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EDIT: I'm home, and there were no disasters! yay!
And the accordian guy is practicing, so I get music through my open window. That's not bad at all. :D /EDIT
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toxictattoo is awesome and got me links for Ayakashi and Mononoke! I have to download a new player, but I don't care. :D
... also there's apparently a BL drama that's Midorikawa Hikaru x Miyata Kouki. This is of note because the first time I heard Sakurai (in GetBackers), I thought it WAS Midorikawa; since then I've learned to differentiate (or maybe Sakurai's adapted?), but there's some lizard part of my fangirl brain that associates them.
Annnnnd see, seeing as my eternal (?!) OTP is Haruka/Kantarou and THAT is Sakurai x Miyata and if we play the associate game ...
... yeah so I downloaded it. DUN JUDGE ME. ToT /EDIT2
Today is a better day than yesterday! So far. I mean, I haven't tried to go home yet, and who knows what I might encounter among the public transportation wildlife. :O
FIRST: Does ANYONE know where I can get a decently-working torrent for Ayakashi and its spinoff, Mononoke?sjen showed me part of Mononoke a while ago (the unholy awesome lovechild of Mushishi and Gankutsuou♥), and I didn't realize it was actually a spinoff -- AND I didn't realize that the first story of Ayakashi is the Yotsuya Kaidan, which is ... it's the first Japanese ghost story I EVER READ. Also, it's got Hirata Hiroaki as as Iemon, and that's just kind of hilarious in a horrible way. :D
WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SERIES WHEN IT WAS COMING OUT, AND THE TORRENTS WERE LOVING. [weeps]
Moving on: okay, so. I am going to pontificate at length about, well, pontificating, really. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I'm not a linguistics geek (I leave that mostly tomaymargret and rivendellrose whenever I've got questions), but I also occasionally look at the tics and habits I have when I speak -- less aloud, because I can't go back and review those except in my (quite faulty) memory, and more with how I type. When I am writing as myself-my-actual-self (as opposed to myself-the-narrator in fic), I actually am sort of "saying" the words in my head as I type them. (I type fast, but I also talk fast, especially when you get me revved!) All the emoticons and gestures I punctuate myself-as-me writings are things I would do, if I were talking TO you rather than writing at you, short of tilting my head and squinching my eyes for a XD.
I don't really consider myself an old-timer in fandom, not when you've got people who've been on for twenty-plus years -- but I've been online for ... what. Half my life now? (ye gods and fishes, scary!) I tend to hang out with other writers online, or other fangirls, and you see a lot of phrases and words that start somewhere and then just sweep across until it seems my entire flist is using them. Sometimes I catch myself picking them up, because I see them so much, but they always feel kind of jarring to me when they're out of synch with how I would speak. I mean, some things, sure, I pick up -- phrases that are neat (I forget where I picked up "gods and fishes," but I know I read it YEARS ago and was so charmed by it as an exclamation that I'm still using it today), patterns to how I break up my sentences, but there are other things that people seem to love using, and I ... don't?
The biggest example would probably be the online stammering thing. As far as I'm aware, I don't actually stammer (none of the h-hey or t-that's nice or anything like that). I'm much more likely to break a word in half (H......ey or th....at's nice) when I'm uncertain or confused or shocked; I also tend to repeat words! A lot. I've used it a few times, but it just feels weird to me to do -- though I gotta admit, the breaking of a word in half looks about 50000x more awkward. XD (It's also because I tend to "hear" things when I read them, and the stammering thing just doesn't make sense to me a lot of the time. Not in English, at least, since when I try to apply myself and think, I have an easier time hearing a Japanese word stammered than an English one.)
Part of this is coming from the rewrite of Lazarus Child -- I had Bird "talk" a lot in actual dialogue, which in retrospect seems kind of ... awkward. He's a freaking bird; he squawks and makes these croaky noises which you can try to transliterate, but always lose something in the process. On the other hand, I've never gotten into the habit people have of things like "oh, purr" -- it just sounds silly to me when I say it aloud, and when talking as myself, it's like. I'd rather write OUT the weird words, because honestly? People who know me probably know exactly what the weird jumble of letters sound like when vocalized.
Also, god I was terribly in love with single-sentence paragraphs back then. This rewrite is good practice in CUTTING OUT THE EXCESS WORDS that I was using to try and bash the reader's head in with the IMPORTANCE OF MAH SCENE. Why did you people put up with me back then? ... I'm going to look back on my writing in another five years and wonder the same thing about now, aren't I.
Actually, while I'm on the topic, DAMN YOU JKR for making the phrase "half-blood" famous in your contenxt. :( I wrote Lazarus Child in like junior year of high school, but you are fifty gajillion times more famous than I am, and I want to go back and change the phrase, but nothing else really fits. He's not a hybrid, he's not a half-breed, and I am less creative than I like. Damn youuuuuuuuuuuu. [fistshake]
... anyway, ahem.
I mean, is this a normal thing? Or do people try to keep a distinct voice for online journaling (and I'm not just talking about the use of AOL-esque abbreviations, and sadly enough, I will in fact mangle macro-speak aloud if you let me get away with it) that's more articulate and ... poised, I suppose, than their normal self? With writing, there's an infinitely greater capacity for editing and revision, and that's not just for fictional works -- I'd personally find it exhausting, I think, like I was trying to sockpuppet myself, because I'm NOT exactly your super-eloquent elegant speaker. I talk like me whether with my voice or my words, unless I'm talking like the narrator, and that's a sort of anything-goes. XD
I also tend to capitolize single words for emphasis when speaking-as-me, and italicize phrases; I do that a lot less in fiction -- which is to say, I only use italics nine times out of ten, and usually only a word or two, less of phrases. I wonder if that counts as trying to differentiate between my two "voices"?
o hay, it can be going-home tiemz now yay♥
And the accordian guy is practicing, so I get music through my open window. That's not bad at all. :D /EDIT
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toxictattoo is awesome and got me links for Ayakashi and Mononoke! I have to download a new player, but I don't care. :D... also there's apparently a BL drama that's Midorikawa Hikaru x Miyata Kouki. This is of note because the first time I heard Sakurai (in GetBackers), I thought it WAS Midorikawa; since then I've learned to differentiate (or maybe Sakurai's adapted?), but there's some lizard part of my fangirl brain that associates them.
Annnnnd see, seeing as my eternal (?!) OTP is Haruka/Kantarou and THAT is Sakurai x Miyata and if we play the associate game ...
... yeah so I downloaded it. DUN JUDGE ME. ToT /EDIT2
Today is a better day than yesterday! So far. I mean, I haven't tried to go home yet, and who knows what I might encounter among the public transportation wildlife. :O
FIRST: Does ANYONE know where I can get a decently-working torrent for Ayakashi and its spinoff, Mononoke?
sjen showed me part of Mononoke a while ago (the unholy awesome lovechild of Mushishi and Gankutsuou♥), and I didn't realize it was actually a spinoff -- AND I didn't realize that the first story of Ayakashi is the Yotsuya Kaidan, which is ... it's the first Japanese ghost story I EVER READ. Also, it's got Hirata Hiroaki as as Iemon, and that's just kind of hilarious in a horrible way. :DWHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SERIES WHEN IT WAS COMING OUT, AND THE TORRENTS WERE LOVING. [weeps]
Moving on: okay, so. I am going to pontificate at length about, well, pontificating, really. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I'm not a linguistics geek (I leave that mostly to
maymargret and rivendellrose whenever I've got questions), but I also occasionally look at the tics and habits I have when I speak -- less aloud, because I can't go back and review those except in my (quite faulty) memory, and more with how I type. When I am writing as myself-my-actual-self (as opposed to myself-the-narrator in fic), I actually am sort of "saying" the words in my head as I type them. (I type fast, but I also talk fast, especially when you get me revved!) All the emoticons and gestures I punctuate myself-as-me writings are things I would do, if I were talking TO you rather than writing at you, short of tilting my head and squinching my eyes for a XD.I don't really consider myself an old-timer in fandom, not when you've got people who've been on for twenty-plus years -- but I've been online for ... what. Half my life now? (ye gods and fishes, scary!) I tend to hang out with other writers online, or other fangirls, and you see a lot of phrases and words that start somewhere and then just sweep across until it seems my entire flist is using them. Sometimes I catch myself picking them up, because I see them so much, but they always feel kind of jarring to me when they're out of synch with how I would speak. I mean, some things, sure, I pick up -- phrases that are neat (I forget where I picked up "gods and fishes," but I know I read it YEARS ago and was so charmed by it as an exclamation that I'm still using it today), patterns to how I break up my sentences, but there are other things that people seem to love using, and I ... don't?
The biggest example would probably be the online stammering thing. As far as I'm aware, I don't actually stammer (none of the h-hey or t-that's nice or anything like that). I'm much more likely to break a word in half (H......ey or th....at's nice) when I'm uncertain or confused or shocked; I also tend to repeat words! A lot. I've used it a few times, but it just feels weird to me to do -- though I gotta admit, the breaking of a word in half looks about 50000x more awkward. XD (It's also because I tend to "hear" things when I read them, and the stammering thing just doesn't make sense to me a lot of the time. Not in English, at least, since when I try to apply myself and think, I have an easier time hearing a Japanese word stammered than an English one.)
Part of this is coming from the rewrite of Lazarus Child -- I had Bird "talk" a lot in actual dialogue, which in retrospect seems kind of ... awkward. He's a freaking bird; he squawks and makes these croaky noises which you can try to transliterate, but always lose something in the process. On the other hand, I've never gotten into the habit people have of things like "oh, purr" -- it just sounds silly to me when I say it aloud, and when talking as myself, it's like. I'd rather write OUT the weird words, because honestly? People who know me probably know exactly what the weird jumble of letters sound like when vocalized.
Also, god I was terribly in love with single-sentence paragraphs back then. This rewrite is good practice in CUTTING OUT THE EXCESS WORDS that I was using to try and bash the reader's head in with the IMPORTANCE OF MAH SCENE. Why did you people put up with me back then? ... I'm going to look back on my writing in another five years and wonder the same thing about now, aren't I.
Actually, while I'm on the topic, DAMN YOU JKR for making the phrase "half-blood" famous in your contenxt. :( I wrote Lazarus Child in like junior year of high school, but you are fifty gajillion times more famous than I am, and I want to go back and change the phrase, but nothing else really fits. He's not a hybrid, he's not a half-breed, and I am less creative than I like. Damn youuuuuuuuuuuu. [fistshake]
... anyway, ahem.
I mean, is this a normal thing? Or do people try to keep a distinct voice for online journaling (and I'm not just talking about the use of AOL-esque abbreviations, and sadly enough, I will in fact mangle macro-speak aloud if you let me get away with it) that's more articulate and ... poised, I suppose, than their normal self? With writing, there's an infinitely greater capacity for editing and revision, and that's not just for fictional works -- I'd personally find it exhausting, I think, like I was trying to sockpuppet myself, because I'm NOT exactly your super-eloquent elegant speaker. I talk like me whether with my voice or my words, unless I'm talking like the narrator, and that's a sort of anything-goes. XD
I also tend to capitolize single words for emphasis when speaking-as-me, and italicize phrases; I do that a lot less in fiction -- which is to say, I only use italics nine times out of ten, and usually only a word or two, less of phrases. I wonder if that counts as trying to differentiate between my two "voices"?
o hay, it can be going-home tiemz now yay♥
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And I picked up most of my online mannerisms from other folks. Like XD and D: from Meg, and the stammering for effect thing from Laylah and Ze Kiwi. I am a big copying faker, I am. ^_^
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I think I picked up D: from all over the place, and will actually SAY it aloud in an appropriate situation -- my friend Kari will be all "but you liiiiike it" and I'll yell "DEE COLON DAMNIT" at her. Uh. XD
I don't think there's anything fake about picking up speech patterns from other people, I just wonder how it happens, and what makes us decide, subconsciously or not, what we do and we don't pick up.
also, every time I see your new default icon I want to pet that kitty between her big confused eyes. XD
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Heee, CHII IS SO CUTE. THE POWER OF THE CUTE COMPELS YOU!
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THE POWER OF CUTE DOES COMPELL ME. It compells me so much. XD
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I suppose the biggest fear about starting up your online presence, on any of the -journal forums is being interesting enough to keep people. I ... honestly sometimes worry that my ramblings are boring, because I throw them out since I want people to talk BACK, and folks rarely do. XD; I suppose the ficwriting keeps the rest of the lurkers occupied? I dunno!
It's just that even if I'm not into linguistics, sometimes the way people talk (and why they talk the way they do) fascinates me. :D
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Ayakashi
http://animestash.info/db/index.php?act=category&id=500
Mononoke
http://animestash.info/db/index.php?act=category&id=631
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Okay, so this is me, here, this is me flailing so much -- even if the quality's not the best, I've really wanted to see this! :D THANK YOU SO MUCH♥♥♥
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It amuses me far too much that the Medicine Seller has porny ukiyo-e prints in his box. XD
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The Medicine Seller is about 10000 kinds of awesome. XD
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I see that
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I'm going to try the links that
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I know when I talk with you I notice I use a lot more emoticons and exlamation marks, but otherwise it's pretty close to how I come across naturally XD
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I'm actually trying to remember, and quite -- when we hang out, do you actually call me by name, or do you still call me Toto? It was the weirdest thing, and I cannot for the life of me remember.
omg tomorrow♥
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I... don't know. Maybe? I call people by their real names in real life, is the rule. I know I call you Terra when I talk about you to my friends/family offline so I don't think I do XD
SEE YOU THERE BABE ♥
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Wait, what? That bears further investigation O.O.
*Now for LC discussion-ness*
See, the whole half-blood thing is tricky, right? Because the mismatched blue and purple eyes are a sign of half-blood demons (in that one parent is human and the other is a demon), and I suppose they could be called half-breeds or mutts or some other unflattering term. But O'ris himself is only mistakenly called that sort of breed.
He's actually just a dead human body with the fragments of his original soul mingling with Horus' and creating enough of a life-force (part demon, part human) to keep him functioning, even though the demonic parts have been mostly sealed away.
I don't think there's any concise term to describe that (not to mention he's one of a kind anyway, so there probably wasn't a term up until Isis created him). Maybe "vessel" or something like that?
But yeah...Osiris is special. Can't think of any word beyond that ^^;;.
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Yeah, that's what I think -- you really can't describe Osiris anywhere else. He's a friggin' zombie who likes coffee and shoots you in the face. I was just in the process of doing the edits and realized that we did, in fact, use that phrase first. So I felt like being a little dramatically facetious.
O'ris is a very special boy indeed. In the head.
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OMG WHAT IS THIS DRAMA. I haven't heard Miyata Kouki in anything for ages. ;^;
(And yeah, Sakurai and Midorikawa do sound similar... I like Sakurai better though. Midorikawa is a little too nasal for my tastes. Though I did fangirl him pretty hard back in my Slayers fandom days. XD)
I wouldn't worry about the half-blood thing btw - half-blood is a term used in a lot of stories in a lot of different ways so it's not like JKR has sole dibs on it.
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Ultimately, I do like Sakurai better, I think -- I feel like he's got more range, though he's definitely got the nasally quality to his voice that I recognize in Midorikawa. Which isn't to say I DISLIKE Midorikawa, and once I got used to how nasal his voice is I liked him, so. What can I say. XD
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I feel like her shadow is looming over the literary world, argh.
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But I agree with you -- I don't dislike JKR's writings, but I don't think it's that good, either, and she's going to cast a long shadow for quite some time. :\
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The problem with names is that JKR used so many of them it's easy to overlap and not even realize it. I named one of my OC's 'Amos' (I named him after my grandparent's cat, I wasn't trying to be weird or fancy or anything,) and later realized that was also the name of Cedric Diggory's dad (luckily not an important enough character that anyone even remembers him.) Her ridiculous level of famousness has made me a little paranoid.
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That is part of the problem, yeah; JKR definitely didn't believe in the "if they're not majorly signifigant, don't give them a name" convention, but honestly? People who'd point their fingers at you and say OMG YOU NAMED HIM "AMOS" YOU'RE RIPPING OFF JKR! would be the sort of uber-obsessive overly-dedicated fans that you'd want to avoid in the first place. XD About the only other problem I have with names, really, is when I realize that the name of an OC is actually the same as a friend of mine. (I'm friends with two different Jennifers and about five Sarahs, it makes it kind of awkward, now and then. XD)
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I tried arguing to my coworker about how much of what makes HP good is blatantly ripped off of Dahl, and he was just like "oh that's just the whole British style, it's not unique to Dahl either." Grrrrr.
I think JK is entertaining enough, but she seriously lacks the quality that she seems to get a lot of credit for. I can name lots of 'similar' authors that are simply and unarguably better writers.
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... and you know, it's probably a good thing I don't know your coworker, because I might have totally gone off on an explosive tangent at him. XD;; Roald Dahl did it first, he did it better, and it makes me sad that people will always rate him second-best compared to JKR. (You can't imagine my fury when I saw Potterfen going "omg, Terry Pratchett, he's just jealous of our great and glorious queen!" Terry Pratchett has nothing to be jealous about when he's infinitely the better writer AUGH.)
Rowling's got some good ideas and executions, but I don't think she's worth the immense amount of adoration and hype she gets. It makes me sad that The Dark is Rising is getting second-rate treatment, despite coming first and (I think) being the 100000x better series. I'd read her and enjoy them, but she'd honestly also be one of the first authors I'd give up. >_>
Which is an unpopular opinion among a lot of my friends, so I just usually keep my mouth shut about her. :Db
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I was utterly dismayed a few days ago, when I went looking through the Barnes and Noble Mythology section because I wanted to find a book on American Tall Tales, and instead I found a HP enyclopedia book. Harry Potter does not belong on the same shelf as Joseph Campbell and Greek Mythology. No. Just, no.
My favorite author that gets overshadowed by Rowling is Diana Wynne Jones, although now that Miyazaki made a movie out of Howl's Moving Castle she's getting a bit more well-deserved attention. I'd personally prefer acknowledgement from Hayao Miyazaki over the weird cult following that Rowling has aquired.
Oh man, I go off on tangent rants sooo easily when JKR's name gets dropped, haha.
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... now that's just kind of disgusting. :\ Harry Potter is not mythology. It's not even really at the level of urban modern-day mythos yet -- it will be soon at this rate, but not yet. I have a hard enough time finding my reference books for actual folklore monsters; I don't really give a damn at all about the Harry Potter versions of them. >_>
I've actually only read Howl's Moving Castle, but I remember I enjoyed it quite a bit! I found her style a lot more engaging and entertaining, and dude -- if I were a published children's author? I'd rather have Miyazaki make a movie of my books than Warner Brothers, hands down any day.
And don't worry about the ranting; I do it too. XD It's not that I actually dislike her, I just find her severely overrated and get irritated at how the world fawns at her.
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And I'm probably a lot more hyper and capslock-happy online than I am in real life. XD