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If a Meme Told Me to Jump off a Bridge, I Probably Would

If you comment...

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie/television show/book reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you. (or maybe an icon or something, I dunno!)
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you. (or recently wondered. I've known some of you long enough that I've already asked the always wondered questions.)
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.

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::waves hand madly::

1. That you spin and make leather armor. That is pure awesome, right there.

2. Something about the icons you choose often makes me think of Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen.

3. CRAFT NIGHT. OR, LIKE, WEEKEND.

4. When is the new GCfA cd coming out, anyway?

5. Reading your Snape-is-jealous-and-also-evil story, wherein there is death, blood, and masturbation. Good times!

6. For you (!):

7. If you were getting paid to work on your ideal writing project, what would it be?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

::icon LOVE::

1. Okay, I have to come clean. My husband does all the patterning and assembly. Basically I do the embellishments.

5. ::facepalm::

7. If I were getting paid? It'd probably be to work on a collaborative project where I was lead world-builder. So yeah, something gaming related. Like WhiteWolf only cooler.

6. ::diez again::

Okay, I have to come clean. My husband does all the patterning and assembly. Basically I do the embellishments.

Is this less awesome? No, it is not!

Being lead world-builder for a collaborative project would be so cool! Man, I might have to steal your ideal paid writing job idea... ;-)

I'm glad you enjoy the icon!

Are there any good world-building comms on lj?

I dunno! I remember running into one shared-world fantasy community, back around NaNoWriMo this last year (I was unimpressed), and I once tried to start a shared-world sci-fantasy universe (

new_etruria, which I still fully intend to go back to some day (I have got to use the parthenogenic lizard aliens I created in something. They are too cool.), but I dunno about any other comms that touch on world-building in any way.

I wonder how one would locate such a thing? Interest search on world building?

::still reeling from parthenogenic lizard aliens::

Shared world fantasy is one thing. World building something else entirely.

~~I think we should start one.~~

Well, but you have to build the world before you can write in it (not necessarily, I guess... You can certainly write and build simultaneously. But anyway!), so they're tangentially related, I'd say.

The lizards are called Gulgulga. And they're telepaths. And they live in "mated" pairs, and write love poetry to each other. I'm rather fond of them. (and also crazy, yes)

~~I so don't need any new projects, but I'd be game!~~

Well, but you have to build the world before you can write in it (not necessarily, I guess... You can certainly write and build simultaneously. But anyway!), so they're tangentially related, I'd say.

World building relies on writing, it just doesn't necessarily have plot. A community wouldn't have to be restricted to one world (although we could certainly encourage interested parties to start and share "sister" communities of collaborative writing). I'm talking about giving prime examples of good world building (Dune, for instance) where the world is a character in and of itself. Of helping writers find that character and develop it.

The lizards are called Gulgulga. And they're telepaths. And they live in "mated" pairs, and write love poetry to each other. I'm rather fond of them. (and also crazy, yes)

Awww, love poetry writing lizards! ::edging away slightly:: (jk)

And if we started a world building community, we could do weekly posts to start discussion and then let writers ask questions about WB. We (you and I) could trade off weeks and we could pimp it all the writerly type communities on lj! It'd be awesome!

World building relies on writing, it just doesn't necessarily have plot.

Right. I was just saying that in order to create a sharedverse, you have to build a world, at some point. ;-)

I'm talking about giving prime examples of good world building (Dune, for instance) where the world is a character in and of itself. Of helping writers find that character and develop it.

So, help me understand what you mean here... What you want is a community for the discussion of world building, and possibly for sharing examples and/or running prompts/challenges/workshops? Something like that? With possibly "sister communities" that would be devoted to specific world building and sharedverse type projects?

What you want is a community for the discussion of world building, and possibly for sharing examples and/or running prompts/challenges/workshops?

Yes. That.

With possibly "sister communities" that would be devoted to specific world building and sharedverse type projects?

Yes, if they spring up.

Maybe just a world building tutorial. There seem to be enough communities around the ongoing world-building process. So perhaps a series of posts outlining the process and things to take into consideration. I know everyone's process is different, but we could give some kind of structure to it. Kinda like

the_lj_reboot.

In my very brief skim of the comms you link me, it looks more like they're designed for members to share ongoing projects with one another, rather than for a tutorial/prompt/challenge type format. So there might actually be some use in creating another community, if it would have a different focus.

Anyway, I'd be interested in helping out with whatever you decide to do... I don't think I'm a particular expert on world building or anything, but I have done it several times now, both on my own and collaboratively, so I've got a sense of what works and what doesn't, during the process, and a few different angles of approach that one can take...

::ponders::

I so don't need another project right now. Let's backburner this and if it comes up again, maybe we can reconsider.

~~But it'd be really really cool, wouldn't it?~~

~~Yes, it would. But there's no harm in waiting a little bit.~~

Okay there was this one... and this one...

worldweaving has some awesome links. Wow, there's more than I would have thought out there...

~~Maybe a world-building tutorial...~~

I'll go for it :)

1. You weren't totally freaked out by the combined weirdness of me, Jameson, and Isaac all at once... ;-)

2. I haven't really known you long enough for this one... But have you read anything by Patricia C. Wrede? I've got a sense that maybe you'd like her.

3. Do you knit or crochet or otherwise craft at all? I'd love it if you could come to the next knitting night I host.

4. Pursuant to #3, I promise I'd dispose of all of the headless bodies, first... ;-)

5. Heh, that's a little too easy. Outback!

6. I found an image of this weird old postcard about tango (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TangoPostcard1920.jpg), and made an icon from it which you might perhaps enjoy:

7. Man, there are tons of things I could ask! How about, what's your favorite childhood movie?

Honestly, for several years I could not see the movie 'Poltergeist' enough. And for many years I loved loved loved 'Xanadu'.

But the ones that I look back on with the most fondness and would still enjoy today are 'The Neverending Story' and 'Anne of Green Gables'. I don't know if I could pick between them.

That icon ROCKS. I love it!

Ooh, I used to love watching The Neverending Story! Have you read the book? The book is fantastic. I don't think I've actually seen Anne of Green Gables. Maybe I'll look into renting that and checking it out.

I'm glad you like the icon. :-)

Me? Meeeee? Posting!

1. I really enjoy seeing the wide range of doll-related craftiness that you're involved in, when you post pictures on your journal.

2. I'm starting to associate Alice in Wonderland with you... ;-)

3. It'd be fun to do some sort of collaborative doll project, wouldn't it?

4. Glass bread pan, for the win!

5. Seeing your username pop up in the member list at

hp_ooak.

6. "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

7. Have you ever played the card game Chez Goth?

Whee!
No, what is Chez Goth?

Chez Goth is a card game put out by Steve Jackson Games. Basically, you and the other players are roommates in a house, and you're all goths. You win the game by collecting slack and gloom points, which you can get by doing things like using "write depressing poetry" cards and so on... It's very silly, and a lot of fun. You'd have to have a good sense of humor about yourself and all things gothic to enjoy it, but I think that you do, and you would. More info here: http://www.sjgames.com/chezgoth/index.html

Oh, that looks utterly hysterical. I think we MUST have that.
I especially liked down at the bottom of the page, there was an ad for a T-shirt that my husband would LOVE: "If you're really a goth, where were you when we sacked Rome?"

I love Steve Jackson Games. Chez Goth, Chez Geek, and Munchkin are some of my favoritest things evar. They're particularly wonderful for playing with at parties.

do me?

1. I really like the detailed costumes you design for fannish things.

2. Drawn Together.

3. We should do knitting night again, soon! Or writing night! Or general hanging out night!

4. "Feels like Christmas..."

5. I remember meeting you at NaNoWriMo in 2004, and feeling really intimidated because you guys all already knew each other.

6. "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

7. What do you really want to do for a living?

We all really must do something fun/crafy again soon! My apartment is roomy enough for a small gathering (4-5 people shouldn't be too cramped in the living room), only I lack some good seating ^^;

Hmm, for a living... I don't know ^^; I've wanted to be a writer for a long time, though lately I have a LOT of trouble concentrating on my writing (maybe write-ins would fix this!). Other than that, dunno. Maybe a proessional webdesigner, or seamstress could be fun. Something in the realm of a creative job, definitely.

Oh, me!

1. Your stylish wig collection!

2. That Numa Numa song!

3. (I feel like I'm repeating myself in this meme, but...) KNITTING OMG.

4. If Esme starts drinking coffee, does that mean she's more grownup than us?

5. I remember you contacting me about co-modding

tucson_writers. I was sort of startled by it, since I really had no idea who you were. So I clicked over to your journal, and looked at your wedding photos. I felt sort've oddly voyeuristic. ;-)

6. "Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."

7. What's your favorite book of all time?

6. "Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."

...you haven't been around to hear me calling our kid "The Dark Lord." George and I like to say he's starting his world domination one person at a time. I'm first, lucky me. :p

7. What's your favorite book of all time?

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, by Alice Walker. I swear that book saved me from going insane when I was 16. Quite a personal story actually, but I think you can enjoy the book without being an inch from batshit insane...or black. ;) If you haven't read Alice Walker (which I would be very surpised by), you should also pick up The Color Purple.

I have read some Alice Walker, specifically The Color Purple and a few essays (including the titular piece from In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, actually), but I should probably read more. She's pretty fantastic.

Me! Me! I wanna play! :)

1. Well, your "Shiny" icon, for one. I also like that you're very open about your religious beliefs, which are quite different from mine. I enjoy reading your perspective on things, especially when you and I have come to the same conclusion about something from very different angles.

2. My Shakespeare shelf on the bookshelf behind me. ;-)

3. We should get together for a flash poetry writing session or something. That'd be neat!

4. Footnotes are just more elegant than parenthetical references.

5. I think the first class we had together was that Shakespeare course, but you really started to stand out in my mind during Intro to Lesbian and Gay lit, which was when you joined

tucson_writers, if I'm remembering correctly.

6. "Amor vincit omnia"

7. I know you enjoy watching sci-fi (Firefly! Woo!), but do you read it? Ever think about writing it?

This sounds odd of me to say, but I don't know if I'm creative enough for sci-fi. I tend to stray away from writing short stories or novels because I have trouble developing plot lines. When writing poetry, an intricate plot line isn't as necessary.

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