Pixel-stained techno peasant
Work was aggravating today. I went out for lunch and found the Wicked Tinkers - Those Marching O'Neills to be a good angry bagpipe song / march.
I tried to analyze what made me as angry as I was, but couldn't really come up with anything; I didn't try all that hard either, especially after a phrase lodged itself in my head and demanded to become a vignette: "I'm not a goddamn superman."
So at lunch I wrote. I wrote a page in a new, smaller journal before ordering my food. I wrote a page after my sandwich arrived before I started eating. Each page in this new journal is about half the size of a page in my regular journal, so this may not be as impressive as it seems.
It was great though.
Now I just need a name for this guy. He's a foul-mouthed, angry, average person who happened to be in the right place and the right time to stop a super villain, though he sees it as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The city honors him and he just wants to be left alone.
Any one want to lend their name to the character? I'm not tied to the character being male... ;)
In a similar vein, I've been thinking I want to go to a convention and have an Alternia Comics booth, but with no actual comics yet, I'm at a lack of things to sell to justify the booth. I was toying with the idea of charging a nominal fee for a 500 (or more) word piece written for the requester, about them or their character, in one of the worlds of Alternia. They could then be a part of the Alternia universe for ever and have their character in a comic or other media eventuall. Assuming they grant the rights to it, of course. If they don't grant me rights to their character, I guess they just get a story for their money, and maybe I charge more... What do you think, lazyweb?
I tried to analyze what made me as angry as I was, but couldn't really come up with anything; I didn't try all that hard either, especially after a phrase lodged itself in my head and demanded to become a vignette: "I'm not a goddamn superman."
So at lunch I wrote. I wrote a page in a new, smaller journal before ordering my food. I wrote a page after my sandwich arrived before I started eating. Each page in this new journal is about half the size of a page in my regular journal, so this may not be as impressive as it seems.
It was great though.
Now I just need a name for this guy. He's a foul-mouthed, angry, average person who happened to be in the right place and the right time to stop a super villain, though he sees it as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The city honors him and he just wants to be left alone.
Any one want to lend their name to the character? I'm not tied to the character being male... ;)
In a similar vein, I've been thinking I want to go to a convention and have an Alternia Comics booth, but with no actual comics yet, I'm at a lack of things to sell to justify the booth. I was toying with the idea of charging a nominal fee for a 500 (or more) word piece written for the requester, about them or their character, in one of the worlds of Alternia. They could then be a part of the Alternia universe for ever and have their character in a comic or other media eventuall. Assuming they grant the rights to it, of course. If they don't grant me rights to their character, I guess they just get a story for their money, and maybe I charge more... What do you think, lazyweb?