This woman drives me insane.
Someone recently linked me here - whereupon I promptly blew up in rage and foamed at the mouth and did other unlady-like things.
More specifically, because Stephenie Meyer had the nerve to say (and I QUOTE) "Humans are boring; they need something extra."
She's a writer, or so she's supposed to be. Of all types of people out there, she should know best that humans are not boring - they do not need 'something extra.' Maybe her life is boring. Yes, many people's lives are boring. But the people themself? Rarely. Even just the motives for what they do is fascinating.
You know, I write fantasy. I understand the urge to 'power up' a character. Heck, I do it plenty. My characters have powers, they have special abilities, they're often excellent fighters - but I give them reasons to have these abilities. Saki? Was crazy ambitious and proud for most of the first book, and has been training for as long as she can remember. Yuin has been driven by the urge to prove himself to his parents, and so has studied extensively in various fields. Hiro and Itsi weren't either particularly good fighters, because they'd never had an urge to learn in particular. So they're about average. Lucia from the story idea lurking in my brain is the holder of the moon, and has to learn to control her abilities or they will control her. Same goes for Gabriel, who's the holder of the sun, though he's a bit ambitious himself. Lucia, though, throughout most of the beginning, doesn't want to do anything more than control her powers, whereas Gabe is doing his best to learn how to actively use them. Conway, though he has no magic or special powers, is one manipulative son of a b*tch, and can hold his own in a sword fight, though he's nowhere near expert. His main ability is archery, which he's really good at.
But the reason for them having powers and abilities is not to make them unboring. Lucia and Saki and Yuin and Gabe would all be interesting without them. I write epic fantasy, so they kind of have to have those abilities to survive the things I put them through. In the case of Lucia and Gabe, their powers are the catalyst of a bunch of crazy stuff. But they are not interesting because they have 'something extra.' They are interesting because they are people, with lusts and ambitions and desires and motives and hopes and dreams, and because when they collide, things HAPPEN. Sparks fly, battles happen, people die. They fall in love and out, they hinder and help each other, and they do their best - or their worst.
Meyer just dissed the thing all stories are built on - people. You don't have a story without people. You have a wish!fic, or a Mary Sue, or some sort of crazy powered-up person. She missed the most important thing in the whole world of writing - you aren't writing about the abilities. You're writing about the person using them. Because no matter how powered-up or how weak the person is, they are never boring.
So maybe I'm a weirdo who really likes psychology and all that stuff - but at least I get that most people don't read to see someone beat someone else up. They read because they can connect with the characters. Because the characters are human.
Anyways, I have made 60 Avatar icons in the past few days. For the most part they're bases, really, but a very few have text on them. It was fun. I'm using one as my icon right now - I really, really, really like Kyoshi. I don't even know why, really, but she's my favorite of all the former Avatars we know. Though I do like the little I've seen of Avatar Yang-Chen too. She's cool. XD
I might make some Supernatural icons now. Hmm.
School? What's that? D:
More specifically, because Stephenie Meyer had the nerve to say (and I QUOTE) "Humans are boring; they need something extra."
She's a writer, or so she's supposed to be. Of all types of people out there, she should know best that humans are not boring - they do not need 'something extra.' Maybe her life is boring. Yes, many people's lives are boring. But the people themself? Rarely. Even just the motives for what they do is fascinating.
You know, I write fantasy. I understand the urge to 'power up' a character. Heck, I do it plenty. My characters have powers, they have special abilities, they're often excellent fighters - but I give them reasons to have these abilities. Saki? Was crazy ambitious and proud for most of the first book, and has been training for as long as she can remember. Yuin has been driven by the urge to prove himself to his parents, and so has studied extensively in various fields. Hiro and Itsi weren't either particularly good fighters, because they'd never had an urge to learn in particular. So they're about average. Lucia from the story idea lurking in my brain is the holder of the moon, and has to learn to control her abilities or they will control her. Same goes for Gabriel, who's the holder of the sun, though he's a bit ambitious himself. Lucia, though, throughout most of the beginning, doesn't want to do anything more than control her powers, whereas Gabe is doing his best to learn how to actively use them. Conway, though he has no magic or special powers, is one manipulative son of a b*tch, and can hold his own in a sword fight, though he's nowhere near expert. His main ability is archery, which he's really good at.
But the reason for them having powers and abilities is not to make them unboring. Lucia and Saki and Yuin and Gabe would all be interesting without them. I write epic fantasy, so they kind of have to have those abilities to survive the things I put them through. In the case of Lucia and Gabe, their powers are the catalyst of a bunch of crazy stuff. But they are not interesting because they have 'something extra.' They are interesting because they are people, with lusts and ambitions and desires and motives and hopes and dreams, and because when they collide, things HAPPEN. Sparks fly, battles happen, people die. They fall in love and out, they hinder and help each other, and they do their best - or their worst.
Meyer just dissed the thing all stories are built on - people. You don't have a story without people. You have a wish!fic, or a Mary Sue, or some sort of crazy powered-up person. She missed the most important thing in the whole world of writing - you aren't writing about the abilities. You're writing about the person using them. Because no matter how powered-up or how weak the person is, they are never boring.
So maybe I'm a weirdo who really likes psychology and all that stuff - but at least I get that most people don't read to see someone beat someone else up. They read because they can connect with the characters. Because the characters are human.
Anyways, I have made 60 Avatar icons in the past few days. For the most part they're bases, really, but a very few have text on them. It was fun. I'm using one as my icon right now - I really, really, really like Kyoshi. I don't even know why, really, but she's my favorite of all the former Avatars we know. Though I do like the little I've seen of Avatar Yang-Chen too. She's cool. XD
I might make some Supernatural icons now. Hmm.
School? What's that? D: