Scattered and Shattered
I just came back from sitting at a Starbucks and finishing Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey. I want to go back to New Zealand, I miss the amazing vibrant world and the waterfront of Wellington, which lead to the best public library in the world and Te Papa. Ann Arbor is a wonderful town and I love my program, I'm just having some homesickness for an amazing country that I made my home for a while. If you love a good YA fantasy novel that deals with so many multicultural issues intelligently and a main character, who's not the pretty one, go read this novel.
One reason I feel so shattered this week is that I've been fighting off something, I thought maybe I'd got through it since I was able to manage work yesterday morning and Thursday night. Instead I spent most of today inside drinking tea and I currently have a headache, but it feels like Fall again, this is good. I wore a jacket around town. Life is going to start getting really crazy as things start to come due in my various classes, but I can manage them. I think resting this week will end up being a good thing.
I also need to ramble about why I love roleplaying and also why I miss acting. I love really looking getting into another world and time. This is also why I loved studying Classics and English so much, it was a chance to use primary sources and research to figure out what living in another time was like. I'm disappointed that I didn't feel up to starting a new D&D game with the couple I'm friends with, but next week when I'm more fully here I will, yay for steampunk Ravenloft.
Its sort of interesting to think about the fact that of the characters I play in milliways_bar and mixed_muses, only one out of 9 is actually from the modern world and that's the World of Darkness. All of the others are from fantasy worlds or different eras, well variations on historical eras, because I love the cultural clashes that occur. In Milliways, you get rather major cultural contrasts just from modern characters, but I love the twist of adding another layer or two.
This is in my mind because I've been playing Will more and I've missed him, yet he's running up against characters, who really aren't thinking about just how different the medieval world is from the modern. So he finds himself in the position of trying to talk about what is just his world to someone else and not always doing that good a job, which means he gets annoyed or angry. I enjoy those moments, because hopefully Will ends up making that other character reconsider their reaction to someone they only know from a book or other source. I always feel like there should be a warning posted somewhere around Milliways; Presumption Causes Trouble.
One of the reasons I'm having fun with the modern AU Will over in Mixed Muses is that it reminds me how complicated and at times easy it can be to transpose the legends. If I end up apping William Evans, who I might since I have a possible story for him, I'll have another character from an earlier era. Now I think I'm going to make some more tea and enjoy the rest of my weekend. I'll get done all the things I need to do this weekend though I'll be flailing soon.
One reason I feel so shattered this week is that I've been fighting off something, I thought maybe I'd got through it since I was able to manage work yesterday morning and Thursday night. Instead I spent most of today inside drinking tea and I currently have a headache, but it feels like Fall again, this is good. I wore a jacket around town. Life is going to start getting really crazy as things start to come due in my various classes, but I can manage them. I think resting this week will end up being a good thing.
I also need to ramble about why I love roleplaying and also why I miss acting. I love really looking getting into another world and time. This is also why I loved studying Classics and English so much, it was a chance to use primary sources and research to figure out what living in another time was like. I'm disappointed that I didn't feel up to starting a new D&D game with the couple I'm friends with, but next week when I'm more fully here I will, yay for steampunk Ravenloft.
Its sort of interesting to think about the fact that of the characters I play in milliways_bar and mixed_muses, only one out of 9 is actually from the modern world and that's the World of Darkness. All of the others are from fantasy worlds or different eras, well variations on historical eras, because I love the cultural clashes that occur. In Milliways, you get rather major cultural contrasts just from modern characters, but I love the twist of adding another layer or two.
This is in my mind because I've been playing Will more and I've missed him, yet he's running up against characters, who really aren't thinking about just how different the medieval world is from the modern. So he finds himself in the position of trying to talk about what is just his world to someone else and not always doing that good a job, which means he gets annoyed or angry. I enjoy those moments, because hopefully Will ends up making that other character reconsider their reaction to someone they only know from a book or other source. I always feel like there should be a warning posted somewhere around Milliways; Presumption Causes Trouble.
One of the reasons I'm having fun with the modern AU Will over in Mixed Muses is that it reminds me how complicated and at times easy it can be to transpose the legends. If I end up apping William Evans, who I might since I have a possible story for him, I'll have another character from an earlier era. Now I think I'm going to make some more tea and enjoy the rest of my weekend. I'll get done all the things I need to do this weekend though I'll be flailing soon.