Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
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superhero_musesI GOT WRITING DONE THIS WEEK! Solid, enjoyable fic writing. It felt so good and it's been so long. *happy sigh* Now I'm really hoping to tackle something DC-related in addition to the wrestling once more.
--Does your most recent POV character have an obsession? Name it.
Ahhhahahaha, this is a good one for Kevin Owens, who is basically a seething ball of various obsessions: with food, with success, with proving himself better than anyone else, and with his ex-friend Sami Zayn. I love characters with obsessions, they drive stories forward and add so much tension (superheroes without obsessions are rare indeed!)
How are your obsessions going lately? And your writing? (For me they are much the same...)
--Does your most recent POV character have an obsession? Name it.
Ahhhahahaha, this is a good one for Kevin Owens, who is basically a seething ball of various obsessions: with food, with success, with proving himself better than anyone else, and with his ex-friend Sami Zayn. I love characters with obsessions, they drive stories forward and add so much tension (superheroes without obsessions are rare indeed!)
How are your obsessions going lately? And your writing? (For me they are much the same...)
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Date: 2017-08-25 01:44 am (UTC)Hmmm, I'm working on a new short story and I have to say that Dana's obsession is how much she hates her mother and why hasn't she cut the woman off yet? Which obsesses her far more than the giant raccoon-shadow-beast she saw last night outside her hotel or the woman she saw fighting it with a deck broom or the little shadow-raccoons that infested her hotel room's entertainment center.
Those are all temporary. Dana's mother is MUCH more long-term of an annoyance. Dana's practical that way. *grin*
Sadly, I'm not getting much in the way of writing done due to this week being one long series of audits. I had to do an audit (I lead it) on Tuesday (and had only begun to prepare on Monday), then we had a customer audit on Wednesday and another one today.
My brain is burned on the bottom and jelly everywhere else. I'm pretty much hoping for a bare 250 words today (got 300 yesterday) because I don't think I can manage much more.
But I did finish the third of the 3 novels in 3 months challenge books so it's all good. Tiring but good.
Good luck with your writing obsession next week!
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Date: 2017-09-01 02:08 am (UTC)I LIKE HER. :D
I hope you've gotten through the audits okay! They sound like a real pain--today so far has been all emergency paperwork and Dealing With People in Japanese, so I hear your pain. (I did get a little of the Lego Batman writing in, though!)
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Date: 2017-08-26 04:44 am (UTC)Is... sex... an appropriate answer...? Oh no wait, that's me; I'm obsessed with writing sex. Ah, I know! To answer more seriously, Saitou is definitely obsessed with looking proper when he goes out in kimono, making sure his collars are smooth and high enough and his obi tied properly. Saitou is also pretty obsessed with his own personal code of ethics and justice and though he works for the police, he's willing to follow his own way and break laws, for the greater good. Now, Sanosuke... He's obsessed with food. XDD He used to be obsessed with having a good fight, but since his defeat by Kenshin, he's mellowed on that front, but omfg how he avoids having a job and mooching on his friends has got to be an obsession of his.
I'm going to have to, at some point, focus on something other than SaitouxSano, like SuperBat and Thorki, cause those BigBang deadlines are coming up fast. ^^;; But I did write out the outline for the kimono panel I will be hosting in October, so that feels really good! I feel so much more cemented and secure with the panel now that I have clear direction; I was starting to feel very overwhelmed and chaotic about it. XD (Plus by working on the kimono panel content, I get to procrastinate SuperBat and Thorki more. =D)
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Date: 2017-09-04 07:51 am (UTC)I hope the kimono panel goes great! Is it for a con? What kinds of things are you covering?
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Date: 2017-09-05 01:56 am (UTC)Yup! It's for an anime convention and I hope I can do well enough in front of people. XD Things sound great in my head and then get a lot less great in reality. But I have REALLY been wanting to do this panel for a few years, and after last year's host said that a kimono is only made out of silk, and if it is made out of something else, synthetic, wool, hemp, etc., then it's just a yukata... And that is so not right.
I mean, the availability of synthetic has sort of helped with the approachability of kimono to young and people new to kimono. Silk is a scary and precious fabric! Especially when you factor in the dying techniques, like kyo-yuuzen, or Oshima tsumugi... The price point of an authentic, new mud-dyed Oshima tsumugi can give you a heart attack, and yet, it can only be worn as an informal kimono! Even used Oshima tsumugi can leave a heavy coin purse quite bereft. (This is also what I am afraid of doing, just rambling on and on and on. lol) But the usefulness of a hitoe synthetic kimono is kind of invaluable to a first-time buyer, and even people who just like to wear kimono often, since they can be put into a washing machine, so long as they are folded properly and put in a garment bag and run through on the gentle cycle. That's a lot friendlier than kimono that, typically, need to be completely picked apart, sewn back into a bolt the original bolt form, washed, then sewn back into a kimono. Expensive! And also not really a service available in America. I don't really trust dry cleaning, either, just because so many of the dyes are not colour fast and I've heard a lot of tales of kimono dry cleaning gone horrible.
Aaaanywho. I mostly want to focus on the basics (but even that is iffy to properly get through in less than 2 hours) and getting people started on where to buy kimono and where they turn to to educate themselves. It's only a 2 hour panel, so, not a lot I can say in that time, but I really want to pass on some knowledge and point people in the right direction. I'm putting together a list of books (and of course, I just bought another 200$ worth of kimono books. For science!) that have helped me over the years, and the books themselves are fairly cheap, plus a list of Youtube channels, and other websites. The last few years, the hosts just didn't have the knowledge to truly pass on to people, and I was left pretty disappointed that not only did I not learn anything new, but I heard a lot of incorrect information. So, for kimono, I will get over my fear of talking in front of people!!! I guess that's, probably, a good growing/learning experience, too. If I want to be mature like that.
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Date: 2017-09-13 09:38 am (UTC)100 kimono this year, I am kind of in awe! That sounds lovely, what a beautiful closet you must have...
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Date: 2017-08-31 06:15 am (UTC)I'm also still writing Marvel Noir and Ults and 616 and all in parallel or at the same time. ^^;
This time Noir!Tony battles memory loss, so that and figuring out his relationship with Captain America are his current obsessions.
Writing is going well, but I wish I could make more room for it, because I ahve so many things I want to write, but simply not enough time.
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Date: 2017-08-31 02:57 pm (UTC)Good for me! :)
*rubs hands in anticipation* ;)
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Date: 2017-09-02 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-02 10:32 pm (UTC)Great icon. :)
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Date: 2017-09-11 10:43 am (UTC)Obsession does have a negative tinge to it that's difficult to apply to love and peace, isn't it? I suppose (now that I've finally seen the movie) you COULD argue she has an obsession with killing Ares that has caused her to be blind to humanity's complicity in the war? Maybe?
Writing is going well, but I wish I could make more room for it, because I have so many things I want to write, but simply not enough time.
I know how you feel! When I CAN write it goes well, it's just a matter of scrounging the time... I'm getting close to done with the third chapter of a story and it's just killing me to not have that closure in my head...
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Date: 2017-12-07 04:16 pm (UTC)This version of Sian (btw the spelling variation is intentional to distinguish them) is shockingly un-obsessed. He was obsessed with Kemaer in his absence but now that he's here he almost doesn't know what to do with him. XD
Mary is obsessed with her vengeance. She is haunted by those who died in her stead. She will have it, or perish.
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Date: 2018-03-26 10:49 am (UTC)I'm very impressed with how different Sian and Sean are! Is Sian basically in your mind a take on if Sean had been able to have a less warped life? I always feel a weird sort of pity for characters like that, who aren't aware of how good they have it, if that makes sense...