I'm not sure I like this...

[eredien]

Which Member of the Endless Are You?

Considering the mood I am in at the moment, that could be the best possible person to get. Or the worst. See...I've recently been throwing around this idea that where you are before you are born and for some time after you die is Story.
And Destiny has this big book, see, that tells all.

I was talking briefly with Irina about this at lunch, and she said, "it's a big responsiblity, for writers, if it is." I knew that before, but this has just driven it home. And then Catherine and SR were talking about Elsinore, and when Catherine said that "she guessed she'd written more of herself into [her character] than she'd thought," I said, "but of course. Most people do."

And then I fell over in my taco salad, because I'd broken my own brain, well and good. I am not even going to think about how this might relate back to how Brent broke my brain with Trigun this past weekend.

And dammit. It's a gorgeous day outside and I have an hour and a half until Doublestar dinner. And what do I want to do with it? Write.

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brains and the breaking thereof

[weirdquark]

huh. I can't be more coherent than that because my brain isn't working and it's the end of my lunch break.

Did Trigun break your brain then? Must get around to watching that. It's on the list. I think we need to finish Kenshin first though. We have some of the tapes but they leave us happily in the middle of the Kyoto story arc, probably with a nice evil cliffhanger.
And Gundam Wing . . . I think Trigun is higher on the list though . . .

It is very hard to write a character that is not you. Although I suppose writing a character that WAS NOT YOU, NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT would be easier since it would be writing everything you are not.
But all my characters are me. bits of me anyway. with feeling. even the evil chaotic homicidal ones. *cackles evily, then looks innocent*

Re: brains and the breaking thereof

[eredien]

Oh-ho, I haven't finished all of Trigun yet. My brain shut down about halfway through the marathon that the Anime Collective at Haverford was running last semester, and I have to deal with the fun issues that it brought up at least a little before I will let myself watch any more.

I completely agree with your commentary about "even the homicidal maniac ones." I mean, you met Eathan during the LARP, right?

Re: brains and the breaking thereof

[weirdquark]

I have a very nice inner homicidal maniac. She isn't very manic though. I figure, following Ruth's question of whether people will be able to tell when you snap, that no, no one will be able to tell. I will go off on my nice little killing spree and be very quiet and slit people's throats with my claws. (Like Drusilla, on Buffy. if that helps at all. Except Drusilla is nuts.) and no one would be able to tell unless I didn't get all the blood out from underneth my nails. [smiles and looks innocent] kowaii or kawaii? [bats eyes]