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[changeling]

So. I totally failed again to do what I planned to yesterday (work on The Shadow Boys, get some Wackiness done, upload do some washing [OMG I have passed beyond geek and nerd and into the other side...]). Instead I worked on the character art for the cards I've done for the HP Cluedo game that Nat and I planned. I've finished the cards themselves, backgrounds and so forth, and have started colouring the art. So far I've done Draco. Seven to go... Then I just have to work out all the murder methods, and the layout of the castle, and illustrate both. I think I've lost my original notes on the subject.


Nat, Sara and I had a good class/discussion tonight. Reminded me why I'm in a coven.


Deethie emailed me some con. crit. for One Good Deed, which raised the accurate concern that the woman has no personality. I'm not going to go into all the justification and reasons why that is, but I do know why it happened, and I'm not sure that given the chance I would have done it differently. The poor woman was not really part of the plot, as I said to Deethie, and to boot got my ability to fall apart at the least thing if sufficiently tired and stressed enough. Now that Deethie's brought it to my attention, though, I feel like a terrible feminist. Isn't writing filled with enough helpless-women stereotypes? On the other hand, as I wrote her pretty much to be me (as I wrote in the response email, I once waited in a damn supermarket carpark for two hours waiting for my parents to call me back, because my damn key wouldn't turn in the ignition. I didn't know enough about cars then to know that I just had to twist the steering wheel a bit and the key would magically be able to turn. I ate a can of soup unheated because I was so damn hungry), so what does that say about me? I don't consider myself to be particularly helpless or damsellish.

I think I think about things too much.


I'm going to sign off now. I have more Fellowship ahead of me. We're in Moria at the moment, and Gandalf's just chosen the righthand tunnel (I'm pretty sure he chooses the middle one in the movie--another small inconsistency...). I'm amused to find out that Boromir was the one who threw the stone into the lake with the Guardian (was that the squid-creature's name? Edit: It was The Watcher in the Water. I've just reached Balin's tomb). I've always said that Pippin's not *quite* as stupid as he looks. The palantír business came pretty damn close, though.


I'm going to start cutting my friends list soon. I'm serious about this. 340 people is way too many. Even if just over 100 of them are communities. Maybe I should cut my communities, too.

Comments

[billradish.livejournal.com]

The game sounds interesting. *envies*

I can see both sides of the point with the woman, but giving that more thought...that's not what I'd comment on about the woman. She does have a personality, it's just very small and limited to trying to give Fairy her number (apparently-probably...that wasn't quite confirmed).

Re: Fellowship. The palantir had reasons for making him stupid though. But still...Pippin was occasionally quite dumb. XD *loves on the hobbit*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I'll send you the picture files, maybe, when I'm done, and you can make your own version. Or maybe I'll make a tiny, travel-sized version and post it to you. That could be cool.

Ah, thanks. I needed the reassurance that I didn't totally cock it up. ;)

I have so much love for Pippin. *loffs him*

[billradish.livejournal.com]

squeeeeeeeeee! ^___^

eh. I think you could stand to develop her more if you were going to use her again. As what basically amounts to a plot device...good enough. XD

<3

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*snuggles*

Yeah, that was my justification.

You bad people caused me to start to have a germ of a new idea forming as I was trying to sleep last night. Fairy and the as-yet-unnamed woman meet at a barbecue, with, I suspect, hilarious results.

[billradish.livejournal.com]

Naaaaaaaaaaame her. Wriiiiiiiite it. <3

*is a bad influence!*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Nono! Want to sleep! Neeeed sleep!

Will do later.

[billradish.livejournal.com]

Later works. Later works well...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

You are a bad influence.

I'm not sure of the ending of this story yet. I may mull it over for a bit first. *thoughtful*

[billradish.livejournal.com]

Yay! Mauling!

Yay! Bad influence! <3

[corybantic.livejournal.com]

no... I'm fairly sure gandalf picks one of the side tunnels. Although you'd have to ask Steph which one, as she has my FotR DVD. I have a sneaking suspicion it's the left one, or stage right (althogh left from Gandalf's POV)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Quite probable. I don't own any of the DVDs. I just seemed to remember it being the middle one.

[scott-wells.livejournal.com]

CUTTING! CUTTING! CUTTING!

340 IS a lot. I will now fret, because thats what I'm good at these days. *nods*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Well, I ain't cutting you, if that's what you're fretting about, because a) you and I exchange comments frequently, b) I read your posts and would like to continue doing so, and c) I remember who you are. :)

[jacen.livejournal.com]

Communities were the first casualty when I cut back. I realized I just wasn't reading the damn things anymore and they were stacking up my friends page. I've probably got 20-40 people on my list that never post anymore but I can't bring myself to cut them. Hell, I rarely post (life is pretty damn dull these days) but I still read and comment a lot. Maybe that's what they do.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*nods* Know the feeling.

I'm thinking I need to do a major overhaul of communities, and then start cutting back on all the people whose posts I skip because I don't remember who they are anymore.

[deethie.livejournal.com]

Instead of emailing....everything you said was valid and I completely understand it was a fluff piece written quickly. I just wanted to give you my opinion in case you were going to work on it more.

And you didn't cock up. I should have added that I thought the way you handled Russ and Fairy was really strong (and perhaps that is why I noticed the weak character) and it is amusing and surprising and pitched with perfect tone.

I *always* have my 'feminist' hat on. So much so that I've been accused of going out looking for stereotypical portrayals of women and then shouting about it. I can promise though that you aren't a bad feminist.

And you are right, I care therefore I criticise (and give you no opportunity to return the favour :).

d

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*grins* I understood, and it was appreciated. And knowing what you didn't like about it somehow makes what you did like all the more satisfying.

[ninjakitten]

Hmm.

I'm definitely a feminist, but the woman didn't bother me -- she was vital to the plot but not actually a focus character, and that's all right. The end wouldn't have worked if she'd been a guy, after all. Anyway -- insisting that =all= female characters be utterly competent and !damselish is just creating a new stereotype, really. Better to let characters be who they are and need to be for the story to work, I think.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks!

I always get frustrated with !feminist women, the women who obsess over lipstick and high heels, but my dad just reminds me that they're a different personality type to me, and that it takes all kinds. :)