.
Part One:
Part Two:
I miss Ace. Ace could kick Rose's ass three ways to Sunday.
Starscream and Hutch
Oct. 27th, 2007 07:38 pmOne of the wierd things that happens when I start thinking about stories and sidestories is that I can sometimes find whole cultures sitting waiting for me to to write them in.
A good example of that is the Ehrem Tribe in AWFW. It was really odd to have this tribe just blossom up out of nowhere because the story needed it. I always knew I'd need a prehistoric tribe, but I never really consciously "expanded" it. Nen'a wasn't trans before she said it in the comic, in fact, there was no Nen'a at all. The "child debt" pigtails were just decoration until suddenly I was told they marked how many children you had left bear. Even Hanna's killmarks were just a way to differentiate her from grown up Andrea, until she told me what they meant.
It scares me how much "info" I picked up from that. Learning how a character ticks is one of the neatest thing I've ever experienced. Seeing a culture come out of nowhere just floored (and continues to floor) me.
It's sort of happening again, but not quite in the same way. The Impure Heart storyline has always been about an angel gone "bad." At the same time, I thought that Michael was being two two-dimensionally contradictory. I knew the reasons behind his choices and what his thinking process was...but it wasn't really coming across. So I took the angel gone wrong story and mixed it in with a story about Michael's past with a love.
When it came time to expand the story, his love became Cassia, a well educated Roman slave at the height of the Roman Empire in the late 300s/early 400s. I've always had a soft spot for Rome, but despite the history and politics around the Empires, I didn't really know what life was like IN it. So the day it was time t draw Cassia, I asked her what she was wearing and how she looked...and we both had no idea. My characters can only call on information I already know. I didn't know what Romans wore other than "tunics and togas" so I started doing some research.
The really nice thing is that unlike the Tribe of Ehrem, I don't have to make it all up - Rome existed, it's culture is pretty well documented, and it's readily available. So I immersed myself in what I could find. I didn't need much, we weren't going to go dive very deeply.
But damn, I got hooked, all the while Cassia's in my ear saying "Yeah, I did that - yeah, this is what I would say for this - wow they got that right!" I ended up getting in WAY deep into the Roman culture (so that's what they wear, oh, that's how people got married, so that's what those baths were for), and, like Nen'a, Cassia is about to become a major part of the Michael/Iskander story. What was going to be a quick fight over shadows is becoming almost an espionage story into a suburb of Rome.
IT's funny, though, how Cassia like Han'a, Nen'a and Manwaz would just grab onto a kernel of something, and completely run with it, and it would make sense. What's SCARY, though, is when Cassia grabs onto something, and I later find out she's right about it.
Sometimes I wonder if I just have better reception when it comes to the Collective Unconsciousness. Sometimes I wonder if I just have a really good imagination. And somtimes I wonder if I'm just nutters. :)
I must be nutters, I'm thinking about COOKING some of these recipes I found. :D
A good example of that is the Ehrem Tribe in AWFW. It was really odd to have this tribe just blossom up out of nowhere because the story needed it. I always knew I'd need a prehistoric tribe, but I never really consciously "expanded" it. Nen'a wasn't trans before she said it in the comic, in fact, there was no Nen'a at all. The "child debt" pigtails were just decoration until suddenly I was told they marked how many children you had left bear. Even Hanna's killmarks were just a way to differentiate her from grown up Andrea, until she told me what they meant.
It scares me how much "info" I picked up from that. Learning how a character ticks is one of the neatest thing I've ever experienced. Seeing a culture come out of nowhere just floored (and continues to floor) me.
It's sort of happening again, but not quite in the same way. The Impure Heart storyline has always been about an angel gone "bad." At the same time, I thought that Michael was being two two-dimensionally contradictory. I knew the reasons behind his choices and what his thinking process was...but it wasn't really coming across. So I took the angel gone wrong story and mixed it in with a story about Michael's past with a love.
When it came time to expand the story, his love became Cassia, a well educated Roman slave at the height of the Roman Empire in the late 300s/early 400s. I've always had a soft spot for Rome, but despite the history and politics around the Empires, I didn't really know what life was like IN it. So the day it was time t draw Cassia, I asked her what she was wearing and how she looked...and we both had no idea. My characters can only call on information I already know. I didn't know what Romans wore other than "tunics and togas" so I started doing some research.
The really nice thing is that unlike the Tribe of Ehrem, I don't have to make it all up - Rome existed, it's culture is pretty well documented, and it's readily available. So I immersed myself in what I could find. I didn't need much, we weren't going to go dive very deeply.
But damn, I got hooked, all the while Cassia's in my ear saying "Yeah, I did that - yeah, this is what I would say for this - wow they got that right!" I ended up getting in WAY deep into the Roman culture (so that's what they wear, oh, that's how people got married, so that's what those baths were for), and, like Nen'a, Cassia is about to become a major part of the Michael/Iskander story. What was going to be a quick fight over shadows is becoming almost an espionage story into a suburb of Rome.
IT's funny, though, how Cassia like Han'a, Nen'a and Manwaz would just grab onto a kernel of something, and completely run with it, and it would make sense. What's SCARY, though, is when Cassia grabs onto something, and I later find out she's right about it.
Sometimes I wonder if I just have better reception when it comes to the Collective Unconsciousness. Sometimes I wonder if I just have a really good imagination. And somtimes I wonder if I'm just nutters. :)
I must be nutters, I'm thinking about COOKING some of these recipes I found. :D
Starscream and Hutch
Oct. 27th, 2007 07:38 pmOne of the wierd things that happens when I start thinking about stories and sidestories is that I can sometimes find whole cultures sitting waiting for me to to write them in.
A good example of that is the Ehrem Tribe in AWFW. It was really odd to have this tribe just blossom up out of nowhere because the story needed it. I always knew I'd need a prehistoric tribe, but I never really consciously "expanded" it. Nen'a wasn't trans before she said it in the comic, in fact, there was no Nen'a at all. The "child debt" pigtails were just decoration until suddenly I was told they marked how many children you had left bear. Even Hanna's killmarks were just a way to differentiate her from grown up Andrea, until she told me what they meant.
It scares me how much "info" I picked up from that. Learning how a character ticks is one of the neatest thing I've ever experienced. Seeing a culture come out of nowhere just floored (and continues to floor) me.
It's sort of happening again, but not quite in the same way. The Impure Heart storyline has always been about an angel gone "bad." At the same time, I thought that Michael was being two two-dimensionally contradictory. I knew the reasons behind his choices and what his thinking process was...but it wasn't really coming across. So I took the angel gone wrong story and mixed it in with a story about Michael's past with a love.
When it came time to expand the story, his love became Cassia, a well educated Roman slave at the height of the Roman Empire in the late 300s/early 400s. I've always had a soft spot for Rome, but despite the history and politics around the Empires, I didn't really know what life was like IN it. So the day it was time t draw Cassia, I asked her what she was wearing and how she looked...and we both had no idea. My characters can only call on information I already know. I didn't know what Romans wore other than "tunics and togas" so I started doing some research.
The really nice thing is that unlike the Tribe of Ehrem, I don't have to make it all up - Rome existed, it's culture is pretty well documented, and it's readily available. So I immersed myself in what I could find. I didn't need much, we weren't going to go dive very deeply.
But damn, I got hooked, all the while Cassia's in my ear saying "Yeah, I did that - yeah, this is what I would say for this - wow they got that right!" I ended up getting in WAY deep into the Roman culture (so that's what they wear, oh, that's how people got married, so that's what those baths were for), and, like Nen'a, Cassia is about to become a major part of the Michael/Iskander story. What was going to be a quick fight over shadows is becoming almost an espionage story into a suburb of Rome.
IT's funny, though, how Cassia like Han'a, Nen'a and Manwaz would just grab onto a kernel of something, and completely run with it, and it would make sense. What's SCARY, though, is when Cassia grabs onto something, and I later find out she's right about it.
Sometimes I wonder if I just have better reception when it comes to the Collective Unconsciousness. Sometimes I wonder if I just have a really good imagination. And somtimes I wonder if I'm just nutters. :)
I must be nutters, I'm thinking about COOKING some of these recipes I found. :D
A good example of that is the Ehrem Tribe in AWFW. It was really odd to have this tribe just blossom up out of nowhere because the story needed it. I always knew I'd need a prehistoric tribe, but I never really consciously "expanded" it. Nen'a wasn't trans before she said it in the comic, in fact, there was no Nen'a at all. The "child debt" pigtails were just decoration until suddenly I was told they marked how many children you had left bear. Even Hanna's killmarks were just a way to differentiate her from grown up Andrea, until she told me what they meant.
It scares me how much "info" I picked up from that. Learning how a character ticks is one of the neatest thing I've ever experienced. Seeing a culture come out of nowhere just floored (and continues to floor) me.
It's sort of happening again, but not quite in the same way. The Impure Heart storyline has always been about an angel gone "bad." At the same time, I thought that Michael was being two two-dimensionally contradictory. I knew the reasons behind his choices and what his thinking process was...but it wasn't really coming across. So I took the angel gone wrong story and mixed it in with a story about Michael's past with a love.
When it came time to expand the story, his love became Cassia, a well educated Roman slave at the height of the Roman Empire in the late 300s/early 400s. I've always had a soft spot for Rome, but despite the history and politics around the Empires, I didn't really know what life was like IN it. So the day it was time t draw Cassia, I asked her what she was wearing and how she looked...and we both had no idea. My characters can only call on information I already know. I didn't know what Romans wore other than "tunics and togas" so I started doing some research.
The really nice thing is that unlike the Tribe of Ehrem, I don't have to make it all up - Rome existed, it's culture is pretty well documented, and it's readily available. So I immersed myself in what I could find. I didn't need much, we weren't going to go dive very deeply.
But damn, I got hooked, all the while Cassia's in my ear saying "Yeah, I did that - yeah, this is what I would say for this - wow they got that right!" I ended up getting in WAY deep into the Roman culture (so that's what they wear, oh, that's how people got married, so that's what those baths were for), and, like Nen'a, Cassia is about to become a major part of the Michael/Iskander story. What was going to be a quick fight over shadows is becoming almost an espionage story into a suburb of Rome.
IT's funny, though, how Cassia like Han'a, Nen'a and Manwaz would just grab onto a kernel of something, and completely run with it, and it would make sense. What's SCARY, though, is when Cassia grabs onto something, and I later find out she's right about it.
Sometimes I wonder if I just have better reception when it comes to the Collective Unconsciousness. Sometimes I wonder if I just have a really good imagination. And somtimes I wonder if I'm just nutters. :)
I must be nutters, I'm thinking about COOKING some of these recipes I found. :D